• Ni’lin residents demonstrate against the Apartheid Wall

    12 June 2009 Approximately 100 Palestinian, Israeli and international solidarity activists gathered today in the village of Nil’in. The atmosphere was charged following last week’s murder of Yousef Akil Srour, and demonstrators were unsure of the force that would meet them as they marched towards the Apartheid wall. 50 meters before reaching the razor wire…

  • ‘Tear gas is an emotional state’

    Iris Leal | Ha’aretz 11 June 2009 The three days of mourning over the death of Yusuf “Akal” Srour, who was shot at close range on Friday during a demonstration against the separation fence in Na’alin, ended Tuesday. Srour was shot when he tried to help another demonstrator who had been hurt by the soldiers’…

  • Israeli forces kidnap two Ni’lin residents

    11 June 2009 In the early hours of Thursday morning, at 2.15am, the Israeli army invaded the village of Ni’lin and kidnapped two young men from their family homes. Mohammad Waed Khawaja (22), and Mohammad Ratib Khawaja (20), were each forcibly arrested, blindfolded, handcuffed, and taken away. The soldiers arrived on foot from the nearby…

  • Can civil disobedience work if the media stays away?

    Bruce Wolman | Mondoweiss 11 June 2009 What if Palestinians turned to non-violent protest and none of the media showed up to cover their actions? President Obama in his Cairo speech insisted the “Palestinians must abandon violence.” He exhorted them to imitate the methods of the Civil Rights movement in the United States: “Resistance through…

  • Bound, blindfolded and beaten – by Israeli troops

    Ben Lynfield | The Independent 9 June 2009 Two Israeli officers have testified that troops in the West Bank beat, bound and blindfolded Palestinian civilians as young as 14. The damaging disclosures by two sergeants of the Kfir Brigade include descriptions of abuses they say they witnessed during a search-and-detain operation involving hundreds of troops…