Tag: Bil’in

  • Many injured in weekly demonstrations

    Road 443 – IMEMC: Several injuries reported during a nonviolent protest near Kharabtha village (for original article click here) Palestinian sources reported on Friday that several residents were injured after the army fired at residents, Israeli and international peace activists who carried a nonviolent protest against the continued closure of a main road since late…

  • Protests take place in Bil’in and Umm Salamona

    Umm Salamona The weekly demonstration against the wall in Umm salamuna gathered around 50 Palestinians and internationals on the 4th of April. The peaceful demonstration marched down the main street until it reached the entrance to the town where the Israeli military stopped the demonstrators using marble barbed wire. At the entrance the demonstrators chanted…

  • UPDATE: Blake Murphy is deported to the US

    Blake Murphy, an American activist from Bedford, MA, working in the West Bank, was beaten and arrested by Israeli army and police forces on Friday 14th March 2008. He has had to face a series of evidently false charges from the Israeli authorities due to his work supporting non-violent resistance to the occupation of Palestine.…