Emergency demonstration against the demolition of Susya village

Emergency demonstration against the demolition of Susya village

When: 2-4pm, Sunday July 26th, 2015

Where: Entrance to the Israeli embassy, Kensington High Street, London W8, (next to the Royal Garden Hotel, nearest tube is Kensington High Street, turn right out of the station)

Why: the Israeli High Court has buckled to settlers’ demand and ordered its demolition. See Defying the Israeli plan including an appeal for supportive action from B’Tselem, Israeli organisation for human rights.

By AFP Hundreds of Israelis and Palestinians marched on Friday in support of a West Bank village slated for demolition, a plan they said epitomises the Israeli occupation.

The march in Susya, southeast of Hebron, took place on the anniversary of what the Palestinians call the Naksa (Setback), when Israel’s occupation of the West Bank in the 1967 Six Day war displaced hundreds of thousands of people.

Israel’s High Court ruled in May that Susya’s 340 residents could be relocated and its structures demolished, which Human Rights Watch derided as “a grave breach” of Israel’s obligations to the Palestinian populace under its military rule.

Israelis and Palestinians demonstrate against demolition of Susya, June 5, 2015. Photo by Hazem Bader / AFP