Tag: Apartheid Wall

  • Israel: end crackdown on Anti-Wall activists

    Human Rights Watch 5 March 2010 Israel should immediately end its arbitrary detention of Palestinians protesting the separation barrier, Human Rights Watch said today. Israel is building most of the barrier inside the West Bank rather than along the Green Line, in violation of international humanitarian law. In recent months, Israeli military authorities have arbitrarily…

  • Activists work to stop wall construction and uprooting of olive trees in Beit Jala

    Beit Jala Popular Committee 4 March 2010 In the early morning on March 2, 2010, Israeli bulldozers started uprooting ancient olive trees in the garden of a Palestinian family in the town of Beit Jala, North-West of Bethlehem, in order to make room for the construction of yet another section of the Apartheid Wall. Wednesday…

  • 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…