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Eid without a father and husband

Posted on: November 17, 2010
Abdallah's wife Majida and daughters Louma (8) and Layam (8) during preparations for Eid.

16 November 2010 | Evie Soli, International Solidarity Movement

An interview with the wives of Abdallah and Adeeb Abu Rahma

Al Eid is a holy time of the year for Muslims. Families gather and visit each other over the four holidays, which are for most a time for families to be together. When one member of the family is missing, it makes it hard to enjoy Al Eid in the same way. Thousands of families of Palestinian political prisoners are suffering because a family member is in prison. For Majida, wife of Abdallah Abu Rahma who has now been held for one … Continue reading


Updated on November 17, 2010
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Weekly Demonstration Report — High Velocity Tear Gas Canisters used in an Nabi Saleh

Posted on: November 14, 2010
Bil'in on 6th anniversary of Arafat's death

14 November 2010 | International Solidarity Movement

Al Nabi Saleh demonstrators assaulted with high velocity tear gas canisters and rubber bullets

The weekly demonstration at Al Nabih Saleh took place again this Friday, one day after the six year anniversary of Yasser Arafat’s death.

One young boy was shot in the hand with a rubber bullet, and tear gas canisters were shot throughout the whole demonstration to prevent demonstrators from reaching the village spring near the illegal settlement Halamish. Some canisters were shot … Continue reading


Updated on November 23, 2010
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Israeli forces raid Bil’in in the night

Posted on: November 9, 2010
Night-raid in Bil'in

9 November 2010 | International Solidarity Movement

Today at about 3 in the morning the Israeli army entered the village of Bil’in. About 50 soldiers came in by jeep and by foot. As they arrived to the two targeted houses, they ran and took positions outside, while a number of them entered the house of two brothers.

Soldiers hammered on the door of one house, demanding to see 30 year Ashraf al-Khatib. It turned out they were at the wrong house. They then went to another house by … Continue reading


Updated on November 10, 2010
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Civil resistance to bring down the Walls

Posted on: November 1, 2010

1 November 2010 | Ayed Morrar, Huffington Post

Budrus, a documentary film now debuting across the US, tells the story of a successful protest campaign by unarmed Palestinian civilians against Israel’s military occupation in my small West Bank village. Our struggle’s success and the consequent expansion of civil resistance to other West Bank communities may provide hope to viewers desperate for positive news from the Middle East, but today an Israeli crackdown on unarmed Palestinian protesters is threatening this growing movement. For our movement to thrive and serve as a true alternative to violence, we need Americans’ to demand that … Continue reading


Updated on November 1, 2010
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Israeli forces attack weekly West Bank demonstrations

Posted on: October 23, 2010
Nabi Saleh

22 October 2010 | International Solidarity Movement

Today in the village of An-Nabi Salah, the weekly non-violent demonstration took place against the illegal settlement Hamish. Unlike other villages taking part in non-violent resistance, many women, young girls and children participate in the protest. Today, there was a child demonstration. A commemoration also took place in order to remember the massacre during the second Intifada in a village where the children went to school.

The soldiers and border police started out by shooting teargas into the village to prevent people from … Continue reading


Updated on October 25, 2010
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Bil’in organizer sentenced to 18 months

Posted on: October 21, 2010
Adeeb Abu Rahmah sentenced to 18 months

21 October 2010 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee

Adeeb Abu Rahmah, a protest leader from Bil’in, was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment by the Military Court of Appeals, for his involvement in organizing demonstrations. The decision dramatically aggravates the one-year sentence originally imposed in the first instance.

Judge Lieutenant Colonel Benisho of the Military Court of Appeals accepted the Military prosecution’s appeal in Adeeb Abu Rahmah’s case today, which demanded to harshen the already heavy-handed one-year sentence imposed on him by the … Continue reading


Updated on October 24, 2010
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Bil’in’s Abdallah Abu Rahmah sentenced to a year in prison

Posted on: October 11, 2010

11 October 2010 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee

Bil’in protest organizer Abdallah Abu Rahmah was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment today, for his involvement in his village’s unarmed struggle against the wall.

Abdallah Abu Rahmah was sentenced today to 12 months in prison, plus 6 months suspended sentence for 3 years and a fine of 5,000 NIS. In the sentencing, the judge cited the non-implementation of an Israeli High Court ruling which declared the current route of the wall on Bil’in’s land illegal as a mitigating factor.

The military prosecution is likely to appeal this sentencing – as they did in the … Continue reading


Updated on October 23, 2010
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Action Alert: We stand with Abdallah Abu Rahmah

Posted on: October 5, 2010
Action Alert: We stand with Abdallah Abu Rahmah

Jewish Voice for Peace

4 October 2010

Seized in the night. Tortured. Held without trial, then tried in a military court where you have no rights; convicted on the coerced confessions of minors, you are facing a sentence of years in prison. All for organizing peaceful protests against the theft of your land and asserting your democratic rights.

Most of us who believe in human rights and democracy can never imagine being treated in such a way. Yet that is exactly what befell Abdallah Abu Rahmah, a democracy … Continue reading


Updated on October 21, 2010
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Weekly protests: man shot with live ammunition in Bil’in

Posted on: September 26, 2010
Palestinian and international demonstrators carry Ashraf after he is shot in the shin

26 September 2010 | ISM Media

Brutal suppression of the Palestinian popular struggle continues: A Palestinian man was shot in the leg with live ammunition in Bil`in, while live rounds were also fired in Ni`lin and An-Nabi Saleh, where rubber-coated steel bullets were fired at children. In Beit Ummar a Palestinian man was beaten unconscious by Israeli forces yet only an innocent French peace activist was arrested for assault. Demonstrators marched around the Old City in Hebron, and burned settlement goods in Al-Ma`sara, showing their support and solidarity to the people of Silwan where a Palestinian man was killed … Continue reading


Updated on November 23, 2010
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Weekly protests continue across Palestine

Posted on: September 20, 2010
Palestinian youths open the gate in Bil`in. Photo credit: Hamde Abu Rahma

20 September 2010 | ISM Media

Arrests, low-flying tear gas canisters and rubber-coated steel bullets: reports from weekly demonstrations in Bil`in, Ni`lin, An-Nabi Saleh, Al-Ma`sara, Beit Ummar and Hebron.


Updated on November 23, 2010
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