Thursday, August 24, 2017

Palestine-Israel, The Israeli army returned to the joint struggle after its failure to put end to the weekly demonstrations by its absence*


Bil'in, the symbol of the popular joint struggle of Palestinians, Israelis (with the anarchists against the wall initiative), and internationals, was a site of a year long experiment. The new war minister of Israel tried to extinguish the joint Friday demos by "neglect". The harassments during the demos diminished (first end to the shooting and later refraining from confronting the demos) but the night invasion to harass the village continued. The number of participants diminished gradually but continued. The fact that Bil'in was the only place Palestine could demonstrate without restriction was unbearable... The experiment ended. The Israeli state force is back in the confronting of demos and the shooting of tear gas resumed.
Bil'in
19-5-17 https://www.facebook.com/mohamed.b.yaseen/posts/1235232593242737
https://www.facebook.com/rani.fatah/posts/10212831408003152
12-5-17 https://www.facebook.com/Mohammed.Yasin.photography/posts/887134214759275
26-5-17 Friday; 8 Israelis and about dozen international activists joined about 20 Bil'iners in the 638th demo against occupation, settlers; and in solidarity with the hunger striking prisoners. The Israeli armed forces refrained from "participation" keeping Bil'in Friday demo the only place Palestinians can demonstrate with out being suppressed or interrupted. We marched towards the gate in the wall and there converged for a while before returning to the village.
The punishment come at weeks nights as the occupation forces invade the village and activists homes as a routine harassment.
https://www.facebook.com/rani.fatah/posts/10212960516230777
https://www.facebook.com/mohamed.b.yaseen/posts/1246644105434919
Friday 2-6-17; 8 Israelis and about dozen international activists joined the Bil'iners in the 639th demo against occupation, settlers. The Bil'in Friday demo is still the only place Palestinians can demonstrate with out being suppressed or interrupted. We marched towards the gate in the wall and there converged for a while before returning to the village.
https://www.facebook.com/anatllanat/posts/1195992083843352
https://www.facebook.com/iyad.burnat/posts/1754258717921817
https://www.facebook.com/anatllanat/posts/1195992083843352
Friday 30-6-17, demonstration. 6 Israelis with the AAtW initiative and 4 internationals joined the village activists in the 641st demo in the chain.
Bil'in, Friday 7-7-17, 7 Israelis with the anarchists against the wall, and two international activists joined the village activists in the 642 demo against the occupation and the settlers.
Friday 14-7-17, 8 Israelis with the anarchists against the wall, and two international activists joined the village activists in the 643 demo against the occupation and the settlers.
During the demo, the activists told the settlers who live behind the wall what we think on them and their future.
https://www.facebook.com/anatllanat/posts/1234275463348347
Friday 21-7-17, 8 Israelis with the anarchists against the wall initiative, and one international activist joined the village activists in the 644 demo against the occupation and the settlers. During the lively demo, the activists used loud speakers to tell the settlers who live behind the wall what we think on them and their future.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1240814619361098
https://www.facebook.com/anatllanat/posts/1240814846027742
Friday 28-7-17, Again a lively demo. (The 645 in the chain.) 5 Israeli with the Anarchists Against the Wall initiative, with nearly the whole the village comity were joined after a long absent with a delegation of the Israeli occupation soldiers. We did our march, chanting and knocking on the gate of the wall, The Israeli delegation compensated for their long absence with threats, sound grenades and tear gas canisters we missed for more than half a year.
The ambulance team who were absent many weeks as no army participated had an accurate guess: they came and helped us with the tear gas we were not used to.
After "enjoying" the tear gas for a while we returned to the village.
https://www.facebook.com/mohamed.b.yaseen/posts/1308450225920973
https://www.facebook.com/anatllanat/posts/1247302372045656
Friday 4-8-17, The 646 demo in the twelve and a half years chain. 8 Israelis with the Anarchists Against the Wall initiative, and 5 international activists, joined the village activists. We marched from the Abu Lamun oak grove to the gate in the wall expecting to find there the Israeli occupation soldiers as in the week before. We did our march, chanting prepared for the confrontation in the end of the march. We were really disappointed not to see the soldiers in the new cages on the wall - on the two sides of the gate. Knocking on the gate of the wall, did not help - the soldiers just were not there. Few people used the megaphone to tell the settlers on the other side of the valley what we think on them. After a while we returned to the village with mixed feelings.
11-8-17 As part of my 80th birthday party in Bil'in - 17 Israelis with the anarchists against the wall initiative and a dozen of internationals joined the village activists and guests from Ramallah in the 647th Friday demo against the occupation, the separation wall, and the settlers. We converged at the Abu Lamun oak orchard at noon. We marched from there to the gate in the separation wall - chanting. At the gate we converged for a long while and then returned to the village to continue the party.
https://www.facebook.com/anatllanat/posts/1259802117462348
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1259801494129077&set=a.251868384922398.50041.100002977143527&type=3
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1259801494129077
https://www.facebook.com/anatllanat/posts/1266009763508250
https://www.facebook.com/Mohammed.Yasin.photography/posts/938273832978646


Ni'ilin

19-5-17 In Friday demo against the occupation and settlers, and in solidarity with the hunger striking prisoners: Confrontations at the separation wall And the closure of a street that serves the settlers. It resulted with arrest of a teenager and the injury of several others in cases of suffocation and injuries by metal coated bullets.
16-6-17, Friday 16-6-17 demonstration against occupation, and settlers. 13 Israelis with the anarchists against the wall initiative joined the village activists after the noon prayer among the olive trees in the march towards the separation wall. There was the usual burning of tiers and calling with loudspeaker to the near by settlers. After about an hour we returned to the village.
https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fscontent.fhfa1-1.fna.fbcdn.net%2Fv%2Ft34.0-12%2F19244445_1517952938277102_105576368_n.jpg%3Foh%3D57f22f8d5bf6043660b9647f1f911034%26oe%3D594675BC&h=ATNx8WAGokuQmv_gH_EYR_9MtniIhCtBlY9S2az69UrjygduTKtwPngqmkfudGz-Apz0xloA7k3HCKxNmq-hgFWJ7Nsn2OCkbOs5iqpNM4GLPQg8PBnCqi5wh0dtOgZoaUKUfw
23-6-17, Friday, Another demonstration against occupation, and settlers in the unbreakable chain. 9 Israelis with the anarchists against the wall initiative joined the village activists after the noon prayer among the olive trees in the march towards the separation wall. There was the usual burning of tiers and calling with loudspeaker to the near by settlers. The Israeli occupation army participated only with a buzzing Unmanned hovercraft. After about an hour we returned to the village.
https://www.facebook.com/anatllanat/posts/1215001625275731
https://www.facebook.com/Akhdut/videos/1746724825352695/
Friday, 7-7-17 https://www.facebook.com/oqba.taha/posts/1532895503420447
14-7-17 https://scontent.fhfa1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t34.0-12/20068432_10155366837017696_1575871043_n.jpg?oh=f5c6230834a4cc7d48fe05ec3f261056&oe=596C56BE
Friday 21-7-17, Hundreds of people from Ni'ilin came out after Friday prayers on the ground with slogans condemning occupation and arrogance in Jerusalem, and some have brought up the apartheid wall and have raised Palestinian flags and others. Burned rubber tyres and some cut barbed wire from the concrete wall in the presence of a large number of soldiers from the occupation army who chased the demonstrators and mobilized the so-called border guards on the A Palestinian vehicle speaker and they were driving the car to the street boss, and closed the road to young people and flooded the tear gas village as well as in houses. The Village has been blocked in order to prevent people from coming and coming!
A boy wounded with real bullets in his foot
https://www.facebook.com/LunaDitLulu/posts/1920396764881007
https://www.facebook.com/Mohammed.Yasin.photography/posts/924093791063317
28.7.2017 israel pnm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zshhRGAjyko&feature=youtu.be
4.8.2017 israelpnm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh5O7lEWTU4
11-8-17 On the anniversary of the departure of the free speech Mahmoud Darwish The march of Ni'lin weekly west of the city of Ramallah against the wall and the looting of the land after the prayer in the field away from the pleasures of life from air conditioners and carpets of demonstrators swept the ground and promised the olive trees and chanted slogans against the occupation and raised the Palestinian flags and ignited rubber tires, The army of the occupation in order to arrest the demonstrators but revealed their belongings and chased the boys in the fields after the clashes that took place there
israelpnm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_aE2AjvJS8&feature=youtu.be
https://www.facebook.com/Akhdut/posts/1814984975193346
18-8-17 https://www.facebook.com/LunaDitLulu/posts/1933498556904161
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1829979743686453
https://scontent.ftlv1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t34.0-12/20916115_1593922110680184_359326486_n.jpg?oh=30f0352836dc8f824677683912ca109e&oe=599A1EDA


Nabi Saleh

Friday 5.5.2017 David Reeb https://youtu.be/0vKU9LaJoiA
19-5-17 IOF attacks the demonstration and shots a lot of tear gas cannister and live ammunition rubber bullets 4 Palestinian injuries
https://www.facebook.com/bassem.tamimi/posts/10211890143241287
David Reeb https://youtu.be/KRuEDuNYOzA
22-5-17 Hunger striking prisoners support demo: IOF attacks the demonstration in which 200 person and more participated one child shot in his legs by life bullets
https://www.facebook.com/bassem.tamimi/posts/10211916890629955
26-5-17 The Israeli occupation forces arrested the freedom fighter Miko Peled after attacks the demonstration in Nabi Saleh today and shots a lot of tear gas cannister and live ammunition rubber bullets and pepper spray in the face of people
https://www.facebook.com/bassem.tamimi/posts/10211952415598057
https://www.facebook.com/bassem.tamimi/videos/10211953420183171/
A long article: Fearless Palestinian village of Nabi Saleh defines popular protest - http://mondoweiss.net/2017/05/fearless-palestinian-village
Friday 7.7.2017 The Israeli occupation forces attack the demonstration in Nabi Saleh today and shots a lot of tear gas cannister and live ammunition rubber bullets the clashes continue between freedom fighters and the IOF they declared that the village closed military zone free Palestine
https://www.facebook.com/bassem.tamimi/posts/10212366679714401
21.7.2017 Nabi Saleh today IOF attacks the demonstration and shots a lot of tear gas cannister and live ammunition rubber bullets the youth Yazen Tamimi wounded by life bullets in his leg
28.7.2017 Clashes were taking place in Nabi_Saleh and Zionists forces kept shooting tear gas, steal coated bullets and live ammo.
One injury with steal coated bullet in the face


Sarura

19-5-17 Sumud Freedom Camp https://www.facebook.com/abu.sivan/media_set?set=a.10155353018592500.1073741867.658892499
TODAY 20-5-17: Palestinian activists broke in to the Ofer military court to hang flags and draw graffiti of Marwan Barghouthi, West Bank.
https://www.facebook.com/Activestills/photos/a.10150851802582073.411001.286357017072/10154444859892073/?type=3


Qaddum

10-6-17 https://www.facebook.com/pg/AlMasira.KufurKaddom/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1818560924832619
Saturday 18/06/17 "I will not say their name because the Palestinians get arrested, killed, humiliated at all ages, these two heroes are 7 AND 5 years old and defended their land with all their determination" https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=773850079450202
6-23-2017 At least two weeks already that the police do not arrive to suppress the weekly demonstrations in Kaddum village - only soldiers come. Before that came a combination of policemen and soldiers. This week, as you can see in the video, there are few wounded demonstrators. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tCukZShBOg
7-7-17 The weekly demonstration today of the village was the first demonstration in the seventh year of protests in the village. Ended six years of protests on Friday and Saturday to open the road, freedom of movement and the abolition of apartheid.
In the weekly demonstrations hundreds of participants; However, the Zionist forces, in the form of the Zionist army and the police arrived in order not to allow people to walk the village where they live. They had to prove again and again, like every week there is occupation, there is apartheid.
Two weeks ago, one protester was injured by a rubber bullet in his hand and is still suffering from broken bones. On Sunday, police arrested him, caps And four other village children, aged around age 14 ~ 15. Anyone arrested, wounded in the leg by a rubber bullet and can not walk without crutches. The arrests took place late at night, when the Zionist forces broke into houses. We will continue to fight Zionism until freedom!
14-7-17 David Reeb https://youtu.be/MX2h-_IZxCk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqUdZnIu0Uc
Saturday 29/07/17, during the weekly peaceful demonstration of villagers, a captain and his soldier shot everyone, by rubber bullet, among the affected Palestinians, the young kaled shtewi 12 years and his father mourad, coordinator of the Village.
https://www.facebook.com/doudoune.blondy/media_set?set=a.797714773730399.1073741842.100004756504352&type=3
4-8-17 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ige7j6YWyuk


Don't Say We didn't Know 550

on Saturday, April 29, 2017, 30 settler-colonists from Yitzhar descended upon the neighbouring Palestinian village of 'Urif and stoned houses on the edges of the village. Inhabitants attempted to chase their assailants away. Israeli soldiers who arrived did not prevent the harassment and arrested none of the attackers. They fired tear-gas and rubber coated ammunition at the villagers. The settler-colonists shattered house windows and wounded the owner. The assault on Saturday was not the first to take place, and is not likely to be last.

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On Thursday, May 4, 2017, Israeli government agents escorted by police demolished a home east of Tel Sheva (in the Negev). At Umm Batin (near the Israeli neighborhood of Omer) they demolished a water reservoir and a fence.

Five families from Bat Sara'ia, near Tel Al Milh, were issued demolition orders for all their homes and summoned for police interrogation.


Don’t Say We Didn’t Know 551

On May 4, 2017, agents of the Civil Administration and Mekoro – Israel Water Company – came to the Palestinian village of Bardala, in the northern Palestinian Jordan Valley, and cut water pipes that they claimed were illegally connected. Israeli soldiers hurled tear-gas canisters at Palestinians protesting the disconnection of their pipes.

About 20 years ago, Mekorot drilled deep wells in the village and took over the local water resources. Then the inhabitants were promised a supply of water. In the meantime the village population grew and so did their needs, but Mekorot never agreed to enlarge their water allotment. Therefore local farmers made ‘pirate’ connections to Mekorot pipes. The estimate is that 200 dunams of farm produce have dried up as a result of the pipe-disconnection.

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On Wednesday, May 10, 2017, government agents escorted by police came to the Bedouin village of Sa’awa (east of the town of Hura), and demolished eight residences.

Don’t Say We Didn’t Know 552

Wherever the Separation Barrier is erected inside the occupied territory of the West Bank, this is done in violation of international law. All the regulations the Israeli army implements restricting the Palestinian farmers’ access to their lands beyond this barrier – are blatantly illegal.
In February 2017 the Israeli army stiffened the criteria for issuing entry permits to farmers. Many of them have suffered heavy damages as a result.
Thus, for example, the permit held by R. and his family from Deir Al Ghusun (north of Tul Karm) has become invalid since the end of April. All his efforts to obtain new permits to reach his land have been in vain.
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On Monday and Wednesday (May 15 and 17, 2017) government agents escorted by police demolished homes of Bedouins in the Negev: two homes in Wadi Al Naam, a home in Tel Arad, two homes and a shack in Hasham Zana, two homes in Sawawin, one home in Tel Al Maleh. In Bir Hadaj a family was compelled to demolish six homes. On Wednesday a structure was demolished in Um Batin, two homes and five sheep pens were demolished in Rahma, and – Al Arakib was demolished once more.

Don't say we did not know 553

The practice of ‘administrative detention’ is a blatant contradiction of the principle of fairness of the legal system.

On December 26, 2013, writer Ahmad Qtamash was released from administrative detention, having spent seven years (accumulated) in prison! No sufficient evidence had been provided to convict him in court.

Since his release, Qtamash has not been politically active. On May 17, 2017 the Israeli military commander of the West Bank issued an order of administrative detention against him for another three months.

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On Wednesday and Thursday, May 24-25, 2017, government agents escorted by police conducted demolitions in the Bedouin villages of the Negev. On Wednesday they demolished two homes, destroyed fire wood and waste piles at Wadi Al Naam; In Dahiya, near the Israeli locality of Beit Qama, they demolished a sheep pen and a horses’ stall, uprooted olive tree saplings and destroyed a fence; in Sawawin, near Ar’ara, they destroyed a dwelling. On the next day, at Humra, near Darijat, they demolished a sheep pen and a temporary ranch; at Za’arura, near Kseife, they destroyed olive saplings and a dam; at Gatamat, near ‘Ar’ara, they demolished a dwelling and a sheep pen.



Don’t Say We Didn’t Know 554

Ever since the 1980s, Palestinians of Sarura in the South Hebron Hills have suffered assaults by settler-colonists of Ma’on and Havat Ma’on. In 1997 the last remaining Sarura villagers left because of these assaults by the original Havat Ma’on settler-colonists. Some of their lands were taken over by the same settler-colonists of Ma’on and Havat Ma’on. The villagers continued to cultivate the remaining lands.

On May 19, 2017, Palestinian, Israeli and international non-violence activists put up the Sumud camp at Sarura, in order to resettle the village with its original inhabitants. The Israeli army sequestered property and demolished the camp three times, on May 20, 25 and 29, 2017.

Don't Say We Didn't Know 555

On Thursday night, June 1, 2017, a settler colonist most likely from the illegal outpost in the Um Zuka nature reserve in the northern Occupied Palestinian Jordan Valley sabotaged ten water containers and tore up the tarpaulins sheltering the sheep of a Palestinian shepherd family situated west of the nature reserve. The settler colonist escaped.


Don't Say We Didn't Know 556

In the first report in Hebrew I made mistake, so I tuck it away from the English translation.

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Israel used to refrain from demolitions of Negev Bedouin homes during the Ramadan month. In recent years we have witnessed that Al Arqib was not part of this consideration. Indeed, on Wednesday, June 14, 2017, Al Araqib was demolished again. The Israeli authorities also demolished 2 sheep pens at Sawawin, south of road 25, and in Wadi Al Naam they demolished a storehouse and the floor of a house which the family had demolished itself. Earlier, on June 1, a fruit tree grove and a pile of firewood was destroyed in Hasham Zana, south of road 25, and in Lakia a house was demolished.



Don't Say We Didn't Know 559
On Tuesday, July 18, 2017, Judge Ron Solkin of the Beer Sheva Magistrate Court, sentenced three Bedouins who participated in a protest demonstration at Hura (held on November 30, 2013) to three years in prison and a fine of 25,000 shekels. Two others were sentenced to six months service work, and a 15,000 shekels fine.

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On Thursday, July 20, 2017, government agents escorted by police came for a day of demolitions of Bedouin houses in the Negev. They destroyed a house in Wadi Al Naam, a house near Hura, and a house in Wadi Ghawin, near Mulda.

Don't say we did not know 560

On Saturday, July 27 2017, Odeh Nawajeh, age 17, from Ibzik near the town of Tayasir in the Palestinian Jordan Valley, set out to shepherd his family's flock. And there he met his death from an explosion of a shell left on the ground in the wake of military training in the area.

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On Wednesday, July 26th, government officials accompanied by police arrived for a day of demolitions among the Bedouins in the Negev. They demolished two homes near Segev Shalom (Shaqib al-Salam). In Um Gabu, east of Tel Sheva, a home was demolished for the ninth time and the family's belongings were confiscated. And at Rakhama, near Yeruham, a boy's small chicken coop was demolished.

Don't Say We Didn't Know 561

Farmers from the Palestinian village Jaloud did not receive their permits to harvest their wheat fields, located near the illegal settler outpost of Esh Kodesh. On Thursday, August 3, 2017, their application - filed in the month of May - was finally answered. Arriving at their fields they were shocked to discover that nothing of theirs had remained.

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On Tuesday, August 1, 2017, government agents escorted by police destroyed Al Arakib yet again. On Wednesday, August 2, 2017, at the Bedouin village of Bir Hadaj near Kibbutz Revivim, they destroyed ten dwellings and three shigs (traditional gathering places).


Don't Say You Didn't Know 562



On Tuesday August 8, 2017 a water truck entered the Palestinian cave village of Pakhit in the South Hebron Hills to provide water for the residents. When it left the village Israeli soldiers stopped the truck and confiscated it, claiming that it had entered a military zone.

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On Monday August 7, 2017, under threat by the authorities that they would destroy his storehouse (600 square meters) and that he would pay the demolition costs, the owner of the storehouse destroyed it himself. This occurred in the Negev Bedouin village of Um-Namila, north of Rahat.

Don't say we didn't know 563

The road that leads from Highway 60 to the settlement of Negohot passes through the Palestinian village of Hursa, west of Hebron. On July 25, 2017 Israeli soldiers took over the roof of a house in the village under the procedure known as "straw widow"- which allows them to take over a private home for security needs - ostensibly for 24 hours. The purpose: to provide security for the construction of a guard tower next to the village's public hall and near the school. For more than three weeks now the soldiers have been "living" on the roof of the house.

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On Monday August 14, 2017 government officials accompanied by police demolished Bedouin houses in the Negev – two homes in the village of Sawawin and two homes in the neighboring village of Abu Tlul.

On Thursday August 17, 2017 they continued the demolitions, destroying one home (for the fifth time this year) in Umm Gabo (east of Tel Sheva); in Wadi Guwain (south of Hura) they destroyed a house, an animal pen, a fence and a canal; and in Al Bat (east of Hura) they destroyed a fence and a canal.

For further information: amosg@shefayim.org.il

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* From my blog at: http://ilanisagainstwalls.blogspot.com
See at the blog previous reports about the joint struggles the Anarchists Against the Wall take part in.
See also: Stories from the year 2100 - 50 years after the revolution
http://ilan.shalif.com/anarchy/glimpses/glimpses.html
http://ilan.shalif.com/anarchy/glimpses/glimpses-it.html
http://ilan.shalif.com/anarchy/glimpses/glimpses-heb.html

Saturday, May 6, 2017

Palestine-Israel - One apartheid state nearing 50th birthday and the tension rise*


The focus on the Israel-Palestine one apartheid state is more and more in the world media. The fear of Europe - mainly from the extreme Muslim terror, combined with the B.D.S. movement, increase the pressure on Israel. Even US call for at least partial retreat from 1967 conquest of the remaining Palestinian region. The sham excuse Israel will retreat only with final peace agreement in which the Palestinians renounce the right of return of the 1948 refugees is exposed when even the Hamas agree on 1967 borders. Frustrated from the Palestinian Authority yielding to the Israeli needs the Fatah opposition initiated the prisoners hunger strike of 1700 inmates which may ignite a mass revolt of the Palestinians of the west bank. Meanwhile, the harassment of the non-armed joint struggle of grass root village activists and the Israeli anarchists against the wall, that was a bit dormant seems to be ignited again marked with the use live ammunition in Nabi Saleh (taking advantage of the absent of Israelis).


Bil'in

The big anniversary demo of 17-2-17
https://www.facebook.com/Activestills/videos/10154200118462073/
24-2-17, The first Friday demo of the 13th year of struggle. 3 Israelis of the anarchists against the wall (and 2 additional Israelis), 5 volunteers of the red crescent from Ramalla, and 10 internationals joined the village activists and kids. We marched chanting from the Abu Lamun oak wood to the gate in the wall. We knocked on the gate, kids climbed on the wall and tried in vain to force open the gate. The Israeli state forces refused to respond to the challenge for a long while. We returned to the village with mixed feelings.
https://www.facebook.com/anatllanat/posts/1105119022930659
https://www.facebook.com/mohamed.b.yaseen/posts/1160125377420126
https://www.facebook.com/rani.fatah/posts/10212058007588625
3-3-17, 7 Israelis, 10 internationals, and village activists marched in the Friday demo from Abu Lamun oak wood to the gate in the separation wall. Chanting all the way there and knocking intensely on the gate when we arrived... but no Israeli state forces came to meet us. After a long while and a short sightseeing for the internationals we returned to the village.
https://www.facebook.com/LunaDitLulu/posts/1850763401844344
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1850761455177872
https://www.facebook.com/iyad.burnat/posts/1638540936160263
https://www.facebook.com/mohamed.b.yaseen/posts/1165571936875470
10-3-17 Friday, 7 Israelis were blocked from reaching the joint demo by 10 army and police cars who road-blocked the three roads leading to the village. The demo was as usual without the participation of the Israeli state forces....but only Bil'iners and internationals could participate. Israeli forces closed the roads to the village of Bil'in from all directions to prevent the 7 Israelis who tried to participate.
https://www.facebook.com/mohamed.b.yaseen/posts/1171600176272646
Rumours say it was a kind of weird reprisal act for the previous night action (of people not related to the joint struggle) who tried to force open the gate of the separation wall.
After failing to cross the road blocks we could only look from the near by hill the clashes between Bil'iners and the soldiers of the road block between Kharbata and Bil'in. A 14 year old youth from Bil'in was arrested in the classes near the road block on the way from 433 high way and Bil'in.
https://www.facebook.com/mohamed.b.yaseen/posts/1171600176272646
Bil'in, Friday 17-3-17. 7 Israelis with the anarchists against the wall, more than 20 internationals, and 15 from Ramalla joined the village activists in the weekly demo against the occupation and the settlers dedicated to the memory of Rachel Corrie (ISM activist martyred in Rafa).
After converging at the Abu Lamun oak orchard we marched chanting to the near by separation wall. There we declare our opinions to the near by settlement of Modi'in Elit.
After a while we marched along the wall to the closed gate there we continue the demo for a long while before returning to the village.
https://www.facebook.com/boaz.adv/posts/10155057214767243
https://www.facebook.com/drrateb.aburahmah/posts/10212348775737462
https://www.facebook.com/anatllanat/posts/1123678491074712
https://www.facebook.com/haytham.alkhateeb/posts/10210978011539231
https://www.facebook.com/mohamed.b.yaseen/posts/1177908755641788
24-3-17 Friday demo. 6 Israelis with the anarchists against the wall initiative and 10 internationals joined the village activists. We converged at the Abu Lamun oak wood at noon and marched chanting to the gate in the wall. After long knocking on the gate trying to summon the Israeli force guarding the wall and the gate - getting no response we gave up. After socialising with the internationals we returned to the village.
https://www.facebook.com/anatllanat/posts/1129637707145457
https://www.facebook.com/mohamed.b.yaseen/posts/1184600464972617
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10211043041444938
30/3/17, Friday, The Day Of the Land demonstration. 6 Israelis with the anarchists against the wall initiative joined 10 Internationals and dozen and a half Palestinians marched from the Abu Lamun oak wood to the gate in the wall - chanting and holding flags. The Israeli state forces were absent as usual lately. Still hard to get used to be the only village permitted a free from suppression demonstration against the occupation and the settlers.
https://www.facebook.com/mohamed.b.yaseen/posts/1191136007652396
https://www.facebook.com/haytham.alkhateeb/posts/10211107279210842
https://www.facebook.com/mohamed.b.yaseen/posts/1191136007652396
Bil'in, Friday 7-4-17. 9 Israelis with the anarchists against the wall initiative, about 20 international activists, and 20 villagers marched along the separation wall chanting against the occupation, the separation wall, and the settlers. Only one soldier looked on us for few minutes and a drone hovering above represented the Israeli armed forces. After a long gathering, hanging flags on the wall, and burning tiers in front of the gate we returned to the village.
https://www.facebook.com/basem.yasen/videos/1649097448437039/
https://www.facebook.com/anatllanat/posts/1143225595786668
https://www.facebook.com/rani.fatah/posts/10212480980482683
14-4-17 The 632th Friday demo against the separation fence/wall in the chain the Israeli state failed to tear. 11 Israelis with the anarchists against the wall initiative' joined more than a dozen internationals, and the village people in the march towards the gate in the wall. A huge bonfire of old tires in front of the gate was a background for a long gathering and picture taking. A lone armed car of the army passed on the road behind the wall - activating its siren in a weird announcing of their unseen passing presence.
Bil'in Friday demo, by its unique place where Palestinians can demonstrate without Israeli state interference and suppression direct a virtual powerful projector to all the other places and activities of suppressed protests.
https://www.facebook.com/boaz.adv/posts/10155143467192243
21-4-17 Friday, the 633th demo against the occupation, the separation fence/wall, and the settlers in the chain the Israeli state failed to tear. 6 Israelis with the anarchists against the wall initiative, joined about a dozen of international activists, and the village people in the march towards the gate in the wall. The theme of the day was solidarity with hunger strike of the Palestinian prisoners. We marched to the gate in the wall chanting holding a banner and flags of Marwan Burguty. When we arrived at the gate only few soldiers were hiding beyond the wall - seen only by youth who climbed on the wall. A black cloud from a bonfire of old tires in front of the gate was carried to the near by settlement. After a long vigil we returned to the village.
https://www.facebook.com/rani.fatah/posts/10212628109880826
https://www.facebook.com/mohamed.b.yaseen/posts/1212935908805739
https://www.facebook.com/mohamed.b.yaseen/posts/1220361104729886
28-4-17 Bil'in Friday 28-4-17 demo. 8 Israelis with the anarchists against the wall joined two dozen Palestinians in the 634th demonstration against occupation, separation wall and settlers. The theme of the day was solidarity with the hunger striking prisoners. The Israeli soldiers which were murderous in the other demos of the day were were very few and hide behind the wall so we could not even see them. We marched from the Abu Lamun oak wood towards the gate in the wall chanting. At the gate a big bonfire of old tiers was lit hoping the wind will blow the smoke towards the orthodox settlement. Kids climbed the wall and hanged the Palestinian flag on it. After a long convergence and photographing with the young children we returned to the village.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1166116186830942
https://www.facebook.com/mohamed.b.yaseen/posts/1220361104729886
https://www.facebook.com/rani.fatah/posts/10212697349731779
https://www.facebook.com/Mohammed.Yasin.photography/posts/875737022565661
Bil'in, Friday 5-5-17 demonstration. 3 Israeli anarchists, and two international activists joined about 10 activists of the village in the 635th demo against the wall, the occupation and the settlers. The Israeli forces intended to capture the stone thrower kids so they left a notice about a closed military zone along the road to the wall and spread groups of soldiers and border police in the fields between the wall and the route of the dismantled fence near the village. We marched chanting towards the gate in the wall but before reaching it we started to return and confronted the invading soldiers in the field. As there were no throwing stones kids the state force just harassed us threatened us with arrests because we were in a closed military zone... and detained two of the village activists.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1406354789404022
https://www.facebook.com/drrateb.aburahmah/posts/10212840576552175
https://www.facebook.com/mohamed.b.yaseen/posts/1228908147208515

Hebron

24-2-17 Hundreds marched today for the annual “Open Shuhadaa Street” protest in the occupied city of Hebron. Shuhadaa street in the old city used to be a lively market place, but was abruptly shut down by the Israeli military following the Goldstein Massacre of 1994. Barukh Goldstein, a settler and military doctor, fired at Muslim worshippers at the Ibrahimi mosque in the early hours of 25 February, 1994, killing 29 of them and wounding another 125. In the wake of subsequent violence, the Israeli military closed Shuhadaa street to Palestinians, shuttering stores and forcing residents off public spaces. Today, only Jewish settlers and their guests are allowed to move through the bulk of Shuhadaa street. Protesters chanted against the ongoing closure, against the ghettoization of Hebron and the continued settlement project that disrupt the daily lives of Palestinian civilians. The Israeli army dispersed protesters with barrages of tear gas. No serious injuries or arrests reported.
For more photos, Please click on the link: https://schwarczenberg.com/open-shuhadaa-street-hebron-2017

Nabi Saleh

3-3-17 Friday demo, Update from Manal (from approx 5 hours ago): "Clashes are still going on #Nabi_Saleh and soldiers keep shooting live bullets and tear gas canisters".
IOF attack Palestinian, Israeli and international activists who marched to the fresh water spring located on land belonging to residents of Nabi Saleh, which has been stolen by settlers from the illegal Israeli colony of Halamish.....we will continue to take our wright's and end the suffering of our population to make Palestine free of occupation
https://www.facebook.com/rasha.hirzallah/videos/1291336954292430/
https://www.facebook.com/bassem.tamimi/posts/10211168976892579
21-4-17 In solidarity with the hunger striking Palestinian political prisoners, residents of the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh marched and confronted the Israeli army. The strike was launched on Prisoner’s Day, 17 April, and included thousands of political prisoners of different factions. The prisoners demand immediate improvement to the conditions of their incarceration, such as access to education, phones, family visits etc. The Israeli state retaliated against the leadership of the prisoners, especially against Marwan Barghouti, by relocating them to different jails and placing them in solitary confinement. Marchers waved the Fatah flags, chanted against administrative detention, and call for the release of political prisoners and against the ongoing occupation and land confiscations. The Israeli army attempted to disperse protesters with tear gas, rubber- and sponge-encased steel bullets. No major injuries or arrests reported.
For more photos, Please click on the link: https://schwarczenberg.com/nabi-saleh-21042017
Friday demo. The theme of the day was solidarity with hunger strike of the Palestinian prisoners https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=825314100942618
https://www.facebook.com/bassem.tamimi/posts/10211637787812559
26-4-17 A strong clashes taking a place this Friday demo in #Nabi_Saleh and one injury with live ammunition. Soldiers attack the demonstration and shots a lot of tear gas cannister and live ammunition four youths shots by life bullets in there legs and one by tear gas cannister in the head they are in hospital for treatment after the army stopped the ambulance for one hour
https://www.facebook.com/btamimins/posts/1812820299045474
https://www.facebook.com/manal.tamimi.12/videos/1409389605751080/
israelpnm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIskqUs2VJs
5-5-17 Israeli soldiers shot and injured, Friday, eight Palestinians, including five with live fire, and caused scores to suffer the effects of tear-gas inhalation, in Nabi Saleh village, north of Ramallah, in central West Bank.

Qaddum

3-3-17 Friday demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN4d0i4GQ1k
24-3-27 Friday demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8NqBEO1deY
14-4-2017 Friday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HKsPqowAGo

Ni'ilin

3-3-17 Friday demo
https://antinarrativeblog.com/2017/03/04/%D9%86%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86-nilin-3-3-2017/
17-3-17 https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10155054229353563
http://antinarrativeblog.com/2017/03/18/%d9%86%d8%b9%d9%84%d9%8a%d9%86-nilin-17-3-2017
24-3-27 Friday demo David Reeb https://youtu.be/SXZRMVGotko
https://antinarrativeblog.com/2017/03/25/%D9%86%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86-nilin-24-3-2017/
https://www.facebook.com/guy.butavia/posts/10155149266877138
31.3.2017 Israel Puterman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yKuNBEqLkE
Yaron ben-haim https://antinarrativeblog.com/2017/04/02/%D9%86%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86-nilin-31-3-2017/
7-4-17 israelpnm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0KPwDryzoo
Yaron ben-haim https://antinarrativeblog.com/2017/04/11/%D9%86%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86-nilin-7-4-2017/
14-4-17 The IOF shot and arrested our friend Muhamed Ameera at Ni'lin weekly demo he in the hospital now . Inshallah he recover soon and back to his children and family
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1695240397156983
04/21/2017 israelpnm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEc9gQZhB_k
David Reeb
Date: https://youtu.be/FCW64aGsBks

Uja

21-4-17 https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1845053619076950&id=100007169887222


Don’t Say We Didn’t Know 540
Settlers from the illegal outpost Havat Ma’on in the South Hebron Hills habitually assault Palestinian children of the cave-dweller hamlets in the area who are forced to walk close to the outpost on their way to school in Tawane and back. In 2004 the assailants seriously wounded two international accompanists. Ever since then, the Israeli army has been escorting the children. All these years the Israeli police, West Bank region, ‘manages’ not to know of the assaults, nor to arrest the assailants.
On Wednesday, February 15, 2017, the escorting army Jeep did not arrive to do its work and accompany the children on their way from their school in Tawane back to their hamlets. The children chose to take the longer way in order to avoid passing by Havat Ma’on. In spite of their efforts not to run into colonists, these lay in wait for them and attacked.
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On Wednesday, February 22, 2017, government agents escorted by police arrived at Bedouin villages in the Negev, and ploughed grain fields belonging to the Bedouins, in order to destroy their future crops: In Rahma near Yeruham, and at Al Sadir, west of Ar’ara. They also demolished a home in Abu Grinat, south of road 25.

Sheikh Jarrah

every Friday, protesting their violent evictions from their homes,the taking over of the neighbourhood by the settlers, and the Judaization of East Jerusalem.They call upon each and every person who supports their struggle to join them. Please make an effort and join them this April 28for a vigil in support of their struggle.Attention: The vigil will start at 4:00 Pm We will meet at the Sheikh Jarrah Garden, on the new side-walk, Nablus Road and Dahlmann St.
Don’t Say We Didn’t Know 541

Until recently Israeli soldiers were the ones acting to expel Palestinians from the Jordan Valley. In the past few months, settler-colonists have joined this activity, now living in new ‘illegal’ outposts erected at Al Hema and Umm Zuka, in the northern Palestinian Jordan Valley.

On Wednesday March 1, 2017, settler-colonists from Umm Zuka stole four donkeys from Palestinian shepherds of Al Malih. When required to return them, they admitted that they had handed over the donkeys to the Civil Administration. Naturally, none of the robbers has been arrested nor would be brought to court. The Palestinians are required to pay to get their donkeys back.

On Saturday, March 4, settlers-colonists of the outpost at Al Hema attacked Palestinian shepherds. Soldiers who arrived late at the scene, arrested a Palestinian instead of the assailants.

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On Tuesday, February 28, 2017, government agents escorted by police demolished Bedouin homes in the Negev: one near Kseifa, one in Abu Tlul near road 35, and one at Hashem Zana near Moshav Nevatim.

Don't Say We Didn't Know 542
Settler colonists from the new outpost above the hamlet of Al Hema in the northern Palestinian Jordan Valley keep threatening and assaulting their Palestinian neighbours. None of the assailants has been arrested.
On Sunday, March 5, 2017, settler-colonists from the outpost assaulted Palestinian shepherds of Al Hema..
On Tuesday, March 7, two armed settler-colonists entered Al Hema itself and threatened its inhabitants. Later they attacked shepherds.
On Friday March 10, settler-colonists came riding on mini-tractors with dogs and chased shepherds away from their grazing area. This time the shepherds were not escorted by Israeli or international human rights activists.
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On Sunday through Tuesday, March 5-7, Israeli government agents escorted by police destroyed grain crops in Bedouin villages in the Negev: at Umm Batin near road 60, at Al Fura'a near road 31, and at Rahma near Yeruham and in Wadi Al Na'am south of Beer Sheva.
On Thursday, March 9, they demolished Al Arakib yet again.

Don't Say We Didn't Know 543

On Sunday, March 12, 2017, Palestinians were working, paving an access road to the fields of Turmus Aya village, located in Area B. Israeli soldiers fired teargas grenades and 'rubber bullets' (metal covered in rubber) without any warning. The workers left. Only after intervention by the DCO did the soldiers leave and the Palestinians resumed their work.

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On Monday and Tuesday, March 13-14, government agents escorted by police came to Bedouins' fields in the Negev and destroyed their crops - near Nevatim Junction, near Al Sara, Tel Al Milh (all close to the army base at Nevatim) and at Kseife. On Thursday, March 16, they destroyed dams with which the Bedouins store rainwater that enables them to cultivate summer crops- at Tel Arashid, east of the town of Hura, at Um Batin, near Omer, and in Hura.

Don't say we did not know 544

On Wednesday March 22, 2017, Palestinian farmers of the village Bourin went out to cultivate their lands. Note: this was in coordination with with the Israeli army. Settler-colonists who came from Yitzhar attacked them. The soldiers did not arrest the attackers. An army officer demanded of the farmers to leave the area.

Don't Say We Didn't Know 545

On Monday, March 28, 2017, Israeli soldiers came to the Palestinian village of Al-Rifa'iya (near the town of Yatta in the South Hebron Hills) and demolished a greenhouse, as well as confiscating the tree saplings that were growing in the nursery.

Don't Say We Didn't Know 546

Settler colonists of Yitzhar, Beracha and their outposts frequently attack the Palestinian villagers of Bourin.

On Saturday, April 1, 2017, settler colonists from the illegal outpost of Seneh Yaacov (near Beracha) descended towards the Palestinian village of Bourin. They threw stones at homes in the village. Soldiers who were present did not prevent the assault nor arrest them. When youngsters of the village began to throw stones back at them, the soldiers fired rubber (rubber coated steel pellets) ammunition and teargas and stun grenades at the Palestinians. The soldiers also grabbed a donkey from Bourin and passed it on to the settler colonists

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On Wednesday, April 5, 2017, Israeli government agents escorted by police once more demolished the Negev Bedouin village of Al Arakib.

​Don't Say We Didn't Know 547

​On Wednesday, April 5, 2017, Israeli soldiers came to the Palestinian village of Umm Al Uber, near Zubeidat, in the northern Palestinian Jordan Valley, and uproot 540 date palm saplings, just one year old, and destroyed 30 dunams of melons. A week earlier they uprooted date palm saplings near Jericho.

Don't Say We Didn't Know 548

In violation of international law, ten Israeli quarries operate inside the West Bank, and another is about to be opened.

On Wednesday, April 19, 2017, agents of the Civil Administration escorted by soldiers handed orders to cease work to a Palestinian quarry owner south of the Palestinian village of Beit Umar, and confiscated a bulldozer and bugger which they transported to nearby Israeli settler-colony of Karmei Tzur.

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On Thursday, April 20, 2017, Israeli government agents escorted by police came to Bedouin villages in the Negev for a day of home demolitions. They destroyed two houses at Al Sayed, near the town of Hura, two homes at at Al Za'arura, east of Kseife, and a house in Al Fur'a near the Israeli town of Arad.

Don’t Say We Didn’t Know 549

Here is a testimony given by a member of the Jahalin tribe living in Ujja (north of Jericho), to visitors on tour of the peace movements in the Palestinian Jordan Valley (Friday, April 28, 2017) as noted by Nurit Popper.

“We have been living in Ujja for 30 years with our sheep and goat flocks. We were living quietly until 2008. Then trouble began. Settler-colonists from the hilltop outposts above Ujja began to descend to our grazing areas and threaten and assault us.

In 2008 they stol 75 of our goats and sheep. We complained to the police but in vain.
3 years ago 90 goats and sheep were stolen. Some were taken to the settler-colony and others to further locations. In spite of the fact that we know who the thieves are and even lodged a complaint, the police never intervened and the stolen livestock was never returned to us.

Because of the repeated assaults and thefts by the settler-colonists we have lost our grazing area. We have had to close our livestock in corrals and feed it with purchased feed. We have been compelled to take other types of work, our lives have become impossible in this area. Lately, volunteers from the peace movements such as Guy and Arik who accompanied us to our grazing area were beaten up, paying a steep price for their will to prevent injustice.”

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On Tuesday, April 25, 2017, government agents escorted by police demolished Al Arakib (Negev Bedouin village) yet again.

For further information: amosg@shefayim.org.il

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* From my blog at: http://ilanisagainstwalls.blogspot.com
See in the blog previous reports about the joint struggles the Anarchists Against the Wall take part in.
See also: Stories from the year 2100 - 50 years after the revolution
http://ilan.shalif.com/anarchy/glimpses/glimpses.html
http://ilan.shalif.com/anarchy/glimpses/glimpses-it.html
http://ilan.shalif.com/anarchy/glimpses/glimpses-heb.html

Friday, February 17, 2017

Palestine-Israel, Celebrating a 12 years of persistent struggle in Bil'in and a small victory*



Regional change and new Israeli war minister who is clearly against annexation of additional of parts of Palestine (and even for cutting parts annexed 1948) resulted in the diminishing of the suppression of the non armed popular struggle. For months the Israeli forces diminished the harassment of the Friday demos of villages activists and the Israeli anarchists against the wall. In bil'in they nearly stopped entirely any shooting of tear gas and bullets, seldom tried to stop us from approaching the separation wall... The participants of the big demo of the 12th year celebration could not see even one soldier till the end of the demo when kids forced open the gate of the wall and resulted in a mildest ever response. The failure of the big plan of US to subvert the countries of the region as it exported terror (Al Quida, Daesh and Shieh advances) forced it to compromises with Iran, Rojave, (and probably with Syrian Assad, Russia and the Palestinians).


Bil'in

Friday 18-11-16. The 660th weekly demonstration. 7 Israelis with the anarchists against the wall initiative and 3 international activists joined the village activist in a demo dedicated to the Ni'ilin activist Saleh Hawaghah of the coordination comity arrested few weeks ago with bogus accusations. This week the state forces blocked our way to the separation wall near the route of the dismantled separation fence. During the confrontation they threatened us with arrests and detained one photographer whom they released at the end of the demonstration.
https://www.facebook.com/rani.fatah/posts/10211056344667678
https://www.facebook.com/anatllanat/posts/1022238247885404
https://www.facebook.com/haytham.alkhateeb/posts/10209829908037361
https://www.facebook.com/drrateb.aburahmah/posts/10211141940847344
https://www.facebook.com/mohamed.b.yaseen/posts/1064190183680313
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1064187487013916
25-11-16 Friday demonstration 25-11-16. 7 Israelis of the anarchists against the wall initiative, and 10 internationals, joined the village activists in the march to the gate of the separation wall. The Israeli state forces waited for us near the gate and demanded our immediate return to the village - threatening us with arrests. At a bargain they allowed us to protest there for 5 minutes and later extended it to another 15 minutes. After vain efforts of months the commander learned my name, came and held my arm complaining I stayed more than the allotted 20 minutes and then "urged" me to return to the village faster.
https://www.facebook.com/mohamed.b.yaseen/posts/1070450019720996
https://www.facebook.com/haytham.alkhateeb/posts/10209890072421433
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1029448340497728
2-12-16 In the first rainy Friday of the winter, 5 Israelis and 4 international activists joined 6 Bil'iners and two other Palestinian activists in the never breaking chain of Friday demos of the nearly 12 years. When we arrived near the gate of the separation wall, the Israeli armed forces waited for us near to the gate. As usual, they declared the area as closed military zone forbidding us from staying there. As usual they threatened us with arrests. As usual we refused to go away and bargained for a short time demo. We staid near the gate for a while, then for a longer time a bit farther from the soldiers... till we yielded to the whether and returned to the village.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1035742616534967
https://www.facebook.com/anatllanat/posts/1035734976535731
https://www.facebook.com/drrateb.aburahmah/posts/10211275247659931
9-12-16 Bil'in my love... 9-12-16 Friday demonstration. 9 Israelis with the anarchists against the wall initiative Joined dozen and a half international activists and the Bil'iners in a demo against the separation wall, the settlers an occupation dedicated to the memory of the martyr ziad abu ein. The Israeli border police force blocked our way to the separation wall near the route of the dismantled separation fence at the memorial of the village martyr Bassem (Fil). After about half an hour of confronting the police we returned to the village.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1035742616534967
https://www.facebook.com/haytham.alkhateeb/posts/10210027712662353
https://www.facebook.com/hamde.a.rahma/videos/1791205911149778/
https://www.facebook.com/mohamed.b.yaseen/posts/1088923011207030
https://www.facebook.com/anatllanat/posts/1042258712550024
16-12-16 Bil'in, 16-12-16 Friday demo. As usual lately small crowd and a surprising event. 5 Israelis of the anarchists against the wall initiative joined about 10 international activists and the village activists. The demo was dedicated to the martyr Ziad Abu Ein - killed in a demo in other village. After converging at the oak orchard Abo Lamun near the separation wall we marched along it towards the gate in its north. When we approached there, a small unit of soldiers waited for us near the gate. We had a long but mild confrontation with the Israeli state forces. More than half an hour they threatened us with arrests - pacifically local and Israeli activists they call by the name... but only detained for a while only one international activists. They even threw one tear gas grenade... and took our pictures... but during the confrontation one of the village activists was not feeling well so the commander ordered one of the soldiers to bring him a bottle of water. After nearly twelve years of Friday demonstrations surprises still.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1047908731985022
https://www.facebook.com/iyad.burnat/posts/1538528076161550
https://www.facebook.com/anatllanat/posts/1047909421984953
https://www.facebook.com/mohamed.b.yaseen/posts/1097377787028219
https://www.facebook.com/abdallah.aburahma.3/posts/1217396558346652
23-12-16 https://www.facebook.com/abdallah.aburahma.3/posts/1224255134327461
https://www.facebook.com/iyad.burnat/posts/1546610808686610
6-1-17 The ever strangest demonstration. 7 Israelis joined similar number of international and the village activists in the weekly demo. We converged at the Abu Lamun oak wood and marched along the separation wall to the gate in it with the usual chants. When we arrived there the Israeli state forces waited with armoured cars out of the gate and presented us with the closed military zone paper and ordered us to return to the village - as they did often last months. The surprise was that when we ignored it and continue waking to the gate - they did nothing. People became bold and climbed on the armoured cars... and still just mild protest of the state force commander.
After a while a group of youth started to confront the soldiers near the margin of the demo: they threw on them soldiers two tear gas grenade and lot of stones. In response, the state force retreated behind the wall and closed the gate, and later started to shoot tear gas canisters on the youngsters.
After a while, village activists succeeded to call the youngsters back and we all retuned to the village.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1118251641607500
https://www.facebook.com/mohamed.b.yaseen/posts/1118252414940756
https://www.facebook.com/iyad.burnat/posts/1572326979448326
https://www.facebook.com/drrateb.aburahmah/posts/10211650196753424
https://www.facebook.com/taki.bornat/posts/1317985974889959
https://www.facebook.com/mohamed.b.yaseen/posts/1118416731590991
https://www.facebook.com/anatllanat/posts/1063592303749998
13-1-17 Friday demo: 9 Israelis with the anarchists against the wail (including 3 members of the anarchist-communist Ahdut-Unity) joined 10 internationals and the village activists. The theme was as usual against occupation and the settlers with added mentioning of Al Kuds (Jerusalem).
The Israeli state forces kept very low profile - played as if they were not behind the gate and did not respond to any "invitation". After a long while we matched from the gate along the wall to a point near the Abu Lamun oak wood. There youngsters climbed on the wall - hanging Palestinian flags.
Only after a kid cut the surveillance electronic cable the soldiers showed their presence, shot us lot of tear gas grenades and even shot a bullet on the head of one of the kids and injured him. After first aid he was taken to the hospital.
https://www.facebook.com/mohamed.b.yaseen/posts/1123678464398151
https://www.facebook.com/Mohammed.Yasin.photography/posts/818920364913994
https://www.facebook.com/drrateb.aburahmah/posts/10211717927286645
https://www.facebook.com/rani.fatah/posts/10211649113686533
israelpnm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEz29xxrQx4
20-1-17
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1074250889350806
https://www.facebook.com/anatllanat/posts/1074251939350701
https://www.facebook.com/drrateb.aburahmah/posts/10211785091925719
https://www.facebook.com/mohamed.b.yaseen/posts/1129577263808271
https://www.facebook.com/Mohammed.Yasin.photography/posts/822394744566556
https://www.facebook.com/rani.fatah/posts/10211718915231528 ***********
27-1-17 https://www.facebook.com/anatllanat/posts/1081191355323426
3-2-17 Today we surfed on the waves of anger against the separation wall and the settlers - 9 Israelis, 9 in a delegation from Ramallah, 5 internationals and about dozen of the village activists. We marched along the wall up to the gate in it - chanting as usual. The Israeli armed forces showed themselves on the hill behind the separation fence and later on the wall itself but refrained from any communication. After a long while when activists expressed what we think on them, we returned to the village.
https://www.facebook.com/anat.matar/posts/1242941382450068
https://www.facebook.com/mohamed.b.yaseen/posts/1141933162572681
10-2-17 The 623 Friday demo - in a preparation to the next Friday celebration of 12 years of joint struggle against the occupation and the settlers robbers. 10 Israelis with the anarchists against the wall initiative with about ten internationals and a delegation of 10 from Ramallah joined the village activists in a one sided demonstration the Israeli state forces refrained from participation. Only a passing armoured car on the road behind the wall remind us we are not alone... In preparation for the demo we converged at the Abu Lamun oak wood near the wall. We marched from there - with placards and chants, to the gate in the northern part of the wall. After a prolonged knocking on the gate of the wall that did not bring any response we marched along the wall to the south were we confronted some settlers who converged on the other side of the wall till the end of the demo wondering if the Israeli state force will be present at the next Friday celebrations.
https://www.facebook.com/anatllanat/posts/1093589307416964
https://www.facebook.com/mohamed.b.yaseen/posts/1148251385274192
https://www.facebook.com/rani.fatah/posts/10211925681960567
Bil'in, Friday, 17-2-17, 12th anniversary of the joint struggle against the occupation and settlers. About 60 Israelis of the anarchists against the wall and the local villagers joined international activists, Palestinians from near and far cities and villages. At noon, we marched from the village centre with flags banners, and chants towards the separation wall that replaced the old separation fence. After converging for a while at the wall near the Abu Lamun oak orchard we marched along the wall to the gate in its northern side. There we converged for a bit longer... but the Israeli state forces just stayed behind the wall. Only at the end of the demo when youngster succeeded to force the gate open, the soldiers responded. They came with their armoured cars and attacked the youth - detained three of them for a while. Two injured youth were taken to the hospital for treatment.
https://www.facebook.com/bmansour1/posts/10210965134197289
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10210965045635075
https://www.facebook.com/haytham.alkhateeb/posts/10210712989633849
https://www.facebook.com/rani.fatah/posts/10211993851864772


Ni'ilin

Friday 18-11-16 In Solidarity with the prisoner rehabilitation khawaja its out weekly Na'alin march filed which Palestinian media images captured salah while occupying army participants faced a barrage of gas bombs led to suffocation. Many can't get enough of occupation that following the end of the parade of homes attacked the south side with a barrage of gas bombs.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1242672765805122
israelpnm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YHpGMPUZg4
25-11-16 Friday
israelpnm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNCx5p1cf70
09.12.2016 israelpnm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mUddwzZOkQ
16/12/16 https://www.facebook.com/muhamed.ameera/posts/1287581274647604
24-12-16 israelpnm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIP0Ozb1vxo
6-1-17 https://antinarrativeblog.com/2017/01/06/%D9%86%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86-nilin-6-1-2017/
https://www.facebook.com/muhamed.ameera/posts/1319200648152333
13-1-17 https://www.facebook.com/muhamed.ameera/posts/1325480204191044
27-1-17 https://www.facebook.com/muhamed.ameera/posts/1342389562500108
https://www.facebook.com/LunaDitLulu/posts/1834185113502173
https://www.facebook.com/messages/t/100001872326801
https://antinarrativeblog.com/2017/01/28/%D9%86%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86-nilin-27-1-2017/
3-2-17 https://www.facebook.com/LunaDitLulu/posts/183766642315404
israelpnm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C1EZZsouZY
David Reeb https://youtu.be/xXT8xBIxNig
02/10/2017 Arbor day: israelpnm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vBmZ8WXTZo


Evacuation of the new Palestinian "village" Yasser. III

We left with the several dozen Palestinians activists of the non-violent protest against the occupation. We set up a protest tent next to an Israeli settler outpost in the Jordan Valley. The protest was against a lot of things, but especially against the demolition of buildings in the Jordan valley area C (32 buildings have been demolished in recent months in the immediate area). The establishing of outposts by the settlers embittering the lives of Palestinian residents and others. Our protest was declared by police and soldiers an illegal demonstration.
After about four hours we were attacked with great violence: beatings with rifle butts, stun grenades, gas, rubber bullets and pepper spray. Two Israelis were arrested, four Palestinians were evacuated to a hospital and several other injured were treated on the spot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwMcTDJIhe8
https://www.facebook.com/mhmad.hmdan.77/videos/719690671527341/
English http://972mag.com/the-different-ways-israel-treats-jewis…/…/
Arabic http://www.alquds.com/pdf/1479450255423969200/1479450278000/
30-12-16 The last Friday demo of the year. 9 Israelis and about dozen international activists joined the Bil'iners in the demo dedicated to the memory of the Martyr Jawaher Abu Rahma Killed by tear gas in the 31-12-2010 demo. After converging at the Abu Lamun oak orchard we marched chanting along the separation wall to the gate in its north. This Friday the Israeli state forces remained behind the wall and just criticize us for the violation of the claim of non armed demo as few youngster threw stones near the demo at the gate.
After a long while we returned to the village.
https://www.facebook.com/rani.fatah/posts/10211519445124900
https://www.facebook.com/haytham.alkhateeb/videos/10210246033200230/
https://www.facebook.com/anatllanat/posts/1058138987628663
https://www.facebook.com/haytham.alkhateeb/posts/10210245672471212
https://www.facebook.com/Mohammed.Yasin.photography/posts/811141415691889
https://www.facebook.com/haytham.alkhateeb/videos/10210246033200230/
https://www.facebook.com/anatllanat/posts/1058138987628663
https://www.facebook.com/haytham.alkhateeb/posts/10210245672471212
https://www.facebook.com/Mohammed.Yasin.photography/posts/811141415691889

Qaddum

12/27/2016 a dozen of masked terrorists armed with batons and weapons, hold hostage a six year old child as they place human traps, repeat, human traps during the weekly demonstration at Kufr Qaddum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPDo31qEnIY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPDo31qEnIY
30-12-16 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akpXgURVUXs
6-1-17 The villagers are trying to reject Israeli bulldozers.... that destroy their streets and invade the lands
https://www.facebook.com/AlMasira.KufurKaddom/photos/a.1448012401887475.1073742093.271405776214816/1448015658553816/?type=3
13-1-17 Clashes between Palestinian lions and Zionist forces broke out in Kafr Qaddum, during the weekly peaceful protest against the wall and the occupation
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1464764146878967.1073742095.271405776214816&type=3
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=369862993376166&id=100010574040732
https://antinarrativeblog.com/2017/01/13/%D9%86%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86-nilin-13-1-2017/
2-2-17 https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1508835995805115.1073742099.271405776214816&type=3
https://www.facebook.com/Akhdut/posts/1556028184422361
https://www.facebook.com/pg/AlMasira.KufurKaddom/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1511022855586429
17_2_2017‎.https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1545506415471406.1073742102.271405776214816&type=3

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Don't say we didn't know 526

The Israeli army continues to harass the Palestinians of Al Hama and Ras Al Ahmar in the north of the Palestinian Jordan Valley. The authorities aim to make the Palestinians desert their villages.

On Monday, November 7, 2016, Israeli soldiers came to the Palestinian hamlet of Al Hama, destroyed and confiscated all of the tents that had been put up after the previous demolition.

On Thursday, November 10, Israeli soldiers came to Ras Al Ahmar and issued eviction orders to all the inhabitants for two days (Sunday and Monday, the 11th and 13th of November). Apparently the Israeli army intends to hold manoeuvres at the site.


Don't say we did not know 528

The Palestinian inhabitants of 'Arab Abu Farda, lived near Moshav Batzra in the Sharon area. In 1948 they became refugees and settled SE of Qalqilia. They bought the land in 1952.

On Thursday, November 17, 2016 the Israeli army blocked the entrance to the village from road 55. The other entrance is only for 4x4 vehicles. Now buses and trucks cannot enter or exit.


Don't Say We Didn't Know 529

The Israeli army persists in its efforts to expel Palestinians from the northern Palestinian Jordan Valley, and the Jewish settlers continue to invade the Palestinians' lands, unimpeded.
Earlier this week Israeli soldiers presented temporary evacuation orders to the inhabitants of Ras Al Ahmar. The army plans three days of manoeuvres in their area. They are supposed to evacuate their locality from Tuesday to Thursday (6-8.12) from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m every day.
On Tuesday, November 29, 2016 soldiers confiscate another tractor belonging to a Palestinian from Ras Al Ahmar.
On Monday. November 28, settlers apparently from Mekhola ploughed Palestinian lands. The owners showed soldiers present the documents proving a Supreme Court ruling.on their rightful claim to the land. The soldiers chased them away and did not prevent the settlers' invasion.
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On Wednesday, November 30, government agents escorted by police once more demolished the Bedouin village of Al Araqib in the Negev.


Don't Say We Didn't Know 530

On Tuesday, December 6, 2016, Israeli soldiers came to the Palestinian village of Fassail in the Palestinian Jordan Valley, and demolished three dwellings and two service units belonging to two families. For one of these families, this is already the fourth demolition this year. The other family remained with no shelter for the night.
On the same day the Israeli army confiscated two more tractors at Ras Al Ahmar, in the northern part of the Palestinian Jordan Valley.
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On Wednesday, December 7, government agents escorted by police arrived for a day of demolitions of Bedouin localities in the Negev. In Sa'wa, east of Hura, they demolished a dwelling. In wadi Gawain (Mulada) east of Hura, they demolished a water reservoir. At Al Ghara. west of the Nevatim airfield, a Bedouin man was forced to demolish his own home by himself, under police pressure.

Don't say we did not know531

On Monday, 12th December, 2016, two farmers from the Palestinian village Turmus 'Ayya discovered that 166 of their olive saplings had been either uprooted or destroyed on their land. The suspicion is that settlers from an outpost west of Adei Ad outpost carried out the crime.


Don’t Say We Didn’t Know 534

On Thursday, December 29, 2016 government agents escorted by police came to the Negev Bedouin villages for a day of demolitions. At Bir Hadaj, near kibbutz Revivim, they destroyed a dwelling. At A-Sir village, south of Beer Sheva, they destroyed a dwelling. At Al Ghara, near Hura township, they destroyed a dwelling. At Khirbet Al Batal, near Rahat, they destroyed a dwelling. At Abu Talul, south of the Segev Shalom township, they destroyed a dwelling. At Al Humra, near Darijat, they forced a man to demolish his own home.

On Thursday, January 5, 2017, at Al Ukbi near Hura, they demolished a hospitality tent (Sig). At Al Zarnug near Nevatim, they destroyed a sheep pen. At Al Fur’a, near Arad, they demolished two dwellings.



Don't Say We Didn't Know 535

On Tuesday' January 10, 2017. Israeli army troops came and cut a water pipe supplying water from Ras Al Ahmar to Al Hadidiya in the northern Palestinian Jordan Valley.

Important note! A settler in nearby Roi consumes 450 liters of water a day. A Hadidiya Palestinian - 20 liters a day.

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I have no idea what more could be written about the situation at Al Arakib. On Thursday. January 12, 2017, again government agents escorted by police confiscated three vehicles, a water tanker and a cart, and once again, demolished the village.



Don't Say We Didn't Know 536

Israeli army plans to pave a road to bypass the Palestinian village of Nabi Elias (east of the West Bank town of Qalqiliya) for the Jewish settlers in the area. For this purpose it has confiscated 104 dunams belonging to the villages of Nabi Elias, Izbat Tabib and Azoun.

On Saturday, January 7, 2017, the army prevented Israeli human rights activists from coming to the area to demonstrate in protest alongside the Palestinians.

On Monday, January 16, 2017, the Israeli army began uprooting 1000 olive trees belonging to the Palestinian farmers in this area. The soldiers arrested an Israeli activists and detained a Palestinian and another Israeli woman-activists.

Don't Say We Didn't Know 537

The new outpost in the Umm Zuka area of the northern Palestinian Jordan Valley is being built right next to an Israeli army base. This does not deter settlers from Umm Zuka developing this outpost and like settlers from Al Hama outpost, chasing away Palestinian shepherds from their own lands.
On Wednesday, February 1, 2017,settlers from the outpost in Al Hama attacked shepherds from Samara. The next day those same shepherds were attacked by settlers from Umm Zuka riding a mini-tractor. On Saturday, February 4, settlers again tried to attack Palestinian shepherds from Samara, Ein Al Hilwa and Makhoul, but Israeli volunteers who accompanied them prevented the assault.

Don't say we didn't know 538

I often have to choose what to distribute among all the items that come my way. This time I choose to share this deliberation with my readers.
As the week began I thought of writing about the expansion of Leshem settlement and the damages it has been causing the neighbouring Palestinian village of Deir Balut. But then I was informed of the confiscation of 326 dunams belonging to the villages of Jalud and Turmus Aya. Then came the news of home demolitions in Ras Al Ahmar and Kardala in the northern Palestinian Jordan Valley. And more demolitions in the Palestinian villages around Jerusalem that have been annexed by Israel, and about which is rarely write. After all they are more centrally located, and thus more visible.
As Wednesday, February 8 grew near, we feared a repeated demolition at Umm Al Hiran in the Negev. Which did not happen. Instead, Al Arakib was destroyed yet again. And a container was destroyed in Al Zarnouk,and a Bedouin resident was forced to demolish his own home in Wadi Al Na'am , also in the Negev.
So you tell me, what should I write about?

For further information: amosg@shefayim.org.il


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* From my blog at: http://ilanisagainstwalls.blogspot.com
See at the blog previous reports about the joint struggles the Anarchists Against the Wall take part in.
See also: Stories from the year 2100 - 50 years after the revolution
http://ilan.shalif.com/anarchy/glimpses/glimpses.html
http://ilan.shalif.com/anarchy/glimpses/glimpses-it.html
http://ilan.shalif.com/anarchy/glimpses/glimpses-heb.html

Ahdut (Unity) blog: http://unityispa.wordpress.com/
Ahdut (Unity) Position paper about the Palestinian struggle
English - http://www.anarkismo.net/article/27019
Arabic - http://www.ahewar.org/debat/show.art.asp?aid=430180

Saturday, November 12, 2016

Palestine-Israel, After 13 years of joint struggle (and 12 in Bil'in), we won the right for the unarmed demonstrations against the separation fence, settlers, and occupation*


At the beginning, up to 450 Israelis of the radical left joined the hundreds of Palestinians of Bil'in and the region in the struggle against the robbery of the village land for the Modi'in Elit settlement and the separation fence used for that. It took more than 7 years till the state forces stopped to try to prevent activist from joining the Bil'iners in the Friday joint demonstrations. It took another 5 years till they stop to shoot on us tear gas and "non lethal" bullets. Two Bil'iners paid with their life, hundreds of Palestinians and Israelis were injured, detained and even arrested (Palestinians for long time up to a year and a half, Israelis no more than a day or two). Many thousands of international activists participated with us and contributed later for the international struggle against the occupation. The harassment of the village activists at nights mainly continue, but the struggle will not stop.

Bil'in, Friday 7-10-16, 5 Israelis, 10 internationals, and about dozen village activists converged for the Friday demo against the Israeli occupation and settlers. Unlike the few previous demos the Israeli armed cars were posited at the route of the dismantled separation fence were they used to block our way to the new separation wall most of the last year... but just as we started to march the went away - "invited" us to march along the newly upgraded road to the new separation wall near the Abu Lamun oak orchard - as we did in the few previous demos. However, they put at the old route a line and warning not to cross it, declaring the place as military fire training area and harassed the few comrades who went that way.
However, not accepting their "request" the main demo took another road straight to the gate in the wall. For a while, when the state force harassed the comrades who did go on the road leading to the oak orchard we converged not far from the gate waiting for the armed cars to go away. When they did it, we marched to the gate and then along the wall to the oak orchard - confronting on the way settler youngsters on the other side of the wall. After a while the state forces returned but instead of confronting us just confiscated a car of a village activist.
After a long rest we returned to the village.

https://www.facebook.com/haytham.alkhateeb/videos/10209426127023088/
https://www.facebook.com/rani.fatah/posts/10210633839945324
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10210633828785045
https://www.facebook.com/PopularStruggle/photos/pcb.1437642866264803/1437642402931516
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=980564308719465&set=pcb.980564845386078
14-10-16 The Bil'in Freedom demonstration went ahead smoothly today and we made it to The Israeli apartheid wall ! We were about 30 people with International activists from around the world: Israel, Canada, Holland! Some were from the ISM (International Solidarity Movement).
Our demonstration is held on our village "Freedom Street" street and peacefully protests against the Illegal Israeli apartheid and military occupation of West Bank and our farming village! HELLO! There were NO arrests today! We arrived at the wall and the gate of the wall, demonstrators climbed the wall to hoist up our national Palestinian flag and the gates opened and the Israeli Occupation forces came out! The soldiers did threaten the International activists with immediate arrest if they did not leave the area and actually took photocopies of their passports! The soldiers looked for cars to steal ...but there weren't any to Arrest! It was a good day! I am hosting some activists in my home now and I am proud of their courage and I thank them for blessing our village with their visit! Palestinians are loving welcoming people and we always welcome you ALL to visit and WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT! You will always find love from us, its all we have but we give it freely and generously! Thank you International activists!
https://www.facebook.com/haytham.alkhateeb/posts/10209491473016697
21-10-16 Bil'in, Friday 21-10-16 demo. 4 Israelis, and about 15 internationals joined a delegation from Ramallah and the village activists. We converged at the Abu Lamun wood. Before starting the demo the participants continued to clear the wood from the various remnants of more than 5 years of confrontations.
Than we marched to the wall and along it up to the gate in the wall. There we knocked on the gate for long time but no response came.
After social time in the area near the gate we returned to the village.
https://www.facebook.com/rani.fatah/posts/10210782368258439
https://www.facebook.com/village.bilin/posts/1765152113750397
https://www.facebook.com/mohamed.b.yaseen/posts/1039151416184190
https://www.facebook.com/anatllanat/videos/993093430799886/
https://www.facebook.com/haytham.alkhateeb/videos/10209565923597915/
https://www.maannews.net/Content.aspx?id=872286
https://www.facebook.com/anatllanat/posts/993618954080667
Bil'in, 28-10-16, Friday demo against occupation and settlers, and in memory of Renen Raz - activist of the anarchist against the wall, who died this week after a long illness (his activity was participation in the Friday demo in Bil'in). In the demo participated 10 Israelis with the AAtW initiative, dozens of international activist from various countries and the village activists. We converged at the Abu Lamun oak wood and started marching and chanting - with many holding Renen picture, towards the gate in the wall. After we arrived youth climbed the wall to hung an additional Palestinian flag. When we arrived there people converged in front of the gate taking pictures and knocking on the gate... After a long time few Israeli soldiers showed themselves behind the wall and threw few sound grenades.... and then we returned to the village.
https://www.facebook.com/village.bilin/posts/1768926023373006
https://www.facebook.com/rani.fatah/posts/10210851910436950
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1045220968910568
4-11-16Friday demo. 5 Israelis with the anarchist against the wall initiative Joined dozens of international activists and the village activists. After converging at the Abu Lamun oak mini park we marched towards the gate in the separation wall - chanting all the way. When we arrived there the gate was opened a bit and we could see few soldiers positioned just behind the gate. After few minutes of converging near the gate the soldiers came forward - declaring the area as closed military zone and demand us to return to the village. As we just ignored them they started to threat us with arrests and even detained two activists. "2 activist - one of the Israeli anarchists against wall and one village activist (brother of the two martyrs) detained today on the weekly Bil'in"
After a long while with more threats of arrests and partial retreat the army commander promised to release the detainees when we will be distant from the gate... After the demo end was declared we slowly started to return to the village.
When we returned to the village the two detainees were released after signing a promise not to commit the same felony again.
https://www.facebook.com/haytham.alkhateeb/videos/10209699618020192/
https://www.facebook.com/haytham.alkhateeb/posts/10209699465936390
https://www.facebook.com/rani.fatah/posts/10210924542892716
11-11-16 https://www.facebook.com/mohamed.b.yaseen/posts/1058140117618653
https://www.facebook.com/rani.fatah/posts/10210990464580717

Qaddum

14-10-16
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1286039088084808.1073742080.271405776214816
https://www.facebook.com/AlMasira.KufurKaddom/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1286039088084808
4-11-16 Friday demo. Awful smell, even poisoning our air... Zionist occupation soldiers spraying wastewater (skunk water) at Palestinian people and houses of Kufr Qaddom village. The filthy smell lasts more than a week and requires really hard work to clean it. This way of collective punishment is very common and used everywhere in occupied Palestine.

Ni'ilin

10/21/2016 israelpnm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siLqlUNhsSk
4.11.2016 israelpnm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42LvHVAN0vI

Nabi Saleh

Friday 28-10-16 Today demonstration against Balfour declaration. After hundred years we still resist.
https://www.facebook.com/btamimins/posts/1702604780067027
https://www.facebook.com/btamimins/videos/1702598586734313/


Don't Say We Didn't Know 520

Last week the Israeli army carried out various demolitions in the West Bank.

Following is a report of one case:

On Tuesday, September 27, 2016. soldiers came to the Palestinian village of Al Hama in the northern part of the Palestinian Jordan Valley, near the settlement Mekhola, and demolished all 25 of the structures there. Since that cursed day, settlers and soldiers keep arriving there and threatening the inhabitants to cease their cooperation with Israelis who come to help them and demanding the villagers to leave. One of the villagers told the Israeli peace activists that in the past houses were demolished as well but there were no subsequent harassments as there are now.

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Don't Say We Didn't Know 521

This posting is an exception: I include a photo of third-graders of the Bedouin Abu Al-Nawar family of the Jahalin tribe who live in E1 zone, between Jerusalem and the Maale Adumim settlement. After a previous demolition of their school, they erected a tent that served as a classroom. On Tuesday, October 4, 2016, Israeli soldiers arrived and destroyed the tent.

Don't Say We Didn't Know 523

On October 10, 2016, Israeli human rights activists discovered that settlers from the unauthorized outpost of Giv'at Sal'it (belonging to the settlement Mekhola in the Palestinian Jordan Valley) have begun to build yet another, new outpost about 300 meters from the Palestinian village of Al Hama which the Israeli army has demolished, claiming the village is built illegally (see "Don't Say We Didn't Know" no. 520). All appeals to the army and the police have been of no avail. The settlers continue building the new outpost which will eventually become a new settlement. This is what history teaches us...

Don't Say We Didn't Know 524

The Israeli army persists in its transfer schemes.
Having demolished most of this Palestinian village's houses on October 9, 2016, Israeli soldiers came to Ras Al Ahmar (in the Palestinian northern Jordan Valley) two and a half weeks later and issued all the villagers a temporary evacuation order. They are required to leave their village on Tuesday, November 1, 2016 at 4 p.m. and will be permitted to return the next day at 10 a.m.
The villagers of Homsa, a Palestinian village near the settlement of Beqa'ot also received a temporary evacuation order for Tuesday and Wednesday, October 31st and November 1st.
The reason for these orders: the Israeli army intends to hold manoeuvres in the area.

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Don't say we did not know #525

The Israeli army continues to bully the Palestinians, inhabitants of Ras Al Ahmar in the Palestinian Jordan valley.

On Monday, October 31, 2016, Israeli soldiers confiscated 5 tractors. Three weeks before that they demolished the inhabitants' homes (October 9) and evacuated them (November 1) from their village for the night for army manoeuvre purposes.

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On Sunday, October 30, gov't. agents arrived, escorted by police, to the Bedouin village Bir Hadaj (near Revivim) and demolished tents, put up by residents after their homes had been demolished on October 9. They demolished three water tanks as well. Ever since, the police has increased its presence and on Tuesday, November 1 arrested four people.

On Wednesday, November 2, gov't agents, escorted by police, arrived in El 'Araqib and demolished it again. This time they confiscated cars, a cart and a water tank.
For further information: amosg@shefayim.org.il
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* From my blog at: http://ilanisagainstwalls.blogspot.com - about the joint struggles the Anarchists Against the Wall take part in.
Stories from the year 2100 - 50 years after the revolution:
http://awalls.org http://ilan.shalif.com/anarchy/glimpses/glimpses.html
Ahdut (Unity) Position paper about the Palestinian struggle
English - http://www.anarkismo.net/article/27019

Saturday, October 1, 2016

Palestine-Israel, The Tsumud/persistence of 13 years of joint struggle will continue as long as it takes*


It is not because the Jews rule US... It is because Israel play an essential part in the Imperial struggle between US and Russia. Though the oil is less important to US economy it is still important to its partners. The western empire elite came to Peres ceremony because Israel helped to return Egypt to US sphere of influence. Protected Jordan from being taken by pro Russian Syria, Pushed Syria out of Lebanon for a while... and supply important services all over the world. Thus, the struggle against Israel apartheid is going to be much harder than the abolishing of it in Southern Africa. However, we have here the joint non armed struggle, the tens of thousands international activists who come here to participate and return home with the torch of struggle. The Israeli Jews who participate every week in the joint struggle refute the "anti-Semitism" false claims.


Bil'in 26-8-16 Friday demo, another Link in the twelfth year chain. 9 Israelis, and 10 internationals joined the Bil'iners in one of the quietest demonstrations. This time like in most demos of the last year the Israeli forces waited for us near Bassem (Fil) memorial - blocking our way to the freed lands and the new separation wall. We marched from the village waving flags and chanting till we arrived there. As usually they declared the area as a forbidden closed military zone... but let us march up to were they were standing in a line without demanding us to retreat, threatening with arrests or forcing us to retreat. after a long while we started to retreat to the village.
https://www.facebook.com/haytham.alkhateeb/videos/10209059052086444/
https://www.facebook.com/iyad.burnat/posts/1401338516547174
https://www.facebook.com/mohamed.b.yaseen/posts/994471370652195
https://www.facebook.com/anatllanat/posts/946579395451290
https://www.facebook.com/Mohammed.Yasin.photography/posts/743454585793906
https://www.facebook.com/rani.fatah/posts/10210242887371754
2-9-16 This Friday was another sample of the Israeli state forces new policy. While we were converging at the west margin of the village, the state force which were with their Jeeps at their usual location near the route of the old separation fence just drove away, like two weeks ago, in a kind of invitation of us to march up to the gate in the new separation wall. This time, 8 Israelis, and about 10 internationals joined the Bil'iner in a march.... but to ours choice of location - the wall near the Abu Lamun park, southern to the gate.
As usual we chanted and held flags all the way to the wall. The frustrated Israeli forces who waited for us at the gate lost patience and came to us for the usual harassment: declaring a closed military zone, demanded us to return to the village and threatening with arrests. As we were tired from the long march in the hot whether, we did not defy them for long and returned to the village.
https://www.facebook.com/hamde.a.rahma/posts/1744678559135847
https://www.facebook.com/anatllanat/posts/952401491535747
https://www.facebook.com/mohamed.b.yaseen/posts/999949313437734
https://www.facebook.com/haytham.alkhateeb/posts/10209121795294985
Bil'in - 9-9-16, The day we were afraid of have come today. from the beginning 11 years and a half ago we contemplated what we would do if the Israeli state forces will fail to come to confront us and to disperse the demo.
Today, we marched from the village to the new separation wall - 5 Israelis, 8 internationals and about 20 Bil'iners. The Israeli state forces refrain from coming to the route of the dismantled separation fence, they refrained from harassing us when we reached the wall near the Abu Lamun Oaks orchard. Nothing happened when we marched along the wall up to the gate in it... and nothing happened when we knocked on the metal gate in the wall. Nothing happened even when two kids threw stones to the other side of the wall - no one was there.
https://www.facebook.com/haytham.alkhateeb/videos/10209183317392999/
https://www.facebook.com/iyad.burnat/posts/1415706518443707
https://www.facebook.com/rani.fatah/posts/10210378247435671
https://www.facebook.com/anatllanat/posts/958348137607749
https://www.facebook.com/mohamed.b.yaseen/posts/1005655942867071
https://www.facebook.com/drrateb.aburahmah/posts/10210510157293150
16-9-16 6 Israelis with the anarchists against the wall initiative with dozens of internationals joined the local activists in the 601st Friday demo at the second half of the twelfth year of struggle in Bil'in against the separation fence, settlers, and occupation. Like in the previous week the Israeli forces were not seen around... After Marching and chanting all the way to the wall' and along it to the closed gate, a kind of happening started there: youngsters climbed the wall and put the Palestinian flag on it. Few soldiers appeared for a short time but disappeared after stones were thrown on them. After prolonged banging on the wall, we returned to the villages - tired but most satisfied.
https://www.facebook.com/drrateb.aburahmah/posts/10210510157293150
https://www.facebook.com/haytham.alkhateeb/videos/10209243377814472/
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1011041108995221
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1011040902328575
https://www.facebook.com/mohamed.b.yaseen/posts/1011042548995077?ref=notif
https://www.facebook.com/Mohammed.Yasin.photography/posts/753760304763334
22-9-16 Bil'in, Another calm Friday demo. 5 Israelis with the AAtW, 6 internationals, and 20 Bil'iners participated in the weekly demo against the separation wall, the settlers, and the occupation. While we were converging to the demo the Israeli soldiers Expelled the settlers youth from the area behind the wall to prevent any confrontation... and then hide behind the wall. Part of us marched from the village and other drove to the Abu Lamun oak orchard were we marched together to the near by wall and walked along it up to the gate in the wall. There we had a kind of party - knocking on the gate and more. As the challenged soldiers failed to appear, we remained there for only half an hour before returning to the village. The state forces revenge will come as usual in nights rides on homes of activists at the following nights.
https://www.facebook.com/mohamed.b.yaseen/posts/1016088141823851
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1016087038490628
https://www.facebook.com/rani.fatah/posts/10210504168143610
https://www.facebook.com/rani.fatah/posts/10210503375203787
https://www.facebook.com/haytham.alkhateeb/videos/10209282820440513/
30-9-16, 9 Israelis with the AAtW initiative, 10 internationals and youth from neighbourhood village joined two dozen village activists in the Friday demo against the settlers and the occupation. After converging in the Abu Lamun oak orchard near the separation wall we marched chanting to the gate in the wall. There comrades started to knock on the gate in the wall as in the previous demos. This time, after a long while, the state forces opened the gate and started to harass the demonstrators - detaining, threatening with arrests, checking IDs... and cars - both near the gate and along the way to the village.
"At today's protest in Bil'in, Israeli occupation forces attacked the some 50 demonstrators, arresting two shabab from the nearby village of Kharbata and Bil'in villager; Abd Fatah."
After a while and lot of threats to participants for arrests in the future, the detainees and the car were released while the ID of the Israeli "stayed arrested".

https://www.facebook.com/haytham.alkhateeb/videos/10209360782629519/
https://www.facebook.com/abdallah.aburahma.3/posts/1134286979990944
https://www.facebook.com/mohamed.b.yaseen/posts/1021572834608715
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1021571291275536
https://www.facebook.com/drrateb.aburahmah/posts/10210640353067963
https://www.facebook.com/anatllanat/posts/975409822568247
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773364

Ni'ilin

08/26/2016
israelpnm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8WLtc1p5VA
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154512561422500
9.9.2016 israelpnm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhPrz2nz3Yw
16-9-16 https://www.facebook.com/muhamed.ameera/posts/1168156936590039
israelpnm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltx1klIrSAM
David Reeb https://youtu.be/lJ433AXlZeE
https://antinarrativeblog.com/2016/09/17/%D9%86%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86-nilin-16-9-2016/
http://imemc.org/article/dozens-march-in-bilins-weekly-nonviolent-protest/
22-9-16 https://www.facebook.com/muhamed.ameera/posts/1175139205891812
israelpnm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqPwAa5z8tY
https://antinarrativeblog.com/2016/09/24/%D9%86%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86-nilin-23-9-2016/
30-9-16 https://www.facebook.com/muhamed.ameera/posts/1182912368447829
israelpnm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OMBVIl-F5k



KAFR QADDUM

Friday 26-8-16 Long and dangerous event today with strong clashes, tear gas, sound bombs, rubber bullets and "regular" bullets... but luckily nobody got seriously hurt.
https://www.facebook.com/annalisa.portioli/posts/10208156282557149
https://www.facebook.com/annalisa.portioli/posts/10208156131993385
23-9-16 https://www.facebook.com/AlMasira.KufurKaddom/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1264558146899569
30-9-16 https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1271807689507948.1073742078.271405776214816&type=3

Don't say we did not know 515

In February, 2016, the IDF destroyed most of the homes in the Palestinian village of Al Maksar (near the Hamra checkpoint) in the Jordan valley. At that time the army sealed all but one of the entrances to the villages.



On Thursday, August 18th, 2016, the army sealed the remaining entrance to the village. A number of herds remained outside of the village, as was a water tank that serves them.

Are more demolitions planned?

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On Thursday, August 18th, 2016, government representatives accompanied by police demolished homes of Bedouin in the Negev: In Um Mashash on Route 25, the floor of a home; in Al Sadir, near Ar'ara, a structure; in Um Batin, east of Omer, a structure. They once again demolished the village of al-Alarib.

In Az-Zarnug, on Route 25, coerced by government representatives and police, people demolished their own home.


Don't say we did not know #516

In the early 1950s, the Bedouins of Umm El Kheir were expelled from the Arad region (in Israel) to the West Bank. After their expulsion they bought land in the south Hebron hill region, and established their village. In 1981 Israel founded the settlement Carmel next to their village. For some years now they have been suffering from repeated demolitions of their houses.

On Wednesday, August 24, 2016, Israeli soldiers arrived at their village yet again and demolished three houses. 26 people were made homeless.

This is the 3rd demolition in 2016 alone.

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Don't say we did not know #517

Before the devastation of home demolition, demolition orders are first issued.
On Saturday, 27th August, 2016, Jerusalem municipal workers, escorted by police and soldiers, went to the Palestinian neighbourhood of Silwan (annexed to Jerusalem) and handed out demolition orders for four homes and a fence. At the village’s protest tent, they ordered renovation work being carried out on the floor to stop.
It would appear that the handing out of demolition orders takes precedence over Sabbath, and is permitted.
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On Monday, 29th August, 2016, government representatives, escorted by police, demolished dams -- that accumulate valley water in order to allow watermelons to be grown in the Spring - in the Bedouin village Rakhme, near Yeruham in the Negev.
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Don't say we did not know #518

On Saturday evening, 10th September, 2016, a settler ran over a 5-year-old Palestinian girl, killing her, when he drove on the northern exit of the settlement Efrat, which is actually an internal road belonging to the Palestinian town Al Khadr, now in use by settlers, Efrat having expanded right up to the homes of Al Khadr.

Palestinians claim that previously that settler has threatened to kill them.

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Don’t Say We Didn’t Know 519

For years the Palestinians of Burin village, south of Nablus, have been suffering harassment at the hands of settlers from Yitzhar and Beracha, backed by the Israeli army. On Monday, September 5, 2016, settlers entered the edge of Burin (Area B) with a tractor from the direction of Beracha settlement, escorted by soldiers, and began to plough a 4-dunam plot of land. Villagers arriving on the spot chased them away.

On Thursday, September 15, 2016, a fire broke out in a Burin grazing area. Soldiers and settlers prevented a local fire fighter truck from approaching and quenching the fire. Children of the village confronted them. The soldiers chased the children into the village and detained two of them. The settlers set fire to olive and almond trees in a plot belonging to the village. The soldiers put out the fire.

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On Monday, September 19, 2016, government agents escorted by police demolished Bedouin houses in the Negev - three houses in Za’arura, west of Fur’a. They also demolished Al Araqib yet again. Eight Bedouin demolished their own houses, under threat that the State would do so if they wouldn’t, and charge them the expenses.

Questions and queries: amosg@shefayim.org.il
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* From my blog at: http://ilanisagainstwalls.blogspot.com
See there previous reports about the joint struggles the Anarchists Against the Wall take part in.
See also: Stories from the year 2100 - 50 years after the revolution
http://awalls.org http://ilan.shalif.com/anarchy/glimpses/glimpses.html
http://ilan.shalif.com/anarchy/glimpses/glimpses-it.html
http://ilan.shalif.com/anarchy/glimpses/glimpses-heb.html