Bil'in, a village of Palestine

Reports and Videos from October 15-16 Demonstrations

16/10/2010

[AATW + ISM] In this Friday demonstration against the separation and robbery fence in Bil’in participated about dozen Israelis, dozen internationals and 30 Bil’iners.

Along the march from the center of the village towards the gate people chanted the usual calls focusing on the demand to free Addib and Abdalla Abu Rahme who got a year in prison for participation in the weekly demonstrations.

Reports and Videos from October 9-10 Demonstrations

12/10/2010

[AATW + ISM] On the first Friday demonstration of the olive harvest, two journalists were injured and dozens suffered from tear gas and rubber bullets in Bil’in.

The Bil’in Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements organized the weekly demonstration against the illegal apartheid wall under a banner saying “We stay here like the roots of the olive trees”. Their main focus was to assert the farmers’ right to reach their own lands and pick up their olives.

Bil'in's Abdallah Abu Rahmah's to be sentenced tomorrow

10/10/2010

[Popular Struggle] The protest leader, whose been pronounced a human rights defender by the EU, is already imprisoned for 10 months and is facing a potentially harsh sentence.

The attack on clowns in Ma'asara - and more weekend demonstrations

03/10/2010

[AATW] West Bank demonstrations continue, and with a twist: In Ma’asara, soldiers attacked a circus preforming in front of village kids. In Beit Surik a demonstration was held in light of new restrictions, and more and more.

Weekly protests: man shot with live ammunition

26/09/2010

[ISM] Brutal suppression of the Palestinian popular struggle continues: A Palestinian man was shot in the leg with live ammunition in Bil’in, while live rounds were also fired in Ni’lin and An-Nabi Saleh, where rubber-coated steel bullets were fired at children. In Beit Ummar a Palestinian man was beaten unconscious by Israeli forces yet only an innocent French peace activist was arrested for assault. Demonstrators marched around the Old City in Hebron, and burned settlement goods in Al-Ma’sara, showing their support and solidarity to the people of Silwan where a Palestinian man was killed by a private settler guard on Wednesday.