***image2***Around 200 people participated yesterday in the protest in Niâlin against the Apartheid Wall, including a delegation of Scandinavian students. Two Palestinian demonstrators were shot with live ammunition. Last week, the popular committee of Niâlin received information that the Israeli army would âstep upâ their operations against Niâlinâs resistance against the illegal Apartheid Wall. This […]
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Daily invasions rock Jayyus
***image1***For the past weeks, the village of Jayyus has been subjected to daily military raids. In response to residentsâ ongoing resistance to the Wall, soldiers have threatened individuals, destroyed property, set curfews and engaged in shooting on a near daily basis. Collective punishment has feature strongly into this campaign, with Occupation forces targeting house owners, […]
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New Yorkers protest against the Hebron Fund
On November 18th, some fifty New Yorkers gathered outside of Baseball Commissioner Bud Seligâs Office, protesting Major League Baseball’s connection with the Hebron Fund. That event followed a letter-writing campaign that generated over 2600 letters to the New York Mets, asking them to cancel the dinner with the settler organization. The New York Mets are […]
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Update on Mohammed’s dentention
58 days since his arrest, Mohammad remains imprisoned and under interrogation. He has not been charged, and the military courts continue to renew his period of detention. Following a two-week ban on any lawyer visits, which serve as Mohammedâs only contact with the outside world, contact has been reinstated. Today, Mohammed was finally been allowed […]
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Challenging Israeli war criminals
Since Occupation forces launched the devastating invasion of Gaza in December in 2008, the world stage has seen a wave of increased demand for justice. The release of the Goldstone Report has strengthened the case of the European lawyers, with human rights lawyers and pro-Palestinian activists in a number of European countries preparing lists with […]
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Medic beaten, youth destroy fence in Ni’lin
***image2***More than 200 people participated in the protest that the Niâlin popular committee organizes every week on Friday. The people of Niâlin performed the Friday prayer on the land next to the Niâlin health clinic, where Imam Salah Mohammad Tayeh praised late Palestinian leader and symbol Yasser Arafat and the martyrs of Niâlin and said […]
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“We are going to Jerusalem!”
***image1***This afternoon, exactly 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, popular committees struggling against the Apartheid Wall and the settlements destroyed part of the Wall near Qalandiya. Hundreds of people, with some 30 international supporters, used a truck to pull down part of the Wall in the area east of the Qalandiya refugee […]
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Al-Ma’sara commemorates the fall of the Berlin Wall
***image2***In Fridayâs demonstration against the illegal construction of the Apartheid Wall that is designed to steal the agricultural lands of the villages of Southern Bethlehem, the people of al-Ma’sara celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in Germany. In chants and speeches, the demonstrators insisted on the illegality of the Wall […]
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“Unite Against Apartheid” 9 – 16 November: National and Global Actions
On November 9, 1989, the popular protest of the people of East Germany brought down the Wall in Berlin. Today, in Palestine and across the world people are fighting to tear down a Wall â much longer, much higher and not built along borders but along the lines of apartheid and ethnic cleansing. Below is […]
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The Wall will fall in Ni’lin!
***image2***More than 200 protesters attended the weekly Friday demonstration against the apartheid wall in Niâlin today. Sheikh Salah Mohammad Tayeh lead the prayer which traditionally marks the start of the Friday demonstration. He spoke about the importance of popular struggle and resistance for the liberation of Palestine. Furthermore, in the light of the 82nd anniversary […]