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Palestinian protests against barrier turn savvy
July 31, 2008
[Associated Press] A Palestinian teen tracks Israeli troops with a video camera to document abuse of demonstrators. A community organizer tours West Bank villages with a PowerPoint presentation teaching the art of creative protest. These are just two examples of the increasingly savvy methods Palestinians are using to fight Israel’s West Bank separation barrier — a campaign whose danger was driven home this week by the death of a 10-year-old Palestinian boy.
Bil'in petitioners: State ignoring court order to reroute barrier
July 31, 2008
[Jerusalem Post] The High Court of Justice is due on Sunday to hear a petition filed recently by residents of the Palestinian village of Bil’in charging that the government and the army are in contempt of court for failing to reroute the barrier separating the village from Modi’in Illit in keeping with a High Court ruling from September 2007.
Land grabs: A Palestinian village sues two Montreal-based companies over the construction of a West Bank settlement
July 31, 2008
[Montreal Mirror] Accused of war crimes for their involvement with Israeli settlement expansion, two Quebec-registered companies are being sued in Canada by the occupied West Bank Palestinian village of Bi’lin.
Toronto lawyer Mark Arnold filed a claim in Quebec Superior Court on behalf of the village against Green Park and Green Mount International three weeks ago. The case is part of a combined Palestinian, Canadian and Israeli effort to halt expansion of the Modi’in Illit settlement.
Transcript: Israeli military kills 10-year-old in Nilin
July 30, 2008
[Electronic Intifada] A member of the Israeli occupation military’s border police shot and killed a 10-year-old Palestinian boy yesterday evening in the West Bank village of Nilin. Ahmed Mousa was shot in the head by live ammunition, according to eyewitnesses, as he turned and left an area that was being targeted with rubber-coated steel bullets by the Israeli military during a demonstration against the annexation wall built on the village land. Several soldiers were ordered to remove themselves from the demonstration by commanding officers, according to a report by the Palestine Solidarity Project, for their violent and "undisciplined" behavior.
10-Year Old Shot Dead At Nil'in
July 29, 2008
An 11 year old boy called Ahmed Ussam Yusef Mousa was shot dead at approximately 6pm near the Palestinian village of Nil’in. He was shot once in the head at close range with live ammunition.
According to eye witnesses a group of youths attempted to remove coils of razor wire from land belonging to the village. Without warning, they were fired upon and Ahmed was killed. Israeli newspaper Maariv reported in March that the Israeli authorities have given a new order to border police operating along the apartheid wall surrounding Jerusalem. They can now open fire directly on Palestinians who try to demonstrate near the barrier. But sniping is forbidden if there are Israeli or foreign citizens amongst demonstrators.
