On the 11th July, a team of 22 Israeli medical volunteers from “Physicians for Human Rights” where stopped and detained at the Ni’lin checkpoint, wanting to participate in a free medical day in Ni’lin to provide free health-care to villagers. Physicians for Human Rights has for a long time worked together with the “Palestinian medical relief” and gives free medical help to people affected by the occupation, both inside and outside the occupied territories. Today when…

On Friday the 11th of July, in the village of Ni’lin on the West bank, two non-violent demonstrations were violently dispersed by the Israeli army using rubber bullets, teargas, flares and sound bombs. Hundreds of Palestinians and dozens of internationals and Israeli activists were driven away from their peaceful manifestations against the apartheid wall which will steal 70% of the villages land if constructed as planned. Army violence resulted in one injured and one Palestinian arrested…