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During this week’s Friday demo, youth from the village of Nabi Saleh, Ali al-Timimi, was injured with a rubber bullet in the foot and dozens suffered from breathing problems caused by heavy teargas. The weekly march started in the village of Nabi Saleh in protest against the confiscation of 4000 acres of land owned by […]

Despite heavy rains this Friday, the people of Bil’in came together after Friday prayers in popular protest against the construction of the wall and settlements. For the second week in a row they defied the military order declaring the region adjacent to the wall as a closed military zone. Demonstrators marched through the village while […]

Following the killing of two young men, Muhammad and Salah Qawariq, in Awarta, Nablus district, last Sunday, hundreds of local residents went out in a silent march to commemorate them. They flooded the streets of the village already in the morning hours. The crowd set off from the offices of the village council and marched […]

Omar Ala ad-Din had been arrested at the ‘container checkpoint’ on Monday March 15. He stayed seven days in custody being tortured and still he defied his torturers: “This Friday you will see me again in the protest” Omar was first physically assaulted when the soldiers at the checkpoint detained him and beat him with […]

A second teenager critically injured by Israeli forces near Nablus has succumbed to his wounds and died. Useid Abed An-Nasser Qadus, 19, was shot in the head by Israeli forces, that were invading Iraq Burin, a West Bank village south of Nablus, on Friday. Useid’s death follows that of his cousin, Mohammed Qadus, 16, who […]

1) Al Ma’sara: A tribute to international solidarity On Friday, the weekly march in the village of al Ma’sara was dedicated to the remembrance of the American martyr Rachel Corrie, who was murdered in Gaza seven years ago, when an Occupation bulldozer ran over her body. Corrie and her colleagues from the International Solidarity Movement […]

1) People of Bil’in defy the decision of the Israeli military. Dozens of demonstrators were injured this Friday in the weekly anti-wall march at Bil’in. A number suffered from respiration problems caused by the use of tear gas when Israeli occupation forces attacked Palestinian demonstrators and international solidarity activists. This is the result of the […]