Robert Mackey| New York Times News Blog 14 July 2009 According to Noam Sheizaf, who writes the blog Promised Land from Tel Aviv, “the Israeli blogosphere is boiling” this week with discussion of this new television commercial for Israel’s largest ...
Read More »Campaign to release Palestinian activist arrested in Bil’in
14 July 2009 Adeeb Abu Rahme, a leading Palestinian non-violent peace activist was arrested in the weekly Bil’in demonstration against the Apartheid Wall (see the video, Adeeb is the protester in the orange shirt with the mega-phone). The Israeli military ...
Read More »Disguised Israeli forces arrest two Palestinians during Ni’lin demonstration
10 July 2009 Around 80 Palestinian residents, alongside Israeli and international solidarity activists, gathered to demonstrate against construction of the Apartheid Wall in Ni’lin on Friday. After the weekly prayer, demonstrators marched to the Wall, chanting slogans against the Occupation ...
Read More »Judge Advocate General to B’Tselem: 0.22-caliber bullets are not crowd-control measures
B’Tselem 9 July 2009 The army does not classify 0.22 inch caliber bullets as a means to disperse demonstrators or quell disturbances, the Israeli Military’s Judge Advocate General, Brig. Gen. Avichai Mandelblit, informed B’Tselem. Since the end of 2008, security ...
Read More »IDF’s JAG says .22-caliber rounds should not be used to disperse protesters
Amos Harel | Ha’aretz 12 July 2009 The army does not classify .22-inch caliber bullets as a suitable means to disperse demonstrators, the judge advocate general, Brig.-Gen. Avichai Mendelblit, told the human rights group B’Tselem yesterday. According to the organization, ...
Read More »Physicians for Human Rights Israel, mobile clinic in Bil’in
Bil’in Popular Committee 11 July 2009 Today, July 11th, Physicians For Human Rights Israel came to visit the Palestinian village of Bil’in. Volunteer doctors, nurses, paramedics, optometrists, pharmacists, psychologists and translators came to Bil’in with the mobile clinic to offer ...
Read More »Ni’lin demonstrators testify at the United Nations
6 July 2009 The West Bank village of Ni’lin has been demonstrating since the Israeli government began for a second time to construct the Apartheid Wall on village lands in May 2008. To date, Israeli forces have killed 5 residents ...
Read More »Ni’lin demonstrates against the Apartheid Wall
8 July 2009 Although there are weekly demonstrations every Friday in Ni’lin, on Wednesday, around 40 Palestinians, Israelis and internationals activists went out to protest against construction of the Apartheid Wall that Israel is building on Ni’lin village lands. The ...
Read More »Israeli forces raid Bil’in, arrest one resident and one solidarity activist
For Immediate Release: On July 7th at 3:30, soldiers disrupted the tranquility of Bi’lin by forcing their way into several houses. Israeli soldiers came with a list of 10 names for arrest . When Palestinian, international, and Israeli activists arrived ...
Read More »‘Israeli doctors to train Bil’in protesters in first aid at site of disputed security fence’
Ilana Strauss | The Jerusalem Post 5 July 2009 Physicians for Human Rights will be offering a first aid course on July 11 near the security barrier at the West Bank village of Bil’in for protesters to help them deal ...
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