Tag Archives: Bil’in

Photo of Emad filming the demonstration in Bil’in on Friday 2nd June 2006. Emad is on the left with the baseball cap and high-vis jacket. Click cropped image above for full image. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Bil’in cameraman Emad Bornat will ...

Leith Yassin (19), a university student, and Mohammed Barakat (17), still in high-school, were arrested two months ago for cutting the annexation barrier that separates their village from more than 50% of its farmland. Both of the boys’ family lands ...

by ISM media team, October 20th At midday yesterday the villagers of Bil’in again marched in solidarity with Emad Bornat, who was attacked and taken from Bil’in by the Israeli occupation forces on 6th October. Nearly forty people, twenty Palestinians ...

Bil’in cameraman Emad Bornat remains in detention despite a military judge’s decision to release him today. The judge agreed to release Emad on 15,000 NIS ($3,500) bail and under house arrest to a neighbouring village to Bil’in. The judge, however, ...

Photo of Emad filming the demonstration in Bil’in on Friday 2nd June 2006. Emad is on the left with the baseball cap and high-vis jacket. Click cropped image above for full image. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Emad Bornat, the Bil’in cameraman ...

by the ISM media team, October 16th Emad Bornat, the Reuters cameraman and video-journalist who was kidnapped by Israeli forces after a demonstration in Bil’in on October 6th, has been in detention now at Ofer military prison for 10 days. ...

Associated Press The Tel Aviv-based Foreign Press Association on Thursday accused the IDF of “unprovoked violence against journalists” after two Palestinian journalists were beaten up and one of them detained in the West Bank. “In both cases there is no ...

by Ash For more pictures, see this blog entry. Palestinians along with international and Israeli peace activists gathered this morning along with cameramen from different press agencies in solidarity with Emad Bornat. Emad Mohammad Bornat of the village of Bil’in, ...

UPDATE, Thursday 12th, 6.30pm: The military judge at Ofer refused to release Emad into house arrest at the home of someone in Bil’in, insisting that an alternative be found outside the village. For now, Emad remains in an Israeli prison. ...

by Tom Hayes, October 11th I visited the village of Bil’in, close to Ramallah, on Saturday. The villagers had asked for an international presence in the village after the IOF had arrested Emad, a Palestinian cameraman who works for Reuters ...