Tag: Ni’lin

  • 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 gas projectile shot by Israeli Border Police in the West Bank village of Nili’in on…

  • 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 Line, in violation of international humanitarian law. In recent months, Israeli military authorities have arbitrarily…

  • 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 to attack the demonstrators from a heightened vantage point. Undeterred by inclement weather, residents of…