http://catdestroyshomes.org/ http://catdestroyshomes.org/article.php?id=579 2008-03-20 http://catdestroyshomes.org/article.php?id=580 2008-03-20 http://catdestroyshomes.org/article.php?id=577 This morning, November 1, 2007, scores of police and governmental vehicles entered the Bedouin villages of A-Sir and Wadi Naam in order to demolish homes. Help stop this terror! – Write letters – details below. 2007-11-01 http://www.catdestroyshomes.org/article.php?id=577 2007-11-01 http://catdestroyshomes.org/article.php?id=574 The Israeli army says al-Akkaba is in a "militarised zone" and was built without planning permission. It therefore views the village as illegal and has handed out dozens of demolition orders. 2007-09-18 http://catdestroyshomes.org/article.php?id=575 Saying its role was not to criticise US policy towards Israel, an American federal appeals court dismissed a lawsuit charging that Caterpillar bulldozers aided killing and torture in the Palestinian territories. 2007-09-18 http://catdestroyshomes.org/article.php?id=576 “We are extremely disappointed with the Court’s refusal to decide whether Caterpillar violated the law, essentially because it did not want to question the U.S. decision to pay for the bulldozers,” said CCR Senior Attorney Maria LaHood. “The Court has a constitutional duty to uphold the law, and the law prohibits aiding and abetting war crimes - regardless of who’s footing the bill.” 2007-09-17 http://catdestroyshomes.org/article.php?id=564 Several homes were destroyed by the Israeli army on the morning of 13 August in the Palestinian village of Humsa, in the Jordan Valley area of the Occupied West Bank. The destroyed properties were home to the families of Abdallah Hsein Bisharat (more than 30 people) and Ahmad Abdallah Bani Odeh (some 10 people). 2007-08-14 http://catdestroyshomes.org/article.php?id=565 In late June, the New England Conference of the United Methodist Church, a consortium of 550 Methodist congregations along the Eastern seaboard, called for individual members, churches and the organizational body to voluntarily divest any stock holdings in 20 companies that it says supplies Israel with equipment or services used in the areas of East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza Strip that are in dispute with the Palestinians. One company is Caterpillar. 2007-08-11 http://catdestroyshomes.org/article.php?id=563 After two years of research, a United Methodist task force in the New England Annual (regional) Conference is urging its members, churches and investment managers to divest from 20 companies identified as supporting Israel's occupation of Palestinian land. 2007-08-06 http://catdestroyshomes.org/article.php?id=562 Demolition orders never expire, so some families live in fear for years or even decades waiting for the blow to fall. Others are taken by surprise, never having seen the order, and when they ask are shown perhaps a 15-year-old piece of paper. 2007-07-24 http://catdestroyshomes.org/article.php?id=553 Dozens of protesters have gathered outside the federal courthouse in Seattle for an appeals hearing on the lawsuit brought by the parents of Rachel Corrie against the Caterpillar company. 2007-07-09 http://catdestroyshomes.org/article.php?id=555 2007-07-09 http://catdestroyshomes.org/article.php?id=557 The family of a woman killed trying to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian home in 2003 asked a federal appeals court panel to reinstate its lawsuit against Caterpillar Inc., saying the company knew bulldozers it sold to the Israeli government were being used to commit human rights violations. 2007-07-09 http://catdestroyshomes.org/article.php?id=559 2007-07-09