Tag: Bil’in
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Why Israel imprisoned my best friend
2 September 2010 | Mohammed Khatib, The Electronic Intifada When I was a boy I was still allowed to travel in Israel. I went to the beach and swam in the sea, something that most Palestinian children living in the West Bank today can only dream of. Israel has been restricting movement more and more…
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400 days and counting: nonviolent Bil’in activist Adeeb Abu Rahmah to remain incarcerated
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 2 September 2010 Ramallah, WEST BANK A military court of appeal yesterday (1st Sept. 2010) rejected a petition calling for the release of Adeeb Abu Rahmah, a leading activist from the West bank village of Bil’in, imprisoned in Israel’s Ofer military detention centre since 10th July 2009. The decision comes 8 days after…
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Abdallah Abu Rahmah: Know the facts and act now for the freedom of a nonviolent freedom fighter
27 August 2010 The West Bank village of Bil’in has become a symbol of the wider popular resistance movement in Palestine. Abdallah Abu Rahmah, head of Bi’in’s Popular Committee, is one of many key organizers of peaceful resistance that Israel has used legal means to persecute. He was convicted on Tuesday of two out of…
