Tag: Arrests

  • Bil’in demonstrates against nightly raids

    Bil’in Popular Committee 30 July 2009 On Wednesday night, July 29, one hundred villagers of Bil’in along with their International and Israeli supporters conducted a Protest March against the IDF’s nightly raids and detaining of Palestinian villagers. The protest march began in the village of Bil’in, but buoyed by peace songs, chants, and flashlight-lit containers…

  • Bil’in under attack

    Alternative Information Center (AIC) 30 July 2009 Five years ago the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued its advisory opinion declaring that the Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory is illegal and should be dismantled. After five years of silence and complicity by the international community in perpetrating this crime, several villages across the Occupied…

  • A demonstration will be held outside the demolished Darwish Hijazi home in Sheikh Jarrah

    UPDATE: All activists were given a condition to stay out of East Jerusalem for 3 weeks and will be released later today. For Immediate Release: 4pm, Monday 27 July 2009: A demonstration will be held outside the Darwish Hijazi home to protest the demolition of the home and the ethnic cleansing of occupied East Jerusalem.…

  • Settlers occupy and damage Sheikh Jarrah home

    Ma’an News 26 July 2009 Residents on Sunday tried unsuccessfully to prevent Israeli settlers and police from reaching a home owned by Palestinians in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem. During the incident former Minister of Jerusalem Affairs Hatim Abdul Qader was detained, apparently while trying to block more attacks on a home that…

  • Bil’in demonstrates against the Apartheid Wall

    Bil’in Popular Committee 24 July 2009 Immediately after Friday prayers today, Bil’in citizens, International supporters, and Israeli activists went out in a demonstration, raising Palestinian flags and banners condemning the occupation policies of building the wall, land confiscation, building settlements, roads closures, the siege of cities, killing civilians, house raids, and the arresting of children.…