Tag: Apartheid Wall

  • Demonstrators call for the end of settlement expansion and arrest campaign on Bil’in residents

    20 November 2009 Residents of Bil’in gathered in a demonstration today, commemorating the 21st anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and condemning the ongoing expansion of illegal Israeli settlements. After the Friday midday prayers, about 150 Palestinian, Israeli and international activists raised dozens of Palestinian flags and posters with the picture of the late Yasser…

  • Two injured in anti-wall rally

    Ali Waked | YNet News 20 November 2009 Some 400 Palestinians, left-wing activists take part in weekly demonstration against separation fence’s route in West Bank village of Naalin, say IDF violated law by dispersing crowd with sniper fire. Army says protestors were hurling stones. Two Palestinians were moderately injured Friday afternoon by Israel Defense Forces…

  • Al Ma’asara demonstrates against the Wall built on the village’s land

    20 November 2009 Some fifty Palestinian, Israeli and international demonstrators marched on Friday noon from the center of Al Ma’asara village towards the route of the Apartheid Wall that is to be built on village lands. Like every other Friday, demonstrators were stopped by Israeli soldiers and boarder police who laid barbed wire on the…

  • Bil’in: Undercovers arrest Palestinian youth at his workplace

    Popular Struggle Coordination Committee 19 November 2009 In an escalation of the recent arrest campaign conducted by the Israeli military in attempt to crush the popular struggle against the Wall in the village, an undercover army unit invaded Bil’in this morning and arrested a local youth, 19 year old Mohammad Yassin. In the morning hours…

  • IDF uses ‘two-two bullets’ in Ni’ilin clash

    The Jerusalem Post 15 November 2009 IDF troops used ammunition equivalent to live bullets against protesters at Ni’ilin on Friday, where a weekly protest by Palestinians and left-wing activists from Israel and abroad is held against the West Bank security barrier. The military ordinarily only uses protest-dispersal means such as tear gas and a recently…