Tag: Apartheid Wall

  • As Obama tries to shift the debate, will Democrats continue to endorse Israel’s colonization of the West Bank?

    Stephen Zunes | AlterNet 6 June 2009 President Barack Obama has inherited a difficult challenge in pushing Israel to end the expansion of its illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. With the right-wing Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu categorically rejecting the idea of a freeze and with Democratic-controlled Congress ruling out using…

  • Funeral for Yousef ‘Akil’ Srour held in Ni’lin

    6 June 2009 The funeral for Yousef Tzadik ‘Akil’ Srour was held in Ni’lin on Saturday, 6 June 2009. Srour was murdered by Israeli forces on Friday, 5 June 2009, during a demonstration against the construction of the Apartheid Wall on Ni’lin’s land. Akil frequently participated in the unarmed demonstrations against the construction of the…

  • ‘IDF troops were never at risk in Naalin’

    Ali Waked | YNet News 6 June 2009 Palestinian sources told Ynet Saturday that contrary to an IDF statement, the man killed during a Friday clash between Palestinian demonstrators and IDF forces in the town of Naalin, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, posed no danger whatsoever to the troops. Akal Srur was killed…

  • Palestinian protester killed during Na’alin rally

    Avi Issacharoff, Anshel Pfeffer & Reuters | Ha’aretz 5 June 2009 Palestinian officials reported on Friday that a Palestinians demonstrator had been killed during the weekly anti-separation fence rally near the West Bank town of Na’alin. Palestinian medical officials said 36-year-old Yusuf Srour had been killed by Israeli forces. Medics said Srour was hit in…

  • The military attack Bil’in weekly protest injuring five civilians

    Bil’in Popular Committee 5 June 2009 Five protesters were injured and dozens surfed from Gaza inhalation when Israeli troops attack the weekly protest in Bil’in village near the central West Bank city of Ramallah on Friday. Residents of Bil’in and their international and Israelis supporters marched from the village center after the Friday midday prayers.…