• Israeli forces kill Palestinian demonstrator in Ni’lin

    For Immediate Release: Friday, 5 June 2009 at 2:50pm: Israeli forces have killed a demonstrator in the West Bank village of Ni’lin. The Israeli army shot Yousef Akil Srour, aged 36 years in the chest with 0.22 caliber live ammunition. He was dead upon arrival to Ramallah Hospital. Yousef Akil Srour is the 5th Palestinian…

  • Palestinian teen injured in Bil’in rally

    Ali Waked | YNet News 4 June 2009 A 13-year-old boy suffered a rubber-bullet head injury Thursday, during an anti-security fence rally in the Palestinian village of Bil’in, located near the West Bank city of Ramallah. The boy was rushed to the Ramallah hospital in moderate condition and is said to be undergoing surgery. Anti-security…

  • Israeli forces kidnap 4 Palestinian residents of Ni’lin

    2 June 2009 Israeli forces invaded the town of Ni’lin at 2 am on Wednesday,  2nd of June. The army forcefully entered five homes and siezed four residents, Sa’dat Ibrahim Mustafa Ameerah (19), Mahmod Abdallah Ameerah (26), Ibrahim Khalil Ad-Dik Srour (18) and Hamada Abdel Raziq Khawaja (28). All of them are suspected in taking…

  • UN: Israel exclusion zone eats up 30% of Gaza’s arable land

    Ma’an News Agency Israel’s military “buffer zone” along the eastern and northern edge of the Gaza Strip eats up 30% of the territory’s arable land, the United Nations said this week. Fieldworkers with the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) told the Christian Science Monitor that they have been unable to verify conditions in…

  • People & Power – Courtroom Intifada

    Al Jazeera 3 June 2009 The small village of Bil’in is trying to regain land lost to the Separation Wall and an encroaching Jewish settlement through ‘legal resistance’. As their victory in the Israeli Supreme Court continues to be ignored, the villagers, helped by Israeli lawyer Michael Sfard, file a case against the international construction…