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Palestinians
in Budrus: We Will Never Give up Our Lands
By Kim Bullimore, Palestine Chronicle 10/6/2004
"The local IDF office told
the village leaders they would do everything in their power to stop the movement,
even if that meant that people died.." -- On the fourth anniversary of the second
Palestinian intifada, the residents of the small village of Budrus once again
faced off teargas, sound grenades and rubber bullets to protest the wall that
is dividing their land. The September 28 protest was the 45th consecutive demonstration
to stop the construction of the Apartheid Wall that is resulting in olive groves
being destroyed and farmland being stolen.
The violence and the injustice of the Israeli occupation is not new to Budrus
or nearby villages. In 1948, the Israeli forces confiscated 80% of the village's
land. In 1953, Israel's current prime minister, Ariel Sharon, led a massacre of
60 people in the neighbouring village of Qibya. Today, Sharon and his government
are trying to steal 45% of Budrus’s remaining land through the wall.
But the residents of Budrus, which is located west of Ramallah, have refused to
concede. Since November 2003, the village has mounted a popular campaign of resistance,
based on unity and non-violent action.... more..
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and Palestinian peace activists protesting the Israeli segregation barrier strive
to hold their ground under tear gas attack. Israeli soldiers shot five activists
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1,000 dunam of land taken and the mayor is in jail
International Solidarity Movement 3/7/2005
The military court decided yesterday to detain the mayor of Beit Surik until the end of the proceedings against him despite protest from his Israeli neighbors in Mevaseret Zion.Mohammad Kandil was a key player in initiating a joint petition on behalf of members from both communities to the Israeli Supreme Court which resulted in an unprecedented ruling to revise the route of Israel's separation Wall.According to Ha'aretz newspaper the deputy head of the Mevasseret Zion Local Council and a Likud member, Arieh Shamam, declared in an affidavit to the military court that Kandil contributes to the good neighborly relations between the two communities.....Kandil is being accused of attacking Israeli border policeman Shachar Yizchaki, much to the disbelief of all who know him including Mevasseret residents who provided character references supporting him.Yizchaki, a border police officer who claims that the mayor attacked him, is well known for his unusual methods of dealing with protesters. On the day of Kandil's arrest his men were filmed stoning the Palestinian demonstrators.On April 15th, 2004 during a demonstration against the Wall in Biddu, Yizchaki was photographed handcuffing a twelve year old child to the windshield of his jeep and using him as a human shield against stones for several hours. When Rabbi Arik Asherman Director of Rabbis from Human Rights tried to intervene, he was also forced to stand before the military jeep and was assaulted by Yizchaki. more..
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Women's Resistance Sparks Confrontation at Saffa with a Tragic Ending
International Womens' Peace Service 2/24/2005
More than 100 villagers gathered early the morning of Tuesday February 22nd, on the olive groves of Saffa, a small village west of Ramallah, to attempt to prevent the illegal expropriation and destruction of their land and olive trees in preparation for the wall. The city had received no official warning that their land was to be leveled, and locals were utterly horrified to see their ancestral trees and soil destroyed before their eyes. The demonstration started peacefully, with villagers sitting together on rocks and watching in silence, prevented from venturing closer to the bulldozers by a line of soldiers.A group of Israeli protesters and several Palestinians were prevented from joining the demonstration from across the valley. The army suggested that they take an absurdly long walk around the valley to reach the group. When the demonstrators tried to stay and watch from afar, soldiers threw sound bombs, scattering the small group. The main crowd was also scattered by a shower of sound bombs and tear gas. A few young boys threw stones from afar at the soldiers, but most of the demonstrators gave up and went home.Down in the valley, a villager watched his livelihood uprooted, first in silence, until he couldn't take it anymore. He lost his composure and began screaming at the soldiers with tears streaming down his face, falling to the ground to praise his land and throwing his head up to lament his loss and appeal to God. The soldiers stood stone-faced and smiled occasionally, joking with one another. The hum of the four bulldozers roared aggressively in the background. more..
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artists joined with Palestinians to paint this mural on the Wall near the northern
Bethlehem checkpoint. They were stopped, first by private security agents of the
wall's construction company, later by Israeli forces. (Omar Tesdell/The International
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A cultural protest against the wall
Electronic Intifada 11/19/2004
Press Release, International Center of Bethlehem -- The Holy Land of the three monotheistic religions is becoming a source of continuous suffering instead of blessing. For more than ten years the Israeli government has been creating obstacles in many different main roads between all the Palestinian cities and villages. For more than two years, the illegal building of a concrete wall around the Palestinian residential areas, on Palestinian land, has increased the suffering. In many places the wall is eight meters high, while in most places it reaches up to three meters. ....As a creative and non-violent protest against the Segregation Wall, the International Center of Bethlehem organized for three muralists from Mexico to join with locals to deface the wall.The three artists, Alberto Aragon Reyes, Gustavo Chavez Pavon and Erasto Molina Urbina arrived in Palestine Oct. 19 to begin work and stayed in Bethlehem. Development agency DanChurchAid sponsored the travel and the accommodation expenses of the three muralists and the International Center of Bethlehem provided support for local expenses including travel and supplies. more..
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Ten injured in Salfit
International Middle East Media Center 4/8/2005
Friday afternoon, at least 10 residents were injured after Israeli soldiers fired at peaceful protest against the Wall in Deir Ballout, near Salfit. A local source in the village said that hundreds of residents, Israeli and international peace activists protested against the Separation Wall and...
IOF Attacks Peaceful Demonstration in WB, Wounds at Least 9
WAFA 4/7/2005
RAMALLAH, April 7, 2005, (WAFA) -Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) wounded Wednesday at least nine citizens, including Israeli activists in a peaceful demonstration protesting the devastation caused by the Apartheid Wall against their land in Bil'in village in the West Bank (WB) , witnesses said. They added...
Israeli Forces Wound Five Civilians and Arrest Four Others in West Bank
International Press Center 4/6/2005
IPC correspondent said Israeli forces in the village of Deir Ballout, west of Salfeet, opened fire at demonstrators who were protesting a change in the Apartheid Wall's segment in the village, carried out by the armored Israeli bulldozers. -- Israeli occupation forces shot and wounded five...
Soldiers attack a procession west of Ramallah
International Middle East Media Center 4/3/2005
Sunday evening, Israeli soldiers attacked a peaceful procession against the Wall in the village of Bal’in, west of Ramallah. A local source in the village stated that dozens of residents, Israeli and international peace activists protested against the Wall in the village. The protestors headed...
Palestinians and Internationals Against the Wall in Jerusalem
International Press Center 4/3/2005
GAZA, April 3, 2005 (IPC + WAFA) - - Palestinians and internationals condemned yesterday the Israeli Apartheid Wall and the occupation of Palestinian territories, during a demonstration held in occupied East Jerusalem. Following the First Inter-religious Dialogue Symposium in Jerusalem, dozens of civilians, Shariah judges and lawyers, marched...
Soldiers attack a protest against the Wall near Ramallah
International Middle East Media Center 3/24/2005
Thursday afternoon, Israeli soldiers attacked a protest against the Wall in the village of Safa, south west of Ramallah.A local source in the village reported that soldiers fired gas bombs and rubber coated bullets at dozens of residents and Israeli peace activists. The protestors chanted...
Soldiers burn Palestinian home in Belein village
International Middle East Media Center 3/22/2005
Israeli Soldiers, who used force to disperse a peaceful anti-wall protest, fully burned a Palestinian home in the village of Belein, west of the city of Ramallah. Home owner, Marzoq Yassin, 29, said that Israeli soldiers smashed the windows of his home and dropped inside...
Israeli Troops Wound Two Palestinian Boys in West Bank
International Press Center 3/22/2005
BAL'EEN, Palestine, March22, 2005 (IPC+ Agencies)-- The Israeli occupation troops shot and wounded on Tuesday two Palestinian boys in the West Bank village of Bal'een after having dispersed an anti-Apartheid Wall peaceful demonstration. Local medical sources said that Yasser Yassin, 15 years-old, was shot and...
Children in Bil'een Village: Apartheid Wall Destroys our Dreams
WAFA 3/21/2005
RAMALLAH, March 21, 2005 (WAFA)- Children organized Sunday a peaceful demonstration against the construction of the Apartheid Wall in the West Bank Bil'een village west of Ramallah city, WAFA correspondent said. More than 100 child in Bil'een village, west Ramallah, took part in a peaceful...
Nonviolent Demonstration Leaves Six Injured
International Womens' Peace Service 3/16/2005
Villagers from Saffa, a Palestinian village west of Ramallah and 3km east of the Green Line, gathered early on March 16th, 2005 to march through their fields towards the bulldozers leveling their land in preparation for the apartheid wall. This was the village’s second demonstration...
Israeli Soldiers Attack Peaceful Rally Protesting Wall
WAFA 3/16/2005
RAMALLAH, March 16, 2005, (WAFA)-Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF )attacked on Wednesday a peaceful rally in a protest against bulldozering their land in favour of the construction of the Apartheid Wall on Safaa village, west of Ramallah in the West Bank (WB), locals said. Medics...
Protesters blast Kofi Annan for refusing to visit the Wall
Electronic Intifada 3/15/2005
Ramallah, West Bank, 14 March 2005 — While villagers were delayed, and in many instances barred entry at Occupation Checkpoints throughout the West Bank, a huge crowd of over 5,000 thronged the streets of Ramallah to protest at the gates of the Muqata', the compound of...
Palestinians demonstrate against Annan's Ramallah visit
Ha'aretz 3/15/2005
Thousands of Palestinians demonstrated against United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan during his visit in Ramallah yesterday, protesting his refusal to visit the construction sites of the separation barrier in the city. Annan, who came to Israel for today's opening of the Yad Vashem Museum...
Israeli Forces Arrest Several Civilians as Youth Dies of Wounds
International Press Center 3/15/2005
The Israeli incursion came against the students' protest on the ongoing construction of the Apartheid Wall in the suburb, which threatens the life there -- RAMALLAH, Palestine, March 15, 2005 (IPC + WAFA) Israeli occupation forces arrested several civilians from different parts of the West Bank as...
Soldier injured at fence demonstration
Ha'aretz 3/13/2005
Israeli and Palestinian protesters threw rocks and clashed with police and Israel Defense Forces troops near Modi'in Friday in a demonstration against the construction of the separation fence in the area. A soldier was lightly wounded by rocks thrown during the demonstration. Police used tear...
Anti Wall Demonstration in Bel'en
International Middle East Media Center 3/11/2005
Hundreds of Palestinian demonstrated against the construction of the separation wall in the village of Bel'en near Jerusalem. The demonstrators stood in front of the bulldozers not allowing them to continue with the construction that is being done on their land...
1,000 dunam of land taken and the mayor is in jail
International Solidarity Movement 3/7/2005
The military court decided yesterday to detain the mayor of Beit Surik until the end of the proceedings against him despite protest from his Israeli neighbors in Mevaseret Zion.Mohammad Kandil was a key player in initiating a joint petition on behalf of members from both...
Protest against the Wall in Ramallah several residents injured
International Middle East Media Center 3/8/2005
Tuesday after noon, dozens of residents protested in the village of Bal’in, west of Ramallah, against the expropriation of lands for the construction of the annexation wall. Israeli soldiers fired gas bombs at the protestors and attempted to bar them from reaching their lands which...
Dozens injured in Dir Ballout
International Middle East Media Center 3/4/2005
Friday afternoon, dozens of residents, internationals and Israeli peace activists suffocated after inhaling gas fired by the Israeli soldiers during a procession against the annexation wall, west of Dir Ballout, south east of Salfit. Residents of the village and several surrounding villages, and peace activists...
Palestinian Youth Arrested in Demonstration against the Wall in Beit Surik
International Solidarity Movement 3/3/2005
Today in the village of Beit Surik in northwest Jerusalem, Israeli undercover agents beat and arrested five Palestinian youth during a nonviolent demonstration against the Wall. The youth were taken from Beit Surik to Givat Zeev early Thursday afternoon. One of the five youth was...
Israel renews Wall construction in Salfit, Friday prayer held in Deir Ballut to protest land destruction
International Solidarity Movement 3/3/2005
Friday prayer held in Deir Ballut to protest land destruction -- On Friday March 4 at 10am, Palestinians in the southwest Salfit district will hold Friday prayers in Deir Ballut to protest the construction of the Wall on their land. The Popular Committee against the Wall...
Israeli Forces Wound Several Civilians in Beit Sureek
International Press Center 3/4/2005
JERUSALEM, Palestine, March 2, 2005 (IPC + WAFA) - - Israeli occupation forces wounded several civilians during a demonstration against the Apartheid Wall in the village of Beit Sureek, as troops besieged the campus of Al Quds University. Eyewitnesses told WAFA news agency that Israeli forces opened fire...
The Fight for Justice - Demonstrating against the Apartheid Wall
International Womens' Peace Service 2/28/2005
On the 10th of February, the Israeli Supreme Court issued a temporary injunction against the State of Israel and the Commander of the IOF forces in Judea and Samaria against the building of the Apartheid Wall on the land of the village of Iskaka in...
PRCS Weekly Press Release for the period 19-25 February 2005
Palestine Red Crescent Society 2/27/2005
During this reporting period, the Israeli Army has continued to violate International Humanitarian Law and Fundamental Human Rights, by restricting freedom of movement to Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) ambulances and its medical teams. Delay and denial of access and arbitrary searches had a negative...
Jerusalem Villages meet to plan anti-wall protests
International Middle East Media Center 2/25/2005
As the construction of the separation wall continues, residents of the Palestinian villages north of Jerusalem organized a meeting in the village of Bir Nabala on Thursday in which they discussed several plans for anti-wall civil protests. The villagers complain that the wall and the...
Women's Resistance Sparks Confrontation at Saffa with a Tragic Ending
International Womens' Peace Service 2/24/2005
More than 100 villagers gathered early the morning of Tuesday February 22nd, on the olive groves of Saffa, a small village west of Ramallah, to attempt to prevent the illegal expropriation and destruction of their land and olive trees in preparation for the wall. The...
Israeli Troops Wound Several Residents
International Press Center 2/22/2005
RAMALLAH, Palestine, February 22, 2005 (IPC+ Agencies)-- Ten Palestinian residents from the West Bank village of Bal'een, west of the Ramallah City, were shot and wounded with rubber-coated steel bullets and tear gas canisters, by Israeli troops on Monday, in a peaceful anti-Apartheid Wall protest...
Israel's Criminalization of Nonviolent Protest
By Pat O'Connor, Electronic Intifada 2/22/2005
14 February 2005 -- According to Israeli authorities, one reason for my arrest two weeks ago in Biddu and my denial of entry into Israel in 2003 is that I "organized and participated in illegal demonstrations." Israeli authorities frequently use the term "illegal demonstrations" to describe...
20 hurt in anti-wall protest near Ramallah
International Middle East Media Center 2/22/2005
Israeli High Court ordered Tuesday a freeze to the construction of the separation wall near the village of Safa, west of the West Bank city of Ramallah. The court decision came in response to a petition submitted by three villagers, claiming that the army failed...
Palestinians wounded by IDF in separation fence protest
Ha'aretz 2/21/2005
Ten Palestinians were wounded on Monday in clashes with Israel Defense Forces troops during a demonstration against the separation fence east of Modi'in. Several hundred Palestinian, Israeli and foreign protesters demonstrated in the Palestinian village of Bil'in against the construction of the fence in the...
Anti wall protest in a village near Hebron
International Middle East Media Center 2/5/2005
At least ten international peace activists joined on Friday hundreds of the residents of the village of Kharas near Hebron, south of the West Bank. Among the protesters were owners of Lands confiscated by Israel for the construction of the separation wall...
Speaking out about Israel to save the Jewish soul
By Cecilie Surasky, Electronic Intifada 2/2/2005
Every time a Gazan father faints as he watches his family home demolished; every time a Jew, Muslim or Christian is violently attacked by armed Israelis because they are non-violently protesting the separation wall; every time a rain of Israeli army bullets flies into the...
Irish American Humanitarian Arrested by Israel
International Solidarity Movement 1/24/2005
On Monday January 24, Israeli police arrested 41 year old Irish American ISM activist, Patrick O’Connor, on suspicion that he was carrying a fake passport. O’Connor was on his way to Jerusalem after planting olive tree seedlings with Palestinian, Israeli and international activists in the...
Village of Biddu to Plant Olive Seedlings in Wall’s Path on Monday
International Solidarity Movement 1/22/2005
On Monday January 24 at 11:00 AM the community of Biddu in northwest Jerusalem will plant olive trees in the path of Israel’s Apartheid Wall.The peaceful protest, organized by Biddu’s popular committee, will also be joined by international and Israeli activists.Participants will gather at...
Mobilization in Jayyous against the Destruction of Village Land
International Solidarity Movement 1/3/2005
Next Phase of Israel’s Colonization Policies -- Jayyous, Palestine- The people of Jayyous and the Jayyous popular committee of the Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign are calling for a day of action beginning at 12 noon on January 4, 2005. Participants will protest against the creation of a...
Palestinian Non-Violent Peace Activists on Trial
International Solidarity Movement 1/1/2005
Saturday January 1,2005 -- On Sunday January 2, Mohammed Khalil Mansour, a community organizer in the West Bank village of Biddu, faces trial at the Jerusalem Peace Court in the Russian Compound. On the 26 of June 2004, Mansour was attacked, severely beaten and arrested while...
Hundreds Join Anti-Wall Protest in Jayyous
International Middle East Media Center 12/31/2004
The residents of Jayyous village near Qalqilia north of the West Bank organized an anti wall protest in cooperation with Israeli and International peace activists on Friday. Over three hundred protestors marched after the Friday noon prayer towards the wall that caused most of the...
Abbas: Tear down this wall
AlJazeera 12/29/2004
Taking his campaign to succeed Yasir Arafat to the foot of Israel's West Bank separation wall, interim Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas has said there will be no peace until Israel tears it down. Abbas, demonstrating a new knack for popular politicking after decades as a...
Photos: International documents beating of Palestinian is then arrested afterwards
International Solidarity Movement 12/17/2004
Also, Palestinians of Bil'in protest against the Wall, supported by Internationals and Israelis, more photos...
Protest Against Israeli Wall Construction in Bil'in Attacked by Israeli Forces
International Solidarity Movement 12/14/2004
Protest Against Israeli Wall Construction in Bil'in Attacked by Israeli Forces - International Peace Activists Beaten and Arrested Israeli Activists Arrested -- At approximately 8:00AM, villagers of Bi'lin and international peace activists, including Israeli activists, gathered in the center of the village of Bil'in, located between...
Four injured, Seven Arrested in a Peaceful Protest Against the Wall
International Middle East Media Center 12/14/2004
Four Palestinians were injured Tuesday as army forcefully moved to disperse protesters near the village Bil'in, northwest of Jerusalem. Seven peace activists were arrested, including 4 Israelis. Dozens of Palestinians, activists belonging to the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) and members of the Israeli "Anarchists Against...
41 anti-fence demonstrators are arrested
Ha'aretz 12/8/2004
Security forces arrested 41 Israeli left-wing activists who were participating in a demonstration against the separation fence yesterday near the West Bank village of Budrus. Most were held in custody for several hours and then released. The protesters, who were from the groups Anarchists Against...
At least 40 Israelis arrested in Anti-Wall Protest
International Middle East Media Center 12/7/2004
At least 40 Israelis were arrested and seven others were injured, in an anti-wall protest in the village of Budrus west of Ramallah on Tuesday afternoon. Hundreds of Palestinian, Israeli and International peace activists from the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) protested at the site of...
Budrus Residents, Internationals to March Against the Wall
International Solidarity Movement 12/6/2004
Non-Violent Demonstration to Stop Illegal Construction -- Residents of Budrus village, Israeli peace activists, international human rights activists and members of the International Solidarity Movement, will demonstrate against the illegal Israeli wall that is cutting through the Budrus area. The aim on Tuesday is to highlight...
IDF to discipline troops over shooting of fence protester
Ha'aretz 11/29/2004
Chief Military Prosecutor Brigadier General Avi Mandelblit has ordered an IDF company commander, his deputy, and four soldiers brought up on disciplinary charges over an incident last year in which troops seriously wounded Israeli demonstrator Gil Na'amati during a demonstration against the West Bank fence...
Court to cancel charges against anarchist fence protesters
Ha'aretz 11/26/2004
The Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court is considering canceling an indictment against 11 members of Anarchists Against the Fence, yesterday's hearing on the case indicated.At a previous hearing, on October 18, Judge Shmuel Landman suggested that the state consider withdrawing the indictment itself. Yesterday, however, the...
A cultural protest against the wall
Electronic Intifada 11/19/2004
Press Release, International Center of Bethlehem -- The Holy Land of the three monotheistic religions is becoming a source of continuous suffering instead of blessing. For more than ten years the Israeli government has been creating obstacles in many different main roads between all the Palestinian...
Court annuls administrative detention of anti-fence activist
Ha'aretz 11/2/2004
A military judge annulled Tuesday an order for the administrative detention of a Palestinian resident of the village of Budrus near Ramallah, saying that the order was instated as a result of the man's record of anti-separation fence activities. The military prosecution appealed the judge's...
"A Rubber-Coated Bullit will not Shut my Mouth"
International Solidarity Movement 10/5/2004
Report from Maya in Beit Awwa - Interview with Maya in the Hospital in Hebron by Ghassan Bannoura. -- On Sunday, October 3rd, at 10:30, villagers of Beit Awwa organized a peaceful protest against the construction of the illegal Annexation Wall. The demonstration was led by...
Palestinians in Budrus: We Will Never Give up Our Lands
By Kim Bullimore, Palestine Chronicle 10/6/2004
The local IDF office told the village leaders they would do everything in their power to stop the movement, even if that meant that people died.." -- On the fourth anniversary of the second Palestinian intifada, the residents of the small village of Budrus once again...
Residents of Beit Awwa, Internationals and Israelis injured
International Solidarity Movement 10/3/2004
Residents of Beit Awwa, Internationals and Israelis injured by Israeli Army response to Non-Violent Protest - Israeli Army uses tear gas, rubber bullets and a piercing siren to disperse protestors -- Today, October 3, approxinmately 300 residents of Beit Awwa marched with 30 internationals and Israelis this...
World in Pictures: Resistance Confronts Israeli Plans to Expand Settlements
Islam Online 9/26/2004
Several dozen Palestinian, Israeli, and international demonstrators protest the construction of Israel’s separation barrier at the Israeli border in the West Bank village of Budrus, about 30 km from Tel Aviv, Sunday, September 26, 2004...
100 protestors wounded in a protest against the Wall in Hebron
International Middle East Media Center 9/23/2004
More than 3.000 students, mainly girls, peacefully protested in a peacful anti-Wall protest in the village of Beit Awwa, in the south of Hebron , in the West Bank , on Wednesday. IMEMC correspondent in Hebron said that more than forty International and Israeli peace activists from...
Israeli Forces Damage Buildings in Jerusalem, Wound Dozens in Hebron
International Press Center 9/24/2004
EAST JERUSALEM, Palestine, September 23, 2004 (IPC + WAFA) - - Israeli forces wounded dozens of civilians during a peaceful congregation in Hebron, while residents of East Jerusalem complained that Israeli forces launched a series of explosions near them, causing their houses to crack. Medical sources in the...
Ninety protestors wounded, five seriously in Bodrus
International Middle East Media Center 9/22/2004
Over ninety protestors, including internationals, were injured in the village of Bodrus, in the west of Ramallah and Al-Biereh in the West Bank, in protests against the Separation Wall in the village. A medical source and eyewitnesses in Bodrus said that soldiers raided the village...
22 Wounded In Peaceful Rally against the Wall in Budrus
International Press Center 9/21/2004
GAZA, Sep 21,2004 (IPC+WAFA)----The Israeli occupation troops suppressed a peaceful rally headed off today in Badrus village, west of Rammallah city of the west bank in a protestfor the re-embarking of destroying orchards belonging to Palestinian farmers for building the Apartheid Wall, injuring...
Three Palestinains shot in Anti Wall Protest in Budrus
International Middle East Media Center 9/21/2004
Three Palestinians were wounded in the village of Budrus in clashes with soldiers on Tuesday morning during a protest against the construction of the West Bank separation wall. Five left-wing Israeli activists were also arrested in the protest. Israel resumed construction on Monday, after a...
Anti-Wall protest near Hebron, several protestors wounded Report
International Middle East Media Center 9/20/2004
IMEMC correspondent said that about two hundred residents from the villages of Beit Awwa, and Sikka, lead by the youth of the villages and joined by international peace activists, peacefully gathered, on Sunday, to protest the construction of the Separation Wall on the Palestinian lands...
Protestors at Al-Ram: "Let them go to School"
International Middle East Media Center 9/14/2004
More then a thousand schoolchildren, boys and girls from 6 to 14, wearing their school uniforms and carrying bags, demonstrated on Monday (Monday, 13.9) at the wall that is being built in Al-Ram, north of Jerusalem. The pupils carried posters demanding: “Let Us Study!” Over...
Israeli missile kills activists
The Guardian 9/14/2004
In Jerusalem, Israeli police fired teargas to break up a demonstration by Palestinian children who are unable to reach their schools because of the separation wall built through their neighbourhood. -- The Israeli military killed three al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades activists in a helicopter missile strike on...
12 Palestinians Including Two Internationals Wounded In anti-WallRally In Hebron
International Press Center 9/14/2004
At least 12 residents were wounded including two internationals during a peaceful demonstrationagainst the ongoing construction of the Apartheid Wall organized by Dir Samet and Beit Awwa municipalities, south west of Hebron city of the West Bank. -- HEBRON, Sep 14,2004 (IPC+WAFA)— The Israeli Occupation...
Look again, Gandhi
By Jonathan Cook, Al-Ahram Weekly on-line 9/2/2004
Effective non-violent resistance is dependent upon conditions the politician-generals of the State of Israel systematically and consciously destroy -- "I am coming to speak about peace and non- violence," Arun Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi's grandson, told the Jerusalem Post newspaper shortly before he arrived in the Middle...
Thousands march for peaceful protest in Abu Dis
International Middle East Media Center 8/27/2004
Around 2,000 Palestinians and Israeli protestors demonstrated Friday adjacent to the separation wall in the town of Abu Dis, in support of the existing non-violent resistance to end the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The grandson of Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi...
Leaders call for a peaceful intifada
The Guardian 8/27/2004
Palestinians' triple strategy: polls, demonstrations and court cases -- The Palestinian leadership has announced a three-point programme of non-violent resistance in an attempt to wrest the diplomatic initiative from Israel. They hope to push Israel into allowing elections, to lead mass protests against the separation barrier...
Thank You ISM
Editorial, Miftah 8/18/2004
The International Solidarity Movement’s theme for this summer is “Freedom Summer Palestine 2004” lasting for 56 days; it symbolically marks the 56 years that have passed since the tragic fall of Palestine in 1948 (one day, for every year of displacement, dispossession, occupation, killing, torture...
Eight Internationals Wound In Tulkarem, A Women And Child Wounded In Beit Hanoon
International Press Center 8/3/2004
GAZA, August 3,2004 (IPC+WAFA)---Eight international solidarity internationals including a journalist working at EBA news agency were shot and suffocated when the Israeli occupying troops fire tears canisters at a peaceful anti -Apartheid Wall demonstration in Al Shewek outskirt, north of Tulkarem city of...
Activists, Palestinians break through fence near Tul Karm
Ha'aretz 8/2/2004
Palestinian residents of the West Bank village of Kafr Zeita and anti-separation fence activists on Monday burst through a gate in the barrier separating the village from its agricultural lands. Activists from the pro-Palestinian International Solidarity Movement and the Israeli group Anarchists Against the Fence...
Palestinians and Internationals Protest the Apartheid Wall’s Division of Barta
International Solidarity Movement 7/17/2004
Barta, Jenin] A crowd of over 100 Palestinian and international protesters gathered today outside the checkpoint of Um al Rihan which controls traffic in and out of Barta, a village west of Jenin on the Green Line. The situation in Barta is dire. It’s divided...
Women Against the Wall
By Fatima Khaldi, Electronic Intifada 7/16/2004
Last Friday, as the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that Israel's wall through the West Bank is a violation of international law, I stood with other Palestinian women in the olive groves of the village of Az Zawiya, protesting the destruction of our land...
Day 6: The Struggle Widens: Update on Hunger Strike Against the Israeli Apartheid Wall
By Mosa Diab & Awatef Shiekh, Miftah 7/8/2004
The hunger strike held at the northern entrance to Jerusalem to protest the Israeli apartheid wall has entered its sixth day amid growing local and international support. Today a large delegation of Palestinian judges from the Islamic Supreme Sharia Court, led by Chief Judge Tayseer...
MK Bishara's Hunger Strike Enters its Third Day
International Middle East Media Center 7/5/2004
The open ended hunger strike declared by the Arab Member of Knesset Dr. Azmi Bishara enters its third day in the protest tent set up near Al-Ram area north of Jerusalem close the construction site of the wall to protest against building the wall. Hundreds...
Chemical Warfare on the West Bank?
By James Brooks, CounterPunch 7/5/2004
How Israel "Disperses" Demonstrations -- "On June 10th, 2004, the two clinics in Al-Zawiya treated 130 patients for gas inhalation. The patients were children, women, old people and young men. Dr. Abu Madi related that there was a high number of cases of [tetany], spasm in...
Israel slams mock fence set up at Danish rock festival
Ha'aretz 7/2/2004
COPENHAGEN, Denmark - Israeli officials criticized a Danish aid group Thursday for erecting a plywood wall at one of Europe's largest music festivals to protest the separation fence. Israel's deputy chief of mission in Denmark, Ephraim Ben-Matityahu, said DanChurchAid was making a political statement, and "it...
Tens of Anti-Apartheid Wall Peaceful Demonstrators Wounded In Al Arm
International Press Center 6/27/2004
GAZA, June 27,2004 (IPC+Agencies)--- Several of the senior figures, Israeli sand internationalpeace activists were suffocated due the firing of tear gas canisters by the Israeli occupying forces (IOF) during peaceful demonstrations,protesting the construction of the Apartheid Wall in Al Ram town, north of...
Five Palestinians, Four Israelis Arrested in A-Ram Protest
International Solidarity Movement 6/26/2004
A-Ram, Jerusalem] In response to a peaceful demonstration against the Israeli Apartheid Wall held today in the village of A-Ram, Israeli police officers and undercover special forces officers arrested nine of the nonviolent participants – four Jewish Israelis, one Palestinian Israeli and four Palestinian citizens of...
THOUSANDS OF PEACEFUL MARCHERS MET WITH FIERCE VIOLENCE
International Solidarity Movement 6/26/2004
Dozens injured and nine arrested in A-Ram -- [A-Ram, Jerusalem] Today at 3:00 PM, approximately 3,000 Palestinian, Israeli and international peace activists gathered to protest the construction of the Israeli Apartheid Wall. Several clerics and MKs were also present for the demonstration. A march towards...
Qaffin Nonviolently Attempts to Reach Land Isolated behind the Apartheid Wall
International Solidarity Movement 6/26/2004
Qaffin, Tulkarem] In the northern West Bank village of Qaffin (Tulkarem district), approximately 300 Palestinians and 45 international and Israeli peace activists gathered to march against the Israeli Apartheid Wall today at 11:00 AM. The demonstrators intended to reach the lands of Qaffin trapped...
Peaceful March Welcomes Freedom Summer 2004 to Western Ramallah
International Solidarity Movement 6/26/2004
Deir Qaddis, W Ramallah] Today at approximately 1:00 PM, 200 residents of the western Ramallah area gathered in solidarity with other demonstrators throughout the West Bank in the village of Deir Qaddis to peacefully protest the construction of the Israeli Apartheid Wall. Palestinians were...
Palestinians, Internationals and Israelis Come Together to Oppose the Apartheid Wall in Faqqua
International Solidarity Movement 6/26/2004
Faqqua, Jenin] Today, Israeli, Palestinian and international peace activists joined together in the northern West Bank village of Faqqua to illustrate their steadfast opposition to the Israeli Apartheid Wall. At 11:00 AM, approximately 200 Palestinians and internationals – the majority of them wearing numbers on...
Dozens of Residents Wounded in Salfit during Anti Wall Protests
International Middle East Media Center 6/25/2004
Tens of Palestinians were wounded, Thursday, during protests against the construction of the Separation wall which is continuously swallowing the Palestinian land. While local residents of Dir Ballout, west of Salfit, were protesting against confiscating their lands, which are their only source of living, army...
15th consecutive day of protest in Zawiy
Palestine Monitor 6/23/2004
The residents of al Zawiya village today began their fifteenth day of non-violent protest against the Israeli construction of the Apartheid Wall through their lands. The village of al Zawiya is located almost five miles inside the Green Line, however al Zawiya along with the...
Fence gets paint job to combat graffiti
Ha'aretz 6/24/2004
Before its fall, the Berlin Wall's western side was covered in protest graffiti. The barriers known as the "peace walls," which since the `70s have been separating Catholic and Protestant populations in Belfast, have also been covered with inscriptions and political protest drawings....For this...
Photos: IOF's Violent Response to Peaceful Demonstrators in Al-Zawiya
Palestine Red Crescent Society 6/20/2004
June 20 '04: An elderly Palestinian villager is thrown to the ground by Israeli soldiers during a demonstration protesting against the construction of the Israeli separation wall in the village of Az-Zawiya in Salfit...
Palestinians: Israel is using "sinister chemical gases" to disperse demonstrators
Palestinian Information Center 6/25/2004
Occupied Jerusalem - Palestinian health officials have accused the Israeli army of using "sinister chemical gases" to disperse demonstrators protesting Israel's annexation wall in the West Bank. Dozens of Palestinians have been injured by a reportedly new brand of "tear gas" that leaves serious symptoms many...
Update: Scores of the Palestinians Wounded in Al Zawyia including a PA Official
International Middle East Media Center 6/23/2004
Tens of the residents were wounded Tuesday during a peaceful demonstration in Al-Zawyia, west of Salfit, in counter of the continuation of building the Separation Wall, which threatens to isolate and expropriate more than 30,000 Dunum, west of Salfit province. Eyewitnesses reported that troops used...
This damned, racist wall
Jerusalem Media and Communication Centre/Palestine Report 6/16/2004
FOR RESIDENTS of Jerusalem, the week was dominated by the start of construction of a concrete wall which will split the neighborhoods of Dahiet Al Barid and Al Ram down the middle and off from Jerusalem, leaving an estimated 80,000 residents isolated from Jerusalem and...
One Israeli, one Palestinian arrested and 40 wounded in anti-wall protest
International Middle East Media Center 6/14/2004
George Rishmawi-IMEMC, June 14, 2004 -- Local sources reported that one Israeli, one Palestinian have been arrested and at least 40 wounded most of them as a result of inhaling gas, in an anti-wall demonstration in the village of Al-Zawiya near Salfit in the West Bank.Rann...
Resistance to the Wall Continues for the Third Day in Zawiya
StopTheWall.org 6/9/2004
The people in Zawiya village continued today to confront the Occupation bulldozers destroying their land for the Wall’s path. For the third day in a row the people in Zawiya village stood in front of the bulldozers, facing the Occupation machinery determined to resist the...
For the Second Day: People in Zawiya Confront the Occupation Bulldozers
StopTheWall.org 6/8/2004
Latest News, PENGON/Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, June 8th, 2004Above: A man from Zawiya village expresses his grief and his outrage at the destruction of his lands by Occupation forces.Hundreds of people demonstrated for the second day in a row against the Occupation forces building the...
Occupied Palestine: Residents of Az Zawiya Steadfast in their Resistance to the Apartheid Wall
CMAQ.net 6/10/2004
IWPS, jueves, Junio 10, 2004 - 08:05Droits humains | Hilo de prensa | Guerra | Represión | ResistanceAz Zawiya, Salfit, Palestine - Today over 400 villagers of Az Zawiya came out to protest for the third day in a row against the building of the wall which will cut them...
Nonviolence Protestors managed to halt the construction
International Middle East Media Center 6/16/2004
Over 150 residents of the village of Iskaka and more than 15 Israeli and International peace activists protested against the construction of the separation wall near the village. The protests apparently resulted of halting the work at this section of the wall that is designed...
Resistance to the Apartheid Wall in Zawiya
StopTheWall.org 6/16/2004
The people in Zawiya continue their resistance to the Apartheid Wall, which is currently threatening and destroying their lands. For ten days, people in Zawiya of all ages have been demonstrating in an effort to reach their lands and stop Occupation bulldozers from destroying them...
Israeli Sources: IOF Uses Chemical Weapons Against Palestinian Demonstrators
International Press Center 6/13/2004
GAZA, June 13, 2004 (IPC + Arab48)-- Official and publicsources in the West Banktown of Al-Zawya, which has been witnessing large-scale confrontations between the citizens and the Israeli occupying forces (IOF) over the town's lands, asserted that those who have inhaled the tear gas IOF troops...
In Salfeet; Israel Moves Ahead In Building the Apartheid Wall
International Press Center 6/9/2004
SALFEET, June8,2004(IPC+Agencies)--The Israeli Occupation forces continued for the second day work on the Apartheid Wall in Zawiya village west of Salfit. Occupation Forces surveyed the village last Thursday and told the people there that they were going to start construction on Sunday...
120 Wounded in Al-Zawiya Village Protest
International Middle East Media Center 6/10/2004
Palestinian medical sources in Al-Zawiya village that they have treated at least 120 Palestinians who have been tear gassed by the Israeli army during the a protest against the wall in the village.One of the doctors told IMEMC that there have been several cases with...
Anti-fence protesters clash with IDF troops near Al-Zawiya
Ha'aretz 6/14/2004
Palestinian protesters clashed with Israel Defense Forces soldiers Sunday at an anti-fence demonstration near the West Bank village of Al-Zawiya, southwest of Nablus. IDF troops fired tear gas at the demonstrators, who were gathered at the same site where scuffles broke out last week.Dozens were...
Scores of the Palestinians Wounded during a Peaceful Protest in Al Zawyia including a Minister
International Press Center 6/22/2004
Al Zawyia, June 22 2004 (IPC+Agencies)---, In Al Zawyia, west of Salfeet, tens of the residents were wounded today during a peaceful demonstration in counter of the continuation of building the Apartheid Wall, which threaten to isolate and expropriate more than 30,000 Dunum, west...
RSF condemns violent attacks on Palestinian journalists
Electronic Intifada/RSF 6/21/2004
In a 21 June 2004 letter to Israeli Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz, RSF protested a string of violent attacks by the Israeli Army against Palestinian journalists in the Nablus region of the West Bank between 10 and 15 June. "The methods the Israeli Army uses...
Peaceful Protesters from the Village of Iskaka Met with Violence by Israeli Military
International Solidarity Movement 6/17/2004
Iskaka, Salfit]Yesterday, Thursday, June 17, 2004, 100 Palestinians from the village of Iskaka (Salfit district of the West Bank) and 30 international and Israeli activists marched to Iskaka’s agricultural land which is being bulldozed in order to build Israel’s Apartheid Wall deep within the...
Westerners Brave Tear Gas in Israel Barrier Battle
Palestine Chronicle 5/27/2004
BIDDO, West Bank - When they come to protest against Israel's West Bank barrier, foreign activists sometimes wear bandannas soaked in vinegar. Peter, a European activist who has already been hit twice with rubber bullets at pro-Palestinian demonstrations, swears it works better than a whiff of...
Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights 5/20/2004
52 Palestinians, 41 of them civilians, including 9 children, were killed by Israeli forces /45 of the victims were killed in Rafah; 8 of them were killed when Israeli helicopter gunships and tanks attacked a peaceful civilian demonstration / 105 houses were destroyed in Rafah and...
Israeli Undercover Unit Assassinates A Palestinian, Wound Another And Kidnap Him
International Press Center 5/18/2004
JENIN, May 18,2004 (IPC+WAFA)--The Israeli occupying forces has extra-judicially executed today noon a citizen in Anza village, south west of Jenin and wounded another, then kidnapped him....Meanwhile, the Israeli occupying forces razed today wide areas of the Palestinian lands in Wadi Ayad...
A West Bank Town Tries To Protest The Wall Non-Violently
By Ben Lynfield, Palestine Monitor/Christian Science Monitor 5/6/2004
Biddu, West Bank - An all-women's demonstration against Israel's construction of a West Bank separation barrier was supposed to be a quiet, nonconfrontational affair.Israeli participant Molly Malekar says that she and Palestinian and foreign organizers ruled out male participation to ensure that Israeli security forces would...
WOMEN'S DEMONSTRATION AGAINST THE WALL IN BIDDU TOMORROW
International Solidarity Movement 5/10/2004
Second Nonviolent Women's Demonstration in Biddu in the Last Three Weeks -- [Biddu, NW Jerusalem] Tomorrow, May 11, 2004 at 11:00 am Palestinian, Israeli and International women will gather at the Municipal council of Biddu and march to the worksite of the Israeli separation barrier...
Solidarity and struggle continue in Biddu
International Solidarity Movement 5/6/2004
Biddu, NW Jerusalem] Today the people of the West Bank village of Biddu continued their protests against the Apartheid Wall that the Israel government is building through their land. Over the past two months, five people have been killed by the Israeli military during non-violent...
Three Palestinians arrested in Biddu
International Solidarity Movement 4/29/2004
Biddu, NW Jerusalem] At around noon, about 60 Palestinians, Israelis, and internationals set off from the town council towards their fields bulldozed by the Israeli Government to build the Apartheid Wall. Biddu along with 14 other villages will be completely surrounded by the Apartheid Wall...
Women’s Demonstration Against the Apartheid Wall
International Solidarity Movement 4/25/2004
Jerusalem ISM Biddu 25 Apr 04 -- [Biddu, NW Jerusalem] This morning a group of about 25 Palestinian women met at the city council in Biddu to have a peaceful women’s demonstration against the Apartheid Wall. They were joined by 30 Israelis and 10 international women...
Anarchy in the soul - journal from Biddu
By Gila Svirsky, International Solidarity Movement 4/25/2004
Friends, I just spoke to Molly Malekar on her way to Sha’arei Tzedek Hospital in Jerusalem, and here is what she reported: "We were about 60 women, only women: roughly 1/3 Israeli, 1/3 Palestinian, and 1/3 internationals. We gathered at Bidu to...
Despised in their own country
By Gideon Levy, Ha'aretz 4/25/2004
How is it that Mordechai Vanunu is regarded as an admired hero in Western Europe, and in Israel he is slandered, cursed and despised by all? And if some public debate has risen around him - even though no significant part of the public regards him...
Israeli troops confront non-violent demonstrators with live ammunition
Palestine Monitor 4/19/2004
A 24 year-old Palestinian man was shot dead by Israeli soldiers in Biddu yesterday as demonstrations against the construction of the Separation Wall outside the village continued. Dia Abed Al Karim Abu Eid, was shot and killed instantly by a live bullet to the chest...
Israeli Troops Use a Child and a Peace Activist as Human Shields
International Press Center 4/17/2004
BIDDUE, April 17, 2004 (IPC+Agencies)-- Most gravely, the Israeli occupying soldiers pummeled a 12-year-old Palestinian boy from Biddu, northwest of occupied Jerusalem-that isfacing a wide scale of land expropriation for building the apartheid wall- and afterwards,the soldiers tied him to the front...
Budrus demonstration / Abu Ahmed released
International Solidarity Movement 1/22/2004
TREES NOT WALLS! Hundreds March to Plant Trees -- Budrus, RAMALLAH] Hundreds of Palestinians - men and women, old and young, Israelis and Internationals from at least 12 different countries* braved the pouring rain today and marched to plant olive tree saplings where the Israeli government has...
Mass Demonstration Against The Wall In Budrus
Scoop/International Womens Peace Service 1/22/2004
Thursday 22 January, 2004 - Tomorrow, in Budrus village, West Ramallah, Occupied Palestine, there will be a mass demonstration against the Wall at 12 noon. The demonstration is supported by many Israeli organisations such as Rabbis for Human Rights and Anarchists against the Wall, and international...
Unbound Spirit
By Adam Shapiro, Palestine Chronicle 1/18/2004
Ayed Morar, or Abu Ahmed as he is known to all, sits in jail tonight and I wonder if he is thinking of Martin Luther King, Jr. Unlike Dr. King, Abu Ahmed will not be leaving jail anytime soon, and is he unable to protest...
Soldiers may again shoot protesters
Palestine Monitor/Ha'aretz 1/6/2004
A senior Israel Defense Forces source said on Tuesday that "the military may again use live fire against Israelis demonstrating along the separation fence." According to the source, the military would not be able to supply all soldiers on duty in the region with crowd...
West Bank villagers believe they can win battle against the "wall"
ReliefWeb 1/7/2004
BUDRUS, West Bank Jan 7 (AFP) - Armed with little more than loudhailers, residents of this West Bank village are braving curfews, rubber bullets and teargas on a daily basis in a battle to save their farmland from being swallowed up by Israel's separation barrier. Mohammad...
Budrus Resident Arrested for Giving a Speech
Arabic Media Internet Network/International Solidarity Movement 1/5/2004
On Thursday, January 1, 2004, Nasir Ahmed Hussein Murar gave a speech at a protest against the Israeli bulldozing of Budrus farmlands for the separation wall. He spoke of the iron will of resistance in the face of unstoppable Israeli destruction. He spoke of the...
IDF won't act against soldiers who shot protester
Ha'aretz 1/6/2004
Chief of Staff Moshe Ya'alon is going to wait for a Military Police report on the incident at the Maskha gate in the separation fence, where Israeli protester Gil Na'amati was shot by IDF forces, before deciding on whether to take action against the soldiers...
Israeli soldiers won't be punished
Al-Jazeera 1/6/2004
No action will be taken against Israeli occupation soldiers who shot and wounded a Jewish-Israeli protester during a demonstration over the West Bank apartheid wall, the army said on Tuesday. The shooting caused an outcry in Israel and sparked calls for the military to re-evaluate...
Israeli colonel resigns over army's 'immoral' actions
The Independent 1/5/2004
A reservist colonel in the Israeli army has resigned his commission in protest at his army's "immoral conduct" in the occupied territories. In a searing open letter to the army's chief of staff, Lt-Col Eitan Ronel, a veteran of 1973's Yom Kippur War, the...
Brigade faulted in protester shooting
Ha'aretz 1/5/2004
The inquiry into the shooting of a protester at the separation fence last week finds faults in the brigade's actions, training and supervision, but is not expected to recommend demoting any officers involved. Unarmed peace activist Gil Na'amati was badly wounded when soldiers shot him...
Anti-fence protesters detained in W. Bank
Ha'aretz 1/4/2004
A number of Israeli left-wing activists were detained yesterday by police when security forces prevented them from reaching the West Bank village of Dir Balut to protest construction of the separation fence near the community. Yesterday, five buses with some 300 protesters were making their...
Nablus report / Budrus update
International Solidarity Movement 1/5/2004
1. Nablus: Contrary to how the media is reporting it: January 4, 2004 - Kelly B. - Yesterday 4 boys were killed in nablus, and one more in critical condition in the hospital. All within an hour, Rawhi Shuman (19) Amer Arafat (26) and Amjed al-Masri (15...
IDF to deploy more crowd dispersal equipment
Ha'aretz 1/4/2004
The Israel Defense Forces will soon be issued with new crowd dispersal equipment. The decision was made before the incident nine days ago when IDF gunfire seriously injured a left-wing demonstrator at the separation fence. A senior IDF General Staff source told Haaretz: "It's clear...
Father of protester wounded by IDF fire says troops lied
Ha'aretz 1/5/2004
The father of Israeli protester Gil Na'amati, who was wounded recently by IDF gunfire at a demonstration against the West Bank separation fence, accused the Israel Defense Forces on Monday of lying. "One must be drunk to believe the IDF's version" on the circumstances of...
Anti-fence demonstrations continue
Palestinian Information Center 1/3/2004
Ramallah - Inhabitants of the Badors village to the west of Ramallah along with scores of foreign activists continued to demonstrate against the Zionist separation fence construction in their village. Mayor of the village, Mohammed Khaled Ulayan, said that the occupation forces threatened the town inhabitants...
Zionist forces arrest citizens in Badors to check protests
Palestinian Information Center 1/3/2004
Ramallah - Zionist occupation forces arrested at dawn today two Palestinians in the village of Badors to the west of Ramallah city in a bid to check the protests that have been raging over the past few days in that small town against the Zionist separation...
Tel Aviv expels four foreigners
Palestinian Information Center 1/2/2004
Occupied Jerusalem - The Tel Aviv authorities have decided to expel four foreign activists for participating in an anti-separation fence demonstration in the West Bank village of Badors on Wednesday. Hebrew sources said that the interior minister Abraham Poraz signed Thursday an order stipulating the expulsion...
Hundreds protest against separation fence at al-Garbiyeh
Ha'aretz 1/2/2004
Hundreds of protestors rallied Friday in the Israeli Arab town of Baka al-Garbiyeh against the contruction of the separation fence to the east of the town. Police at the scene of the demonstration say that there have been no untoward incidents recorded so far. The...
A little bit of anarchy won't hurt
By Meron Benvenisti, Ha'aretz 1/1/2004
The incident in which soldiers fired at demonstrators got immense media coverage. One detail however - marginal but symbolic - did not get the proper attention: the identity of the group of demonstrators, called "Anarchists Against the Fence."Apparently the demonstration was not aimed only against the...
Updates on detained peace activists and the village of Budrus
International Solidarity Movement 1/1/2004
For the forth day in row, villagers, joined by international and Israeli peace activists demonstrated against the Construction of the separation Wall on Palestinian land in the village of Budrus. Army violently interrupted the peaceful demonstration, showering protesters with tear gas and firing at them...
Israel to deport Swedish MP
Al-Jazeera 1/1/2004
Israel has decided to deport a member of the Swedish parliament and three other internationals following a demonstration against the apartheid wall in the West Bank. Forty Palestinians and an Israeli were wounded as occupation troops fired teargas and rubber bullets to break up a...
The day after the shooting of peace activists: A lot of fury, a lot of attention
Electronic Intifada/Gush Shalom 12/27/2003
International release, Tel-Aviv, 27 December 2003 -- We just come back from a fiery demonstration -- in protest at yesterday's shooting at peace activists. Especially, the story of the seriously-wounded Gil Na'amati continues to make headlines. The 22-year-old kibbutznik had to be raced to hospital after...
If there's an Inquiry, there Probably Won't be an Indictment
By Akiva Eldar, Miftah 12/30/2003
Israel Defense Forces soldiers who fired at a group of Israelis who demonstrated Friday against the separation fence don't have to worry about the investigation of the incident launched by the army this week. Statistics compiled by the IDF's Judge Advocate General (JAG) indicate that...
Failed Israeli Assassination Wounds 13 Bystanders, 2 Critically
Palestine Media Center 12/31/2003
Second Israeli among 17 Wounded in Anti-Apartheid Wall Protest -- An Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) US-made Apache helicopter fired two missiles at a civilian car wounding at least 13 bystanders, two of them seriously, in a failed extra-judicial execution late Tuesday, only hours after shooting dead...
Media Alerts - Updates from Budrus and Jayyous
International Solidarity Movement 12/31/2003
Continued Non-violent Resistance to Land Confiscation is Met with Violence - [Budrus, Ramallah] -- Early reports are that villagers from Budrus, and their Israeli and International supporters, made a peaceful march onto Budrus lands that are set to be destroyed for the construction of the Israeli Apartheid...
IDF may change rules of engagement along route of fence
Ha'aretz 12/31/2003
The IDF may change its orders on opening fire along the West Bank separation fence after last week's shooting of demonstrators, in which an Israeli and an American were wounded, IDF Chief of Staff Moshe Ya'alon said yesterday. "This is an incident that had very...
Israeli soldier sorry for not shooting Arab
Al-Jazeera 12/31/2003
An Israeli soldier who three days ago mistakenly shot and seriously wounded a Jewish demonstrator in the northern West Bank has told interrogators he thought he was shooting a Palestinian, not a Jew. “I am sorry, I never thought I was shooting at Jews, I...
Israeli troops wound 11 protesters
Al-Jazeera 12/31/2003
Ten Palestinians and an Israeli have been wounded as troops used teargas and rubber bullets to break up a protest close to a controversial barrier in the West Bank. The Israeli troops also arrested Gustav Fridolin, a Swedish member of parliament who was among a...
Ya'alon: rules of engagement may be changed
Jerusalem Post 12/30/2003
The IDF may change the rules of engagement along the security fence as a result of its probe into the shooting of an Israeli and an American last Friday during a demonstration, Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Moshe Ya'alon said Tuesday. Ya'alon, who was...
An immoral army
By Roman Bronfman, Ha'aretz 12/30/2003
Last Friday's events, in which soldiers of "the most moral army in the world" used live fire to disperse demonstrators protesting the separation fence, casts heavy doubt on the accuracy of the image that Mofaz sought to impart to the organization he led. It may...
Sharon criticizes use of live ammo against Israeli protesters
Ha'aretz 12/29/2003
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon yesterday criticized the behavior of Israel Defense Forces soldiers on Friday during a demonstration against the security fence in the West Bank during which an Israeli protester was seriously wounded when soldiers used live fire to disperse the demonstrators. Sharon told...
Debate Over Israel's Barrier Heats Up
The Guardian 12/29/2003
JERUSALEM (AP) - The army's shooting of an American and an Israeli peace protester has angered Israelis and sparked renewed debate over a controversial West Bank barrier and the army's rules of engagement. Israel says the barrier - made up of concrete walls, razor wire, fences and...
Police question Israeli shot by IDF troops during fence protest
Ha'aretz 12/29/2003
The police questioned wounded fence protester Gil Na'amati under warning on Sunday, while the Israel Defense Forces were conducting two separate investigations into the shooting of Na'amati by Israeli troops on Friday during a protest by unarmed demonstrators against the separation fence in the West...
Israeli, U.S. Pacifists Injured In Anti-Wall Demo
Islam Online 12/27/2003
Qalqiliya, December 27 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – Two Israeli and American pacifists protesting Israel's erection of a separation barrier on the West Bank were wounded by Israeli gunfire Friday, December 26, one day ahead of a mass rally in this northern West Bank town to mark...
IOF Wounds Two Internationals near Apartheid Wall in Mas'ha
International Press Center 12/27/2003
SALFIT, Palestine, December 27, 2003 (IPC + Agencies)-- The Israeli occupying forces (IOF) shot and wounded two international peace activists while demonstrating against the construction of the Apartheid wall in the village of Mas'ha, Salfit district. Sources at the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) in Salfit told...
Hundreds protest in Tel Aviv against IDF use of live ammunition
Ha'aretz 12/27/2003
Some 300 people protested late Saturday opposite the Defense Ministry building in Tel Aviv, to protest the Israel Defense Forces' use of live ammunition to disperse a demonstration against the separation fence near the West Bank village of Meskhah. An Israeli demonstrator was seriously injured...
Soldiers Used Live Ammunition against Peace Activists
International Middle East Media Center 12/27/2003
Soldiers used live ammunition against peace activists close to the Palestinian village of Masha . Gil Na'amati , an Israeli citizen from Kibbutz Nimri, sustained serious wounds and a foreign peace activist was lightly wounded. Few hundred protesters, members of Anarchist Movement against the Wall and the...
Israel troops fire on peace rally
BBC 12/27/2003
Israeli soldiers have opened fire on a demonstration in the West Bank, injuring two peace activists. The incident took place when about 100 protesters demonstrated near the Palestinian village of Mahase against the barrier Israel is constructing. One Israeli man and one foreign woman were...
Protest camp in Deir Balut village, Salfit district
Electronic Intifada 12/26/2003
A protest camp in Dir-Balut village is a joint Palestinian, Israeli, and international action against the Apartheid Wall. The protest camp was created on Friday the 19th, and will stay there till next Friday, January 2nd. The camp is located in the yard of the...
Israeli Troops Fire on Peace Activists
International Solidarity Movement 12/26/2003
Israeli and International activists coordinated today with Palestinians in the town of Mas-Ha in a direct action against the Israeli Apartheid Wall. Participants in the action included Israeli Anarchists, independent peace activists, the International Womens Peace Service, the International Solidarity Movement, local Palestinian activists, and...
Israeli troops fire on wall protesters
Al-Jazeera 12/26/2003
An Israeli pacifist and an American woman protesting against the apartheid wall on the West Bank have wounded after Israeli troops opened fire. Some 400 Palestinians and 150 foreign activists, including Israeli pacifists, took part in the protest on Friday in the village of Masha...
IDF to probe shooting of two peace activists in West Bank
Ha'aretz 12/26/2003
Major General Moshe Kaplinsky, head of the GOC Central Command, on Friday appointed a colonel to investigate an incident earlier in the day in which Israel Defense Force soldiers shot and wounded two people during a demonstration against the West Bank separation fence. An Israeli...
Sharon’s Wall a Threat to All Religious Groups
By Christopher Bollyn, AmericanFreePress.com December 2003
Annexation by appropriation’ ruins world’s holiest cities for everyone -- The Israeli “separation barrier” is the culmination of Ariel Sharon’s long-planned settlement scheme to appropriate vast amounts of Palestinian land and water resources and impoverish the non-Jewish population to the point of expulsion.Bethlehem this Christmas, like...
National Day for the city of Qalqiliya
Palestine Monitor 12/18/2003
INVITATION: The GIPP network (Grassroots International Protection for the Palestinian People), along with The Committee Against the Wall and the Union of Palestinian Women, are about to launch a full program of demonstrations, actions and related activities to take place across the Palestinian Occupied Territories...
People power & resisting the wall
By Islah Jad, Media Monitors Network 12/16/2003
We may differ among us over the repercussions or the morality of suicide bombings. But what we do agree on unanimously is that when an individual insists on deploying his or her own body, a power is released that might be called a part of...
THE WALL: Security NO, Harassment YES
International Womens' Peace Service 12/14/2003
Today’s events at Mas’ha demonstrate that the supposed security fence does not ensure security. Mas’ha farmers have wanted to tend their land for the past weeks, but have been restrained from doing so because Mas’ha is now closed off by the ‘fence,’ whose gates to...
Jewish Settlers Seize 1,750 Dunums of "Termsaya" Lands
International Press Center 12/13/2003
RAMALLAH, December 13,2003 (IPC+Agencies)- Violent clashes were erupted Friday between the citizens of Termsaya town, adjacent to Rammallah city and a mob of Jewish settlers, whom seized vast swaths of the Palestinian lands, east of the town, the fenced areas were about [1750] dunums...
Palestinian-Israeli-International rally at Al Ram: Gush Shalom report
Palestine Monitor/Gush Shalom 12/13/2003
Gush Shalom (Israeli Peace Bloc)" wrote: "The Wall must fall, must fall, must fall!" [Dec. 13, 2003] -- Once again, the organisers underestimated the number of people who would come to participate in a protest against the monstrous Wall whichthe Sharon government seems bent on erecting...
Palestinian, International and Israeli Peace Activists to March in Solidarity Against Separation
International Solidarity Movement 11/20/2003
Jenin - ISM Jenin - 20 Nov 03 -- This Saturday, November 22, 2003 Palestinians coordinated by the National Anti-Apartheid Wall Committee, international peace activists with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), and Israeli peace activists with Ta’ayush will peacefully march to a gate in the Israeli “Separation Wall...
Israeli Army Attacks Peaceful Protesters at Wall!
International Solidarity Movement 11/13/2003
Israeli soldiers and Border Police attacked over 300 Palestinians and 30 internationals at the “separation fence” in the Tulkarem region today, throwing teargas, percussion grenades and beating the nonviolent protesters with batons.One American, Bruce Groeneveld from Washington, has been forcefully detained and remains in custody...
Communities of Tulkarem Demonstrate Against Wall
International Solidarity Movement 11/12/2003
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! Tulkarem Communities Demand Removal of Wall, End of Occupation -- On Thursday, November 13, at 12:00pm several hundred Palestinians from Women’s unions, political parties and grassroots organizations together with International Solidarity Movement volunteers will converge at the Baka Sharqia gate in the...
Reports on 9th of November Stop the Wall protest activities
Palestine Monitor 11/10/2003
In Norway there were several events in the weekend of 8th to9th of November marking resistance to the Wall being built in Palestine....Toronto Demonstration: Many solidarity organizations held arally against the apartheid wall in Toronto in front of the Israeli Consulate, around three hundred...
New Yorkers erect a "Separation" Wall in Midtown Manhattan
Electronic Intifada 11/11/2003
ARABS, JEWS AND OTHER CONCERNED NEW YORKERS MARCH TOGETHER TO PROTEST ISRAEL'S "SEPARATION FENCE" -- New York City, Nov 9th -- Approximately 150 New Yorkers converged at Bryant Park, Manhattan, carrying three sixty-yard mock "walls" depicting the 25-ft.-high wall enclosing the Palestinian people in the...
Int. Day Against The Israeli Apartheid Wall
Scoop/International Solidarity Movement 11/10/2003
On Sunday, starting at 11:30am in Zububa, Palestinians from the Western villages of Jenin, will lead a non-violent direct action against the apartheid wall. The villagers demands include respect for human rights, the upholding of the Geneva convention and the immediate dismantling of the...
Amnesty: Israel must immediately stop the construction of the fence/wall through the West Bank
Scoop/Amnesty International 11/10/2003
Amnesty International is adding its voice to worldwide protests (Starting Sunday) against Israel's construction of the fence/wall in the Occupied West Bank. The organization calls on the Israeli authorities to stop the construction of the fence/wall in the West Bank that is affecting...
Palestinians, Israelis demonstrate against wall
Daily Star 11/10/2003
Thousands promote peace in west bank, jerusalem, tel avivProtesters believe - Separation barrier aims to cut off Palestinian communities -- JERUSALEM: Thousands of Palestinians and Israelis drew to the streets to at the weekend in various marches in the West Bank as well as Jerusalem and Tel...
Hundreds Of Palestinians, Activists Protest Israel's Wall
Islam Online 11/10/2003
JENIN, West Bank, November 9 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - As the world marks the 14th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, hundreds of Palestinians joined by Israeli and foreign peace activists demonstrated Sunday, November 9, in several West Bank cities and villages against Israel's...
Protests Against the Apartheid Wall Continue Worldwide
International Press Center 11/10/2003
GAZA, November10, 2003 (IPC + Agencies)-- Israeli-Palestinian peace groups organized Sunday a protesting march at Zabobia Village of Jenin City, demonstrating the Apartheid wall built by Israel around the West Bank, seizing hundreds of acres of the Palestinian lands in the village. The indigenous dwellers of...
In 14th Anniversary of Removal Berlin Wall, Swiss FM: The Wall Contravenes with the International Law
International Press Center 11/9/2003
GAZA, November 09, 2003 (IPC+Agencies)-- Foreign Affair Minister of Swedish Lalia Frifalds voiced on Saturday that the Jewish colonial settlements and the construction of the apartheid wall by Israel, contravening with the international law and have not assured the security of Israel. “The Israeli...
Millions Worldwide to Demonstrate Tomorrow against Apartheid Wall
International Press Center 11/8/2003
GAZA, November 8, 2003 (IPC + Agencies)-- As part of the international activities that would be held to celebrate the 13thanniversary for the tearing down of Berlin Wall, which has separated Eastern Berlin from Western Berlin for decades, millions of participants will participate in demonstrations and...
Palestinians lead global anti-wall protest
Al-Jazeera 11/8/2003
On the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, Palestinian campaigners will be joined by peace activists across the world to denounce the construction of Israel's so-called apartheid wall. Organised by the one-year-old Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, the Palestinian events are scheduled to take place...
West Bank villagers set up protest tent against Israeli barrier
Miftah 10/23/2003
RAFAT, West Bank (AFP) - Palestinian residents of this small village near Ramallah set up a protest tent in a bid to prevent Israel from seizing land for the construction of its West Bank barrier. Members of the municipal council told AFP they received notice Wednesday...
Women March Against the Wall; Demand right to feed their children
International Solidarity Movement 10/21/2003
Jayyous, Qalqilya] For the first time since the construction of the Separation Wall, Jayyous women will collectively demonstrate their opposition to the Israeli Occupation and the confiscation of their farmland.The Jayyous Women’s Charitable Society will be organizing and leading a women’s march on Thursday, October...
Photos: Mas'ha camp against apartheid wall
Nimrod's photos August 2003
Photos from the protest camp at Mas'ha village where the Israelis are building the wall between the village and its agricultural lands...
Face-Off in Faroun
International Solidarity Movement 9/6/2003
Faroun, TULKAREM] Over 140 villagers from the northern West Bank village of Faroun, accompanied by 15 ISM volunteers (American, British, Canadian, Palestinian and Spanish) successfully opened one of the two gates in the Israeli Wall cutting farmers off from their land. The villagers removed sections...
Wall mural depicts Palestine suffering
Al-Jazeera 9/4/2003
An American peace activist has depicted the suffering of the Palestinians in an amazing wall mural in the West Bank town of Jenin. Sam Tsohonis, 26, says the mural portrays the April 2002 Israeli invasion of the Jenin refugee camp when 300 Palestinian homes were...
Make the wall fall: Let’s make the 9th of November the International Day of Solidarity with Palestinians against the Separation Wall
Palestine Monitor 9/4/2003
The wall must fall! On November 9, 1989 the Berlin Wall – which has become the symbol of shame of the politics of division of the 20th century - was torn down. Now, a new wall must fall!...The Palestine Monitor and the GIPP – Grass Roots International...
Quds University pitches sit-in tent
Palestinian Information Center 9/3/2003
Occupied Jerusalem - The Quds University has pitched a huge sit-in tent to protest Zionist occupation authorities’ confiscation of varsity lands in the Abu Dees village to the east of occupied Jerusalem. Local and foreign solidarity delegations visited that tent pitched on the University’s playgrounds that...
"First of All - the Wall must Fall!"
By Uri Avnery, Gush Shalom 8/30/2003
This slogan was born spontaneously, opposite the Wall in Qalqilya, at the place where it becomes a fence and turns east, penetrating deep into Palestinian territory. On the other side of the wall the Palestinians were demonstrating. We were looking for a short rhyme to...
Palestinian March Against the Wall in Bethlehem
International Middle East Media Center 8/18/2003
Hundreds of Palestinians from the villages of El-Khas and Al-No’aman, east of Bethlehem organized a protest march against the building of the separation wall through their villages. The wall threatens their livelihood on the land and confiscates about 5,000 dunams (about 1250 acres) from their...
Absent voices
By Jonathan Cook, Al-Ahram Weekly on-line 14 - 20 August 2003
As Sharon manoeuvers in the shadow of the roadmap, the shortcomings of the mainstream Israeli peace camp have never been more evident -- This Saturday a convoy of Jewish and Arab Israeli peace activists will venture into the olive groves of Anin, a Palestinian village in...
Palestinians March Against the Separation Wall in Beit Sahour
International Middle East Media Center 8/15/2003
Palestinians and Internationals marched at the separation wall in the Bethlehem district in a demonstration called for by the national and Islamic forces in the Bethlehem area. The march began around one o’clock on Friday from the eastern entrance of the town of Beit Sahour...
Fence gets first Palestinian 'Day of Rage'
Jerusalem Post 8/11/2003
In the context of their campaign against the ongoing construction of the security fence in the West Bank, the Palestinians have declared this coming Friday as a day of "rage" to be marked with protests and rallies. Days of rage in the West Bank and...
Israel detains 47 protesters at West Bank barrier
Sydney Morning Herald 8/6/2003
Israeli troops have detained 47 foreign and Israeli activists, who tried to block the construction of a security barrier through Palestinian land in the West Bank. The pro-Palestinian International Solidarity Movement said it held a sit-in protest at Masha village near Qalqilya in the West...
Peace Activists protest against the Separation wall
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