Press and independent media
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Palestinian PM vows to step up ‘peaceful resistance’
21/04/2010
[AFP] Palestinian premier Salam Fayyad vowed on Wednesday to step up "peaceful resistance" against Israeli occupation by boycotting settlement goods throughout the West Bank.
"There has been progress in the boycott of settlement products, which comes from the idea of popular peaceful resistance, and I hope we will rid our markets of all settlement goods by the end of the year," he told an international conference in the West Bank village of Bilin.
Bil’in Commemorates the 1st Anniversary of the Murder of Basem Abu Rahmah
16/04/2010
[Stop the Wall] The Popular Committee of Bil’in organized a ceremony today to commemorate Prisoners Day as well as the death of Basem Abu Rahmah, who was murdered last year when he was shot with a tear gas canister in the chest during one of the weekly protests, and, as well, the 22nd anniversary of the killing of Abu Jihad by the Mossad.
Palestinian journalist arrested in Bil’in while documenting demonstration
09/04/2010
[IMEMC] Palestinian Journalist and videographer Haitham Al Khatib from Bil’in was detained by troops who invaded the village after the protest. Al Khatib also works with the Israeli human rights information center B’tselem; he returned to the village on Thursday from a three-week tour in Europe where he was showing his latest film “Life on Wheels”.
Rajmohan Gandhi: Bil'in a model for nonviolent resistance
05/04/2010
[Arab News] Rajmohan Gandhi, the grandson of the notable Indian leader and peace activist Mahatma Gandhi, on Monday said that the West Bank village of Bil’in became an international model for the nonviolent resistance against the Israeli occupation and separation wall.
When Palestinian leaders lead
03/04/2010
[Palestine Telegraph] For many years, Palestinians have engaged in nonviolent actions aimed at resisting the Israeli military occupation and its violent and humiliating policies aimed at suppressing the will of the Palestinians in seeking to achieve their legitimate aspirations.
