Category: Reports
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al Ma’asara demonstrates against the Apartheid Wall
7 August 2009 Yesterday night military vehicles blocked the entrance of al Ma’asara village. This act came, last week, after Israeli Occupying Forces (IOF) threatened to put the village under siege if it had continued the weekly protests. In al Ma’asara today dozens of Palestinian protestors against the apartheid Wall and the settlements were joined…
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Bil’in demonstrates against Apartheid Wall and Israeli arrest campaign
Bil’in Popular Committee 7 August 2009 Tens were suffocated with tear gas, fired by Israeli soldiers at Bili’n’s weekly demonstration. Where Bil’in citizens, Israeli and International peace activists demonstrated after the Friday prayers, waving Palestinian flags and banners with slogans calling for the release of the popular leaders, Muhammad al-Khatib and Adib Abu Rahma, and…
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Sheikh Jarrah: another day sleeping under the sky
Alternative Information Center 6 August 2009 The neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, housing about 500 Palestinians in East Jerusalem is under siege. Armed forces have been stationed here since early Sunday morning when the Hannoun and Gawi families were forcibly evicted from their homes by as many as 500 police officers. Now it’s a waiting game.…