Tag: Bil’in

  • Arson at the Outpost in Bil’in

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE At 5pm today, May 28, 2006, Palestinian workers from the nearby settlement of Modi’in Illit called Abdullah Abu Rahme, from Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements of Bil’in, to tell him there was huge fire at the outpost. Abdullah went quickly to the outpost and found the army, the police, ambulance,…

  • Non-Violent Demonstration in Bil’in Deliberately Targeted by Israeli Soldiers

    by ISM Media office volunteers People of Bil’in carry flags representing the different Palestinian political parties and call for unity to oppose the occupation At today’s demonstration in Bil’in, on May 26th, Israeli soldiers once again deliberately targeted peaceful demonstrators. As demonstrators attempted to cross razor wire, heading for the Bil’in village land annexed by…

  • Bil’in Calls for Palestinian National Unity

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tomorrow after the midday prayer, the villagers of Bil’in village, west of Ramallah, will be joined by international and Israeli supporters for their weekly demonstration against the illegal annexation barrier the Israeli state is building on their land. At tomorrow’s demonstration, they will be calling for national unity and to protest against…

  • Ha’aretz: “Despite High Court ban, settlers occupy Matityahu East homes”

    By Dan Keidar and Akiva Eldar, Haaretz Correspondents, 24th May 2006 At least two settler families moved on Tuesday into apartments in a neighborhood of the West Bank settlement of Upper Modi’in that was built illegally on land belonging to the neighboring Palestinian village of Bil’in. The move came in flagrant disregard of a Supreme…

  • Sunbula’s journal: “Farmers in Bil’in successfully plow their land behind the Wall”

    Today there was some plowing of the land around the outpost in Bil’n and as always and international presence was needed to help ensure soldiers didn’t attack Palestinians (the Popular Committee in the village decided to build this outpost at the end of last year in order to “counter-settle” the land being taken from the…