Tag: Apartheid Wall

  • 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…

  • 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 trees were planted as part of the ongoing popular resistance to the Israeli apartheid wall…

  • 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 took part in a demonstration at the west Bank village of Bil’in, marking five years…

  • 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. Like Palestinians, the Avatars fight imperialism, although the colonizers have different origins. The Avatars’ presence…

  • 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 the ruling has finally began. Since the ruling, the state has twice been found in…