Tag: Ni’lin

  • 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 July 2009 while crossing the Allenby Bridge from Jordan. Srour and Jonathan Pollack, an Israeli…

  • ‘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 his soldier, known as Staff Sgt. L., were formally charged with “improper conduct” over the…

  • 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 other and marched towards the Wall, in the direction of the Hashmon’im settlement. The demonstrators…

  • ‘Israeli ad makes light of separation barrier’

    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 cellphone company, Cellcom, which seems to make the “good fences make good neighbors” argument in…

  • 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 and theft of their land. Upon arriving at the site, protesters cut the illegal fence…