Tag: Apartheid Wall

  • Bil’in demonstrates against nightly raids

    Bil’in Popular Committee 30 July 2009 On Wednesday night, July 29, one hundred villagers of Bil’in along with their International and Israeli supporters conducted a Protest March against the IDF’s nightly raids and detaining of Palestinian villagers. The protest march began in the village of Bil’in, but buoyed by peace songs, chants, and flashlight-lit containers…

  • Bil’in under attack

    Alternative Information Center (AIC) 30 July 2009 Five years ago the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued its advisory opinion declaring that the Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory is illegal and should be dismantled. After five years of silence and complicity by the international community in perpetrating this crime, several villages across the Occupied…

  • Israel pays NIS 3.25 million to protester shot by Border Police

    Ofra Edelman | Ha’aretz 28 July 2009 The Defense Ministry has recently paid NIS 3.25 million in compensation to Limor Goldstein, 31, who was shot in the head by Border Policemen during an anti-separation fence protest in the West Bank town of Bil’in in 2006. Goldstein filed a lawsuit against the state over disabilities incurred…

  • Five years after ICJ ruling, Israel expands its illegal Wall onto more Palestinian land

    Ben White | Media Monitors Network 28 July 2009 “The wall has changed not just the lives of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, but also the dynamic of the Palestinian struggle. The reality created inside the occupied territories (a process begun during the Oslo accords) by Israel’s colonies, Areas A/B/C zoning, the permit system, separate…

  • Ni’lin demonstrates against the Apartheid Wall

    24 July 2009 At 1 pm, after the Friday prayer, approximately 80 protesters gathered to demonstrate against the illegal Apartheid wall which Israel has built on Ni’lin land. Internationals and Israeli solidarity activists joined the residents of Ni’lin in their weekly demonstration against the Wall. The demonstration started in the outskirt of the village and…