Press and independent media
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Hundreds of activists join Bil’in in struggle against ‘Israeli apartheid’
26/04/2009
[Malta Today] Far from the typical wrapping up of a normal conference, the fourth Bil’in international three-day meeting closed on Friday with a peaceful march towards the separation wall that is robbing up to 60% of the villagers’ land.
Bil'in concludes its fourth annual conference on popular resistance with an Anti-wall protest
24/04/2009
[IMEMC] Dozens were wounded as hundreds of Palestinians supported by International and Israeli supporters marched Friday afternoon in the West Bank village of Bil’in to the construction site of the wall Israel is building on the village’s land.
Apartheid regime and popular resistance in Bil'in
24/04/2009
[The Palestine Telegraph] Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi is taking part in the three-day Bil’in conference on nonviolent resistance alongside activists like local organizer Iyad Burnat and the Vice President of the European Parliament.
Low on the scale of humanity
23/04/2009
[Ha’aretz] On Friday evening the phone rang. It was my daughter. She wanted to tell me that she had just heard that Bassem had died. That a gas canister was shot at his chest at short range during the demonstration at Bil’in and he collapsed on the spot. She sounded completely calm and matter-of-fact. That’s how she is. She has no illusions about life. And she loathes melodrama. She works with drug addicts and AIDS patients, and knows there is a list of categories of people in this country who have, in the public’s eye, lost the right to be considered human beings. Among these transparent people are those perceived as wretches, who have brought their misfortune down upon themselves: The Palestinians are one category on the list - together with drug addicts, prostitutes and AIDS sufferers. She therefore sees it as her obligation to stand at their side as well.
The elephant who freed a bird
22/04/2009
[MaltaToday] The streets of this tiny village surrounded by Israeli checkpoints and an illegal so-called “security fence” are eerily calm under the afternoon sun.
One by one, villagers, friends and relatives are all heading to the mosque to comfort the Abu Rahma family on the third day of mourning since Bassem, aged 31, was killed by a tear gas canister shot in his chest by an Israeli soldier, as he was peacefully protesting against what on this side of the fence is called “the apartheid wall”.
