Tag: Arrests

  • Seventeen year old from Bil’in arrested in night raid

    Last night the Israeli army carried out a night raid in the West Bank village of Bil’in and arrested a seventeen year old boy. At least 12 Israeli army jeeps entered the village at approximately 1.30 in the morning. Soldiers from two of the jeeps then closed off the house of Ahmed Abdul Fatah Burnat,…

  • Commander and soldier convicted for shooting of bound Palestinian

    Anshel Pfeffer | Ha’aretz 15 July 2010 An Israel Defense Forces court on Thursday convicted a former commander and a soldier involved in shooting a bound Palestinian at close range in the West Bank city of Na’alin two years ago. The affair unfolded after Lt. Col. Omri Burberg was filmed holding the blindfolded and bound…

  • Palestine: Israeli crackdown exposes its aims

    Bridget Chappell | GreenLeft 27 May 2010 Israel has exposed the extent of its crackdown on resistance to its occupation in an affidavit submitted to the Supreme Court on April 29. It claimed the Israeli Shin Bet intelligence agency has been conducting surveillance on myself, a non-violent activist and Australian citizen, in Area A of…