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Nonviolent Palestinian resistance to occupation: there is no peace with checkpoints or settlements
March 23, 2007
As a bastion of Palestinian nonviolent resistance to Israeli occupation, western Ramallah’s Bil’in Village hosted a conference for all regions of the West Bank. None of its districts are being spared the devastation of the Wall and settlement expansion. The People’s Committee to Resist the Wall, and the national and Islamic resistance movements, convened to strategize.
Non-violent protest against illegal Wall in Bilin: Israeli army steps-up measures to crush defiance
March 16, 2007
In a new move to crush the weekly protest in the village of Bilin, The Popular Committee Against the Wall told IMEMC that during the past week the Israeli secret service, Shin Bet, have been telephoning activists at home and threatening that if they continued to demonstrate they would be arrested, shot or killed. Shin Bet ordered some of the activists to attend interrogations at a nearby military base. Shin Bet is notorious for thuggish policies, and has faced numerous allegations of violating international law and human rights.
Six wounded in weekly Bil'in anti-separation fence protest
March 16, 2007
Five Palestinians and one Border Policeman were wounded Friday at the weekly anti-separation fence demonstration in the West Bank village of Bil’in.
Success has many fathers
March 13, 2007
Last Tuesday, the state issued its response to the High Court of Justice petition from Peace Now and residents of the West Bank village of Bil’in against the decision of the Supreme Planning Committee in Judea and Samaria to legalize the construction of the neighborhood of Matityahu East beyond the Green Line
Bil'in's Bridegroom Photo Wins the Best 2006 Photo
March 10, 2007
The photo of bridegroom Mansour while embracing his bride Salma to shield her from the tear gas canisters and the bursts of live bullets fired by the Israeli occupation soldiers towards the peaceful protesters against the apartheid wall in Bilin village, south west of Rammallah city of the West Bank, won the best photo of 2006 according to USA university of Las Vegas state.
