Tag: Ni’lin

  • 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 forces in the West Bank have used 0.22-caliber bullets as an additional means, along with…

  • 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, the use of .22-caliber bullets resulted in the death of at least two unarmed Palestinians.…

  • 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 of Ni’lin and critically injured 1 American solidarity activist. According to local medics who volunteer…

  • 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 protesters managed to reach the Wall and cut a part of the razor wire. The…

  • Ni’lin demonstrates against the Apartheid Wall

    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 several cut away razor wire that runs alongside the Wall. Six jeeps were already at…