Tag Archives: Ni’lin

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

3 July 2009 On Friday after the midday prayer, Palestinian residents, with the support of international and Israeli solidarity activists, gathered to demonstrate against construction of the Apartheid Wall in Ni’lin. Demonstrators gathered and marched to the Apartheid Wall, where ...