UPDATE: All activists were given a condition to stay out of East Jerusalem for 3 weeks and will be released later today. For Immediate Release: 4pm, Monday 27 July 2009: A demonstration will be held outside the Darwish Hijazi home ...
Read More »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, ...
Read More »Bil’in demonstrates against Israeli night raids
22 July 2009 The Bil’in Popular Committee organized a night demonstration on Wednesday to protest ongoing nightly raids and arrests that have taken place for the past 3 weeks. On the course of the past weeks, over 17 people have ...
Read More »Israeli forces arrest Palestinian on his return from testifying to the UN in Geneva
Update: According to his legal representation, Mohammad Srour will be released on bail. For Immediate Release: 22 July 2009: Israeli forces arrest Palestinian on his return from testifying to the United Nations in Geneva. Mohammad Srour was arrested on 20 ...
Read More »‘Charges toughened against IDF officer in shooting of bound Palestinian’
Ha’aretz 21 July 2009 Israel’s Military Advocate General, Brig. Gen. Avichai Mandelblit, on Tuesday ordered tougher charges against an Israel Defense Forces officer who presided over the shooting of a bound and blindfolded Palestinian detainee. Lt. Col. Omri Borberg and ...
Read More »Bil’in leading demonstrator imprisoned by Israeli forces
For Immediate Release: Tuesday July 21, Ofer military base, Occupied West Bank: In a new escalation in the military’s campaign targeting the popular protests in Bil’in against the Annexation barrier, a military appeals judge ruled that non-violent Bil’in activist Adeeb ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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. ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »Ni’lin demonstrates against the Apartheid Wall
17 July 2009 The village of Ni’lin once again assembled for its weekly demonstration against the Israeli Apartheid Wall, which continues to cut residents off from their land and the surrounding areas. Roughly 100 Palestinians and solidarity activists joined each ...
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