Tag: Ni’lin

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…