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 […]

Fifteen European diplomats carried out a fact-finding visit to the village of Nil’in yesterday to listen to the testimonies of residents targeted for arrest by Occupation forces. Many human rights defenders in the village have been subject to a campaign of arrests for their involvement in activities in protest of the Wall. As the visit […]

Early this morning, Occupation forces attacked Ni’lin and arrested Rateb Mustafa ‘Ameera. Fierce clashes broke out in the streets, with residents defending their homes and soldiers firing live ammunition. As has become routine, soldiers on foot along with jeeps entered the village sometime around two in the morning. They broke into the home of Mustafa […]

In spite of a week of arrests and raids, the people of Ni’lin marched against the Wall this Friday. Prior to the demonstration, residents celebrated the release of several prisoners, on of whom had been held for some four months. Nearly 150 people marched toward the Wall this Friday, passing through the gate of the […]