Category: Press Releases

  • Hearing of the Petition Against the wall in Bil’in

    The judges, Barak, Prokachia, and Rivlin, presiding over the court case protesting the route of the wall in Bil’in village have not yet reached a decision. In the last hearing, which took place May 14, 2006, the applicant, Bil’in village council, was represented by Michael Sfard, who argued that the wall is not designed to…

  • Declared Innocent

    The trial of Jonathan Pollak and Kobi Snitz has come to an end a year after the two were arrested at a demonstration against the wall in the West Bank village of Budrus. Today, Tuesday, May 16th, Judge Alexander Ron of the Jerusalem Peace court declared the two Israeli activists from “Anarchists Against the Wall”…

  • A New Petition by the People of Bil’in: Cancel the Declaration of Their Lands as State Property

    Today (May 14th, 2006), a new petition (HCJ 3998/06), the third in number, was filed at the High Court of Justice, on behalf of the village Bil’in. In this petition, the Court is asked to order the person in charge of government property in the West Bank to annul two declarations, one in 1990 and…

  • Settler Violence Increases in Hebron Region

    1- Non-Violent Demonstration Against the Wall in Ar-Aram Attacked by Israeli Military 2- The double standards of the Israeli Army. 3- Shabbat+ new soldiers + new settlers . 4- Report on Razor Wire closing entrance to the track leading to the Al Azzeh homes. 5- UK Training for Freedom Summer. 6- Warmongers EDO Corp. Surrender…

  • International Peace Activists Released From Hospital

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 14, 2006 The two international peace activists shot by the Israeli military at Friday’s anti-wall demonstration in Bil’in have been discharged from hospital. Phillip Reiss from Australia was released today, and BJ Lund from Denmark, was released yesterday from the Tel Hashomer hospital in Tel Aviv. They are still recovering from…