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Several injured by tear gas grenades in Bil’in weekly demonstration

Posted on: January 29, 2010

Friends of Freedom and Justice

29 January 2010

During today’s weekly demonstration, Iyad Burnat, the head of the Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements, was directly hit in his hand by a tear-gas canister, which caused major burns. Palestine TV correspondent, Haroon Amayreh, as well as a member of the Central Committee of Fatah, Sultan Aboul-Enein, and dozens of Palestinian, Israeli, and international peace activists, who had joined the demonstration in solidarity, suffered from tear-gas inhalation including fainting as the Israeli occupying forces violently suppressed today’s protest against the apartheid wall and settlements in the village of Bil’in.

The peaceful demonstration … Continue reading


Updated on January 31, 2010
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Israeli forces fire on Iraq Burin villagers

Posted on: January 24, 2010

International Solidarity Movement

24 January 2010

Israeli forces opened fire on Iraq Burin villagers Saturday, following a settler attack that has become almost a weekly routine in the Palestinian village near Nablus. One villager was injured and treated at the hospital after being struck in the thigh by a tear gas canister.

An expectant atmosphere hangs over the village each Saturday now. The peaceful silence, punctuated only by donkey brays or the sound of children playing, offers a strange prelude to what each resident knows is coming. ISM activists have been maintaining a presence in Iraq Burin over the Saturday period – the … Continue reading


Updated on January 28, 2010
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Six Injured and Six Arrested During a Nabbi Saleh Demonstration

Posted on: January 22, 2010

Popular Struggle Co-ordination Committee

22 January 2010

Six demonstrators, including three Israeli activists, were injured today in the West Bank village of Nabbi Saleh after the army invaded the village earlier today. The soldiers launched an unprovoked attack at the center of the village, even before a scheduled demonstration began. Three women and three men from the village were arrested.

Slightly after 12:30 a large military force invaded the North Ramallah village of Nabbi Saleh and began shooting tear-gas and rubber-coated bullets at people who were gathering to demonstrate against the theft of their lands by the nearby Jewish-only settlement of Halamish. … Continue reading


Updated on November 23, 2010
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Israeli forces invade Bil’in following Friday demonstration, shoot live ammunition

Posted on: January 16, 2010
Israeli forces invade Bil’in following Friday demonstration, shoot live ammunition

16 January 2010

Eight demonstrators were injured today in Bil’in along with dozens who suffered tear-gas inhalation during a regular Friday protest against the Wall and subsequent army invasion into the village. The army used live ammunition, rubber-coated steel bullets and tear-gas grenades and canisters against the unarmed crowd.

The demonstration, called by the Bil’in Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements, was joined by dozens of international and Israeli activists. Speeches were made commemorating the Palestinian martyrs, especially the late president Yasser Arafat and Bil’in resident Bassem Abu … Continue reading


Updated on January 16, 2010
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Illegal settlers and Israeli military attack Palestinian non-violent demonstration against settlement expansion

Posted on: January 8, 2010
Illegal settlers and Israeli military attack Palestinian non-violent demonstration against settlement expansion

International Women’s Peace Service

8 January 2010

On January 8, villagers from the Palestinian village of An Nabi Saleh (population approx 500), located in the north of the Ramallah district, held its third demonstration in three weeks against creeping settlement expansion and land confiscation by the illegal Israeli settlement of Hallamish (also known as Neve Tzuf). According to the residents of the village, since the settlement was established illegally on land belonging to An Nabi Saleh in 1977, there have been repeated attempts to … Continue reading


Updated on January 10, 2010
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Twenty demonstrators injured in Nabbi Saleh

Posted on: January 8, 2010
Twenty demonstrators injured in Nabbi Saleh

Popular Struggle Coordination Committee

8 January 2010

For immediate release:

As part of a recent surge in popular protest in the West Bank, about 300 demonstrators occupied and blocked the main road in near the Halamish settlement for over two hours. The demonstrators, twenty of which were injured by rubber-coated bullets, protested recent land grabs.

About 300 people took to the street today in the West Bank village of Nabbi Saleh, north-west of Ramallah, in protest of recent land grab by the adjacent Jewish-only settlement of Halamish. … Continue reading


Updated on January 10, 2010
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Eight year old boy shot in his head by rubber-coated steel bullet, two arrested during Ni’lin’s weekly protest

Posted on: January 2, 2010

1 January 2010

During today’s demonstration in Ni’lin – marking the anniversary of the Fatah movement – one eight year old boy was injured in the head with a rubber-coated steel bullet and two teenage boys (15 and 17 years old) arrested.

Around 500 people, including international and Israeli activists attended today’s weekly Friday protest against the Apartheid Wall in Ni’lin. Ni’lin celebrated the anniversary of the Fatah movement, hereby attracting a large number of people for this week’s demonstration, including high profile Fatah members such as dr. Sabri Saydam, Tawfiq Terawi, Ra’ed Radwan and Mahmoud Aloul. The Israeli army had closed … Continue reading


Updated on January 2, 2010
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Israeli army fires rubber-coated steel bullets at demonstrators celebrating the Arab Creativity Award for Bil’in

Posted on: December 19, 2009
Israeli army fires rubber-coated steel bullets at demonstrators celebrating the Arab Creativity Award for Bil’in

Bil’in Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements

18 December 2009

This Friday the demonstration organized by the Popular Committee against the Wall was joined by dozens of leaders, members and supporters of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, marking its 42nd anniversary. As every Friday a number of international and Israeli peace activists and residents of Bil’in and neighboring villages took part in the protest.

After the Friday prayers, a joyful and wet group of demonstrators carried banners condemning the Israeli occupation and its repressive practices while they marched towards the … Continue reading


Updated on December 19, 2009
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IDF raids Naalin photographer’s home

Posted on: December 17, 2009
Naalin shooting, documented by Canaan family members Photo: B'Tselem

Ali Waked | YNet News

16 December 2009

Family members of a girl who shot a video showing an Israel Defense Forces soldier firing a rubber bullet at a bound Palestinian in the West Bank village of Naalin last year say the army has been harassing them ever since.

The relatives told Ynet that a massive IDF force raided their house on Wednesday night and left behind a lot of damage. The girl’s father and brother were then summoned for investigation.

An IDF official … Continue reading


Updated on December 17, 2009
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Settlers set fire to Yasuf mosque, burning over 80 Qur’an and other holy texts

Posted on: December 13, 2009
Qur'an and other holy texts destroyed by fire set to Yasuf mosque by settlers

11 December 2009

Settlers set fire to the mosque of Yasuf village in the Nablus region of the West Bank on Friday, 11 December. The vicious attack was carried out in the early hours of the morning, after which the village was invaded by Israeli Occupation Forces, firing tear gas and rubber-coated steel bullets at distraught Palestinians, protesting the desecration of the holy site. Settler violence has seen a sharp increase this month with the Israeli government’s announcement to “freeze” … Continue reading


Updated on December 13, 2009
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