Category: Reports
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Beit Sira Demonstration 24th March 2006
Just like many other Palestinian towns and villages, Beit Sira has it’s share of grotesque Israeli annexation barriers and surrounding of isolating settlements. In this case Makabim settlement. An ongoing expansion of land theft has resulted in thousands of olive trees being uprooted and huge areas of agricultural land being cut off from the village.…
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Two young boys arrested in Beit Sira
By Anna Svensson Today, in the village of Beit Sira, Israeli occupation forces stopped a group of school children between the ages of 8 to 16 walking home from school. The soldiers had with them photos that where taken at the demonstrations against the apartheid-wall held in the village. After checking all the students, two…
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Beautiful, Terrible
more photos here By Katie Tel Rumeida is beautiful this time of year. Today I stood on my roof and talked to my roommate Wes in San Francisco. Wes is awesome and one of the people I miss the most. He’s been so supportive of me coming here for which I am very grateful. I…
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The Heroes of Tel Rumeida
By Mary Baxter The heroes of Tel Rumeida are twelve children, who need to pass by or through the Tel Rumeida Israeli settlement to get to school. They are from about 5 to 14 years old. They are frightened of the settlers who threaten and at times attack them. But still they come six days…
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“You won’t impose your wall on us!”
In the continuation of the non-violent resistance to the annexation wall in the Palestinian village of Bil’in, demonstrators carried a model of the wall with the sentence “You will not impose your wall on us” written in Arabic. The 150 Palestinian, Israeli and international activists were, as usual, prevented from reaching the wall by Israeli…