Palestinian and Israeli residents call for immediate action at Hebron-Besor river basin
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaJMZTaoYvo] On August 9, 2010 Friends of the Earth Middle East co-organized a study tour with the Hebron-Be’er Sheva-HaBesor river coalition, a resident’s coalition that FoEME helped create. The river basin covers the area between Hebron in the West Bank, the western Negev and continues into the Gaza Strip, ending at the Mediterranean Sea. The […]
FoEME’s Response to Statement of Israeli Civil Administration as Regards Baptism at the Qasr el Yehud Site on the Lower Jordan River
MEDIA RELEASE Tel Aviv / July 27, 2010 Friends of the Earth Middle East (FoEME) is saddened to maintain its call that baptism be banned from taking place on both sides of the Jordan River at the Qasr el Yehud / Bethany Beyond the Jordan site. Baptism should take place in clean healthy water which […]
Dutch society warms up to FoEME’s environmental peacemaking activities
In the heart of Amsterdam, surrounded by canals and lush green gardens, a very different picture was painted of what is happening in the Jordan River Valley, a transboundary region in the Middle East. The Jordan River Valley includes land shared by Jordanians, Palestinians and Israelis—all dependent on the same water supply and all living […]
FoEME Strategy proves successful in addressing Sewage Spill at Beitar Elit
Several years of active involvement by Friends of the Earth Middle East in combating a sewage spill at the Israeli settlement of Beitar Elit finally seem to pay off. The spill, which is caused by failure in the local sewage pumping station, has major consequences for the environment and in particular the downhill fields of […]
FoEME Voices Environmental Concerns at ‘Red-Dead’ Conduit World Bank Study Hearings
FoEME attended two of the recent Public Consultation hearings held by the World Bank about their recently released Initial Assessment Report of their ongoing study of a Red-Dead Conduit project. The objectives of the water conveyance project are to replenish water in the shrinking Dead Sea back to a level of 420m below sea level, […]
Cut the Rhetoric: Don’t hold water hostage to the Middle East conflict
Gidon Bromberg, FoEME’s Israeli Director, responds to recent comments by Israeli officials regarding water in the West Bank Comments made recently by Israeli Minister of Infrastructure, Uzi Landau (Israel Beitenu), that water supplies to Palestinians will be cut off if they do not treat their sewage, deserve condemnation. First, the Minister ignores the fact that […]
FoEME’s CGIS Teenagers Take Responsibility for their Shared Environment
CGIS youth present their findings at a joint Israeli-Palestinian-Jordanian camp. “I learned that you can cooperate with other people, even when there isn’t a common language and that a lot can be achieved if only we try.” — Hani, a 15 year old Palestinian boy responding to a CGIS activity evaluation question ‘What is the […]