Press and independent media
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The Ongoing Repression of Palestinian Protesters
18/12/2009
[Huffington Post] On a pitch black early December night, seven armored Israeli military jeeps pulled into the driveway of a home in the West Bank town of Ramallah. Dozens of soldiers, armed and possibly very scared, came to arrest someone they were probably told was a dangerous, wanted man - Abdallah Abu Rahmah, a high school teacher at the Latin Patriarchate School and a well-known grassroots organizer in the village of Bil’in.
Die On My Palestine Land
16/12/2009
[Ctrl.Alt.Shift] Fatima Mohammed Yassen, aged 49, is a farmer from Bil’in. Despite the crippling Israeli occupation of her village, she continues to work her land, along with her husband, on a daily basis. Jody McIntyre spoke to Im Khamis, as she is known to local villagers, in her home in Bil’in.
Free Abdallah Abu Rahmah, Now!
15/12/2009
[AIC] An official from the Israeli Military Prosecution recently stated to Attorney Gaby Lasky, who represents many activists arrested in the course of the weekly Bil’in demonstrations, that the objective of the military is to put an end to these demonstrations. This may explain why, on the night of 12 December, an army commando group raided the home of Abdallah Abu Rahmah and arrested him.
“Words Are Not Enough”
13/12/2009
[Ctrl.Alt.Shift] My name is Iyad Burnat. I am 37 years old, married with four children, and Head of the Bil’in Popular Committee.
I started my life in jail, aged 17, during the first intifada, a popular uprising amongst ordinary Palestinians. It was not the first time I had participated in non-violent resistance, as I have always believed that this is the way to end the occupation, but as the intifada clearly showed, the Israeli Occupation Forces do not understand, let alone sympathise with, such methods.
Israel arrests Palestinian barrier protest leader
10/12/2009
[Associated Press] A leader of the most persistent Palestinian protest movement against Israel’s West Bank separation barrier was asleep in his home when troops broke down his door and arrested him.
