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	<title>End Demolitions Now!</title>
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	<description>A Settlement Freeze Would Not Be Enough.</description>
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		<title>Family K: No &#8220;natural growth&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Mr. K is a high school mathematics teacher who lives with his family in the village of Shukba in the central West Bank. One day his wife called him at work to say that the Israeli army has arrived and was about to demolish their home. By the time he arrived more than 100 soldiers had closed off the village and were destroying six houses. The only reason given was that the houses had been built without permits. The village is situated in Area ‘B’ under Palestinian Authority control. However all the land surrounding the village is in Area [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://enddemolitionsnow.org/2009/10/family-k-no-natural-growth/</link>
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		<title>Family F: Refused permits, built anyway</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mr. F lives in the village of Shukba in the Central West Bank. The Israeli army destroyed 6 houses in the village in one day in 2006. Though it had proved impossible to obtain building permits from the Israeli authorities, Mr. F built a home for his family of seven children. His family has lived in the village for hundreds of years and he has legal title to the property dating back to the Ottoman era. However the Israeli government has a policy of not allowing Palestinian villages to grow, refuses requests for permits, and routinely destroys homes that represent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://enddemolitionsnow.org/2009/10/family-f-refused-permits-built-anyway/</link>
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		<title>Family M2: Your house or your village.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mr. M2 built his home in 2006, adjacent to his parent’s home on the family land. In 2007 they were forced to dismantle the home by the Israeli Authorities under threat of massive demolitions in the village. The people of Kebia are mostly farmers, construction workers, and a handful of professionals. Many of them travel to Ramallah for work, and some work in the settlements. Even the village schoolteachers work in the settlements during the summer as laborers in order to supplement their salaries. Kebia was also the site of an infamous massacre by Israel’s 101 Brigade on 14th October [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://enddemolitionsnow.org/2009/10/family-m2-forced-to-dismantle-their-own-home/</link>
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		<title>slide post 1</title>
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		<link>http://enddemolitionsnow.org/2009/10/slide-post-1/</link>
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		<title>slide post 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[post 2
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		<link>http://enddemolitionsnow.org/2009/10/slide2/</link>
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		<title>M family suffers two house demolitions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Zatara is situated just south of Jerusalem in Area ‘C’ near the Har Homa settlement. The family paid over 7,000 shekels to apply for a building permit in 1995 but was refused. Mr. M went ahead and built a home on their own land in 1996 and lived there with his wife and two children. Mr. M inherited the land from his father. The family home where Mr. M grew up was legally built with a permit from the Jordanian Authorities who occupied the area before 1967. The house was demolished on 10th November 1997. The family rebuilt the house [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://enddemolitionsnow.org/2009/07/m-family-suffers-two-house-demolitions/</link>
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		<title>Dr. Jeff Halper Receives Kant World Citizen Prize</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ICAHD Staff
Jeff Halper, Director of ICAHD, received the Kant World Citizen Prize 2009, together with Brazilian Bishop Dom Luiz Cappio. It was awarded to the two prominent human rights activists by the Kant Foundation of Freiburg, Germany.
The main purpose of the foundation is the promotion of courageous and independent, critically enlightening publicity work and education to protect peace, democracy and the environment and the promotion of keeping to democratic-constitutional principles in national and international politics. It honored the prize winners of 2009 for their “courageous commitment to human rights and the human dignity of politically and socially marginalized population groups.”
The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://enddemolitionsnow.org/2009/05/dr-jeff-halper-receives-kant-world-citizen-prize/</link>
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