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A week of continues resistance in Bilin, Invasions, Arrests, Court case in Canada, Press Conference and The Friday Demonstration

26/06/2009

People of Bilin companied by internationals and Israelis marched into the weekly protest of bilin on Friday which took place for the past four years against the Israeli apartheid wall that built on the land of bilin and the land of Palestine.

Bil’in village holds press conference and a demonstration against construction of the Apartheid Wall

26/06/2009

Bil’in village holds press conference and a demonstration against construction of the Apartheid Wall. Palestinian residents, alongside international and Israeli activists gathered today in Bil’in to demonstrate against the Wall. Before the demonstration, Naomi Klein, Basel Mansour, and Attorney Wisam Ahmad held a press conference.

Friday In Bil'in

19/06/2009

There, we had the first surprise. The IOF were hiding behind the concrete walls and non of the soldiers were seen only the jeeps. Demonstrators didn’t shower with tear gas as every past Fridays. When few activists opened the external gate fortified with barbed wire, still nothing. Not even when some approached the electronic fence and put there on fire a used car tier.

Prohibit live fire in circumstances that are not life-threatening in the West Bank

18/06/2009

[B’Tselem] On Friday, 5 June 2009, ‘Aqel Sror, 35, was killed when a border policeman fired a live, 0.22 inch caliber bullet at his chest during a demonstration held in Ni’lin. Four other demonstrators were injured by 0.22 bullets that day. One of them suffered a severe wound to the spinal cord, which his physicians estimate will leave him permanently paralyzed.

Two injured at the Bil'in weekly protest

13/06/2009

Two protesters were injured and dozens suffered from gas inhalation when Israeli troops attack the weekly protest in Bil’in village near the central West Bank city of Ramallah on Friday midday.