Tag: Ni’lin
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Ni’lin demonstrates against the Apartheid Wall
28 August 2009 Around 250 Palestinian residents, alongside international and Israeli solidarity activists, gathered in Ni’lin to demonstrate against the Apartheid Wall around 12:30. Demonstrators marched towards the site of the Wall chanting slogans against the Occupation. Israeli forces used tear-gas grenades, sound bombs, tear-gas canisters and live ammunition against the unarmed protesters. Despite the…
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Israeli forces raid Ni’lin in the night, arrest one
25 August 2009 On Tuesday, 25 August 2009, at around 2:00 in the morning, a hundred Israeli soldiers with 8 jeeps invaded the Palestinian village of Ni’lin. They went directly to two family houses. The Israeli army came to the house of Abdallah As’ad Amira (19 years old), located at the main street of the…
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Soldiers use ‘sarukh’ against Ni’lin demonstrators
21 August 2009 Around 12:30 on Friday, 140 Ni’lin villagers, together with international and Israeli solidarity activists, gathered after the prayer to demonstrate against the Apartheid Wall. The march went through the fields of Ni’lin and reached the wall site without incident. The Wall was finished in May 2009 as an electric fence with video…
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Israeli forces begin construction of new cement wall on Ni’lin’s land
For Immediate Release: Friday, 21 August 2009 at 12:30pm: A demonstration will be held against the new cement construction of the Wall in the West Bank village of Ni’lin. Israeli forces have begun placing 8 meter high cement blocks, in place of a fence that was built before. Since May 2008, residents of Ni’lin have…
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Ni’lin demonstrates against the Apartheid Wall
7 August 2009 Palestinians, Israelis and international solidarity activists gathered in the fields of Ni’lin for the midday prayer before once again setting off to protest the illegal Apartheid Wall that continues to severe Ni’lin residents from their land. The demonstrators, numbering approximately 60, took a different route than usual across the fields but were…