Tag: Bil’in

  • Israel pays NIS 3.25 million to protester shot by Border Police

    Ofra Edelman | Ha’aretz 28 July 2009 The Defense Ministry has recently paid NIS 3.25 million in compensation to Limor Goldstein, 31, who was shot in the head by Border Policemen during an anti-separation fence protest in the West Bank town of Bil’in in 2006. Goldstein filed a lawsuit against the state over disabilities incurred…

  • Five years after ICJ ruling, Israel expands its illegal Wall onto more Palestinian land

    Ben White | Media Monitors Network 28 July 2009 “The wall has changed not just the lives of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, but also the dynamic of the Palestinian struggle. The reality created inside the occupied territories (a process begun during the Oslo accords) by Israel’s colonies, Areas A/B/C zoning, the permit system, separate…

  • Bil’in demonstrates against the Apartheid Wall

    Bil’in Popular Committee 24 July 2009 Immediately after Friday prayers today, Bil’in citizens, International supporters, and Israeli activists went out in a demonstration, raising Palestinian flags and banners condemning the occupation policies of building the wall, land confiscation, building settlements, roads closures, the siege of cities, killing civilians, house raids, and the arresting of children.…