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Large numbers of participants was a feature of this Friday’s actions, which were held in commemoration of Land Day. Protests against the Wall were held in the usual locations of Jayyous, Ni’lin, al-Ma’sra and Bi’lin. After a brief hiatus last week, violence is escalating again in Ni’lin, where a local youth was shot with live […]

The people in Palestine are mobilizing for the 32nd annual commemoration of Land Day, happening March 30. Land Day marks the date of the Palestinian demonstration that occurred in the Galilee against a wide-scale land confiscation, when Israeli forces killed 6 Palestinians, injured 96 and arrested 300. ***image2***Today, the Land Day protests of the people […]

This past Friday, people in Ni’lin, Ma’sara, Jayyous and Bi’lin held their weekly demonstrations. Hundreds turned out; some on the occasion of Mother’s Day and others in support of the American activist wounded the week prior in Ni’lin. Demonstrations in Wadi Rasha have halted for the time being, as Occupation forces have temporarily halted uprooting […]

Neighborhood committees created to oppose price rises in Greece joined the call for a boycott of Israeli products. The decision to support the boycott movement, taken in response to the attack on the Gaza Strip, illustrates the global linkages that can and should be made between struggles against oppression in different parts of the world. […]

On Friday, the youth of Jayyous lead another demonstration against the Wall that is isolating their village from its land. The Israeli military attacked the village attempting to destroy one home and injuring three. ***image2***As the Friday demonstration of some 80 youth was approaching one of the gates of the Wall that blocks the people […]

Israeli Apartheid Week 2009 took place in more than 40 cities across the globe. First held in Toronto in 2005, it has spread rapidly around the world. This year, in addition to the regular participating locations, a number of new cities in Europe, North America and South Africa joined, along with every major city and […]

Villagers from Wadi Rasha, Ras Tira, and Daba’a held a protest against the destruction of their olive droves and managed to block Occupation machinery for much of the morning. Every day, Occupation forces uproot as many as 40 mature olives trees in their efforts to clear a path for the Wall on village land. ***image1***This […]