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Bil'in, between court and tear gas
15/08/2009
[Gush Shalom] "Instead of carrying out late night raids on the village of Bil’in, arrest people and drag them to detention and court, the army should have done a simple thing – implement at last the Supreme Court ruling of two years ago, move the fence erected on the Bil’in lands and return to villagers their lands and source of income, which were taken in order to extend the ultra-Orthodox settlement of Modi’in Illit" said Uri Avnery of Gush Shalom, upon entering the military court at Ofer Camp near Ramallah.
Update on Mohammad Khatib and the six Biliners abducted by the Israeli occupation forces
06/08/2009
[ISM] The Military Prosecution is claiming that the 7 people taken from their homes during the night raid that took place in Bil’in on August 3rd are suspected of stone throwing. A leading member of the Bil’in Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements, non-violent activist Mohammad Khatib, is accused of incitement to “damage the security of the area.”
Bil’in’s Mohammad Khatib arrested
04/08/2009
[Tadamon] One month after touring Canada key Palestinian activist kidnapped by Israeli soldiers.
A night in Bilin
31/07/2009
[Electronic Intifada] Over the last few weeks, the residents of Bilin have been subjected to constant night raids by the Israeli military, in retaliation to their weekly nonviolent demonstrations, now in their fifth year, against the Apartheid Wall, which has stolen over half of their land. So far, 17 youths have been arrested, some as young as 16 years of age, usually for their participation in the demonstrations. Many of the boys will not see their family again for months. With the situation getting critical, local activists of the Bilin Popular Committee called for a night demonstration to protest against the raids.
Israeli court grants damages to injured Bil’in protester
29/07/2009
[IMEMC] Israeli lawyer and peace activist Limor Goldstein was awarded 860,000 US dollars in damages by an Israeli court on Tuesday. Goldstein was critically injured and suffered brain damage after he was shot in his head with a rubber-coated steel bullet, when he was attending a anti-wall demonstration in 2006 in the village of Bil’in in the central West Bank.
