Issues

PIEF will function as an alert and agile rallying forum by focusing actions on current issues such as:

• Illegal Israeli settlements (by-pass roads and checkpoints, the security-military forces engaged to defend illegal settlements, products and services exported from illegal Israeli settlements etc)
• Gaza and the Goldstone report
• Human rights and international law in Israel and Palestine
• Economics of the occupation/boycott-divestment-Sanctions/fair trade products
• Emigration - Palestinian Christian populations in Palestine and Israel
• Freedom of movement/residency rights/access to holy sites for local communities
• The wall
• Forced evictions and demolitions
• Refugees/right to return
• Internally displaced people
• Status of Jerusalem

Focus will also be on theological debates and actions of churches in opposing the occupation. One such example is the Kairos call from a group of Palestinian Christians pronouncing a word of faith, and hope from the heart of Palestinian suffering.