Tag: Bil’in

  • Remembering Rachel, 4 Years and Still No Justice. Dispatch #2

    by Martinez, March 17 It’s been a week since I returned home here to Palestine. And it has been four years since a twenty-three year old American peace activist, named Rachel Corrie, was killed by an Israeli Occupation Forces bulldozer in the Gaza Strip. I never met Rachel. But I can feel what drove her…

  • Four peaceful protestors arrested in Bil’in on Rachel Corrie anniversary

    by the ISM media team, March 16th UPDATE March 18 Kobi Snitz was released in court yesterday after the the judge denied the police’s request to extend his arrest by 48 hours. He is however banned from the territories for 15 days, and had to deposit 3,500 shekels UPDATE March 17th Kobi Snitz was held…

  • Two hospitalised at Bil’in as IOF lash out

    by the ISM media team, March 9th Two peaceful protesters today paid the price for standing in solidarity with the villagers of Bilin to protest the theft of their land when they were attacked and had to be carried to an ambulance for evacuation. Ben received a blow to the forehead from a rifle butt…

  • AP: “Reporters hurt as Israeli security forces break up Palestinian demonstrations”

    Associated Press Crowd-control devices like stun grenades and tear gas have injured a number of journalists in recent weeks, including two television crewmen covering a women’s protest Thursday — and reporters are charging they’ve been targeted by Israeli security forces. Over the last three months, at least five journalists were injured — including an AP…

  • Second Annual Conference in Bil’in 18 – 20 April 2007

    February 2007 marks the second anniversary of the weekly non-violent protests in opposition to the “work-site of shame” for the Apartheid Wall that has annexed almost 60% of the land of Bil’in village in the West Bank. Bil’in has become a symbol both of the theft of land across Palestine and of the power of…