Tag: Bil’in

  • Bil’in: Un-cage Palestine!

    by an ISM Media office volunteer The non-violent demonstration against the Apartheid Wall on the land of Bil’in village this week was themed around the economic siege of Palestine by western powers. Israeli and international activists with pictures of western leaders taped to their chests carried a barbed-wire cage in which a Palestinian dressed in…

  • It Can Be Done

    The people of Bil’in will demonstrate against the wall, this Friday May 6 At 12:00 AM A year ago, when the weekly demonstrations in Bil’in started no one believed that they would be able to continue for more than a few weeks. If one had suggested that a year later, the Supreme Court would order…

  • Audio Report from Bil’in Demonstration 28th April

    This is Pennie Quinton reporting for IMEMC: Audio Report from Bil’in 28th April 2006 – mp3 [Update, 1/5/06: this a new version of the audio file – due to technical problems, the last version cut out before the end.] “On Friday the 28th of April on behalf of the International Middle Eastern Media Centre I…

  • Border Police Lash Out

    The huge Palestinian flag that has been used by the village on demonstrations by an ISM Media office volunteer Today’s non-violent demonstration against the Wall in Bil’in was attacked by the Israeli soldiers, as usual. The demonstrators reached the gate in the annexation wall that is stealing some 60% of the village’s land. The gate…

  • Ha’aretz: “Police probe building of West Bank settlement neighborhood”

    By Akiva Eldar, Ha’aretz Correspondent The Israel Police’s National Fraud Squad has opened a criminal investigation into the illegal construction of hundreds of housing units in the Matityahu East neighborhood of the Modi’in Ilit ultra-Orthodox settlement. A statement to this effect was submitted on Tuesday to the High Court of Justice in response to an…