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Update on the Arrest of Human Rights defender and activist Mohammad Othman by Addameer and Stop the Wall Campaign [Ramallah, 20 October 2009] On Monday 19 October 2009, a court hearing at Salem military court, in the Northern West Bank, extended Mohammad Othman’s detention period for another 11 days. It has been 29 days now […]

More than 150 people attended the weekly demo against the Apartheid Wall. Protestors held signs with the names of the five Nil’in prisoners, and others called for the freedom of the 11,000 other Palestinians held in Israeli jails. Youth marched with their hands tied, imitating the means soldiers use when they arrest Palestinians. Protesters expressed […]

Last Wednesday, soldiers prohibited farmers from entering their land and harvesting olives in the area of Wadi Ahmed, west of Beit Jala (Bethlehem). Residents stated that they were heading to their lands in the morning when they suddenly encountered Occupation forces who had placed a gate and barbed wire in their way. Farmers were turned […]

***image1***With the olive harvest beginning this month, farmers and their families across the West Bank will spend their days picking, cleaning and sorting olives. They will also face settler attacks and restricted access to their groves, which are often isolated behind the Wall, in settlements or adjacent to military bases and closed zones. Despite restrictions, […]

Settlers from the Dolev settlement carried out an assault on the olive groves of Deir ‘Ammar village last Tuesday, hacking apart upwards of 190 olive trees with machetes in the late hours of the night. The trees belonged to seven families from the village, which is located northwest of Ramallah. The affected land is located […]

On Thursday 8 October, War on Want and students from Goldsmiths College organised a demonstration outside the Israeli Embassy in London demanding that Muhammad Othman be freed immediately. War on Want had written a letter to hand in to the Israeli Ambassador, HE Ron Proser calling for Mohammad’s immediate and unconditional release and seeking assurances […]

***image2***Around 200 protesters gathered yesterday to participate in the weekly Friday protest against the Apartheid Wall in Ni’lin. After the prayer in the olive groves, the residents of Ni’lin were joined by international and Israeli solidarity activists and marched to the Wall that Occupation authorities have built on the village land. The protesters carried banners […]