Bil'in, a village of Palestine

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In a special five-part series People & Power (Al Jazeera) charts the rapidly growing number of lawsuits being brought against multi-national corporations. Around the world, ordinary people are asking how many more times their interests should be sacrificed for corporate greed and shareholder profit.

Courtroom Intifada

Residents of the small West Bank village of Bil’in have been campaigning for years to regain land lost to the Israeli separation wall and an encroaching Jewish settlement through a policy of “legal resistance”.

But as an ealier victory in the Israeli Supreme Court continues to be ignored, the villagers, helped by an Israeli legal maverick have now a filed a case against the international construction companies who are building the settlements.

They claim they have violated international human rights law by building on occupied land.