'Embassy' opens in Bristol, UK

In the centre of Bristol's old city,  A new Palestinian cultural exchange has opened its doors for the first time. I quote from the Release: Central-Bristol venue, the ARC on Broad Street, was transformed into a “Palestinian Embassy”. Spread across three floors it included a café serving Palestinian food, a cinema showing Palestinian films, and a gallery showing a major exhibition of Palestinian history, culture and solidarity, with West Bank paintings by Bristol artist Hanley. A day-long conference  included talks and workshops on Palestine provided by local and UK solidarity activists together with a live video link to Gaza & West Bank. Professor Manuel Hassassian, Palestine's

Prof. Hassassian greeted by the Lord Mayor of Bristol

Ambassador to the UK, was the welcome special guest.

Karmel Colony: Israelis unite with Palestinians

On Saturday June: 8 an old Palestinian man from the village of Umm Al Kheer, Suleiman Aid Yameen Hadleen, was detained for more than three hours by the Israeli army while affirming his right to access his own land. In the last two days the soldiers denied the Palestinians from Umm Al Kheer  access to their own land until Sunday morning, without any official order. The land in question is on a hill that belongs to the Hadleen family. On the top of it the 'settlers' of Karmel Israeli colony in 2011 planted some olive trees and about two weeks ago built a small tent. Two days ago the settlers started to dig holes on the ground, intending to plant more olive trees in a row that would go along the top of the hill, preventing Palestinians from entering the land behind it. That hill is crossed everyday by Palestinian shepherds, since it is the only way that takes to the valleys grazed by their sheep. On Saturday June 8, three Palestinian shepherds with their flocks, together with other Palestinians, Israeli activists and international volunteers were chased away from the top of the hill by the Israeli army.
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Maan News reports that Negev residents protested against a forced displacement
plan.

A campaign poster reading "One Voice: No to Prawer."
(Maan/Naqab.org)

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Beersheba, Israel (Ma‘an) 9 June -- Arab and Bedouin residents in the Negev
announced on Sunday that they would be rallying against a legislative proposal
to be put before the Knesset that would see the dismantling of 'unrecognized'
villages and the forced displacement of residents. The Al-Naqab Association
for Land and Human Beings said all residents were being urged to join
Thursday's protest, which includes a general strike, organized by the Higher Guidance Committee of the Arab Residents in the Negev.
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Jerusalem family made homeless

The Jerusalem municipality is billing Badwan al-Salaymeh for the destruction of his home. (Lazar Simeonov)

On a massive pile of rubble that used to be a two-story home, Badwan al-Salaymeh’s cat paced back and forth searching for her two missing kittens.
“The human rights organizations will probably care more about the pets — even animals have more rights than us Palestinians,” al-Salaymeh said as he climbed the mound of concrete and metal.
The front yard gives the impression of a miniature war zone: the collapsed home in the centere, the metal fence dented and bent, the garden uprooted, the trees flattened under the bulldozers.
Early in the morning on Wednesday (29 May), approximately 100 Israeli police officers arrived at his home in the Beit Hanina area of Jerusalem, accompanied by two bulldozers. According to witnesses, two minors were arrested for throwing stones, one of whom was said to be around 12 years old. Another was injured after inhaling tear gas.

http://electronicintifada.net/content/israel-razes-home-13-member-family/12500