Tag: Arrests

  • Demonstrators plant olive trees at al-Ma’asara, one arrested

    22 January 2010 This week’s Friday demonstration in al-Ma’asara celebrated the Palestinian Day of the Tree. Some 70 demonstrators, Palestinian, Israeli and international, marched from the centre of the village towards the route of the Apartheid fence, carrying young olive trees to be planted in the lands near the fence. Amongst the demonstrators were Palestinian…

  • Three more arrested in Ni’ilin night raid

    Popular Struggle Coordination Committee 21 January 2010 Three residents of Ni’ilin were arrested in a pre-dawn imilitary incursion into the village of Ni’ilin today. This is the 15th time such a raid was conducted in the past month in order to apprehend Palestinian anti-Wall activists. Today’s arrests are a continuation of a concerted assault on…

  • Israel crushes local dissent, attacks global criticism

    Mel Frykberg | Inter Press Service 19 January 2009 Israel is lashing out at international criticism and attempting to crush local dissent in what appears to be growing sensitivity to reproach of its policies. Several recent incidents have dominated media headlines, including the arrest of a Jewish-American journalist on the grounds of security, threats by…