Tag: Demonstration

  • Israeli government prepared to return land annexed from Iraq Burin

    2 October 2009 Iraq Burin has re-commenced its lively weekly demonstrations after a month-long Ramadan hiatus, with approximately 150 villagers and internationals joining forces on Friday, the 25th of September, to protest the occupation. The village’s return to form was welcomed by the Israeli Occupation Forces with standard fare “crowd dispersal” techniques. In the following…

  • How Israel targets and suppresses opposition to Its Annexation Wall

    Stephen Lendman | The People’s Voice 23 September 2009 Established in 1992, the Addameer (Arabic for conscience) Prisoners Support and Human Rights Association helps Palestinian prisoners, and works to end torture, arbitrary arrests and detentions, other forms of abuse, and unjust, unequal treatment in Israel’s criminal justice system that handles Jews one way and Palestinians…

  • Arrest of Palestinian children on the rise

    Mel Frykberg | The Electronic Intifada 25 September 2009 BILIN, occupied West Bank (IPS) – Eight children between the ages of 10 and 17 were arrested and detained by Israeli soldiers during military raids Monday night and Tuesday morning in the northern West Bank cities Nablus and Qalqiliya. Defence for Children International- Palestine Section (DCI)…

  • Israeli forces target Palestinian cameramen at Bil’in demonstration

    UPDATE: Haitham was released with a condition to not be near the Apartheid Wall. The Israeli solidarity activists were given a condition to not be in the village of Bil’in. For Immediate Release 25 September 2009: Israeli forces target Palestinian cameramen at Bil’in demonstration. Around 1pm, Israeli forces arrested 2 Israeli solidarity activists and a…

  • Three arrested in Ni’lin while filming demonstration

    25th September 2009 In this week’s Friday demonstration, three persons – Swedish, French and Israeli – were taken away by the Israeli armed forces while filming the protest against the Wall. They were taken to the police station in the illegal settlement of Geva Binyamin and released later that night with the condition not to…