At six thirty in the evening on June 2nd, 2010, Israeli Occupation forces stormed the village of Al-Maâsara and arrested Saddam Aladdin, 18-year-old member of Stop the Wall Campaign.
Arrests of human rights activists is not a new phenomenon for Al-Maâsara, a village in the south of Bethlehem that has been continuously subject to illegal land confiscation as a result of the construction of the Wall and the Gush Etzion settlement bloc. Israeli Occupation forces use these arrests in their efforts to deter resistance against the Wall and its associated regime of creeping annexation.
In spite of these Israeli attempts, Mohammed Brejieh, the coordinator of the Popular Committee Against the Wall in Bethlehem, asserts that intimidation tactics, like the arrest of Aladdin, will not compromise popular resistance. Instead, Brejieh affirms that arrests and other Israeli threats will only further fuel the struggle to deliver the Palestinian voice to the international community and resist Israeli occupation until Palestinian rights are fully restored.