UPDATE: At 2.10pm, Eyad Tahar’s dead body was found. See the latest press release at www.palsolidarity.org for more details. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE At 7 am this morning, in a flash flood caused by the annexation barrier near the village of ...
Read More »Bil’in Tries to Bridge Over Troubled Waters
by ISM Media office volunteers At about 1:20 pm this Friday 31st of March the weekly demonstration against the apartheid barrier in Bil’in set off. As usual, it consisted of Palestinians, Israelis and internationals – about 300 in all. When ...
Read More »Palestinians to smash illegal settlement Friday 24th of March
Villagers of Bil’in will use replica judge’s hammers to smash models of Modi’in Elite expansion of Metityahu Mizrah settlement. On Tuesday 21st March the High Court of Justice ordered the state to explain why a criminal investigation should not be ...
Read More »Court moves closer to ordering illegal settlement houses razed
By Yuval Yoaz, Haaretz Correspondent From Haaretz The High Court of Justice Tuesday gave the state 30 days to explain why houses built illegally in the Matityahu East neighborhood of the Modi’in Ilit settlement should not be demolished. Justices Aharon ...
Read More »Israeli Supreme Court: State Must Defend why Settlement Expansion Near Bil’in Should not be Demolished
On the 21st of March the Israeli State and other parties were ordered to respond to a petition filed by Peace Now and head of the Council of Bil’in. Defendants must convince the Court that construction plans for the illegal ...
Read More »“You won’t impose your wall on us!”
In the continuation of the non-violent resistance to the annexation wall in the Palestinian village of Bil’in, demonstrators carried a model of the wall with the sentence “You will not impose your wall on us” written in Arabic. The 150 ...
Read More »United action against apartheid wall
By Harrison Healy Since January 2005, there have been regular demonstrations in Bil’in against the apartheid wall being constructed in the West Bank. The wall has divided Palestinian towns, destroyed homes, removed access to fertile land and imprisoned the Palestinian ...
Read More »Supreme Court Hearing concerning the Matityahu Outpost
This Wednesday, 15 March 2006, at 8:00 am, the High Court of Justice will hold a hearing on the petition of Peace Now and the Head of the Council of Bil’in against the construction of the Matityahu East neighborhood on ...
Read More »Bil’in Continues to Defy Israeli Violence
by Henry The weekly non-violent protests against the Israeli Apartheid wall continued this Friday in Bil’in, with Palestinians from the village uniting once again with Internationals and Israelis in a display of resistance to the ongoing theft of their village’s ...
Read More »Bil’in and Beit Sira March Together For Peace
by Henry and Sara The weekly non-violent protests against the Israeli Apartheid wall continued this Friday in Bil’in and Beit Sira, with Palestinians from both villages uniting once again with Internationals and Israelis in a display of resistance to the ...
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