Tag: Apartheid Wall
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Adeeb Abu Rahma’s release celebrated in Bil’in
13 December 2010 | International Solidarity Movement Yesterday, the 12th of December, Adeeb Abu Rahma was released after 18 months of incarceration in Ofer Military prison. Adeeb Abu Rahma, 40 years old, is a leading activist in the struggle of Bil’in. For six years, the village has been holding a weekly demonstration against the Israeli…
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A message from Israeli military prison on International Human Rights Day
9 December 2010 | The Huffington Post, Majida Abu Rahmah My imprisoned husband Abdullah Abu Rahmah passed the following message through his lawyer: A year ago tonight, on International Human Rights Day, our apartment in Ramallah was broken into by the Israeli military in the middle of the night and I was torn away from…
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Israel steps-up pressure on Issawiya village with blockades
14 November 2010 | Wadi Hilweh Information Center & ISM Issawiya, Jerusalem – Today large concrete blocks were laid across Issawiya village’s north-eastern entrance by Israeli troops, marking the second time in three days that the entrance has been physically blockaded by the military. The blocks, aside from severely obstructing village traffic, confirm residents’ fears…
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Derisory Supreme Court hearing on the wall in al-Walaja
08 November 2010 | Stella & Jillian On Monday the 8th of November, after a two hour charade in the Supreme Court of Israel, the decision over the path of the wall in Al-Walaja (near Bethlehem), was adjourned for another 45 days. Their indecisiveness was mainly with respect to the fact that the path on…
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Civil resistance to bring down the Walls
1 November 2010 | Ayed Morrar, Huffington Post Budrus, a documentary film now debuting across the US, tells the story of a successful protest campaign by unarmed Palestinian civilians against Israel’s military occupation in my small West Bank village. Our struggle’s success and the consequent expansion of civil resistance to other West Bank communities may…