Press and independent media
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Israel to ‘relocate’ olive trees in West Bank village
25/02/2010
[Ma’an] An Israeli company operating on behalf of the country’s Ministry of Defense began the relocation of olive trees on Tuesday, on lands belonging to the village of Bil’in slated for the construction of the separation wall.
Bilin: IDF moves olive trees to east side of fence
24/02/2010
[Ynet] Another step has been proposed to solve the ongoing conflict near the Palestinian town of Bilin, which has protested for five years over the routing of the West Bank security fence. The IDF spokesman said Wednesday that work had begun to move olive trees from the western side of the planned route to the eastern side, to an area west of Ramallah.
A duty to protest
22/02/2010
[Ha’aretz] Some 1,000 people took part in last Friday’s demonstration against the separation fence in the village of Bil’in west of Ramallah, marking the fifth anniversary of weekly protests at the site.
Just as on previous Fridays, the police tried to prevent demonstrators from reaching Bil’in, either by detaining them on their way out of Tel Aviv or Jerusalem - a practice that is nothing less than scandalous - or by following them along the route, and then trying to block them from entering the village. The conduct of the police has been deplorable, as has the recent spate of arrests by the army in Bil’in, during which many of the leaders of the popular committee behind the protests have been detained. Some of them are still in prison - and they don’t belong there.
Hundreds Mark 5th Anniversary of Barrier Protests
19/02/2010
[New York Times] Hundreds of Palestinians, Israelis and foreign activists — engulfed by clouds of tear gas fired by Israeli troops — demonstrated Friday to mark the fifth anniversary of weekly protests against Israel’s West Bank separation barrier.
Bilin marks five years of West Bank barrier protest
19/02/2010
[BBC News] Despite the barrages of Israeli tear gas, sound grenades, foul-smelling spray and sometimes bullets - rubber coated and occasionally live - the protesters at the Palestinian village of Bilin keep going back for more.
