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Media distortion of Palestinian non-violent protest
October 29, 2006
Every Friday for the past year and a half villagers from Bil’in, a small West Bank village near Ramallah, march with supporters toward the triple-layer fence separating them from their olive trees. They are always blocked by Israeli soldiers and border police, who typically escalate from tear gas and concussion grenades to water cannons, rubber bullets, live ammunition, and a variety of apparently experimental weapons. This weekly interaction gets a lot of important attention in the alternative press, but is mostly ignored by Western mainstream media.
Each friday in Bil'in
October 29, 2006
I travel from Ramallah in a group taxi with several activists affiliated with the International Solidarity Movement to the agricultural village of Bil’in. We are here with Israeli activists as well. All of the major Israeli peace and justice groups are with us today, along with prominent members of their leadership. Peace Now (Gush Shalom), Rabbis for Human Rights, Israeli Anarchists against the Wall, Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, Ta’ayush and There is a Law (Yesh-Din). This latter group was formed to document violence that settlers commit against Palestinians so that they can be prosecuted. The hope is that the settlers can no longer commit violent crimes against local Palestinians without impunity. From the United States, there are also members from Jewish Voices for Peace; I become acquainted with a group of physicians from Boston who are a part of this group.
Israeli army injures 16 protesters demanding to be able to harvest their olives in Bil'in
October 27, 2006
Hundreds of Palestinian residents of Bil’in village, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, and dozens of Israeli and international peace activists held their weekly protest in Bil’in Friday, pleading with the assembled Israeli military force to allow them to harvest their olives. Israeli soldiers used excessive violence against the protesters and injured 16.
Palestinians, internationals and Israelis hold peaceful march in Bil'in village
October 20, 2006
A small protest took place in Bil’in village Friday with approximately 15 Palestinians and 15 internationals and Israelis marching against the confiscation of land in Bil’in, and in support of a local Reuters cameraman who was abducted by Israeli forces two weeks ago.
Two Palestinian journalists attacked by Israeli security personnel
October 19, 2006
Reporters Without Borders today condemned the detention of Reuters cameraman Imad Mohammad Bornat by the Israeli authorities for the past two weeks and his possible mistreatment at the time of his arrest on 6 October in the West Bank village of Bil’in. The organisation also condemned the severe beating which Agence France Presse photographer Jaafar Ashtiyeh and two of his assistants received on 1 October at a checkpoint at Hawara, near the city of Nablus.
