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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>► Help save the Palestinian village of Susiya. </span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Below is an alert from the villagers of Susiya who are threatened with<u> imminent</u> destruction by the Israeli government. In addition to <a href="http://www.btselem.org/savesusiya/english">signing their statement</a>, please contact the <a href="https://register.state.gov/contactus/contactusform">US State Department</a> - </span>202-647-9572 <span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>and <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questions-and-comments">President Obama</a> - 202-456-1111and ask them to intervene to save Susiya. You can also send the links to the web pages of Rabbis for Human Rights (<a href="http://rhr.org.il/eng/save-susya/">http://rhr.org.il/eng/save-susya</a>) and B’Tselem <a href="http://www.btselem.org/press_realese/20150716_susiya_demolition">http://www.btselem.org/press_realese/20150716_susiya_demolition</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> B'Tselem- Nasser Nawaj'ah [mailto:mail@btselem.org] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, July 16, 2015 2:26 PM<br><b>Subject:</b> Help us stop the expulsion #SaveSusiya<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>We, the residents of <a href="http://www.btselem.org/savesusiya/english/">Khirbet Susiya</a>, a Palestinian village in the West Bank, need your help. </span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Israeli Civil Administration (CA) has notified us of an intention to demolish homes in our village and leave entire families homeless in the desert once the month of Ramadan is over, three days from now.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Last Sunday we met with CA officials and with the Israeli Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT). They told us that the nonprofit Regavim and settlers in our area had pressured them into starting the demolitions before August 3<sup>rd</sup>, which is when the Israeli High Court will hear our petition. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Yesterday we received the list of structures the Civil Administration wants us to demolish. These structures serve 74 of the residents of Susiya, half of them are children. The list includes almost hald ouf our village structures: ten residential homes, our clinic, eight animal shelters, and twelve storerooms, outhouses, etc.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I was born in the original village of Khirbet Susiya, but we were forced out of there by Israel. <a href="http://btselem.org/savesusiya/english/">We now live on our farmland – and we will not leave it. </a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>We drew up a master plan to legalize the status of our homes, which we built on our land, but the CA rejected it. We petitioned the High Court with the help of Rabbis for Human Rights, asking that that CA be ordered to accept the plan. There are several illegal Israeli outposts close to our village, but the authorities have not threatened them with demolition – even though they have no building permits or master plans. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>All we can do now is to continue protesting the plan to demolish our homes, expel us from our land, and transfer it to the settlers. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>How can you help? </span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Get your friends to join and stand with Susiya – we need as many people as possible. Share this information and sign up page: <a href="http://btselem.org/savesusiya/english/">http://www.btselem.org/savesusiya/english/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Save the date: On Friday afternoon, 24 July, come to demonstrate with us in the village, which lies south of Hebron.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>3.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.taayush.org/">Ta’ayush</a> is coordinating regular presence of activists at our village from the end of ‘Eid al-Fitr on Monday, 20 July, to the date of the High Court hearing in our petition on 3 August.<a href="http://doodle.com/wzg67ghbdtw27rn6#table"> Sign up for shifts.</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>Thank you for your support, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Nasser Nawaj’ah<br></span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>B’Tselem researcher, resident of Khirbet Susiya<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:0in'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'>►If you have</span></b><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> not already done so, contact <a href="http://www.safeway.com/ShopStores/Contact-Us.page#/form/comments">Safeway</a> (</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="tel:1-866-239-1376"><span style='background:white;text-decoration:none'>1-866-239-1376</span></a><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='color:#52483D;background:white'> </span></span><span style='color:black;background:white'>or<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><span style='color:#00589A'><a href="mailto:business.ethics@safeway.com"><span style='color:#00589A;background:white'>business.ethics@safeway.com</span></a></span><span style='color:black'>)</span></span> <b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>and <a href="http://www.traderjoes.com/contact-us/product-feedback">Trader Joe’s</a> </span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>and ask them to support human rights by not selling Israeli products until Israel stops violating the human and international legal rights of the Palestinian People.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>►<span style='color:#005828'><a href="http://www.sacbds.org/petitions"><span style='color:#005828'>Sign petitions for Palestinian rights</span></a></span></span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>, new petitions include:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#545454'>► Sign<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:fuchsia'><a href="http://araborganizing.org/defend-aroc-and-arabic-language-pathways-in-sf-schools/"><span style='color:fuchsia'>the petition to stop attacks</span></a></span></strong><span class=apple-converted-space><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:fuchsia'> </span></b></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#545454'>on the Arab Resource Center of San Francisco.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;background:white;orphans: auto;widows: 1;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#545454'>►<span class=apple-converted-space><b> </b></span><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.thepetitionsite.com/465/039/192/palestinians-unwelcome-the-muslim-leadership-initiative-mli-sponsored-by-shalom-hartman-institute"><span style='color:#006A80'>Sign petition joining the Palestinian BDS National Committee</span></a></span></strong><span class=apple-converted-space><b> </b></span>in Unwelcoming the Muslim Leadership Initiative (MLI), sponsored by Shalom Hartman Institute.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:0in'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>► </span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Learn more about <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Justice-For-Nadeem/261087074086298">Justice for Nadeem</a></b> & stay tuned for upcoming events and alerts. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>