9 November 2009 | Christian Peacemaker Team For immediate release: At-Tuwani – On the morning of Sunday 8 November 2009 four Israeli settler youth from Ma’on settlement plowed privately-owned Palestinian fields in Umm Zeituna valley. The settlers arrived at approximately ...
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British activists blockade Carmel Agrexco
Indymedia UK 6 November 2009 At about 6 o’clock this morning a group of London students and international activists, including members of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), blocked the two gates leading to the depot. The activists seek to raise ...
Read More »Seven Palestinians arrested during Nablus military raids
5 November 2009 In the dead of night, at 2am, Thursday 4 November, the Israeli Occupation Force made a series of military raids on civilian home in Nablus, arresting 7 young men. Al-Ein camp was brutally attacked by a force ...
Read More »Ni’lin demonstrators topple 8 meter tall concrete wall
6 November 2009 20 years to the fall of the Berlin wall: Demonstrators toppled 8 meters tall concrete wall in Ni’ilin Three protest marches were held today in the West Bank to mark the 20th anniversary to the fall of ...
Read More »Inciting non-violence: support Bil’in’s struggle
Support Bil’in’s struggle “Just as a simple man named Ghandi led the successful non-violent struggle in India and simple people such as Rosa Parks and Nelson Mandela led the struggle for civil rights in the United States, simple people here ...
Read More »From Berlin to Palestine: no matter where, no matter how tall, all walls fall
Bil’in Popular Committee 6 November 2009 The 20th anniversary to the fall of the Berlin Wall will be marked this Friday in mass demonstrations across the West Bank calling for an immediate dismantling of Israel’s wall and settlements Exactly twenty ...
Read More »Qaryut residents successfully remove a roadblock
5 November 2009 The villagers of Qaryut are facing a new weekend tradition: the Friday removing of a roadblock, repeatedly re-instated by the Israeli army upon every attempt to clear the road connecting the village with Ramallah and Nablus. The ...
Read More »al-Ma’sara demonstrates against the Apartheid Wall
Al-Ma’sara Popular Committee Against the Wall In today’s demonstration against the illegal construction of the Apartheid Wall that is designed to steal the agricultural lands of the villages of Southern Bethlehem, the people of al-Ma’sara celebrated the 20th anniversary of ...
Read More »Jewish settlers throw stones at Palestinian houses in Sheikh Jarrah
6 November 2009 On Friday 6 November 2009 at 2am, many stones and one glass bottle were thrown onto the roofs and yards of Palestinian houses in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of occupied East Jerusalem. The stone throwing did not ...
Read More »Residents of Sheikh Jarrah demonstrate against settlements in East Jerusalem
4 November 2009 On Wednesday 4 November 2009, a vibrant demonstration was held in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of occupied East Jerusalem. The demonstration was organised as a protest against Jewish settlers taking over a Palestinian house in Sheikh Jarrah, ...
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