On the first Friday of Ramadan, Palestinians continued to fight for their stolen lands while the Occupation sealed off Jerusalem. While demonstrations continued in Ni’lin, al-Ma’sra and Bi’lin, Occupation forces restricted Palestinian access to Jerusalem and prevented Palestinians from praying at the al-Aqsa mosque. In Ni’lin, villagers marched to their threatened lands to hold Friday […]

Occupation forces prevented the creation of road that would link the village of Khirbet Yazra to Tubas. Soldiers confiscated the identification cards of Palestinians involved with the project. Kherbet Yazra is a village east of Tubas that is populated by 13 families. Residents of the village live in simple homes constructed of mud bricks. There […]

Occupation forces raided Ni’lin late last night to arrest a local man. Following a scuffle, soldiers shot the man’s brother in the head with a rubber bullet. A group of soldiers entered the southern part of Ni’lin at around 3:00am. Soldiers arrived on foot and arrested “Ayd Sroor at his home. During the arrest, they […]

On Thursday morning Occupation forces stormed the town in an attempt to suppress protests and intimidate the people of Ni’lin. The military gathered close to the girls’ secondary school and fired tear gas and sound bombs, terrifying the the children. They fired on various homes and directly into the home of Said Salim Khawaje, whose […]

Border police escalated the violence in Ni’lin, beating one resident nearly to death on Thursday. Occupation forces went on to seal the village on Friday in an attempt to isolate the local struggle against the Wall. On Thursday, the people of Ni’lin gathered in the middle of the village for a demonstration against the Apartheid […]

In Ni’lin, the demonstration began with Friday prayers. Occupation border guards, soldiers and several attack dogs, surrounded the threatened village land. Villagers had been prohibited from entering the area, but families and farmers insisted on holding prayers in the area. At the end of the prayers, but before the demonstration could even begin, Occupation forces […]

On 14 August, Occupation forces issued military order putting a 1,500 m2 area from the Tal Ramida neighbourhood, located in the middle of the old city of Hebron, under military control. This land, which is owned by Palestinians, was ostensibly confiscated for “military purposes” and will serve to further increase settler control over the old […]