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Azzoun burns
Villagers set fire to some of their own olive trees to send a message to settlers that even if they get the land, they won’t get the agriculture that Palestinian families have spent generations cultivating. By Sarita Friday, August 12 Over 500 villagers from Azzoun demonstrated Friday, August 12, to protest the second stage of…
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Soldier joins Bil’in protest
A wall moves through Bil’in A woman who showed up in her military uniform along with protesters in Bil’in was quickly arrested by soldiers and transferred to IDF investigators for questioning. About 100 or so peace activsits carried their own version of Israeli’s annexation wall that is being built through villages like Bil’in. Soldiers detained…
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Bil’in, a test field for new Israeli weapons
Saed Bannoura IMEMC & Agencies Tuesday, 09 August 2005 Israeli and international leftist peace activists accused the Israeli army of using demonstrations against the Separation Wall in the West Bank village of Bil’in as a “test field” for its new weapons for dispersing protests. The Israeli military industries have lately been testing new “non-lethal weapons,”…
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ISM activist’s killer sentenced; will similar legal action now be available for Palestinian victims? Not likely in the near future.
Justice is difficult to come by in the middle of an illegal military occupation. For some, with the legal and financial resources and freedom to pursue it, there is a slim chance that they might see some limited response. For many others, though, the chance to have the wrongs committed against them addressed will never…
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The Ariel Finger and its Impacts
by Nijmie of the International Women’s Peace Service Ariel settlement – the strategy then and now The settlement of Ariel was established in 1978. Its founding population of forty settlers has burgeoned due to its strategic location (close to Tel Aviv and approximately in the middle of the West Bank) and generous government aid to…
