Home / 2009

Yearly Archives: 2009

Settlers attack Nablus-area village of Burin

13 September 2009 On the evening of Sunday 13 September at approximately 21:00 masked settlers from the illegal settlement of Bracha, armed with guns, set alight tyres and sprayed gasoline on the roof of a house under construction in the ...

Read More »

Israeli forces raid Bil’in, beat Popular Committee member

For Immediate Release: 16 September 2009: Israeli forces raid Bil’in, beat Popular Committee member. Around 1:30am, the Israeli army invaded Bil’in. Soldiers came to the home of Abdullah Mahmoud Abu Rahme , coordinator of the Bil’in Popular Committee Against the ...

Read More »

Israeli forces put curfew on Azzoun

12 September 2009 On Saturday 12 September at 10:30am the village of Azzun in Qalqiliya came under curfew for the third time in 6 days. Soldiers stomped the village announcing curfew over a loudspeaker from a jeep with no explanation ...

Read More »

Settlers attack Palestinian home in Burin

10 September 2009 In the early hours of Thursday 10 September at approximately 3am, 20 masked settlers came down from the illegal settlement of Bracha near Nablus to a home under construction in the Palestinian village of Burin. The home ...

Read More »

Oakland man to sue for injury in Israel protest

Bob Egelko | The San Francisco Chronicle 14 September 2009 An Oakland man who was seriously wounded by a tear gas projectile fired by Israeli police during a West Bank protest will file suit despite a military report concluding that ...

Read More »

To rap is to resist

Eva Bartlett | Inter Press Service 12 September 2009 In a backstreet open-air café in Gaza late at night, Khaled Harara from the Black Unit Band starts to talk about rap. A phone call interrupts him. “Oh my god, it’s ...

Read More »

Iraq Burin villagers meet to organize demonstrations

11 September 2009 A second meeting was held in Iraq Burin about protesting the annexation of the land of the village for nearby settlements. The meeting was held to encourage and inspire different ways of doing actions, demonstrations and protests, ...

Read More »