Tag: Bil’in

  • Bil’in Children Arrested

    Mohammad Ahmad Hamad in the back of the police car. Two Palestinian children from the village of Bil’in were arrested mid morning on Tuesday April 12th. Mohammad Abd Al Fattah Burnatt, aged 17, and Mohammad Ahmad Hamad aged 13 were tending a herd of goats close to the illegal Israeli settlement of Modi’in Elite. The…

  • Three Non-violent Actions Friday

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Villagers in Bil’in, Beit Sira, and Salem will continue to protest against the annexation of their land this Friday, despite threats of collective punishment by the Israeli Civil Administration. Bil’in villagers, joined by Israeli and international activists and a Tibetan monk, will hold their weekly demonstration against the wall, which annexes village…

  • Israel Denies Work Permits to Protest Villages

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Israeli Civil Administration has threatened to deny workers in West Bank villages permits to work in Israel if their demonstrations against the occupation continue. Workers in Bil’in, Beit Sira, Beit Likya, and Harbata have received threats, but the villages have continued their demonstrations regardless Last week a member of the Civil…

  • Bil’in Demonstration Remembers Twelfth Death Caused by Wall

    Friday’s Bil’in demonstration was a memorial for the twelfth victim of the apartheid wall. Eyad Taha Salame Taha, a 28 year-old man from Beit Annan, was drowned in a flood caused by the wall in Bil’in on Sunday, April 2, 2006. Grills covering the drainage pipes that in the flash flood formed a dam. Mud…

  • The hope for a peaceful solution?

    Palestinian and Israeli Activists Demonstrate Together in Bil’in Joel Beinin has written a thought provoking review of Shlomo Ben-Ami’s Scars of War, Wounds of Peace in the April 17th issue of The Nation. It’s well worth reading in full, and Beinin finishes on an optimistic note: Where, then, is the hope for a peaceful solution…