Sunday, February 21, 2016

Palestine-Israel, The eleven years joint struggle in Bil'in as a seed for the third youth intifada.*


At the beginning, the joint struggle in Bil'in of the Israeli Anarchists Against The Wall with the local activists differed only with a consisted Fridays direct actions against the construction of the separation fence. The Israeli state response was a prolonged effort to block the participation of the Israeli activists that failed due to geographic conditions, persistence of the Israeli activists, and our ingenuity. One of the restricting factors on the suppression efforts of the state forces was wide spread sympathy for these demos in the Israeli media, and public. In a desperate efforts the army sent covert agents to initiate stone throwing from the demo on the state force. After a long while they succeeded. Youngsters of the village got into the stone throwing habit. For years it was all over the media and contributed to the stone throwing culture of the Palestinian youth. This was a significant contributor factor to the already 4 months old "Children Intifada".


Bil'in

Friday 19-2-16 Hundreds marched from the centre of the village to the gate of the new separation wall -celebrating 11 years of persistent struggle against the separation wall/fence, settlers, and occupation. The Bil'iners activists were joined by many villagers, activists from Ramallah and neighbouring villages. Participated also bout 70 Israelis with the anarchists against the wall initiative - including 7 members of the anarchist-communist Ahdut (Unity), and dozens of international activists (including US anarchists). After the long march - including the usually forbidden road to the new separation wall we neared the gate in the wall. The Israeli state forces try to disperse us, but the northern wind and the courage of many demonstrators defied it.
Part of us retreated out of the range of the tear gas, but many confronted the state forces and stayed near the gate for a long long confrontation.
Gradually, we retreated and returned to the village.

https://www.facebook.com/Mohammed.Yasin.photography/posts/660615090744523
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=882320458533954
https://www.facebook.com/hamza.burnat/posts/969309203123134
https://www.facebook.com/haytham.alkhateeb/posts/10207526299488587
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vR4kgMdrp_k
https://www.facebook.com/mekomit/videos/1702366206676945/
https://www.facebook.com/haytham.alkhateeb/videos/10207526231006875/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR4kgMdrp_k
dvidreeb https://youtu.be/wnwCHg4hs5A
israelpn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiGd2onQaCE
https://www.facebook.com/taki.bornat/videos/vb.100000357077106/1056601771028382
https://www.facebook.com/hamde.a.rahma/videos/1664436753826695/
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* From my blog at: http://ilanisagainstwalls.blogspot.com
See at the blog previous reports about the joint struggles the Anarchists Against the Wall take part in.
See also: Stories from the year 2100 - 50 years after the revolution
http://awalls.org http://ilan.shalif.com/anarchy/glimpses/glimpses.html
http://ilan.shalif.com/anarchy/glimpses/glimpses-it.html
http://ilan.shalif.com/anarchy/glimpses/glimpses-heb.html

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

Sunday, February 14, 2016

Palestine-Israel, The joint struggle in the focus of the extreme right "leftists' bashing"


The mounting international pressure on Israel with the B.D.S. as catalyst, initiated a rightist onslaught on the activists of the joint struggle. With cooperation of the main TV channel, two activists were arrested - even blamed to be involved in murder of a Palestinian collaborator of settlements... only to be released unconditionally weeks later. As part of the onslaught I got few seconds in the rightist item in the main TV news program summing our position that no state is a solution - not two states and even one democratic state is impossible to achieve before the Zionist settler colonialist project will be defeated by social revolution in the whole region. In another wide distribution of the rightist video item I was presented as claiming that the chant in the joint demos for freedom to Palestine from the river to the see is not a call for a state for the Palestinians, but for a joint secular democratic state for all the inhabitants - Palestinians, Jews, and others... It seems we owe them rightists for the wide publicity.

Bil'in

29-1-16 Today the weekly demonstration in Bil'in was in solidarity with Mohammed al Qeeq. Muhammad is more than 65 days on hunger strike since he was arrested. This is the way Israeli politics treats you when they want to get rid of you. Stop the occupation and free Mohammed al Qeeq.
4 Israelis and 10 internationals joined the village activists in the weekly demo. Due to the cold whether and the weak wind, the Israeli soldiers were not too active and left even before the usual 30 minutes confrontation.
Me: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10208473806505838
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=872429979523002
https://www.facebook.com/Mohammed.Yasin.photography/posts/652724821533550
5-2-16 Bil'in, Friday 5-2-16 This week's demonstration in Bil'in was in solidarity with Palestinian photo journalist, Mohammed Al Qeeq held in prison by occupation forces and has been on hunger strike for 74 days. Even before the demo started, the Israeli forces who came with a bigger than usual number of cars, showered the first barrage of tear gas on few kids who approached to confront them. In the demo participated about dozen Israelis with the anarchists against the wall, ten internationals and about 2 dozen activists of Bil'in. After marching a bit from the village down the hill the state forces stared to shower us with tear gas. The suspicion that the lot of soldiers meant an uglier than usual confrontation was disproved. The massive tear gas clouds and the changing wind just forced us to retreat a bit more than usual before the usual 30 minutes of confrontation ended. Then the state forces drove away and we declared another small victory.
https://www.facebook.com/hamza.burnat/posts/962002430520478
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=773976309399097
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=825521364223761
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=825521290890435
https://www.facebook.com/haytham.alkhateeb/posts/10207431153589999
https://www.facebook.com/anatllanat/posts/825521400890424
https://www.facebook.com/Mohammed.Yasin.photography/posts/655371151268917
https://www.facebook.com/rani.fatah/posts/10208521498498108
https://www.facebook.com/hamde.a.rahma/videos/1659782210958816/
https://www.facebook.com/haytham.alkhateeb/videos/10207431170830430

Nabi Saleh

29-1-16 Today IOF attacks the demonstration directly by rubber bullets 10 person was injured three cases need a hospital treatment
"With Israeli brutality escalating, as well as settlement construction, Palestinians of Nabi Saleh confronted the Israeli army near the main entrance to the village. This entrance is often closed by the army, forcing thousands of motorists to take long detours to and from Ramallah. The soldiers attempted to disperse protesters with tear gas and rubber coated steel bullets, injuring several. Two protesters were transported to hospital for medical attention."
https://schwarczenberg.com/nabi-saleh-29012016/
https://www.facebook.com/bassem.tamimi/posts/10207650137483793
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10207650134403716
israelpnm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLhxSEIJr5g
Bilal Tamimi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhqcwAMd62I
https://www.facebook.com/bassem.tamimi/posts/10207664687287529
Nabi Saleh 05/02/2016
As Israeli military repression continues to escalate in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, villagers of Nabi Saleh confronted the IDF demanding an end to the occupation and violence. Earlier this week, the military imposed a siege on the city of Ramallah and surrounding villages, including Nabi Saleh, which resulted in many cut off from their sources of livelihood, from places of study and work.
The Israeli soldiers attempted to disperse the march using tear gas and rubber bullets, and targeted three photojournalists at the scene with rubber bullets. No injuries reported.
https://schwarczenberg.com/nabi-saleh-05022016/
Nabi Saleh Friday 5.2.2016 protest video at https://youtu.be/39uKCBB0nPA
David Reeb https://youtu.be/39uKCBB0nPA
Bassem Tamimi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8buQd2zBy4
12 February 2016 17:06
Bil'in 12-2-16 The calmest Friday demo for a long time. The Israeli state forces "allowed" us to get down from the village and even to cross the olive orchard and start to go up the hill before stopping us with tear gas. Then we confronted them from this point and for about half an hour only shot us sporadic grenades of tear gas when we tried to go up the hill.
after about half an hour we started to go back to the village.
https://www.facebook.com/mohamed.b.yaseen/posts/879022438863756
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153833738523991
Friday 12-2-16: On the 80th day of Muhammad al-Qiq's hunger strike, villagers from Nabi Saleh and solidarity activists confronted the Israeli army demanding to release the journalist immediately. Al-Qiq, a journalist from Dura in the Hebron district, was jailed by Israel without charges or trial. Currently, hundreds of Palestinians are held in administrative detention as well. Al-Qiq launched his hunger strike demanding to be charged or released. Israeli court suspended his administrative detention order, but refused to let him be transferred to a Palestinian hospital. In the past few days reports of al-Qiq's deteriorating health have raised concerned in Palestine and in the international community, and thousands of Palestinians have been protesting all over the country calling for his immediate release.
The IDF attempted to disperse protesters in Nabi Saleh by firing live ammunition in their general direction. The army Also penalized Nabi Saleh residents by closing the main gate connecting the village with Ramallah. No injuries were reported.
https://schwarczenberg.com/nabi-saleh-12022016/


Ni'ilin

5-2-16 israelpnm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKlq-COiE58

12-2-16, Friday, "Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, the weekly non-violent protest against the Annexation Wall and Colonies, in Ni’lin village, west of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, wounding many Palestinians, including a young man, who suffered a serious injury, after the soldiers shot him with a rubber-coated steel bullet in his head.
Medical sources said the soldiers shot the young man directly in his head, causing him a very serious injury, before local medics transferred him to a hospital, where he was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit.
The soldiers also shot three other young men, while dozens of Palestinians suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation.
The Popular Committee against the Wall and Colonies in Ni’lin said this week’s non-violent protest comes in solidarity with hunger striking detainee, Journalist Mohammad al-Qeeq, who started his hunger strike 80 days ago, and against the ongoing illegal Israeli occupation, colonies and constant violations."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPJe0cKGdjE


Kafr Qaddum

5-2-16 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvMino9d9vI


Refuseniks demo

31-1-16 About 15 members of the anarchist-communist federation Ahdut (Unity) joined radical activists demo of solidarity with the refusniks TanYa (Ahdut member) and Tair at the gate of the recruiting centre.
After the demo TanYa will be arrested for the firs term and Tair for the second.
https://www.facebook.com/unityahdut/photos/pcb.1165449843480199/1165449516813565/
https://www.facebook.com/israelsocialtv/photos/pcb.10153797575334088/10153797574799088
https://www.facebook.com/unityahdut/posts/1165449843480199
https://www.facebook.com/iba.channel11/videos/1114952785203758/?hc_location=ufi


Israel, Usafia, 13-2-16, Twenty members of the anarchist communist federation Ahdut (Unity) in Israel (who participate in the joint struggle - mainly in Bil'in) celebrated the 6th anniversary of organization.

Don't say we did not know #485
The Palestinian Daraghme family, living on the outskirts of Luban-a-Sharqiyya, suffers from repeated attacks by settlers coming from the direction of the neighbouring settlement Ma’ale Levona.
During the night of Thursday, 21st January, 2015, settlers once again attacked the family home. They demolished the five security cameras. The family summoned the police, which arrived only three hours later. As on previous occasions, no searches for the attackers were carried out in the neighbouring settlements.
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On Wednesday, 27th January, 2016, government representatives, escorted by the police came yet again to demolish the mosque in the Bedouin village Rakhme, near Yeruham. (It was previously demolished on 6th January, 2016.)
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Don't say we did not know #486
On Thursday, 4th February, 2016, IDF soldiers came to the Palestinian community Maqaser, near the Hamra checkpoint, in the Jordan Valley, and demolished homes and sheep-pens belonging to two families. This is the second time the homes and sheep-pens of these families have been demolished; the first time was in August 2015.
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On Sunday 31st January, 2016, Government representatives, escorted by the police, came to destroy hundreds of dunums (1 dunum = 1000 sq.m) of grain planted in the Bedouin village Rakhme, near Yeruham.

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

Thursday, January 28, 2016

Palestine-Israel, The first serious crack in the Israeli Zionist ruling elite


It is hard to assess what is the part of the joint struggle and the B.D.S. in the serious crack in the Israeli elite. It was expressed by the leader of biggest opposition party - The Zionist List which suggested a partial agreement of withdrawal (even from part of the expanded Jerusalem). Since 1967 war, all the years the official position was that Israel will retreat from most of the occupied territories of the 1967 war if the Palestinian will agree to a peace pact that will include among other conditions the non return of the 1948 refugees. As it was clear that no Palestinian leadership will be able to do that it was clear to all that the monolithic consensus of the Zionist parties is to continue the occupation for ever. It is not surprising that even the leader of the radical leftist Zionist party Merets oppose this radical suggestion for withdrawal with out the (non achievable) final peace pact.

Bil'in

the popular committee of Bil'in March for Ezra Nawi https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=866322640133736
Bil'in- Palestine 15.01.2016
"Today was the weekly demonstration in Bi'lin. Israeli soldiers have shot today with another kind of bullet than the usual ammunition they use. For me it is still unknown, and I don’t know exactly what kind of damage it can cause when you are hit with this. We now know that they are using us to test everything on, so perhaps this is why they used this kind of bullets".
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10207294588015945
https://www.facebook.com/anatllanat/posts/815845595191338
https://www.facebook.com/rani.fatah/posts/10208379289462971
Israel Puterman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta8s3RTQAdA
22-1-16 Today the weekly demonstration in Bi'lin was in solidarity with Ahmed Manaser. 8 anarchists of Ahdut (Unity), and 8 with the anarchists against the wall initiative, joined about dozen internationals, and the village activists and youth. Due to the mostly northern wind the Israeli state forth could not disperse us. The shooting of lot of tear gas and some bullets just made us to keep a distance from the troops. A 10 year old boy was hit by a plastic bullet, fortunately it was not life-threatening. After the usual half an hour of harassment the state force retreated and we declared another small size victory...
https://www.facebook.com/rani.fatah/posts/10208433068887423
https://www.facebook.com/haytham.alkhateeb/videos/10207339321814262/
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10208455116358411
https://www.facebook.com/drrateb.aburahmah/posts/10208455118558466

Qaddum

15-1-2016
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1070353839653335.1073742033.271405776214816
https://www.facebook.com/abu.sivan/posts/10153863615697500
https://www.facebook.com/nirit.haviv/posts/1325004417528671
https://www.facebook.com/Mohammed.Yasin.photography/posts/650224068450292
https://www.facebook.com/haytham.alkhateeb/posts/10207339183450803

22-1-16 Ayat Zahi Ali 9 years was shot in her hand with live bullet while she was in her fathers house today in Kafr Qaddum.
Hamza Abu Khaled 21 years was shot in his leg with live bullet.
Abd Allah Anwar 40 years was shot too in his leg with live bullet
Where is the international organizations our children are not safe in houses
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1098901816788146
https://www.facebook.com/annalisa.portioli/posts/10206583833206898


Nabi Saleh

15-1-2016 IOF attacks Nabi Saleh and arrested tow children and stormed the village with a lot of tear gas inside houses Manal Tamimi was inside her home and she smells a lot which needs a hospital free Palestine: "Israeli Occupation Forces invaded Nabi Saleh on Friday, attacking the village and firing large quantities of tear gas, including into homes. Manal Tamimi was hospitalised - she was in her home and overcome by the tear-gas fired into it by the IOF. The Israeli Occupation Forces also kidnapped two children from the village."
https://www.facebook.com/bassem.tamimi/posts/10207558041421449
https://www.facebook.com/bassem.tamimi/posts/10207556564704532
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1061985640519947&id=177013109017209
David Reeb https://youtu.be/Dnx3RtcyQU4

22-1-16 Villagers of Nabi Saleh marched today demanding the release of Ahmen Manasara, a 14 years old child from Jerusalem who is languishing in Israeli jail, accused of attacking a Jewish settler. Manasara was seriously injured by Israeli police, and a video from the scene shows him lying in a pool of his own blood while a settler verbally abuses him and tells him to “die already.” Manasara is merely one among about 400 Palestinian minors in Israel’s prisons. Marchers confronted the Israeli army, as the soldiers attempted to disperse them using tear gas and rubber coated steel bullet. One teenage girl was injured from a bullet
https://www.facebook.com/bassem.tamimi/posts/10207603288832606
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=947242278697495
https://schwarczenberg.com/nabi-saleh-22012016/
israelpnm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biCXMGriFAA&feature=youtu.be



Israel's 'war' against BDS is increasingly desperate

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/articles/inquiry/23389-israels-qwarq-against-bds-is-increasingly-desperate
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Don't say we did not know #483

On 6th January, 2016, IDF soldiers came to the Bedouin village of Abu Nuwar (of the Jahalin tribe, refugees since 1950), next to the settlement Ma’ale Adumim (E-1 area) and demolished the homes and toilets of five families. On Sunday, 10th January, 2016, the soldiers returned and confiscated tents that had been donated as humanitarian aid to the newly homeless families, following the demolitions. On Thursday, 14th January, 2016, IDF soldiers insisted on yet again visiting the community to confiscate aid tents that had again been supplied to those Palestinian victims of the original home demolitions, incurred during the IDF soldiers’ previous visits.
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On Monday, 11th January, 2016, government representatives under police escort came to Bedouin villages and destroyed cereal crops: in Rakhma, near Yeruham, 350 dunums (dunum = 1000 sq.m), in Za'arura (near Kseife) 100 dunums, in El-Fur'a (near Arad) 150 dunums, near Hura: 80 dunums.

On Wednesday, 13th January, 2016, government representatives demolished a home in A-Sayyed, near Hura.
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Don't Say We Didn't Know 484
The Israeli army continues its expulsion practices against Palestinians living in the Jordan Valley (West Bank). The army notified two Palestinian communities in the Palestinian Jordan Valley – Ibzik (near Bardala) and Ras Al Ahmar (near the Jewish settlement of Beqa'ot) that they are required to leave their localities because of army maneuvers. On Tuesday, January 26, 2016 they must stay away from 12 noon until 8 p.m., and on the morrow, they must not be there from 6 a.m. until 12 noon.
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On Tueday, January 19, 2016, government agents escorted by police demolished yet again the Bedouin village of Al Arakib.

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

Wednesday, January 13, 2016

PalIsra, It is already one state even if no one recognize it as such except the hard liners rightists*.


The bad news are that the overwhelming majority of the Israelis support it - including the centrists and even the Zionist left (who claim they want "two states" solution but with impossible pre conditions). The good news are that the imperial powers whose support to the status qua are gradually yielding to public opinions pressure of their citizens who do not agree with the Israeli apartheid-transferor regime. The non armed joint struggle initiated wide attention and drew participants from all over the world with international movement dedicated to put end to the Israeli occupation. (A short video about two kids in Bil'in got in few days two million views.). The anarchists against the wall and other like minded among the palestinians and abroad still struggle for the end of the Zionist settler colonialist/transferor project and not just for the end of 1967 occupation.

Bil'in

Friday, 25-12-15, Last demo in 2015 in Bil'in. 4 members of the anarchist-communist organization Ahdut (Unity) joined 10 activists of the anarchists against the wall initiative and 3 internationals with the local activists.
The Israeli state force were few and less belligerent than usual, They "allowed" us to approach the old route of the separation fence and even to photograph the form declaring the location as closed military zone. The wind was friendly and the state force were not "generous" with the tear gas grenade. After about an hour the state force went away and the demo ended.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=806309056144992
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=806309009478330
https://www.facebook.com/haytham.alkhateeb/posts/10207159496918752
https://www.facebook.com/drrateb.aburahmah/posts/10208266230716388
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=856217854477548
https://www.facebook.com/mohamed.b.yaseen/posts/856217987810868
1-1-16 https://www.facebook.com/abdallah.aburahma.3/posts/951401281612849
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10207204588566015
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10207204586245957
https://www.facebook.com/Mohammed.Yasin.photography/photos/pb.153193851486652.-2207520000.1452030296./642222195917146
https://www.facebook.com/Mohammed.Yasin.photography/posts/642222429250456

Friday 8-1-16, 11 Israelis with the anarchists against the wall initiative and the anarcho-communist Ahdut (Unity) joined international activists and the villagers in the weekly demo. Just as we started marching down the hill the Israeli state forces started to shower us with tear gas and sponge coated bullets. After about 30 minutes of confrontation the state force went away and we declared another victory.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=863037863795547
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10207250086623438
https://www.facebook.com/haytham.alkhateeb/posts/10207250089903520

The video https://www.facebook.com/LiberatedDreams/videos/1080129055372928/ was filmed in Bil'in-Palestine and is dedicated to the soul of the martyr Oudai Jaber (was killed 1st of August 2014) by the occupying forces during a demonstration in Ramalla in support of Gaza) and to all the children of Palestine.

Ni'ilin

israelpnm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T71__PC4opY

Nebi Saleh

https://www.facebook.com/avi.blecherman/videos/10208633190453702/
https://www.facebook.com/avi.blecherman/videos/10208636336012339/
David Reeb https://youtu.be/UQH-lk4jtjo

Qaddum

Thanks to all the friends who called to check if I was at the shooting in tlv today!
In fact I was at a mass shooting, happy to escape unharmed, today and many days in the past. But it was in a civil protest for solidarity freedom and equality of Palestinians, and the shooters wore uniform. So hardly anybody cares....
https://www.facebook.com/AlMasira.KufurKaddom/photos/a.1062310553790997.1073742028.271405776214816/1062311210457598
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1062310553790997.1073742028.271405776214816
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dw9F2kFpY0

Refusnics

Sunday 10-1-16, Anarchists of Ahdut (Unity) participated in vigil of solidarity with the refusnic Tair Kaminer. After the vigil she entered the recruitment compound and was jailed for 20 days for refusing military service. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=759802944152960
https://www.facebook.com/anarchounity/photos/pcb.1007287999361346/1007286966028116

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Don't say we did not know #479

On Saturday, 12th December, 2015, a shepherd from Umm Jamal, in the northern West Bank Jordan Valley, herded his flock a few kilometres from the settlement Maskiot. Settlers were hiking in the area with three dogs; one of the dogs attacked the shepherd, biting him in the leg. The shepherd required medical treatment.

Don't say we did not know #480
On Wednesday, 23rd December, 2015, IDF soldiers came to the Palestinian village Khirbet Umm El-Jamal, near El-Maleh, in the Jordan Valley, and demolished a sheepfold that had been built by one of the residents so his sheep were protected against the rain and cold. They warned him not to dare to rebuild it.
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On Thursday, 24th December, 2015, government representatives escorted by police came to demolish El'Araqib, yet again.
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Don’t say we did not know #481

Confiscation of land in the West Bank or its declaration as state land is a lengthy procedure. Seldom do we learn about these activities as they are happening in real time. I regard land confiscation and its declaration as state land to be a matter of special importance, for the simple reason that these are “legal” means to get the Palestinians’ feet off the land. Driving Palestinians from their land is at the heart of the conflict.

On 30th December, 2015, Palestinians reported the confiscation of 300 dunums (dunum=1000 sq.m) of land belonging to the Palestinian village Fasayil, in the Jordan Valley. To the best of our knowledge, the land was proclaimed state land in 1999, and is situated just over a kilometre north of the settlement Yafit. During the past year, settlers planted palm trees there and established a plant nursery, using about 250 dunums.

Questions & queries: amosg@shefayim.org.il


Don't say we did not know #482

On 22nd December, 2015, the IDF started carrying out earthworks on the lands of Shufa, next to the military base near Avnei Hefetz settlement. The Palestinian landowners were given no prior notice as to the incursion onto their land. It is worth noting that the settlement Avnei Hefetz was established in 1987 on 44 dunums. Today it spreads across some 3,000 dunums, expropriated from local Palestinian villages (dunum=1000 sq.m). The Palestinian landowners whose land borders the settlement are only permitted limited access to their land.

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On Wednesday, government representatives, under police escort, went to the Bedouin village Rakhme, next to Yeruham, and demolished a mosque.

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

Monday, December 21, 2015

Pal-Isra: The third intifada is officially in... the joint struggle do not yield to mounting pressure*



The Israeli authorities admit it have no solution or a strategy to stop or even restrict the third "unorganized" mainly individualist and of youth. The mass arrest of hundreds of under age children do not seems to have any effect. The transfer efforts do not stop, and even increase in the Jordan valley, area C, Jerusalem, and even within the 1948 borders. The controversy in the Israeli media is mainly about the admitting it is already one state and about initiating a better Bantustan order before international pressure will force a more substantial retreat from 1967 expansion. The B.D.S. media news are usually restricted only to dramatic additions in it. The Nebi Saleh community is in the focus of the efforts to stop the joint struggle and its Friday demos. In spite of it, the regular Bil'in, Ni'ilin, Nebi Saleh, Ma'asarah, Qaddum, Sheikh Jarrah, West of Hebron Hills are accompanied from time to time by other communities.


Bil'in

Friday 4-12-5
Three participants were injured and Dozens of participants suffered from tear gas inhalation in Bil’in. Three citizens were wounded in demonstration today, Hamza Ghazi al-Khatib was injured by spongy bullet in the head, Wael Abdul Fattah Bornat was injured by sponge bullet in hand and Ahmed Abdul Momin was injured sponge bullet in the leg , in addition to dozens suffered from tear gas inhalation
https://www.facebook.com/PopularStruggle/posts/1203262999702792
https://www.facebook.com/PopularStruggle/posts/1203260446369714
https://www.facebook.com/rani.fatah/posts/10208081331774215
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=796840283758536 me
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10208081329334154 me
https://www.facebook.com/iyad.burnat/posts/1201712489843112
https://www.facebook.com/hamde.a.rahma/videos/1639444109659293/
11-12-15 "Today is the umpteenth time that photographers and civilians were attacked by the military. There was a lot of tear gas used against civilians and houses. Houses where innocent people live, men, women, children and the sick. The soldiers do not care about this because this is a way to intimidate people and to suppress and to create fear so that the weekly demonstrations will stop. Even today another four wounded, including three photographers who were clearly recognizable. So they can not say it was by "mistake". Today I was lucky, because they fired at me, too, but the bullets that were used have hit my wind-shield. I stood next my car and was doing my job, taking pictures. Unfortunately my gas mask didn’t survived today..because I could smell the tear gas. Despite all these attacks on us, we and the protesters will be standing there again next week and we will not let them stop us. As long as the wall stand, we are standing too." https://www.facebook.com/haytham.alkhateeb/posts/10207068166075538
https://www.facebook.com/taki.bornat/videos/1018613718160521/
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=934765133244208
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10207068103673978
https://www.facebook.com/hamza.burnat/posts/934766566577398
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10208164236046585
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10208123879357878
https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2F972mag.com%2Fthe-palestinian-village-that-refuses-to-give-up-on-popular-struggle%2F114703%2F&h=uAQEZ4T3E
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=851371148295552
18/12/2015 https://www.facebook.com/mohamed.b.yaseen/posts/852640468168620
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=852639741502026&set=pcb.852640468168620 best
https://www.facebook.com/rani.fatah/posts/10208167035676759
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10208167020716385 me
israel pnm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEW5Hrx7oTo
https://www.facebook.com/hamza.burnat/posts/937735582947163
http://antinarrativeblog.com/2015/12/19/18-12-2015-%d8%a8%d9%84%d8%b9%d9%8a%d9%86-bilin-%d7%91%d7%9c%d7%a2%d7%99%d7%9f
http://antinarrativeblog.com/2015/12/19/18-12-2015-%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%8A%D9%86-bilin-%D7%91%D7%9C%D7%A2%D7%99%D7%9F/


Nabi saleh

http://antinarrativeblog.com/2015/11/28/nabi-salih%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%D8%A8%D9%8A-%D8%B5%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD-27-11-2015-%D7%A0%D7%90%D7%91%D7%99-%D7%A1%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%97
Today 4-12-5 With over 110 Palestinians extra-judicially killed by the Israeli army, many of whom minors, residents of Nabi Saleh staged their Friday demonstration, defying Israeli brutality. Protesters marched along the main road, which is often closed by the IDF as punitive measure, and confronted the soldiers, who fired many barrages of tear gas and rubber-coated steel bullets. No major injuries reported. Meanwhile, two more Palestinians were killed by the IDF in the nearby village of ‘Aboud and on road 60 north of Ramallah., photos from Nabi saleh Demonstration
https://schwarczenberg.com/nabi-saleh-04122015/img_2155-2/#main
https://www.facebook.com/PopularStruggle/posts/1203265696369189
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=np.1449234893323669.100000233353245
David Reeb https://youtu.be/RY5aNgTTklQ

11-12-15 Commemorating the village's martyrs Mustafa and Rushdi Tamimi, activists from Nabi Saleh marched from the village's main square towards the main road and the checkpoint. Four years ago, Mustafa Tamimi, 28, was shot and killed by an Israeli soldiers who was sitting inside an armoured vehicle and aimed his weapon directly at Tamimi's head. The village's women spelled Mustafa's name with stones, and then some of the children proceeded towards the main gate with footballs. The Israeli soldiers targeted the children with tear gas canisters. They were also using new and improved tear gas launchers that has a much bigger range. In addition, the soldiers also fired rubber-coated steel bullets, injuring several protesters.
For more photos, Please click on the link: https://schwarczenberg.com/nabi-saleh-11122015/
David Reeb https://youtu.be/1OE09EnMSxY
18/12/2015Palestinian protesters of the village of Nabi Saleh confronted the Israeli army. The demonstration, which began near the local gas station, marched along the main road towards the checkpoint, where soldiers attempted to disperse protesters with tear gas and rubber coated steel bullets. In addition, schoolchildren from the nearby settlement of Halamish came out, yelling “death to Arabs” and other racial slurs. https://schwarczenberg.com/nabi-saleh-18122015/
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153083235541371
https://www.facebook.com/belal.tamimi/posts/10153083267226371
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=928942387194151
David Reeb https://youtu.be/1IDRG560B_4



Qaddum

Today 4-12-5, photos from Kuffer Qaddum Demonstration
https://www.facebook.com/PopularStruggle/posts/1203267126369046
18/12/2015 https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153796443737500



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Don't Say We Didn't Know 477
It is International Struggle Against Racism Day! But here we have no such struggle. Racism and its daughter – cruelty – are running wild, unimpeded. After the army yesterday confiscated all the temporary shelters and tents brought by the International Red Cross, as well as rods and other equipment, tonight the people of Al Hadidiya sheltered themselves under nylon sheets. It was raining, not hard but still annoying and wet. In the middle of the night the Israeli army arrived, removed the nylon sheets and took them away.

Don’t say we did not know #478

On Tuesday and Wednesday, 8th-9th December, 2015, IDF soldiers entered the Palestinian village Taban, in Firing Zone No. 918, in the South Hebron Hills region, and confiscated building materials and a vehicle.
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In the Bedouin village El Grein, south of Hura, a Bedouin “self-demolished” his own home, following a threat from the state that otherwise it would demolish it and charge him with the demolition expenses. On Thursday, 10th December, 2015, government representatives escorted by the police came to demolish the floor and foundations of the home.

Questions & queries: amosg@shefayim.org.il

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

Sunday, November 29, 2015

Pal-Isra, The one state the joint struggle try to change*.


You struggle when you have hope for a developing change. You struggle when you refuse to accept the present as the only possible future. You struggle even when the hope is low just to keep your dignity from evaporating. And there are people their rage is so strong that no reasoning can hold them back. Now, when the hope for a better common future evaporated, and the hope for a nice personal future is even lower, the anger of lot of youth is stronger than the preservation of life instinct... it is just waiting for a chancy trigger to pull another boy or girl and send them to a suicide mission. And the mighty Israeli state just start to admit that their brutality reached the wall it cannot overcome. The military elite already stated to reveal it in the open that the new emerging "individualist" Intifada cannot be stopped by force. For those who are not burnt out or desperate the non armed joint struggle is the only sane road.

Bil'in

13/11/2015 Friday 13-11-15, the strangest ever demo in the nearly 11 years of Friday demos. This noon, when we converged at the western margin of the village as the last months, (10 Israelis with the anarchists against the wall initiative dozens of internationals, dignitaries from Ramallah, and the local people) the usual convoy of Israeli armed forces were not there to block our way to the new separation wall.
We immediately reorganized and travelled to the vicinity of the gate of the separation wall. Cautiously we approached the gate... but nothing happened.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10207958920354006
The soldiers opened symbolically the gate to show us the armoured car parking behind it and shut it again. Even when the few shabab youth started to throw stones of them - they refrained from any warning or shooting.
Many of the participants got bored and returned to the village, while the more resourceful moved to the Abu Lamun oak wood where the youth converged.
Soon, the unit of border police which had entirely different mood came with cars, harassed both the youth, and the other demonstrators. The also arrested Mohamed Khatib of the village comity and three internationals.
"Do you want to know what the Israeli occupation commander told his soldiers?"
"Don't get too close to those Palestinians journalists, they carry knives with them. If any of them get close just shoot them."
Watch how six Israeli occupation Soldiers attack and severely beat an Italian man before he was arrested for participating in the non violent demonstration in solidarity with the Palestinian people .Palestinian and 2 Americans were also arrested .
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=p.788946081214623
https://www.facebook.com/haytham.alkhateeb/videos/10206915323774576/
https://www.facebook.com/hamde.a.rahma/videos/1633686963568341/
https://www.facebook.com/hamde.a.rahma/videos/1633671043569933/
https://www.facebook.com/almasrapres/videos/717029138402675/
https://www.facebook.com/hamde.a.rahma/posts/1633639150239789
https://www.facebook.com/mohamed.b.yaseen/posts/838495542916446
https://www.facebook.com/rani.fatah/posts/10207958938154451 *
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10207958920354006 **
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10207958920394007
https://www.facebook.com/anatllanat/posts/788943547881543
https://www.facebook.com/rani.fatah/posts/10207958975835393
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn2gus7k9nA
20-11-15 https://www.facebook.com/drrateb.aburahmah/posts/10208045362434819
https://www.facebook.com/haytham.alkhateeb/posts/10206951463478046
27-11-15 https://www.facebook.com/PopularStruggle/posts/1199624626733296
https://www.facebook.com/ShehabAgency.MainPage/posts/1245761838799567
https://www.facebook.com/rani.fatah/posts/10208040113263778

Nabi Saleh

13/11/2015 "villagers from Nabi Saleh confronted the IDF protesting the ongoing occupation, land confiscation and mass arrests. As many of the village’s youth remain in Israeli military jail awaiting trial, the IDF stages nightly raids, and often closes the main gateway to the village. The Israeli soldiers deployed barraged of tear gas and rubber-coated steel bullets to disperse protesters. No major injuries reported."
International Solidarity Movement (ISM) report via twitter that Israeli Occupation Forces have fired around 20 rounds of tear-gas at the peaceful Friday demonstration, targeting the press. Four International activists have been arrested while participating in the regular Friday demonstration in Nabi Saleh and an Italian man has prevented by the IOF from receiving medical help.
David Reeb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SoOoW5RkVk
https://schwarczenberg.com/nabi-saleh-13112015/
20/11/2015
The village of Nabi Sales commemorated Rushdi Tamimi who was shot and killed by the Israeli army three years ago, during a demonstration against the war on Gaza, operation pillar of defence. Villagers and solidarity activists marched on the main road, when the IDF fired barrage of tear gas and rubber coated steel bullets. A tear gas canister was fired in my direction, causing my eyes an acute burning sensation. Even when I crouched toward the ground, soldiers continued to fire in my direction. The effects of the tear gas then lingered for many hours after the demonstration concluded.
Haim Schwarczenberg https://schwarczenberg.com/nabi-saleh-20112015/
27-11-15 With the number of Palestinian casualties rising over 100, among then several women and minors, residents of Nabi Saleh confronted the Israeli army in a show of defiance, decrying Israeli impunity and calling for an end to occupation and land grab. The soldiers fired tear gas canisters and many rounds of rubber coated steel bullets, which resulted in a few light injuries.
https://schwarczenberg.com/nabi-saleh-27112015
https://www.facebook.com/belal.tamimi/posts/10153052215126371

Ni'ilin

13-11-2015
http://antinarrativeblog.com/2015/11/16/%D9%86%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86-nilin-13-11-2015-%D7%A0%D7%A2%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%9F/

Qaddum

Friday 27-11-15 two injuries with live bullets today in Kafr Qadddom
Qaysar Jehad 13 and Hamza Motee´ 22 were shot in their legs today during the Israeli occupation army to Kafr Qudoum march.
The march began after praying to the eastern of the village but at the first moment we didn't see army so this means that some of the soldiers hide in an ambush because we saw one jeep comes towards us and goes back to give the youths the chance to follow it to let the soldiers arrest them from the ambush.
Suddenly appeared a group of special forces soldiers and shot live bullets caused the tow injuries.
After that the soldiers chased us with jeeps and bulldozer shooting gas and rubber bullets until we finished the march at 3:00.
https://www.facebook.com/PopularStruggle/posts/1199607190068373


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Don't say we did not know #473

The Israeli army persists in its efforts to force the Palestinians out of the Jordan valley. It notified the Palestinian inhabitants of Khirbet Khumsa, in the northern Jordan valley to evacuate because of forthcoming military manoeuvres. The inhabitants were evacuated on Monday, November 2, 2015, from 06:00 AM till midnight. On Thursday, November 5, 2015 they were evacuated again for the same reasons. The army informed them that in the coming week, they will be ordered out of their homes again on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday.

- Continuing an item in "Don't say..." #468 -- The Israeli army told a Palestinian of Umm El Jamal, in the northern Jordan Valley, that he could get back his tractor which the army confiscated on September 16, 2015, if he pay a NIS 4600 fine. A month earlier he redeemed the same tractor for NIS 3700. He was told that the army will continue to confiscate his property until he leaves.
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Fearing state threats that they are forced to pay for the demolitions, two Bedouins from Wadi Gawin (near road 31) demolished their own homes.

On Thursday, November 5, 2015, government agents escorted by police arrived and demolished Bedouin homes. East of Tell Sheva they demolished a home. in Al Fur'a, near Arad, a shop. In El Dardani, near 'Ar'ara, they demolished a home.

Don’t say we did not know #474

On Saturday, 31st October, 2015, Ahmed Nassar stood with an ambulance near a Palestinian demonstration, in front of the IDF base at Beit El. An IDF jeep hit one of the demonstrators. Ahmed and another ambulance crew member went to the wounded person in order to treat him, and take him to hospital. The IDF soldiers prevented them from doing so, and sprayed pepper gas at them. A journalist covering the event was hurt too. Two and a half days later (at 2:30 a.m.) IDF soldiers came to Ahmed’s home to arrest him. During the arrest, they beat him and broke five of his ribs. During his interrogation, it was claimed that he had thrown stones at soldiers in Beitunia (where he lives). When it was obvious that the charge was completely unfounded, he was released from detention.

Don’t say we did not know #475

On Thursday, 19th November, 2015, once again there were clashes between IDF soldiers and Palestinian children passing through the Qitoun checkpoint, on their way to school in Hebron. International volunteers, there to monitor, report that 18 tear gas grenades were fired at the children. A short while later, IDF soldiers fired tear gas canisters in the vicinity of Al Zahra Girls School. Thirty seven young girls were injured by inhaling the tear gas.

Questions and queries: amosg@shefayim.org.il

Don’t say we did not know #476
Even though a stop work order had been frozen until 31st December, 2015, on Wednesday, 25th November, 2015, IDF soldiers arrived and demolished some 200 metres of the entry road to the Palestinian village El Hadidiya, near the settlement Roee, in the Jordan Valley. After phone calls had been made, a Civil Administration officer arrived and halted the demolition.
The next day IDF soldiers came back and demolished three families’ homes and sheep-pens. Since that demolition, the army has not permitted residents to erect tents and is calling for eviction from the site, using threats.
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On Thursday, 26th November, 2015, government representatives arrived, accompanied by police, and demolished El Araqib, yet again.

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

Saturday, November 7, 2015

Pale-Isra - The one state the "realist" Zionists strived for and the (joint) struggle.



In the beginning of the British mandate of the both sides of the Jordan, when Palestine was divided by the UK into two entities - each on one side of the Jordan, the secular national socialists accepted it while the rightist opposed. They still have in their movement anthem: "two sides to the Jordan - this side and the other are ours too". After Israel grabbed 75% of the west bank of Palestine in 1948 war, the Zionist elite of all trends was urging and waiting for opportunity to enlarge its share. The 1956 war failed to supply it but the 1967 one gave Israel all the west bank (and some more like Sinai - which it had to give back). The efforts to transfer the Palestinian out was successful in 1948 war, was less successful in the 1967 war, and much less substantial later - in spite of the efforts. The fear of transfer which inhibited the urge to struggle - both within 1948 borders and the enlarged 1967 ones is gradually dwindling and the non armed popular struggle - though hesitant, is gradually collecting momentum.


Bil'in

16-10-15 Friday demo. 15 Israelis and many internationals Joined the local activists reinforced by exceptional number of youth in the weekly demonstration. The Israeli soldiers confronted us with lot of tear gas shooting.
Due to the northern wind the state forces forced us to regroup out of their shooting range, but they failed to disperse us in the allotted half hour of confrontation.
"Nothing like the surprise effect and once will not hurt, since we harvested the olives in a field on the heights of the village of Bil'in against the wall of shame, my friend Abdullah us proposed a strategy of occupation soldiers approach, coming up behind them, instead of converging towards the wall of the village and be "gassed" quickly ... As is usually the case
The surprise was total all with us that day fifteen young Spaniards, an arrival "in force" as only 2 Palestinians with us ... The other being opposite in relation to us. After negotiations, the military escorted us practically, some even tried the discussion and only after having largely exceeded they sent us their toxic gases .... Just to show their domination! With Gérard
Mohammed Yasin: https://www.facebook.com/PopularStruggle/posts/1179079232121169
http://schwarczenberg.com/bilin-16102015
Bil'in 23-10-15 Friday demo. 9 Israelis with the anarchists against the wall, and some internationals joined the local activists and lot of Shabab youngsters https://www.facebook.com/mohamed.b.yaseen/posts/830569023709098 in the Friday demo. Thanks to the strong mainly southern winds the Israeli forces had a real problem to repulse and disperse us. It took them much more than the usual 30 minutes confrontation till they pulled of.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=781252411983990
https://www.facebook.com/anatllanat/posts/781252495317315
israelpnm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlgyNXFOX34
Friday 30.10.2015 Due to moving the clock but not the demo, the state force fail to come in time. Gradually, about dozen of Israelis with the anarchists against the wall initiative, about ten internationals and many youth of the village and near by villages joined the village activists and gradually we entered the usually forbidden area around the old route of the separation fence. After a long while the state force arrived... and started to confront the youngsters with lot of tear gas leaving the few of us who were near the rote to stand in peace and view their activity from the side of the road (and the stones and tear gas canisters the shabab threw on them).
After a long while when the cloud of tear gas was cleared for a while we left the soldiers and regrouped to the line where the youth and other demonstrators were dispersed.
Long after the usual 30 minutes the state force continue the confrontation a after nearly 2 hours still few of the youth still confronted them.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=783789101730321
https://www.facebook.com/drrateb.aburahmah/posts/10207938117793770
https://www.facebook.com/mohamed.b.yaseen/posts/833335056765828
https://www.facebook.com/bmansour1/posts/10207152305078944
https://www.facebook.com/rani.fatah/posts/10207884304568658
https://www.facebook.com/taki.bornat/videos/1000195150002378/
Bil'in, Friday 6-11-15 demo. 6 Israelis with the anarchists against the wall with few internationals joined the village activists and youngsters. Before starting the demo, while converging to the march, the state forces sent a unit to ambush the youth among the olive trees. The tear gas canister were shot too before we started to march. Though the soldiers came nearer to the village than usual, due to the many gas masques and the southern wind, we just had to retreat nearer the village than usual. After the failed ambush and the allotted 30 minute for harassment, the soldiers retreated to behind the new separation wall and many marched to the forbidden region near it. The soldiers responded with another intrusion and shooting.
https://www.facebook.com/haytham.alkhateeb/posts/10206877870598270
https://www.facebook.com/mohamed.b.yaseen/posts/835838446515489
https://www.facebook.com/anatllanat/posts/786182794824285
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=786182761490955 ***
https://www.facebook.com/hamde.a.rahma/posts/1631976407072730


Nabi Saleh

Friday 23.10.2015
David Reeb https://youtu.be/b6TY4Az6MXQ
Friday 30.10.2015
With dozens of Palestinians killed in the past months by Israeli forces, villagers in Nabi Saleh confronted the IDF to protest this wave of brutality, in addition to continued land confiscations and construction of Jewish-only settlements. Israel, on its part, has attempted to squash these weekly protest through a wave of arrests. In the last few weeks, 15 young residents of Nabi Saleh have been arrested from their homes, including a young woman, They are all being interrogated by the Israeli Shabak as their detention is repeatedly extended by a military judge. Today, the Israeli soldiers fired tear gas canister and rubber-coated steel bullets at demonstrators in an attempt to disperse them. No major injuries reported.
https://schwarczenberg.com/nabi-saleh-30102015/
https://www.facebook.com/PopularStruggle/posts/1185809068114852
https://www.facebook.com/belal.tamimi/posts/10153012188881371
David Reeb https://youtu.be/jQrW1Vs2jW4
6-11-15 https://www.facebook.com/belal.tamimi/posts/10153022382111371

Ni'ilin

October 20 the main entrance to the village of Ni'lin was completely blocked with concrete barriers, perhaps as a form of collective punishment against the very existence of the village. The next day, soldiers invaded the village on the main road and clashed with young stone throwers. When they ran out of tear gas they started using live ammunition. Three young men were wounded one got head injury. Transporting the wounded to the hospital was deliberately denied by the soldiers. On Friday (October 23) fuel trucks that were supposed to go into the village stood near the blocked entrance. After indirect negotiations and fear of tankers loaded with fuel that stand near occupied population that have nothing to lose, the road was temporarily opened. A number of Palestinian vehicles, trying to enter with the fuel trucks, were stopped and the soldiers confiscated the car keys. The drivers and their cars became a shield against stone-throwing. It seemed that the soldiers were relaxed because they were fully shielded and armoured. They passed the time by firing rubber bullets from time to time. A television crew that arrived and settled near the soldiers fled the scene quickly. From time to time even when I was not close to stone throwers the soldiers fired towards me (rubber coated steel bullets). Apparently it was a
http://antinarrativeblog.com/2015/10/24/%D9%86%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86-nilin-23-10-2015-%D7%A0%D7%A2%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%9F/


Qaddum

Friday 16-10-15 - "Right now, Israeli army snipers invade the village and fire copious rounds of rubber costed steel bullets. Thankfully no one has been hurt so far amongst the protesting residents of kufr Qaddum". https://www.facebook.com/amnonlotan/posts/10153666418007037
We shall overcome!
23-10-15 demo in Qaddum and olive picking in Jayus: https://www.facebook.com/abu.sivan/posts/10153690541532500
https://www.facebook.com/PopularStruggle/posts/1182591785103247
6-11-15 https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1033348736687179.1073742018.271405776214816
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ5cypKN8yU


Sheikh Jaraqh

23-10-15
https://www.facebook.com/guy.butavia/posts/10153699035242138

C area The settlers are para-military militants in the front of the transfer efforts of Palestinians which is the core of the Zionist settler project.
bit.ly/1LrhDQx

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Don't say we did not know #471

On Thursday, 8th October, 2015, a Palestinian from Tayassir transported bales of hay to the owner of a flock of sheep, in neighbouring Al-Aqaba. IDF soldiers confiscated the tractor and cart.
Past experience teaches that the IDF will now demand thousands of shekels for the return of confiscated property – the tractor and cart.

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Don't say we did not know #472

Our bus - a bus of leftist peace activists who had came to the West Bank to help with the olive harvest - stopped at the entrance to the olive groves of the Palestinian village, Burin, between the settlements Bracha and Yizhar. As we got off the bus, IDF Jeeps arrived and soldiers - with masks on their faces – prohibited us from entering the olive groves. The harvest had been co-ordinated with the DCL (District Co-ordination & Liaison of the Civil Administration of the IDF). The harvest organisers phoned the DCL. They were told to wait until officers had checked the matter. Meanwhile, the (civilian) security co-ordinator of the nearby Yizhar settlement turned up. I was surprised to see a religious Jew driving on Shabbat. Meanwhile he and other settlers expelled Palestinians who were harvesting near the settlement's fence - even though they had been given permission by the army. Land robbery is apparently permitted on Shabbat... We talked to the soldiers about that, but apparently they were not in the least bothered.

The army probably assumes that leftist activists coming to assist Palestinians with the harvest pose a military threat to the State and to a settlement a kilometre away. Indeed after some officers arrived, it seemed that we (Israeli citizens!) were indeed a threat to Israeli citizens: the IDF proclaimed the area a closed military zone and commanded us to leave. We were afraid that if we insisted on staying, it would cause problems for the Palestinian farmers, so we left.

We had come to help the Palestinians of Burin who are regularly attacked by settlers from Yizhar and the Givat Ronen outpost. We must emphasise that the Palestinian farmers are attacked in their village and their own fields. So, in many places in the West Bank, settlers are taking over land from Palestinians when those Palestinians cannot hold out against the regular, repeated attacks. Usually the IDF does not interfere. On that Saturday, 31st October, 2015, the IDF helped the settlers by driving us out, preventing us from helping or being a non-violent human shield for those victims of the settlers, the Palestinians.

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