International Solidarity Movement 19 March 2010 The smell of tear gas hung over the villages of Ni’lin and Bil’in today. The shouts demanded an end to apartheid and access to farmlands. The odd and surreal status quo was maintained this ...
Read More »Nil’in commemorates year anniversary of Tristan Anderson shooting: two arrested
13 March 2010 On Friday, March 13th, the one year anniversary of the critical injury of international activist Tristan Anderson, approximately 100 Palestinians, Israelis, and internationals gathered for the weekly demonstration in Ni’lin to claim justice for Tristan. Anderson, a ...
Read More »Israeli Army: Bil’in and Ni’lin a Closed Military Zone for a Six Month Period
Popular Struggle Coordination Committee 14 March 2010 One week after the head of the Israeli Shin Bet threatened to aggravate the repression of the Palestinian popular struggle, a large military force raided the villages of Bil’in and Ni’ilin at 3:30AM ...
Read More »West Bank rises up in a new ‘white’ intifada
Donald Macintyre | The Independent 12 March 2010 Ehab Barghouti would not have been at the demonstration at all if his father Asdal had had his way. Asdal found his son, 14, on the road from their village of Beit ...
Read More »State to reinvestigate wounding of U.S. activist
Cnaan Liphshiz | Ha’aretz 12 March 2010 The state this week agreed to reinvestigate the 2009 near-fatal wounding of American pro-Palestinian protester Tristan Anderson in the West Bank, after his lawyer complained that the discontinued probe of the case was ...
Read More »Family Appeals Decision to Close Investigation on Shooting of US Citizen Tristan Anderson
Popular Struggle Coordination Committee 12 March 2010 This week the parents of Tristan Anderson filed an appeal on the decision to close the investigation concerning their son’s injury.– The 38 year-old American was critically injured by a high velocity tear ...
Read More »Israel: end crackdown on Anti-Wall activists
Human Rights Watch 5 March 2010 Israel should immediately end its arbitrary detention of Palestinians protesting the separation barrier, Human Rights Watch said today. Israel is building most of the barrier inside the West Bank rather than along the Green ...
Read More »Ni’lin Wards Off IOF Invasion
International Solidarity Movement 26 February 2010 Nearly 100 youth of Ni’lin were tear gassed and shot at with rubber-coated steel bullets as the IDF attempted to invade their village. Near the edge of the village, the soldiers scaled a house ...
Read More »Attorney Sfard: Israeli police investigation of shooting of Tristan Anderson “gravely negligent”
Alternative Information Center 1 February 2010 Yesterday’s announcement by the Israeli Ministry of Justice not to indict anyone in the March 2009 shooting and critically injuring of American activist Tristan Anderson at a non-violent demonstration in the West Bank village ...
Read More »Israel signals tougher line on West Bank protests
Isabel Kershner | The New York Times 28 January 2010 Apparently concerned that the protests could spread, the Israeli Army and security forces have recently begun clamping down, arresting scores of local organizers and activists here and conducting nighttime raids ...
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