Tag: Bil’in

  • Israeli forces raid Bil’in

    30 September 2009 Shortly before 2am, the occupation forces invaded Bil’in once again. They raided the house of Basil Mansour Ali Mansour (age 32), a member of the Bil’in Popular Committee, in an attempt to arrest him, but he was not at home at the time. About a dozen soldiers had entered the house when…

  • How Israel targets and suppresses opposition to Its Annexation Wall

    Stephen Lendman | The People’s Voice 23 September 2009 Established in 1992, the Addameer (Arabic for conscience) Prisoners Support and Human Rights Association helps Palestinian prisoners, and works to end torture, arbitrary arrests and detentions, other forms of abuse, and unjust, unequal treatment in Israel’s criminal justice system that handles Jews one way and Palestinians…

  • Arrest of Palestinian children on the rise

    Mel Frykberg | The Electronic Intifada 25 September 2009 BILIN, occupied West Bank (IPS) – Eight children between the ages of 10 and 17 were arrested and detained by Israeli soldiers during military raids Monday night and Tuesday morning in the northern West Bank cities Nablus and Qalqiliya. Defence for Children International- Palestine Section (DCI)…

  • Israeli forces target Palestinian cameramen at Bil’in demonstration

    UPDATE: Haitham was released with a condition to not be near the Apartheid Wall. The Israeli solidarity activists were given a condition to not be in the village of Bil’in. For Immediate Release 25 September 2009: Israeli forces target Palestinian cameramen at Bil’in demonstration. Around 1pm, Israeli forces arrested 2 Israeli solidarity activists and a…

  • Israeli forces continue arrest and intimidation campaign with Bil’in night raids

    21 September 2009 Israeli forces invaded Bil’in once again just before 1am. Six jeeps entered the village via the gate in the occupation wall. Two jeeps stopped at the house of Mohammed Ahmed Yasseen (age 21) and searched for him in the ground floor apartment belonging to his mother. Four jeeps stopped at Abdullah Mahmoud…