Tag Archives: Bethlehem

Al-Ma’asara Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements 1 January 2010 Over 150 local activists protested today in al-Ma’asara and the neighboring villages against the construction of the illegal Apartheid Wall and settlements on the lands of the nine intertwined ...

Nathan Stokes | IMEMC 31 December 2009 Residents of the Bethlehem area, West Bank, gather to commemorate those lost in last years Gaza War and stand in solidarity with those still living under seige. At 4:30 this afternoon residents of ...

31 December 2009 Thousands of people in Egypt, the besieged Gaza Strip, Israel, and the occupied West Bank rallied on New Year’s Eve Day to call for an end to the international blockade and siege of Gaza, but the protests ...

Ben Lynfield | The Independent 30 October 2009 A Palestinian student has been handcuffed, blindfolded and forcibly expelled to the Gaza Strip by Israeli troops just two months before she was due to graduate from university. Berlanty Azzam, 21, who ...

Ha’aretz 7 May 2009 A Palestinian official says the Palestinian Authority has scrapped plans to host Pope Benedict XVI next week on a stage near the West Bank separation fence. Palestinian say they had hoped that receiving the pope next ...

On the 8th of May, 2009, residents of the southern West Bank village of  Al-Ma’asara conducted their weekly demonstration against Israel’s annexation barrier, despite increased repression from Israeli forces.  At last week’s demonstration, five nonviolent Palestinian organizers were arrested, and ...

For Immediate Release: 1 May 2009 Residents gathered at 1.30 pm for a weekly demonstration near the village of Al-Ma’sara in protest of the Apartheid Wall that was built on Palestinian land in the villages of Al-Ma’sara, Um Salamouna, Jourat ...

On Tuesday, December 16, 2008 at 1.00 in the morning, the IOF raided the home of the Al-Salabi family in Beit Ummar. About forty soldiers came to the village located near Road 60, south of Bethlehem. Two soldiers remained by ...

Unconfirmed Report says Leviev to Attend Atlantis Opening Al-Bawaba November 18 Adalah-NY has learned that the jewelry of Israeli billionaire and settlement-builder Lev Leviev will be on sale at this week’s gala opening of the luxury hotel Atlantis, The Palm ...

By Mireille Despite Israeli forces closing of the main road, 50 Palestinians, internationals and Israelis gathered on Friday morning, October 17, on the lands of the villages of Umm Salamuna and Al Masara, to begin the villages’ olive harvest. After ...