Tag: Apartheid Wall

  • Mabrouk Wadi Rahhal

    International Solidarity Movement 15 May 2010 Today, Friday 14th May, the small farming village of Wadi Rahhal, just south of Bethlehem, held its first demonstration against the theft of its lands by the massive Israeli colony/settlement of Efrat. In particular, the villagers were objecting to the planned encroachment of the apartheid wall to within 30…

  • Weekend demonstrations continue the struggle

    International Solidarity Movement 10 May 2010 Bil’in Today’s demonstrators, Palestinians, Israelis, and internationals, marched from the Bil’in mosque towards the illegal apartheid wall. Halfway along the route, the procession picked up several men dressed entirely in black, carrying a coffin with a man inside. The grim scene symbolized the Palestinians’ loss of land during the…

  • Demonstrators succeed in delaying illegal wall construction; brutal military violence hospitalizes three

    International Solidarity Movement 6 May 2010 Sitting peacefully in front of the formidable D9 Caterpillar bulldozer, demonstrators were successful today in temporarily halting construction of Israel’s illegal annexation wall. In the village of Al Walaja, approximately 20 Palestinian, Israeli and international activists disrupted work on the wall for nearly 30 minutes. Highlighting the systematic racism…