• Once again, Azzoun is under curfew; internationals and Palestinians assaulted during warantless house invasion

    February 16th Today Azzoun was again under curfew, after six hours of free movement in the town, Border Police drove in at 11 am and announced that the curfew had been reinstated. Throughout the day two Border Police jeeps roamed the town, throwing sound bombs, shooting live ammunition, and randomly beating people in the streets.…

  • Weekly demonstration in Bil’in

    On February 15, 2008, around 80 Palestinian, Israeli, and international activists took part in the weekly Friday demonstration in the village of Bi’lin against the illegal Annexation Wall. The Wall cuts off 60% of Bi’lin’s agricultural land and, in a decision by the Israeli Supreme Court, has been ordered taken down and moved back. The…

  • Beit Ummar Curfew

    At 1 am on the 13th of February the village of Beit Ummar was invaded by Israeli soldiers and put under military curfew. Over 40 people were arrested as the area was declared a closed military zone. The press were turned away at the gate and those who found another way in were escorted out…

  • Ha’aretz: Intifada redux

    By Gideon Levy For the original article, click here. The intifada is back. Maybe not in full force, but the sights we saw last weekend suddenly brought us back 20 years. Israel Defense Forces bulldozers blocked the main entrance to the village of Azoun. Its roads were strewn with stones; Molotov cocktails were thrown; the…

  • Yedioth Ahronoth: Polished Protest

    By Yaniv Halili, our correspondent in New York (Translation from Hebrew by Adalah-NY) February 10, 2008 London and New York: Demonstrations Opposite Lev Leviev’s Jewelry Stores “Lev Leviev’s diamonds are a crime’s best friends.” This was not the least of that which around 100 demonstrators chanted yesterday outside Lev Leviev’s diamond boutique on elite Madison…