***image2***On 7th February 2010, 8 peace activists entered the Brussels Holiday Fair and impersonated flight attendants of the Israeli airline company El Al. According to a press release from Vredesactie (Peace Action), “[activists] handed out fake free plane tickets to Israel, which referred to the fact that El Al contributes to the transport of arms […]

Occupation forces attacked protestors in Ni’lin with tear gas during the Friday demonstration. Two people were arrested on Friday, among them a local camera man and an Israeli activist. Residents prayed on the fields heading toward the Wall, which isolates more than 2,500 dunums of agricultural land and olive groves. Protestors arrived at the gate […]

Late last night Occupation forces raided the Stop the Wall offices in Ramallah. Some 10 military jeeps, hummers and an armoured bus surrounded the building as soldiers searched rooms, turning the office upside down and confiscating computer hard disks, laptops, and video cameras along with paper documents, CDs, and video cassettes. ***image2***Part of the mounting […]

Despite the freezing temperatures and rainy weather, villagers and international supporters marched through the village toward their threatened lands yesterday. At the entrance of the village, protestors found soldiers had not only blocked the path with barbed wire, but also were stationed on the roofs of homes. As they do every week, soldiers barred the […]

Early this month, Occupation forces stopped a group of volunteers southeast of Bethlehem, where they had gone to plant almond trees on land threatened with confiscation. The lands are near the settlements Teqoa and Noqedim, where Foreign Minister Lieberman lives. More than 20 soldiers, along with more than 25 settlers and police dogs, came down […]

***image2***Occupation forces continued to employ the same tactics in Ni’lin, firing on and arresting demonstrators this Friday. More than 150 people from the village, supported by several foreign activists who had to enter the village through on foot after Occupation forces declared the village a closed military area. Soldiers were stationed at the two main […]

Hundreds of Palestinians participated in a crowded demonstration in Burin yesterday. The march was organized in protest of the Occupation forces’ decision to demolish the Suleiman al Farsi mosque in the village, along with a group of storage structures close by. This was done on the pretext that the structures fall in Area C, with […]

Occupation forces raided the villages of Bil’in and Ni’lin, arresting a resident from each village. In Bil’in Mohammed al-Khatib, a member of the Bil’in Popular Committee, was taken from him his home early Thursday morning. At 1:30 AM, soldiers entered his home where they confiscated materials as a crowd gathered outside. Occupation forces also invaded […]