Tag: Bil’in
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Under attack Bil’in and the peaceful resistance of the village against the Israeli wall
Luisa Morgantini | Liberazione 19 July 2009 Israel wants to stop the non-violent struggle and the unity created amongst Palestinians, Israelis and Internationals, who since more than four years demonstrate in order to end the construction of the wall: in the last weeks the escalation of systematic arrests and kidnappings of activists in Bil’in by…
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Activists respond to cellular phone campaign
Anat Shalev | YNet News 21 July 2009 Palestinians protestors and left-wing activists came up with an original response to a television ad for a local cellular phone company that angered and offended many in Israel and the Palestinian Authority. At television commercial by Cellcom showed Israelis soldiers playing soccer with unseen Palestinians over the…
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Israeli forces raid Bil’in, arrest member of Popular Committee
19 July 2009 At 5:30am, shortly after the Palestinian and international solidarity activists returned to their houses after patrolling the village all night, villagers gave the alert that four Israeli military jeeps were driving toward the village. Shortly thereafter, Israeli soldiers raided the house of Abd Al Fatah Bornat whose son, Muhammed Abd Al Fatah…