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On the anniversary of the Balfour declaration, faithful Bil'in insist to stay and continue the struggle against the occupation
05/11/2010
Today the people in Bil’in were joined by internationals and Israelis to protest against Israel’s illegal Wall that is cutting through the village’s farmland. The protesters were carrying posters of Bilin’s Abdallah Abu-Rahma, asking for freedom for all political prisoners. The Popular Committee sends their greetings to Adalah N.Y, the New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel.
Two sides of the Wall in Bil’in
01/11/2010
[Mondoweiss] After the changes of the route of the old Wall in Bil’in, 1,000 dunums of land located behind the wall will be returned to the respective owners in the village.
When I arrived at the Israeli side of the new Wall, I saw a strange thing. This wall is not only racist in its completion but also in its composition. I am familiar with the cubes on the Palestinian side of the Wall, but I discovered that on the other side the Wall is decorated with beautiful motifs. So people on the Israeli side of the wall do not feel the same as people on the Palestinian side of the wall. To me it seemed that if one did not know what the real purpose of the wall was, from the Israeli side it looks like a decorated highway partition….however, on the Palestinian side it’s concrete cubes stacked one above the other, which is ugly and not pleasant and looks exactly how the wall of a maximum security prison looks like.
Bil'in, October 29, 2010: « Free for all prisoners »
29/10/2010
[Bil’in FFJ] Today’s demonstration against the wall, organized by the Popular Committee of Bil’in, was joined by about many local residents, Israeli activists and internationals. As the group moved peacefully towards the site of the wall, they chanted to free Palestinian political prisoners.
Israeli forces attack weekly West Bank demonstrations
23/10/2010
[ISM] Three protesters were injured from tear gas inhalation today at the weekly Bil’in demonstration against the Apartheid wall. The march, called for by the Popular Committee Against the Wall in Bil’in, included dozens of Palestinian villagers, alongside Israeli and international solidarity activists.
Bil'in Organizer Sentenced to 18 months
21/10/2010
[Popular Struggle] Adeeb Abu Rahmah, a protest leader from Bil’in, was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment by the Military Court of Appeals, for his involvement in organizing demonstrations. The decision dramatically aggravates the one-year sentence originally imposed in the first instance.
Judge Lieutenant Colonel Benisho of the Military Court of Appeals accepted the Military prosecution’s appeal in Adeeb Abu Rahmah’s case today, which demanded to harshen the already heavy-handed one-year sentence imposed on him by the prior instance back in July. The court sentenced Abu Rahmah 18 months of imprisonment with bail of 6,000 NIS and suspended sentence of 1 year. An appeal filed by the defense both on the severity of the punishment and on the conviction itself was denied.
