On Friday, October 19, approximately 100 human rights activists from different backgrounds converged at Um Salamona in the West Bank today to protest against the building of the segregation wall. Internationals, Palestinians and also Israelis, who are against the Occupation ...
Read More »Non-violent demonstration at Um Salamona
Last Friday of a group of 70 demonstrators, comprising of Palestinian, international and Israeli activists, gathered near the town of Umm Salamona, south of Bethlehem, to demonstrate against the planned route of the apartheid wall and the Israeli Occupation Forces’ ...
Read More »BBC: Hope flowers for West Bank school
By Raffi Berg For the Palestinian children of Hope Flowers School, violence and conflict is a part of everyday life. Just six km (four miles) from Jerusalem, their village has seen repeated Israeli incursions, shootings and demolitions by the army. ...
Read More »Anti-wall Protests: army violence in Bil`in, relative restraint in Walaja
By Ghassan Bannoura/John Smith IMEMC September 28, 2007 http://www.imemc.org/article/50679 http://www.imemc.org/article/50677 Video coverage Bil`in at http://mishtara.org/blog/?p=250 Nine injured in the weekly non violent protest at Bil`in At the weekly non violent protest at the village of Bil`in, located near the central ...
Read More »Christian Science Monitor: Nonviolent protest gains in West Bank
By Joshua Mitnick A Supreme Court decision in favor of one protesting village has inspired others. from the September 24, 2007 edition Al Walajeh, West Bank – “All those who love the prophet should lend a hand!” Ten shouting Palestinians ...
Read More »Indymedia: Al Walaja resists roadblocks and Illegal Apartheid Wall
On Friday, September 21st, the people of Al Walaja village, in coordination with international and Israeli activists, came together to protest the Apartheid wall as they have done before. This week however, they added a variation, trying to demonstrate also ...
Read More »Non-Violent Protest in Al-Walaja Turns Ugly as Israeli Army Rears its Head
Al Walaja Village, Bethlehem region, inside the Jerusalem Municipality Today, September 14th, demonstrators against the Apartheid Wall in the village of Al Walaja were met with severe repression by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF). Walaja, which is located 8 kilometers west ...
Read More »Let Them East Grapes!
Umm Salumona For the first time in two months a Palestinian farmer was given permission today to visit his land at Umm-Salumona in the district of North Bethlehem. A large area of land has been annexed by the Israeli military, ...
Read More »Umm Salamuna Demo Proceeds, Despite IOF Interference
On Friday August 24 at 12:00pm around 40 Palestinians and 40 internationals gathered in Umm Salumuna, in the region of south Bethlehem, to protest the building of the apartheid wall. The village had been declared a military zone by the ...
Read More »Umm Salamona: Soldiers Get Rough With Protesters
On Friday afternoon August 17th over 150 Palestinian landowners and their families were accompanied by Israeli and international human rights activists to protest against the Apartheid wall in Umm Salamona and W’laga on the outskirts of Bethlehem. The demonstration has ...
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