Bil'in, a village of Palestine

Mohammed Khatib of Bil'in's Popular Committee Prevented from Going Abroad Despite an OK from Court

04/08/2010

The Shin Bet prevented Mohammed Khatib of the Bil’in Popular Committee to cross the Allenby Bridge on his way to Spain today. Khatib was banned despite having a permit to leave the country from the Military court.

The weekend in protests

02/08/2010

Bil’in: tributes paid to Olympia and music from rappers in solidarity with Palestine (July 30th)
An Nabih Salih: one injury and one arrest as IDF violence continues unabated (July 30th)
Ni’lin: calls for increased international presence in the village (July 30th)
Al Ma’sara: holding firm despite military violence (July 30th)
Beit Ommar: resistance again met with weapons used at close-range – one journalist hurt
Hebron: an IDF donkey ridden by a fanatical Israeli settler prove a point (July 31st)

Israeli soldiers detain former European Parliament Vice President in Bil’in

23/07/2010

Israeli soldiers detained the former Vice President of the European Parliament, Luisa Morgantini, in Bil’in this afternoon, injured one Israeli activist and arrested another.

Sixty nine-year-old Morgantini, an Italian Member of the Euopean Parliament (MEP) has long been an outspoken supporter of Palestinians. She has participated several times in demonstrations in Bil’in and in June 2008 was injured when Israeli soldiers attacked a group of non-violent activists.

Criminalization of popular struggle continues: Abdallah Abu Rahmah sentenced

21/07/2010

Abdallah Abu Rahmah’s first trial from 2005 had reached conclusion yesterday, with his sentencing to two months of imprisonment and a six months suspended sentence for participating and organizing demonstrations and for walking the streets of his village during a curfew designed to prevent a demonstration. A verdict in Abu Rahmah’s main case for which he is already in jail since December is expected soon.

The resistance continues in protests across Palestine

19/07/2010

On July the 16th around 200 people participated in the weekly demonstration against the wall in Bil’in – many of them where internationals. Huge amounts of tear gas was fired – unnecessarily – at the demonstrators and two people were injured.