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Popular Struggle Coordination Committee 21 November 2009 Ibrahim Burnat, a resident of Bil’in, who was shot in the thigh with live ammunition during an anti-Wall protest in the village on 13 June 2008, went on hunger strike last Thursday, after ...
Read More »Demonstrators call for the end of settlement expansion and arrest campaign on Bil’in residents
20 November 2009 Residents of Bil’in gathered in a demonstration today, commemorating the 21st anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and condemning the ongoing expansion of illegal Israeli settlements. After the Friday midday prayers, about 150 Palestinian, Israeli and international ...
Read More »Bil’in: Undercovers arrest Palestinian youth at his workplace
Popular Struggle Coordination Committee 19 November 2009 In an escalation of the recent arrest campaign conducted by the Israeli military in attempt to crush the popular struggle against the Wall in the village, an undercover army unit invaded Bil’in this ...
Read More »IDF uses ‘two-two bullets’ in Ni’ilin clash
The Jerusalem Post 15 November 2009 IDF troops used ammunition equivalent to live bullets against protesters at Ni’ilin on Friday, where a weekly protest by Palestinians and left-wing activists from Israel and abroad is held against the West Bank security ...
Read More »Naalin: Protestors say IDF using live fire
Ali Waked | YNet News 13 November 2009 Two Palestinians were injured Friday at the weekly anti-fence protest in the West Bank village of Naalin. The protestors claim Israeli security forces have reinstated the use of Ruger rifles, which have ...
Read More »Bil’in demonstrates in solidarity with indicted MK Baraka
Bil’in Popular Committee 13 November 2009 Directly after the Friday prayers, Bil’in citizens gathered in a large demonstration, in response to a call from the Poplar Committee Against the Wall. They were joined by international and Israeli activists, as well ...
Read More »Bilin’s legal struggle continues
10 November 2009 Jillian Kestler-D’Amours | The Electronic Intifada Abdullah Abu Rahme can no longer sleep in his own home. A member of the Bilin Popular Committee Against the Wall, Abu Rahme explained that since Bilin began its legal proceedings ...
Read More »Inciting non-violence: support Bil’in’s struggle
Support Bil’in’s struggle “Just as a simple man named Ghandi led the successful non-violent struggle in India and simple people such as Rosa Parks and Nelson Mandela led the struggle for civil rights in the United States, simple people here ...
Read More »From Berlin to Palestine: no matter where, no matter how tall, all walls fall
Bil’in Popular Committee 6 November 2009 The 20th anniversary to the fall of the Berlin Wall will be marked this Friday in mass demonstrations across the West Bank calling for an immediate dismantling of Israel’s wall and settlements Exactly twenty ...
Read More »Interview: Living under constant fear of arrest
5 November 2009 Jody McIntyre | Electronic Intifada Mohammed Ahmed Issa Yassen, 20, lives in the occupied West Bank village of Bilin, where he works in his family’s car garage business as a mechanic. He is also a student at ...
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