Category: Reports

  • Beit Sira Demonstrates Despite Threats from Israeli Civil Administration

    At 1:30 this past Friday, the Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements in the Palestinian village of Beit Sira, just west of Ramallah held a demonstration against the apartheid barrier being constructed on the village’s land. This was all despite recent threats from the Israeli civil administration to withdraw permits to work in Israel…

  • Bil’in Demonstration Remembers Twelfth Death Caused by Wall

    Friday’s Bil’in demonstration was a memorial for the twelfth victim of the apartheid wall. Eyad Taha Salame Taha, a 28 year-old man from Beit Annan, was drowned in a flood caused by the wall in Bil’in on Sunday, April 2, 2006. Grills covering the drainage pipes that in the flash flood formed a dam. Mud…

  • Israelis ‘detain’ Hamas minister

    From the BBC Hamas officials say Israeli police have detained a cabinet minister from the new Hamas-led Palestinian government. Khaled Abu Arafa, minister of Jerusalem affairs, was arrested on the outskirts of East Jerusalem, the officials said. Hamas said Mr Abu Arafa, a resident of the city, had been detained several times by Israel in…