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Weekly Stop the Wall Repression Update

Scope: Repressive measures against Palestinian human rights defenders active against the Wall and the settlements in the occupied West Bank. Period: Monday 19 to Monday 26 April 2010  Summary:  1) Arrests of HRDs Arrests occurred in the south of the West Bank, in Bethlehem and Hebron districts. A 13 year old boy is currently held […]

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Wastewater from the Etzion settlement floods 70 dunums of vineyards

Sewage water flowing from the Kfar Etzion settlement has destroyed some 70 dunums of land in the valley of ash-Shakheet, which belongs to the village of Beit Ummar. The contamination of Palestinian farmland by settlers is yet another way, commonly used, to force Palestinians off their land in order to steal and expand on it. […]

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Mass rally in Ni’lin: Free our prisoners!

In honour of Prisoners’ Day, held on April 17 every year, the Ni’lin popular committee dedicated this Friday to the struggle to free the prisoners. The march was attended by hundreds of people from the village on Ni’lin and the neighbouring villages. International solidarity activists joined the people of the village, and demonstrators marched carrying […]

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Bil’in: Israel shoots Palestinian from Yafa

Occupying forces attacked the afternoon protesters as they held their weekly march in Bil’in. Troops fired tear gas and rubber-coated steel bullets, and launched stun grenades and sound bombs, as well as employing two new types of weapons. One of these produces thick smoke clouds while the other sprays shrapnel in all directions as it […]

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Ni’lin: every Day is Prisoners’ Day

***image2***More than one hundred fifty people joined the weekly march against the Apartheid Wall today, April 16, Prisoners’ Day. As always, the people first gathered for the Friday prayer on land near the Wall, during which time Imam Salah Mohammed Tayeh Khawaja underlined in his speech that in Palestine, every day is Prisoners’ Day. He […]

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Prisoners Day in al-Ma’sara: renewed threats to the Popular Committee’s coordinator will not stop us!

Today’s march against the Wall in al Ma’sara was once again preceded by a night raid in the village, targeting the coordinator of the Stop the Wall Campaign in the Bethlehem district. Yet, the rally attended by many Palestinian representatives, was an immediate message to the occupation forces that intimidation will not repress the people. […]

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Five new arrests as activists dismantle illegal settlement foundations

Earlier today Israeli occupation forces arrested the following five members of the local committee against the Wall and Settlements in Khirbet Safa: Younis Arar, coordinator of the Committee; Mousa Abu Maria, External Relations Officer; Mohamed Ayad Awad, Media Spokesman; Sakhr Abu Maria and Atef Abu Diya, both members of the popular committee. In addition to […]

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Bil’in: Palestinian journalist detained

Israeli occupation forces arrested journalist Haitham Al-Khatib, a photographer working with an Israeli human rights organisation and the Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements, during the weekly demonstration in the village. Furthermore, large amounts of tear gas fired at protestors caused dozens of cases of breathing difficulties. The march was called for by the […]