Tonight, live fire and flares on the Bil’in side of the Apartheid Wall from occupation forces followed by a long and careful torchlit search of the ground for possible traces of shed blood shattered the relative peace that dropped on the village following the shifting of the Apartheid Wall further away from Bil’in last June. Over 20 soldiers in four jeeps were engaged in this operation.
Today, activists and supporters of the Olive Revolution (popular revolution and national humanitarian non-armed revolution against the Israeli occupation) and the Popular Committees started the campaign “Knocking on Jerusalem’s Doors” in response to the Israeli policies of Judaizing Jerusalem.
Bil’in villagers Ashraf Abu Rahmah and Basel Mansour describe the circumstances of their arrest at the Olive Revolution protest at the Qalandia Checkpoint and their subsequent maltreatment by occupation forces.