Campaigns

Linking together for human rights

Protesting the new settlement in Abu Dis

Posted on June 7, 2023 by CADFA / Leave a response

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CADFA campaigners gathered on a green Camden hill to protest against the bad news hat a green hillside in Abu Dis has now been marked out for a new Israeli settlement -‘Kidmat Zion’. This was also a protest against all the other pressures on the people of Abu Dis and Palestine. There are an escalating number of house demolitions, land seizures, killings by the Israeli military and settler violence towards people and the … Read More →

Gazan children’s artwork

Posted on February 28, 2023 by CADFA / Leave a response

An open letter to the Chief Executive of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Dear Ms Watts 28-2-2023 I’m writing to you as the director of a charity that works for human rights in Palestine. We know a lot about the bad and worsening situation there. I read in some shock (initially disbelief) the report that your hospital has taken down some artwork by children in Gaza that you had had on … Read More →

Stop the killings

Posted on January 31, 2023 by CADFA / Leave a response

Last Thursday saw the biggest Israeli army invasion into Jenin Refugee Camp in the West Bank for some time. The BBC (unusually) reported it and described tanks driving into the crowded residential area and upturning cars including at least one with someone in it. Huge damage was done to houses. Nine people were shot and killed, including a woman of sixty, and there were many people seriously wounded. The situation … Read More →

TEN THOUSAND people have been killed by Israeli soldiers and settlers in the past 20 years.

Posted on July 1, 2021 by CADFA / Leave a response

The terrible killing of Mai Afana is part of a much bigger picture. CADFA is a small organisation that sees a tiny part of the picture. But in this tiny part, so many tragedies. Over the nearly 18 years of CADFA (from end of 2003), we have become increasingly shocked by the killings, often of young people, and of course the effects on family after family left grieving and traumatised … Read More →

Another tragedy at a checkpoint

Posted on July 1, 2021 by CADFA / Leave a response

The terrible killing of Dr Mai Afana at a checkpoint north of Abu Dis on 16th May. Please sign the petition here. This week, our friends in Abu Dis are in deep grief following the killing of a young woman who was killed at Hizma checkpoint on Wednesday 16th June. Dr Mai Afana was a young lecturer who had just completed her doctorate and had a young daughter. She left her daughter with … Read More →

An invitation to schools and colleges

Posted on July 1, 2021 by CADFA / Leave a response

We are running a number of linked sessions with schools, youth groups and colleges here in the UK and in Palestine and would be happy to hear from other schools etc that might like to take part.