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Olive Trees Burnt Down at a Demonstration Against the Wall
13/07/2007
100’s of Palestinian, international and Israeli activists marched for yet another demonstration against the apartheid wall which has annexed over 50% of the village of Bil’in.
Bil’in: Continued Repression
06/07/2007
As the protest began, with chants and flags waving, the marchers were not able to approach the wall itself; rather, the IOF had blocked the road with barbed wire, and as marchers tried to cross, the soldiers unleashed a volley of tear gas and rubber bullets.
Iyad Burnat's testimony on his arrest on June 22, 2007
05/07/2007
On Friday June 22, 2007, the Israeli soldiers arrested me, Iyad Burnat, the Head of the Bil’in Popular Committee, while I was participating in the weekly demonstration in Bil’in.
When the Demonstrators were near the Israeli Apartheid wall, the Israeli soldiers started shooting tear gas. I couldn’t breathe from the gas, and while one of the paramedics tried to give me some first aid, an Israeli soldier came and asked me to accompany him. I thought first that he wanted to help me, but then I was told that I am under arrest.
Two Israeli demonstrators arrested
29/06/2007
Many internationals and Israelis joined today the Palestinian residents of the village of Bil’in in their weekly demonstration against the Apartheid Wall and the occupation – and of course in solidarity with Iyad Bornat, who has been arrested since the previous demonstration. As usual, the peaceful demonstrators, among them many children, chanting and holding Palestinian flags, tried to reach the Wall/Fence.
Arrest of Iyad Burnat, head of Bil'in popular committee
25/06/2007
During the demonstration against the annexation barrier on the 22 of June. Iyad Burnat, head of the popular committee in Bil’in, was injured by teargas, when a couple of soldiers ran to him and arrested him for no apparent reason. He was taken for questioning in Shaar Binyamin police station, and from there to Ofer prison. An officer remanded his arrest by 4 days, which are very likely to become 8, after which they will have to bring him in front of a judge if they want to keep him. Attorney Gaby Laski will filed an urgent request for his release.
