Bil'in, a village of Palestine

Palestinian village celebrates victory over Israeli Apartheid

05/09/2007

The 135th demonstration in the village of Bil’in took place yesterday. Normally the demonstrations occur on fridays, but this week something changed all that. This week, we encountered a seismic shift. Three Israeli judges ruled in favor of the villagers, saying the Apartheid Wall, which has been the focus of their weekly demonstrations for over two years, must be moved to grant access to Palestinian land. The villagers responded by having a spontaneous celebration, followed at 4:30pm by a demonstration at the gate to their land. Hundreds of people, men, women, children, Palestinian, Israeli and international came together hands held, flags raised and heads high to march to the gate that was the site of so much military violence.

Bil'in celebrates the court verdict - Victory for the joint non-violent struggle

04/09/2007

This morning at 9.00am the verdict of the Israeli High Court was expected on the Bil’in village petition regarding the war crime of building the separation fence used to rob most of the village lands. The High Court is used to giving the rubber stamp of "justice" to the occupation and the settler colonialist project, but can only do so if it follows some kind of logic. But it is logic that has now forced the court to restrict Israel’s war crimes in the occupied territories. The joint struggle in Bil’in carried on by the village’s popular committee together with the Israeli Anarchists Against the Wall initiative, has forced the country’s highest court to intervene. After two and a half years of refusing to give a prompt verdict, it has finally had to follow its own principles of justifying the separation fence, and today ordered the settler colonialist establishment to retreat a bit.

Bilin Court Decision: Victory for both village and for non-violent struggle

04/09/2007

Following popular non-violent resistance through joint struggle between Palestinian, Israeli and international activists, a court decision has been made in favor of the petition by Bilin village to change the current route of the Apartheid Wall.

Court Victory for Bil'in in pictures

04/09/2007

Soldiers Beat Palestinian Demonstrators in Bil’in, Arrest Two Israelis and Detain One International

31/08/2007

Today marked the 134th consecutive demonstration in Bil’in Village against settlement activity on village land and against the building of the apartheid wall, which separates local villagers from their farmland. About 40 Palestinian, Israeli and international demonstrators participated this week. The weekly demonstration accompanies a legal challenge to the legitimacy of the attempt to expand settlements in the area, which recently resulted in the collapse of the Heftsiba real estate company, an Israeli firm which is responsible for much of the settlement construction and sales in the West Bank.