The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), co-founded by Jewish American Israeli Professor Jeff Halper in 1997, is an Israeli organization that uses non-violent, direct-action means to oppose and resist illegal and war criminal Israeli demolition of Palestinian homes in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (see Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_Committee_Against_House_Demolitions and ICHAD website: http://www.icahd.org/eng/ ).
The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), statement of aims: “ICAHD is a non-violent, direct-action group originally established to oppose and resist Israeli demolition of Palestinian houses in the Occupied Territories. As our activists gained direct knowledge of the brutalities of the Occupation, we expanded our resistance activities to other areas - land expropriation, settlement expansion, by-pass road construction, policies of "closure" and “separation” , the wholesale uprooting of fruit and olive trees and more. The fierce repression of Palestinian efforts to "shake off" the Occupation following the latest Intifada has only added urgency to our efforts.
As a direct-action group, ICAHD is comprised of members of many Israeli peace and human rights organizations. All of our work in the Occupied Territories is closely coordinated with local Palestinian organizations.
Since its founding, ICAHD's activities have extended to three interrelated spheres: resistance and protest actions in the Occupied Territories; efforts to bring the reality of the Occupation to Israeli society; and mobilizing the international community for a just peace.” [1].
ICAHD statistics on war criminal Israel house demolitions: “ICAHD estimates that 24,145 houses have been demolished in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza since 1967… 4,247 houses, according to the United Nations, were demolished during Operation Cast Lead in Gaza.” [2].
[1]. ICAHD, “What is ICAHD?”, ICAHD website: http://www.icahd.org/eng/about.asp?menu=2&submenu=1 .
[2]. ICAHD, “Stats: demolition statistics since 1967”, ICAHD website, 2009: http://www.icahd.org/eng/articles.asp?menu=6&submenu=2&article=517 .