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In honour of Prisoners’ Day, held on April 17 every year, the Ni’lin popular committee dedicated this Friday to the struggle to free the prisoners. The march was attended by hundreds of people from the village on Ni’lin and the neighbouring villages. International solidarity activists joined the people of the village, and demonstrators marched carrying […]

Occupying forces attacked the afternoon protesters as they held their weekly march in Bil’in. Troops fired tear gas and rubber-coated steel bullets, and launched stun grenades and sound bombs, as well as employing two new types of weapons. One of these produces thick smoke clouds while the other sprays shrapnel in all directions as it […]

The Popular Committee of Bil’in organized a ceremony today to commemorate Prisoners Day as well as the death of Basem Abu Rahmah, who was murdered last year when he was shot with a tear gas canister in the chest during one of the weekly protests, and, as well, the 22nd anniversary of the killing of […]

***image2***More than one hundred fifty people joined the weekly march against the Apartheid Wall today, April 16, Prisoners’ Day. As always, the people first gathered for the Friday prayer on land near the Wall, during which time Imam Salah Mohammed Tayeh Khawaja underlined in his speech that in Palestine, every day is Prisoners’ Day. He […]

Earlier today Israeli occupation forces arrested the following five members of the local committee against the Wall and Settlements in Khirbet Safa: Younis Arar, coordinator of the Committee; Mousa Abu Maria, External Relations Officer; Mohamed Ayad Awad, Media Spokesman; Sakhr Abu Maria and Atef Abu Diya, both members of the popular committee. In addition to […]

At today’s protest against the Apartheid Wall, dozens of residents suffered from teargas inhalation while a number of homes and workshops were damaged when the Israeli military sprayed sewage water into the buildings. The march began after Friday prayers in front of the village mosque and then the crowd walked towards the Wall and the […]

Israeli occupation forces arrested journalist Haitham Al-Khatib, a photographer working with an Israeli human rights organisation and the Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements, during the weekly demonstration in the village. Furthermore, large amounts of tear gas fired at protestors caused dozens of cases of breathing difficulties. The march was called for by the […]

After the Palm Sunday arrests, the repression in Bethlehem district, and in particular in al-Ma’sara, is clearly escalating. At 11pm on Thursday April 8th occupation forces raided the home of Hassan and Mohammad Brijeyeh. Mohammad Brijeyeh is the coordinator for the Stop the Wall popular committees in Bethlehem district and Hassan, his brother, is as […]