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 separation 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.