In this short video produced with the support of the NoVa Center for Social Innovation, Palestine Monitor would like to introduce you to Rani Burnat, a non-violent activist and photographer from Bil’in.
Rani was shot by Israeli snipers during the first days of the second Intifada during a peaceful protest in Ramallah. His injuries have left him confined to an electric wheelchair with only the use of his right hand. In 2004 Israel began to construct the apartheid wall in his village, Bil’in, stealing 60% of the village’s land. Since then, villagers have organized weekly, and sometimes daily, non-violent demonstrations against the wall and the settlements surrounding it, making Bil’in a centre of non-violent resistance in the West Bank. Rani, one of the organizers of the village’s popular resistance, has attended and photographed every single demonstration, and compiled a huge archive of photographs.
