Tag: Demonstration

  • One injured by live ammunition at weekly demonstration in Ni’lin

    11 December 2009 More than 150 residents of Ni’lin, international and Israeli activists attended today’s weekly Friday protest against the Wall. After the Friday prayer, which was held on the village’s land, demonstrators marched towards one of the gates, chanting slogans against the confiscation of Palestinian land and called for an end to Israeli military…

  • Bil’in residents call for the release of the village’s prisoners in a weekly Friday demonstration

    Bil’in Popular Committee 11 December 2009 Approximately 150 Palestinian, international and Israeli activists gathered in Bil’in today, marking the 22nd anniversary of the start of the First Intifada and calling for the release of the village’s prisoners arrested for their involvement in the non-violent demonstrations against the Wall and settlements built on land stolen from…

  • Israel arrests Palestinian barrier protest leader

    Ben Hubbard | Washington Post 11 December 2009 RAMALLAH, West Bank — A leader of the most persistent Palestinian protest movement against Israel’s West Bank separation barrier was asleep in his home when troops broke down his door and arrested him. Supporters of Abdullah Abu Rahmeh, a 38-year-old teacher, say his pre-dawn arrest on Thursday…

  • Israeli police pepper-spray 13-year old Palestinian boy in Sheikh Jarrah, arrest twenty four

    11 December 2009 On Friday 11 December 2009, the fourth demonstration march against evictions and demolitions of Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem arrived in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood. The demonstration takes place every Friday, and gathers Israeli, Palestinian, and international activists in West Jerusalem to subsequently march to the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in occupied East…

  • Release Bil’in popular leader Abdallah Abu Rahmah

    10 December 2009 As part of a recent escalation of political arrests in Bil’in, Abdallah Abu Rahmah, a school teacher and coordinator of the Bil’in Popular Committee was arrested by Israeli soldiers. At 2am on Thursday, 10 December 2009, seven Israeli military jeeps pulled over at Abdallah Abu Rahmah’s home in the city of Ramallah.…