Tag: Bil’in

  • Jane’s Journal

    Jane’s Journal Demonstration I came back from Hebron to go to the Bil’in demo which happens every week on Fridays. Last Friday a delegation of foreign diplomats from about 8 European countries visited Bil’in and met with the Popular Committee. Apparently they observed the demonstration but I didn’t see them. Some people felt the Israeli…

  • Three Palestinian non-violent actions this Friday

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Villagers of Bil’in will hold a demonstration against the wall which annexes village land into the Modi’in Elite settlement. In Beit Sira villagers will hold a demonstration against the annexation barrier that will mean the loss of land to the Makabim settlement. Both Bil’in and Beit Sira demonstrations will start after midday…

  • Activist’s Journal

    Wednesday was a quiet day in which I caught up with sleep lost to jetlag and fixed my email setup. On Thursday there was a demo in Beit Sira that we went to. It was Land Day, which commemorates a 1976 uprising of Palestinian citizens of Israel. The idea was to plant trees in the…

  • Separation wall ‘drowns’ Palestinian

    By Laila El-Haddad From AlJazeera.net A Palestinian man has drowned in the West Bank after getting entangled in the separation barrier’s barbed wire during flash floods, medical officials and witnesses say. According to witnesses, heavy rains followed by flash foods washed away two brothers, Eyad and Raad Taher, in the West Bank village of Bil’in…

  • Drowned Body Found Caught on Razor Wire of Illegal Barrier Near Bil’in

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE At 2.10 pm, Eyad Tahar was found dead, drowned in a flood near the annexation barrier. His body was found trapped on the annexation barrier’s razor wire. A valley between Bil’in and Safa (west of Ramallah) has been flooded near the construction of the illegal barrier there, which prevented the water from…