Ilan Against the Wall

Palestine-Israel, The joint struggle try to balance the increasing demolitions Israeli state do to balance symbolic destruction of illegal colonialist

2012-01-24T10:38:00.000-08:00

To vent their anger, to embarrass the Israeli state, and to expand their land grab, the settler colonialist militants respond to any excuse - whether from Palestinians or the state of Israel, by increased harassment on the Palestinians. To sweeten the symbolic destruction of illegal colonialist settler outposts Israeli state have to do to pretend being a law biding Israeli state "balance it by destruction of "unlawful" Palestinian houses, and roads. The joint struggle try to curb both the settlers and the Israeli state increased harassments. The persistent struggle focus on Arkib (Israeli Bedouins), Beit Ommar, Bil'in, A-Dic, Kufr Qaddum, East Jerusalem-AlKuds (A-Tur, Issawiya, Sheikh Jarrakh), Al-Ma’sara, Nabi Saleh, Ni'lin, Wallage.

Beit Ommar

Weekly Peaceful Protest Saturday, 21.1.2012 The Beit Ommar Popular Committee has organized its weekly protest in coordination and cooperation with the popular committee of Yatta, Palestine women’s struggle committee, Israeli and International solidarity activists. We have organized the Beit Ommar weekly protest in a unique place and the first of its kind, it was held in front of the Tunnel apartheid checkpoint connecting Hebron with Jerusalem, this Tunnel and Road is prohibited for Palestinians. Once we arrived to the site, we directly started to play football in the middle of the street to emphasize on the following:

1. Our right to use this apartheid road which is built on a Palestinian land.

2. Our right to enter freely to Jerusalem which is a Palestinian city without the need to have Israeli security permission.

3. Our rights to move freely on our roads without Israeli apartheid occupation military checkpoints, all the checkpoints (450) have to be removed from the Palestinian land.

4. Among other demands related to putting an end to colonization, apartheid and occupation in general. When we started playing football on the road, tens of Israeli heavily armed soldiers attacked the protesters to suppress this peaceful protest, by terrorizing, pushing, beating participants, but we insisted to continue our protest until we deliver our messages, but then, they tried to arrest Mousa Abu Mariya and took him away, the participants insisted to stay until they release Mousa, and finally we succeeded to release Mousa.

We decided to end the protest, emphasizing that we will carry on our peaceful protests until we achieve our ultimate goal, ending the occupation and freedom.

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Bi'lin

"Almost 15 Israelis and no internationals joined the weekly Palestinian demonstration in Bil'in. When the marchers reached the wall, the army had already been busy gassing and skunking the shabab. While the soldiers' attention was drawn to one side, a protester sneaked in between the barbed wire "protecting" the wall and sprayed anti-occupation and pro-Palestinians graffiti. Then a relatively low key exchange of gas for stones followed, both because the the wind blew in the soldiers' faces, and because the stones, as usual, didn't place the over-protected soldiers in any real danger.

Remembering the fiasco of the previous weeks when soldiers crossed the wall coming to harass us... only to be driven away by the shabab, they did not even try it this week. After more than an hour, and after the comrade doing the graphity finished his task, the popular comity declared the end of the demo and we returned to the village"

Bi'lin weekly demonstration, Jan. 20, 2012 Protests Arbitrary Sentence of Ashraf Abu Rahmah http://t.co/5b49KKlD

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Rani Abdel Fatah http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.3152158486036.302880.1327358013

US protesters target CSI, the manufacturer of the tear-gas that killed Bassem & Jawaher Abu Rahmah & Mustafa Tamimi. http://t.co/SFQ0szd8

http://popularstruggle.org/content/bilin-protests-arbitrary-sentence-ashraf-abu-rahmah

Jerusalem

Issawiye and A-Tor

On January 10th, the Israel Nature and Parks Authority started construction work on the "National Park", planned on the private lands of Issawiye and A-Tor

issawiye.avi http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtz5oSez3Bs

At this weekend about 100 Israeli and Palestinian activists corrected it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtz5oSez3Bs&list=UUY7MLysvM5O7pAHQqQDZ9Jg

Al-Ma’sara weekly demonstration, Jan. 20, 2012

Protests in al-Ma'asara Continue as Israel Resumes Building the Wall.

A new gate to besiege Al-Ma'asara village was recently announced by Israeli authorities. Residents demonstrate against the appropriation of lands and gather objections for a court case.

Residents of Al-Ma'asara village, near Bethlehem, have been demonstrating for the past five years against the Wall that is planned to encircle the village. This week, residents were informed of the construction of new gate at the entrance of the village, which will prevent passage to the main road to Bethlehem and Hebron. The new gate is part of the recommencement of the construction of the Wall in this area, which ceased in 2008 after an Israeli court ruling. If completed, the Wall will expropriate Palestinian privately owned agricultural land and will result in the closure of the main road that links Al-Ma’asara to nearby cities in the West Bank. Residents are currently gathering objections for a court case against this decision.

Dozens joined the demonstration this week. Marching from the center of the village towards the main road, the demonstration was stopped by the Israeli soldiers who closed the main entrance to the village, preventing the protesters to reach the lands which had been grabbed for the building of the Wall. Israeli soldiers pushed back violently some protesters who attempted to pass their line. After some speeches the demonstrators ended the protest without further confrontation.

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Nabi Saleh

"40 Days Without him, Nabi Saleh Village Held its Weekly Demo in Memory of Mustafa Tamim

Six weeks since Mustafa Tamimi was shot and killed by an Israeli soldier, Nabi Saleh village held its weekly demonstration in Mustafa's memory. This week protesters marched towards the village's hilltops, overlooking the spring taken by Halamish settlers. Once on the first hilltop, tear gas canisters were shot at the peaceful procession. Since the wind carried the gas back to the soldiers, protesters kept marching on the hilltops, until they were close to the other Palestinian village that Halamish settlement has grabbed land from - Deir Nidham. At this stage Israeli soldiers already managed to climb up the next hilltop. They then shot tear gas canisters directly at protesters. A medic was hit in the thigh by two consecutive tear gas canisters. His friends rushed to help him keep up with the procession, which was going back to the village. Even then, Israeli soldiers kept shooting tear gas at the protesters. Tear gas was also shot in the village's populated areas at times during the demo, and at one time soldiers entered the village's street and kept shooting at protesters and houses. Later on some youths threw stones there to ward off this incursion.

As is traditionally the case in Nabi Saleh, the demonstration kept for a few hours. The Israeli forces used the “skunk” foul-water cannon, tear gas machine that shots dozens of canisters at once and rubber-coated steel bullets. At least two more protesters were injured."

Raids and Arrests Precede Weekly Demo in Nabi Saleh. See http://t.co/ogyfenXs

Nabi Saleh Marks 40 Days Anniversary to the Murder of Mustafa Tamimi

40 days after the killing of protester Mustafa Tamimi in Nabi Saleh, the village holds a march of commemoration. The army in response continues to shoot tear-gas canisters directly at protesters, against its own open-fire regulations. A medic was injured by two canisters shot directly at him.

Another take:

"Six weeks after the killing of Mustafa Tamimi by a tear-gas canister shot directly at him from close range, the village devotes weekly protest to his commemoration. The village of Nabi Saleh has been protesting for the past two years against the appropriation of the village's spring by the neighboring settlement of Halamish. This week, protesters decided to march towards the village hilltops, overlooking the spring. Already as they were climbing the first hilltop, the peaceful demonstrators were met by a volley of tear-gas canisters. However, as wind carried most of the tear-gas back towards the soldiers, protesters were able to continue marching towards the adjacent village of Dir Nidham, which lands have also been taken over by Halamish settlers.

At this stage Israeli soldiers managed to climb up the next hilltop, which put them in a position to shoot tear-gas canisters directly at protesters. This manner of targeted shooting is in complete breach of the army's own open fire regulations and already caused the death and injury of several protesters, including Mustafa Tamimi. One medic was injured during this assault after two consecutive tear-gas canisters hit him in the thigh. He was evacuated by fellow medics, who rushed to help him and carried him back towards the village. Soon after this, other demonstrators also made their way back to the village, but even then the Israeli soldiers continued shooting large amounts of tear-gas at them. Tear gas was also shot in the village's populated areas, including into houses, as the soldiers entered the village. Several youth threw stones at the army jeeps to ward off this incursion. The demonstration was maintained for a few hours, with the army occasionally using the "skunk", a water cannon spraying foul-smelling liquid, rubber coated bullets and a appliance which launches dozens of tear-gas canisters simultaneously."

Michael Treiger http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.301858003194024.70671.100001094792472

http://t.co/2F6Zemug

yisraelpnm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igqg8yZN1PI

David Reeb: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HB953oN-sY

Ni'lin

Weekly demonstration, Jan. 20, 2012

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.352113404798970.93066.136633479680298

hassan daboos http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.286054584784338.68974.228124070577390

Kufr Qaddum

Protesters are gathering in Quffer Qaddum in preparation for the weekly demonstration against the settlement of Qedumim. Army already here

Army attacked the Quffer Qaddum protest minutes after it began with barrages of tear-gas. Now shooting projectiles directly at people

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Social struggle

Tel Aviv 22-1-2012 Demonstration in front of the reopening of the national theater

Israel Puterman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51gDLyYAuXg

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Don’t say we did not know #295

Another action made to expel the Bedouins of Khan El-Ahmar from their village (situated near the settlement Maale Adumim):

On Monday, 9th January, 2012, the IDF blocked the entrance to the village from Road #1 (the highway running from Tel Aviv, via Jerusalem to Jericho ).

Now the access to the village is made via a 2, 5 km dirt road. A sewage stream crosses the road, from sewage treatment pools of settlements in the area. On rainy days the road cannot be passed.

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About the Negev Bedouins – on Monday, 9th January, 2012, government representatives escorted by police came and demolished a home in A-Sira. They continued and demolished another home near Hura.

Questions & queries: amosg@shefayim.org.il

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See Previous reports about the joint struggles of the Anarchists Against the Wall at: http://ilanisagainstwalls.blogspot.com

Palestine-Israel, The Spring is behind the corner - the persistent joint struggle slowly expand

2012-01-17T00:00:00.000-08:00

The winter cold did not freeze the joint struggle against the occupation, settler colonialist encroachment and occupation. The struggle in Beit Ummar, Bil'in, East Jerusalem, Kfar Al-Dik, Ma'asara, Nabi Saleh, Ni'ilin, Qadum, South Hebron hills, Walaje... The world Spring upraising did not perish coming the winter cold, not even hibernating... just went into a lower gear. After getting over the cold shock of mid winter, the spring buds are starting to develop and the swallows start to fly. In our region there are some signs in the occupied Palestine regions and more so in Israel. The destruction of the last main tent camp of Tel Aviv Hatikva ignited the social struggle movement pre-spring wave of struggle.

Bil'in

This Friday we did not march towards the separation wall in Bil'in ... We just traveled the about three kilometers distance from the village center to the wall. The rain was a good excuse for the half of the the demonstrators who usually make the journey on foot. Twenty Israelis, few international, and few dozens of Bil'iners arrived at the route of the separation wall. The armed forces of the State of Israel conducted several experiments by rubber bullets, stinker fluids and tear gas grenades before they could fire effectively and convinced us to return to the village.

The hot tea and the variety of delicacies at Veggie were above expectancy and warmed our frozen bones.

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.347529525257358.92301.136633479680298

Jerusalem-Al-Kuds

This week we recorded the first success of this campaign when we managed to stop the illegal work that the Israel Nature and Parks Authority (INPA) began to perform on the private lands of residents of Issawiya as part of the development of the new national park scheduled to be built on their land. The planned national park, located adjacent to the E1 area, would constitute another obstacle to any future agreement regarding Jerusalem and would "choke off" a number of Palestinian neighborhoods.

In the coming days, together with residents of A-Tur and Issawiya, organizing a series of protests against the approval of this national park:

1. The INPA destroyed it, we will fix it:

This Friday, January 13, join the residents of Issawiya in repairing the damage caused by the Israel Nature and Parks Authority through the work it started on the park infrastructure this week. Meet at 11:15 next to the Aroma Cafe on Mount Scopus (by Hebrew University). Contact: D.

2. A large demonstration in Safra square:

On Tuesday, January 17, we will demonstrate together with hundreds of residents of East Jerusalem in front of City Hall to protest the city's support of the National Park plan. Meet at Safra Square at 4:00 PM. Details about transportation will be published shortly. For the Facebook event, click here.

Nabi Saleh

13.1.2012 Raids and Arrests Precede Weekly Demo in Nabi Saleh. See http://t.co/ogyfenXs

By Abir Kopty:

This Friday, the weekly rally in the village of Nabi Saleh had a different smell for some of us.

We arrived early morning and learned that the Israeli army just left the village, after a raid that started at 2am. They raided more than ten houses using dogs, terrorized the families and children and detained three residents, Anan (15), Mahdi (20) and Khaled (27).

Army raid to Nabi Saleh 13.1.2012 Photo by Zeinab Tamimi at http://abirkopty.wordpress.com/2012/01/14/occupation-stinks/

Despite the heavy rain and freezing cold there was a good turn out. The demonstration started as usual after the Friday’s noon prayer. Minutes before the demo started, heavy rain began. However we all walked, chanted and sang while shivering and freezing.

Usually we walk towards the entrance of the village in an attempt to walk towards the spring through the main road, at the entrance the army wait for us, the moment we are 200m away, they start shooting tear gas directly towards us. Today, for the first time ever, they did not shoot tear gas at all, and we managed to get closer than usual. But they were ‘kind enough’ to spray us with the skunk water, which never reached us due to the strong wind and rain. Even when the rain stopped, the wind was moving the water away from us.

At the front, we were about 20 people, mostly women, 20-30m from the soldiers and the skunk water’s truck, still no tear gas. “How come?”, “What’s is wrong with them?” we asked ourselves. In fact, many of us, became addicted to tear gas, we need to inhale it every week. http://abirkopty.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/nabi2_b.jpg

Even when the Shabab-youth of the village started throwing stones from far away, the army did not respond. All of the sudden, the stones no longer “endanger” life . Soldiers could survive it without using arms.

There were two debated reasons for why we are not going to get our weekly dose of tear gas. One, That there was an American delegation of lawyers and scholars who were visiting Nabi Saleh and present at the rally. The other reason, also possible, that the tear gas will not work in this windy and rainy weather.

So, completely wet, shivering and freezing, we dared to come closer, to the closest point were the skunk water can’t reach us. It was very close. And this, it turned out, was the trap. The skunk pulled full gas, moved towards us and started spraying, everyone started running, but it was too late, we all got showered all over. The hair, body, clothes. Shitty and stinky smell was all over. If you ask me, I would rather inhale tear gas all day, even get rubber bullet than getting one drop of skunk water.

When the skunk stopped, it was one of the craziest scenes we viewed. We started all laughing, joking and hugging each other. We even started hugging those who did not get sprayed so we pass for them some of the ‘grace’. And that’s how the demonstration ended. No one could bear his\her or others’ smell and just wanted to rush back home.

Before saying good bye, people of Nabi Saleh advised us to scrub our hair with tomato and our skin with water and salt.

On our way back, we were four stinky people in the car and could not open the window since it was raining & freezing. We made fun of ourselves for the rest of the day. One decided to call us his “skunk comrades”, another created the hashtag #SmelllikeAThawri” (Thawri for revolutionary), one said her mother threw her shoes outside the house, another, who got the skunk via a hug, demanded a new jacket. One expected a long week with lots of tomatoes, and another wanted to give stinky hugs to everyone.

I think this picture with a quote of one of us says it all: “We Palestinians are crazy & Israeli army is right in hating us, we are skunked but still laughing & hugging”

In one month we experienced deep sorrow and grief after Mustafa Tamimi was murdered by Israeli army, and we experienced deep sarcasm and craziness after we got sprayed with skunk water. It is the greatness of becoming part of the Nabi Saleh family.

It will take at least one week until the smell get away of our bodies, and perhaps we will continue to joke about it for sometime, I guess because we understand that this is not our biggest problem. What really stinks is the occupation, and that’s the smell we want to get rid of.

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.347531478590496.92302.136633479680298

Reports that demonstration has ended for the day. No reported arrests during the demonstration or injuries. Some protestors were bathed with skunk but nothing serious.

Qadum

13/01/12, 200 Palestinians, joined by Israeli and international activists, marched in Qaddum this week. During the demonstration the army took over a village house to shoot tear-gas canisters at local youth.

yisraelpnm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuzpz2wW9go

abooood711 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMSBKLbui50

South Hebron hills

Friday, 13 January 2012 - Non-violent Action on the road from At-Tuwani to Yatta

What: The South Hebron Hills Popular Committee organizes a protest action on the road connecting At-Tuwani and nearby villages to the city of Yatta

Where: Beginning in At-Tuwani, South Hebron Hills

When: Friday 13 January 2012, 9.30 am

Why: to allow the work improving the road who connects this area with others Palestinian communities; to highlight the difficulties that Palestinian communities living in the South Hebron Hills villages face in their attempt to reach the nearest city of Yatta.

Additional Info: Villagers from the South Hebron Hills area, after the usual Friday prayer, will start working to improve the road leading to Yatta.

The purpose of the action is:

- to allow the Palestinians to work to improve their living conditions and their ability to me moving, the Israeli Military considers illegal the work on improving the road;

- to protest against the permanent difficulties that Palestinians from this area face when trying to travel along the only road connecting their villages to Yatta.

Please come to participate and to support the Palestinian communities of the South Hebron Hills in their attempt to secure the right of movement.

Al-Walajeh

Israel Puterman video Al-Walajeh, 08.01.2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVnpIUDnAfM

Tel Aviv

Demonstration against the draconian law against "infiltrators" - refugees and work seekers, Tuesday late evening in city square.

Israel putermam http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s76-nnlX1fc

Wednesday: All those arrested last night in Tel-Aviv, protesting the recent amendment to the 1954 Infiltration Law, are due to be released shortly

Haim Schwarczenberg http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.3086256154687.2157796.1212414101

Sunday morning 15-1-12 a huge number of state and city forces attacked the Hatikva tent camp and demolished it - arresting 4 activists.

Emergency demo in front of city offices entrances at 16:00 was declared. Hundreds participated. About 14 activists were detained - two were taken to hospital for treatment.

Israel putermam http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfLqsmVtRcs

18:00 at the interior and other state offices building a demo against the scandalous law of 3 years jail with no court hearing for refugees and worker immigrant crossing illegally the border.

Evening and night: activists of the Occupy movement return to the Rothschild boulevards/Habima location.

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Don't say we did not know

Dear Friends

I prepared a story about attack of Settlers in Palestinian village Burin.. The Israeli TV channel 1 made a report about it. So I don't send my report and instead of it I send an article I wrote few weeks ago.

All the best to you!

Amos

I.D.F. and THE PRICE TAG HOOLIGANS

The scam was a success. The political storm which followed the actions of the "price tag hooligans" has reached countries outside of Israel , presenting the government as fighting extremists who strike against Palestinians and even against the I.D.F. Only Lieberman's Foreign Ministry has managed, again, to jeopardize Israel 's relations with European countries, when describing them as "irrelevant", for not buying the scam.

A comparison between the I.D.F. and the "price tag hooligans" confirms that the I.D.F., which is subordinate to the Israeli government, inflicts much more severe damage and on a regular basis: Land robbery (over 50% of the land in the West Bank are in the hands of the Israelis), destruction of houses (over 26,000 since 1967), deportation, establishment of settlements on confiscated lands, water rights violations, uprooting of orchards and destruction of cultivated fields, prevention of the return of Palestinians who resided overseas for long periods of time and the prevention of family reunification of Palestinians with their spouses – this are only a partial list of the everyday occurrences and damages inflicted on the Palestinians in the occupied territories.

All these acts and occurrences have nothing to do with the safety of the Israeli people! These actions are done within the framework of the expansion frame work of Israeli governments since the Occupation in 1967. Even if only a small percentage of traumatized Palestinians, which trauma is a result of I.D.F. actions in the occupied territories, will decide to avenge their comrades, a small army of terrorists will arise to strike at the Israeli population.

Here begins the roll of the I.D.F.: Palestinian riots must be subdued and the Israeli population protected. In the name of national security land is confiscated and fruit trees are uprooted, the separation fence is built inside Palestinian territory and not on the Green Line border. Soldiers conduct night searches in villages causing destruction and traumatizing children and their families (until they take revenge). On these night searches not only terrorists are hunted but also non violent popular activists. Those activists adopt a struggle which poses no threat to the security of Israel 's population. It does, however, pose a threat to the continuing Occupation and its crimes.

What is the difference between the I.D.F. and the "price tag hooligans"? The I.D.F. has been active throughout the years to transfer the occupied territories to Israel so they will become part of it. These actions actually remove Palestinians from the remaining land that is still theirs. These actions are slow and calculated in order not to anger our overseas supporters. after all, our existence depends on their good will. Contrary to this practice, the "price tag hooligans" would like it to happen immediately, not understanding that Israel cannot allow itself to lose the support of the West, since those countries have policies against occupation, racism and the violation of human rights. The debate is not about removing or transferring the Palestinians from their lands but the pace of process.

It can be observed that all the effort of peace making has not slowed down the removal of Palestinians from their lands. Abu Mazen has understood that and today demands a true peace process which will prevent it. To this demand, the Israeli government does not agree. And so, as the Arab League suggests a peace treaty , including an end of Occupation and a reasonable solution to the refugee issue, Israel refuses; the Occupation is more important than securing our existence.

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Palestine-Israel, The joint struggle continue with the usual repression and resistance

2012-01-10T02:33:00.000-08:00

Though the winter here is very mild with most days sunny and not so cold, the political whether is stormy. The colonial settlers attacks on the Palestinian villagers as a punishment for restriction of settlers by Israeli authorities are interwoven with the joint struggles, mainly in the villages persistence "Tsumud" resisting the crawling encroachment of their lands and transfer. In addition to the hot struggle in Nabi Saleh and the intermittent one in Wallage, there are the Kufr Qaddoum and Kfar A-Dic who joined lately, and the long term ones of Beit Ummar, Bil'in, Al-Ma'asara, Ni'ilin, Sheikh Jarrah (Jerusalem-AlKuds), South Hebron Hills. And of course, though in a toned down measure the social justice "Occupy Rothschild" struggle continue focused on the resisting the destructions of the few remaining tent camps.

Bil'in

Few hundreds marched in Friday demo in Bil'in commemorating the murder of Jawahar Abu Rhama a year ago as a result of the huge amounts of teargas fired by IOF. Among the marchers were about three dozen Israelis with the anarchists against the wall initiative, as well as lot of political activists from Ramallah and international activists. The wind was changing direction so the Israeli state forces failed in the efforts to disperse us.
After a long while a convoy of armed cars and soldiers crossed the wall and try to intimidate us... but were driven away by the shabab not before injuring 4 of us with metal bullets wrapped by rubber and many who suffocated for a while by tear gas. At the end we returned to the village weary but satisfied.

Another take:
Anne Paq/Activestills.org, Bil'in, 06.01.2012.
Anne Paq: "The weekly demonstration in the West Bank village of Bil'in was dedicated to Jawaher Abu Rahmah, a Palestinian resident from Bil'in, who died last year following massive tear gas inhalation during the demonstration.
The large group of protesters walked towards the Separation Wall which is built on the lands of Bil'in to protect the nearby settlement of Mod'ilin Illit, also built on the village's land.
The visual effect was greatly enhanced by a lots of Palestinian youth wearing masks made of hats with the colors of the Palestinian flag.
The Israeli soldiers started to throw tear gas on protesters. One Israeli soldier also shot live ammunition towards a Palestinian protester who managed to pass the barbed wire line in front of the Wall. As the protesters were actually walking back, Israeli jeeps crossed the Wall to chase demonstrators, attacking them with tear gas and bullets. Palestinian youth started to throw stones at the jeeps, the Israeli soldiers continued shooting. Some brave Palestinian demonstrators came closer to prevent the soldiers from shooting. At one stage, a protester even jumped on one Israeli soldier to stop him shooting, another one also managed to throw a tear gas canister inside a jeep. Amazing footage can be seen in Haitham Katib's video below. The Israeli soldiers finally withdrew, leaving four protesters injured. It is quite again a miracle that today no one was killed or seriously injured. Jawaher did not have that chance; she was killed by the tear gas, which has become a lethal weapon in the Middle East.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkiaME0q18E
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.343046435705667.91483.136633479680298
Richard http://on.fb.me/wpv9Ci

Al-Ma'asara

Also on Friday, Al-Ma'asara activists demonstrated against the renewal of construction work on the Apartheid Wall near the village. Demonstrations in Ma'asara have been taking place on a weekly basis for more than five years now, and after a long pause – construction work in the area was restarted this week.

Kfar a-Dik

There will be a demo in Kfar a-Dik tomorrow. If you can make it please let me know

Nabi Saleh

weekly demonstration, Jan. 6, 2012 against the occupation and settlements
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.343033765706934.91481.136633479680298
Haim Schwarczenberg http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.3058387137979.2157258.1212414101
David Reeb http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkGD4etz9VM
hassan daboos http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.273303012726162.66260.228124070577390
Richard http://on.fb.me/zAaC2d

Ni'ilin

Chen Misgav photos of Ni'ilin & Nabi Saleh http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150572687091803.432950.770301802
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.343064225703888.91485.136633479680298
Richard http://on.fb.me/yxR17i
http://www.nilin-village.org

Qadum

They also have weekly demos in Qadum and we have been invited. If you can make it please let me know.

Kufr Qaddum weekly demonstration Jan. 6, 2012
A protest against the Jewish settlement of Qadomem, near the West Bank City of Nablus on January 6, 2011.

Kufr Qaddoum marches forward despite threats of violence

At noon on the 6th of January, 2012, a demonstration was held in the village Kufr Qaddoum, located just outside Nablus. The people gathered after the Friday-prayer and started marching along the main road that runs through the village. This road was, until the year of 2003, also the main road to Nablus, which by then only was a 10 minute drive away. This came to a short end during the second Intifada when the Israeli army decided to close the road as they considered it a safety risk to the nearby illegal settlements. The Israeli government has, since the end of the Intifada, agreed that the road is not a “safety risk” anymore and therefore gave the green-light to reopen it. The army however has so far disobeyed this decision and refuses to open the road which means that the villagers still have to take a detour of about 30 minutes, making the drive to Nablus three times longer and more expensive than before.
This denial by the army is the reason why today 150 – 200 Palestinians, accompanied by internationals, marched in a peaceful demonstration towards the roadblock to show their dissatisfaction with the Israeli army and to reclaim their right to their road. When the demonstrators approached the road-block they were met by about 15 armed soldiers standing on the road and approximately 5 more soldiers stationed on the hills next to the road. About 50 meters in front of the soldiers on the road they had placed barbed-wire. The soldiers spoke through a megaphone declaring that if anyone crossed the barbed-wire the demonstrators would be met by violence. Not one of the protesters crossed the line nor used any violence but simply tried to remove the barbed-wire when the soldiers began to fire teargas-canisters, forcing the protesters to run back towards the village. The protesters were then followed by a truck spraying them with “skunk-water” from a water canon as well as by soldiers attacking them with teargas and stun-grenades from the hillsides, as well as from the streets, and continued following the protesters deeper into the village. This violence continued throughout the demonstration, which lasted for about two hours. In the end the soldiers withdrew, and the Palestinians reached the road-block where they sang and cheered before they went back to the village, all the time watched by soldiers ready to take action from a hill closer to the nearby settlements.
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Sheikh Jarrah

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South of Hebron Hills

Saturday 9.1.2012
Activists escorting plowing and sowing, eight new demolition orders in Umm al-heir, 5 demolition orders for cistern in hlat' a - Foron, and a new transport aircraft been build
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Al-Walajeh

Direct action against the building of the Wall, Al-Walajeh, Sunday 08.01.2012 From Anne Paq Today there was a direct action organized in Al-Walajeh village close to Bethlehem. A group of Israel activists sit in front of a caterpillar bulldozer which was working on building the route of the Wall and managed to stop it for about one hour. 9 Israeli activists were forcibly dragged by Israeli soldiers and arrested. They are now in Atarot police station. The action highlights the critical situation of Al-Walajeh village. Once completed the village will be totally surrounded by the Wall, isolating it from both Jerusalem and the West Bank. Hundreds of trees had been uprooted and the villagers will lose access to their lands. More action will take place. Bulldozers building the Wall should not be stopped for one hour, they should be stopped forever!
"9 people were arrested today while blocking a bulldozer working on the route of the Wall in the village Al-Walajeh . They are now interrogated in Atarot in suspicion of violating a legal order and obstructing an officer." All 9 were released late evening with usual restrictions.
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Tel Aviv

Social Justice struggle
42 activists were detained during a few hundreds demo at Saturday evening in south Tel Aviv (Atikva) against the eviction of homeless families in one of the last occupation camps of the summer social struggle. Among the arrested two of the founders of the J14 uprising. The last ones were released Sunday Morning.

Palestine-Israel, The joint struggle try to accelerate the turning speed of the wheels of history...

2012-01-03T05:06:00.000-08:00

Palestine-Israel, The joint struggle try to accelerate the turning speed of the wheels of history...

Some time the persistence (Tsumud) is the main aspect of the struggle against the mighty enemies. Some times, small successes improve the feelings of the involved. Such seems to be the joining of the Qadum village to the list of joint struggle of local popular struggle activists and the Israeli anarchists against the wall. During the years we were invited and participated there in activities but only lately it ripened to the level of Bil'in, Ni'ilin, Ma'asarah, Beit Ummar, Sheikh Jarrah, and Nabi Saleh. The expansion of the joint struggle start to light red lamps on the Israeli dash board and the anarchists are mentioned more and more as an enemy that needs a harsh treatment... even if it will damage the farcical/phoney image of Israeli democracy.

Beit Ummar

Saturday 31.12.11

Chen Misgav http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150558039886803.430408.770301802

Bil'in

Around 15 Israelis and 10 internationals joined the weekly Palestinian demonstration in Bil'in for the return of the village's stolen lands and for freedom to all between the river and the sea. Santa, who should have already gone back to the north pole, made a surprise appearance, perhaps because he was denied the right to leave Palestine, like photo-journalist Moheeb Bargotiuy (nearly always in the Friday Bil'in non violent demo) who was supposed to attend an exhibition of his work in Beirut, and was denied the right to leave Palestine (the official reason for the ban on Moheeb's travel was suspected cooperation with the Hizbullah; Moheeb, however, is strongly committed to nonviolence and does not even sympathize with the Hizbullah). When the protesters approached the wall, the air was already filled with the smell of tear gas. The protesters marched upwind along the wall to the northern gate under a relatively mild attack of tear gas, and demanded to be let through to their lands. The shabab responded in a way that one may term "proportional", if one were to adopt Israeli jargon. After a while we heard a cry for medical assistance from the southern stretch of the fence, where one protester was injured by gas. The shabab were holding their ground there through a somewhat more intense confrontation that lasted for about two hours, until they finally managed to lure the soldiers to cross the wall and chase them as far as the old wall, where the soldiers' own gas screen curbed their efforts.

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a-Dik

There will be a demo in Kfar a-Dik If you can make it please let me know.

Friday, Soldiers have just stopped protesters in Kufer al-Dik from praying on their land, on which Israel plans to build a new settlement.

Jerusalem-Al-Kuds

Eviction Danger in Sheikh Jarrah Yet Again!

Resume the march to Sheikh Jarrah

Join us this Friday, December 30th, at 1pm from the Mashbir square, King George Street, Jerusalem. Together we will walk to Sheikh Jarrah, protesting against the pending eviction. Join us after that at the weekly demonstration, 3pm at the Sheikh-Jarrah garden, Demascus Road (near the American Colony), together with the residents of Sheikh-Jarrah

On Friday afternoon 30/11/11 the Israelis and Palestinians activists resumed to march downtown neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah protest against the evacuation of homes and occupation of East Jerusalem, the march was not violent and was relatively calm, protestors hijacked swearing and spitting as they paced the Jerusalem pedestrian mall, demonstrators chanted slogans against the occupation and evacuation of houses, and distributed flayers, we arrived about three o'clock in the entrance to Sheikh Jarrah and from there we walked into the neighborhood to the homes of the stolen express solidarity with the evicted families and to protest against the takeover of the settlers on the houses, one of the houses were trying settlers tear us the poor dogs their. We will continue to protest until they returned to their home Palestinians families

A-Tur Tour: Launching new campaign in East-Jerusalem --- The residents of A-Tur and Issawiya have, for years, been struggling for the right to develop and expand their neighborhoods, on land that is privately owned- by them. But the State of Israel has chosen not to allow them to build, even on their own land.

Every one of the neighborhoods presented zoning plans, whose preparations costed the residents hundreds of thousands of shekels out of their own pockets, and yet the plans were never even discussed by the Israeli authorities.

Instead of allowing the residents of these neighborhoods to build schools, houses and public spaces, the State of Israel, along with the Israel Nature and Parks Authority, to declare a new "National Park" on the last remaining land reserves in East Jerusalem.

Now the residents of A-Tur and Issawiya have decided, despite attempts to scare them into submission, to begin a public struggle for their rights to build on their own land. As a first step, Solidarity, along with the popular committees in the area, invites you to a tour of the new "National Park." Come to listen, to enjoy from the "wonders of nature" in the area, and to help plan the next step in the struggle.

We will meet on Saturday, 12.31.11

Walking Against the Occupation and evacuation 30.12.2011

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Sheikh Jarrah demo march http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31s1l0fAhVc

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Kufer al-Dik:

Protesters marching in Kufer al-Dik against the construction of a new settlement on their lands. Soldiers have just stopped protesters in Kufer al-Dik from praying on their land, on which Israel plans to build a new settlement.

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Ma'asarah

Activists in al Maasara near Bethlehem are reporting that two people - 1 Palestinian and 1 international have been arrested in the Friday weekly demonstration.

Tal King http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150442482858244&set=oa.283576991689822

Nabi Saleh

This Friday Nabi Saleh Marks 3 Years to the Gaza Massacre

Activists reporting that IOF have already mobilized 2 gas canister launchers, 1 bulldozer, 1 skunk trunk & many military jeeps and soldiers and arrested two internationals even though the demonstration has not started yet. According to Linah Alsaafin the kidnapped internationals are being charged with disobeying orders. They kept running when ordered to stop by IOF....

Protesters in Nabi Saleh are marching today with balloons dedicated to the victims of Operation Cast Lead.

The same toxic US Made tear gas, Yellow and a little greenish, that is used at #Bahrain is used now at #NabiSaleh

"Dozens participated in this week's demonstration in Nabi Saleh, marking 3 years to the Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip, killing over 1400 Palestinians. Nabi Saleh residents, other Palestinians, and international and Israeli supporters marched peacefully from the center of the village.

As always, a peaceful procession met with Israeli aggression. The Israeli forces used their “skunk” foul-water cannon against non-violent demonstrators. Once the demonstrators chose a different path, where the “skunk” couldn't reach them, tear gas canisters were shot at them. This did not deter the demonstrators who kept going towards the village's spring and other lands that Halamish settlers have annexed or are attempting to annex. Some demonstrators kept going and got close to the other Palestinian village Halamish has grabbed land from - Deir Nidham. As kids from Deir Nidham watched from beyond the main road, over six Israeli military vehicles and dozens of soldiers crowded the road. Masses of tear gas canisters were shot, including directly at demonstrators, from a close range.

The demonstration kept going until sundown, in several locations. Some people hurled stones to ward off the army incursion. Several people were injured from directly shot canisters and tear gas inhalation. Even before the demo has started, Israeli forces raided the village and arrested two international activists. Towards the day's end, the Israeli army took over the main road of the village, leading to Ramallah, and asked every car for identification of its passengers. Two Palestinians were taken out of service taxis going through this ad hoc checkpoint. They were arrested on suspicion of participating in the demo and beaten up by the Israeli soldiers."

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Ni'ilin

Paying the Price: Ni'ilin Commemorates its Martyrs

The village of Ni'ilin maintains weekly protest despite the heavy price. This week, the village marked three years to the killing of Mohammed Khawaje and Arafat Khawaje.

Volleys of tear gas, rubber coated steel bullets and live ammunition is how the Israeli Army met a small demonstration in remembrance of 2 martyrs, in Ni’lin today. Starting after Friday prayers approximately 25 Palestinians and few Israeli and internationals made their way from the village through olive groves to the Apartheid Wall to commemorate the murder of Mohammed Khawaje and Arafat Khawaje on the 28th December 2008. Mohammed was shot in the forehead with live ammunition and Arafat was fatally shot in the back when attempting to rescue another villager who had been shot by an Israeli sniper.

The protest was immediately greeted with the full arsenal of the weapons available to the Israeli military. There was nearly as many heavily armed soldiers as demonstrators. A Palestinian demonstrator pleaded through a megaphone in a fog of tear gas for the soldiers to “Stay Human.” The reply was a callous round of live ammunition fired at the demonstration. As the demo drew to a close, an armored Humvee packed with soldiers taunted the protest before a final set of shots were fired.

Ni’lin has been holding these weekly demonstrations since the Apartheid Wall was first planned. The Wall has annexed over 30% of the land of Ni’lin and has cost the lives of 5 martyrs. The protest continues weekly.

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Qadum

Anarchists Against the Wall Join The struggle in Qadum

They also have weekly demos in Qadum and we have been invited. If you can make it please let me know. k/

http://www.awalls.org/anarchists_join_the_struggle_in_qadum 18/12/2011 The Village of Qadum is located in the center of the West Bank near the Nablus. Since 1975 the settlement of Kdumim has been expanding on their lands. The village was subjected to the usual array of abuses and attacks from their new uninvited neighbors. 9 years ago the only exit from the village was blocked by the army. The reason is probably that the settlers wanted to connect two settlements on both sides of the road and did not want Palestinian traffic close to their houses.

Year of litigation and political efforts did not help and on July 1st 2011 the village launched a popular struggle to demand the reopening of road. Since then the people of Qadum have had large demonstrations every week. They have invited international and Israeli supporters and AATW have have came several times over the last months. Last week a group of AATW activists committed to coming to support the demonstrations every week. This would be the 6th village that AATW will be supporting on a long term basis at weekly demonstrations.

Protest in Qadum, December, 30, 2011 -- Kufr Qaddum Demonstrators Force Israeli Army to Withdraw

Some 200 demonstrators joined the weekly protest against land grab and for freedom of movement in the village of Kufr Qaddum. Residents of the village, joined by a solidarity delegation from Bil'in and Israeli and international activists, made their way to the main road of the village that had been blocked by the army for the past 9 years. Many youth, as well as a local DJ joined the protest, making the demonstration into an especially lively event.

The village has been effectively besieged since the beginning of the Second Intifada, when the main and only entrance to the village was blocked by the army. Furthermore, settlers of the adjacent settlement Kedumin have been long taking over privately owned Palestinian land in a manner that even the Israeli civil Administration called "theft"

The army awaited the demonstrators on the main road, stretching barbed wire across the path and firing tear-gas projectiles towards the crowd. Clashes began to erupt between the local youth and the army, which persisted for about two hours. After making an attempt to move forward, the army finally left the village, leading the protesters to embark on a spontaneous "victory march" back into the village.

Picture Credit: Ann Paq/Activestills at:

https://www.popularstruggle.org/content/kufr-qaddum-demonstrators-force-israeli-army-withdraw

http://www.awalls.org/anarchists_join_the_struggle_in_qadum

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Qalandia

Demonstration, Dec. 30, 2011: http://on.fb.me/s2mWxu

Southern Hebron Hills

31.12.2011 Guy Butavia http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150507539992138.394459.779192137

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Don’t say we did not know #292

On Wednesday, 21st December, 2011, government representatives, accompanied by police forces, demolished five homes in the Bedouin village ‘Atir in the Negev .

They then went on to demolish two homes near the village Umm Matnan, belonging to the ‘Amrani family.

Sixty people were made homeless.

Then they demolished El’Araqib, yet again.

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On Wednesday , 21st December, 2011, IDF forces went to the Palestinian village Kufr A-Diq (near Salfit) and demolished three agricultural structures and two water cisterns .

Questions & queries: amosg@shefayim.org.il

Palestine-Israel, The joint struggle continue with blaming of the anarchists by the Israeli prime minister and his extreme rightist supporters.

2011-12-25T12:09:00.000-08:00

The political arena in Palestine occupied by Israel and Israel did not take the winter hibernation. The Arab Spring seems to continue during both the summer, the Autumn, and even the winter. The Hamas, who supported the nonviolent joint popular struggle in Bil'in from the beginning in spite of extreme fundamentalists objections to it, adopted now the the nonviolent popular struggle as the main strategy. Israeli escalation of repression of this and the joint struggle is expected. In spite of the uncertainty we continued another week of joint struggle: Beit Ummar, Bil'in, East Jerusalem-Al-Kuds (Silwan,Shu'fat,Sheikh Jarrah), Al-Ma’sara, Naby Saleh, Ni'ilin, kafr a-Dik, Kafr Qadum, Qalandiya, South Of Hebron Hills. Within Israel the social justice struggle continue in localized struggles with a moving focus. The air is vibrating with the expectancy of a dramatic eruption.

Beit Ummar

Saturday, Dec., 24, 2011

John Brown:

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Bil'in

"Two days before Xmas day, almost 20 Israelis, a few internationals and two Santas joined the weekly Palestinian demonstration against the wall and occupation in Bil'in. With bells a ringin', we marched to the wall, and as soon as Santa touched the barbed wire (that protects the other barbed wire that protects the concrete wall that protects the Israeli snipers that protect the settlers watching over from the other side), before we could even chant "hura hura Falasteen", Santa and his entourage had a barrage of gas canisters shot directly at them, just barely failing to repeat the military achievement of killing a protester in Nebi Salah two weeks earlier. Due to a local wedding the shabab decided on a short demo and, with very few exceptions, refrained from throwing stones at the people who steal their lands and try to kill them, but this didn't prevent the army from shooting several more barrages of gas canisters directly at protesters, which, only by sheer chance or Xmas spirit, ended up whistling in their ears rather than crushing their skulls. After some exchange of insults with the settlers hiding behind the soldiers and a brief excursion between the barbed wire and the wall, the protesters returned home early, as planned, with a few iron poles appropriated from the fence as an early Xmas present courtesy of the Occupation."

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Jerusalem-Al-Kuds

Silwan Demonstration 24/12/2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlnHW16iZsg

Hundreds of Israelis and Palestinians, gathered in Silwan in East Jerusalem for a demonstration and march against the settler colonialist robbery.

Shu'fat

Protest the new checkpoint

Approximately 30 Palestinians, Israelis, and internationals gathered at the edge of Shu'fat refugee camp today to demonstrate against the new Israeli checkpoint.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEweKnIjT2k

Sheikh Jarrah

The persistent Friday demonstration

Al-Ma’sara weekly demonstration, Dec. 23, 2011

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Naby Saleh

The IDF confirmed that sharp shooters fired 0.22 caliber ammunition at the lower body of a protester in the West Bank town of Nabi Saleh Friday afternoon. An IDF spokesman noted that the protester was previously known to security forces and was specifically targeted after he was identified throwing stones at security forces.

Live Sniper-Fire Injures Protester in Nabi Saleh. See http://t.co/VRFw2zye

Activists posted a picture on-line of a man who appeared to have been shot in his thigh.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/activestills/6558883965/

Now with a video of the shooting: Live Sniper-Fire Injures Protester in Nabi Saleh. See http://t.co/VRFw2zye

Nariman Tamimi http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUxsnQcaYCY

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Israel Puterman video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiayZOMF1Yo

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Ni'ilin 23/12/2011

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Qalandiya

A Demo in Qalandiya Town Against the construction of the Separation Wall.

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South Of Hebron Hills

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There were demos also at:

kafr a-Dik

Kafr Qadum

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See Previous reports about the joint struggles of the Anarchists Against the Wall at: http://ilanisagainstwalls.blogspot.com

Palestine-Israel, The joint struggle persist in spite of Israel state harassments

2011-12-21T03:14:00.000-08:00

This week we added the mourning of Mustafa Tamimi to the ongoing joint struggle. There was a special recruitment of activists to Nabi Saleh with around of 100 Israelis in addition to Palestinians activists of the region who joined the hundreds of Nabi Saleh villagers. The conflicts with the Israeli state forces was more than usual and was included action in the entrance of the adjacent colonialist settlement who rob Nabi Saleh lands and springs. The Bil'in struggle continue week after week and in addition to being a symbol for the struggle against the separation fence, robbery of lands by settler colonialists and the occupation, it is also a focus of defamation of our struggle by the Israeli Prime minister and his servants. The Israeli courts system that usually serve whole heartedly the transfer of Palestinian had a glitch when a judge refused to evict Palestinians from two hoses in occupied East Jerusalem.

Bil'in

16 Dec. The 360th Friday demonstration against the separation wall/fence and the occupation in Bil'in. At noon, some drove directly to the new separation wall, most of us marched the long way towards it. We were about 15 Israelis, similar number of internationals and few dozens Palestinians. Many of us held the picture of Mustafa Tamimi murdered last Friday demo in Nabi Saleh. Soon after we arrived at the wall the state force "warned" us with tear gas grenades but due to a friendly wind that carried the gas towards them they refrained for a while from shooting us. Many of the shabab who started earlier confrontation with the soldiers at the south end of the reservation moved towards our location and had a long and intense "communication" with the soldiers who had to hide behind the wall.

Few of the shabab and one of the main demonstration carrying a flag even succeeded to enter the forbidden zone between the spools of barbed wire and the wall. After long while, as the state force failed to disperse us with the shower of tear gas they shoot from behind the wall, they crossed the wall and came with their armed cars and by foot to threat us...

At this stage most of the participants dispersed on the surrounding hills and returned to the village.

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Jerusalem-Al-Kuds

Shuafat

Demo against the new checkpoint this Sunday at !6:00

Representatives of the Palestinian community in Shuafat have invited Israelis and Internationals to come to the weekly demo against the new checkpoint constructed by the Israeli military. The demonstration will be held on Sunday at 3. A transportation will pick up attendees from the Bell Garden at 1:45. To register for the transportation/directions please contact Michael at 0507750754

Approximately 30 Palestinians, Israelis, and internationals gathered at the edge of Shu'fat refugee camp today to demonstrate against the new Israeli checkpoint, which opened last Monday, December 12 and that an Israeli activist referred to as ethnic cleansing.

Pictures - http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/topics/jerusalem/3993-in-photos-palestinians-israelis-and-internationals-protest-new-checkpoint-at-shufat

Haim Schwarczenberg - http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2927781712925.2154116.1212414101

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEweKnIjT2k

Sheikh Jarrah

We will meet at the Sheikh Jarrah Garden, Nablus Road and Dahlmann St.

Al-Ma’sara

The weekly demonstration against the Wall and settlements in Ma'asara commenced peacefully, like on any other week in the past five years. Some 50 protesters marched from the center of the village towards the main road, aiming to reach their agricultural lands, confiscated to build the Wall.

Chanting slogans and raising banners, the demonstrators soon met a military battalion that was standing in a line on the road, aiming to prevent the march from passing through. As they reached the soldiers, Hassan Breijieh approached them and asked might he be allowed to cross to his lands. The soldiers replied, apparently mockingly, that he may. As soon as Breijieh took two steps forward he was immediately arrested.

The demonstration continued for some time following this event. As most of the protesters were heading back into the village, soldiers arrested a local youth, Ibrhaim Fawaja, claiming that he had thrown stones. While soldiers told the demonstrators that they will be released shortly, both remain in custody and it is still unclear when they will be brought before a judge.

Weekly demonstration, Dec. 16, 2011 Photos by Yousef Shaheen

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Nabi Saleh

Thursday evening - commemoration for the martyr Mustafa Tamimi murdered last week end.

The village of is calling for a central demonstration this Friday to protest the killing of Mustafa Tamimi and show their resolve in the face of IDF murderousness.

The people of this small village have been assaulted endlessly in the nearly two years since they started to demonstrate regularly for their rights and for their lands. They have been arrested and injured countless times and now the IDF has done its' worse.

Still, they remain committed to their struggle and are calling on their supporters to join them this Friday to show that they and their supporters will not be give in.

Please let us know early if you can come so transportation can be arranged. Contact N

Text by Jonathan Pollak on Mustafa Tamimi:

Palestine-Israel: Nabi Salih, the death of a stone-thrower

at: http://www.anarkismo.net/article/21384

Friday

More than 100 Israelis joined the heroic people of the village and activists from Bilin and the region (including international activists).

Hundreds joined the weekly demonstration in Nabi Saleh today, including more than 100 Israelis, and a contingent of activists from Bil'in for marking the killing of Mustafa Tamimi (28), who was shot in the face during the weekly protest in the village last Friday. Tamimi was shot from a distance of less than 10 meters behind the semi-open door of an armored military jeep.

The demonstration held today commenced peacefully from the center of the village towards the spring confiscated by the nearby settlement Halamish. Shortly after arriving to the point where Tamimi was shot last week, the march was attacked by a shower tear-gas, shot by Border Police soldiers - both in arch and directly towards protesters. Massive amounts of tear-gas were shot continuously for approximately 30 minutes, despite the fact that no stone throwing was taking place. In addition, the "Skunk" truck carrying foul-smelling water was used to spray the entire area including the large crews of press present.

During the same time, a group of Palestinian, Israeli and international activists were blocking the entrance to the settlement of Halamish, built adjacent Nabi Saleh, on privately owned Palestinian land. 10 protesters were arrested in this attempt.

In the village, clashes started erupting between local youth and the army. A small group of protesters, who managed to get quite close to the spring, were also arrested. A Palestinian woman was pepper-sprayed by a Border Policemen for no evident reason. Several protesters and media personnel were slightly injured by tear gas canisters. One of them was evacuated to receive medical treatment.

Another group of Palestinian protesters were arrested while already leaving the village, when a taxi going to Ramallah was stopped by the army. All commuters were taken off the car and a number of them were arrested. All arrestees were taken to the Benyamin police station and most of them are charged with road blocking and entrance to close military zone.

‎25 arrested/detained - including Palestinians of the village and from Bil'in, Israelis and internationals - preliminary reports are that the majority of those detained are being held in the illegal Israeli colony of Halamish. Later, 8 of 10 Palestinians were released while two were taken with most of the internationals and Israelis to Benyamin police station. Later, most released with 14 accepted ban of 15 days on returning to Nabi Saleh. 2 Israeli women detainees remained in custody as they have refused to sign conditions of being banned from the area for a certain period of time and are staying in jail In solidarity with Mohammad Tamimi and Mohammad Khatib. They will be brought before a judge this evening in Jerusalem.

the internationals and the Israelis were released except 2 who refused to sign on two weeks ban on returning to Nebi Saleh.

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Israel Putermam video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnD8biAA3FY

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From Mohammed Khatib 18-12-11

I have just been released from jail, after three days inside. I was arrested last Friday, together with 22 others, in the village of Nabi Saleh, during a demonstration commemorating the murder of Mustafa Tamimi. Our arrest took place as we peacefully protested near the entrance to the Jewish-only settlement of Halamish, which is built on lands stolen from Nabi Saleh.

Minutes after we got to the gate, Israeli Border Police officers moved in to remove us from the scene. Palestinians, Israeli and international activists, we were all shackled and dragged away into military jeeps that transported us to the adjacent military base, which is in fact part of the settlement.

In the military base, still shackled, I was assaulted by a settler who hit me in the face, leaving me with a bloody nose. Shortly after, the settler also attacked a female Israeli activist who was by my side. The soldiers and policemen present did not prevent the attack, nor did they bother to detain the settler after the fact. Instead, the zip-tie locks on my hands were removed, only for my arms to be bound again, this time behind my back.

Hours later, at the police station, I learned that to cover up their responsibility for my attack, the soldiers have laid a bogus complaint against me for assaulting them. My hands were tied, my face was bleeding, but it was I who spent the night in the inside of prison cell.

Mohammed Tamimi from Nabi Saleh was also arrested during that same demonstration. While the police decided to release all the others, he and I were to remain in jail. During our demonstrations, soldiers often take pictures, to later use them as "incriminating evidence". This time, the soldiers used one such picture to accuse Mohammed of throwing stones during a demonstration a few weeks or months back. The man pictured in that photograph is not Mohammed Tamimi from Nabi Saleh, regardless, he remains in jail. Military law allows Israel to keep us Palestinians in jail for eight days before seeing a judge, and even then, it is a soldier in uniform who is the so called neutral arbitrator.

As the prison doors closed behind me, my happiness was clouded by the fact that Mohammed Tamimi was not released. The battle for his freedom is only beginning, as our lawyers prepare the petition for his release. If you can, please help us fund legal aid for him and for the countless others who are regularly arrested protesting Israeli Occupation.

I would also like to use this letter to extend my gratitude to Ayala Shani, an Israeli comrade who was arrested with me. She refused the injustice of being released while both me and Mohammed Tamimi were still detained. As these words are written, she is still in jail, despite having been offered her freedom twice already by Israeli courts.

Sincerely,

Mohammed Khatib

Ayala, who refused to sign her release papers (with commitment not to return 15 days to Nabi Saleh) as solidarity with Mohammed Tamimi still jailed was literally kicked out of jail without signing any papers on 19-12-11 with Mohammed Tamimi the only one of Friday demo detainees still at jail.

Ni'ilin

Protesters in Manage to Open a Gate Long Closed by the Army.

Approximately 100 residents and activists in Ni'ilin for the Friday demonstration against the separation fence used to rob their lands and occupation. They also protested Israeli construction work in the Gates of the Temple Mount (Bab Al Magharbeh) in Jerusalem. Protesters managed to open an agricultural gate that has been closed for more than six months.

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The demonstration commenced at the center of the village shortly after the Friday prayer, marching towards the concrete wall surrounding the separation barrier built on the village's agricultural lands. Upon arriving to the Wall, protesters burned tires as well as a cardboard-made model of settlements. A small group of youth then began throwing stones at the Wall, to which the army responded by shooting large amounts of tear-gas projectiles.

Despite the heavy fall of tear gas, protesters were able to reach an agricultural gate installed in the Wall. The gate is supposed to be open in fixed times to enable farmers to reach their lands, however it has been constantly closed for at least six months. Demonstrators were able to open up a passage of about half a meter in this gate. The army responded rapidly – for the first time in months soldiers passed the Wall and entered the village, shooting large amounts of tear gas and rubber coated bullets at the demonstrators. Clashes lasted for over an hour, through which at least one protester was slightly injured.

Kufr Qaddum

Dec. 16, 2011 Resistance Persists in Kufr Qaddum

Dozens join the weekly demonstration against land grab and closure in Kufr Qaddum. Army replies with a shower of tear gas and invades the village.

Weekly demonstrations in Kufr Qaddum Persist. Residents of Kufer Qaddum in the northern West Bank are protesting land grab by settlers and severe violations of their freedom of movement. Settlers of the adjacent settlement Kedumin have been long taking over privately owned Palestinian land in a manner that even the Israeli civil Administration called "theft". Moreover, since the beginning of the second Intifada the main road leading to the town has been blocked by the army, largely impeding transport in and out of town

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Qalandia

Demonstration in Qalandia Town Dec. 16, 2011 Against the construction of the Separation Wall.

Photos by Nasser Shiyoukh, ''I love Ramallah" & Ahmad Gharabali

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Don’t say we did not know #290

On Tuesday, 6th December, 2011, the IDF demolished two homes and three agricultural sheds (one of them without a military demolition order) in the Palestinian village El-Halaila, near the settlement Givat Ze’ev. One home owner who received a demolition order partially demolished his home in advance, hoping that this would give his family at least some sort of shelter. It did not help. Twelve souls were left without a roof over their heads.

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Palestine-Israel,Mustafa Tamimi of Nabi Saleh was added to the list of martyrs of the joint struggle

2011-12-13T11:33:00.000-08:00

About 20 Palestinian people involved in the joint struggle were already murdered by the Israeli state forces. Due to differential orders about shooting Israeli participants, till now no Israeli activist was murdered, though few were operated in hospitals after being shot, two lost part of their sight, and three suffered brain damage. Last Friday, Mustafa Tamimi of Nabi Saleh was murdered during the weekly demonstration by direct fire from few meter distance from an armored car. His head was seriously injured and hours of operations failed to save his life. Few thousands participated in the procession in Ramalla and about thousand came to his burial in Nabi Saleh. Dozens activists of the anarchists against the wall who knew Mustafa from the Friday demonstrations were among the about 50 Israelis who came to pay the last honer to Mustafa.

Bi'lin weekly demonstration, Dec. 9, 2011

The new pattern of the Friday demonstration in Bil'in already established. As soon as the noon prayer ends a contingent of the shabab travel to the new separation wall, and start their action at the south end of the adjacent Abu Lamun nature reservation. When the nonviolence demonstrators march approach the reservation the Israeli state force already attack the shabab with tear gas grenades. When our march pass the reservation and approach the wall, the state force just wait for an excuse to open their tear gas fire on us.

This week we had a relatively lively demonstration. The Palestinian activists of the village and the 7 Israelis of the anarchists against the wall initiative were joined by about two dozens of Belgian media students and half a dozen of Japanese medical project people. Due to the wind, we had to cross a cloud of tear gas which was carried from the shabab confrontation. We could see but luckily not smell the stinking water cannon spraying the shabab. Not long after we reached the separation wall, an activist of the shabab walked from the south along the wall between it and the spools of barbed wire "protecting" it. As expected, when he arrived at the point between the demonstration and the wall, the soldiers started to shoot us with canisters of tear gas. Due to the western wind most of us could not resist the tear gas and after a while all of the non violent demonstrators started to return to the village.

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Jerusalem-Al-Kuds

Shuafat - PHOTOS | Clashes in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Shuafat, Dec. 11, 2011: http://on.fb.me/uuYehn — Richard Dufek's

Sheikh Jarrah

The residents of Sheikh Jarrah are continuing their protest vigils in the neighborhood every Friday, protesting their violent evictions from their homes, the taking over of the neighborhood by the settlers, and the Judaization of East Jerusalem. After the radical Zionist Solidarity ended its involvement in the Friday demonstrations, the number of participants is only around 100 but more Palestinians do come.

Al-Ma’sara

PHOTOS - Al-Ma’sara weekly demonstration, Dec. 9, 2011: http://on.fb.me/vWsdpE

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Nabi Saleh

Today during the weekly demonstration, unarmed civilian, 28 year old Mustafa Tamimi, worker from Nabi Saleh was shot at close range (less than 10 meters according to eyewitness) and with precision and intent right in the face with a tear gas projectile and mutilated him for the rest of his life.

"Just got back from the hospital, where Mustafa Tamimi was taken after being hit in the face with a tear gas canister fired directly at him by a solider, during the weekly protest at a-Nabi Saleh. Here is the footage I filmed of the seconds after he was hit": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ5DipqScyE He was severely injured and is now undergoing emergency surgery right now. The footage is very hard to watch".

PHOTOS of the weekly demonstration

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"Mustafa Tamimi, a 28 year old resident of Nabi Saleh, was shot in the face yesterday, during the weekly protest in the village of Nabi Saleh. He sustained a critical head injury, under his right eye, and was evacuated to the Belinson hospital in Petah Tikwa. The severe trauma to Tamimi's brain, caused by the shooting, left the doctors with little to do to save his life, and he eventually passed away at 09:21 AM today. Tamimi's funeral will take place tomorrow (Sunday), leaving Ramallah at 10:00 AM towards Nabi Saleh, where it is expected to reach at around 11:00 AM"

Sunday, Few dozens of us (AAtW) participated in his funeral in the village. Few of our people were arrested after the clashes of the shabab and the Israeli army and one comrade (the spokesperson of the grass root popular comities - see his article at: http://www.anarkismo.net/article/21384) was rushed to the hospital for treatment after being suffocated tear gas combined with pepper and beaten by soldiers.

PHOTOS - Mustafa Tamimi's Body In Ramallah: http://on.fb.me/t5c3TX

PHOTOS - The Funeral of Shaheed Mustafa Tamimi in Nabi Saleh, Dec. 11, 2011: http://on.fb.me/skj17P

haithmkatib http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z1rnRewoUA

Israel Putermam http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSV-3LXBIlQ

David Ribb http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYOgKE9q3HI

Update on arrests: 7 arrested/detained yesterday in Nabi Saleh, including 3 Israelis, 3 internationals and 1 Palestinian. Fortunately, the Palestinian boy was released shortly after his detention. 3 of the others detained were released when they signed papers imposing a 15 day exclusion period from Nabi Saleh. Others are being brought before detention hearings today. Not much information on the situation of Jonathan Pollak who was hospitalized after being beaten and suffocated but initial reports are that he is okay.

Ni'lin

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Qalandia

PHOTOS - Demonstration against the wall in Qalandia, Dec. 7, 2011: http://on.fb.me/ssLTNt

there will be a demo at the Qalandia village tomorrow (9-11-11 not in the camp or checkpoint) - if you can make it please let me know.

PHOTOS - Qalandia demonstration, Dec. 9, 2011: http://on.fb.me/rAYsOg

Qaddum

firing tear gas directly at demonstrators is a regular thing. yesterday, around the time tamimi was shot, the army used the exact same method in kfur Qaddum. read: http://popularstruggle.org/content/kufr-qaddum-army-fires-teargas-directly-protesters

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At Kufr Qaddum Army Fires Teargas Directly at Protesters. See http://t.co/aXY1DFYo

South of Hebron Hills

Saturday activity to enable tilling the lands of villages near colonial settlements

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Tel Aviv

Friday, a five thousands strong demo for human rights. The real radical left gave its unique contribution.

Israel Putermam http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QD3I0dJa7fQ

Saturday evening, about 200 activists converged in a demonstration in front of the war compound (called by the anarchists against the wall) to protest the murder of Mustafa Tamimi of Nabi Saleh.

Israel Puterman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PS36WrP5Ts

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Don't say we did not know #289

Here's another way of making life hard on the Palestinians of the South Hebron Hills region:

On Monday, 28th November, 2011, Civil Administration supervisors confiscated a Palestinian truck carrying construction materials to one of the cave-dweller villages in the South Hebron Hills region. They had no problem finding something out of order. So they confiscated the lorry. Past experience has shown that if an Israeli human rights organization sends a lawyer, it is interpreted as meaning that the Palestinian is wealthy, and so he can pay the fine to release his lorry. To avoid that, the Palestinian driver had to negotiate himself, and after a while the fine was decreased so that he could pay it. The driver then had to pay for the parking space as well.

The next day another lorry was confiscated.

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Palestine-Israel, The joint struggle persists

2011-12-07T04:08:00.000-08:00

All along the Zionist settler colonialist project in Palestine there were from time to time waves of onslaught and in between periods of persistent pressure for expanding the areas colonized and to transfer Palestinians from their lands... and persistent resistance (Tsumud) of the Palestinians. Last few weeks are an in between waves period of persistent pressure of Israel and persistent resistance (Tsumud) of the Palestinians. The joint struggle of the activists of the anarchists against the wall initiative with the grass root Palestinian activists during the last 8 years is part of the persistent resistance.... The main focuses of resistance are still Arakib and the Bedouins (in Israel mainly), Beit Ummar, Bil'in, Ma'asara, Nabi Saleh, Ni'ilin, occupied East Jerusalem (Silwan and Sheik Jarrah), Qaddum,South Hebron hills, Walajeh.

Bil'in

Dear friends,

We are planning to hold a larger demonstration in Bil'in this Friday because of the demolition of the "Bil'in Outpost" last Monday.

The building that the army demolishes was built long before the old route of the Wall was demolished, in order to highlight the illegal construction (even according to Israeli law) that was taking place in the settlement at that time.

Now, the land the the Outpost was standing on until last Monday is no longer between the Wall and the settlement as it was supposedly given back to us after the rerouting, but as the demolition proves - Israel still views it as its own and we are not allowed to use it as we wish.

Please come and support us this Friday in demanding that we are allowed to use our land, and in the continued demand to dismantle the Wall and the settlements.

Mohammed Khatib

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Jerusalem-Al-Kuds

Silwan: The struggle is lately around few houses whose residents were issued eviction order. "We are still missing people for a few shifts - Tuesday Evening, Wednesday Morning, Thursday Morning and Thursday Evening."

Sheikh Jarrah: The struggle include the Friday weekly demonstrations. Since the mildly radical Solidarity deserted the Friday afternoon demos, the numbers shrink to less than hundred... but more local Palestinians participate. This week we came after the Bil'in demo to enforce the comrades in Sheikh Jarrah.

Kufr Qaddum Dec. 2, 2011

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Nabi Saleh weekly demonstration, Dec. 2, 2011

This time the procession headed directly towards the hilltop overlooking Nabi Saleh's spring. The approaching protesters caused settlers who were there to run back to Halamish, but the procession was stopped by Israeli soldiers. At this point Israeli forces also raided the village and besieged the protesters, taking over rooftops and shooting tear gas canisters directly at people: unarmed or peaceful demonstrators and residents of the village. However, some people managed to evade the army and place rocks on its way out. Clashes between soldiers and stone throwers erupted, and after a while, the army managed to take control of the main junction. By then it rushed outside the village. Protesters then burned tires and placed rocks on the main road to prevent the army from raiding the village again. During the raid two Palestinian journalists were arrested and taken by the Israeli army: Majd Mohammed from AP and Mohammed Razi from the Palestinian Television. Clashes then erupted beyond the burning tires line. Soldiers advanced on foot and shoot volleys of tear gas canisters by a cannon installed on a jeep. At this phase Israeli forces also used extensively their “scream” machine, which produces a deafening alarm sound.

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Israel Putermam http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bINP2lSu2vE

Ni'lin weekly demonstration, Dec. 2, 2011

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Kufr Qaddum demonstration Dec. 2, 2011

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South Hebron hills

This week we will accompany Palestinians farmers and shepherds to their lands in several locations in South Hebron hills. Harassment of Palestinian farmers and shepherds in the area by both settlers and the army continues.

Tel Aviv

29-11-11 Demo at Halamish in Jaffa - the municipal agency of dwelling for the needy

Israel Putermam http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fROOFZJMoA

Saturday evening, about two hundred activists of the Social Justice struggle converged

at the main government offices building in Tel Aviv for a noise demo. The police tried on us the imported "kettle" tactic and for more than an hour prevented us from leaving the area. After we were let go, some marched to the head quarters building of the ruling party and had there confrontation with the police.

Al Walajeh

This Friday the 2nd of December we will join the residents at 1200 at the first Mosque in the village.

Its still to be confirmed but there might be a meeting for activists and members of the village on Friday after the demo. To participate then please let me know by email by Thursday night. Thank you. If there is rain before or on the day please wear suitable clothing.

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Don’t say we did not know #288

On Thursday, 24th November, 2011, IDF forces arrived in the Palestinian village Umm Fuqra, situated in the South Hebron Hills region, and demolished a mosque, a home, a reception room for guests (madafe) and a rabbit shed. They attacked a young girl with pepper spray. They arrested her and her friend and injured her mother.

On Wednesday, 23rd November, 2011, Civil Administration supervisors arrived in the Palestinian village Sussya, situated in the same area, and handed out orders for the cessation of construction work of a school, a cistern, and toilets. The next day IDF forces arrived and demolished two tents in the village, which were used as living quarters.

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On Wednesday, 23rd November, 2011, government representatives arrived, escorted by police, and demolished, yet again, the Bedouin village El’Araqib in the Negev .

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Palestine-Israel, The joint struggle on the background of house demolition

2011-11-29T06:21:00.000-08:00

Because of internal considerations, in parallel of demolition minimal part of illegal settler colonialist building on private Palestinian lands, demolition of Palestinian houses increase. As part of it is the confrontation of the joint struggle in the hills of south of Hebron region. Another part was this week demolition of Bil'in outposts in the returned lands adjacent to the new route of the separation wall. Miraculously the older one, built nearly 7 years ago at the beginning of the struggle under cover of a heavy raining survived till this week. On the first few months we often spent nights near the fire at the adjacent shade - with members of the village comity, in order to protect the outpost from being destructed by Israeli state forces. The usual week end struggle continued - including the flag bearers, Beit Ummar, Bil,in, Ma'asara, Nabi Saleh, Ni'ilin, and occupied East Jerusalem.

Bil'in 25-11-11 demo

It seems that following the moving of the separation wall to the west, the interest in the struggle against the separation wall/fence and occupation is gradually diminishing. The seasonal decrease in the participation of international activists and Palestinians of the region is joined with diminishing of the interest of Israelis too. Today, less than 10 Israelis with similar number of international activists joined about two dozens of Bil'iners in the march and travel to the new separation wall. We held placards for the release of Ashraf Abu Rahme arrested weeks ago on the trumped charge he organize the demos and throw stones. We chanted all the long way to the new wall the usual slogans. when we approached the wall the Israeli state forces already started to shoot tear gas canisters on the shabab on the southern section of the wall. Not long later they started to shoot on us too.

After we absorbed the usual dose of tear gas we returned to the village... to return next Friday.

Ashraf video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BokjumcHWPs

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Bil'in outpost,demolished by Israeli forces 28.11.2011

haithmkatib http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1UR9yJYTiM

Large forces of the Israeli occupation army demolished international solidarity center in the village of Bil'in

The Israeli occupation forces Proceeded this morning (29-11-11) without warning demolish the international solidarity center, which was built by the Bil'in people Popular Committee Against the Wall and settlement, [+ the Israeli anarchists against the wall], and international solidarity activists seven years ago [in the cover of a heavy raining day] on land that have been isolated by the wall at that time. It came just a day after the Israeli occupation forces destroyed the near by small structure and confiscated all seats wood and waste containers which was developed since six months in protected natural reserve (Abu Limon ), This process is designed to prevent the people of Bil'in and foreign peace activists of access and presence in that region, note that the center of international solidarity is located on land that was liberated after seven years of persistent joint struggle.

Jerusalem-Al-Kuds

Silwan - vigil in protest of the planed transfer of the Sumarin family in front of their house. Stop the Sumarin family eviction!, November 25, 2011 By Amir Bitan http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.324083400940015.97193.100000150737581

Sheikh Jarrah - the Friday demo

The residents of Sheikh Jarrah are continuing their protest vigils in the neighborhood every Friday, protesting their violent evictions from their homes, the taking over of the neighborhood 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 the effort and join them this Friday, November 25 for a vigil in support of their struggle. Please notice, the vigils will start at 3:00 PM We will meet at the Sheikh Jarrah Garden, Nablus Road and Dahlmann St.

Nabi Saleh weekly demonstration, Nov. 25, 2011

A group of international activists arrived to Nabi Saleh in solidarity with people there following the terrorizing night raids. Army raiding Nabi Saleh now, spraying foul-smelling water directly into houses. A protester was shot in the face with a rubber-coated bullet. A peaceful activist from Nabi Saleh village in the West Bank : "We hardly marched and chanted when the Israeli army sprayed the protestors with skunk & tear gas we were standing doing nothing". Palestinian activist from Nabi Saleh: "Another round of tear gas, but actually today the wind is on our side!".

A comrade of the anarchists against the wall report:

"Dozens participated in this week's demonstration in Nabi Saleh against the theft of its lands and spring by the Halamish Israeli settlement and the Israeli occupation that sustains it. Nabi Saleh residents, other Palestinians, and international and Israeli supporters marched peacefully from the center of the village.

This demonstration followed days of Israeli complete siege over the village and a massive night raid, resulting in the arrest of three people from the village.

Few people also threw stones to ward off the Israeli army's incursion. A group of people managed to approach the soldiers, despite threats of arrests.

One youth was injured in the forehead by Israeli rubber coated bullet. He was helped into an ambulance that took him to hospital."

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Israel Putermam http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wMk55UgrkA

annepaq http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuMWCAuIwXU

Bilal's video from last week's demo. NABI SALEH 18-11-2011

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Ni'lin

Friday demonstration, Nov. 25, 2011

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Kufr Qaddum

demonstration Nov. 25, 2011

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Tel Aviv

Demonstration against anti-democratic bills and legislation, Tel Aviv, 22.11.11

Israel Puterman - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PABe6Zm_hjY

Israel Puterman - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L46vffiODmc

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Palestine-Israel, Another week of joint struggle in the last weekend of the Autumn

2011-11-22T13:09:00.000-08:00

On the background of the world wide struggle for social justice, the advance of the encroachment of the settler colonialism both in the villages and occupied Jerusalem. The weekend joint demonstrations and the struggle within Israel for social justice and against the fascism advance. The pick of the struggle was in Tel Aviv this evening (Tuesday 22-11-11) where few thousands converged near the national theater. Within it, demo we had a black block of anarchists and other radical activists simulating a grotesque fascist counter demo. After long speeches and chanting we started a spontaneous march to the head quarter building of the Licud ruling party. State forces were just monitoring us till some people threw few eggs on the building when they retaliated with a tear gas canister and arrested an activist.

Beit Ummar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG0-SK_F98U

Bil'in

The threat of rain resulted in a smaller than usual demo in Bil'in. Only 5 internationals and about 15 Israelis joined the Bil'iners in their protest against being excluded from their own lands by the apartheid wall. The theme was Autumn - the elementary demands of the Palestinians. By the time we got to the fence, the shabab had already been busy throwing stones, but only when the the peaceful procession approached did the army bother to shoot a few canisters to welcome us. The protesters gathered next to the fence, chanted, were threatened by the soldiers, and had gas shot over their heads in the direction of the shabab. A lively discussion developed across the wall between some shabab and some settler kids revolving mainly around their mothers. The settler kids swirled some stones in a makeshift sling, but didn't seem to know quite how to launch them.

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Nabi Saleh

Dozens participated in this week's demonstration in Nabi Saleh against the theft of its lands and spring by the Halamish Israeli settlement and the Israeli occupation that sustains it. Nabi Saleh residents, other Palestinians, and international and Israeli supporters marched peacefully from the center of the village. Referring to recent news, demonstrators called for Hamas and Fatah reconciliation in order to boost Palestinian struggle against the settlements, annexation wall and occupation.

As always, a peaceful demonstration met with Israeli army attack. Volleys of tear gas canisters were shot on the entire demonstration from a cannon installed on Israeli military jeeps. Sole canisters were also shoot by Israeli soldiers directly at people, in violation of their army's own regulations. Israeli forces used their “skunk” track, carrying a foul-smelling water cannon, which said to be of different “flavor” this time, according to protesters. However, the “skunk” couldn't reach but few people due to a rocks-made protesters road block that prevented it and all other military jeeps from deepening their incursion into the village. Few people also threw stones at the army's position and managed to ward off some soldiers advancing on foot from a different direction.

At least 3 people suffered from minor injuries from the Israeli attack. One protester who suffered from gas inhalation was carried by others a few dozen meters until they reached a road, where an ambulance waited to rush him out for medical treatment.

The demo, which was accompanied by a rainy cold day, lasted about 3 hours, after which the army retreated to its post at the main entry to the village.

International communities http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.312767178733593.86420.136633479680298

Israel Puterman - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7Zr4dpqiXI

Ni'lin

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South of Hebron Hills

Another Saturday of accompanying villagers to their lands.

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Walaje

A comrade report: "We gathered near the first mosque and despite the weather decided to walk down to where the army and construction company had recently blown up the mountain. There were about 50 people and after marching through the village we went down to the valley and began walking the planned route of the wall. We were shown various sites including where the original village of al Walajah used to be on the other side of the valley.

From where we were standing we could see the railway line which signifies the green line and the road. Palestinians including of course the residents of al Walajah are denied access to this Israelis only road. So in all defiance of the occupation and its apartheid rules we walked down to the road. As we got down to the road some of the Palestinian protesters began blocking the road with large rocks. Cars were coming round the corner to be greeted with a roadblock. After a debate on whether or not to stay there with the rocks or remove them and keep moving we chose the latter and began walking the road back up to the junction where the illegal settlement of Har Gilo and al Walajah meet.

The border police came down just after we had left the rocks. They stopped their Jeep and one soldier got out. After a short confrontation we carried on walking up ignoring the absurd calls of the two and half soldiers. The Jeep followed behind us. We carried on chanting and signing to cars that were passing. A police van passed us up to the junction and another Border Police van drove down to follow us in front. As we reached the junction and the entrance to the village we were joined by the Mayor of al Walajah and about 15 Border Police and the settlements head of security. After two speeches we ended the completely non-violent and peaceful demonstration on our own terms."

For the first time villagers of the Al-Walaje village managed to walk on settlers bypass road built on their lands.

Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/activestills/sets/72157602013963483/with/6358400411/

Video: http://chroniquespalestine.blogspot.com/2011/11/video-villagers-from-al-walaja-walk-on.html

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International communities http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.312841162059528.86434.136633479680298

Villagers from Al-Walaja walk on settlers road during demo. 18.11.2011

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Palestine-Israel, The joint struggle is not intimidated by the change of seasons

2011-11-15T05:09:00.000-08:00

Another olive picking season is ending with its confrontations with settler colonialists slowly encroaching on adjacent lands of Palestinian villages. Accompanying villagers at the lands coveted by neighboring settler colonialists and the Israeli state continue - in addition to the regular weekend joint demonstrations. Anata, Beit Ummar, Bil'in, Ma'asara, Nabi Saleh, Ni'lin, Qaddum, Sheikh Jarrah, South of Hebron Hills, Walajah. Within Israel the Bedouins are in a much wider confrontation than Arakib. The Struggle for Social Justice is still fermenting even if not with the original intensity. The not predictable political storms of the winter that just begin are approaching.

Anatot

Anatot is not a peaceful, so called "quality of life" settlement, just five minutes from Jerusalem. Anatot is a settlement which regularly robs private Palestinian lands, and terrorizes the neighboring villages. As in the most extreme out-posts, also in Anatot there is a kernel of violent rioters who believe they are above the law.

The past month will be remembered as the watershed moment in terms of the right-wing terror who focused it on Israeli activist at the gates of Anatot. Between the burned mosques, the uprooted treed and the wounded activists, it has become clear that this sort of violence is a wide-spread and growing phenomenon.

The calling out are not only against settler-violence, but against a whole system which has let this kind of behavior spread and has backed it up. Since the beginning of the "price-tag" actions there, the police is systematically failing in investigating these events and the vast majority of investigations that were carried out ended with no persecution (read more in the Yesh Din's report). Throughout the past month we have learned and seen how the security forces turn their watchful eye away from such actions, in the best case, or in the worst case, actively participate in them.

A protest vigil in Anatot, Friday, 11/11/11, 13:00.

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Bil'in

Friday 11-11-11 was another demo in the chain of about 350 demonstrations against the separation/robbery wall/fence and occupation organized by the Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements in Bil'in with the anarchists against the wall initiative. At noon, about 10 Israelis, 20 international activists (including an Irish and a Brazilian delegations), and few dozens Palestinians marched towards the new separation wall. (The older separation fence was dismantled in June after 6 years of struggle - returning about third of the robbed lands of the village). Along the the march, participants carried flags and chanted for the departure of the occupation, destruction of the apartheid wall, freedom and rights for Palestinian prisoners.

Upon our arrival to the Abu Lemon nature reserve, some local participants were able to remove some of the barbed wire and iron posts that blocked us from touching the separation wall. Then The soldiers behind the concrete wall shot tear gas canisters and rubber bullets toward the demonstrators, which caused an injury to a Brazilian activist who was transported by Ambulance to Ramallah hospital. It also caused various levels of suffocation to many of the participants - some of them were treated during the demo.

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Haitham Khatib video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5YRKu585NU

Al-Ma'asara weekly protest, Nov. 11, 2011

Friday, Nov. 11, 2011, in the village of al-Ma'asrah (near the West Bank city of Bethlehem). After the protest against the wall and occupation, a member of the local poplar committee was arrested by soldiers as he walked back to his home after a very peaceful demonstration in the village.

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Nabi Saleh

Dozens participated in this week's demonstration in Nabi Saleh, this time commemorating the seventh anniversary to Arafat's assassination by Israel. Nabi Saleh residents, other Palestinians, and international and Israeli supporters marched peacefully from the center of the village on the main road leading towards Ramallah. Israeli forces used their “skunk” track, carrying a foul-smelling water cannon, to attack the demonstrators. This followed shortly by volleys of tear gas projectiles. After a while, the entire area close to the soldiers smelled from the “skunk” and they retreated. At this point demonstrators started descending towards the village's spring, taken by settlers. The Israeli army shot tear gas and rubber-coated bullets at the descending crowd. It then deepened its incursion into the village, taking over rooftops and the village's center, shooting tear gas and rubber-coated bullets at passers-by, including children. More then ten people were injured, including an eleven year old who was shot in the chest and an organizer from the village, who was shot in the face and rushed to a near-by hospital. A local photographer was detained for a few hours. He was blindfolded and cuffed with his hands behind his back.

Another take:

"A peaceful protest in the village of Nabi Saleh was attacked with tear-gas from afar today by Israeli soldiers, as protesters tried to march to their lands adjacent to the Jewish-only settlement of Halamish. Following the attack on the peaceful procession, clashes ensued between soldiers and local youth.

The soldiers shot volleys of tear-gas projectiles into the crowd, as well as rubber-coated bullets, causing injuries to at least ten protesters, among them an eleven year-old who was hit by a rubber-coated bullet to the chest and suffers a suspected fracture to the rib. An organizer from the village was hit in the face by a rubber-coated bullet shot from close range and was evacuated to the hospital.

Bilal Tamimi, a local cameraman and a volunteer with the B'Tselem Shooting Back documentation project, was arrested by soldiers as he was filming the demonstration. He was blindfolded, cuffed with his hands behind his back and taken to the military base in the adjacent settlement of Halamish. Currently, soldiers have taken over the center of the village and are patrolling its streets."

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Photos by Ahmad Al-Jorbaji, Fadi Arouri, Eyad Jadallah, Mohamad Torokman, Majdi Mohammed & Abbas Momani

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Ni'lin

On Friday,after the Friday prayer under the olive trees in the fields, a massive peaceful demonstration started, joined by dozens of demonstrators from Ni’lin along with number of international peace activists. the demonstration was called by Ni’lin popular committee against the Apartheid wall.

Before arriving to the gate of the apartheid wall, the Israeli soldiers starting firing tear grenades directly at the protesters as they marched towards the Wall even before it arrived there. Moreover,they shot 5 live bullets in the air to scare the demonstrators, and started shooting rubber coated steel bullets direct at the demonstrators which led to the injury of four demonstrators in different places in the body. and another five others suffered a lot as a result of inhaling tear gas.

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Qaddum

The village of Kufer Qaddum, north of Qalqilia, has also seen an attack on the demonstration there today, resulting in three injuries from direct hits by tear-gas projectiles, including one to the head. An American activist and a Palestinian protester in his 30's were arrested by the soldiers and taken to the police station in the Ariel settlement. Shortly after his arrest, the American sent an SMS to one of his friends saying that the soldiers are assaulting him.

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South of Hebron Hills

Activists accompanied Palestinian villagers to land near colonialist settlements.

Walajah

Friday the 4th of November -

After meeting outside the second mosque about 20 villagers, a number of Israeli and a few international activists walked to the entrance of the illegal Har Gilo settlement. There we stood chanting and a few speeches were given. After the head of security for the Har Gilo settlement came down and saw us with a Border Police van they were joined by the arrest van, another jeep and a police van. We were then joined by another car of Israeli activists. There was a basic stand-off while the army it seemed were waiting for us to do something. If we had crossed an arbitrarily imaginary line then there would have been action. Two sets of soldiers spread out on either side of us; one on the road to Jerusalem and one to the left of us. After an hour we left and those that wanted went on a tour with Shireen. Pictures from the day can be found here : http://www.flickr.com/photos/activestills/sets/72157602013963483/

Friday the 11th of November -

We waited outside the mosque at 1230 - two Israelis, three internationals, a member of active stills and a villager. When it was clear that there was not going to be a demonstration and after some debating we went to the house of a friend and sat in her court yard where we were joined by Mazin Qumsiyeh. Mazen shared with us his interesting and mostly amusing stories from the Flotillas and his experiences in Turkey and Cario. Some he has written about and others we were lucky to be privy to. You can find more about it here - http://popular-resistance.blogspot.com/ He also discussed the history of uprising in Palestine and this led him to mentioning a Popular Committee meeting scheduled for Saturday night. They will be discussing the rises and falls in uprisings, what actions can take place in the lulls and how they as Popular Committees can better organize and mobilize. He also mentioned to me their desire to arrange a meeting for and with Israeli activists. Just a heads up....

Palestine-Israel, Another week of joint struggle

2011-11-09T12:45:00.000-08:00

The Media was busy regurgitating the acceptance of Palestine as full member in UNESCO. The happiness for the hundreds released in the Gilad transaction was still fresh, but the settler colonialist onslaught the Palestinian olive pickers and the Israeli activists that joined them was more intense than in previous years but state force had not show more than minimal intervention... and mostly on the side of the settlers. The consistent struggle at Bet Ummar, Bil'in, Ma'asara, Nabi Saleh, Ni'ilin, Qaddum, Sheikh Jarrah, Southern Hebron Hills, Al Walaja. The social struggle continue, in spite the tendency of the student organization to bargain for specific subjects instead of the struggle against the neo-liberalism piggery as a system to replace.

Akraba

The thirties time the villages meager dwelling were destroyed. The whole Bedouin population is in expended struggle as the eviction of tens of thousands is on the agenda in a renewed efforts of Israel to rob half of the lands not robbed yet, and relocate the victims.

Beit Ummar

In the Hebron-area village of Beit Ummar, Saturday’s demonstration was held in protest of the arrest of local activist Yousef Abu Maria. Abu Maria, a member of the Beit Ummar Popular Committee, was detained during a night raid that took place in the early hours of Saturday morning.

Bil'in

At noon, about dozen Israelis, two dozen internationals and similar number of Bil'iners participated in the 347th Friday demonstration against the separation fence and occupation. We chanted along the way to the new separation wall and when we arrived started the usual ritual: First, calls towards the few state force armed tugs, then a touch of the spools of barbed wire blocking the approach to the wall, than a kid threw some stones on the wall that served as an excuse for the soldiers to throw and shoot of us a salvo of tear gas canisters, then more touching and more trowing and even entering between the barbed wire and the wall.

The time passed slowly, the amount of tear gas increased and the strong wind changed direction frequently... as a result most demonstrators reached the limit of tolerance, and we returned to the village.

Photos From Bi'lin Protest, Nov' , 4,2011

By Rani Abdel Fatah

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David Reeb - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPTTwrbFL40

Qaddum

Protest against the closure of a road by Jewish settlers from the nearby settlement of Kadumim, on November 5, 2011 in the West Bank village of Kfar Kadum.

The non-violent demonstration in the Nablus-area village of Qudum on Saturday was also attacked by Israeli soldiers with tear gas, sound bombs and rubber coated steel bullets. During the demonstration--which drew some 250 Palestinian, Israeli and international activists--the leg of a Palestinian activist was broken after he was hit by a tear gas grenade.

200 protesters marching in Kufer towards the Qedumin settlement.

Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Demonstration against Land Grab in Kufer Qaddum Ends in Military Raid . See http://t.co/DLGKvUmu

Wall Photos

‎200 protesters marching in Kufer Qaddum towards the Qedumin settlement.

Nabi Saleh

Dozens participated in this week's demonstration in Nabi Saleh against the Israeli occupation and settlements. Nabi Saleh residents, other Palestinians, and international and Israeli supporters wore “Freedom Flotilla” ribbons to salute the Freedom Waves to Gaza flotilla activists in their attempt to break the Israeli naval siege on Gaza.

Slightly after noon, a peaceful procession started at the center of the village and headed towards the village farmlands and spring, taken over by settlers. Israeli forces blocked the protesters from approaching the spring, shooting masses of tear gas from two different locations at the protesters. Two men were injured due to gas inhalation and required medical attention.

From then on demonstrators kept going back and forth on the village's main road towards the exit, blocked by Israeli forces. Others threw stones to ward off the army incursion. The army used a foul-smelling water cannon, rubber coated steel bullets and tear gas projectiles. Both the bullets and projectiles were shot indiscriminately and directly at protesters, sometimes at a pace of about a dozen at once, using automated cannons. As a result, more than a dozen were lightly injured. One protester required medical treatment and was taken to a hospital, after his finger was hit and broken by a rubber-coated bullet.

By the day's end, and for no apparent reason other than the well-known Israeli army habit to provide “practice” for its soldiers on the expense of struggling Palestinian communities, four Israeli jeeps entered the village and circled inside it, stones hurled at them throughout. At a certain point Israeli soldiers also hid behind a military tower, leaving the road clear, and then reappeared chasing nearing protesters. One Palestinian photographer was beaten while his arms were raised in the air and then arrested.

Protest, Nov', 4,2011

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Ni'lin 4/11/2011

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Al Walaja

Al Walaja Fights Back Illegal Construction of the Wall

In recent weeks, there have been significant legal developments concerning the Al Walaja residents’ legal efforts to challenge the route of the Wall, which could effectively encircle Al Walaja and confiscate more privately-owned Palestinian land.

Palestine-Israel, The joint struggle continue with intensified confrontations

2011-11-01T11:09:00.000-07:00

The settler colonialists intensify their assaults both in the occupied west bank and within Israel. The olive pickers are assaulted by settler colonialists with partial backing of state forces in spite of the participation of Israeli activists. International support for Palestinian state alarm the settlers and their reprisals are channeled against the Palestinians. The social struggle against the neoliberal capitalist piggery continue and the state try to divert attention by intensifying the terror on the Gaza strip. In spite half split in the social struggle as the students leadership try to pull it to the parliament quagmire, Nearly 100,000 marched and converged Saturday night in the town square of Tel Aviv for a long gathering with speeches and entertainment by artists of the top. The locations of joint struggle against the separation fence and occupation were as usual.

Beit Ummar

Saturday 29 Oct: "Settler threw stones on the joint demonstration participants. One suffered head injury and few did not enjoy the tear gas thrown on them.

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Bil'in

Friday 28 Oct demo was similar to other "regular" ones. No special theme, no special political guests from Ramalla, no special international delegation... Just 15 Israelis with the anarchists against the wall initiative with similar number of internationals joined few dozen people of Bil'in at noon, in the long march towards the separation wall with Palestinian flags, and a large banner painted with the images of the martyrs Basem and Jawaher Abu Rahma - both killed by the army while participating in a Friday demonstration, and the usual chants, (with an added one for the release of Ashraf Abu Rahmah - brother of the two martyrs, arrested at the previous demo whom the Military Court Orders the Indefinite Remand, on a trumped up stone-throwing charge. This despite testimonies and video evidence to the contrary. Ashraf is the brother of Bassem and Jawaher Abu Rahmah, both killed by the army while demonstrating peacefully in Bil'in). On the way, near the location of the demolished separation fence, we have seen the the renewed memorial tomb for Basem who was murdered there with a tear gas canister.

When we arrived at the separation wall - bordering the Abu Lemon oaks groove preserve, we have seen the Israeli soldiers who were looking on us from behind the wall - waiting a bit for a good excuse for showering us with tear gas. After a short time when we were chanting, but no one was throwing stones, they availed to the excuse that the spools of barbed wire "protecting the wall" were touched and they started the tear gas shower. First we retreated a bit, but as the wind was blowing along the wall strong enough, after a while it dispersed the tear gas and we returned... to repeat it in respond to following volleys - till the end of the demonstration was declared.

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Not far away, at the end of the fence of spools of barbered wire, some participants managed to remove some of the barbed wire and iron rods.

Issa Mahmoud Abu Rahma, a 41 year old resident of Bil'in, was wounded on his right hand by a tear gas canister. Dozens of participants suffered various levels tear gas effects.

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Ma’asara

Friday 28 October 2011 - New Israeli military tactic: Head butting

The Israeli military violently obstructed a peaceful demonstration against the Israeli separation wall in Al-Ma’sara, near Bethlehem, today.

Around 25 Palestinians and a similar number of international observers and some Israeli activists marched from the village at 12:20 PM today and attempted to reach olive groves on Palestinian land just outside of Al-Ma’asara in time for this year’s olive harvest. A line of thirteen soldiers, backed by reinforcements in three armored vehicles, pushed and shoved protesters, including a small Palestinian boy, in order to prevent them from leaving the village.

As demonstrators attempted to walk around the line of soldiers, one officer snatched a Palestinian flag from a protester and then head-butted him.

Mahmoud Alaaelddin, President of Al-Ma’sara local council and member of the Popular Resistance Committee, said “Every Friday we try to go to our land and the soldiers always prevent us from going. They don’t care if there are children at the demonstration; they use more and more violence every Friday.”

After being prevented from peacefully marching to Palestinian land, protesters chanted, sang and remonstrated with the Israeli military for around 30 minutes. The protest dispersed at 1:00 PM, with Mahmoud Zawahra, member of Al-Ma’asara’s Popular Committee of Resistance, alerting the soldiers of their continued persistence.

“Next Friday we will come with more people and we will fly kites with Palestinian flags. And for the hundredth time we tell you – you are not welcome here. You are killers and occupying forces,” he said.

Around five minutes after today’s protest ended, a small group of Palestinian youths threw stones at the military, who responded by firing a tear gas canister, causing billowing gas to enter a house and garden at the edge of Al-Ma’asara.

Demonstrations take place in the village every Friday in protest against the separation wall – illegal under international law – which has been used by the Israeli military to expropriate much of the village’s land since 2005. Work had ceased on the wall near Al-Ma’asara in 2008 after an Israeli court ruling, but it is scheduled to re-commence on 1 January 2011.

If completed, the barrier will expropriate more Palestinian land and will result in the closure of the main road that links Al-Ma’asara to nearby cities in the West Bank. Al-Ma’sara residents will be forced to take alternative routes, tripling the length of time it takes to drive from the village to Bethlehem or Hebron.

Alaaeldin says that over the past few years Israeli soldiers have come into the village late at night before the Friday’s protest; forcing entire families – including children – to stand in the cold, often for 2-3 hours.

According to Alaaeldin, the Israeli military “wants people to be afraid [to protest]. They say ‘we will arrest you, we will kill you ‘but more people come to the demonstrations and refuse to be scared.”

The Israeli military has not carried out such incursions into the village for three months, but Alaaeldin is concerned that they may start again as soldiers have taken advantage of the cold winter nights to harass people in previous years.

Nabi Saleh

weekly demonstration, 28-10-2011.

Oct 21st the weekly joint demonstration was canceled due to the celebration of the release from prison people of the village in the "Gilad Shalit deal"

As "compensation" the Israeli activists were invited to celebrations party Thursday 27th Oct. evening.

A Palestinian youth throws back at the army a tear gas canister during the weekly demonstration against the occupation and the settlement in the West Bank village of Nabi Salih; on Friday 28.10.2011. http://www.flickr.com/photos/activestills/6289493946/

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David Reeb http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSpGLXE0Lng

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Weekly-Protests-in-Palestine-Manifestations-Hebdomadaires-en-Palestine/226107534113190

Ni'lin

Protest 28-10-2011, Small in number but strong in spirit, today, protesters in Ni'lin were attacked by Israel Occupation Forces from behind the safety of the Apartheid-Annexation wall.

It was so much violent from the Israeli army. 7 people got injured and many others suffered from tear gas suffocation, but my village still continue mounting a strong will and determination and courageous. and the struggle is still on.

planxtysumoud http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYr4XuaFkkU

Kufr Qaddum demonstration, 28-10-2011

Demonstration against the closure of a road by Jewish settlers from the nearby illegal settlement of Kadumim on October 28, 2011.

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Sheikh Jarrah

The residents of Sheikh Jarrah are continuing their protest vigils in the neighborhood every Friday, protesting their violent evictions from their homes, the taking over of the neighborhood by the settlers, and the Judaization of East Jerusalem. They call upon each and every person who supports their struggle to join them. (Solidarity Sheik Jarrah is no more organizing the Friday demos.) Please make the effort and join them this Friday, October 28 at 3:00 PM for a vigil in support of their struggle. We will meet at the Sheikh Jarrah Garden, Nablus Road and Dahlmann St.

Friday 28/10/2011

Mario Savio - http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.281048115263168.75669.100000739446057

Guy Butavia - http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150382190977138.376087.779192137

Israel Puterman - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsKhlMDDVFA

South Hebron hills

This coming Saturday, October 29 , we need as many activists as possible to accompany them and stand up for their rights. There is a direct link between the number of activists who come to accompany the farmers and their ability to harvest and work their lands.

30.10.11 http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150384232812138.376576.779192137

Guy Butavia http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150385378237138.376951.779192137

Walaje

Protest vigil on Friday

Guy Butavia - http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150382168982138.376080.779192137

Social Struggle

More than 60,000 (according to article in a daily before the demo, assessing the capacity of the square) converged at the Tel Aviv town square many of them marched in the street in a demo to reach it.

Tomer Peled Pictures: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150517326307501.468693.540627500

People numbering hundreds to 3 thousands converged in 6 other towns.

Video of the eviction of the Jerusalem second squat of people already evicted from the tent camp and the first squat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULqAr-9qTYw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrY4pGHTvYw

Israel Puterman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ItTh-jfQR8

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Palestine-Israel, The joint struggle of grass root communities is part of the resistance to the continuous robbery of Palestine.

2011-10-25T11:09:00.000-07:00

The local struggle of the villages against the crawling occupation frustrate the striving of Israel to take over all the areas around the Palestinian towns and leaving the towns and cities as separated islands. The picking of the olive trees open many battle arenas where settler colonialists are encouraged by the Israeli state to expand the areas around them "clean of Palestinians". The anarchists against the wall and other radical Israelis share with the Palestinian partners some of the injuries inflicted by settlers while state forces prefer a neutral position. Anata was the bloody arena at the beginning of the month. In addition to the accompanying farmers to fields and olive trees we participated in the usual location of week end demonstrations: Beit Ummar, Bil'in, Ma'asara (where they celebrated the 5 year anniversary), Ni'ilin, and Qaddoum (which joined for persistent struggle 4 months ago).

Beit Ummar

Israeli occupation army Saturday attacked the weekly non-violent protest against settlements and the Apartheid Wall in Beit Ummar.

‎22th October 2011: Accompanied by a big crowd of international and Israeli activists and residents of Beit Ommar, PSP had a peaceful demonstration towards th...

PalestineSolidarity http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLOJIM3jxW8

Bil'in

"Last week: Some 20 Israelis and over 30 internationals, including a Basque delegation, joined the weekly Palestinian demo against the wall, land-grab and occupation in Bil’in. The protesters marched from the old route of the wall to the new route, where the soldiers demanded that they retreat. The demonstrators started retreating in order to have a few peaceful minutes of protest, but the army started shooting gas. The shabab took their posts in the Southwest corner of the Abu Lamun oak grove, and the usual exchange of stones for gas and rubber bullets ensued. The soldiers made a point of shooting also the peaceful demonstrators at the back, and shooting at protesters who were trying to put down fires that spread into the few olive trees that hadn’t been uprooted and stolen before the wall was moved. An Israeli demonstrator called the Israeli fire brigade (the site being area C), but they did not come to the rescue."

"This week: Some 20 Israelis and about 10 internationals joined the weekly Palestinian demo for freedom, peace and Tsumud in Bil’in. The protesters, led by the new Libyan flag, marched to the new route of the wall, where the soldiers welcomed them with gas. The demonstrators moved upwind, eastward along the wall, where a handful of Shabab held their impromptu fort for about an hour. Since the spot was hard to hit, the soldiers retaliated by shooting canisters into the oak grove downwind behind the shabab, setting fire to some rare and ancient oaks. When the demonstrators were heading back, the soldiers decided to have the last word and crossed the gate. The shabab were swift to disappear, leaving behind peaceful Israeli, international and Palestinian demonstrators.

In line with apartheid rules, the soldiers jumped and arrested Ashraf Abu Rahme (brother of Bassem and Jawaher, the two unarmed and nonviolent demonstrators killed by the Israeli army in Bil’in during Friday demonstrations, himself shot in his foot by soldiers while arrested, bound and blindfolded at Ni'ilin demo). He was arrested under the false pretext of throwing stones (while he is a person whom I’ve never seen as much as pick up a stone to throw in the hundred or so demonstrations I’ve been to in Bil’in). His true crime: he didn’t run away from the soldiers like the kids who did throw stones, and wasn’t a Jew like the other demonstrators who stood next to him.

The soldiers promised to release him if the demonstration dispersed, which was anyway the case, but, of course, lied through their teeth. Two army jeeps then drove through the village to show who’s boss, and then left. Ashraf was taken to Ofer prison, despite the authorities’ awareness to his medical problems."

International communities http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.298911403452504.83840.136633479680298

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Michael Treiger http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.253145438065281.61455.100001094792472

Rani Abdel Fatah http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2582145236061.290837.1327358013

planxtysumoud http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovmEgBpnrrM (Me at the beginning seconds with read shirt and white hat)

http://www.bilin-ffj.org/index.php?option=com_content

http://www.facebook.com/?&error_code=10#!/media/set/?set=a.309998055681231.135921.100000131186902

Documenting and Intervention Campaign

The joint patrols to deter settlers harassment (Tag Mechir) and documenting them continue.

Jalud

settlers attack Palestinians and Israeli supporters at olive picking activity in jalud!

assafsh http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FivgE448jK4

Jayus

Yesterday (17,10,11) I learned that an old man in Jayyous, father of a shaheed, is the only one in his family that got a permit to pick olives behind the wall. Without his wife and sons (he's alone), he is having a hard time. A friend called to ask if there was anyone that could help? ISM is stretched thin, as I know many people / groups are. But, if you know people that would be willing to go help this man pick his olives in Jayyous, it would be greatly appreciated -- internationals, Israelis, 48 Palestinians... basically, they would have to be allowed to go through the gate.

Olive picking Thursday 20.10, was attacked by settler colonialist including shooting with live ammunition. State forces responded by driving away the Palestinians and the Israelis who accompanied them.

Ma'asara 21.10.11

Pasta, flags, drums and blows: five years of struggle Ma'asara

For five years the inhabitants of Ma'sara out nonviolent popular demonstrations against the Wall and settlements. Today they celebrated with Israeli and foreign, with flags and pasta, and the soldiers who guarded the local tradition and again attacked the demonstration with blows.

Origin [translated here by machine] with Pictures at: http://www.mysay.co.il/articles/ShowArticle.aspx?articlePI=aaauqo

Today (Friday) afternoon were about a hundred demonstrators - Palestinians, Israelis and foreigners (mostly French) - specify five years of popular struggle in Ma'asara against the wall and settlements. Every week for five years out of the demonstration from the heart of the village, and gay procession moved toward the village's land and the surrounding villages, now to be confiscated by the security fence (whose construction was put on hold for now) for the settlement of Efrat.

Surprisingly, and unusual, at the entrance to the village waited only one jeep with two soldiers, who were unable to arrest many demonstrators, and for the first time these were able to leave the village and move toward land, marching most of the time the road. A few hundred yards of walking and reading slogans the protesters were stopped by a larger force of soldiers and border police, who began to push them back.

It should be noted that although the violence continued throughout the demonstration, with many pushing and beating demonstrators clubs, this has not been declared a closed military area, no arrests, no thrown grenades or gas - unlike many other demonstrations and similar instead.

The demonstration lasted about an hour and a half, limited to the roadside at the village entrance, with occasional urgency on the part of soldiers. Between protesters waved flags, sang songs in various languages, danced to the samba drums were there, blew soap bubbles, and declaimed speeches to mark five years of popular struggle. At some point drew solidarity activists Italians who were there, including Deputy Chairman of the European Parliament, former Louisa Morgantini, pots of pasta big, and began to distribute lunch the demonstrators as a birthday present struggle. Controversy easy broke out between some demonstrators as active Italian and French offered pasta also soldiers (who refused to ). Some said it was improper collaboration with representatives of the violent occupation, and the soldiers are entitled to join in the fun only if you will go out of their uniforms, and were insisting that this is - this is the way to convince them that the struggle is against the occupation and theft of land - not against them as people.

At the end of the demonstration dispersed back to the village and their homes, and promised to continue demonstrating the same way in the future.

Lior Ben Eliahu http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2017811655943.134537.1563442697

International communities http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.298914163452228.83842.136633479680298

yisraelpnm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW9_Xk_GYPc

Ni'lin weekly demonstration, 21-10-2011

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Ni'ilin

Qaddoum

Permission to enter their own lands: Kufr Qaddoum rampaged again by military

palsolidarity.org

In the village of Kufr Qaddoum the people held a demonstration for the 17th Friday in a row. The demonstration started around 11:30 AM in the center of the village and consisted of approximately 80 people. The procession only made it to a barbed wire that blocked the road although it stood within th...

Sheikh Jarrah

"The residents of Sheikh Jarrah are continuing their protest vigils in the neighborhood every Friday, protesting their violent evictions from their homes,

the taking over of the neighborhood 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 the effort and join them this Friday, October 21 for a vigil in support of their struggle.

Social Justice Struggle

Comrades join the masses in the various locations of struggle and in the preparation for the 29th October mass demo in Tel Aviv and the other cities and towns.

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Palestine-Israel The joint struggle expand while the political scene is very tense

2011-10-17T10:21:00.000-07:00

The joint struggle continue this week with wounds of Anata pogrom by of duty settler colonialists of the state forces living in Anatot still hurting. The state force officers on duty but did nothing to prevent it...banned the Friday demonstration at the site. The tension around the return of the war prisoner Gilad Shavit and release of 1000 Palestinians in return were subject most talked. In regular Friday demos and in special ones near Ofer concentration camp solidarity with prisoners was prominent. The season of olive picking started few days ago increased involvement of Israeli activists in the protection farmers from harassment by settler colonialists. The usual locations of Arakib Beit Umar, Bil'in, Ma'asara, Nabi Saleh, Ni'ilin, Sheikh Jarrah, were joined by Jayus. The activity of the High Follow up Committee of the popular grass root comities collect momentum and involve coordinating of multi location demonstrations.

Anata

This Friday, October 14th, 2:00 PM – We will demonstrate again in the entrance of Anatot.

Anatot’s settlers trying now to portray themselves as a peaceful community, a ‘quality of life’ settlement. Only that their settlement and the lands they expropriated are surrounded by a fence which its route was illegally obtained . Real estate interests are mixed with the aspiration to execute a peaceful transfer to the local inhabitants. Trying to create a new reality from which there will be no option to turn back.

Over the years Anatot became a fortress terrorizing its surrounding. The people of Anatot fear nothing more then the story of how they plunder the lands, upon which they built their ‘quality of life’ settlement, will come to light. This is the reason why the mere act of a Palestinian farmer trying to work his land, alongside a group of activists who documented the event, were perceived by the settlers as a real threat, that might put the reality they were trying to built under danger of collapsing.

However, it is not only the case of Anatot. The story of Anatot is to a great extent the story of the State of Israel. The demo was banned using closed military zone trick.

Beit Ummar

Palestinian protest in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners on October 14, 2011 in the West Bank village of Beit Omar. Photos by Hazem Bader & Nasser Shiyoukhi

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Bil'in

At noon, about 30 Internationals and 20 Israelis Joined by dozens of Bil'iners in the Friday demo against the separation fence. (I participated in nearly all the 350 demos in the village during the las 7 years.) As the distance to the separation wall was doubled lately following the victory of moving it half the way to the west, organizers decided that we travel half the way there...

Rani Abdel Fatah http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2555574651813.289992.1327358013

planxtysumoud http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMMASarzvI8

haithmkatib http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMnjhGQqnJ8

Kafr Kadum

The Israeli military attacked participants at the weekly Kafr Kadum march, a village near the West Bank town of Qalqilya. The march was organized by Fatah against the Israeli authorities who have closed the main street of the village . The IMEMC is a media collective. We are independent journalist...

Nabi Saleh

Friday demo

International communities

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planxtysumoud http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10gZuARrN7w

tamimi1966 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeqXiCqKSnA

Ni'ilin

Olive picking

Tuesday, accompanying olive picking farmers. Along the week along the separation fence villages, and Awarta, Kafer Qaddum & Burin (Nablus region), Qufr Qalil, Qusra, Qaryut, Beit Foreek, Iraq Burin, Huwarra, Urif, Sawiya & Yetma....

haithmkatib http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftkLeVRzbuQ

popular struggle coordination committee

The inspection of settler-violence project continue with involvement of activists of the anarchists against the wall initiative.

Hi all. As you know, Palestinian prisoners associated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) began a hunger strike on September 27 against the worsening of conditions imposed on prisoners by the Israeli government. Since then, prisoners from Hamas, Fatah, Islamic Jihad and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) have also joined the strike.

The popular struggle coordination committee and others are organizing a vigil in solidarity with the hunger strikers tomorrow (11-10) at 12:00 P.M in front of Ofer military prison (the Palestinian side). Along the week protests were also at Beit Ola, Sosya in Yatta.

On 11 October there was a solidarity demo at Ofer concentration camp (Bitunia side) and in Haifa too..

Bituniya 14.10.2011

Israel Puterman video of Bitunia side demo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Gux1BGedYQ

davidreeb http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUhR4G0EjmM

Palestinian Hunger Strike Continues Despite Israeli Prisoner Swap:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge3oE8tNsWQ

Sheikh Jarrah

As usual, the joint Friday demo.

Social Struggles

The social center established during the tent camping in Rot shield Boulevard expanded it contents to include the subject of the Palestinian struggle.

Saturday was a central 15-OCT happening in Tel Aviv. Long afternoon people converged at the museon square, and late evening and middle of night they partied at the Rot shield Boulevard (blocking the road too) for 4 hours.

Walaje

Friday demo

demonstration http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TVMIgQfM4Q

mubadarapal http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TVMIgQfM4Q

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Palestine-Israel, After the September big noise the joint struggle continue

2011-10-10T04:30:00.000-07:00

The pick of the struggle was the escalation in settler colonialists terror in Anata, where a mob of local settlers - including personal of state forces who live there, attacked Jewish radical activists who accompanied Palestinians who tried to access their land. The state forces - police and gendarmes present stayed presumably "neutral" but threatened the activists and even arrested three. As a measure against settlers escalating terror, the joint monitoring project of the popular grass root committees is collecting momentum. The "regular" locations of joint struggle - both within the 1948 borders, mainly the Bedouins of the south, and Jaffa; the weekly joint demonstrations the anarchists against the wall are involved: Beit Omar, Bil'in, Nabi Saleh, Ni'lin, and Ma'asarah; and Sheikh Jarrah too. Other sporadic locations like A-Tawna were active too.

Anata

Testimony 06/10/2011 of Stavit Sinai

How I was beaten up, stripped necked, tortured and threatened to be burned alive by the Anatot settlers.

Friday evening, 09.30.11, Anatot gate.

A balding stocky man with light-colored hair, wearing glasses, banging my head against a white transit van. One of the activists was next to me as we were surrounded by settler-police who’ve been shoving me back and forth in opposite directions. I fought back. I knocked off the glasses of the man who thrust my head and crushed them in my right hand. He bit my hand hard, trying to release the glasses from it.

At this time, a brown-skinned man on my left began to twist my left arm in ways I had seen Border Police do in previous protests I’d attended. He didn’t stop even when I screamed in pain. It was only a heavy blow – when my face was pushed down shattering one of his front teeth – that released my left hand from his painful grip.

Then I was knocked to the ground as a vehicle behind me moved, threatening to run me over. The activist tried to help by raising me up. The white van left and I got back on my feet and stood facing a tall brown-skinned man who never stopped yelling his insults at me. He told me: “Go fuck Arabs…”

At this point, the group of settlers began to shake and shove me in different directions as they tore the clothing from my upper body. They ripped off my bra, vest and shirt. The upper half of my body was stark naked. Other activists tried to cover and calm me. I remember especially that in all the efforts to get me out of there, the tall, balding brown-skinned man came close and said: “A Jewish prick isn’t good enough for you? You want an Arab prick, hah?”

I remember another man wearing a dark civilian shirt and a cap on which was the word “Police” tried to move me. I asked him for his police ID and instead he pushed me out of the way. Another activist brought me to her car and promised to drive me home when the protest was over. I got into the car and locked the doors. From that moment I tried to tweet everything that happened as long as my cell battery held out. I wrote what happened on the ground, the blows, the disrobing and the dire situation the protesters faced that night. I took a picture from the car and uploaded it to Twitter. I tried to hide, not to arouse interest. I saw how the protesters were driven backward by the settlers.

Only a few minutes passed from when I entered the vehicle when a settler noticed me. He drew the attention of his other settler friends and they began rocking the car. I tightened my seat belt and waited quietly for help. In my hand, I grasped a narrow synthetic strap from my purse. It was the only thing I could find nearby to use to defend myself and I was ready to use it to strangle the first person who approached me. Before that, I’d tweeted that I'm looking for means of protection in case they break in. I covered my breasts with the little fabric that remained from my torn clothes.

The crowd around me grew, but I tried to maintain my composure. At that moment, a soldier came by and I begged him to help me. He gave me a look of utter boredom. But after more begging he asked the group to move back a bit so I could leave the car. He suggested that I get into the army jeep, but I wouldn’t agree despite the pressure that the soldiers exerted on me. I was frightened that the settlers standing around me would resume their violence. Because no one offered protection I began to scream at the soldiers to block me [from the settlers]. They did this indifferently. They did check that I hadn’t left anything behind as I’d asked. Despite this, I lost my purse which contained all my IDs including the one categorizing me as “Jewish,” despite the fact that I am not.

The door of the military vehicle in which I was sitting was opened by an older soldier, clearly a member of some minority. He screamed at me and threatened to arrest me. Apparently because I gave the settlers the finger while sitting in his vehicle. I told him to arrest me already, because I was shamed by being in the midst of soldiers of apartheid. He turned away, slamming the door of the vehicle. Eventually, the soldiers returned me to my fellow activists.

I still have the tattered remnants of my clothes from that night.

Beit Omar

Saturday 08-10-2011: Protest against the occupation and in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike, near the settlement of Karmi Tsour near the Palestinian village of Beit Omar in the occupied West Bank.

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Bil'in

Friday 7-10-11:

It was the smallest Friday demonstration ever in Bil'in. Only 9 came from Tel Aviv, and a bit more international activist came... mainly an hour too late. Bil'iners too were less even for the last demos as the olive picking started today. Most of us marched all along the double distance to the new location - the Abu-Lamun groove adjacent to the new separation wall. Few others came by cars - as it is more and more common lately, after the removal of the old separation fence doubled the distance of the march.

When we arrived there people approached the separation wall - a bit to the south of the park and checked the strength of the barbed wire structure located in front of the wall.

It took the soldier some time till they discovered it and started to shower us with tear gas. After consuming the proper weekly dose of it we returned to the village.

Rani Abdel Fatah - http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2530915115340.289179.1327358013

Jaffa

8-10-11 - Joint demonstration against hate desecration of Christian and Muslim Palestinian graveyard http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vnc7RPX1phw

Nabi Saleh

Friday 7-10-2011: Besides protesting against the occupation, the theft of Nabi Saleh land for the construction of the illegal Israeli colony of Halamish, the struggle is against the occupation, and solidarity with others fronts.

International communities - http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.292400224103622.82504.136633479680298

Tom Vee - http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2446975534416.2142302.1252763340

hassan daboos - http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.229976990392098.57952.228124070577390

Awad Abuzaid - http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2598126472385.154113.1231443469

TomVeeTV - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSAYzHrqxI8

anxtysumoud - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9upmjiLapjM

tamimi1966 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaP-XWigPGs

davidreeb - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MAEw9doJ_Q

Ni'lin

Video From Friday demo in Ni'lin

yisraelpnm - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcSi71mtOCI

Nilinvillage - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDKBVsJNYMQ

A-Tawna

There will be a demo in yatta (in the south) tomorrow (Friday 7-10-11). if you can come please let me know.

Report from the demo in a-Tswana: at Friday 7/10 around 30 people from southern mount hebron area, yatta and Tswana, people from beit ummar, and israeli activists (5), protested in response to the new grip settlement called Amnir on the lands of a-Tswana, and in response to new destruction of wells by the civil administration (Minhal).

We were able to march until the olive trees, as the Israeli army prevented the demo from getting to the main road near the settlements there. the protest ended without special cases.

The patrols are continuing,

If you can make it in the next days starting tomorrow please let me know.

Hi all. The popular committees have asked us to support this campaign (see below). We will try to cover shifts for the next period. if you can please let me know when you can come and I'll schedule people.

Popular Committees to Launch a Documenting and Intervention Campaign Against Settler Attacks

The popular committees will inaugurate the Eyes of Resistance project to allow for quick intervention in cases of settler attacks on Palestinians.

What: Launching of the Eyes of Resistance campaign

Where: Nabi Saleh, at the contested Ein al-Qaws spring

When: Monday, September 19th, at 11:00 AM

Media contact: Jonathan Pollak +972-54-632-7736

In light of the recent augmentation in settler attacks on Palestinian body and property, the popular committees will initiate a volunteer-based campaign, in which several cars will patrol the West Bank to quickly respond to cases of settler attacks.

On-the-ground teams, composed of Palestinian, Israeli and international activists, will be directed from an operations-room in Ramallah, to which toll-free calls will be routed. The teams will document settler-attacks, but will also intervene to prevent and stop them when possible.

On Monday, four teams will set out on their first drive, from the contested Ein al-Qaws spring, near the village of Nabi Saleh. The location was chosen because of the continuous attempt by settlers from the adjacent settlement of Halamish to take over the spring and oust Nabi Saleh's residents from their lands.

Mohammed Khatib of the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee said, "If anyone needed further proof that Palestinians cannot count on Israeli authorities to prevent settler violence, recent events show beyond doubt why we need to organize to defend ourselves. This is exactly what these volunteers will do in a civic and peaceful manner".

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Don't say we did not know #282

On Thursday, 29th September, 2011, Palestinian farmers from the village Shweiki, in the South Hebron Hills, discovered that settlers had uprooted 50 of their olive trees on their land.

The farmers called the army and police. An army tracker traced the vandals' footprints, leading to an outpost called Mitzpe Eshtamoa. On a rock was written: "Halhul price tag."

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On Friday, 30th September, 2011, in the afternoon, several settlers and a dog entered the Palestinian village Yasuf (near the settlement Tapuah). The dog tried to attack people in the village. Villagers threw stones at the dog and the invaders, and managed to get them out. IDF soldiers then arrived and threw teargas grenades in the village and fired volleys into the air.

Questions & queries: amosg@shefayim.org.il

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Palestine-Israel, The joint struggle is threatened by settler colonialist assaults on the Israeli partners

2011-10-04T05:41:00.000-07:00

The desperation of the settler colonialists resulting from the approaching of the moment of truth and the shattering of their dream of the enlarged Israel, cause mounting of brutal assaults. Latest escalation was in the brutal assault on the Israeli non violent activists in the village Anata near the Settler colonialist settlement Anatot. The escalation was also of the state forces who were present at the confrontation but all they did was arresting three activist on concocted charges. State force personnel living in the settlement who were of duty participated in the assault. The main locations of joint struggles the anarchists against the wall activists are the leading Israelis: Bil'in, Ni'ilin, Nabi-Saleh, and Ma'asara keep the struggle going, and so are the struggles in Sheikh Jarrah, Arakib, Wallaje, and the South of Hebron Hills.

Anata

Friday, There was a kind of a pogrom committed against Palestinians and Israeli activists today in Anata. Israeli colonialist settlers, with the Israeli security forces doing nothing to calm them attacked both Palestinians and Israelis.

First round:

This morning (30/9) Israeli activists and Palestinians were attacked by settlers near the settlement of Atarot. The landowner of the plot to which the activists came in order to plant trees was also attacked by the settlers who cracked his head open, as well as attacking his wife. The two were have been hospitalized at Hadasa Ein Karem hospital.

Police officers who were present at the scene did nothing while the activists were beaten and their cameras smashed. Some of the attackers wore police shirts and carried service weapons, which attests to the fact that they are a part of the police force even though they were off duty.

Three of the Israeli activists who were attacked are... in detention at the Maale Edumin police station.

Three other activists have been hospitalized at Hadassa Ein Karem and an additional three have been arrested by the police, who have NOT arrested any of the assaulting settlers, in spite of having witnessed everything."

Peaceful moments before the first major clash with settlers on Palestinian Anata after today's event in Anata to hassle with the settlers, this video has become more urgent. us simply forbidden to be alone. http://youtu.be/WWSz3lBhHfw == http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWSz3lBhHfw

There will be an urgent demo this evening. Meeting point : 18:00 at French Hill commercial center. Transportation from Tel Aviv will be too.

Second round:

Later this evening, more activists arrived to protest against the pogrom which had taken place earlier. They too were attacked and beaten, with stoned being thrown at them too. In spite of police presence at the scene, the police did nothing.

As a result of the second attack, 19 people have been injured, requiring medical attention, and three have been hospitalized at Hadasa Ein Karem. Again, several cameras were destroyed. Moreover, cars belonging to the activists, which were parked outside the settlement of Anatot, were damaged by the attackers, who smashed windshields and head and tail lights, as well as puncturing tires.

Images:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/20409489@N00/6198077743

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.244394788940346.59480.100001094792472

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.158676310891156.37004.111542368937884

LYNCH OF 30/SEPTEMBER , 2011 By Anatot Anata Le http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.155317497895579.35899.100002519881449

http://www.flickr.com/photos/activestills/6198077743/in/photostream/

http://www.demotix.com/news/852401/palestinians-and-activists-scuffle-settlers-almon

Videos:

English subtitles JerusalemDay2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqdNi3RM3gI

English subtitles JustJerusalem http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKzNrNhTu5w

Lynch by Anatot's settlers 30.9.2011 Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB6YeA6hmVE

Lynch by Anatot's settlers 30.9.2011 Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cese6l5eekQ

narina28 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMycC_WlLxA

assafsh http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbv8a3l6qts

Reports:

http://www.mako.co.il/news-military/security/Article-e295fe73ff5c231017.htm

http://mondoweiss.net/2011/09/israeli-settlers-attack-israeli-activists-19-injured-3-hospitalized.html

http://kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=48885 (eng)

http://kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=48884 (heb)

"23 Israelis and Palestinians injured in settler attack outside Jerusalem http://972mag.com/settlers-attack-and-injure-23-israelis-and-palestinians-outside-jerusalem/24410/

http://mondoweiss.net/

Fascist media:

"During the new year "Rosh Hashana" holidays, tens of anarchists and Palestinians arrived at at Anatot in the Biniamin region, waving PLO flags. Anatot people did not remain quiet and confrontation developed and more than 10 anarchists were injured, and their cars were damaged."

Bil'in

As every other Friday we marched at noon from center of the village towards the separation wall. we were about 20 Israelis with the AAtW initiative, about 20 internationals, leading figures from Ramalla, and the Bil'iners. Near the route of the old and now removed separation fence, at the memorial site for Bassem Abu Rahme speeches were carried - including the declaration of "green Palestine". Then we continue the march towards the new route of the separation wall. There, at the Abu Lemon nature reserve there was an art exhibition of struggle scenes pictures and also enjoyed some refreshments. Then we approached the separation fence. After a while, the state forces showered us with tear gas and we returned to the village.

International communities http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.289088071101504.81796.136633479680298

Nabi Saleh

yisraelpnm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh9PihE2nh4

Michael Treiger http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.244427228937102.59486.100001094792472

International communities http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.289060067770971.81791.136633479680298

David Reeb http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO_nGsjbMAs

tamimi1966 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYwEWrS-YgA

planxtysumoud http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlB6u8xc4ew

Ni'ilin

Ni'lin weekly demonstration 30-09-2011

By International communities http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.289059181104393.81790.136633479680298

Nilinvillage http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhlShQ3BvOo

Sheikh Jarrah

They call upon each and every person who supports their struggle to join them.

Friday Amir Bitan http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.294557473892608.91200.100000150737581

Walajeh

Demonstration in support of al Walajah

Where: Agranat sq. outside the Supreme Court in Jerusalem

When: Tuesday September 27th at 0900 (tomorrow)

For Justice in al Walajah, Justice for the environment, Justice for Human Rights

* Over half of the wall has been complete with the latest illegalities happening in al Walajeh

* In al Walajah the wall will and has damaged ancient agricultural terraces and an ancient olive tree estimated to be between 1500-4000 years old

Please come and show your support and stand in solidarity with the residents of al Walajah whose fate lies in the hands of the Israeli Justice System, whose lives and human rights are being trampled on by the illegal activities of the Israeli government.

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The Monitoring project

The popular committees have asked us to support this campaign (see below). We will try to cover shifts for the next period.

if you can please let me know when you can come and I'll schedule people.

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Don’t say we did not know #281

The IDF continues to make the lives of the Palestinian residents of the South Hebron Hills region impossible.

On Friday, 16th September, 2011, the IDF blocked off all the crossroad junctions of Road 317 between the town Yatta and its nearby villages: Rawin, Sha’ab El-Butum, Um El-Amayer, Wadi Shajeish, Qawawis, and the eastern entrance to Samu’a.

Questions & queries: amosg@shefayim.org.il

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* A project of an Israeli anarchist activist

Colonial Settlements' Products link http://www.whoprofits.org/Involvements.php?id=grp_inv_settlement#grp_inv_settlement_1

Social Struggle

Israel Puterman videos

Eviction of the Lewinsky tent camp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79AY0d4KBrQ

Eviction of the Rothschild tent camp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3-1c8NYPl4

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See http://awalls.org

See Previous reports about the joint struggles of the Anarchists Against the Wall at: http://ilanisagainstwalls.blogspot.com

Palestine-Israel, The joint struggle involve much wider spectrum of grass root nonviolent initiatives

2011-09-28T01:35:00.000-07:00

Bil'in was the first of the joint struggle nonviolent struggle to persist. During the years new joint struggles started with involvement of the previous joint struggles and persist for long time. Older locations who did not persist, join again from time to time. Last year or so few additional struggles initiated by villages activists on their own initiative. The organizing of the joint comity of the local struggles enhance the struggle and initiate from time to time concentration of efforts in one location. Lately, another joint initiative of the comity intending for monitoring the colonialist settlers terror was started. Main locations within Israel and in the occupied Palestinian west bank expand: Arakib, Anata, Asirah, Beit Ummar, Bil'in, Jalgulia, Ma'asara, Nabi Saleh, Ni'iln, Sheikh Jarrah, Sheikh Jarrah, South Hebron hills, Social Struggle, Tel Aviv.

Anata

Struggle in Anata: 16.9.11 Action of tree planting on lands of Yasin abu Salah which was stolen and terrorizing by Anatot settlement.

Andrey Pshenichnikov http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.249243078451094.55499.100000962114448

narina28 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAr57eaqG9E

again and again the criminals settlers in Anatot Almon committed crimes against land and trees.

Emanyassin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yniAB_Je6ZA

Emanyassin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCbVDCITlSw

krasnoetv http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkBvQoFbTKA

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.100702646690398.865.100002519881449

September 23, 2011

Narine Melikyan http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2305810760655.129070.1110863588

krasnoetv http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKPMAAPaoV8

Arakib

Against the decision of the government to expel 30,000 Negev Arabs-Bedouins from their land. This week the government decided to expel 30,000 Bedouin residents...

yisraelpnm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc4zS50v6MU

Asirah - Nablus .Sep 20-2011

3 injured including a child 10-year old and journalist activist in the village of Asirah - Nablus.....After attacking the village by the settlers,The army fired tear gas at the people on village of Asirah

International communities http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.284453114898333.80182.136633479680298

haithmkatib http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqxaHTVDjdA

Beit Ummar

Reminder: Register for Transportation to Saturday September 24 Weekly Demonstrations Against the Wall and the Settlements

Bil'in

Rani Abdel Fatah http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2478456763914.287581.1327358013

Click on: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1946892363005

Jalgulia

Saturday, 24th September, 4:30 PM join the residence of Jaljuliya and the Triangle. Together we will protest:

* against the new plan to expropriate 700 acres of the 2000 that belong to Jaljuliya for the purpose of new facilities for the national rail and at the expense of the livelihood of 120 families

* Against holdup of a master plan for the village that will allow young couples to built their house where they were born and raised.

* Against the use of Jaljuliya’s lands (as in the case of other Arab towns in the triangle) for ‘national projects’ such as: roads, power, water and gas lines and so on.

The people of Jaljuliya too deserve social justice!

About 3,000 participated on Saturday in the demonstration against the the old ban on building houses and the new plan to confiscate the lands of the village.

Al Ma'asara Friday September 23

An Nabi Saleh

Freiday 23-09-2011 weekly protest

tamimi1966 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP1lM1PahlM

yisraelpnm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-ZpSxhJMqM

By International communities http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.285822908094687.80913.136633479680298

Ni'ilin

Friday 23.09.2011 One demonstrator got shot in the weekly protest against the apartheid wall. Last friday demonstration in ni’lin, dozens of Palestinians together with a number of internationals and Israeli peace activists gathered in a peaceful march against the nearby Apartheid Wall. The demonstration was called by Ni’lin’s Popular Committee and started at 01:00 pm after Friday prayers under the olive trees in the fields.

The demonstrators raised Palestinian flags and carried a grave with “Good bye Occupation” written on it and chanted slogans condemning the last speech of the American president Obama who showed his full support for Israel and its ugly policy in Palestine.

Upon arrival at the gate of the Apartheid Wall, Palestinians, in a speech to the Israeli army, said that Palestinians will never give up or be scared by the Israelis threatening our existence and that freedom and justice will prevail someday. All the world is waking up and everything will change and Israel will pay for its crimes against the Palestinians.

The army responded with tear gas grenades and rubber coated steel bullets which caused a back injury to one Palestinian – dozens suffered from tear gas inhalation.

The demonstration continued until 03:00 pm

http://www.nilin-village.org/

Nilinvillage http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_aDeSUUuNY

Sheikh Jarrah

Friday September 23 afternoon, a protest vigil as every other week. A march from center of Weat Jerusalem to occupied Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem.

South Hebron hills

Last Friday the army erected new roadblock in South Hebron Hills.

On Monday the Civil Administration handed out new demolition orders for sttuctures in Khirbet Umm el-Khier.

On Wednesday morning a an armed settler from Karmel begun the construction of a new stone structure on a hill the Umm el-Khier shepherds must traverse on their ways to the grazing lands and back. The settler screamed at the shepherds and chased them away.

This coming Saturday, September 24, we need as any activists as possible to accompany Palestinian farmers and shepherds and help them stand up for their rights. There is a direct link between the number of activists who come to accompany the farmers and their ability to harvest and work their lands.

For details and registration: D

Social Struggle

Jerusalem: Demo against eviction of squatting homeless from 5 years vacant university property

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY98GG1eDEA

Tel Aviv

Vigil in memory of Ibrahim Zaza, 12 years old who was murdered by the Israeli-American killing machine in the Gaza strip Ghetto in front of the US embassy, Hayarkon 71, Tel Aviv Tuesday 20th September, 19:00. We were about 20 activists - mostly of the AAtW initiative.

Invitation: Tomorrow, Tuesday 20/9, we will hold a funeral/vigil for 12 year-old Ibrahim Zaza. Ibrahim succumbed to his wounds today after being severely hit by a rocket fired at him and his cousin, Mohammed (15), from an Israeli UAV (drone). The boys were were hit one month ago in Gaza, while playing on the street near their home, several meters away from the hospital gates.

The barbaric attack on these kids, which took Ibrahim's life, has been carried out with the absolute support, militarily and diplomatically, of the US - a full partner in crime. Ibrahim's death is a direct result of a murderous regime that disrespects human rights for non-Jews, as well as thanks to the overwhelming support for this regime by most western governments and primarily the American government.

Shira Ramer http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.217025331690430.51938.100001488933129

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.160261500729466.40969.157492681006348

yisraelpnm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWINutUtlD8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxMdU9OAEAI

REFUSING TO DIE IN SILENCE

A project of the popular comities for non violent struggle for monitoring colonialist settlers terror and sabotage - converging at Nabi Saleh Monday

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xL7ez2_digo

MEDIA: Settlement Leaders Concerned Over Arab Patrols Following the announcement that Palestinians will begin unofficial civil defense patrols throughout Judea and Samaria.

The Popular Committees, a Palestinian group known for its involvement in protests against Israel’s West Bank security barrier, and Anarchists Against the Wall, an Israeli organization with which they frequently collaborate, have called for volunteers to man “several cars [that] will patrol the West Bank” in order to “quickly respond to cases of settler attacks.”

Participants in the “volunteer-based campaign” will also stand guard over local Arab villages in order to prevent price tag attacks by Israeli settlers.

Price tag is a term adopted by the extreme fringe of the settlement movement for assaults on Arab infrastructure and property as a retaliatory measure against the dismantlement of unauthorized outposts.

Mohammed Khatib of the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee commented that “if anyone needed further proof that Palestinians cannot count on Israeli authorities to prevent settler violence, recent events show beyond doubt why we need to organize to defend ourselves.”

Teams on the ground, which will be “composed of Palestinian, Israeli and international activists, will be directed from an operations-room in Ramallah, to which toll-free calls will be routed.”

Among the settlement leaders who have expressed their concerns is David Ha’ivri. Ha’ivri alleged that the patrol initiative was “another effort by the extremist left wing and Anarchist activists in Israel to cause friction between Jewish and Arab residents.”

Despite prior assurances from Palestinian police spokesman General Adnan Damiri that no forces independent of his command would be allowed to operate in the territories, the PA has come out in favor of the civilian initiative.

“This is not about any security functions, but rather about Palestinians, Israeli[s] and international [activists working] to document, in order to protect, Palestinians from settlers’ attacks. Therefore it does not contradict with what Damiri said,” stated PA spokesman Ghassan Khatib.

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Don't say we did not know newsletter #280* Tue, 22 Sep 2011

On Thursday, 15th September, 2011, IDF forces came to the Palestinian village El-Aqaba, near Tubas, and demolished three homes. Twenty two people were left homeless. The soldiers then demolished the access road to the village, named Peace Road , as well as an internal road. They erected earth mounds on the demolished roads.

Questions & queries: amosg-A-shefayim.org.il

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* A project of an Israeli anarchist activist

See http://awalls.org

See Previous reports about the joint struggles of the Anarchists Against the Wall at: http://ilanisagainstwalls.blogspot.com

Palestine-Israel, The joint struggle continue both in the occupied west bank and within Israel

2011-09-20T04:30:00.000-07:00

Day after day, year after year, the struggle against the Israeli advanced expansion, suppression and pressures on the Palestinians to transferred out of the region continue all the time. The efforts of persistence - Tsumud in Arabic continue all the years with scant portion of the Jewish community members join that struggle. Some of them join specific aspects of the struggles only. Only very few join the struggle whole heartedly with out reservation. The struggle against the separation fence initiated by grass root activists of villages along the route which was joined by the Israeli anarchists against the wall (AAtW) 2003 brought the non violent direct action mode of the struggle to the focus of the media - to a large extent thanks for the video photographers of the AAtW and the active steal collective. Last years more and more Israeli radicals join us or initiate their own projects.

Al Arkib

The focus of the struggle of the Southern Israel Bedouins again the renewed transfer measures, moved from the Arkib village to the whole "unrecognized" villages. Monday 19th September 18:30, at the government compound on the thous-west corner of the intersection of Begin and Caplan streets, vigil against the government decision to uproot 30,000 Bedouins from their lands and relocate them in few urban locations.

Demo from Habima/Rothschild 18:30 to the government compound

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=124178271015339

Many activists will meet half an hour earlier near the tent camp of the social struggle and march from there to the vigil.

We met near the adjacent tent camp of the social struggle for justice. About 200 activists including a contingent of Bedouins from the south.

Anata

Another location of joint struggle in the occupied Palestinian west bank.

Beit Ummar

Palestinian farmers from Beit Ummar and Halhul are suffering constant sabotage on their agricultural lands by settlers, and are prevented from accessing it by the military:

On August 28, approximately 100 fruit tress in Wad Abu Rish between the Palestinian village of Saffa and the settlement of Bat Ayn were vandalized.

Last Saturday (September 10), soldiers drove away a group of farmers who came to work at a vineyard near the settlement near the settlement of Karmi Tsur. The soldiers broke the arm of one of the farmers, and arrested an international who was accompanying the farmers.

On Sunday (September 11), settlers vandalized over 170 vines belonging to farmers from Halhul.

In response to this continuing damage to the livelihood of the farmers and their families, we will accompany farmers from Beit Ummar and Halhul in the area this Friday September 16. For details and registration: D

Beit Ummar Saturday Demo 17/9/11

"The weekly peaceful demonstration set off in Beit-Ummar from the village center outside through the dirt track to the agriculture area in front of the settlement Carmei-Zur. In the demo took part approx 50 Palestinians, 15 internationals and 5 Israelis (from Tel-Aviv and Beer-Sheva), the protestors raised signs drawn by children promoting Palestinian state and justice, some Palestinians flags, including a huge flag carried away by some participants, and flags of countries that supported the Palestinian independence. When we arrived closer to the "security zone" surrounded the settlement and the settlers about 20-25 IOF soldiers were waited for us and closed the road so we could not went further up to the settlement fence. After some speeches we came closer to the soldiers and protested with some slogans promoting justice and end of the occupation (in Arabic and English). 20 minutes later we felt that the message delivered and we went back into the village, leaving behind the fully armed soldiers."

Biddu

there will be a demo at Biddu tomorrow [Sunday] afternoon. If you can make it please let me know. k.

Bil'in

About 20 Israelis with the anarchists against the wall and a dozen of international activists joined the Bil'iners in the march towards the new separation wall. The wall is a new replacement of the separation fence moved to the west after years of struggle - returning half of the robbed lands of the village.

After a long verbal confrontation with the Israeli state force stationed there who pipped behind the wall, they lost their patience and stormed us with tear gas. As the norther wind was strong, I evaded the cloud of tear gas and missed my weekly dose.

Rani Abdel Fatah http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2451689334745.286796.1327358013 & type=1 [Me with white "cook" hat, pale blue shirt, and black pouch]

Hebron-Al-Halil

We were invited to participate in an event of renaming the Shuhada street as the Apartheid street tomorrow at 14:00 in Hebron.

If you can come, call A.

Qalandia Checkpoint

Israeli women organize Palestinian statehood demonstration - Qalandia 17th September 2011

The rally, organized by left-wing Israeli women, was joined by Palestinian women at the Qalandia Checkpoint, to help to bring awareness to the upcoming UN Vote on Palestinian Statehood. Qalandia, Israel.

Israeli and Palestinian Women Demonstrate Together On both sides of the Qalandia Checkpoint (near Jerusalem).

Lior Ben Eliahu http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1930293348040.131727.1563442697

From the Palestinian side http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=248720981835966 & set=a.232242786817119.52818.100000941981923

ABCH4531 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQFjl1UI7S0

Al-Ma'asara

Amir Bitan http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=287643314584024

Mario Savio http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.261797137188266.70784.100000739446057

Lior Ben Eliahu http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1928181175237.131644.1563442697

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.260682440621390.62107.203379449685023

Nabi Saleh

Protest against the Israeli occupation, Nabi Salih, 16/9/2011.

Palestinians, Israelis and international activists protest against the Israeli occupation in the West Bank village of Nabi Salih, on the 16th of September.

The protest was in support of the Palestinian bid for statehood to be voted in the UN on the 19th of September.

The usual participants of the Friday demo - local villagers, anarchists against the wall activists, and Ramalla activists were reinforced by activists from Bil'in and other neighboring villages.

Pictures:

International communities http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.282426991767612.79808.136633479680298

Oren Ziv http://www.flickr.com/photos/activestills/6152962916/in/photostream/

http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2011/09/16/september-16-2011-a-friday-of-demos-in-west-bank-palestine/

Video

haithmkatib http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWuOzVTR7u8

israelpnm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpI4glcPzR0

planxtysumoud http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoXLT4vzLrY

tamimi1966 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0yLxGUuJVg

Ni'ilin

Sheikh Jarrah

This week settlers burned the internationals’ tent in the yard of the Al-Kurd family, whose been partly taken over by settlers in November 2009. The residents need you support more then ever. Please make an effort to come and support them. Please make a special effort to join them tomorrow, September 16 at 4:00 Pm For a vigil in support of their struggle.

The residents of Sheikh Jarrah are continuing their protest vigils in the neighborhood on Fridays, protesting their violent evictions form their homes, the taking over of the neighborhood by the settlers, and the Judaization of East Jerusalem. They call upon each and every person who supports their struggle to join them. In spite of the sectarian desertion of the less radical "Solidarity Sheikh Jarrakh" from the Friday demonstrations, more than a hundred Israeli and Palestinians participated this Friday - including 10 with the anarchists against the wall who came after the Bil'in demo.

South of Hebron Hills

Walaje

"hi all, we are having a a demonstration on this Friday after the prayer at 13:00 in Al walajeh, the gathering point is the mosque at the entrance of the village. can you please spread the word and invite more people, this is especially important because we are trying to get more attention before the coming supreme court which will be on the 27-09"

“This village is a microcosm of Palestine” – al-Walaja fights the Separation Wall BY STEFFI UNSLEBER – SEPTEMBER 15, 2011http://www.palestinemonitor.org/?p=1805

The trees stood in the path of the Israeli Ministry of Defence’s planned extension to the controversial Separation Wall.

The machines work noisily in the background, clearing a path through the village’s traditional farmland. On both sides of the path lie recently uprooted trees. Al-Walaja residents claim over 100 were uprooted when Israeli workers entered the village in the early hours of Monday morning.

Al-Walaja is located four kilometers northwest of Bethlehem. Following the Six-Day War and the occupation of Palestinian territories in 1967, the Israeli government expanded Jerusalem Municipality’s boundaries to include some of al-Walaja’s land. The settlements of Gilo and Har Gilo neighborhoods of Jerusalem were established nearby in 1971 and 1972, respectively.

Sheerin Al-Araj, born and raised in al-Walaja, was visibly upset at the sight of the destruction and ignored the warnings of armed security personnel by moving to the lead machine. Followed by international activists, media and security personnel, her presence forced the construction work to stop.

After an hour-long standoff, several trucks arrived carrying Israeli defense personnel and protestors were told they had five minutes to clear the area or face arrest. Three female activists huddled together next to the digger and sang, “we shall overcome.” A female Japanese protester jumped in front of soldiers, raising a piece of paper, which said “No!”

Sheerin throws her hands into the air and looks skyward. “This village is a microcosm of Palestine,” she says. “Traditionally its lands were 18,000 dunams. In 1948, after Israel’s "independence" war we lost 11,000 dunams. Following the 1967 war we have had two settlements built, a by-pass road and now the Wall. We will be left with 2,200 dunams.”

According to a report in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, the Supreme Court of Israel decided that the construction of the wall was legal as long as al-Walaja residents maintained access to their land through two gates.

The court decided that the fence provides Israel with protection from terrorism and that its path should not be changed. Villagers object the decision and say that there have been no terrorist attacks emanating from al-Walaja and have appealed the ruling. A decision is scheduled for September 27.

Sheerin believes the continued construction – despite the pending court ruling – is a deliberate tactic to ensure the position of the wall.

“They are doing this now because they know that if the Supreme Court finds in our favor it will be deemed too expensive for them to alter the Wall’s path,” she said. “The village was able to prevent the Wall’s construction from 2007 until 2010 but work began again in April.”

The protestors were dispersed, forced by the Israeli soldiers to run away. They scramble up a steep hill covered in thorny bushes, as the nearby construction machinery resumed its dusty and noisy work.

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Don't say we did not know newsletter #279* Tue, 13 Sep 2011

The mercy of the holy month of Ramadan has passed and there are demolitions again!

On Thursday 8th September, 2011 government representatives, accompanied by the police,

came to the Bedouin village El'Araqib and demolished it. They continued to El-Ghara (south of Hura) and demolished four homes and a barley warehouse. Thirty five folk were made homeless.

On Thursday morning, IDF forces arrived at the South Hebron Hills Bedouin village Umm

El-Kheir and demolished three homes and an outside toilet. Thirty people were left without a roof over their heads.

Questions & queries: amosg@shefayim.org.il

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* A project of an Israeli anarchist activist

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See http://awalls.org

See Previous reports at: http://ilanisagainstwalls.blogspot.com

Palestine-Israel, The joint struggle interwoven with the expectation for the UN show down

2011-09-14T01:42:00.000-07:00

Though Israel is in panic, and many Palestinians are with mixed feelings - the joint struggle against the separation fence, occupation, and the suppression of the Israeli Palestinian continue. The struggle against the new wave of attack on the Bedouins - both within Israel and the occupied west bank continue. So is the struggle against the terror of the colonialist settlers against the Palestinian neighbors. And of course the struggle against the separation fence already built and in building. Special focus is in fierce struggle in occupied east Jerusalem - mainly Silwan and Sheikh Jarah. The main locations are: Arakib, Beit Ummar, Bil'in, Kufur Qaddom, Ma’sara, Nabi Saleh, Sheikh Jarah, Silwan, Social Struggle, South of Hebron Hills. The social struggle against the neo-liberalism continue in the various locations in both Jewish and Palestinian communities.

Al-Arakib

Israeli Protest Movement - Beer Sheva Tent Camp (Al Arakib tent).
This is an extract from rushes of the forthcoming documentary, 'Awakening Israel' (working title).
AwakeningIsrael http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot8NKrLBZds
Evicting the Bedouin - Israel/Palestine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQoWJt5wfJ8

Beit Ummar

4 nice Jewish girls [with the anarchists against the wall] joined about 10 internationals and 20 Palestinian residents of Beit Umar in what was probably the shortest demonstration in the village history. 2 minutes and 3 slogans later, the general crowd was dispersed via extremely vindictive military use of pepper spray, aimed straight to the eyes of the peaceful protesters. 3 international activists were arrested and several others, both Palestinians and Israelis, were in need of medical care. Todays lesson, boys and girls: DO NOT WASH pepper spray with water. It burns like shit.

Bil'in demonstration 09-09-2011

About 20 Israelis of the anarchists against the wall and a dozen international activists joined the local village activists and a political party delegation from Ramalla in this Friday demonstration.
"The march began after Friday prayers from the center of the village and headed to the land that was restored and the nature reserve Abu Limon. Participants raised Palestinian flags and banners proclaiming 'Palestinian state 194' and 'the Palestine key to peace' as well as banners painted with the image of the captive leader Marwan Barghouti. They chanted the national calls for the end of the occupation, destruction of the apartheid wall, and steadfastness with the principles of Palestine. Upon the arrival of participants to the Abu Limon reserve, they walked along the concrete wall, set fire to tires, and tried to storm the fence adjacent to the wall. They addressed the settlers in the settlement of Matityahu East through loudspeakers, telling them to leave and leave the Palestinian territories to the Palestinians. During these actions the occupation forces stationed behind the concrete wall fired tear gas, live ammunition, and rubber bullets towards the participants. This led to the asphyxiation of dozens of participants and private network television crews present in the area".

Israel Puterman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDAIg8D3w9Y
Iyas Abu Rahmah http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2130360893599.2109489.1083295028
Rani Abdel Fatah http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2427419248008.285996.1327358013

Jerusalem-Al-Kuds:

Silwan

Protest in Silwan: This Thursday, September 8th, 3:30 PM
Tomorrow, September 8th, City of David will host its annual "archaeological" conference.

In the passing year "Solidarity" activists demonstrated against the ELAD organization, and were arrested and sued for libel .
What is ELAD organization trying to hide?
The archaeological diggings of City of David in Silwan are one of the most controversial projects.
Tomorrow, We will be there to ask the unasked questions.

We will meet at 15:30
across from the entrance to City of David in order to give out flayers

For details: 054xxxxxxx Solidarity in Silwan
5 Facts about the City of David you might not hear from your tour guide

you are welcomed but bare in mind that we don't have a lawyer.

Sheikh Jarah

We will march tomorrow ( Friday) from the mashbir at 14:30 to Sheikh Jarrah. Solidarity

The residents of Sheikh Jarrah are continuing their protest vigils in the neighborhood on Fridays, protesting their violent evictions form their homes, the taking over of the neighborhood 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 a special effort to join them tomorrow, September 9 at 4:00 Pm

For a vigil in support of their struggle

Kufur Qaddom
Demonstration 09-09-2011

Al-Ma’sara

Demonstration 09-09-2011
International communities http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.279163112094000.79206.136633479680298

Nabi Saleh

The village of Nabi Saleh near Ramallah held a mock funeral for the Oslo Accords as part of its weekly demonstration on Friday, a Ma'an correspondent said.
Slide show http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=418832
planxtysumoud http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPw6MdzaC34
tamimi1966 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y5lhpsuTas
Michael Treiger http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.235442536502238.57049.100001094792472
Haim Schwarczenberg http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2433487355875.2142815.1212414101
International communities http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.279303198746658.79230.136633479680298

South of Hebron Hills

This week we will accompany Palestinians farmers and shepherds to their lands in several locations in South Hebron hills. Harassment of Palestinian farmers and shepherds in the area by both settlers and the army continues.

This coming Saturday, September 10, we need as many activists as possible to accompany them and stand up for their rights. There is a direct link between the number of activists who come to accompany the farmers and their ability to harvest and work their lands.

Social Struggle

Tel Aviv - Demo in front of Municipality building
Israel Pputerman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUpLRi28TB8
Jerusalem squatting http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v66tTVMjig8&feature=player_embedded

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Palestine-Israel, The involvement of activists in the Israeli uprising was in parallel to the joint struggle

2011-09-06T00:37:00.000-07:00

The Israeli uprising included also the Israeli Palestinian citizens. Within the social justice struggle, the anarchist against the wall were involved mainly in the Lewinski tent camp that included the African refugees and in the Jaffa Jewish-Palestinian tent camp. We continued - though with smaller numbers in the regular joint struggle with the occupied west bank villagers in Beit Ommar, Bil'in, Qaddom, Ma'asara, Nabi Saleh, Ni'ilin, South of Hebron hills, Wallaje. Both in Israel and the occupied regions the vibrations of the nearing 20th September UN declaration of the Palestinian state was in the air.

Beit Ommar

PalestineSolidarity Demonstration - 3rd September 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_99RJaLSQOI

Bil'in demo September 2, 2011

Today, dozens of demonstrators suffered asphyxia during the weekly march organized by the Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements in Bil'in. Those participating included dozens of Palestinians dozens of international activists, and Israeli peace activists.

The march including 15 Israelis, few internationals and Bil'iners, began after Friday prayers. We started from the center of the village and headed to the Abu Lemon nature reserve located in the part of land that was restored lately after 6 years of struggle.

Upon the arrival of the demonstrators to the Abu Lemon preserve, we walked along the concrete wall and addressed the settlers through loudspeakers to leave the settlement and leave the Palestinian territories to Palestinians. During this, the occupation forces who were stationed behind the concrete wall fired tear gas at the participants. It also started fires in the land just restored. When the demonstrates arrived at the gate in the wall, soldiers came to our side and comrades confronted them for a while till we returned to the village.

Pictures:

Iyas Abu Rahmah http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2111614624954.2108877.1083295028

Rani Abdel Fatah http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2402645868689.285082.1327358013

International communities http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.275716019105376.78641.136633479680298

Jerusalem Al-Kuds

After a break in the month of the Ramada, the activists converged in Sheikh Jarrah for the last Friday demonstration.

Pictures:

Mario Savio http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.255108007857179.69439.100000739446057

Lior Ben Eliahu http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1894509293461.130504.1563442697

Kufur Qaddom

Friday demonstration pictures http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.275636799113298.78627.136633479680298

Al-Ma’sara

One arrested and 3 injured in the weekly demo of Al-Ma’sara.

Today at 1:00 Pm the people of AL-Ma’sara went in their weekly demo which organized by the popular committee against the wall and settlement. The demo starts from the center of the village. On the way, the demonstrators raise the Palestinian flags and chanted for the independence of Palestine.

As soon as the people arrived at the entrance of the village to reach their land which will be taken by the wall, the solders prevent them and they attack them and they arrest Shai Polack an Israeli activist after beating him trying to broke his hand. After that they attack the demonstrators, three of them were injured. Mahmoud zawahra the coordinator of the committee in his hand, Abed Ebiat in his nick, Rafat aladeen in his leg.

Pictures:

International communities http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.275638212446490.78628.136633479680298

Jawad Zawahra http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2328817028730.134712.1498833494

An-Nabi-Salih 2-9-11

Some 60 Nabi Saleh residents and their international and Israeli supporters held on Friday the first weekly demonstration after Ramadan, demanding an end to the occupation and to the Oslo accords and peace processes that sustain it. The procession was able to reach outside of the village's built area and onto the hill that overlooks the village's spring, which is, along with the surrounding village's lands, threatened by settlers' annexation. Typically, at the time of the demo, these lands were foreclosed by the Israeli army and border police which began shooting tear gas from below and above the descending protesters. While the Israeli soldiers and police forces avoided for the most part from entering the village's built area, they did encircle that area and did not cease their habit of firing tear gas into that area, on and around houses, putting the village's population under attack and not allowing for peaceful demonstrating to take place. These measures were sure followed by clashes between the Israeli forces and unarmed civilians throwing stones in an attempt to ward off the military incursion. At a certain point the Israeli forces started shooting live ammunition above the heads of civilians. A few people were hit and injured by the many tear gas canisters shot during the long hours of a sunny day.

Pictures:

International communities http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.275638212446490.78628.136633479680298

Hassan Daboos http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=263348537018341

Video

tamimi1966http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrWvpY1gROQ

planxtysumoud http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPAmPhb1Nc8

yisraelpnm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ciSQROxP60

Ni'lin

In N'ilin, villagers along with their Israeli and international supporters, marched up to the wall where soldiers fired tear gas and sound bombs at them. Many were treated for effects of tear gas. This week protest ended with clashed between soldiers and local youth.

PalestineSolidarity http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qugtt7vlppo

Village Ni'lin's Videos http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=212306075455921

Social Justice

Tel Aviv demo Haim Schwarczenberg pictures http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2413479695696.2142107.1212414101

South of Hebron hills

Wallaje

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Palestine-Israel, The nearing of the September UN show down and the Israeli social justice struggle

2011-08-31T03:41:00.000-07:00

The joint struggle in the occupied west bank continue on the back ground of the wide spread social justice struggle in Israel. The "Olive Revolution" was expressed mainly in Friday demonstration in Qalandiya. The anarchists against the wall and village activists of Ni'ilin, Bil'in, Nabi Saleh converged in Qalandiya instead of the usual local actions. In spite of it the Bil'in Friday demo was not canceled. The other struggles in South of Hebron Hills and the Saturday actions in Walaja and Beit Ummar were not missed. The ferment and struggle against settler project in eastern Jerusalem occupied Silwan continue too. The social justice struggle in Israel include also the Palestinian citizens of the "mixed" towns and the Palestinian ones.

Beit Ummar

Bil'in

This week, the Bil'in demonstration was in question because of the demo in Kalandiya, but never the less people insisted and 12 Israelis came to the village. A small demo was composed with village activists who had not travel to Qalandiya. We marched chanting to the new separation wall.

Then few kids decided to practice their long distance aim and threw snots on the Israeli state force hiding behind the wall. In return, the soldiers decided to practice shooting gas at the demonstrators sitting peacefully way behind under the oak trees, and soon after everyone returned to the village.

Jerusalem Al-Kuds

This Thursday, August 25, Silwan:

Boycott the Occupation --

Say No to Settlement-Sponsored Cultural Events!

Following the successful demonstration last week -

We're returning to protest against Shlomo Bar's concert at the 'City of David' settlement

Join us this Thursday, August 25, at 8:30 PM

in the struggle against the injustices of repression

and occupation in Silwan

Knocking on doors Olive Revolution

The Qalandiya Friday protest has ended for the day with a number of injuries and the arrest of 2 men from billin Bassel Mansour a member of the People's Committee in bilin and Ashraf Abu-Rahma, they arrested on the Qalandia checkpoint.‬

Hi all, this Friday we'll have 4 destinations as part of 'knocking on doors of

Jerusalem' campaign: Shuafat , Diddu, Qalandia , and Bethlehem.

For more information check the event on facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/OliveRevolution

https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=245770352124136

and on their website:

http://www.olive-revolution.com/news/olive_revolution_news/5.html

Bil'in villagers Ashraf Abu Rahmah and Basel Mansour describe the circumstances of their arrest at the Olive Revolution protest at the Qalandia Checkpoint an...

planxtysumoud II. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyML7uNXpoc

Activists and supporters of the Olive Revolution (popular revolution and national humanitarian non-armed revolution against the Israeli occupation)

davidreeb http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNcHJ_aY4pI

planxtysumoud I. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps3OTGEl28Y Arrest of the Bil'iners Basal and Ashraf

electroneslibres http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXg73VPdRf8

samiadelo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KqFXVnAJLE

By Michael Treiger Marching to Jerusalem from Qalandiya checkpoint

Israel Puterman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY4t9BkWCwA

Ni'ilin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXMUdiYqw0U

Al Walaja

Saturday 27-08-2011

"Yesterday for 3 hours, we had a standoff with Israeli soldiers who tried to

prevent us from demonstrating. This demonstration on Saturday was the first

after the Israeli court ruling legitimizes the theft of Al-Walaja land. The

soldiers tried to stop the demonstrators with an outdated military order in

Hebrew dated August 26, 2011. After this act of deceit was caught, the

soldiers quickly produced a new military order but it too was no good

carrying a date of August 28, 2011, a day after the demonstration. The

Israeli apartheid soldiers tried to prevent us but we got close to the

illegal colony of Har Gilo. Four Israeli human rights advocates and one

Palestinian who were merely expressing opinions were abducted."

video here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0vxeycI71U

Several activists, photojournalists (two from Reuters and one each from Ma'an and AFP) were arrested during nonviolent march in Walajeh, near Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. Images by: Anne Paq/Activestills.org and Al Magdela, Palestinian activist / documenter out of Jerusalem Posted by Richard

By: International communities against Israel (2) http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.272440119432966.78071.136633479680298

Demonstration against the Wall in Al Walaja, 27.08.2011

www.flickr.com

A group of Palestinians, Israelis and internationals demonstrate in front of Har Gilo settlement in the village of Al Walaja following this week decision of the Israeli Supreme Court to reject petition of Al Walaja residents to change the route of the Wall, The march to the settlement:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/activestills/6085445198/in/photostream/

South of Hebron Hills

This coming Saturday, August 27, we need as many activists as possible to accompany them and stand up for their rights. There is a direct link between the number of activists who come to accompany the farmers and their ability to harvest and work their lands.

For details and registration: Li 054-xxxxxxx or e-mail your name and phone number Please make an effort to register no later then 6:00 PM Friday, so we can prepare a place for all of you

Please be sure to bring an ID/passport, hat and water and don t forget to dress modestly (no shorts or sleeveless shirts) despite the heat.

Eleven were arrested and spend the night in prison.

Social Justice Struggle

By Lior Ben Eliahu Jaffa Kalansawa+ http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1793616211197.125765.1563442697

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1884162034786.130059.1563442697

Haim Schwarczenberg http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2394290895988.2141321.1212414101

Israel's social justice activists squat in a second Tel Aviv building By Claudia Levin http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1767699131699.74770.1815815276

Oren Ziv http://www.flickr.com/photos/activestills/6088789767/in/photostream/

Squat actions by Israel Puterman

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEFZN_ljCLM

2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il_bRnW167U

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Palestine-Israel, The joint struggle against the separation fence and occupation and social justice

2011-08-23T09:08:00.000-07:00

The people of the region are starting to hold their breath looking forward for the middle of September reshuffle. Meanwhile, the usual locations of joint struggle: Beit Umar, Bil'in, Jerusalem-Al-Kuds, Silwan, Ma'asara, Nabi Saleh, Ni'ilin, South of Hebron Hills, and the inter Israeli social justice struggles continue. Though the main trend of the struggle against neo-liberalism austerity do not refer to the occupied Palestinian regions and Gaza, it does include the Israeli Palestinians which suffer in addition to neo-liberalism the suppression and discrimination and still advancing robbery of their lands. In spite of suspected inflammation in military clashes related to Gaza the social justice struggle continue - including a many thousands strong silent demonstration in Tel Aviv (5000 to 30000 according to various sources - my count was: "one, two, three, many").

Beit Umar

5 people were arrested in at the beit Omar demo yesterday . One member of the committee was beaten and severely abused while in custody. an international is in court today and another Palestinian

from the village will have a hearing in ofer military court tomorrow. if you can go please let me know.

2011 » August » 20 » Yousef Abu Maria Brutally Beaten as Live Ammunition Used at Beit Ommar Demonstration

http://palestinesolidarityproject.org/2011/08/20/yousef-abu-maria-brutally-beaten-as-live-ammunition-used-at-beit-ommar-demonstration/

Yousef Abu Maria Brutally Beaten as Live Ammunition Used at Beit Ommar Demonstration

20 AUGUST 2011

20th August – Residents of Beit Ommar, supported by Israeli and international activists, gathered for a peaceful demonstration in solidarity with Gaza, following the recent Israeli air-strikes there which killed 14 people, including 13 year old Mahmoud Abu Samara.

As the demonstration attempted to march through Beit Ommar fields towards the illegal settlement of Karmei Tsur, the Israeli military responded with extreme violence. Liva ammunition was fired at protestors, and concussion grenades were thrown, setting fire to the surrounding grass.

Soldiers arrested a total of five demonstrators, including Yousef Abu Maria, a member of the Beit Ommar popular committee and PSP organizing committee. He was thrown to the ground, breaking his arm (photo above) for the third time this year. Soldiers then tried to place Yousef in handcuffs, despite it being clear that he was in agony. Majde Zageek, another member of the popular committee, and organizing committee at the Center for Freedom and Justice, was also arrested, alongside two Israelis and one international.

At the time of writing, all five were still in police custody.

This brutal violence is indicative of a trend being seen across the West Bank and Gaza, as Israeli violence is escalated in the run-up to September’s UN vote on Palestinian statehood.

PalestineSolidarity http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54kAKHtkl2Q

Bil’in

About 30 Israelis with the anarchists against the wall together with international activists and Palestinians in Friday 19-8-11.

"Like every Friday, the villagers walked through the village towards the second Apartheid Wall that still occupies around 30% of the village’s land. They crossed the olive groves that the Israeli army had illegally annexed for over six years and which the villagers were able to liberate through their continuous resistance. Some gathered early and enjoyed the shade of the trees in the area where villagers have now created the Abu Laymoon park.

When the protestors reached the second Apartheid Wall at the illegal colony on their lands - chanting for the liberation of Palestine and raising the Palestinian flag and banners of the imprisoned Marwan Bargouthi - soldiers stationed behind the wall started shooting tear gas canisters and rubber coated steel bullets at them, setting fire to a stretch of bushes close to the park. A twenty year old was shot with a rubber coated steel bullet in the leg. In spite of the continuing barrage of tear gas canisters, the protestors held their ground in the heat of Palestine’s summers, chanting “Palestine is the 194 state”, in reference to the PA’s plan to request recognition as a full member state at the UN in September, demanding the immediate release of all political prisoners and vowing to keep up the resistance until Palestine is free and Palestinian rights are recognized.

One villager hit by rubber-coated steel bullet and dozens suffered from tear gas inhalation during the weekly demonstration against the illegal settlements and the Apartheid Wall in Bil’in."

Jerusalem-Al-Kuds Silwan

Demonstration 18/8/2011 http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.247906748577305.68145.100000739446057

Lior Ben Eliahu added 21 new photos to the album מעסרה Ma'asara 19.08.11

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1867228291453.129284.1563442697&type=1

Ma'asara

Village Ma'sara sends his support to the Israeli tent camps struggle

It was a very small demonstration. The height of summer and the third week of Ramadan have left most residents of villages south of Bethlehem in their homes, and only eight Palestinians, a similar number of international activists, and five Israelis marched from the village center towards the land expropriated by the barrier (those who do not know, here [link] can be found in the story of the struggle of the village).

Perhaps because of the small number of demonstrators that was also one of the most successful demonstrations instead, as he said at the end Mahmoud Zoara, operators of the village People's Committee. This time the soldiers were waiting for us right next to the last houses of the village, and prevented the march forward toward the tiny road leading to the lands now to be confiscated in the future by the fence, was built in yet, but planned to move 12 km from the Green Line, and many agricultural lands to annex the region. Unlike other times This time there was room for negotiation with the soldiers, who refused to stubborn to make up their mouths even once since the beginning of the demonstration to end. contrary to normal procedure, they did not even declared a closed military area, or gave any other reason to stop the march. just stood there, a row , armed from head to toe, and pushed back all the shows he tried to pass them.

Too few to encompass thirty soldiers, and weak leadership because of the fast and the heat, we spent most of demonstration speeches, one-third, mainly for soldiers evacuated. The first stage they were told, in several languages, nothing like the murderous terrorist attacks in the south the past two days and the popular protest - they are violent in front of her. "This is our message and our strength is the idea, not weapons," he said Zoara soldiers. And this idea, as presented to soldiers today, was that the Palestinians demand social justice.

The speeches lasted about an hour, during which referred to the speakers types of injustice Various sustained by Palestinians due to the occupation, including military regime is contrary to democracy, the expropriation of land, water and natural resources for the growth of settlements, a separation racist gives privileges far-reaching Jews over Arabs, destruction of homes, and of course the construction of the Separation heart of Palestinian territory, and not on the '67 borders.

During the demonstration was called to the soldiers that they should cease to oppress others, and join the liberation struggle in their own tents throughout the country. Others said the social struggle in Israel is the same struggle as the struggle against Palestinians, and ordered the soldiers to take off their uniforms and set up a joint encampment for freedom and against the government right away, at the entrance Ma'asara. Hassan Reggie, also of the Popular Committee, said a large demonstration in Tel Aviv and the rest of the country was first taught him not only the Palestinians have Israeli government policy, but also the Israelis themselves, and asked the soldiers what they continue to serve in government that affects them.

All this time the soldiers were silent. Each of them tried to make conversation with the protesters was reprimanded by the commander at the scene. Short speech I gave myself, I told the soldiers at the other things they see and hear around them, they should think about why forbid them to talk to us. I told them that Ma'asara fascinating people, who can teach them quite a bit, and I am sure that they themselves have thoughts and questions relevant to their situation, and we were happy to hear them and answer them on. Zoara repeated his weekly statement that the soldiers are not welcome in the village as long as they are armed and in uniform, but gladly accepted a peace-loving citizens.

Agreed in the latest demonstration of the village People's Committee, stating that the Ma'sara express full solidarity with the Israeli struggle for social justice, and solidarity in this struggle beating - next week will bring a show Friday tents. After the statement back to the village, from where the various homes. The soldiers gathered wrap up the tour with the commander. One can only hope that despite everything, some will take some of the things they heard in the demonstration home with them. Or tent.

Nabi Saleh

http://nabisalehsolidarity.wordpress.com/

tamimi1966 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORvsUd05ZTw

Israel Puterman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cYRg0oYsyM

South of Hebron Hills

This coming Saturday, August 20, we need as many activists as possible to accompany them and stand up for their rights. There is a direct link between the number of activists who come to accompany the farmers and their ability to harvest and work their lands.

Tel Aviv and all Israel too

http://www.flickr.com/photos/activestills/ - 20-8-11

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTvk4U01cvQ

Israel Puterman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rifO6k-XGqM

Al-Walaja

There will be a demonstration/workday in Al-Walaja tomorrow, Saturday 20-8-11, at 10 am. Please call K. if you can make it.

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Palestine-Israel, The joint struggle on the background of Israeli social justice uprising and the approaching September

2011-08-17T10:32:00.000-07:00

The Israeli radicals and the anarchists against the wall were involved this week in the social struggle uprising mainly but the joint struggle with the grass root Palestinian activists did not diminish much in spite of the Ramadan daily fasting. About 80 tent camps - including 7 in greater Tel Aviv, and about dozen in towns with both Jewish and Palestinian communities or Israeli Palestinian towns. Beit Ummar, Bil'in, Ma'asara, Jerusalem - Al-Kuds (Shikh Jarrah Silwan), South of Hebron Hills, Al-Wallaje, and Social Justice.

Bil'in

Friday 12-8-2011 The Israeli occupation force suppresses as usual the process of Bil'in weekly demonstration:

"The Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements in Bil'in organized the weekly march with the participation of dozens of Palestinians, dozens of international activists and some Israeli peace activists [14 of the anarchists against the wall - I.S.].

Despite the heat of the sun and fasting of Ramadan, the march started after Friday prayers from the center of the village. They headed to the land that was liberated, especially (Abu Lemon) natural reserve, the Palestinians and peace activists waved Palestinian flags, They chanted the national march chants calling for the departure of the occupation and demolition of the racist wall. Participants used a megaphone to call to the settlers, who are in Mattiaho Mzrah settlement which was built on the lands of Bil'in to leave the area and return to their original homeland and return the land to the Palestinians. they were able to destroy part of the barbed wire located along the concrete wall. On their part, Israeli soldiers fired tear gas at demonstrators, which led to the suffering of some demonstrators with the poison gas".

Banners which connect the Israeli social justice struggle to the separation fence and occupation were included.

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2066171408902.2106932.1083295028&type=1

Jerusalem - Al-Kuds

Shikh Jarrah

On Saturday, August 13, we will meet at 8 PM

for a meeting with the Sheikh Jarrah residents and a movie screening.

We will meet at the public garden on Nablus Road

(where the demonstrations take place)

Ramadan Karim!

Silwan

This Thursday, August 18, Silwan:

Boycott the Occupation -- Say No to Settlement-Sponsored Cultural Events!

Join us this Thursday, August 18, at 20:30'

For a protest against the injustices of the occupation and repression in Silwan

The protest will take place in front of the "City of David" site

Hundreds of thousands of visitors come each year to the " City of David " site, but few know that they are supporting the settlement project in East Jerusalem. The settlers use the archaeological site to paint themselves as promoters of education and culture, whitewashing their dangerous extremist ideology.

Over the last few weeks, the Elad organization, with the collaboration of the Ministry of Culture, has held cultural events in the City of David site in Silwan. The events take place in the framework of 'Israel Culture Nights.' What the Elad organization and the Ministry of Culture forgot to mention is that these events take place in an illegal settlement in the heart of the village of Silwan.

This "culture" is one of discrimination, neglect, and repression. While Israelis are enjoying music, the children of Silwan continue to suffer terror at the hands of the police , just a few meters away from the concert venue.

We will be there this Thursday to protest the whitewashing of the occupation:

the "City of David" is an illegal settlement, not a cultural center!

We will be there to demonstrate against the culture of racism and apartheid,

and for Palestinian-Jewish cooperation against the occupation of East Jerusalem.

Ni'lin

Weekly Demo 12.08.2011.

Nilinvillage http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9NMapGGaSI

Nabi Saleh

Palestinians from the region, twenty Israeli of the Anarchists Against the Wall, along with solidarity activists from Belgium, Netherlands, UK, US, Italy and Ireland joined Friday Nabi Saleh villagers in the second week of Ramadan. Protesters marched holding a tent to tell the Israeli protest movement that their demands for social justice must include implementing the rights of Palestinians.

The second weekly protest of the week of Ramadan in the village of Nabi Saleh was dedicated to reminding Israeli protesters that a true movement for social justice could not ignore the Palestinians.

The demonstrators carried a tent with them, similar to the ones that became the symbol of the protests in Tel Aviv and other cities across Israel. As the march broke from the village’s main road towards the village’s lands, over which settlers try to take over, they were attacked by two groups of Israeli Border Police officers who shot tear-gas projectiles at them from two different directions. Forced to return to the main road, the protesters tried to set the tent there, but were attacked with tear-gas and concussion grenade once again.

While the Israeli protest movement is widely celebrated as a shining example of Israeli democracy, Similar Palestinian demonstration are violently repressed and communities involved in them are regularly and systematically attacked by the Israeli army.

planxtysumoud http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jxd9z2xrfY0

tamimi1966 Nebi Saleh http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0QU_615_DI

Israel Puterman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbxbf5zygNM

David Reeb http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DehcZU1dWeM

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.264935500183428.76794.136633479680298

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.260470737314915.80112.100000559736199

South of Hebron Hills

This coming Saturday, August 13, we need as many activists as possible to accompany them and stand up for their rights. There is a direct link between the number of activists who come to accompany the farmers and their ability to harvest and work their lands.

Al-Wallaje

Wednesday protest 10-8-2011

"Despite the fact that the case of the route of the Apartheid-Annexation Wall through the SW Jerusalem village of al-Walaja is due to be heard in the Israeli Supreme Court on September 27 occupation forces are busy creating "facts on the ground" by uprooting olive trees and doing the preparatory ground work for a crime against humanity that will create a living ghetto similar to Gaza, Qalqilya and neighboring Bethlehem. In revulsion against this, Palestinians and international solidarity activists their numbers greatly augmented by members of the Israeli Anarchists Against the Wall direct action group protested in al-Walaja today but were greeted with stun grenades, tear gas and some thirteen arrests by the Israeli army. The village of Al-Walaja was, in 1948, the second largest land area after Jerusalem but was cut down to one third the size when Israel declared statehood that year. Now a border village, Al-Walaja is edged on its eastern flank by an expanding bloc of colonies and is being reduced in size by the path of the Apartheid- Annexation Wall, which annexes between two to three kilometers of village lands from the pre-1967 border.

Slide http://www.bilin-ffj.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=372&Itemid=1

dozens of olive trees were uprooted in Walaje. and it seems many more will be uprooted.

Israel Puterman video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih082mYT2SQ

planxtysumoud http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7SGfLMSmYQ

Being a radical left activist in Israel is at most times a pretty depressing proposition. We act not out of belief that we can change anything, but rather out of the moral conviction that we cannot do otherwise. Now, suddenly, everything is open, and our activity can make a huge difference. There is something scary about that, but also something very very exciting. Let’s hope it holds.

Social Justice

Various demos and actions along the week. On Saturday 13-8-11 70,000 (1% of total population of Israel) converged and marched in the less central cities (Not including Tel Aviv region, and Jerusalem)

About 80 tent camps - including 7 in greater Tel Aviv and about dozen in towns with both Jewish and Palestinian communities and Israeli Palestinian towns.

Jaffa Jewish-Palestinian tent camp protest 13-8-11 Israel Puterman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT7RkhwOqQs

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Palestine-Israel, The joint struggle with the background of a region in turmoil

2011-08-10T06:25:00.000-07:00

The involvement of the anarchists against the wall initiative (Shoulder to shoulder with the activists of Sheikhjarah solidarity net work) in the Joint struggle diminished a bit. The involvement in the Israeli uprising need attending to. Comrades are involved mainly in the Jaffa joint tent camp of Jews and Palestinian inhabitants and the Lewinsky camp of poor working class neighborhood. Though some "hold their breath" waiting for September UN activity, the local struggles intensify as state forces increase their efforts to put end to the joint struggle in Nabi Saleh, Ni'ilin, Wallage, and Beit Ummar.

Beit Ummar

In Beit Ummar, Israeli soldiers accusing me of assaulting them… then arresting me.

By Miko Peled

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI_s3wmHFPc

Bil'in

Some 15 Israelis and 10 internationals joined the weekly Palestinian demonstration against the wall and occupation in Bil’in. The demonstrators marched to the Abu Lamun oak reserve, and set up new benches and trash cans in the resort. Then someone made a symbolic gesture of returning to the soldiers a single live gas canister, which had been shot at him in a previous demonstration. The soldiers, surprisingly, did not reciprocate with more gas canisters. Then some of the demonstrators marched along the fence to the gate and to the ledge overlooking the security road. There the army, unprovoked, attacked the demonstrators with a spray of skunk water from a truck that lurked below. The wind carried the stinking droplets farther than usual into the small crowd of protesters. A few boys threw stones at the skunk van, and the army shot a few gas canisters. As the exchange was taking place, a helium filled Dora balloon drifted over from the settlement, above the scene, carried by the putrid wind.

http://hamdeabu.blogspot.com/2011/08/bilin-weekly-demonstration.html

Rani Abdel Fatah pictures http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2327780717107.281852.1327358013

Lod - Ramla

Al-Ma'asara

Demonstration 22/10/2010 - Four Years of Struggle

The Palestinian village of Al-Ma'asara lies near the town of Bethlehem, and has suffered in recent year due to the separation wall which has prevented the village residents from accessing their lands, with the goal of taking over more land for the settlement of Efrat. This demonstration marks 4 years of struggle in Al-Ma'asara, and it's the first time I've attended. The demonstrations are completely non-violent. The demonstrators sing and give speeches. Nonetheless, the Israeli army chooses to disperse the demonstration by force. It took its time but the uprising initiated by few "middle class" youth in Tel Aviv protesting dwelling problems. Now it already include also low working class people of all over the country (about 80 locations including Israeli Palestinians) and include all the social hardship caused by the neo-liberal mode.

Nebi Saleh

In just over one year of nonviolent protests in the tiny West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, 155 of the 500 residents have been wounded (about 60 of them children); 35 homes have been damaged, dozens have been detained and the villagers has been regularly terrorized by occupation forces deliberately shooting high velocity tear gas canisters into their homes igniting curtains and furniture in the process - their exterior

‪planxtysumoud Nabi Saleh protest 5-8-2011‬‏ - YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EU6FC8Fm4E

tamimi1966 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BN9cN_exxI

Ni'ilin

South Hebron hills

For details and registration: D.

al-Walaja

In the past days dozens of olive trees were uprooted in al-Walaja and the army is resuming preparation work for the wall.

The case of the route of the fence in Walaja is still in the supreme court with a hearing coming soon, but in the meantime, the army is creating facts on the ground.

After a dozen of Palestinian, Israeli and international activists were arrested two demonstrations trying to prevent the uprooting of the trees, the popular comity of the village is preparing for a BIG demo this Wednesday, 8:00 Palestinian time 9:00 Israeli time.

Cars are needed.

please call: E.

Nine arrested in 10-8-11 demo in al-wallaje

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx3zAXnlf4s

Tel Aviv - Jaffa

Jaffa tent camp

jeaunkes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj-Uo5mpAD0

AFP http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCoRBHCZl6E

amnonhaas http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qasFaTJ0ynQ

amnonhaas THE REVOLUTION WILL BE YOUTUBIZED!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faaMqHuZ9xc

Ramnonhaas EVOLUTION DANCE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm0zsLYrkLw

Jafa tents camp http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=104188469681820

Tel Aviv

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAFbyutNJVc

Israel Puterman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfhjoSYQJjU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBTJaieg-Rs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DRN6v5uQtI&feature=related

Media:

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/the-israeli-protest-has-turned-into-a-revolution-1.377529

Haaretz Editorial

The Israeli protest has turned into a revolution

Following decades in which the public has curled up in its indifference and allowed a handful of politicians to run the country as they wished, the rules of the political game have changed.

For more than three weeks Israeli society and polity have been shaken by waves of social protest of the sort that has never been seen here before. This protest reached a new peak on Saturday night with demonstrations that saw hundreds of thousands of Israelis take to the streets. Such a display of power is apparently far from being over.

The protest has already achieved much. It has stirred civil society to become involved, and to show solidarity following many years of complacency. It has also altered the social agenda in Israel, and political-security discourse has given way to a socioeconomic one, which has taken center stage in an unprecedented way.

The group of young protesters has also managed to instill an element of popular democracy, managing its affairs far away from politicians and political parties. The demonstrators have shown exemplary organizational abilities, which also peaked during the latest, incredibly orderly demonstration in Tel Aviv. The group of speakers during the demonstration was impressive for its diversity.

The themes of the protest have, to a certain extent, also managed to hit home. When the masses cry out throughout the country "the people demand social justice," it does not yet suggest an orderly and detailed socioeconomic theory or defined set of demands, but it is doubtful whether these are necessary at this stage, in the forging of a new movement.

We are in the midst of what is increasingly shaping up to be an Israeli revolution. Following decades in which the public has curled up in its indifference and allowed a handful of politicians to run the country as they wished, with no significant involvement from civil society, the rules of the political game have changed.

The public has realized that it has much more power and influence than it imagined. Henceforth, every prime minister in Israel will have to take into consideration this emerging force.

It is still hard to know where this protest will lead, and how it will end. For the time being, we can be impressed by its power and the direction in which it seeks to move. We must therefore praise the protesters for the changes in perception they have already instigated and hope that they will be able to continue their efforts in the future, in the same impressive way that has characterized them to date - and bring about genuine change.

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Palestine-Israel, The joint struggle intensify with the nearing September and the social justice struggle in Israel in the background

2011-08-02T05:55:00.000-07:00

The Israeli efforts to curb the joint struggle intensify in Nabi Saleh and Wallage. Though the Israeli activists are involved in the social justice uprising, the Israeli Palestinians are not absent from it and the anarchists were not absent from their local tent camps and their block in the Saturday hundred thousands march in Tel Aviv. The on-going struggles in occupied east Jerusalem focused on Sheik Jarah; in the south - at the south of Hebron mountains; in west of Ramallah - at Bil'in, Ni'ilin, and Nebi Saleh; within Israel - at the Bedouin village of Al-Arakib.

Al Arakib

Wednesday July 27, 2011 march at 18:30 at the Lehavim Junction to conduct a protest vigil and torches march. We will pass the night by hearing stories from the people of Al Arakib, whose village was destroyed exactly one year ago! In protest of the continuing demolitions, by the State of Israel's and the continuing neglect and abuse of its citizens who refuse to be transferred and live in harsh living conditions. Denouncing the continuing violation of the basic civil right to housing of its indigenous people and the violation of international conventions. We focus on the involvement of the Jewish National Fund, which expropriates people's lands day after day by means of massive forestation.

http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/281644_147639851983541_100002125801798_290666_7812163_n.jpg

July 29, 2011 http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.197334433656570.49969.147483475308333

Anata

Saturday July 30 Visiting in Anata and demonstration against land stealing

For details and registration: A.

Beit Ummar

"The Saturday protest has ended - no injuries or arrests today. Heavy army presence, balloons flying in the air and solidarity signs with Norway - "united against terrorism" in front of soldiers..."

Bil'in

The previous routine is returning at the new location of the separation wall. Tear gas grenades are thrown on us, and soldiers cross to our side to try in vain to intimidate the demonstrators.

Israel Puterman video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctiu7BkY6qE

Haithm Katib video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU--R08aQWc

Dir Quadis

"There will be a demo at Dir Qadis tomorrow evening (Wednesday). If you can make it please let me know. K."

Lod-Ramla

"Three weeks of joined struggle to protect the house of the Aju Israeli-Palestinian family in Ramle brought out a freeze on the demolition verdict by regional court."

Al Ma'asara

Jawad Zawahra pictures http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2241350122112.130781.1498833494

Nebi Saleh Tuesday

‎26 July 2011, International Solidarity Movement, West Bank: At 10 a.m. we arrived at Nabi Saleh to interview the neighbors about what had happened there at the terrorist night intrusion of the Israeli state forces.

Friday

".... Last week I was arrested when I was trying to get into the village, which is subjected to a closed military zone that starts every Friday morning.

That warrant is unreasonable: how can one declare that an entire village, owned by its people, is practically confiscated for hours just to prevent people from gathering.

That is one of the privileges the martial laws grants the army: they have the ability to disrupt any aspect of people's daily living according to their judgment.

So this week I came the day before and stayed the night over.

I came to be with the kind, warm, friendly, generous, brave, formidable, great hospitality, noble people of Nabi Saleh.

I was so happy when people recognized me from past times I've been in the village and called me by my Arabic name, Kibrita ...."

".... In the morning, we couldn't even get from where we were staying into the village without having tear gas shot at us. They wouldn't even let us move quietly inside the village, let alone gather and march. When we tried to make several steps, we were met with high velocity tear gas canisters shot in direct aiming towards us. We were showered with tear gas.

At some point I found myself against a wall, canisters flying over my head, between my legs & arms.

I was choking and couldn't see anything.

Seth took my hand, and than a local man showed us to safety....."

".... As we regrouped in a yard, some people were singing Palestinian freedom songs The soldiers went inside the village.

Last time I've heard they pointed pistols at people as they raided houses.

They arrested David, the photographer.

I saw them beating him and tearing his shirt off.

They also broke his camera.

I heard that two other Palestinians were arrested, as well as three international solidarity activists.

I also heard that an International activist was injured.

One of the Palestinians that were arrested was told he is being taken for having people from outside the village in his home. ..."

International communities against Israel

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.257944590882519.75572.136633479680298

hilmet8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_0mnio3jiA

David Reeb http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpVS8BVXqss

Nebi Samuel

The Palestinian village near the main road between Jerusalem and the west which was occupied in the 1967 war is under severe efforts to transfer out. They invited us (the anarchists against the wall initiative) for a joint action Friday 29th July 2011.

Ni'ilin

29 07 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4lBXXZ1IEA

Sheikh Jarrah Demonstration 29/7/2011 Mario Savio pictures http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.237681842933129.66340.100000739446057

Tel Aviv

Tuesday- the tent camps, direct actions and marches. Solidarity contingents came to the camp in the lower class and refugees neighborhood which was target for the municipality harassments - both from the more respectful "middle class" camp of the city center and activists from towns of Israel south.

Israel Puterman video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGFXRUqMFGg

Haifa 26/7/11 The people demand social justice http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVjDU2UVcCg

Media: Social activists: The revolution is here.

News: Leaders of housing protest turned mass social protest list their demands from government, warn 'high cost of living is a symptom of a deep and dangerous fracture in society'

Tens of thousands of Israelis participated in mass protest rallies across Israel Saturday night demanding social change and justice.

Police sources estimated that nearly 150,000 people participated in the protest nationwide. If so we where over 100,000 in Tel Aviv itself.

Tel Aviv hosted the main protest rally, where leaders of the social protest – which sprouted from a "tent city" erected on Rothschild Boulevard in protest of the lack of affordable housing some two weeks ago – detailed their demands from the government.

"Two weeks have passed since we have pitched the first tent on the boulevard, and it seems that there are still some people around the government table who just don't understand: The real estate situation and the high cost of living are just symptoms of a deep and dangerous fracture that has spread within our society," activist Daphni Leef, said over the stage.

"The piggery and egoism have turned into the most prominent features of Israeli existence, but over the past two weeks we discovered that there is another Israeli existence.

"We have come here today to tell our elected officials in the simplest of terms that the State has a responsibility to its citizens, a responsibility that our elected officials continue to shrug off with a variety of excuses, including supply and demand, a free market and false prosperity."

The current revolution, she continued, "Is a revolution of awareness: A revolution that causes all citizens understand that we all deserve more; understand that they are allowed to demand more from the government; understand that it is not a luxury to stand for all the rights that we deserve."

"We do not want to replace the government, we want much more than that – to change the rules of the game and say loud and clear: Social services are rights, not commodities."

Speaking of the protest movement's primary cause, affordable housing, Leef said that "A home is not just real estate. The State must intervene immediately in the housing market in order to protect us, the citizens. We demand fair housing for everyone. Public housing is not a swear-word."

Leef went on to say that the State must regulate rent prices and conditions.

Amit Herman pictures http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150281878823970.364668.696758969

Sort clip http://www.twitvid.com/E7SR9

On the way back from the demo on the way to the tent camp lot of protesters celebrated in the main intersection for an hour and a half till the police "convinced" them to leave - detaining 12 participants. 8 of them were kept in custody and brought to court at the morning. The judge released them on self bail with no restriction - criticizing police for not releasing them earlier on bail with out dragging them to court.

Greeting arrived from Egyptian Tahrir:

"I am so proud of having Israel as my neighbor. CONTINUE, you will succeed. I & many never felt as united with you as today! Man, I don't even know you, but I want to hug you.

The wind of change is within us all, we got rid of Mubarak, and Netanyahu can join him and Ben Ali and then Gadaffi & Assad!" Great wishes from Tahrir. GO ISRAEL! GO FREEDOM!!!"

Israel Puterman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJvyeXbGDLg

Wallage

Tuesday

This morning dozens of olive trees were uprooted in Wallajeh. and it seems many more will be uprooted tomorrow (the bulldozers are staying there for the night).

We need people to sleep there tonight or come early tomorrow morning, please call: E.

Wednesday

About 50 Palestinians, Internationals, and Israeli activists demonstrated in Al-Walaja. While filming the destruction of the land, 4 Israelis and two Palestinians were roughed up by Israeli apartheid soldiers then detained.

In the past few days dozens of olive trees were uprooted in Wallajeh. and it seems many more will be uprooted next week, starting Sunday morning.

The case of the root of the fence in Wallajeh is still in the supreme court with a hearing next week, but in the meantime, the army is creating facts on the ground.

Thursday

After 6 Palestinian and Israeli activists were arrested yesterday trying to prevent the uprooting of the trees, We need people to come on Sunday (31/7) morning at 8:00 to the old olive tree (ask for Zaitunat el-Badawi). Cars are needed.

please call: E

ISMPalestine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOotTvF2N5c

"Sunday in Wallajeh there will be an international bike ride throughout the village, so the demonstration will only begin at 9:00 AM once the international event ends. Please call Eran once you arrive at the entrance of the village at 0528504193 for directions to the meeting spot."

Sunday

A group of about 30 international, Palestinian and Israeli demonstrators demonstrated in front of Israeli construction equipment Sunday morning, in an effort to prevent the uprooting of olive trees to make way for the continued construction of the separate wall that is to surround this village located just south of Jerusalem.

Within 10 minutes of the start of the demonstrations, 1 Palestinian, 2 Internationals and 3 Israelis were arrested. Israeli protestors then negotiated with the army commander for their release. The commander responded to one Israeli by saying: “I’m keeping you here as long as I can so that one rock is thrown and then I can fuck up the village.”

As soon as he said that, one Palestinian from the village who was not part of the protest, started throwing stones, at which point the Israeli soldiers invaded the village, using tear gas.

As soon as nonviolent demonstrators left, IDF soldiers took over positions in the village and began shooting tear gas as well as what some Israeli demonstrators claim is live ammunition.

Walaje is normally a quiet village known for non-violent demonstrations, which started two years ago in connection with construction of the separation wall there, which is slated to encircle the entire village.

Activestiis http://www.flickr.com/photos/activestills/5993456242/in/photostream/

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Israel-Palestine, the Geeni is out of the bottle, there is no return after the Arabic Spring

2011-07-26T11:11:00.000-07:00

It seems the regional uprising of the people in the Arab countries injected rebellion energy all over the world. It is felt in the villages struggling against the separation fence, robbery of lands by colonialist settlers and the occupation. It ignited within Israel a successful consumer strike after a step rise in price of "cottage" cheese. It made the hospital internist doctors to resist a compromise in agreement after a hundred days plus partial strike and starting some direct actions and demos... forcing already the retreat of the medical doctors association from the compromise. It also started a wide spread rebellion focused mainly on dwelling but with wider spectrum from the beginning. In nine days from a start of dozen tents in center TA to 2000 tent camp there and many other locals in the country, and from few hesitant direct actions to a huge 200000 march. (Last two days - in spite of proposed state compromises both the dwelling struggle and the intern doctors' expand and intensify.)

Al-Arakib

After 25 demolition of the village in the last year, the joint struggle persist.

Beit-Ummar

Saturday demonstration 23/7/11 The weekly peaceful demonstration in Beit-Ummar set off outside the village next to the agriculture lands and Carmei-Tzure settlement. We were about 40 people, Palestinians, internationals and Israelis and we started walking up the hill through the walkway and then we turned into the vineyard and walked fast trying to get as close as possible to the settlement fence. We were stopped by dozen of soldiers that use a lot of violent to push us away. After few minutes many more IOF soldiers joined and use violent to bump us far from the settlement houses, they also arrested two Israelis, Some soldiers including the commander cursed us using sexist and homophobic words in addition to the regular derogatory names.
After half an hour we left the area, still violently pushed by some soldiers. The demonstrators who arrested earlier were realest later but one of them was taken to the police station in Kiryat Arba.

A comrade on facebook: "I went to a demo in Beit Ommar. Got the bruise on my ass to prove it".

Bil'in

Some 15 Israelis and about 100 international activists of several European groups joined the Palestinian demonstration against the wall, the land grab in Bil'in and occupation. The protesters marched from the village center to the Abu Lamun oak reserve, and from there along the new wall, while those who remained at the reserve suffered a brief shock and gas canisters attack. The marchers demanded that the soldiers open the gate leading to their lands (now covered with real estate instead of olive trees), and symbolically dismantled part of the wire fence protecting the concrete wall. An army jeep drove toward the protesters, shot tear gas canisters, and was answered with stones. The gas canisters also started some bush fires, which, together with the gas and scorching heat, forced the demonstrators away.

Budrus

there will be a demonstration in Budrus tomorrow (Monday 25-7-11)

Hebron region

Hebron district has seen a wave of soldiers violence in the past few months. Palestinian residents are being taken into military watch towers and beaten inside. Some needed medical attention and had their arms broken. Others had rifles pointed to their heads and stun grenades thrown between their legs. We also know of a Palestinian who was injured this Monday in his leg by rubber coated steel fired by an army officer in the entrance to his village.
For a video from one of incidents Israeli activists participated click http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plnA68_ZSAQ

Friday 22 July, Protest Against Army Violence in Hebron district

Nabi Saleh

Friday, Activists reporting around 25 people detained today in Nabi Saleh by Israeli Occupation Forces.
"Five Palestinians were arrested inside houses this afternoon in Nabi Saleh by Israeli soldiers at gunpoint". Live ammunition has been fired by Israeli Occupation Forces today in Nabi Saleh. Fortunately, no-one has been hurt.

‎25 of those arrested were released. 2 Palestinians are kept in custody.
Pictures By International communities against Israel http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.254681431208835.74988.136633479680298

Friday, July 22, 2011 Nabi Saleh - Affidavit
"Around 12:00 I heard the soldiers shouting "Stop". I stopped and sat down. The soldiers asked me then, where are my friends. I said I do not know. They asked more questions and answered them. They ordered me to come with them and when I answered I refuse they cuffed me and dragged me along.
As I was dragged I twisted loose the cuffs. I tried to get handcuffs of as I did not think it is justified to put them on me. I was not violent towards them and my resistance was passive. As I was dragged my camera was broken.

After the questioning even 4 soldiers could not drag me. One soldier carried me as he bent over me and twisted my head. They took me to the check-post at the entrance to the village and put cuffs on my legs. Because I twisted myself around even in with these cuffs, they handcuffed me stronger.

I stayed about two hours with handcuffs and felt that they stop the blood circulation.
The handcuffs really hurt and I was afraid I'd get gangrene. Then an Ethiopian soldier named Shlo loosened the handcuffs. I stayed with them for another 3-4 hours.

The soldiers gave me a bottle of water. They took my ID and my sandals. I argued that in fact I did not break them closed military zone order since I stopped according to their order.

I tried to release the handcuffs with a lighter and when noticed it they threatened they would take the rest of the content of my hand bag.

The experience was humiliating for me and I felt that that forcing me to ask soldiers to ease the leg cuffs, to enable me for going to the bathroom or to loosen the handcuffs was an act to strengthen their sense of control. For me it was my honor to keep to myself.

I did not feel comfortable going to the bathroom with five men when my legs were cuffed.
I did not respond to the soldiers when they talk to me. Now and then I heard a series of gunshots and explosions from the village.

Three times the soldier Shlo told me I would be released within an hour but it did not happen ...

Between five and six o'clock I have seen two military vehicles in which two Palestinians were bound and blindfolded. The soldiers put them down faces to a rock and hit or pushed them with the barrel of a gun to their head.

During the trip the soldiers teased me verbally, insisted on calling the village's spring
with the settler name Ein Meir and commented that my name is the the same as that of someone who was killed by Arabs.

I happened to see the way the two Palestinian activists who were waiting for the return of identity cards - that were taken from them were, treated. As I was released I asked to join them but the soldiers warned me not to return to the village."

David Reeb video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSYOgtbS4sA
Electrones Libres http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySRxUYnDS4I

Ni'ilin

Around 50 villagers and 20 internationals (and 3 Israelis) attended the weekly protest against the wall in Ni'lin. the march arrived at the wall after the noon prayers. a few tires were set on fire and a couple even were thrown over the wall. soldiers fired teargas and a small number of youths threw stones. No injuries were recorded aside from some tear gas inhalation.

Qadum

Israel Puterman video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8wRsPq8ZL0

Sheikh Jarrah Demonstration 22/7/2011
Mario Savio http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.234396556594991.65786.100000739446057

Tel Aviv

At the beginning of the week a project of activists of the anarchists against the wall was started at the southern end of the Rothschild boulevard was started but was short live.

During the week some actions were taken not far from the dwelling protest camp at the northern part of the Rotshild boulevard by the camp dwellers.

Saturday late evening

About 20 thousands participated in a huge social justice demonstration in the center of Tel-Aviv called by the local dwelling protest campers - started with few dozens 10 days ago, demanding affordable housing and social justice. [Media report "tens of thousands"]. Activist of others locations of struggle in Israel joined the demo. Part of the local anarchists - including the anarchists against the wall marched as a block with flags, placards and chants.

We marched from the Rothschild boulevard where the already 2000 tent campers dwell now on the way to the museum square - who was too small to include all of us. Most participants were chanting all the one hour march. Some speeches where carried at the square. When the tent dwellers and others who live in that direction walked back following the demonstration, hundreds of protesters blocked the intersection of Kaplan and Ibn Gvirol Streets - a major junction in central Tel Aviv. People used various materials available to barricade. They chanted among others: “Revolution! Revolution! Revolution” and “Non-violence! Non-violence!”.

After long delay police started to confront the roads blockers - detained many and arrested some of them.

Police did manage to clear the crowd from the middle of the road, enabling the intersection to open to traffic, but protesters remained close by, bursting onto the road from time to time.

The protesters then attempted to march back up Dizengoff street to the nearest police station, in solidarity with their detained comrades. Police repeatedly blocked and gradually thinned out the march, using very limited force and selective arrests, before the protesters eventually got tired and returned to camp.

Many of the protesters were very clearly new to all this and did not have any background in demonstrations. For some of the ordinary Tel Avivians, this was clearly the first time they blocked a street in their lives.

About 200 detained during the confrontations. More than 40 were arrested. Most of them were released during the night on signed bail and condition of 14 days distancing. seven comrades who refused these conditions were jailed and brought to court Sunday. Four were bailed and banned from the camp for a week, one released unconditionally, one was baned for 30 days. Another arrestee accused that he threw a smoke bomb remain in custody for additional day for interrogation. Few activists of the anarchists against the wall were among the arrestees. Just seen them in TV news report of the court procession.

Tent city protest in Tel Aviv, July 24 2011 (photo: Oren Ziv/activestills) http://972mag.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/tents1.jpg

Some of the slogans in the 20 thousands march:

demand for public housing
the market is free – are you?
Danger, construction – for the rich
Bibi, wake up – women are more valuable
The people want public housing
Welfare state now
The people are calling for social justice
The answer to privatization? Revolution!
We’re all together
We call to fire Netanyanu
The government is against the people and the people are against the government
The people demand, social justice
When the government against the people - the people are against the government
Tahrir square is here!

http://news.walla.co.il/?w=/1/1843477

Active Stiles - pictures of last Tel Aviv demonstration and other demonstrations.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/activestills/5939466890/in/photostream/lightbox/

Videos

Message of solidarity from Spain M15 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9lnrZdyZRc
Zohar Kaniel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaE_fOYfUS8
Dror Zal video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fdLbN_H_dk
Lior Ben Eliahu http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1817144039378.126832.1563442697
Eran Vered clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FABTcI0vKt8

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See Previous reports at: http://ilanisagainstwalls.blogspot.com

Palestine-Israel, The joint struggle intensify as the region ferment and September approach

2011-07-19T03:46:00.000-07:00

The joint struggle get second wind inspired by the Arab Spring both by the Palestinians and the Israelis. More and more people who were not in the anarchist scene join the anarchists against the wall initiative and other initiatives of joint struggle. More and more villages who were marginal the last few years in the struggle against the separation fence and occupation participating now frequently in the struggle. Within Israel, the Egyptian Tahrir motto crystallized in ferment in the Israeli young people who are not willing any more to pay the increasing price of the settler colonialist project. The regular locations of joint struggle within Israel: Al-Arakib, and Lod-Ramla; and Palestinian Beit Umar, Bilin, East Jerusalem, Ma'asara, Nabi Saleh, N'ilin, and South Hebron Mountain, were joined by this week by Budrus and Wallage.

Al-Arakib 12.7.11 Israeli state forces demolished the Bedouin village again - the 27th time... and the joint struggle continue.

Thursday 21st of July olive trees will be replanted and the village will be rebuilt again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZrOUbso2zY

Beit Umar

Bil'in

About dozen Israelis and few dozens of international activists joined the Bil'in villagers and other Palestinians in the weekly Friday demonstration.

At noon We started to march from the village center towards the new separation wall with flags and chants. Half the way we passed the location of the now absent gate and fence we struggled against for more than 6 years. We continued the march on the old road till we arrived at the new separation wall. After a while, some kids started to throw stones and the Israeli state forces used it as excuse to barrage us with tear gas.

Budrus

There will be a demonstration in Budrus tomorrow (Monday)

This is pretty late but on the chance that someone can go please let me know and i'll try to coordinate it.

An Israeli activist was hit by tear gas canister in the stomach.

East Jerusalem

15th July march on the border of occupied Jerusalem

Media: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4095741,00.html

Arabs, Jews to march for Palestine

Activists to march along line that divided Jerusalem in 1967; 'Rally to mark future border,' organizer says

The Sheikh Jarrah Solidarity Movement [followers of it join our activities and activists of the anarchists against the wall join their activities] is set to lead a rally across Jerusalem on Friday in support of the Palestinian bid for statehood.

Israelis and Palestinians are expected to take part in the demonstration.

The organizers of the event, titled "Marching for Independence – Solidarity with Palestine," said that with peace talks stalled, the Palestinians have no choice but apply to the United Nations for recognition. They stressed that the rally will not sanction violence.

Mario Savio http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.231399720228008.65260.100000739446057

Haim Schwarczenberg pictures http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2283226719453.2136083.1212414101

Iaroslav Youssim pictures http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1850904796250.2091305.1349656125

Len Szajko http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.186231724769898.47664.100001492164614

Israel Puterman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnEYbmRu5nU

http://qik.com/solidarity_sj

JustJerusalem http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWZaq_o7e6g

Lod-Ramla

Solidarity in Ramle 14/7/2011 Mario Savio pictures http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.230532663648047.65124.100000739446057

Ma'asara

Nabi Saleh

Ni'ilin

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.235185746503772.58108.199027676786246

Ni'lin Town Marks Three Years Of Popular Resistance 27.05.2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrOsKV6X2wE

14-07-11 The weekly demonstration against the wall http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=239443909408804

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.251105854899726.74356.136633479680298

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.162769257117351.39958.161083650619245

South of Hebron Mountain

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Israel-Palestine, The Boycott Israel and the milder boycott the colonialist settlements collect momentum.

2011-07-13T00:26:00.000-07:00

The first BDS call in Israel was initiated by Matzpen during the first year of the first intifada, in February 1988. It called for a boycott of the products of the colonialist settlements (see http://www.matzpen.org/index.asp?p=kria in Hebrew).

It played a marginal role in the political arena till the Peace Block (Gush Shalom) started to promote it. (Do not mix between the radical though sill marginally Zionist "Gush Shalom" and the firmly left Zionist "Peace Now" - Shalom Achshav.)

This was a preparation of the back ground for the more radical call of international Jewry for "Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions" initiated by the anti authoritarian anticapitalist (and anti Zionist Matzpen) and friends, 2001. (See http://matzpun.com).

It took years till the Palestinians adopted it on 2005. It slowly draw more and more supporters all over the world - including in Israel which gave birth to the movement of "boycott from within".

Last few years, the softer boycott of the products of the colonialist settlements and the hard core "Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions" collected momentum. As the official Israeli efforts to defame it as Anti-Semite was hampered by the activity of international Jewish radicals and more so by Israeli Jews ("Boycott From Within" and the milder ones who call for partial boycott) the Israeli leadership took a desperate step. They initiated and passed in the Israeli parliament a law against the activists who call for boycott.

The harsh law have the boomerang effect and intensify the struggle of boycott from within.

Following is the statement in response to the new law signed by lot of radical activists in a self incriminating call as a defiance of the new law.

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Statement

WE WILL NOT BE SILENT: STATEMENT IN REGARD TO ISRAELI ANTI-BOYCOTT LAW

"We’re going to arrest you, but it’s difficult with you because all you do is talk.”

- Israeli soldier to Palestinian organizer Mohammad Othman, 2009 [1]

We, Israeli citizens, members of Boycott![2], hereby reiterate our support and promotion of the Palestinian Call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel, until it complies with international law and universal principles of human rights[3]. We declare this in spite of the new legislation by the Israeli Knesset, which aims to penalize our and our partners' activities, curbing freedom of speech and political organizing and most importantly – banning Israeli citizens from acting according to their conscience when it conflicts with the deplorable policies of the state.

The anti-BDS law is not the first attempt at silencing the BDS campaign. Throughout the years, Israel has detained Palestinian leaders, activists, speakers and organizers under administrative detention and without charges, or at times under various draconian charges such as 'incitement' and the organizing of 'illegal demonstrations'. On September 22nd 2009, Mohammad Othman, 34, was detained at the Allenby Crossing upon his return to the occupied West Bank following a meeting with Norwegian finance minister Halvorsen. Earlier that month, minister Halvorsen had announced Norway’s divestment from the Israeli company Elbit due to “ethical concerns”[4]. Othman was arrested and held without charges or trial, under an unlawful administrative detention order and had spent much of the 113 days in detention under solitary confinement. Imprisonment of political activists is an almost routine practice against Palestinian human rights defenders.

Like such repressive practices, the newly approved Israeli law, which specifies fines and the payment of 'compensation' by Israeli citizens or residents, who initiate or encourage a boycott of Israel – is also bound to fail. We hereby support and promote the recent Palestinian call for an immediate and comprehensive military embargo on Israel[5] due to its consistent resort to violence and deadly attacks on Palestinians and Arab civilians; we stand with Jewish Voice for Peace in their campaign to bring TIAA-CREF to divest from the Israeli occupation[6]; and, we support and encourage all other BDS-related divestment campaigns, such as the campaign to Derail Israel’s Unlawful A1 Train Project[7].

Lastly, we urge artists scheduled to perform in Israel to send a clear message that the Israeli occupation, the institutionalized discrimination of Israel's own Palestinian citizens and Israel's denial of the right of return and compensation of the Palestinian refugees - are neither okay nor normal, as Maxi Jazz from Faithless once put it[8]. Roxette, Ziggy Marley, Dream Theater, George Benson, Nino Katamadze, Paul Simon and John Cale – we may risk persecution for saying this – heed the Palestinian call for BDS and cancel your shows in Israel!

[77 signatures of the finest activists of the Anarchists Against the Wall and other Israeli radical activists]

On behalf of

Boycott! Supporting the Palestinian BDS Call from Within

http://boycottisrael.info

[1] http://www.bdsmovement.net/2009/it-will-take-more-than-a-wall-to-silence-us-577

[2] Our full name is: "Boycott! Supporting the Palestinian BDS Call from Within". Aka: "Boycott from Within".

[3] http://www.bdsmovement.net/call

[4] http://electronicintifada.net/content/israel-targeting-boycott-movement/8524

[5] http://www.bdsmovement.net/2011/military-embargo-call-7497

[6] http://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/blog/jvp-demand-tiaa-cref-divest-israeli-occupation-0

[7] http://www.bdsmovement.net/2010/derail-a1-statement-4494

[8] http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1337

Palestine-Israel, The joint struggle in the focus of world media in a stormy week

2011-07-12T04:13:00.000-07:00

Another stormy week of the joint struggle was in the focus of the world media as the sailing flotilla was continuously sabotaged by Israel and other bribed states. The Flying Flotilla joined the sailing one this week. The usual locations of struggle within Israel: of Arakib, Jerusalem , Lod-Ramla, Ben Gurion airfield, Tel-Aviv, and occupied Palestine:
Beit Ummar, Bil'in, East Jerusalem (Sheik-Jarrah, Silwan), Ma'asara, Ni'ilin, Nabi Saleh, South of Hebron hills, and the sporadic location of Karyut, Qadum, Tawna, and Walage. The storm in the public arena around the sea flotilla, the Flying Flotilla, and the new law banning calls to boycott the settler colonial industries and Israel as a whole (B.D.S.) show how a small number of activists can rock the settler colonialist project called Israel.

Arakib

Beit Ummar Saturday July 9

Bil'in

Friday
"Complementing its resistance against the occupation , Bil'in began the work of reconstruction in the liberated territory after the removal of the wall.
Confirming the continuation of resistance and popular struggle, the Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements in Bil'in organized the march toward the liberated territory. They participated along with the people of Bil'in, dozens of international activists, and two dozens of Israelis of the AAtW.

The march began in front of the village mosque after Friday prayers ended. It proceeded in the direction of the liberated territory, where participants raised Palestinian flags and yellow flags of Fatah. Participants chanted slogans and chants of patriotism.

Upon their arrival the participants began work cleaning and removing thorns and stones from the ground in preparation to start the reconstruction phase. This includes the repair of the territory as well as preservation from attacks by settlers.

It is noteworthy that the settlers from the settlement Mitatyaho Mzrah, which is built illegally on Bil’in’s land and adjacent to the recently liberated land, marched this morning asking that the citizens of Bil’in not be allowed to access their reclaimed land. However, the occupying army used their strength to disperse the settlers.

Rani Abdel Fatah pictures http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2252451753930.278396.1327358013
Saturday

This action will take place whether or not the large number of internationals manage to get in on Friday. Please let me know if you can come.

Invitation

Action in July 9th

"Ramallah’s groups from “Welcome to Palestine” and Bil’in Popular Committee Against the Wall, the Settlements and the Occupation invite you to take part in an action which will celebrate the 7th anniversary of International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) advice which had considered that the Israeli Wall of Apartheid is against international law because it violates Palestinian rights. ICJ also had established Israel’s obligation to stop building and to remove the wall, as well as to make reparations to the people affected by construction of the wall.

Where: Bil’in
When: Saturday, 9th July, at 11 a.m.
The action will start in Bil’lin and finish in Qalandiya.
How to come:
1. If you come from Ramallah, take the bus to Bil’in in front of Qasser Al Hamra at 10 a.m.
2. If you come from Birzeit, take the bus to Bil’in from the university at 9:30 a.m.

Internationl activists - including some of the Flying Flotilla Israelis with the anarchists against the wall initiative and the village activists converged and took the first step to Nebi Saleh.... but were not able to continue to Qalandiya.

Jerusalem-Al-Kuds

Silwan

Sheikh Jarrah

Mario Savio http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.227598270608153.64594.100000739446057
Amir Bitan http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.250444748303881.81330.100000150737581
Invitation video for the 15-7-11 march for Palestine in Jerusalem http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHBmp0q7JBg

Ma'asara

Nabi Saleh

"In solidarity with the flotillas and in order to break the blockade over of their Stolen lands the People of Nabi Saleh are calling for a mass demonstration in their village this Friday! If you can join please Contact A".

Friday
Anarchists Against the Wall report: 6 Palestinian activists are detained in Atara checkpoint on way to Nabi Salah. They are held in the sun with no water since morning. One of them suffers from asthma attack, and gets no treatment. They're calling for the assistance of human rights organizations. 1 Palestinian girl got arrested and taken to prison.

Look on line for photo and report from Tamimi Press on today's action in Nabi Saleh, which also was in solidarity with the flotilla to Gaza. Photo of the "boat" built for the demo caught in a plum of teargas fired by Israeli Occupation Forces. I have included a google translation into English below of the report.

"An Israeli activist with the Anarchists Against the Wall, told me by telephone from Nabi Saleh that he has not seen a single ‘air flotilla’ passenger in the course of the day. He told me that four people were indeed arrested, but they were all Israeli Jews from Tel Aviv."
David Reeb http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFYVmPsKhqA

Saturday,
The people converged in Bil'in to mark the 7 years anniversary of the International Court of Justice verdict against the separation fence came to demonstrate in Nabi Saleh.
First time after a year's efforts the demonstration succeeded to approach the robbed spring. Three Israelis arrested, one Palestinian injured.

Nariman Tamimi and Bilal Tamimi, well known betselem documenters from the Village of Nabi Saleh were just detained by IOF documenting today's march to the village's occupied water spring

The three Israelis arrested in Nabi Saleh today (10-7-11) will be taken to court in Jerusalem tomorrow morning. if you can come and support them please do at around 9 am.
Also if you can be there later on to drive them back to tel aviv that will be good too.

They spend the night in jail and at the next day were banned from returning to the region for a whole month.

Pictures
Iyas Abu Rahmah http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1994972708979.2103555.1083295028
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.125246114229417.33352.112098928877469
Chen Misgav http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150303121131803.380752.770301802
Haitham Khatib http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrM7DJk_dJo
Israel Puterman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aww8Pd1pUEs

Karyut

Qadum

last week there was a demo in Kufer Qadum for the first time in several years. This week there will be another one. if you can make it please let me know.

Lod-Ramala

The radical circus came to Ramla in solidarity with the evicted families
Time: ‎8:00PM Thursday, July 7th

Ben Gurion international air field of Israel

"The Marhaba to Palestine campaign is aimed at protesting the ongoing travel restrictions imposed by Israel on those entering end exiting the Palestinian Authority areas, and the ongoing denial of Palestinian human rights. Usually, an international activist who wishes to visit Palestine has to conceal her/his political intentions when landing at Ben Gurion Airport, and disguise herself/himself as a tourist with a detailed tour plan. On July 8th plane-loads of international activists, 550 men and women, will land at Ben Gurion and declare openly "we are here to visit Palestine". We will wait for them at the airport starting at 13:00, all through the afternoon, until the arrival of all activists, with "welcome" signs, supporting them and expressing our solidarity. A bus to the airport will depart from the El-Al terminal, Arlozorov station (Tel Aviv) at 13:00. You are encouraged to arrive with your own car, all through the afternoon. To coordinate your arrival by car, call R."

"You will also be able to join the reception/demo after participating the Friday's demos. Please coordinate this in advance when you register for these demos.
Note: This event will not be a demonstration, only a welcoming activity.

The 8th of July is approaching and we need volunteers to arrange the "Marhaba gathering" campaign. please contact me via this email.
Your help is very much needed! Tomorrow! welcoming the Palestine tourists at the airport ! Join us!
R."

Friday, During the welcome action, some AAtW activists who succeeded to infiltrate through the special security road blocks were detained with local and international media reporting it.

Israeli by-standers jeered, and even assault Israeli activists while police just look on.

Flytilla blocked - RT talks to only Gaza activist who 'slipped through net' [so they thought] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0D0yyoTqs8

RT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmLFunKgz2M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrP9LiqPNjY
http://www.upi.com/News_Photos/News/Israeli-efforts-to-arrest-pro-Palestinian-activists/5386/?spt=rcc
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/09/world/middleeast/09mideast.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/09/world/middleeast/09mideast.html?_r=1
http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2011/07/07/the-ben-gurion-airport-protest-picking-the-wrong-line/
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/07/201178123322534460.html
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/middleeast/la-fg-israel-airport-protest-20110709,0,6383210.story
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/propalestinian-flytilla-stopped-at-airports-by-israeli-security-2309521.html
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/25-pro-palestinian-activists-from-germany-stopped-upon-arrival-in-israel-1.372233

South of Hebron hills 8-7-2011 http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.248343818509263.73839.136633479680298

Tawna Struggle against robbery of lands by colonialist settlers. Demonstration dispersed with lot of tear gas

Tel Aviv

"According to recent updates including the publication of list of
passengers in the media, we are obligated to update you on the current
situation: all those who have not already been blocked in Europe would
be deported the moment they arrive and sent back on the plane they
arrived in. It seems as if any activist arriving at the airport is
likely to be arrested, even before entering the terminal hall - and we
inform you of that. Therefore, we will protest in Tel-Aviv this evening:
Between Hashalom and the Ministry of Immigration
We will meet at the cross road between Azrieli Center ("Hashalom") and
the Ministry of Interior
Dozens to be deported from TLV airport, 5 Israeli activists arrested
‎972mag.com
Some 150 ‘Welcome to Palestine’ activists reportedly arrested to be expelled soon. Some were barred from entering Israel and sent immediately back. Few hundreds others banned from boarding flights and most demonstrated at the air ports.

Tonight at 17:00
Please come with the "Welcome to Palestine" signs and the flowers we
intended to bring when welcoming those at the airport, along with
other signs as you see fit.

About 20 of us demonstrated for an hour in front of the various ministries offices center - including the home office which is responsible for blocking entrance to Israel.

Art&Activism Festival

“WE NEVER FINISHED 1948” THE CONTINUING CAMPAIGN OF INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT IN ISRAEL/PALESTINE
A new project by the photographers collective Activestills
"For us, the ongoing Occupation is not merely an event arising out of the 1967 war, but a continuation of 1948, conceptually and militarily. That “we have not finished 1948,” a slogan commonly heard in Israel and attributed to Moshe Dayan, refers to the fact that half the population of the Land of Israel is now Palestinian. "
Opening on Monday 11.07.11 at 18:30, as part of the "Art&Activism Festival"
Tel Aviv Cinematheque - Sprinzak Street no 2, Tel Aviv
The event on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=102038019891355
The event on the Cinemateque's website:
http://www.cinema.co.il/movies/movie.asp?movieId=7191
The project was done with the collaboration of the Israeli committee against house demolitions
www.activestills.org
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See Previous reports at: http://ilanisagainstwalls.blogspot.com

Palestine-Israel, The joint struggle bring substantial gains and more than that a moral bust

2011-07-05T04:10:00.000-07:00

This week, we have experienced the strange effect of a dream come true. A struggle of six years and 4 months forced the Israeli state to give back nearly half of the land robbed from the village Bil'in for the building of the settler town Modi'in Ilit. The removal of the old separation fence during the week draw lot of international and Israeli media. It stressed the contribution of the joint struggle of Palestinians and Israelis in Bil'in to this victory, to the promotion of similar struggles in the occupied west bank and to turning Bil'in into a world wide symbol. The celebrations, the dancing and the cheers could not mask the memory of the two comrades murdered in the Friday demonstrations, the hundreds injured (both Bil'inners, internationals and Israelis of the anarchists against the wall initiative) including few barely saved, the many who lost their freedom (up to a year and a half in concentration camp for Palestinians).

Beit Ummar

July 2, 2011, Saturday

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.127139397372461.33698.100002292054448

Ben Gurion air port 8.7.11

Marhaba to Palestine campaign is aimed at protesting the ongoing travel restrictions imposed by Israel on those entering end exiting the Palestinian Authority areas, and the ongoing denial of Palestinian human rights. Usually, an international activist who wishes to visit Palestine has to conceal her/his political intentions when landing at Ben Gurion Airport, and disguise herself/himself as a tourist with a detailed tour plan. On July 8th plane loads of international activists, 550 men and women, will land at Ben Gurion and declare openly "we are here to visit Palestine". We will wait for them at the airport starting at 13:00, until the arrival of all activists, with "welcome" signs, supporting them and expressing our solidarity. A bus to the airport will depart from the El-Al terminal, Arlozorov station (Tel Aviv) at 13:00. You are encouraged to arrive with your own car, all through the afternoon. To coordinate your arrival by car, call Re,: 054-xxxxxxxx. You will also be able to join the reception/demo after participating the Friday's demos. Please coordinate this in advance when you register for these demos. For farther details - Ro. - 052-xxxxxxxxx Le. - 050-xxxxxxxxx

Bil'in

The joy of the demolition of the wall in Bil'in,29.06.2011 By Haitham Al Khatib

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ossz4EdtRU

Friday 1.7.11

"For the first time in over six years, this Friday, the people of Bil'in did not protest against the Apartheid Wall and the illegal settlements. For the first time, we did not got shot at, tear-gassed, injured, arrested, or killed as we marched towards the gate of Wall. Today, the people of Bil'in, the wives, the sisters, the mothers and the daughters of former or current prisoners, friends and family of our martyrs, our sons, fathers, brothers and those formerly imprisoned, all the villagers from Bil'in and the neighboring villages, international and Israeli activists, people from all over Palestine that have stood with us year after year walked past the place were Basem Abu Rahme was shot and murdered on 17.4.2009 and reclaimed parts of our olive groves that the Israeli occupation had tried to illegally annex.

Today, we prayed on the route of the Wall from which we have been shot at at least one day each week. We sat in the shades of those trees of ours that the Zionists had not cut or burned down. Today, we constructed the first building on these lands of ours. Today, we danced, we sang, we stomped on the remainders of the Apartheid Wall, we hugged, we spoke, we cried.

Today, as we celebrated, the presence of so many of us who could not be here was with us. Abdallah Abu Rahme, who only recently got out of jail after 16 months [and now in an educational tour abroad] was not here to dance with Adeeb and the rest of us, Hamde Abu Rahme, who is currently in Germany, the sons of our village that are still in prison and all those activists who fight with us and those who were denied entry because of their solidarity – you were all with us. Above all, the presence we felt strongest was the one of Bassem and Jawaher Abu Rahme. Today, our sister, our brother, your mother cried and we cried with her, we know what our struggle costs. Your strength is with us, Bassem and Jawaher, you guide us, as your brother Ahmad said: YOU ARE HERE! With you we continue.

Today, as we accessed the first part our lands that were seized, the absurdity of the Zionist occupation which they enforce with so many weapons, with so much money, with so much violence, became all the more apparent.

Today we only began to regain access to the lands of Palestine, today, we know for sure, we are liberating the rest, too. Our struggle continues, our victory continues, today, we feel with certainty: PALESTINE WILL BE FREE!"

An Israeli participant wrote:

"There is not one heart which remains apathetic to the victory celebrations at Bil'in on Friday. For the past several years I have been going to Bilin to protest and support the courageous residents of the village that day in and day out contend with the confiscation of lands, military violence, arrest of children and persecution and political oppression and victims whose loss is unbearable. In all those years I was certain that the fence would fall and the village will be victorious in this struggle, I arrive each time with a big sack of optimism on my back. But yesterday when I stood stunned and excited to tears in front of the great and beautiful nothing where the cursed fence and its cruel guards used to stand I suddenly felt that perhaps I never truly believed.

Bilin is the great symbol of the struggle against the fence. A symbol of determination, of commitment to popular struggle, just and nonviolent, of an unwillingness to give in to the occupation and accept its judgment. A symbol of cooperation with internationals and Israelis committed to the struggle. A struggle that many others villages take part in every week.

The struggle is not over, it is at its peak, beyond the fence that was and is no longer there stands a intimidating wall and behind it the settlers of Modi'in-Ilit who suspiciously eye the celebrating neighbors. Large tracts of lands have yet to be return as is the case with many other villages' and the oppressive Israeli system has yet to remove its hoof from the throats of the Palestinian people and from our throats. We should not forget it for a moment nor should we rest on our laurels.

Hours after we'll leave the village the Greek government will stop with military force the ships of the flotilla upon which determined activists who have arrived to break the blockade on Gaza and protest the criminal imprisonment of 1.5 million residents. This day in Bilin I will remember for a long time, the youth sang, danced and hugged, while the older folks looked much younger than their age, the children played with hula hoops and other circus items and smiled as they frolicked amongst the trees. Triumph, a moment so long waited for and a price so dearly paid for.

I look at the picture of Abdallah Abu Rahma who was imprisoned and expelled from his family for a long time and remember Basam & G'wahar Abu Rahma whose graves we passed in the beginning of the procession, and anger and frustration sneak into the celebration. I think of the approaching month of September and the potential for uprising and revolution latent within it, and set sail on the waves of the old dream of a multinational living space, egalitarian for everyone, I look upon the faces of the celebrating Palestinians and upon the radiant faces of my beloved friends, anarchists who see way beyond the fences and know that it will be worth the price."

The new outpost

The first building on the freed land near the new separation wall - rumors say there will be built the young couples neighborhood of Bilin named after me [I.S.]

http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/267607_2087459739065_1022320161_2448889_928900_n.jpg

1.7.11:Bil'in celebrates beginning of physical liberation of Palestine.

Pictures

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2085115680465.119255.1022320161

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1978901787216.2102636.1083295028

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.224344870933493.63894.100000739446057

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2236140746165.277507.1327358013

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1778438831772.124794.1563442697

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.185006384890606.49402.159938690730709

Video

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=2247291501095

Haithm Katib http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFoQ3TJR-EU

Media:

The Palestinians brought construction materials to the land west of the dismantled fence and embarked on symbolic construction at the site. They said they plan to build several buildings in the area, in the framework of efforts to expand their village.

"We know we have no construction permits, but this is our land and any demolition will have to face a legal battle," Khatib said.

'We're not seeking violence'

Passersby who took part in the construction said that while soldiers were standing nearby, this was the first time in a while where no clashes were reported between Palestinians and IDF troops.

"People were overjoyed and dancing. Some of them attempted to move towards the soldiers, but we prevented them from doing so because we didn't want a clash," Khatib said. "We're not seeking violence; we merely wish to reach our land."

Despite the optimism, members of the Bilin Popular Committee insist that future protests at the site are possible.

"We're not seeking a clash, yet if the army arrives and tries to raze our buildings, the situation may revert to what it was before and the clashes and protests will resume," Khatib said.

In the framework of the celebrations, village residents are planning to hold the wedding celebration of a local couple next Friday on land that up until recently was beyond the security fence.

Jerusalem-Al-Kuds

Sheik Jarrah, Silwan, Ras Al-Amud

The joint struggle against gradual transfer of Palestinians from occupied east of Jerusalem-Al-Kuds

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.224365997598047.63902.100000739446057

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150229795787868.359454.315087342867

By: Amir Bitan http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.246785275336495.80417.100000150737581

Jordan Valley

Tree planting action last Saturday in Fasayel, destroyed Bedouin community in the: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RL3gED9UGQ

Qaddom

Kufur Qaddom Village 1-7-2011 by Ahmad Al-Bazz Richard http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.159824567421328.36375.139967212740397

Dir Quadis

Struggle against the works for the expansion of the near by colonial settlement Ni'il on the lands of the village.

Wednesday Soldiers invaded Deir Qaddis following demo. Now shooting tear-gas at people. One protester hit directly in his back

Lod-Ramla

Struggle against evictions and demolition of Palestinian citizens.

Al-Ma'asara

1-7-2011 http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.159833170753801.36376.139967212740397

An Nabi Salih 1/7/11

The joint struggle against the robbery of the village spring by the near by colonialist settlement helped by the Israeli state forces.

Look what is this kid's toys...used Tear gas canisters... Chen Misgav pictures:

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150296243696803.378243.770301802

David Reeb Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RArmI6mYvq8

tamimi1966 Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKFnWEKUUxY

Ni'ilin

Friday 1-7-11 Demonstrates in solidarity with The Freedom Flotilla II

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X85-WySdu3Y

Nablus area.

1. At 13:00 there will be a demo in Shuqba.

2. There’s a new peaceful demonstration in the village of Kufor Qaddoum (30min northeast of Nablus). Since the last demonstration was 6 years ago, it is important to have our presence there!

3. After that at about 16:00, the village of Burin is hosting a kite festival for children. The villagers invited ISMers to watch and participate!

Susia

The struggle against settler colonialist Doitch vineyard planted on the land of Sushia family

South of Hebron mountains

Tel Aviv

Anarchists Against the Wall initiative invited people to attend a demo in front of the Greece embassy in protest of their joining hand with Israel to prevent the sailing of the flotilla to Gaza.

Solidarity with the flotilla, Greece embassy, Tel aviv, 2/7/2011.

Israeli left wing activists argued with policemen and right wing counter protest during a demonstrate in Tel Aviv in front of the Greek embassy, July 2nd, 2011, protesting the Greek authorities seizure of the American boat to Gaza.

Item in Hebrew + video clip:

http://www.mako.co.il/news-military/security/Article-d8dc4af6cdbe031004.htm&sCh=31750a2610f26110&pId=55227376

Social TV http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=2152326896965

Krasnoetv http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGTB367UmPM 6:40 Me at 0:44 to 0:50 and 1:32

Photos

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1781392305607.124980.1563442697

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Palestine-Israel, The joint struggle brings more than hope and pride - Bil'in fence is moving and the Ni'ilin one will be moved too.

2011-06-28T08:02:00.000-07:00

During the years, the joint struggle against the separation fence and occupation brought some successes forcing the Israeli state to retreat a bit from initial steps of using the separation fence for annexation of Palestinian lands for colonialist settlements. However, the persistent struggles in Bil'in and in the near-by Ni'ilin were in the focus of the media [and in intensive participation of me the last six years.] Thus, with huge satisfaction we have seen the beginning of the moving of the separation fence in Bil'in and the media report on it and the coming moving of the fence in Ni'ilin. The relentless joint struggle continue in the heroic Nabi Saleh, in the persistent Ma'asara, in Beit Omar, in the Southern Hebron Mountain region, in East Jerusalem, and within Israel.

Beit Ummar Saturday 25.6.11

The weekly peaceful demonstration in Beit-Ummar set off on Saturday noon out of the village and next to the agriculture zone nearby the settlement Carmei-Tzur. In the demo took part approx 60 participants, Palestinians, internationals and 8 Israelis. The big number of IOF soldiers and border police waited to the protesters on the narrow road which goes up to the settlement (down the area where they usually Waite), but the protesters were smarter and branch out into two groups - one went directly inside the plum's grove and the other continue climb up on the road and stopped in front of the soldiers. As usually the soldiers used violence in order to stop the protesters, that tried again and again to enter the agriculture's areas around on the side of the road. After about 30 minutes the soldiers started to use sounds bombs, arrested 2 international activists and one Palestinian young guy, they also took the ID cards from 3 Israelis activists. After one hour the protesters left the area and the protest came to the end.

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150287134556803.376251.770301802

Bil'in

Israeli army begins to remove the apartheid wall in Bil'in 22/6/2011

Israeli occupation forces began on Tuesday to dismantle the separation fence in the village of Bil'in west of Ramallah, (note that this fence is composed of three barriers) presumably To complete the dismantling and demolition of the wall in full until mid-July next month.

Photos by Iyas Abu Rahmah

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1913419750206.2101587.1083295028

Emad Bornat video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aA-xaI7oAk

http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/251384_2030072304415_1022320161_2416773_3521485_n.jpg

Friday June 24, 2011

"Over 50 Israelis and more internationals than I managed to count joined Palestinians protesters to finally remove the fence that separates Bil'in from its agricultural lands. Drummers, politicians (one Fayyad guy [head of Palestinian Authority] and one Barake [Israeli Palestinian Member of Parliament] dude), a sound system, flags of the DPFL, PFLP, Fatah and Mubadara, people in anti-skunk storm suits and some 300 protesters escorted a bulldozer that was on its way to remove the fence that the Israeli army was supposed to remove four years ago (according to the Israeli court) or seven years ago (according to the International Court of Justice), but only actually started removing this June 21. When the bulldozer reached the main gate and started removing it with its shovel, the soldiers panicked and started shooting barrages of gas directly at demonstrators and live bullets into the bulldozer. The massive amounts of gas pushed the protesters back injuring quite a few, but could not suffocate their celebrations of the pending removal of the (first line of the) fence."

Ziv Oren (Activestils.org)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/activestills/5866156137/in/photostream

Mario Savio Album

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.222255491142431.63257.100000739446057

Haitham Al Khatib video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N5TZt7tVzk

AlmadaMedia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGIMSo8XoC8

PressTVGlobalNews http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VAFXK4iK-A

Bilin Sunday 26.06.2011 By Haithm Katib: finally ... Demolishing the apartheid wall After the struggle of a six and a half years http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v1dqwfJroU

Dir Quadis

There were additional demonstrations daily in Dir Qadis where the near by settler colonialist village Nili is expanded on robbed lands of the village.

Jerusalem - Al Kuds

The joint struggle continue against the expansion of transfer of Palestinian families in occupied east Jerusalem and replacing them by Israeli settler colonialist rightists

Silwan 23/6/11 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mARMcBpBCAs

Sheikh Jarrah Friday 24/6/2011 Demonstration at 16:00 Celebration at 19:30

Mario Savio http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.222095941158386.63192.100000739446057

Lior Ben Eliahu http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1741247822020.124048.1563442697

Action at the Book Fair as part of the international day against torture: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf97CyxEKtI&feature=player_detailpage

‎Al-Ma'asara 24-6-11

Photos by Jawad Zawahra (Album)

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2097615408834.126185.1498833494

Ramla-Lod

Nabi Saleh

As you all know, this Friday we are planning a colorful demonstration in Nabi

Saleh. please remember to come as early as you can (around 8-9 am) and also to

bring materials that can be useful: colors, masks, kites, and any raw materials

that can be useful.

This week in Nabi Saleh, we and the March 15 activists, will dress in colors, we will have Balloons, face mask, face paints and we will fly freedom kites..

Be there with us in the Nabi Saleh and let’s make it a fun day for the kids.. Let’s make our freedom colorful. Bring Your colorful smile and join us in our struggle for freedom!!

P.S. There will be a workshop with the kids in Nabi Saleh to make the kites"

Friday June 24, 2011

AAtW (Anarchists Against the Wall): "This Friday Palestinian youth from the March 15 movement gathered early in the morning in the village of Nabi Saleh to prepare colorful kites, balloons, make-ups, wigs and masks as part of a fun day for the local kids, dubbed “freedom in colors”. Israeli army and police forces attacked the peaceful clown-looking children and youths with tear gas and stun grenades."

Roughly 80 demonstrators, including about a dozen of Nabi Saleh children as well as international and Israeli supporters, held a colorful march through the village of Nabi Saleh, protesting the Israeli occupation and the settlers takeover of the village farmlands and spring. Just as soon as Israeli forces had the march on sight and only a minute into its start, demonstrators were attacked with tear gas canisters. An 11 year old girl was shot in the back with a tear gas canister shot through directly aiming at protesters.

After about 20 minutes of rounds of tear gas some demonstrators managed to get close by to the Israeli forces and join Nabi Saleh children, who were coming from a different direction to stand in front of the armed soldiers. An Israeli cameraman was detained during that time. Some children waived Palestinian flags which were twice violently grabbed from them and confiscated by one of the soldiers. The soldiers threw stun and tear gas hand grenades to disperse the singing children.

Soldiers stationed above one of the village's hills shot a tear gas canister which almost hit a 4 year old kid playing next to his home. Adults rushed to calm and treat him for tear gas inhalation. Later on they carried him to its shooters for a closer look.

After a while, the Israeli soldiers started going up the village's main street. They stopped next to one of the houses and broke into its yard, pushing its resident. The soldiers than left the house and went up towards the village's center. In the meantime, demonstrators went the other way, towards the hill that overlooks the village's spring. While sitting below a tree, demonstrators were attacked from behind by Israeli soldiers with tear gas hand grenades. A few people required medical attention for tear gas inhalation.

Even after the sun began to set, Israeli forces were still amidst the village, shooting at whomever was on sight and randomly at the village's populated area. During these long sunny hours soldiers threw stun grenades at houses' entrances and roofs, used tear gas canisters as large bullets shot directly at people, and close to the day's end, also shot live ammunition above the heads of youths.

See also: http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=399506

Pictures

By Amir Bitan (Albums) http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.244326365582386.79573.100000150737581

Freedom in Colors http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150217731524387.331998.503804386

Tamimi press http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.205563022821519.57259.113817528662736

Videos

Six years old girl report in English http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmRs-xRzaic

Tamimi press http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5fYjs65CB8

David Reeb http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCjibZ-7b-o

Nabi Saleh Clownistan! by jeaunkes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KieHEoWewtY

PalestineYouthVoice http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1TREPpp5Ig

Ni'lin

Friday 24.06.2011

A weekly Ni’ilin demonstration was met with the intense tear gas attack, leaving dozens suffering from the consequence of inhaling the gas. Demonstration, organized by the Ni’ilin Popular Committee and joined by Israeli and international peace activists was held in solidarity with the political prisoners from the village held in Israeli prisons. The prisoners from the village, detained 17 months ago and sentenced on false charges, were moved from Ofer to Negev military prison.

Once the demonstration reached a gate in the apartheid wall, protesters started to knock on the door and demand that they are allowed to access their stolen land, which they have not seen for last three years. The soldiers reacted by attacking the peaceful demonstration with tear gas grenades, rubber coated steel bullets and sound grenades. One of the protesters was shot and dozens suffered from suffocation after inhaling tear gas.

Ibrahim Amireh, the coordinator of the Ni’ilin Popular Committee against the apartheid wall, said that the harsh treatment of the prisoners from the village was meant to destroy people’s spirit and hope. – But we will not stop defending our land and our dignity. We will continue to hold peaceful demonstrations, maintaining strong will and determination until we tear down the apartheid wall, put an end to the racist occupation of our land and we are able to live in a secure, just and peaceful society. – added Ibrahim Amireh.

Background:

Since the construction of the apartheid wall began on Ni’ilin land, the Israeli occupation forces have had conducted numerous raids into the village, arresting people in the middle of the night.

Between August 6th 2008 and December 1st, 2008 more than 157 people were arrested in Ni’ilin. Age: between 9 and 55 years-old. Israeli occupation forces raided villagers’ houses in the middle of the night, arresting people in an extremely brutal manner. During one of the raids, a mentally-ill person, whose brother was being arrested, was shot in the left eye with a rubber coated steal bullet. The man lost his eye.

Between May 1st, 2009 and August 27th, 2009 – 123 people were arrested.

Between January 1st, 2010 and July 26th, 2010 – 45 people were arrested. During this campaign, Israeli occupation forces detained three leaders of the local popular committee: Ibrahim Amireh, Zaydoon Srour and Hassan Mousa. They were sentenced to one year in prison and a bail of 9000 NIS in exchange for additional 9 months of imprisonment. There are still five villagers held in Israeli military prisons. Ni’ilin prisoners were sentenced to 4 to 28 months in prison and high bails.

Video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4DbE-QkzCY

Road map to apartheid video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hapTDNZpWMg

Tel Aviv

Tuesday 21.6.11 About 50 activists vigilled the offices of national housing company in Tel Aviv, to support a family that was evicted from its house in Jaffa the previous week as the company is "privatizing more and more houses.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV3vz4CUPvY

This week, The Israeli Anarchists Against the Wall initiative issued an urgent call for support:

http://972mag.com/the-most-important-jewish-anti-occupation-group-needs-your-support/

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Palestine-Israel, The joint struggle of Israeli anarchists and other radicals with the grass root Palestinian activists.

2011-06-21T05:18:00.000-07:00

It seems a routine that will continue for years to come, but the approaching September is in the mind of all involved. The naZionist settler colonialist project is continuing as if nothing changed but it is not so. The struggle continue every week end and in the week days too. In addition to Bil'in, Ni'ilin, Nabi Saleh, Ma'asara, Beit Ummar, Southern Hebron hills, the Jordan valley, East Jerusalem (Silwan, Sheikh Jarrah) and within 1948 borders: Arakib, Lod-Ramla, Jaffa, a new struggle front opened in Dir Quadis (located between Bil'in and Ni'ilin). An expansion of the Nili colonialist settlement ignited the persistent struggle of Dir Quadis people.

Bilin

Jenin in Bil'in... the delegation from Jenin freedom theater colored this Friday demo.

"For a few minutes it seemed like even the soldiers could not fathom the colorful demonstration that took place in Bil'in this Friday. Following yet another tear gas and "skunk" water, a small group of drummers [mainly Israeli activists from Jerusalem] and actors [from Jnenin Freedom Theater] neared the fence, and broke into a dance. Then, at a sudden, four of the actors lay flat on the ground. It took another minute before one of them stood up, and made a dramatic speech to the crowd around him and the soldiers across the fence, asking why Palestinians and Jew must fight. After lying down again, two more women got up and spoke of life in the refugee camps, and after them – the fourth man stood and acted like a soldier beating the others.

All this time the soldiers stopped firing, amazed and the unusual spectacle, but when all four stood up, received their applause and shouted "Free, free Palestine " – the soldiers got themselves together, and soon the demonstration once again found itself in a cloud of tear gas.

The actors were representatives of the Jenin refugee camp's Freedom Theater. Since theater founder, director and teacher Juliano Mer was assassinated, the actors relocated to Ramalla, and are about to start touring with their new interpretation of Wait for Godo. Joined by Israeli drummers and jugglers in the late morning hours, the actors met with the local activists of Bil'in, and after the noon prayer about two hundred demonstrators [including about 50 Israelis with the Anarchists Against the Wall initiative, and many internationals] started marching towards the wall. The marry procession reached the gate in the illegal fence, and called upon the soldiers not to shoot at the non-violent protest.

Unsurprisingly, soldiers responded with their "skunk" water canon and great amounts of tear gas. Demonstrators retreated, regrouped, and came back for more time after time for about two hours, during which the above mentioned play to place. Later, some youth from the village threw stoned at the soldiers, and some tried to but were stopped by two women who stood between them and the fence, sending small soap bubbles into the air around them.

Throughout the demonstration gas canisters set fires in the olive groves, which activists harried to put out. Near the end of the demonstration, fired were lit in two locations close to the fence, and soldiers refused to stop shooting tear gas at people who tried to fight the fires. Eventually both were put out, but two ancient trees were destroyed, and others badly harmed."

Three injured, fields and trees burnt, and Freedom Theater performers fired on in Bil'in In today's demonstration in Bil'in against the Jewish-only colonies ...

Videos:

Haithm Katib video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4UhM-FTtJQ

David Reeb video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDdtr_HQzFQ

Dima Dany Zarkh http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QByk0zk25M

Krasnoe tv http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkR6vRVLqo0

Pictures:

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150272034396803.373708.770301802

Lior Ben Eliahu http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1728199055809.123151.1563442697

Deir Qaddis

Press release Wednesday, 15 June 2011

"Two Protesters Injured by Live Ammo in Deir Qaddis

Organized by the Ni’lin, Budrus [neighboring villages to the west of it] and Deir Qaddis Popular Committees against the Apartheid- Annexation Wall and Israeli colonies, residents from all three villages accompanied by Israeli and international supporters, marched to their lands today in order to stop the expansion of the colony of Nili.

Demonstrators disrupted construction of a new neighborhood in the adjacent settlement of Nili. Israeli soldiers responded with baton charges, tear-gas, rubber-coated bullets and live ammunition. One organizer was arrested and many olive trees were burned.

As the protesters advanced towards the bulldozers, Israeli occupation soldiers and Border Police officers first fired live rounds into the air and then very quickly regressed to shooting tear-gas and rubber-coated bullets directly at the protesters. Despite the attack, demonstrators managed to reach the bulldozers and halted construction for half an hour during which they were beaten and Muhammed Amireh arrested.

As the protesters retreated, soldiers pursued them to the edge of the village, where clashes ensued and where the two were shot – additionally, six more were struck by rubber coated steel bullets, also, many olive trees were burned as a result of tear gas grenades being shot into the fields at the demonstrators.

Two Palestinian youths in their twenties were hit by live ammunition today, during a demo against illegal colony expansion on the lands of the West Bank villages of Ni’lin and Deir Qaddis . One, a 24 year-old, was shot in the pelvis and shoulder, the second, a 22 year-old, was shot in the back of his thigh; an injury that will require a hospital operation. Mohammed Amirah, a member of Ni’lin’s Popular Committee, after being severely beaten, was arrested for “incitement” (1:24 mins into the video).

The demo ended at 4:30 pm

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.209102462464772.47325.195473957160956

Nilinvillage video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62hWumbuzk0

Thursday, 16-6-11

todays demo was pretty successful- the bulldozers were stopped for about an hour. there will be another demo tomorrow if you can make it please let me know.

Hi all,

There will be a another demo Sunday 19.6.11, and Monday, Tuesday... as well in Deir Qadis against the settlement expansion on their land.

Please call K.

Nabi Saleh June 17, 2011

Undercover Special Forces Attack the Weekly Demonstration in Nabi Saleh

Undercover soldiers from the Army's special forces unit, Duvdevan, attacked the demonstration in Nabi Saleh as it was coming to an end. Four were arrested and four were injured.

Patience certainly didn't characterize the Army's behavior today during the weekly demonstration in Nabi Saleh. The dozens of men, women and children who marched in protest down the streets of their tiny hamlet were attacked on sight by a force of Israeli soldiers and Border police officers positioned at the town's main junction - well inside the village. The Israeli forces initially used tear-gas and concussion grenades, but quickly moved on to shooting scores rubber-coated bullets.

As rubber-coated bullets whizzed by and the asphyxiating tear-gas clouded the houses of Nabi Saleh and spread throw its streets, marching was rendered impossible, and dispersed clashes began. Some of the village's residents responded to the military's aggression with setting up barricades made of stones and dumpsters on the street to impede the soldiers advance deeper into the village, while others threw stones, taking cover behind makeshift barriers. Some live fire was used, but luckily no one was hit.

As clashes dwindled down and were about to end, soldiers from the army's Duvdevan special forces unit drove into the village under-cover, in a white van with Palestinian number plates, embedded into a wedding motorcade from the adjacent village of Beit Rimma. They then got out of the car and stormed at the demonstrators, guns drawn and shooting live fire in the air and towards people.

The attack resulted in the arrest of three Palestinian demonstrators and one Israeli camerawoman, who had one of her cameras broken and another stolen by the soldiers. The soldiers also failed to arrest a second cameraman, Bilal Tamimi, who managed to escape with the above footage, as well as a medic with the Palestinian Red Crescent who was also beaten up. Another demonstrator took a blow to the face from a rifle butt, causing intense bleeding below the eye.

Then, as the sun began coming down behind the hilltops to the west, the army despite complete calm, staged yet another invasion into the village, which began by simultaneously shooting dozens of tear-gas projectiles into the village. Clashes then resumed and ended shortly after dark, with the day's most serious injury. As the last armored jeep drove out of the village, one of the soldiers stuck the barrel of his gun out through the firing loophole and fired a burst of rubber-coated bullets from inside the armored vehicle. A young man from the village was hit twice in the left shin, and suffered a penetration wound.

Bilal's video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAV8Ak1cge4

Michael T. (Albums) http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.198395616873597.50047.100001094792472

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.207370372640784.57985.113817528662736

Btselem video 13.5.2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ9BLW2TEw0

South Hebron Hills

Our continuing activity in South Hebron Hills lead to some achievement in recent week:

Farmers from Susiya were able to access olive orchards that have been closed to them for years. Army forces prevented settlers from approaching the orchards.

This change in the army's behaviour is a result of consistent and persistent activity.

Also, the settlers' and army harassment of shepherds in Khierbet Umm el-Khier have ceased for now, and in the past few day herds were able to get to the grazing lands unhindered.

This however does not mean that our work in done. Yesterday (Tuesday) the army demolished additional water cisterns in South Hebron Hills.

The Palestinian residents still need our help in guaranteeing water supply and access to their agricultural lands.

Saturday June 18

Accompanying farmers and shepherds and pumping water in

South Hebron Hills

Sheikh Jarrah

photos

Mario Savio http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.218934401474540.62507.100000739446057

Amir Bitan http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.234343779913978.78653.100000150737581

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Palestine-Israel, The joint struggle of the AAtW* and the radical left activists with grass root Palestinian partners

2011-06-14T04:16:00.000-07:00

Week after week... sometimes day after day, the joint struggle continue. The years with no joint struggles with no lively solidarity and no hope for better days soon coming nearly forgotten. People injured and arrested are not deterred. The inhaling tear gas together function stronger than "ceremonial friendship pipe". This week, in addition to the usual locations we participated also in the demonstrations in Kufer Malek, Biddu, a-Tuwani, and Shuqba. The joint struggle that started with the struggle against the separation fence expanded and include more and more locations of struggle against the colonialist settlement: Beit Ummar, East Jerusalem (Sheikh Jarrah, Silwan, Ras Al Amud, Issawiya), Kufer Malek, Nabi Saleh, A-Tuwani, South of Hebron Hills.

Beit Ummar

Saturday, the weekly peaceful demonstration in Beit-Ummar set off as almost every week in the last few weeks outside the village on the walkway up to the agriculture zone near the settlement Carmei-Zur.In the march took part approx 15 Palestinians, few internationals and 10 Israelis (from Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa), holding nations flags and signs. At the middle of the path, about 150 meters walking the IOF soldiers waited and tried to stop the march, the protesters terned into the grove and then were stopped by the soldiers between the trees. The soldiers were aggressive, allow the protesters to say a few words but not to move forward, and when some people tried to do so they stopped them violently. After that the protesters worked symbolically for 10 minuets deforestation stones from the agriculture area. After that we felt our message delivered and we left the area.

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150266285051803.371907.770301802

Israel Puterman video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk53uIfJC2s

Kufer Malek

Biddu

The village of Biddu held a demonstration this week demanding access to their farmlands and a end to the Separation Wall in their village. In 2004, four demonstrators were shot dead by live ammunition in a similar demonstration

Roughly 50 people gathered near an Israeli placed gate at the edge of the agricultural lands of Biddu on Friday for an unarmed demonstration. Quickly the demonstration turn into chaos as Palestinian youth threw rocks and the Israeli army responded with tear gas and stun grenades. No injuries were reported in the course of the demonstration, which lasted for several hours. In 2004, four unarmed demonstrators were shot dead in Biddu by live fire from Israeli soldiers. In recent years, demonstrations in the village have been all but non-existent.

Israel Puterman 10-6-11 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHO2zmft5XI

Bil’in

Friday, in spite of the scalding heat, dozens of villagers from Bil’in marched once again together with international and Israeli solidarity activists to the Apartheid Wall in protest to its illegal annexation of 60% of the village’s land for the construction of Jewish-only settlements. As every Friday in various locations throughout Palestine, the activists attempted to implement international law, international humanitarian law – under which settlements constitute a war crime, and the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice with ruled in July 2004 that the illegal Wall and its associated regime should be dismantled.

Waving the Palestinian flag and images of martyrs and prisoners of the popular resistance, protestors chanted for freedom and justice, against Apartheid, and for the release of all political prisoners. As usual, the army opened fire at the protestors even before most had reached the Wall, shooting a type of tear gas that is considerably more harmful than the types ordinarily used in Europe or the US, throwing sound bombs, and spraying them with a chemical green liquid that activists have termed „shit“ or „skunk“ due to its nauseating odor which sticks to its target for days.

Dozens of activists suffered from tear gas inhalation, which is aggravated by the harsh summer heat, and in various places, crops caught fire and spread quickly. The army continued to shoot at protestors even while they attempted to put out the fires.

http://www.bilin-ffj.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=363&Itemid=1

Haitham Al Khatib video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aU4M1rAhjI

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2164663475446.2131354.1212414101

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2144007682896.274732.1327358013

Qalandia

Israel Puterman Qalandia - 5-6-11 video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsmJ_iQmWdw

Nabi Saleh

Roughly 100 gathered in the center of Nabi Saleh just after Friday afternoon prayers for the weekly demonstration/confrontation against the occupation and settler takeover of the village farmlands. Among the demonstrators was a large group of 50 Israeli supporters and many internationals. The demonstrators were able to walk roughly 100 meters before the army attacked them with tear gas from three sides.

For the next three hours, the army was relentless in its use of tear gas. At one point, a demonstrator fell unconscious and was moved to a civilian house. The army attacked the house with tear gas and prohibited emergency personal from entering the village for roughly 20 minutes. Medics were able to revive the young man with oxygen when they were allowed into the village.

In the afternoon, the army invaded the central part of the village and began house to house raids in order to arrest Israelis and internationals. Over five people were detained in the course of the search and the demonstration.

As the sun began to set, Israeli forces pulled out of the village amidst clashes with youth who were throwing stones.

Children Suffocating from Tear Gas. Picture Credit: Joseph Dana https://www.popularstruggle.org/sites/default/files/images/318268554.preview.jpg

video

krasnoetv http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmIOa_W18d4

tamimi1966 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz8hzn5XYPQ

Gershon Baskin http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150643369885366

David Reeb http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfFt2s3kQSg

Photos

http://972mag.com/photos-protest-in-nabi-saleh-consumed-by-tear-gas/

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Ni'lin

The weekly demonstration in Ni'lin set off as always with a prayer in the village's land, and then a march to the wall route with approx 50 Palestinians, 5 Israeli and the same number of internationals. a number of youth threw stones and soldiers responded with tear gas. No injuries were recorded and the demonstration ended after around an hour.

Sheikh Jarrah - East Jerusalem - Al Kuds

This Friday, June 10th, at 4:00 pm, at the public garden in Sheikh Jarrah

Nissim Mossek http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TZ-ytLtKc4

South of Hebron Hills

Um EL Heer IDF and Settlers Harassment Nissim Mossek http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1VB2eBKCG4

Shuqba

Following the afternoon prayers, residents of the village of Shuqba (neighboring Ni'ilin) were joined by Israelis, internationals and a contingent of protesters from Ni'lin for a march and protest against the illegal Israeli quarry which is eating away at the village's land. approximately 150 protesters approached the Natuf quarry, and dismantled barbed wire surrounding it. Israeli soldiers and border police officers stationed at the quarry fired tear gas canisters at the protesters, setting large scale fires that spread through the dry weeds. A number of youth threw some stones at the soldiers, but the long distance between the two groups meant the clashes were very low key, unlike the events at last week's protest, when a private security guard fired dozens of live rounds at a group of Palestinian protesters, injuring one with a ricochet. No injuries were recorded.

at-Tuwani

On Friday, June 10, about 40 people gathered for the first of what will become regular, weekly demonstrations in At-Twani, a small Palestinian community south of Hebron. Protesters marched through town towards the nearby settlement of Ma’on, often a source of settler violence and harassment. Before they could get there, they were stopped by a group of about twenty Israeli soldiers. The army refused to let the demonstration pass. Protesters and soldiers argued for about ten minutes. Then the military grabbed a member of At-Twani’s Popular committee and an Israeli activist and pushing the rest of the activists back. One soldier threw a sound bomb into the crowd, which landed between the legs of the demonstrators. Three men were injured when it detonated: Rami Jabarin, Adham Ashwaheen and Fadl Abu Iram. They received medical attention from a Palestinian ambulance.

Palestinians and solidarity activists stayed at the scene, chanting slogans and demanding the release of the detained protesters. Finally, the military released the Popular Committee member. Protesters continued to demand the release of the Israeli activist, as well as their rights to continue the protest, but the soldiers ignored their demands. The demonstration lingered for another half hour, then dispersed peacefully. The Israeli activist was held for several hours before being released.

Settlers living in Ma’on, next to the At-Twani, often attack village children on their way to a newly-constructed school. The situation has gotten so bad that internationals and Israeli soldiers now escort the children so they can safely walk to school. Today’s protest sought to highlight this outrageous situation.

Tel Aviv

The radicals' LGBTQI parade-demo

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* Anarchists Against the Wall initiative

Palestine-Israel, Week after week the joint popular struggle continue and the bad days of no struggle are nearly forgotten.

2011-06-07T07:31:00.000-07:00

The feeling of the nearing immanent disaster of the 1967 war spoils start to color the joint struggle with a special Spring aroma. It seems that even the sting of the tear gas and the pains from rubber coated bullet, batons and tear gas missiles are a bit milder. Even the putrid smell of the skunkish water ("The Smell of Israel") is not stinking so much as in the past. The media and even the state politicians mention our struggles more and more as responsible at least in part to their problems. The inconsistency in their repression steps, express their helplessness in their efforts to put end to the joint struggle restricted by the arena being open to international media.

Al-Arakib

The struggle continue and in the background some compromises with the Bedouins to be evicted from most of their lands are proposed.

Bil'in 03/06/2011

Over 30 Israelis and a bunch of internationals joined the Palestinian demonstration in Bil'in to commemorate the Nakba, Naksa, and ongoing ethnic cleansing in ever larger parts of Palestine. The demonstrators carried two man-sized cutouts of the map of Palestine marking the lands lost by Palestinians in 1948 and 1967. The protesters who carried the maps were skunked, but the man-sized Palestine cutouts shielded them from the putrid water. Then one demonstrator returned to the soldiers an unspent tear gas canister from an earlier demonstration, which exploded in their midst. The soldiers, obviously trying to explain that they suffer no shortage of tear gas canisters, shot several loads aimed directly at the protesters, causing a few small bush fires. While some shabab diverted the attention of the soldiers with stones, another group of protesters cut some electrical equipment from the fence, came back to show the soldiers their booty, and quickly declared the demonstration over. Even after all the demonstrators left the area, the army kept shooting tear gas canisters trying to set the fields on fire.

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2147962457931.2130447.1212414101

Rani Bornat http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2125542821286.273667.1327358013

Haithm Katib http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLsxuvowQIw

BOYCOTT! Newsletter #57 http://www.scribd.com/doc/56575523

Qalandia

We are invited to join the demonstration in tomorrow.

if u can go please call Ch

Big Protest in Calandia Checkpoint Near Qalandia Refugee Camp in Ramallah in Commemorating Al-Naksa of 1967 when the Israel occupied West Bank and Gaza and East Jerusalem...

War Zone Qalandyia

Photos By Ahmad Mesleh Eye on Palestine

By: Ahmad A. Mesleh http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.166051346792453.44835.100001627657640

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=219415488078313

Haithm Katib http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLhHPfcmeQw

natovarlden http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR0pOtOpngo

March to Jerusalem #5 June http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0spoiaZLYs0

Lod

AL-Masara 3-6-2011

Weekly demonstration in Ma'sara, 3rd of June 2011 The rally was organized by the Popular Committee Against the Wall and settlements in the village two days before the anniversary of the forty-fourth anniversary of Israeli occupation. The march began from the center of the village after Friday prayers in which many of the people,international activists and Israelis carried Palestinian flags and denounced the occupation and illegal settlements. The occupying forces attacked the demonstrators physically, pushing them back and preventing them from reaching their lands, imposing a security cordon by declaring it a closed military zone. The protesters said the popular resistance will continue until the legitimate demands of removal of the wall and settlements and the end of the occupation are met.

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2045644989606.123174.1498833494

Nabi Saleh

Friday 3-6-2011 Another long afternoon and evening of struggle.

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150259892281803.369733.770301802

Tamimi video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86zTJBXbGoc

Sheikh Jarrah

In the past few weeks we have witnessed the attempts of the Israeli Government to annex East Jerusalem, being intensified. These growing attempts are seriously jeopardizing any possibility for future agreement. During 'Lag Ba'Omer' celebrations, Jerusalem municipality sponsored an event in Sheikh Jarrah attended by thousands. Only few days ago four government Ministers participated in the inauguration of a new gigantic settlement at the heart of the Palestinian neighborhood of Ras El-Amud.

Demonstration 3/6/2011

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.215415268493120.61101.100000739446057

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South Hebron Mountains

Radical activists - including some AAtW ones, joined Palestinians of the region who persist in the struggle to frustrate the efforts to evict them.

Tel Aviv

Saturday demo

About 6 thousands participated in the Zionist left demonstration that understand pragmatically they need to give back most of 1967 war gains if they want to keep the gains of the 1948 war. The "communist" party that support that wish with minor corrections was part of the initiative. The most radical Solidarity initiative that wish to give back all the 1967 war gains and some more with few anti Zionists had a block that colored the demo with militant slogans and chants in Arabic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk9FD48pAgQ

Al Walajeh

Dear all,

tomorrow June 5 we are having a big demonstration in Al Walajeh. we are starting

at 10am and gathering out side of the mosque at the entrance of the village.

if you want to join and you were stopped somewhere out side of the village

please let us know 052xxxxx.

see you tomorrow inshallah.

salamat, sheerin Al A.

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Palestine-Israel, The third intifada is not only a concept, the 10 main locations of the joint struggle are its fore runners.

2011-05-31T12:18:00.000-07:00

Channel 2 TV long and serious item exposed the brutality of the state forces, show the heroic involvement of children, youth, women, men and the Israeli anarchists in the struggle of the tinny village of Nabi Saleh. They bring it as the most prominent of the other 10 main locations of joint popular struggles, and conclude that it has already defeated the Israeli propaganda... and started the third Intifada. The approaching September is felt both in the weekly struggles, in the climate of the whole region, and desperate actions.

Beit Umar region

Suseya neighborhood

Internationals, Israelis, Palestinians Join Festival in Suseya

The village of Suseya in the southern West Bank hosted a festival on Saturday, May 28, that drew well over a hundred attendees. Internationals, Israelis, and Palestinians gathered together to celebrate the village’s many proactive programs, especially their language exchanges.

The village offers Arabic courses to Israelis and internationals, as well as language-intensive, guests stayed with village families. The same organization also offers Hebrew courses to Palestinians and internationals, with the aim of increasing constructive interactions between Israelis and Palestinians.

The day was filled with speeches, kite flying, and Palestinian dabkah, as well as appearances by an Israeli samba band and clown troupe.

Bil'in

Two dozens Israelis and a similar numbers of internationals joined the Palestinian in the demo in Bil'in. The protesters marched, chanted, reached the wall, got skunked, and watched the army escalate its repression as kids responded to the attack of tear gas by starting throwing stones to get them out of their lands. Last week the army continued shooting massive amounts of gas, regardless of the actual presence of protesters, in order to start bush fires that endangered the olive trees. This week the demonstrators ended the demo early in order to support the local group in the regional soccer tournament.

Another take:

Today in the weekly march in Bil'in organized by the Popular Committee Against the Wall with the participation of US student delegation of American universities, one young men was injured, and dozens of people suffered from the effects of tear gas fired by Israeli soldiers. Dozens of Palestinians were joined by international and Israeli activists, The march began in the center of the village after Friday prayers. In the area above the wall, demonstrators raised the Palestinian flag, and pictures of the imprisoned Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti. Participants chanted slogans in favor of the right of return, and slogans calling for an end the occupation . At the eastern gate of the wall, Israeli soldiers fired a shower of tear gas;; they also sprayed 'stink' water, water treated with a chemical that gives it a foul smell that can't be removed from people's clothes. Among those injured were Ibrahim Bornat, 28, who was hit by a tear gas canister in the eye and shoulder. He had to be treated by ambulance team and then transferred to the medical compound in Ramallah. The soldiers also fired tear gas into the olive groves, with the purpose of setting fire to them. Fortunately, the people of Bil'in were able to put out the fire.

Rani Abdel Fatah Pictures at:

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2109910910498.272737.1327358013

Israel Puterman video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcYNIUNVZ5E

Jordan Valley

Ras-Ujah

"In the Jordan Valley, Palestinians are struggling just to remain on the land as the predatory settlements and occupation authority make everyday life an uphill battle.

The region is on the first priority for annexation by Israel, to separate the Palestinian from Jordanian state.

On 29 May, a group of Palestinians, internationals and Israeli activists joined the Jordan Valley Solidarity Project to help build a school out of mud bricks.

Nearly the entire Jordan Valley is under Israeli control (categorized under Area C). Lacking permission to even build a rainwater collection device, most communities suffer from a constant threat of home demolition. The day of action was about supporting Palestinians in the Jordan Valley to continue their steadfast resistance in the land. The Jordan Valley represents nearly 30% of the West Bank, and therefore is crucial to a future Palestinians state.

We drove through the rain to the beautiful Jordan Valley, made mud-cakes that turned into a school building, lunched with Palestinians, Israeli and international friends, and most impressive of all - didn't get sun-burnt".

http://www.palestinemonitor.org/?p=341

Pictures http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150261163561085.370548.734536084

Jerusalem

Ras Al-Amud

Friday, The Ma'ale Zeitim settlement is a heavily guarded fortress in the heart of Ras El-Amud Hundreds of Israeli and Palestinian demonstrators gathered in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Ras El-Amoud, in front of the Ma'ale Zeitim settlement in the heart of the neighborhood, to protest against the inauguration of the settlement which was held earlier during the week, which several government ministers and the mayor of Jerusalem attended. Police was very violent against the peaceful demonstrators, arrested 6 of them, and one demonstrator was badly beaten up and attacked with a Taser. This is the first time that such a device is used by Israeli police against demonstrators.

Media coverage: http://bit.ly/mObLAC (English)

Media: Police, leftists clash in east J'lem

"Some 150 Sheikh Jarrah Solidarity activists block entrance to new Jewish neighborhood built on outskirts of Ras al-Amud in east Jerusalem. Police arrest six, protesters claim 10 injured from violent use of force, stun guns.

During the demonstration, a violent clash erupted between police forces and the protesters, who blocked the entrance to the neighborhood. Police officers responded with use of force and stun guns.

Six protesters were arrested during the incident, and the organizers claimed several activists were injured, one needing medical treatment.

Meanwhile, at another location in the neighborhood, near the mosque, residents hurled stones at a police force. No injuries were reported.

Asaf Sharon from Sheikh Jarrah Solidarity claimed that the police used extremely violent force against the protesters, adding that police officers used stun guns for the first time, although there was no provocation on the part of the protesters."

"We held a protest rally against the settlement two days after the settlers themselves held a mass event, during which they blocked access roads without police intervention," he said.

Sharon noted that one of the injured protesters, who was also arrested by the police, is among the movement's leaders. "We have a total of 10 injured, two of which were wounded by the stun gun," he said, adding that "one of them needed medical treatment."

http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4074835,00.html

Pictures

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Videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7i2XqrSQ2U

Israel Puterman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8GjcqCXib8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVsgCX3BoNA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgB527Z2j1s

Al-Ma’asara

Also on Friday villagers of al-Ma’sara, in southern West Bank, were joined by Israeli and international supporters and protested against the wall and settlements there. Israeli troops stopped villagers from reaching the construction-side of the wall. Later troops attacked protesters using rifle buts and batons. No injuries or arrests were reported.

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.230387260311170.79169.126649644018266

Nabi Saleh

One child was injured in the arm, six arrested, and home caught fire on Friday when Israeli troops attacked the weekly protest in the village of al-Nabi Salleh, central West Bank. Israeli troops attacked the villages and their International and Israeli supporters as they gathered after the midday prayers. Ahmad al-Tamimi, 8, was injured in the arm by a tear gas bomb fired by soldiers. Later troops invaded the village and fired tear gas into people homes. One house owned by Abed al Rahman Tamimi caught fire from a tear gas bomb, residents managed to but off the fire; the house sustained damage but the family escaped unharmed.

David Reeb video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOGHTN8USqw

PalestinianYouthVoice have announced via twitter they will be live streaming from Nabi Saleh today. http://www.ustream.tv/channel/palyouthvoice

http://www.wafaimages.ps/index.aspx?albumid=3336

Channel 2 TV (Hebrew) http://reshet.ynet.co.il/Shows/360/videomarklist,185268/

Ni'ilin

Ni'lin Town Marks Three Years Of Popular Resistance 27.05.2011.

.... Breaking News: The Israeli occupation soldiers are closing the entrance of Ni'lin Town by making a checkpoint at it to prevent all the people and the internationals and the Israeli peace activists and the media who want to come and join us in our demonstration today....

Israeli and international supporters joined the villagers after the midday prayers and marched up to the gate of the wall marking the fourth year of protests in the village. Soldiers fired tear gas and sound bombs at them. Many were treated for effects of tear gas. Fires started by tear-gas projectiles. The fire destroyed 1 Acer of land planted by olive trees.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrOsKV6X2wE

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