Tag: Al Ma’asara
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Seven years of popular resistance in Al-Masara: ‘We want freedom, not aid money’
26th October 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil Team | Al Masara, Occupied Palestine Yesterday, Friday 25th October, over a hundred non-violent protesters, half of them internationals from more than a dozen countries all over the world marked the seventh anniversary of the popular struggle of the people of Al Masara against illegal Israeli settlements, most notably…
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Al Ma’asara demonstrates the meaning of peace
by Ramon Garcia 9 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The people of Al Ma’sara gathered after praying time to march to their land, confiscated for the nearby illegal settlement. Approximately 70 internationals were present, most of them Christians coming back from a conference in Bethlehem titled, “Christ at the Checkpoints.” The crowd…
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Al Ma’asara: House on the seam of looming Apartheid Wall becomes center for peaceful resistance
by Aaron 14 February 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank There is a place where a ground-level concrete line runs beside a country road through olive orchards, grape vines, blossoming almond trees, and homes—all Palestinian. This is the projected path of a new segment of Israeli Apartheid Wall through Al-Ma’sara, a small village 13…
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Israel to demolish two houses near Bethlehem
28 January 2012 | WAFA News Agency Israeli forces delivered home demolition notices to two Palestinian homeowners in al-Ma’sara, a village south of Bethlehem, under the pretext that they were built without a permit in an area under full Israel control, said head of the village council Samir Zawahra on Saturday. He said Israeli soldiers…
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Al Ma’asara refuses the road to illegal settlement activity
10 December 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank This weeks’ demonstration in the village of Al-Maasara was attended by approximately forty peaceful protesters with twenty Palestinians and twenty internationals. As always during the protests in Al Ma’asara the protesters were confronted by a line of Israeli soldiers who refused to allow the Palestinians cross an…
