Tag Archives: Bil’in

Mohammad Ahmad Hamad in the back of the police car. Two Palestinian children from the village of Bil’in were arrested mid morning on Tuesday April 12th. Mohammad Abd Al Fattah Burnatt, aged 17, and Mohammad Ahmad Hamad aged 13 were ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Villagers in Bil’in, Beit Sira, and Salem will continue to protest against the annexation of their land this Friday, despite threats of collective punishment by the Israeli Civil Administration. Bil’in villagers, joined by Israeli and international activists ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Israeli Civil Administration has threatened to deny workers in West Bank villages permits to work in Israel if their demonstrations against the occupation continue. Workers in Bil’in, Beit Sira, Beit Likya, and Harbata have received threats, ...

Friday’s Bil’in demonstration was a memorial for the twelfth victim of the apartheid wall. Eyad Taha Salame Taha, a 28 year-old man from Beit Annan, was drowned in a flood caused by the wall in Bil’in on Sunday, April 2, ...

Palestinian and Israeli Activists Demonstrate Together in Bil’in Joel Beinin has written a thought provoking review of Shlomo Ben-Ami’s Scars of War, Wounds of Peace in the April 17th issue of The Nation. It’s well worth reading in full, and ...

Jane’s Journal Demonstration I came back from Hebron to go to the Bil’in demo which happens every week on Fridays. Last Friday a delegation of foreign diplomats from about 8 European countries visited Bil’in and met with the Popular Committee. ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Villagers of Bil’in will hold a demonstration against the wall which annexes village land into the Modi’in Elite settlement. In Beit Sira villagers will hold a demonstration against the annexation barrier that will mean the loss of ...

Wednesday was a quiet day in which I caught up with sleep lost to jetlag and fixed my email setup. On Thursday there was a demo in Beit Sira that we went to. It was Land Day, which commemorates a ...

By Laila El-Haddad From AlJazeera.net A Palestinian man has drowned in the West Bank after getting entangled in the separation barrier’s barbed wire during flash floods, medical officials and witnesses say. According to witnesses, heavy rains followed by flash foods ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE At 2.10 pm, Eyad Tahar was found dead, drowned in a flood near the annexation barrier. His body was found trapped on the annexation barrier’s razor wire. A valley between Bil’in and Safa (west of Ramallah) has ...