15 March 2010 Two months ago there was one weekly demonstration in the Bethlehem area, this weekend alone there were four. With Al-Ma’sara on Friday, Beit Ummar and Jubbet adh Dhib on Saturday and Beit Jala on Sunday, the third ...
Read More »Israeli Army: Bil’in and Ni’lin a Closed Military Zone for a Six Month Period
Popular Struggle Coordination Committee 14 March 2010 One week after the head of the Israeli Shin Bet threatened to aggravate the repression of the Palestinian popular struggle, a large military force raided the villages of Bil’in and Ni’ilin at 3:30AM ...
Read More »Work day to rebuilt bulldozed playground in Beit Jalla, Bethlehem successful
11 March 2010 Palestinians, Israelis and Internationals met in Beit Jallah today to rebuild a playground that bulldozers destroyed last week while clearing the path to complete the wall near Bethlehem. 12 people armed only with pick axes and hoes, ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »Activists work to stop wall construction and uprooting of olive trees in Beit Jala
Beit Jala Popular Committee 4 March 2010 In the early morning on March 2, 2010, Israeli bulldozers started uprooting ancient olive trees in the garden of a Palestinian family in the town of Beit Jala, North-West of Bethlehem, in order ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »Bil’in village plants 200 trees next to apartheid wall: existence as resistance!
Bil’in Popular Committee 22 February 2010 At 9:30am residents of Bil’in village, Palestinian political representatives, and International activists gathered in Bil’in to plant olive trees and almond seeds for 20 farmers who own land besides Israel’s Apartheid Wall. Approximately 200 ...
Read More »Over a Thousand Demonstrators Marked Five Years of Struggle in Bil’in by Dismantling the Wall
Popular Struggle Coordination Committee 19 February 2010 One week following the victory forcing Israel to begin rerouting the path of the Wall, and under the shadow of an unprecedented wave of repression against the popular struggle, over a thousand protesters ...
Read More »Bil’in weekly demonstration reenacts the Avatar film
Friends of Freedom and Justice 12 February 2010 The village of Bil’in reenacted James Cameron’s new film Avatar during today’s weekly demonstration. Five Palestinian, Israeli and international activists were painted blue, with pointy ears and tales, resembling the Avatar characters. ...
Read More »Path of the Wall in Bil’in to Be Moved
Popular Struggle Co-ordination Committee 11 February 2010 Two and a half years after an Israeli Supreme Court decision deeming the path of the Wall on the lands of Bil’in illegal, preliminary infrastructure work to reroute the barrier in accordance with ...
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