Tag: Bil’in

  • Media Distortion of Palestinian Non-Violent Protest

    by Dennis Fox, October 29th Every Friday for the past year and a half villagers from Bil’in, a small West Bank village near Ramallah, march with supporters toward the triple-layer fence separating them from their olive trees. They are always blocked by Israeli soldiers and border police, who typically escalate from tear gas and concussion…

  • Peaceful Bil’in Protestors Attacked by IOF

    by ISM media team, October 27th for video and audio footage of the demo visit www.palestinewitness.net Twelve-year old Ibrahim Ghazi Beit-Ilo was hit in the neck by shrapnel from a live bullet following a peaceful protest march against the Apartheid Wall in Bil’in today. He underwent surgery at the Ramallah goverment hospital and the shrapnel…

  • Haaretz: “So much for another kind of olive harvest”

    by Akiva Eldar, October 26th Who remembers nowadays that Amir Peretz made dismantling illegal outposts a condition for Yisrael Beiteinu joining the government – with the agreement of the knight of law and order, Avigdor Lieberman? What became of Peretz’s vows to reexamine the separation fence route designed by a settler who the attorney general…

  • Bil’in Cameraman Finally to be Released Tomorrow

    by ISM media team, October 25th A judge at Ofer military court ordered Bil’in cameraman Emad Bornat to be released tomorrow after almost 3 weeks in detention. Emad was seized in the village after a demonstration against the annexation wall on October 6th as he was filming Israeli forces. Whilst in the border police van…

  • Back to Bilin – Mass Demo, Friday, October 27th

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE It is already 20 months that the village Bil’in has been fighting for its life and future – a long and hard, sometimes frustrating struggle. The separation wall has taken about half of its land, in order to expand the settlement Modi’in Illit. Against the joint forces of might and fortune –…