Bil’in

Activists remove section of apartheid wall in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners

Posted on: April 18, 2013

Army arrive as protesters cut down Apartheid Wall. Photo by Hamdi Abu Rahma

17th April 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Ramallah, Occupied Palestine

This Palestinian Prisoners Day, the 17th April 2013, Palestinian and international activists cut down a fenced section of the Israeli apartheid wall in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli occupation jails. A section of around ten metres was torn down near Ofer prison, where Palestinian prisoners can be tried in military court or held by Israeli forces.
Army arrive as protesters cut down Apartheid Wall. Photo by Hamdi Abu … Continue reading

Updated on April 18, 2013
Posted under: Reports
Tags: Bassem Abu Rahmah, Bil'in, Prisoner, Wall

This Palestinian Prisoners Day we remember Bassem Abu Rahma who was murdered four years ago today

Posted on: April 17, 2013

17th April 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Occupied Palestine

By Team Khalil

Today is Palestinian Prisoners Day which also marks the 4th anniversary of the death of Bassam Abu Rahma and the 270th day of Samer Issawi’s hunger strike. These two events perfectly illustrate the ongoing perseverance of the Palestinian peoples relentless struggle for peace, justice , freedom and dignity. They also illustrate the Israeli army’s excessive and often lethal use of force against peaceful and unarmed demonstrators throughout the West Bank and Gaza. Bassem Abu Rameh

In 2009 Bassam … Continue reading

Updated on April 17, 2013
Posted under: Features, Reports
Tags: Arrests, Bil'in, International law, Prisoner, Tear-gas canister

2 Internationals hit by tear gas canisters at the Bil’in weekly demonstration

Posted on: November 9, 2012

The demonstration arrives at the wall in Bil'in

By Vicky Blackwell
Photographs by Vicky Blackwell

9th November 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank

Today, during the weekly demonstration against the separation wall in Bil’in, 2 international activists were struck by tear gas canisters shot by the Israeli army. One Italian activist was struck by a canister in the leg and an American activist was struck by a canister in the foot.
The demonstration started as usual and marched through the olive groves towards the separation wall. There, lies a path running parallel to the wall with razor wire on either side of it. The peaceful demonstration marched up the path next … Continue reading

Updated on May 22, 2013
Posted under: Photo Story, Reports
Tags: Bil'in, Demonstration, Injury, Tear-gas canister

Israel refuses to investigate death of slain Palestinian protester from Bil’in

Posted on: July 20, 2012

18 July 2012 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee
Jawaher Abu Rahmah from the West Bank village of Bil’in village, died of cardiac arrest caused by inhalation of excessive amounts of tear gas. The Israeli High Court laid the onus of collecting evidence to justify an investigation on the family, instead of police.
Israeli High Court judges ruled today that the family of the late Jawaher Abu Rahmah and the Bil’in Popular Committee should submit documents and testimonies indicating that Abu Rahmah’s death was caused by tear-gas inhalation to the Israeli Judge Advocate General (JAG) until September 1st. … Continue reading

Updated on July 20, 2012
Posted under: In the Media
Tags: Bil'in, Israeli High Court of Justice, Jawaher Abu Rahmah, Mohammed Khatib, Popular Struggle Coordination Committee, Tear-gas canister

Introducing Bil’in: The ritual of resistance and oppression

Posted on: March 5, 2012

by Sophie Van Dijk

2 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank

Today we went to Bil’in, a small village 17 km from Ramallah. For decades it has been harassed by the Israeli army. When the Apartheid Wall was constructed, it separated the farmers from their land.

Seven years ago, the villagers succeeded in moving the wall a bit towards the settlements again and gained back a few meters of the land where their great grandparents already lived.

Every Friday after that, there where demonstrations organized. For my friend and I, this was our first demonstration in the West Bank.
Luckily we had a bit of an … Continue reading

Updated on March 5, 2012
Posted under: Journals
Tags: Bil'in, Rubber-coated steel bullets, Wall

Left behind at the scene of the crime: Israel wages war on Bil’in

Posted on: February 1, 2012

by Wedad Yassin

30 January 2012 | Sixteen Minutes to Palestine

Weeks ago, Wedad Yassin traveled back to Ein Yabrud, a village near Ramallah in the West Bank, to visit her family and to experience Palestine’s rich cultural heritage. Her intention had been to tour through the Al-Khalil district, Ramallah, Bil’in, and Jerusalem. However, she was denied entry to Jerusalem. Nevertheless, Yassin explored Bil’in, site of the weekly demonstrations against Israel’s apartheid wall, and came across this jam’iyya or association dedicated to “enhancing and reviving Palestinian culture along with documenting Israeli crimes”.

Included is a series of photographs from Yassin’s visit … Continue reading

Updated on May 21, 2013
Posted under: Photo Story
Tags: Bil'in, Combined Systems Inc., Live ammunition, Rubber-coated steel bullets, Tear-gas canister

In Palestine, to exist is to resist

Posted on: January 24, 2012

by Melinda Tuhus

24 January 2012 | In These Times

Behind the headlines, Palestinians are using nonviolent direct action to protest the status quo.

WEST BANK, PALESTINE – On November 15, Mazin Qumsiyeh and other Palestinian activists boarded public bus number 148, an Israelis-only bus that normally takes Jews from the Israeli West Bank settlement of Ariel to Jerusalem. The bus took the group to the Hizma checkpoint, just outside the northern entrance of Jerusalem, where activists resisted authorities’ efforts to remove them. Eventually, as a camera broadcast the action online, eight people … Continue reading

Updated on January 24, 2012
Posted under: In the Media
Tags: BDS, Bil'in, Boycott Campaign, Freedom Riders

More deaths and injuries from US tear gas in Palestine, around the Middle East, and in Oakland

Posted on: January 15, 2012

Tear gas canister fired at p rotesters in Bil'in in 2009, with CTS headstamp - Photo by ActiveStills.

15 January 2012 | Adalah-NY

US-made tear gas, manufactured by companies like Combined Systems Inc. (CSI), Defense Technology, and Nonlethal Technologies, continues to be used by governments including Egypt, Israel, Yemen, Bahrain and the United States to repress popular protest movements for social justice.

In response, human rights advocates will protest again on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, January 16th, 2012, outside CSI’s Jamestown, Pennsylvania headquarters (see pastProtests against Israel’s tear gas use). In advance of the protest, reports indicate that CSI has replaced the Israeli flag that previously flew alongside the US flag outside its headquarters with … Continue reading

Updated on May 16, 2013
Posted under: Reports
Tags: Adalah-NY, An Nabi Saleh, Bassem Abu Rahmah, Bil'in, Combined Systems Inc., Jawaher Abu Rahmah, Mustafa Tamimi, Ni'lin, Tear-gas canister, Tristan Anderson

Dozens teargased in the village of Bil’in west of Ramallah

Posted on: December 9, 2011

Israeli Occupation Forces gas Bil'in - Click here for more images

by Sameer Bornat

9 December 2011 | Friends of Freedom and Justice-Bilin
Dozens were wounded by poison gas suffocation in the weekly march organized by the Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements in Bil’in, with the participation of a delegation from Belgium, dozens of Palestinians, and international and Israeli peace activists.

The march began after Friday prayers from the center of the village heading to the land which was liberated five months ago from Israeli occupiers. Participants raised Palestinian flags and banners painted with the image … Continue reading

Updated on December 9, 2011
Posted under: In the Media
Tags: Abu Lemon, Bil'in, Marwan Barghouti, Tear-gas canister

Ashraf Abu Rahmah in the midst of circus military court

Posted on: October 28, 2011

by Maria Stephanya

28 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank

The proof is all there: photos, videos, witnesses. All of them showed that Ashraf Abu Rahmah, one of the main activists of popular non violent struggle in the village of Bil’in, Palestine, walked peacefully on the road which goes from Bil’in’s recent liberated land to the center of the village, when an Israeli jeep passed besides him. Then it stopped. The soldiers stepped down, took the flag Ashraf carried and arrested him, forcing him to enter in the back … Continue reading