Tag: Apartheid Wall

  • Bil’in demonstrates against Israeli night raids

    22 July 2009 The Bil’in Popular Committee organized a night demonstration on Wednesday to protest ongoing nightly raids and arrests that have taken place for the past 3 weeks. On the course of the past weeks, over 17 people have been arrested and 13 of those are still being held in detention. About 120 protesters—Palestinian,…

  • Israeli PM says West Bank barrier there to stay

    AFP 22 July 2009 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that Israel’s controversial separation barrier in the occupied West Bank would not be pulled down. “I hear today people who say that because the situation is calm in the West Bank we can dismantle the security barrier, but it is in fact because of…

  • Palestinian arrested after testifying in Geneva

    Ali Waked | YNet News 22 July 2009 Palestinian sources reported Wednesday that a resident of the West Bank village of Naalin was arrested upon returning from Geneva, where he testified before a UN committee charged with investigating the IDF offensive in Gaza earlier this year. Mohammad Srur, who was injured during a protest in…