Tag: Bil’in

  • Bil’in tour: Israeli apartheid on trial

    Tadamon 23 May 2009 Bil’in speaking tour featuring: Mohammed Khatib. Popular Committee Against the Wall, Bil’in, Occupied Palestine Emily Schaeffer. Israeli lawyer representing the village of Bil’in Bil’in, a Palestinian village in the West Bank, has become an internationally celebrated symbol of Palestinian popular resistance to the ongoing construction of the Israeli apartheid wall and…

  • The Palestinian village of hope

    Matt Kennard and Wilson Dizard | The Guardian 27 May 2009 Ramallah is tired. The feeling you get walking around the streets here is that the Palestinians are weary of the struggle against the incremental destruction of their homeland, happening right now while the world looks the other way. You hear things like, “Our struggle…

  • Three injured and dozens suffered teargas inhalation in Bil’in

    Bil’in Popular Committee 22 May 2009 Residents of Bil’in marched today after the Friday prayer in a protest joined by international and Israelis activists. Protesters carried Palestinian flags and posters of the martyr, Bassem Abu Rahmah and metal shields to protect them from rubber bullets and bombs, labeled with a picture of the martyr Abu…

  • Nakba commemoration: protesters carry a 5 meter long key in Bil’in

    Bil’in Popular Committee 15 May 2009 Residents of Bil’in marched today after the Friday prayer in a protest joined by international and Israelis activists. Protesters carried Palestinian flags and posters of the martyr, Bassem Abu Rahmah, and also banners commemorating 61 years of the Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe). A 5 meter long key was carried as…

  • Bil’in demonstrators call on international health institutions to “Stop the Occupation Flu”

    Bil’in Popular Committee 8 May 2009 Palestinian, Israeli, and international protesters walked through the streets of Bil’in on Friday wearing surgical masks to protect themselves from the “Occupation Flu” which first infected Palestinians sixty-one years ago. It has caused the deaths of thousands of Palestinians, injured hundreds of thousands and has put millions in prisons,…