ACTION ALERT

For Immediate Release
February 8, 2006

DEMAND A STOP TO ETHNIC CLEANSING IN THE NAQAB

For Immediate Release
December 7, 2006

According to recent reports, Israeli interior minister, Roni Bar-On, declared that his ministry has planned the demolition of more than 42,000 Palestinian homes in the Naqab (Negev) region of Palestine, inside the borders of present-day Israel. Reports this morning indicate that the
village of Twail Abu-Jarwal has been demolished by the Zionist occupation. This barbaric escalation against the Palestinians of the Naqab region is a continuation of the ongoing Zionist project to remove from Palestine its indigenous inhabitants, and that Israel has practiced with and since its inception in 1948.

The Palestinians in the Naqab region carry "Israeli citizenship". This latest act of destruction once again shows that, like their fellow Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and the over six million exiled from their homeland and denied their right to return, Palestinians
inside Israel who carry "Israeli citizenship" remain less than second-class citizens, subject to the same policies of ethnic cleansing.

Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition, calls on its members, supporters and all people of conscience to protest the ongoing home demolitions and ethnic cleansing of Palestinian civilians at the hands of the Israeli occupation forces by:

1. Organizing demonstrations in front of Israeli embassies and consulates.

2. Staging street theatre in major cities and towns dramatizing house demolitions.

3. Organizing protests in front of the offices of the Caterpillar Corporation and demanding that Caterpillar immediately stop supplying Israel bulldozers it uses to demolish Palestinian homes. See http://www.caterpillar.com for information on company locations throughout North America.

4. Writing your Representatives and Senators to stop immediately all funding and military supplies and shipments to Israel. Remind them that ethnic cleansing is a war crime and constitutes a grave violation of international law. For contact information, go to
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home .

5. Writing to the media. Go to http://newslink.org for contact information.

6. Making a donation to help the people whose homes have been demolished by Israel in the Naqab. To do so please go to http://www.al-awda.org/donate.html and simply follow the instructions. Please indicate that your donation is for Al-Awda's Naqab Emergency Fund.

Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition
PO Box 131352
Carlsbad, CA 92013, USA
Tel: 760-685-3243
Fax: 360-933-3568
E-mail: info@al-awda.org
WWW: http://al-awda.org

Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition (PRRC) is the largest network of grassroots activists and students dedicated to Palestinian human rights. We are a not for profit tax-exempt educational and charitable 501(c)(3) organization as defined by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) of the United States of America. Under IRS guidelines, your donations to PRRC are tax-deductible.