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In photos: Anti-wall rally in Beit Jala
6/30/2010 - Palestinian demonstrators exercise passive resistance as Israeli forces attempt to remove them from the most recent site of construction for the country's separation wall, encroaching on an ancient monastery, vineyards and hundreds of dunums of Palestinian-owned lands. The demonstration, on 27 June 2010, was a continuation of what have become weekly gatherings of locals, Israelis....
Limited Israeli incursion into Bethlehem
6/30/2010 - Bethlehem - Ma'an - Two armored Israeli military vehicles crossed into the central West Bank city of Bethlehem late Thursday near the separation barrier, onlookers said. An Israeli military spokeswoman said the soldiers were searching for a Palestinian suspected of throwing an explosive device toward a military installation in the same general area. There were no reports....
Mideast night beat: Poverty often worse in West Bank than in Gaza
Palestine Note 29 Jun 2010 - Today in Palestine, Israel, the broader Middle East, and beyond: An Israeli soldier near an unfinished section of the wall in the West Bank in August 2004 . [Photo: Justin McIntosh via Wikimedia Commons] Children living in...
Israel conducts different raids and incursions in Gaza
29 Jun 2010 - Gaza, June 29, (Pal Telegraph) A Gazan died and three others were injured after an Israeli raid on the separating fence east of Gaza City. Witnesses said that an Israeli tank fired a shell and at least at the end of palm street in Sha’f area, but the Israeli army said that its planes carried out the raid during their...
PA boycott squeezes settlements
Palestine Note 29 Jun 2010 - Washington - The Palestinian Authority's boycott of settlement-produced goods is having tangible effects on the wallets of Israelis and Israeli settlers, the Guardian reported Tuesday. Palestinian PM Salam Fayyad, a political independent seated with Israeli opposition...
Mideast night beat: Jerusalem, flotilla, assassination
Palestine Note 29 Jun 2010 - By Jared Malsin Today in Palestine, Israel, the broader Middle East, and beyond: The Dome of the Rock and the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City [Photo: Berthold Werner, Wikimedia Commons] The Israeli mayor of Jerusalem,...
Mideast night beat: Crisis in Jerusalem
Palestine Note 28 Jun 2010 - Today in Palestine, Israel, the broader Middle East, and beyond: Graffiti on a blast wall in an Israeli settlement in the West Bank city of Hebron shows right-wing aspirations for "greater Israel." [Itai via Wikimedia Commons]...
1 hurt at West Bank protest
6/25/2010 - Ramallah - Ma'an - A Palestinian man was lightly injured in the West Bank on Friday when Israeli forces opened fire at a crowd of demonstrators, activists said. Radwan Yasin, 50, was struck by a tear-gas canister fired at the crowd, which gathered to protest Israel's wall being built on village land in Bil'in, which is near....
Nil'in, In Central West Bank, Protest The Israeli Wall
PNN - Ramallah – PNN - International supporters joined the villagers of Nil'in, central West Bank, and protest the Israeli wall on Friday. Villagers conducted the Friday midday prayers at lands the army is...
Israeli Troops Suppress 2 Anti Wall Protests Near Bethlehem
PNN - Bethlehem - PNN - Two anti wall protests were organized at the villages of Al Ma'ssara and Wadi Rahal near the southern west Bank city of Bethlehem on Friday. Villagers from Al...
Bil'in: One Injured As Troops Attack Anti Wall Protest
PNN - Ramallah – PNN - A Palestinian man was injured on Friday after being shot by Israeli troops during the weekly nonviolent protest against the wall in Bil'in village central West Bank. Israeli...
“Stand up… and Break the Siege” Initiative continues to challenge closing off of Palestinian roads
Stop The Wall - The villages of northeast Ramallah organized the second mass demonstration in Bittin to open the main road to Ramallah and to expose the Israeli occupation forces’ policy of collective punishment. The campaign is the first of its kind in demanding the opening of closed roads by the occupation forces. [
Israel to reopen investigation into shooting of U.S. activist
Ha'aretz 25 Jun 2010 - Police to re-examine case of Tristan Anderson of Oakland, critically injured in March 2009 by a tear gas canister during a protest against the West Bank separation barrier.
’The wall ruined my life, separated my family’
6/24/2010 - Bethlehem - Ma'an - The demolition of a Palestinian man's home on Monday was his final lost battle in a string of defeats going back to the 1990s, the Beit Jala man told Ma'an. In 1992, Israel confiscated several hundred dunums of land belonging to the family, where the tunnels system was created to connect the illegal....
Israel to reopen investigation into shooting of U.S. activist
Ha'aretz - Police to re-examine case of Tristan Anderson of Oakland, critically injured in March 2009 by a tear gas canister during a protest against the West Bank separation barrier.
'The wall ruined my life, separated my family'
Uruknet June 24, 2010 - The demolition of a Palestinian man's home on Monday was his final lost battle in a string of defeats going back to the 1990s, the Beit Jala man told Ma'an. In 1992, Israel confiscated several hundred dunums of land belonging to the family, where the tunnels system was created to connect the illegal Israeli settlements...
Barriers, Borders, and Blockades: Policing Movement and Controlling Information
Uruknet June 23, 2010 - To keep some out. To fence others in. To police movement, instill fear, uncertainty, and instability. Palestine is a land cross-hashed with separation barriers, walls, fences and checkpoints. For many people, these structures make one either an exile or a prisoner, barred from returning or unable to leave. But in addition to the policing of...
Israel to reopen investigation into shooting of U.S. activist
Ha'aretz 24 Jun 2010 - Police to re-examine case of Tristan Anderson of Oakland, critically injured in March 2009 by a tear gas canister during a protest against the West Bank separation barrier.
Israeli editor accuses state of 'apartheid and fascism'
Palestine Note 23 Jun 2010 - Washington - "Apartheid and fascism" are emerging in Israel, argued Boaz Okon, the legal affairs editor for the leading Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronot, Israeli blog Coteret reported Wednesday. The Israeli separation barrier, also called the "apartheid...
Whose protests are they?
Joseph Dana, Pulse 6/23/2010
Beit Jala is a small city outside of Jerusalem. The wall that Israel is building in order to expropriate land and create a physical barrier between Israeli and Palestinian society is being built through the middle of this city. Palestinians have decided to begin a series of weekly demonstrations against the construction. The demonstrations are usually composed of Palestinians, international activists and a handful of Israelis. In the middle of last week’s protest, baking in the summer heat, I wondered how helpful the international activists were. Instead of maintaining a low profile and letting the Palestinians demonstrate, the internationals were at the front of the protest yelling slurs at the Israeli troops in the city. The Palestinian right to protest, resist and demonstrate is real, yet I am curious about the outcome when internationals to engage in the same actions, with their own style and individual behaviors. Israelis that want to assist and take on a supportive role often do so at the directive of the Palestinians. The Anarchists against the Wall are the most profound example of this movement in Israel. Are international activists who travel to Israel for short amounts of time part of the protest movement in Palestine? It is one thing to support a protest movement and another thing to join a protest movement.
It is wonderful to see an international effort to assist Palestinians in their struggle, however, the question remains: how can internationals help in the most effective way? Westerners have an incredible privilege in this conflict with their access to foreign press, social media networks and ability to travel throughout Israel and Palestine. Documenting events seems to be the clearest path of using this privilege in an effective way since the internet has opened a space of fast communication from the front lines. Rather than getting arrested in a small village, it may be that documenting and disseminating events from that village will provide more positive results. An arrest in Beit Jala or Bil’in is an event that often goes unnoticed by the Israeli and International media and only serves to reinforce negative images of the Palestinian nonviolent resistance movement in the West Bank. These actions can increase the damaging mechanism against the Palestinian population and the architecture of the occupation. Arrests of Israelis tend to carry more influence in the Israeli press than those of internationals.
The Palestinians are happy to welcome internationals to the front lines of their protests.... more.. e-mail
IOF troops burn Palestinian cultivated land
Uruknet June 19, 2010 - Israeli occupation forces (IOF) burnt ten dunums of Palestinian cultivated land while quelling a peaceful anti wall demonstration in Irak Burin village, Nablus district, on Saturday. Local sources said that the IOF troops attacked the march only minutes after it started heading to the Palestinian land threatened with confiscation. They said that the excessive use...
“Stand up… and Break the Siege” Initiative continues to challenge closing off of Palestinian roads
Stop The Wall - The villages of northeast Ramallah organized the second mass demonstration in Bittin to open the main road to Ramallah and to expose the Israeli occupation forces’ policy of collective punishment. The campaign is the first of its kind in demanding the opening of closed roads by the occupation forces. [
Soldiers Attack Nonviolent Protestors in Beit Jala
IMEMC - 20 Jun 2010 - Israeli soldiers attacked, Sunday, a nonviolent protest against settlements and the Annexation Wall in Beit Jala, near Bethlehem, leading to a number of injuries. The soldiers also attacked bystanders and reporters.
Israel’s wall nears monastery; response to protest turns violent
6/20/2010 - Bethlehem - Ma'an - Three journalists were among eight injured on Sunday in the town of Beit Jala as locals and internationals gathered to protest the continued construction of Israel's separation wall. Border guards at the site, near the 18th century Cremisan winery, beat protesters with batons, and fired sound bombs, tear-gas canisters and rubber-coated bullets, witnesses....
IOF troops burn Palestinian cultivated land
Uruknet June 19, 2010 - Israeli occupation forces (IOF) burnt ten dunums of Palestinian cultivated land while quelling a peaceful anti wall demonstration in Irak Burin village, Nablus district, on Saturday. Local sources said that the IOF troops attacked the march only minutes after it started heading to the Palestinian land threatened with confiscation. They said that the excessive use...
WATCH: Eight injured in Beit Jala anti-wall protest
Palestine Note 20 Jun 2010 - New York - Israeli forces injured eight people on Sunday while breaking up a peaceful demonstration against Israel's separation wall in the West Bank village of Beit Jala, near Bethlehem, according to local news reports . Israeli...
“Stand up… and Break the Siege” Initiative continues to challenge closing off of Palestinian roads
Stop The Wall - The villages of northeast Ramallah organized the second mass demonstration in Bittin to open the main road to Ramallah and to expose the Israeli occupation forces’ policy of collective punishment. The campaign is the first of its kind in demanding the opening of closed roads by the occupation forces. [
Video: No barrier to enjoyment
Uruknet June 19, 2010 - Israel's separation wall, twice the height of the former Berlin Wall and more than 750km-long, is a much hated barrier in the Palestinian West Bank. Now, a restaurant owner in the occupied Palestinian West Bank has come up with unique way to please World Cup fans: he has been showing every match of the tournament...
Palestinian soccer fans 1, Israel's wall 0
The National 19 Jun 2010 - Bethlehem restaurant owner uses separation wall as giant TV football screen for World Cup matches.
Scores Wounded In Nonviolent Protest In Ni'lin
PNN - Ramallah – PNN - The villagers of N'ilin, together with International supporters marched after the Friday prayer to their confiscated land where Israel is building the wall. Abu Amira, member of the...
“Stand up… and Break the Siege” Initiative continues to challenge closing off of Palestinian roads
Stop The Wall - The villages of northeast Ramallah organized the second mass demonstration in Bittin to open the main road to Ramallah and to expose the Israeli occupation forces’ policy of collective punishment. The campaign is the first of its kind in demanding the opening of closed roads by the occupation forces. [
IOF troops burn Palestinian cultivated land
PIC 20 Jun 2010 - Israeli occupation forces (IOF) burnt ten dunums of Palestinian cultivated land while quelling a peaceful anti wall demonstration in Irak Burin village, Nablus district, on Saturday.
Protestors Wounded During Bil'in's Nonviolent Anti-wall Protest
IMEMC - 18 Jun 2010 - The villagers of Bil'in organized their weekly nonviolent protest against the Wall despite Israeli declaration of the area a closed military zone.
Nonviont actions in Bethlehem against the wall
IMEMC - 18 Jun 2010 - In Bethlehem, Palestinians protested Israel's construction of the wall on their land by marching after the Friday prayer from the mosque to their lands.
Scores Wounded In Nonviolent Protest In Ni'lin
IMEMC - 18 Jun 2010 - The villagers of N'ilin, together with International supporters marched after the Friday prayer to their confiscated land where Israel is building the wall.
Nonviolent Actions In Bethlehem Against The Wall
PNN - Bethlehem – PNN - In Bethlehem, Palestinians protested Israel's construction of the wall on their land by marching after the Friday prayer from the mosque to their lands. Dozens of residents from...
Scores Wounded In Nonviolent Protest In Ni'lin
PNN - Ramallah – PNN - The villagers of N'ilin, together with International supporters marched after the Friday prayer to their confiscated land where Israel is building the wall. Abu Amira, member of the...
Troops Attack Bil'in weekly; Three Injured And Three Arrested
PNN - Ramallah – PNN - three Palestinians were wounded and three arrested, as troops attacked the weekly anti wall protest in the central West Bank village of Bil’in. Bil'in villagers along with Israeli...
The lives of others
Ilana Hammerman, Ha’aretz 2/18/2010
Bearing witness at the Bethlehem checkpoint before dawn.
They come from Yatta, Sussia, Hebron, Halhul, Bani Na’im, Tekoa, Husan, Batir. Those from Yatta set out at 2 A.M. and arrived here at 3:30, to get a place at the head of the line. The Hebronites left home at 3 A.M. Those from Husan and Batir, which are closer, started out at 3:30. More and more taxis and panel vans pull up and unload dozens of people into the dark of the night. By 5 A.M. around 2,000 to 2,500 people have already gathered here.
The hundreds of early arrivals occupy the first few dozen meters of the line, pressing into a very narrow passage created by two fences made of bars that tower above human height. Some young people who have just arrived scramble wildly up the fence from the outside, drape themselves over the top and hang there for a bit before sliding down and shoving themselves forcefully between the people in the line. Some of the latter protest with shouts and try to release their arms, which have been trapped by the dark, winding human snake, in order to push the intruders back. But in vain. The sheer force of gravity pulls them inexorably down, until they are finally crushed amid the writhing mass of humanity.
Sometimes knapsacks, bundles and plastic bags fly through the air along with the fence climbers. Someone in the dense crowd below tries to catch the objects before they land on people’s heads and shoulders, even as the agile throwers scuttle up the fence, then slide down the other side, implanting themselves in the crowd.
The lights that shine along the passageway illuminate the garbage-strewn stone path to the right of the fence, and here and there also the forehead, cheek or chin of a face that is being squeezed against the iron bars, or a nose that angles out a bit, and fists whose fingers grip the bars tightly.... -- See also: Report: Israel police investigating journalist more.. e-mail
South African trade unions call for boycott of Israeli apartheid
Uruknet June 16, 2010 - Israel and its apologists bristle when Israel is called an apartheid state. Most loudly shouting, "Israeli apartheid," however, are those who know the best — the workers of South Africa, who suffered the most under South African apartheid. South African trade unions have denounced the siege of Gaza and the apartheid wall on the West...
Palestine documentary 'Budrus' premieres in DC
Palestine Note 17 Jun 2010 - Washington – Documentary director Julia Bacha will bring her award-winning film “Budrus” to Washington, DC next week. "Budrus" follows the story of one village's peaceful protests against Israel's "Wall of Separation." The film will premiere in...
A Zionist State of Mind, A Dreamscape Of Ghosts: One Jew’s Hard Awakening
Phil Rockstroh, OpEdNews 6/17/2010
Although my mother fled Nazi Germany, as a child, on a Kindertransport, with a few family valuables sown into her clothing, and I was brought up on the myths and hagiography of the Zionist state, I, over time, came to recognize the folly of the whole colonialist enterprise -- the folly of ethnic exclusion and expulsion, the inherent tragedy of nationalism based on the delusion of religious birthright. With much sorrow, I came to the sad realization that the dream of the State of Israel was based on European chauvinism and exceptionalism. This reckoning has been a difficult one for me to bear -- the hardest awakening of my adult life.
My father was born on a Reservation in the American mid-west. His people, like the Palestinians, resisted invaders of European ancestry and were crushed. At present, both peoples remain exiled and caged in their native land.
The Jewish side of myself understands the historical traumas that gave rise to the yearning for a tribal Homeland. Atavistically, I suffer the Jewish state’s collective night terrors and reel in its daylight rationalizations for its brutalities. But the Native American in me knows the rage of those crushed by the heartless force of an invading people.
Neither my father’s peoples’ bows and arrows nor the "threat" of metal rods, clutched by a few activists aboard the illegally seized Gaza-bound Peace Flotilla, nor children hurling stones at bulldozers and tanks will change the tragic trajectory wrought by a tribalist land grab. History reveals a conquered and caged people will starve, in both body and soul, as they watch their hopes wither to dust. But I will not condemn them for their struggle, and even their "provocations" -- dangerous and outrageous provocations ... such as the desire not to live out their lives behind ghetto walls, and the actions they take accordingly. (Even though, a provocation will never soften the banal mind of a bully to end his reign of brutality.)
To this day, within me, there are traits of cultural Judaism that have not been washed away.... more.. e-mail
US stops financing Egypt’s iron wall in Rafah area
PIC 16 Jun 2010 - The Israeli army radio reported that the US stopped financing the construction of the iron wall on the borders between Egypt and the Gaza Strip and summoned its engineers.
Abdullah: Israel keeping Jordan from developing peaceful nuclear program
Ha'aretz - Jordan's king tells Wall Street Journal that Israel asked France, South Korea not to sell nuclear technology to Jordan. 'Israelis must mind their business,' he says.
Non-violence is not a principle, it is a tactic
Uruknet June 14, 2010 - ... Israel is not fence-sitting. It is actively carrying out horrible crimes with the passive or active complicity of the overwhelming majority of its population. The men who wield power in that society should be facing war crimes trials, not quibbles about whether the solidarity movement is hurting their feelings. There is far more to say:...
World Cup matches screened on West Bank wall
Palestine Note 14 Jun 2010 - Washington - Israel's 30-foot concrete wall become a projection screen for World Cup viewing in Bethlehem, the Associated Press reported Sunday. The Israeli separation barrier in Bethlehem - see above - is greatly depressed Bethlehem's tourism-based...
Israeli Troops Suppress Anti Wall Protest Near Jerusalem
PNN - Ghassan Bannoura – PNN - Israeli troops suppressed, on Tuesday midday, anti walls protest at the village of Al Walaja near Jerusalem. Villagers along with international and Israeli supporters marched to the...
'Jordan seeks to be nuclear power'
Jeruslalem Post 15 Jun 2010 - Abdullah tells 'Wall Street Journal' Israel trying to sabotage deals.
Spirit strong in weekend demonstrations
6/15/2010 - International Solidarity Movement - Al Ma'asara - Around 30 Palestinians, Israelis and internationals gathered for the weekly demonstration in Al Ma'asara on Friday June 11th. The participators called for the Israeli government to stop construction of the illegal apartheid wall, which will claim a sizeable amount of the village's farmland. Village resident Hassan was arrested during the peaceful demonstration. The....
Abdullah: Israel keeping Jordan from developing peaceful nuclear program
Ha'aretz 15 Jun 2010 - Jordan's king tells Wall Street Journal that Israel asked France, South Korea not to sell nuclear technology to Jordan. 'Israelis must mind their business,' he says.
Mosque vandalized in Bedouin village near Haifa
Ha'aretz - Graffiti spray-painted on the building's walls; village resident: Attack is result of anti-Arab incitement in Israel.
Mosque vandalized in Bedouin village near Haifa
Ha'aretz - Graffiti spray-painted on the building's walls; village resident: Attack is result of anti-Arab incitement in Israel.
Will Erdogan Blink?
Franklin C. Spinney, CounterPunch 6/11/2010
A recent article by Patrick Cockburn, one of the ablest reporters covering the Middle East, provides an excellent character portrait of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan. It is certainly consistent with what little I have been able to learn about this fascinating politician. Regardless of what you may think of Erdogan, and he has many detractors (I am not one), he is certainly establishing himself as an influential world leader who must be reckoned with in an emerging multi-polar world.
Cockburn’s report is must reading, because Erdogan has maneuvered himself onto the moral high ground in a very serious crisis he did not create. Consider please the following:
By standing tall against Israel’s murderous commando attack on the unarmed ship in international waters that was carrying aid to the besieged inhabitants of Gaza, and by promising to be on another ship trying to break the blockade, Erdogan has set an example that contrasts sharply with the latest generation of pusillanimous leaders in the United States. They have refused to condemn Israel’s attack, even though a US citizen was among those murdered -- thus continuing the pattern of unprincipled moral weakness that began when President Johnson refused to act decisively after the Israelis deliberately attacked the USS Liberty in international waters in June 1967, murdering over 30 American sailors.
Not surprisingly, Erdogan has become the newest bête noire of the neocons. They have embarked on a concerted effort in their media outlets to smear him as well as to trash our relations with Turkey, starting with screeds in the Wall Street Journal and Weekly Standard. Their hypocrisy is stunning. Many of these same neocons assiduously cultivated the so-called strategic Israeli-Turkish alliance in the 1990s and, in fact, lobbied Congress on the behalf of Turkey. AIPAC is lobbying Congress for a resolution of support for Israel’s attack, or failing that, is pressuring congressmen to not criticize Israel. AIPAC and the neocons are also stoking up the Armenian lobby to criticize the modern Turkish Republic for the genocidal crimes which occurred during the waning days of a decrepit Ottoman Empire.... more.. e-mail
Palestinian activist faces prison sentence
6/13/2010 - International Solidarity Movement - Amnesty International - Amnesty International has urged an Israeli military court not to convict a Palestinian non-violent activist who has been detained since last July, after he took part in a protest against the Israeli built fence/wall on Palestinian land. Adeeb Abu Rahma has been charged with "being present in a declared military zone", "incitement" and "activity against public order". There is a real concern that the Ofer Military Court in the Israeli-occupied West Bank will convict him on Sunday. "A guilty verdict would set a worrying precedent for other activists charged and awaiting trial, as Adeeb Abu Rahma would be the first activist against the fence/wall to be brought to a full evidential trial in a case of this kind," said Amnesty International. Related: Source: Amnesty International
Mosque vandalized in Bedouin village near Haifa
Ha'aretz - Graffiti spray-painted on the building's walls; village resident: Attack is result of anti-Arab incitement in Israel.
The 43 Year Nakba Of The Rayan Family
Palestine Monitor: 12 Jun 2010 - Last week the Latrun villages held their first demonstration since the construction of the wall here in 2005, protesting against the land expropriation which began during the 1967 war and continues to this day. The Rayan family of Beit Nuba told us about their expulsion in 1967 and their struggles thereafter. Reporting and photography from Nicky Elliott. Young Palestinians attach flags to the apartheid fence at a demonstration commemorating 43 years since the expulsion from the Latrun Villages. The hundreds of peaceful demonstrators congregating in New Beit-Nuba barely made it to the fence before they were met with plumes of tear gas and soon after Israeli soldiers entered the village. After 43 years, the villagers of New Beit-Nuba and the surrounding area are used to IDF incursions. Still, their memories of 1967, forced to flee as Israeli soldiers violently raided the original villages of Imwas, Yalu and Beit Nuba, erasing...
Amnesty to Israel: Don’t convict non-violent activist
6/12/2010 - Bethlehem - Ma'an - Amnesty International has urged an Israeli military court not to convict a Palestinian non-violent activist who has been detained since last July, after he took part in a protest against Israel's wall on Palestinian land. Adeeb Abu Rahma has been charged with "being present in a declared military zone," "incitement," and "activity against....
Bil'in: IOF Kidnap, Imprison and Terrorize "Confession" Out of 13 Year Old Boy
Uruknet June 11, 2010 - Last Friday (4th June) in the West Bank village of Bil'in, Israeli Occupation Forces kidnapped thirteen years old Fadi Al-Khatib in full view of his distraught parents whilst working with his father on the families olive grove adjacent to the Apartheid Wall Prior to being carted off to a detention centre, the lightly clad youth...
Nabi Saleh village Protest The Israeli Wall, One Activist Injured
PNN - Ghassan Bannoura – PNN - Israeli and international activists joined the villagers of Nabi Saleh , central West Bank, on Friday to protest the wall Israel’s is building on villagers lands People marched...
Wadi Rahal: settlers order Israeli military to stop Friday protest
Stop The Wall - Efrata settlers, who live on lands belonging to the village of Wadi Rahal, emerged from their houses, demanding that the occupation forces suppress the protest calling for the destruction of the Wall and the end to Israeli occupation. The settlers also ordered the occupation forces to stop the protest from reaching the confiscated lands. [
al-Ma'sara: IOF arrests and intimidates key activists
Stop The Wall - The Israeli occupation forces beat and arrested Hasan Brijiyeh, member of the popular committee against the Wall and the settlements and took him to an unknown location. At midnight before this protest, the IOF raided the home of the Stop the Wall coordinator in Bethlehem district, Muhammad Brijiyeh, once again. [
Mosque vandalized in Bedouin village near Haifa
Ha'aretz - Graffiti spray-painted on the building's walls; village resident: Attack is result of anti-Arab incitement in Israel.
The 43 Year Nakba Of The Rayan Family
Palestine Monitor: 12 Jun 2010 - Last week the Latrun villages held their first demonstration since the construction of the wall here in 2005, protesting against the land expropriation which began during the 1967 war and continues to this day. The Rayan family of Beit Nuba told us about their expulsion in 1967 and their struggles thereafter. Reporting and photography from Nicky Elliott. Young Palestinians attach flags to the apartheid fence at a demonstration commemorating 43 years since the expulsion from the Latrun Villages. The hundreds of peaceful demonstrators congregating in New Beit-Nuba barely made it to the fence before they were met with plumes of tear gas and soon after Israeli soldiers entered the village. After 43 years, the villagers of New Beit-Nuba and the surrounding area are used to IDF incursions. Still, their memories of 1967, forced to flee as Israeli soldiers violently raided the original villages of Imwas, Yalu and Beit Nuba, erasing...
Blood In The Streets Of Wadi Joz
Palestine Monitor: 12 Jun 2010 - Israeli police shot and killed Palestinian Ziad Al-Julani, father of four, in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Wadi Joz Friday afternoon. Israeli authorities have reported that patrolmen shot the man after he ran through a flying checkpoint set up in anticipation of clashes after Friday prayer; however, reports on the intentionality of Al-Julani's action are murky at best. Palestine Monitor's Kara Newhouse visited the scene Friday evening. A young man of about 25 rests against the concrete wall of a building on the main street of Wadi Joz, near the location my colleague and I have been told a shooting happened just five hours earlier. After learning that he speaks English we tell him we're journalists looking for more information on the day's events. He leans around the corner and shouts something in Arabic. Four boys of ages 13 and 14 appear, spot us, and begin beckoning us down the...
Ni'lin Residents protest the wall and settlers chant "Palestinians go to Jordan"
IMEMC - 11 Jun 2010 - Residents of the village of Ni'lin organized an anti-wall demonstration after the Friday prayer today. Protesters marched from the mosque to the land slated for confiscation, despite the Israeli decision which declared the villager's land a closed military zone.
New kind of protest: Bil'in villagers play football at the wall
IMEMC - 11 Jun 2010 - Israelis and international supporters joined on Friday the weekly nonviolent protest against the wall in the village of Bil’in, central West Bank.
Nonviolent anti-wall activities in Bethlehem villages after the prayer
IMEMC - 11 Jun 2010 - Palestinian villagers near Bethlehem, southern West Bank, organized on Friday protests against the wall Israel is building on their lands.
Palestinians kick footballs over Israel’s wall
6/11/2010 - Bethlehem - Ma'an - As the World Cup opened Friday afternoon in Johannesburg, Palestinians in the occupied West Bank hosted an opening ceremony of their own highlighting their right to be an independent nation. Facing off against Israeli border guards manning a barrier that cuts through half of the Palestinian village, demonstrators in Bili'in, near Ramallah, formed....
Bil'in demonstrators form World Cup team
Palestine Note 11 Jun 2010 - Washington - Palestinian, Israeli and international demonstrators formed a "national" football team at the Bil'in wall protest site Friday, marking the beginning of the World Cup, Friends of Freedom and Justice - Bil'in reported . A youth...
Nabi Saleh village Protest The Israeli Wall, One Israeli Activist Injured
PNN - Ghassan Bannoura – PNN - Israeli and international activists joined the villagers of Nabi Saleh , central West Bank, on Friday to protest the wall Israel’s is building on villagers lands People marched...
Palestine National Football Team In Bili'in
PNN - Bil’in – PNN - Israelis and international supporters joined on Friday the weekly nonviolent protest against the wall in the village of Bil’in, central West Bank. Demonstrators in Bil’in today formed their...
Southern West Bank Villages Protest The wall, Troops Arrest One Organizer
PNN - Bethlehem – PNN - Palestinian villagers near Bethlehem, southern West Bank, organized on Friday protests against the wall Israel is building on their lands. In the village of Wad Rahal international supporters...
Occupation forces release Palestinian activist Mazin Qumsiyeh
Stop The Wall - Israeli Occupation forces released the Palestinian activist, Mazin Qumsiyeh, and the international supporters that were arrested earlier that day for participating in a sit-in aimed at preventing the Israeli bulldozing of agricultural land in the region of Al-Jozeh in al-Walajeh. [
Mosque vandalized in Bedouin village near Haifa
Ha'aretz - Graffiti spray-painted on the building's walls; village resident: Attack is result of anti-Arab incitement in Israel.
Palestine National Football Team Created in Bili’in
WAFA - RAMALLAH, June 11, 2010 (WAFA)- Demonstrators in the West Bank village of Bili’in, who organize a weekly protest against the Israeli Aparheid Wall, formed today their own Palestine national football
Former US professor among 3 detained near Bethlehem
6/10/2010 - Bethlehem - Ma'an - Israeli forces detained three anti-wall protesters in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday morning, witnesses said. Mazin Qumsiyeh, a Palestinian-American activist and former Yale geneticist, was reportedly among the three detained in Walaja, a village near Bethlehem where construction of Israel's wall has sparked confrontation with locals.Onlookers said Qumsiyeh was detained after the protest.... Related: Israel releases former US professor
Israel releases former US professor
6/10/2010 - Bethelhem - Ma'an - Former Yale professor Mazin Qumsiyeh was released from an Israeli detention facility following hours of questioning, a statement from the Beit Sahour naive said Thursday. Detained during a non-violent protest against the continued construction of Israel's separation wall on Wednesday, Qumsiyeh said that he had "minor bruises" and was fined, in addition to being ordered to "stay away from the wall for 30 days.".... Related: Former US professor among 3 detained near Bethlehem
In photos: Bethlehem-area residents protest wall
6/10/2010 - An Israeli soldier detains a man stationed on construction equipment used to destroy lands in the Al-Walajah area in preparation for the construction of the separation wall on 9 June 2010. Three protesters were arrested on Wednesday by Israeli soldiers during the demonstration. Locales watched on and one elderly land owner berated the soldiers for....
Israel Detains 3 Activists, Destroys More than 50 Trees in Bethlehem Area Village of Al Walaja
Alternative Information Center - The village of Al Walaja is again under threat as Israel continues construction of the Separation Wall through the village’s agricultural land. Tuesday morning (8 June), the Israeli military entered Al Walaja, a village northwest of...
The villagers of Al-Walaja and activists gather to stop bulldozing of agricultural land
Stop The Wall - On the morning of June 9th, 2010, Israeli Occupation forces arrested Palestinian and international activists in Al-Walaja, a village in the north west of Bethlehem district. [
Mosque vandalized in Bedouin village near Haifa
Ha'aretz - Graffiti spray-painted on the building's walls; village resident: Attack is result of anti-Arab incitement in Israel.
Israel Detains 3 Activists, Destroys More than 50 Trees in Bethlehem Area Village of Al Walaja
Alternative Information Center 1 - The village of Al Walaja is again under threat as Israel continues construction of the Separation Wall through the village’s agricultural land. Tuesday morning (8 June), the Israeli military entered Al Walaja, a village northwest of Bethlehem and considered part of the Jerusalem municipality,...
Mosque vandalized in Bedouin village near Haifa
Ha'aretz - Graffiti spray-painted on the building's walls; village resident: Attack is result of anti-Arab incitement in Israel.
Former US Professor Arrested in Al-Walaja
Palestine Monitor: 9 Jun 2010 - Former Yale Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh was among three demonstrators arrested this morning, as Israeli soldiers brutally stopped a demonstration in Al-Walaja. Aaron Dearborn reports from the field.All images by Kara Newhouse. Dr Qumsiyeh was allegedly arrested and taken for interrogation as soldiers believed he was a "security threat", however they did not provide specific details. Also arrested under similar circumstances was an Israeli activist, Shay Chalatzi of Tel Aviv, allegedly for insulting the military unit as he protested the arrest of Dr Qumsiyeh. Both arrests occurred after the demonstration was over and activists were attempting to leave the area. Soldiers followed the demonstrators as they walked away from the construction site to make the arrests. / / / / At around 7am this morning, approximately 25-30 demonstrators marched on the scene of the wall construction, with two activists chaining themselves to bulldozers. Yotam Wolfe of Jerusalem was arrested immediately as the military arrived; forcibly...
80 olive trees uprooted in Walaja
6/8/2010 - Bethlehem - Ma'an - Israeli bulldozers began overturning agricultural land and uprooting trees in the Al-Walaja, a village south of Jerusalem inside the 1967 Green Line, Palestinian landowners said. The latest diggings are in preparation for the further construction of Israel's separation wall, as Israel attempts to enlarge its Jerusalem municipal borders into the West Bank. One....
As wall grows, Bethlehem under Israeli spotlight
6/8/2010 - Bethlehem - Ma'an - Almost every night last week Israeli forces trundled into towns and villages in the Bethlehem district, conducting arrest campaigns with what residents have called an increased frequency. After midnight, the streets of Bethlehem, Beit Jala, Beit Sahour, and the Duhaisheh, Azza, and Aida refugee camps rumble with the wheels of military jeeps, trucks....
Israel Uproot Trees For The Wall Construction Near Jerusalem
PNN - Ghassan Bannoura – PNN - On Tuesday morning the Israeli military stormed the village of Al Walaja near Jerusalem city and started to uproot trees to make way for the wall construction....
Weekend demonstrations commemorate Flotilla massacre
6/8/2010 - International Solidarity Movement - Bil'in - Bil'in residents commemorated the week's massacre by building a ship - On Friday June 4th, the village of BilÃn's own Freedom Flotilla ship was attacked by soldiers from the Israel military, after it had been driven to the site of the Apartheid Fence which separates the village from much of its lands. The ship....
In photos: Beit Jala protesters dragged from wall site
6/7/2010 - As Israel continues construction on its separation wall in the Bethlehem-area town of Beit Jala locals once again voiced protest during a weekly rally against the confiscation of lands owned by the town, a local monastery and private individuals. On 6 June 2010, one day after Israel forcibly diverted the MV Rachel Corrie from its....
Defending Israel: A How-To Guide
Uruknet June 5, 2010 - Today’s op-ed by the Wall Street Journal editorial board offers a fairly comprehensive list of the talking points which are de rigueur in defending Israel’s attack on civilian ships in international water. 1.) Mention the Gaza war in 2008 as an example of what happens when weapons get into Gaza. Example from the WSJ:
Anti Wall Protest Near Bethlehem In Solidarity With Free Gaza Flotilla
PNN - Bethlehem – PNN - One Israeli supporter was arrested as Israeli troops attacked on Sunday the weekly anti wall protest in the town of Beit Jala near Bethlehem, southern West Bank. Residents...
Israeli Troops Attack Anti Wall Protest In Southern W.B. Village
PNN - Ghassan Bannoura – PNN - Israeli troops used tear gas to suppress an anti wall protest on Saturday midday at the village of Beit Umer near Hebron in the southern part of...
Massive march in Wad Rahal in solidarity with the Freedom Flotilla
Stop The Wall - In keeping with the many other protests that erupted throughout the Occupied West Bank since the Israeli affront to the multilateral humanitarian effort for Gaza, the march carried a model ship towards the Wall, but Israeli military prevented the protesters from reaching their land. [
Mother of nine dies after being run over by settlers in Hebron
Stop The Wall - On May 31st, 52-year-old Palestinian Fatima Hamdan Khalil and her 57-year-old husband Abdel-Fattah Shihda Sabarneh were run over by Israeli settlers on Route 60 next to a cemetery at the entrance of their village. [
IOF troops quell two anti-wall marches
PIC 5 Jun 2010 - Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Saturday quelled two peaceful anti wall marches in north and south of the West Bank that also denounced the IOF violent takeover of the Freedom Flotilla.
Palestinians Raise Turkish Flags In Nonviolent Demosntration In N'ilin
IMEMC - 4 Jun 2010 - In the village of N'ilin, near Ramallah hundreds of the villagers were joined by International supporters as they held the Friday prayer on the lands on which Israel is planning to build the wall.
Hundreds demonstrate against the wall in Bethlehem
IMEMC - 4 Jun 2010 - Around 150 Palestinians, Internationals and Israelis marched, on Friday, in the village of Wad Rahhal near Bethlehem to protest Israel's construction of the wall on their land and to protest the Israeli attack on the Freedom Flotilla passengers.
Henning Mankell: 'That kind of stupidity I will never understand'
The Guardian 4 Jun 2010 - Swedish author and creator of Wallander gives a dramatic account of his experience as part of the Gaza aid flotilla attacked by Israel Kate Connolly
Eight injured As Troops Attack Wall Protests In The West Bank
PNN - Ghassan Bannoura – PNN - Eight civilians were injured by Israeli military fire, among them three journalists, as troops attacked the weekly anti wall protests in deferent locations in the West Bank....
Al-Ma'sara: Occupation Forces Arrest Saddam Aladdin
Stop The Wall - At six thirty in the evening on June 2nd, 2010, Israeli Occupation forces stormed the village of Al-Ma’sara and arrested Saddam Aladdin, 18-year-old member of Stop the Wall Campaign. [
U.S.: Israel's Defenders Mobilise, Threaten
IPS WASHINGTON, Jun 2 (IPS) - Faced with what the Wall Street Journal calls "one of Israel's worst international relations disasters in years", the right- wing leadership of the so-called "Israel Lobby" has been pulling out all the stops to defend the Jewish state against global outrage over its deadly seizure...
Analysis: From now on, it gets harder
Jeruslalem Post 1 Jun 2010 - Israel is up against the wall.
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