Press and independent media
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Israel pays NIS 3.25 million to protester shot by Border Police
28/07/2009
[Ha’aretz] The Defense Ministry has recently paid NIS 3.25 million in compensation to Limor Goldstein, 31, who was shot in the head by Border Policemen during an anti-separation fence protest in the West Bank town of Bil’in in 2006.
Repression of the Popular Restistance Movement against the Wall
28/07/2009
Five years ago the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued its advisory opinion declaring that the Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territories is illegal and should be dismantled. After five years of silence and complicity of the international community in perpetrating this crime, several villages across the occupied West Bank have formed committees engaged in continuous demonstrations against the Wall and the settlements.
Five years after ICJ ruling, Israel expands its illegal Wall onto more Palestinian land
28/07/2009
[Media Monitors Network] “The wall has changed not just the lives of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, but also the dynamic of the Palestinian struggle. The reality created inside the occupied territories (a process begun during the Oslo accords) by Israel’s colonies, Areas A/B/C zoning, the permit system, separate roads–and now the wall–has led to the creation of a Palestinian enclave-state in waiting, and thus the death of a genuine “two-state solution.”
Bil'in vs Green Park
23/07/2009
[Corporate Watch] The Green Park construction company is engaged in building illegal settlements in the West Bank, notably, the settlements of Mattiyahu East and Modi’in Illit, which have been built on land annexed from the Palestinian village of Bil’in, by the Israeli apartheid wall.
Troops tear gas Palestinians filming phone advert spoof
22/07/2009
[PNN] An attempt to parody a controversial Cellcom advert has ended in violence as troops responded with tear gas.
