Palestine-Israel, The smell of the nearing victory the joint struggle contribute to so much to.

The Israeli media is nearly obsessed with the escalation of the B.D.S. as if they know things they do not disclose. Both supporters and rejectors of the end of the occupation start to regard it as immanent and not in the far future. A section of the Israeli capitalist elite which is suffering from the boycott and fear its escalation start to organize to accelerate the end of occupation. 100 of them traveled for the Dabus conference and official organization was established. On the ground, it seems that the efforts of the Israeli state forces escalate their repression of on going struggles and make more efforts to transfer villagers from strategic locations. Bil'in will celebrate the ninth anniversary of the ongoing struggle on the 28th of February.

Bil'in

Weekly Demo 14.02.2014
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.793621144000315.1073741886.218774474818321
Members of the emerging anarcho-communist Ahdut gradually integrate in the joint struggle.
"The Israeli anarchist against the wall and the settlements, who stand always with the Palestinian against the Israeli occupation.
https://www.facebook.com/hamde.abu/media_set?set=a.3784215899483.1073741891.1699580860
Invitation for Bil'in central march in the 9th anniversary on Friday 28\2\2014
21-2-14 https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=np.125234397.100000233353245


AlMasara

Friday 14.2.2014
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=np.124975114.100000233353245


Nabi Saleh

14.2.2014 weekly protest Israeli forces have brutally suppressed today’s protest in Nabi Saleh as they fired large quantities of teargas leading to the suffocation of tens of protesters including children and women in the protest.The protesters chanted for loving Palestine and against the Israeli brutal occupation and its refusal to any forms of justice and peace.
Israeli forces have also fired rubber coated bullets at the peaceful protesters and declared the area a closed military zone.The protesters who wanted to reach the land threatened by confiscation were not allowed to reach the area and were met with teargas. Clashes between the youth and Israeli forces erupted and lasted for hours.The protesters have also protested the blocking of the entrance to Nabi Saleh with a large metal gate set up by Israeli forces and the Israeli destruction of a tent set up by the villagers next to their land.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.493701597416206.1073741897.202358256550543
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.793582854004144.1073741885.218774474818321
TAMIMI PRESS https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.702363809808102.1073741901.113817528662736
David Reeb http://youtu.be/zN8TrEPAuNc

21-2-2014

The popular resistance committee in Nabi Saleh (Intifada) called for a national strategy to the popular resistance in Palestine in order for the movement to grow and achieve its goals in liberating Palestine.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.705420489502434.1073741902.113817528662736
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.798386093523820.1073741887.218774474818321


Ni'ilin

02/14/2014 demo
israelpnm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQy7cwp5tV8


Qaddum

14-2-14 https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.697235803631809.1073741906.271405776214816
Odai Qaddomi http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSUEoAbaYNM


21-2-2014
The Israeli army suppress the march of Kafr Qudoom causing many suffocated cases Today in K Q march nearly 50 soldiers participated suppression the people who share in it by tear gas canisters and sound bombs and metal bullets covered with plastic. The marsh as usual began after praying with participation of hundreds from the people and friends from international movements and Israeli friends. The army shoot many canisters directly towards us sometimes from guns other times from the jeep. We as people of KAFR QUDOOM believe in our right to use our road free and also believe in such kind of struggle not only to open our road but to end occupation. At the same time and although we face suppression in many kinds from the Israeli army arresting, storming the village, damaging the houses, check points we will not gave up
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.700640763291313.1073741907.271405776214816
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx4s1AVGMEg


South Hebron hills

Harassment of Palestinian farmers and shepherds in South Hebron hills by both settlers and the army continues. These forces take over their lands and prevent them from accessing it. This coming Saturday, February 22st, we will be heading again to our activity in several locations in the area, accompany Palestinian farmers and shepherds to their lands and help them stand up for their rights. Without the presence of activists, many farmers don't get the chance to cultivate their land. There is a direct link between the number of activists who come to accompany the farmers and their ability to live a relatively normal life.


Hebron

"Hebron marked today the 20th anniversary to the Baruch Goldstein massacre in the Ibrahimi mosque. At dawn of 25 February, 1994, Baruch Goldstein, a settler and a physician, opened fire on hundreds of Muslim worshipers at the mosque, killing 29 of them. In Hebron/Khalil, there will be a protest today to open Shuhada Street. The street which was the market street, and the social center of the city, is closed to Palestinian movement since the Goldstein massacre in 1994, including to its own residents who are obliged to climb to their roofs, and exit their homes through adjacent streets. The protest to open Shuhada street are amongst the hardest demonstrations that I had experienced. The army violently disperses the protestors, and the sound of shooting echoes loudly between the houses. But no less difficult than the tear gas, stun grenades and bullets, is the sight of a checkpoint in the middle of the street, in the middle of everything, the utmost meaning of the word occupation."
Friday- February 21, 2014 About two thousand protested in Hebron today, activists from various political parties and organizations,international activists, and Israeli ones (including anarchists) came together in defiance of this continuous closure and restriction of the mobility of Palestinians in their city, calling to open Shuhada street.
The IOF responded with barrages of tear gas, rubber-coated steel bullets and stun grenades deployed against demonstrators in an attempt to disperse them. Several injuries reported. One demonstrator was taken to hospital after sustaining a head injury. Five people were arrested today (Friday) afternoon, and more than 13 were injured during the annual Open Shuhada Street protest organized by Youth Against Settlements in Hebron in memorial of 20 years since the Ibrahimi Mosque massacre.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10152212706102500
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.497462197040146.1073741898.202358256550543
http://www.facebook.com/guy.butavia/media_set?set=a.10152249493717138.1073742012.779192137
israelpnm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W5Bi3tTllY
David Reeb http://youtu.be/ol_NIPL2cL4

Sheikh Jarrah

https://www.facebook.com/amir.bitan/media_set?set=a.797532053595145.1073741899.100000150737581
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Don't Say We Didn't Know 400

On Thursday, January 30, 2014, government agents escorted by police demolished a home in the Bedouin village of Sa'wa in the Negev (east of the town of Hura).
On Monday, February 3, 2014, similar forces demolished various Bedouin houses at the following Negev localities: Rahat, Tel Sheva, A-Sir (south of Beer Sheva), Bir Mashash (east of Abu Tlul) and Rahma (between Yeruham and Dimona).
On Wednesday, February 2, 2014, similar forces destroyed grain crops of Negev Bedouins in Dahiya (north of Rahat), around Lakiya, and at Khirbat al Watan (south of Hura).


Don’t say we didn’t know #401

The IDF’s transfer drills in the north of the West Bank, in the Jordan Valley, are continuing. On Thursday, 31st January, 2014, the IDF ordered 30 Palestinian families from Umm El Jamal (in the area of Hammamat El Melah) to vacate their homes for 48 hours, because of IDF maneuvers in the area. After 14 hours, the residents returned.
On Monday, 10th February, 2014, government representatives accompanied by police came to demolish Bedouin crops in the Negev, at Qatamat, west of Highway 80, and at Tel ‘Arad, north of Highway 31. The next day, Tuesday, they went on to destroy crops in Wadi El-Na’am, near Ramat Hovav. On Wednesday, the same action took place in Umm Batin, east of Beersheba.
On Thursday, 13th February, 2014 they demolished El-Araqib, again.

Amos Gvirtz


Social Struggle

Thursday 20-2-14, victims of gentrification in process of a small neighborhood of Tel Aviv - Givat Amal, were joined by the "Not Nice" activists and members of the anarchist-communist Ahdut in a demo at the compound of the tycoon who own the project
אתמול עם הלא נחמדים ותושבי גיבעת עמל אצל תשובה ברמת פולג
https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/t1/p180x540/1911745_756654637693057_1849015731_n.jpg

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* From my blog at: http://ilanisagainstwalls.blogspot.com - See at the blog previous reports about the the 11 years of joint struggles the Anarchists Against the Wall take part in.
See also:
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

Palestine-Israel, Just another week of joint actions against the occupation and transfer*

The struggle at Ein Hiljeh continued till Thursday night. The Israeli state forces harassed the activists along the week but due of the mounting world pressure refrained from arresting the activists even during the eviction only detained for short time few of them. Instead, they hit and injured dozens of them. The mounting effects of the B.D.S. start to panic the Israeli elite and significant part it start to pressure the government to yield to the imperial demands. The Israeli media is contemplating on it daily. The ongoing grass roots struggle continue though not invigorate yet. The struggle against the crawling transfer - mainly in the Jordan valley, the south of Hebron hills and Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem continue. The anarchist communist organization Ahdut increase its involvement in the joint struggle against the occupation with the Bil'in grass root popular activists.

Bil'in

Surprises in Bil'in never end. Half an hour at the gate and a march along the wall to the Abu Lemon grove and no tear gas grenades or shock ones thrown on us. 17 Israelis + twenty internationals and dozens of Bil'iners, complained about the missing weekly dose of tear gas to which we are addicted. Only after repeated requests by using stones when we almost given up, we got a dose of the tear gas accompanying by the usual end of the demonstration barrage of it. Six members of Ahdut waved proudly black flags and redNblack ones.
Border police escape armored car after tear gas canister explosion https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=658243630907287
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2556140/Israeli-soldiers-left-red-faced-red-eyed-tear-gas-cannisters-explode-military-vehicle.html
RedNblack flags in Bil'in
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=789113724451057
Israel video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JaTNSD8YDo
Yigal Levin "https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100004272993501&sk=photos&collection_token=100004272993501%3A2305272732%3A69&set=a.288019114683853.1073741838.100004272993501&type=1"

Ein Hiljeh Thursday night

Israeli army and police forces evicted residents of the week-old protest village of Ein Hiljeh in the southern Jordan Valley overnight Thursday. All of the Palestinian activists were forced to leave and a number of them were injured during the eviction. Israeli forces confiscated all of the supplies, equipment and property at the site, including a few cars
31 people sent to hospital and many more injured as 1000 Israeli troops storm and evicted
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=782187941811266
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBmMoP2ZA-s

Ma'asara

Weekly protest 7.1.2014 In Ma'asara today a protest took place against Israeli occupation and it was stopped and not allowed to reach the confiscated lands of the village.
Demonstration protested the brutal eviction of Ein Hijlehn


QUDOOM

"4 people injured and tenths suffocated during the march today
The Israeli army attacked the march of KAFR QUDOOM village today with tear gas canisters and sound bombs and metal bullets causing 4 people injured as following:
Saqir Obaid 58 years canister in head after hitting ground (its easy one).
Kamil barham 23 metal bullet in hand
Nasir shtaiwi 43 metal bullet in leg
Mahmoud riyad 5 years canister in his leg.
The army shoot hundreds of direct canisters towards the people and use rubber bullets frequently .
I send you email last Friday how the soldiers deal with us when the feel that U N is in kafr qudoom today no UN so they practice their job by shooting and chasing and trying to arrest ….etc."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5pm9z_8R3Y&feature=youtu.be


Sheikh Jarrah

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152188912854183
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Don't say we didn't know #399
On 22nd, 24th and 27th January 2014, settlers from Itamar invaded the neighboring Palestinian village, Beit Furiq, and threw stones at people, cars and homes.
The residents tried to get them out and called the Civil Administration (IDF) to complain about the attacks. The soldiers who arrived shot at the residents and wounded two of them. Then those soldiers evicted the settlers and detained none of them.

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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:
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

Palestine-Israel, The joint struggle continue with self assurance and without illusions

At the beginning, the joint struggle was focused on specific routes of the separation fence. There were some achievements and many villages dropped from the regular struggle. The hope for a wide spread popular struggle was not fulfilled, but additional struggles were initiated and the struggles networked with sporadic joint actions. Lately the network of joint popular struggles started regular actions - the Ein Hijleh is the second one. The continued struggle draw the international attention and give essential base to the B.D.S. The persistent struggle saw seeds in the subterranean ferment that may sprout without a warning in the appropriate conditions. The persistence and the approaching avalanche of the B.D.S. energize the more far sighted activists. The joint struggle in Bil'in, Ni'ilin, Ma'asara, Nebi Saleh, Shikh Jarrah, Quaddum, and South of Hebron Hills keep going and hold the flag of struggle high.

EinHijleh‬

"The Palestinian coordination of the popular struggles Launch “Melh Al-Ard” Campaign by Reviving Ein Hijleh Village in the Jordan Valley"

Hundreds of Palestinians announced today the launching of “Melh Al-Ard” (Salt of the Earth) campaign by reviving the village of Ein Hijleh in the Jordan Valley on land belonging to the Orthodox Church and St. Gerassimos monastery. The campaign is launched in refusal of Israeli policies aimed at Judaizing and annexing the Jordan Valley.

Campaign organizers and participants declared:

We, the daughters and sons of Palestine, announce today the revival of Ein Hijleh village as part of Melh Al-Ard campaign in the Jordan Valley. The action aims at refusing the political status quo, especially given futile negotiations destroying the rights of our people for liberation and claim to their land.

Accordingly we have decided to revive an old Palestinian Canaanite village in the Jordan Valley next to so called “Route 90” linking the Dead Sea to Bisan. The action is part of a continuous step against the Israeli occupation’s plan to take over and annex the Jordan Valley. This step is a popular act against Israeli oppression of the Palestinian people and the constant Judaization of the land.

From the village of Ein Hijleh, we the participants announce that we hold tight to our right to all occupied Palestinian lands. We refuse Kerry’s Plan that will establish a disfigured Palestinian state and recognizes the Israeli entity as a Jewish State. Such a state will turn Palestinians living inside lands occupied in 1948 into residents and visitors that can be deported at anytime. We affirm the unity of our people and their struggle wherever they are for our inalienable rights.....

... Based on our support of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement (BDS) we call upon our friends and international solidarity groups to stand with the demands of the Palestinian people and boycott all Israeli companies including Israeli factories and companies that work in the Jordan Valley and profit from Palestinian natural resources...”

Over 300 Palestinians participate in the action which started Friday in parallel to the regular joint struggles. More than 100 Palestinian activists manage to cross a flying Israeli Army Checkpoint on their way to Ein Hijleh
establishing now a new Palestinian village "Ein Hijleh" in the Jordan Valley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTwPt5Y18Ao
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=655071547872083
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=784753548220408
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=769558093062998
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=784807931548303

"Israeli occupation forces are now surrounding Ein Hijlah village and shoot sporadic fire around to terrorize the activists...The Israeli occupation forces are getting ready to storm the village and evict the the activists... but due to international attention restricted to sporadic harassments like confiscated the water brought to our village by the medical relief team so we decided to go and reclaim it back from the soldiers and we succeeded. Afterwards we had a little protest on the main road to send out a message that no one confiscates what is ours!"
https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/t1/p200x200/1609977_785976608098102_526924377_n.jpg
https://www.facebook.com/PopularStruggle/posts/785987338097029

Monday morning BREAKING: The army is raiding the village in these moments. 4 jeeps of Israeli Forces and 10 soldiers are raiding the village, trying to enter Ein Hijleh, pushing the youths and looking for confrontation. It seems they are counting how many people are in the village.
Photos of the Israeli forces raiding the village as we try to figure out why they are raiding and our attempt to stop them, we finally managed to kick them out!
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=786429174719512
Tuesday noon and the Israeli state forces are still refraining from the full eviction of the activists.

Nabi Saleh

Demonstration against the occupation
yisraelpnm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deLgm9taQTY
David Reeb http://youtu.be/skjAAyYyRTs

Qaddoum

Today at the weekly Kufr Qaddoum Demonstrations Against Settlement, https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kufr-Qaddoum-Demonstrations-Against-Settlement/381334978581576 The Israeli military treated the protesters with silk gloves, let them advance further (inside the village) than usual, and fired relatively symbolic amounts of tear gas canisters (directly at our faces).
Why?? because of the (coordinated) presence of a UN observer.
Of course, the shabab still stoned the invading force of complacent armored soldiers.
vid: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10152209286917037

One of the officers took the effort to talk/lecture the crowed. Here's some of his gems:
"Thank you for not throwing the rock"
"you don't come forward and we go back now..."
"Maybe we can work this out"
"Thank you for stop throwing stones, that is very mature of you"

Wanna know what every other demo (and most every other day) in Kufr Qaddum looks like? See, for instance, some of Odai Qaddomi photography's videos here:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10152209286917037
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi2HXW9P7xVc72rX9bs1CdA
More pix from today: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.690727424282647.1073741903.271405776214816


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.

South of Hebron Hills

Harassment of Palestinian farmers and shepherds in South Hebron hills by both settlers and the army continues. These forces take over their lands and prevent them from accessing it. This Saturday, February 1st, we will be heading again to our activity in several locations in the area, accompany Palestinian farmers and shepherds to their lands and help them stand up for their rights.
Without the presence of activists, many farmers don't get the chance to cultivate their land. There is a direct link between the number of activists who come to accompany the farmers and their ability to live a relatively normal life.


Tel Aviv

A vigil of the anarcho-communist Ahdut (unity) in front of the Ukrainian embassy in protest of the harsh suppressing of the uprising against the transformation of the country to s fascist state.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=745695838788937

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Don't Say We Didn't Know 398
On Monday, January 20, 2014, the Israeli army ordered residents of the Palestinian Jordan Valley villages of Ibzik (north of Tubas) and Khirbet Yarza (east of Tubas) to evacuate their villages for a while, due to army maneuvers in the area. The villagers refused. The army carried out its maneuvers around them, and they had to remain indoors.
On Wednesday January 22, 2014, the Israeli army demolished two homes in Ibzik and two homes in Khirbet Yarza. It also demolished another 16 livestock pens in both villages.
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On Monday January 20, 2014, government agents escorted by police arrived and demolished yet again the Bedouin village of Al Arakib in the Negev. The police arrested one of the villagers and released him the next day. Another resident was also arrested the next day.
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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:
http://awalls.org http://ilan.shalif.com/anarchy/glimpses/glimpses.html
http://awalls.org http://ilan.shalif.com/anarchy/glimpses/glimpses-heb.html
http://awalls.org http://ilan.shalif.com/anarchy/glimpses/glimpses-it.html
Ahdut (Unity) blog: http://unityispa.wordpress.com/

Palestine-Israel, the future is knocking on the door of the joint struggle.

The Israeli media is ongoing reporting on the Israeli elite of the boycott on Israel that not only became significant economically and politically but also just two steps from avalanche. Lot of activists who do not understand that the battle will not be resolved here but in the international area lost heart as the immediate gains are small. They do not understand that the local struggle is the Archimedes point the lever of the B.D.S. is leaning on. So, the joint struggle continue. The international activists who come here carry the struggle in their countries when they return home. Whether understanding the importance of the joint struggle or not, hundred Israelis, and hundreds of Palestinians are every weekend in Bil'in, Ni'ilin, Ma'asara, Nebi Saleh, Qaddum, Sheikh Jarrakh, South of Hebron Hills, and sporadicly in other locations too.


Bil'in

Ten Israelis, dozen internationals and two dozen Palestinians demonstrated this Friday in Bil'in. When we reached the gate in the wall, Israeli state forces threatened us but did nothing. After a while we started to go to the south, along the wall, and the state forces started to shoot tear gas on the shabab located in the Abu Lamun Oaks wood,, and shoot in the ankle one of them with live ammunition. When the intensity of the tear gas was overwhelming we started to return to the village.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=ms.779945062034590.779945055367924.779945048701258.779946048701158.779945915367838.779946012034495.bps.a.779944862034610.1073741880.218774474818321
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10203036149567628
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.779944862034610.1073741880.218774474818321


Nabi Saleh

Weekly protest 24.1.2014

Clashes erupted in Nabi Saleh today when Israeli forces repressed the peaceful protest chanting for freedom in the village, and declared the village a closed military zone. It was reported that a military plane was flying over the village during the protest taking images of the village and people in the protest.
Tens of protesters suffocated from tear gas fired by Israeli forces while they demonstrated against Israeli occupation.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.779952455367184.1073741881.218774474818321
israelpnm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNCK5EKAfoI


Qaddum

Many injured cases including children, and journalists -- Really I didn’t know from where I will begin just I want to say that this demonstration is one of the most aggressive since the beginning.
More than 600 hundred persons participate our march today beside our friends from (SFP-ISM- and activists from ISRAEL-and many other internationals) tenths of soldiers and bulldozer and jeeps attacked our town shooting hundreds of tear gas canisters towards the people and houses also targeting journalists many times. We can summarize what happened as follows: More than 60 people suffocated from tear gas.
Besan Murad shtaiwi 2 months suffocated when the army targeted the house and broke the window so the gas get inside the house causing this case but she is now ok.
Jaafar Shtayeh photographer of France agency shoot directly by two canisters one in his hand and the other in his back(he went to hospital)
Naser Braham 44 rubber bullets in his back,
Sobhi Mansour 14 rubber bullet in his leg.
Modar Abbas 35 canister in his back.
Abdullah Salem two canisters in his stomach.
Salemah shtaiwi 70 suffocated in her house
24-1-2014


"NOW in Kafr Qaddum: At least five Palestinian protesters and one journalist injured as Israeli army forces shoot massive amount of tear gas at the weekly demonstration against the occupation, January 24, 2014".

Yotam Ronen/Activestills.org https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151874640272073
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=687507127938010


Israeli TV channel two reports on the expanding BDS campaign. The report is very self victimizing, and very lacking in self awareness. It questions the world for boycotting Israeli, not Israel for occupying Palestine. In fact it seems like the reporter thinks that Israel is doing nothing wrong, and just by chance finds itself as the international scapegoat.

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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: http://awalls.org http://ilan.shalif.com/anarchy/glimpses/glimpses.html http://ilan.shalif.com/anarchy/glimpses/glimpses-heb.html Ahdut (Unity) blog: http://unityispa.wordpress.com

Palestine-Israel, Another look at the joint struggle against the occupying force and settlers*

The clash that was lately in Ramalla between the Palestinian authority police and strikers demonstration of employees of the United Nation agency stress it again: The activists of the anarchists against the wall initiative and many of the international and even many Palestinians join the struggle against occupation and settler project period. The expectation from a Palestinian state are low and marginal, and very few have any illusions about the expected freedom in the "free Palestine" they chant. The intensifying international pressure on Israel bring an hesitant hopes about the nearing changes in the region. And the joint struggle continue in Bil'in, Ni'ilin, Nebi Saleh, Qadumm, Ma'asara, Sheikh Jarah, and South Hebron Hills, with hesitant contemplations to join from other villages.

Beit Ommar

South West Bank Committee organized today a protest in front of El Azar Illegal colony, South Bethlehem, the activists blocked the main entrance of the illegal colony and were then attacked by the colony's security together with Israeli occupation soldiers and police. The Activists later after the protest planted 100 olive trees in the endangered land adjacent to the illegal colony of El Azar, the activists were attacked again by the Israeli occupation soldiers and police who tried to prevent the planting activity, 13 January, 2014.


Bilin

Friday weekly demonstration 10.01.2014.
17 Israelis, a dozen internationals, and about 30 Bil'iners participated. We marched chanting to the gate in the wall.
Surprisingly state forces refraining from harassing us till activists tried to close the outer gate of the fence "protecting the wall. Even then they just threw some sound grenades. Only when the demo there was declared closed the tear gas shooting on the shabab youth started and the confrontation with them intensified.
After a long while the adults returned to the village while the shabab continued the confrontation with the Israeli force.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.771784786183951.1073741872.218774474818321
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=np.123790239.100000233353245
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM4-sP8xm74

17-1-14

Today we were half a dozen Israelis, two dozen internationals and two dozen Biliners. The fucked state force were exceptionaly passive and started to shower us with tear gas only after the demo end was declared. Among the flags were two redNblack ones.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10202244584969025
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10151842383520060
Miko Peled taken to the Ambulance after he can't breathe from the Israeli tear gas , and the coordinator of the Po...
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3673890821425

Al-Ma'asara

Weekly protest 10.01.2014 The Israeli forces suppressed the weekly protest in Al M’asara today and detained few solidarity activists for a while. This protest came in solidarity with the Palestinians in Yarmouk Refugee camp in Syria and against the normalization projects taking place with Israelis.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=771789539516809
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.771789396183490.1073741874.218774474818321


Nebi Salah

Just another Friday joint demonstration the anarchists against the wall participated in... 10.01.2014
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=771788042850292
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.771787972850299.1073741873.218774474818321
yisraelpnm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPgk4sHHJBI
Bilal Tamimi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngNk22B2Hmg
David Reeb http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elt5nJuI3kM

Nabi Saleh - 17/01/2014
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"We are all with Yarmouk," chanted participants in the weekly Friday demonstration in the village of Nabi Saleh. Palestinians accompanied by Israeli and international solidarity activists marched today from Martyrs Square at the center of the village towards Nabi Saleh's expropriated lands, as the IOF attempted to dispersed them using tear gas canisters, rubber coated steel bullets and stun grenades. A few protesters were lightly injured and required medical assistance at the scene.
Haim Schwarczenberg http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.479769802142719.1073741894.202358256550543
David Reeb http://youtu.be/xSHeOYv03dg


Ni'lin,

Israelpn - 17.1.2014 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04wm6nlcY28


Qaddoum

The weekly (10-1-14) demo for opening Kufr Qaddum's road, and the weekly violent military repression
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.680852728603450.1073741898.271405776214816
Israeli forces chase down the youth inside the village of Kufr Qaddoum today. At the end of the video a protester sends out a message in support of what happened in Qusra and demands the opening of the main road to Kufr Qaddoum blocked by the Israeli occupation.
Odai Qaddomi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWERjdGn1F4

17-1-2014
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.684439814911408.1073741900.271405776214816
Bedouin

Negev Bedouins and their supporters from all over the country will demonstrate tomorrow, Thur. Jan. 9 2014, outside premises of the "Bedouin Resettlement Authority" in Beer Sheva (Reger Blvd. corner of Messada St.) at 10:00am. Demonstrators will express outright opposition to the government's ongoing promotion of the "Prawer Plan" which implies destruction of dozens of villages and expulsion of tens of thousands of Bedouins from their homes and land. Implementation of the plan is now entrusted to the hard-liner Yair Shamir, Minister of Agriculture.


Refugees Strike For Freedom, Forth day, Jerusalem, 08.01.2014
yisraelpnm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCMNpEMHqus

Thursday 16/1/14 in Tel Aviv

Hundreds marching now (22:00) in central Tel Aviv against transphobic violence with dozens of anarchists among them..
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152139234179183
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Don’t say we didn’t know #395

On Tuesday, 24th December, 2013 (Christmas Eve), IDF forces accompanied by three bulldozers came to demolish a Jahalin tribe neighbourhood, near the Palestinian village ’Ein Ayyoub (northwest of Ramallah). The soldiers demolished 21 buildings, 14 of which had been used for residential purposes. Sixty one people were made homeless.

On Thursday, 2nd January, 2014, government representatives accompanied by police came to the Bedouin village Wadi El-Na’am in the Negev and demolished two homes, making 11 people homeless.

Questions and queries: amosg@shefayim.org.il
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Tel Aviv, 18/1/14

On the "Social Justice" assembly in Rabin (city) Square activists of "not-nice" initiative and members of the anarcho-communist "unity" tryed to take over the stage and prevent MK Ilan Gilon from speaking, following the refusal of the organizers to allow common people, and social organizations - the "not-nice" "unity", and Representatives of the autistic community, to speak.The."left authoritarians" showed their real face and screamed for the police help to calm the angry activists.
https://www.facebook.com/unityahdut/posts/738634806161707


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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: http://awalls.org http://ilan.shalif.com/anarchy/glimpses/glimpses.html
Ahdut (Unity) blog: http://unityispa.wordpress.com/

Palestine-Israel The joint struggle contribute to the mounting international pressure on Israel*

The change in the political climate in the region combined with the diminishing importance of the middle east oil resources, and the awareness of the world public opinion about the struggle against occupation of the 1967 war, start to have fruits.The first results of the boycott movement worry the Israeli elite. The news in the world media about the joint struggle and the many thousands of international activists which participate in it contribute a significant share. The organized grass root popular comities contribute it share to the political arena of the Palestinian west bank. In spite Israeli state forces harassment the weekly confrontations of Palestinian grass root popular comities and activists with Israeli activists with the anarchists against the wall, international supporters and Palestinian activists from the region, continue.

Bil'in

Bil'in habinti again. A nice and warm Friday demonstration. It seems the nasty commander of the previous weeks was absent. The wind was very friendly. In spite of some sporadic showers of tear gas canisters and grenades we managed to reach the fence "protecting" the gate in the separation wall. We were 15 Israelis (mostly anarchist) with 5 bearers of the redNblack and black flags. There was a big group of guests - mainly Italians, and few dozens Bil'iners. The demo marked three years of the murder of Jawaher. Jawaher Abu Rahmah who dies of asphyxiation caused by tear gas inhalation in 1/1/2011 was the sister of Bassem abu rahma who was killed in 17/4/2009 and both of them killed in the non violent demonstrations in Bilin village against the Israeli apartheid wall.

After more than an hour, the adults started to return to the village while the shabab youngsters continued their confrontation with the Israeli state forces.
Israeli forces fired rubber coated bullets, tear gas canisters, sound bombs and live ammunition which resulted in the injury of a Palestinian Abdel Rahman Betillo (16 years) with live ammunition (Twotwo bullets) in his leg. Another journalist from Palestine TV Najeeb Sharawneh suffocated from tear gas and was later taken to a
hospital in Ramallah.

The peace pigeon is in trouble in Bil'in 03.01.2014
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10202155282696524
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=642352835811036
Ahdut (Unity) in action https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10202937187373820
The bother of Jawaher Abu Rahmah carrying his sister picture in the middle of Israeli teargas
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=642345779145075
Sunny Friday in Bil'in https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151854718025732
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.672335262811172.1073741845.431256660252368
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.767634773265619.1073741871.218774474818321

Nabi Saleh

Friday, instead of the weekly demo the village had an afternoon festival to celebrate the release of a villager after 20 years jail time.
Here the complete album of the celebrating of the release of Saeed Tamimi: https://www.facebook.com/brecx10/posts/476259995807351

Al M'asara

Friday weekly protest 3.01.2014: Israeli Forces tried to suppress the weekly nonviolent march of Al Masara village. Today’s demonstration commemorated 49 years since the start of the Palestinian National Liberation Movement Fateh, also to condemn the detention of children in the West Bank and in solidarity with the Palestinian people of the refugee camp of Yarmouk in Syria.
Dozens of Palestinians and International activists participated in the protest and carried Palestinian flags while chanting slogans against the Occupation. Israeli forces have stopped the protestors from reaching their lands and were blocked using plastic shields.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.767570503272046.1073741870.218774474818321


Qaddum

Israeli Forces heavily repressed today the weekly demonstration of Kufr Qaddoum against the Wall and Settlements. The march counted with the presence of numerous local activists, international peace activists and few Israelis of the anarchists against the wall initiative. The demo high lighted the death of Said Jasir, an 85-year-old man from the village that died two days ago after the Israeli army shot tear gas into his house during a protest in the village. After inhaling tear gas, Jasir was evacuated to the hospital in Nablus, were he died a few hours later.
Violent clashes broke out today between dozens of youths and the Israeli soldiers during the march. A disproportionate amount of tear gas canisters and sound bombs were thrown at the demonstrators causing a lot of injuries due to tear gas inhalation. Aqel Mahmoud Ishtawi aged 24, was arrested by Israeli Forces.
Rani's Photos https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.677581152263941.1073741897.271405776214816
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRV6Gwu3d14


Southern Hebron Hills

Yesterday in the weird south. A dozen of us were detained, our vehicles were all stopped in arbitrary "flying checkpoints", the license of the transit driver was checked three times, but, we should add, we did successfully repair a water cistern with our friend Abu Sabha and his boys above the Tawamin valley. In our presence and with three trucks, the Mur family plowed the entire Tawamin valley earlier this week - three years ago they would be shooed from the place with teargas and arrests.

Tel Aviv

African asylum seekers to strike in protest of Israeli immigration policies
As authorities carry out arrest sweeps in south Tel Aviv, asylum seekers declare three-day strike, protests against indefinite detention, Israel's asylum regime.
Some thousands refugees and many Israeli supporters met for a community assembly Saturday night to plan the strike.
A poster calling for a three days general strike of African asylum seekers in Israel, protesting for refugee rights, January 4, 2013
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151839246652073&set=a.10151598744872073.1073741825.286357017072

Sunday: NOW: Thousands of African asylum seekers gather in south Tel Aviv at the beginning of a march to Rabin Square, January 5th, 2013. The march is part of a three days strike in protest of Israeli policies towards African refugees.
"Today at the refugee´s demonstration in Tel-Aviv, counting over 15,000 participants as part of days of action including further demonstrations and a general strike."
(Activestills.org) https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151840189177073

20,000+ African refugees and asylum seekers marched on Rabin Square today demanding rights, that Israel look into their claims for asylum, and to stop arrests and detentions of community members. The march was rally kicks off the first of a three day work strike by African refugees throughout the country.
https://fbexternal-a.akamaihd.net/safe_image.php?d=AQD3ZK7uzxu0b6oK

Monday, IN TEL AVIV: Thousands of African asylum seekers demonstrate in front of the German, Swedish, US and Canadian embassies to call on the international community to support their struggle against Israel's asylum policies. http://bit.ly/19M4MJR
israelpnm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5_c4qVXogY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIk7y5zgQDs
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Don’t say we didn’t know #393

In 2003, the IDF blocked the main entrance to the Palestinian village Qaddum. Since then, the army has limited the residents’ access to their land (some 11 square kilometers or 11,000 dunams) near that main entrance road, to only once or twice a year. In 2011, the residents started weekly demonstrations, calling for the roadblock to be removed. In response, the IDF started attacking the village. Those attacks include nightly incursions and arrests (about 100 people have been arrested so far). Often, during those incursions, IDF soldiers throw tear gas and stun grenades into residents’ homes.
A poster calling for a three days general strike of African asylum seekers in Israel, protesting for refugee rights, January 4, 2013

On 8th December, 2013 a two month old baby was injured by a tear gas grenade thrown into his home. He was taken to hospital where they saved his life.

On Friday, 20th December, 2013 IDF soldiers carried out a night raid and arrested two people, who were released after a while. The soldiers raided the home of the head of the popular committee, Murad Ashtawi, and interrogated him aggressively. A few hours later, soldiers returned to the village and arrested him. After he had been caught, he was sprayed with pepper spray and taken into custody in Huwwara. By Sunday morning he had still not been interrogated.

Questions & queries: amosg@shefayim.org.il

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Don’t say we didn’t know #394

The Israeli government is continuing its war against its Bedouin citizens.

Four weeks after the demonstration in Hura of rage against the Prawer Plan, nine people remain detained. Arrests have also continued long after the demonstration; on Tuesday, 24th December, 2013 the police arrested a further 23 people, one of whom remains still in custody.

On Thursday, 26th December, 2013, government representatives accompanied by the police arrived for yet another demolition day in the Negev. They demolished a plant nursery in the Rahat industrial zone, a home in Khirbet El-Watan (near a-Sayyed) and yet again, the village of El-Araqib.
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: http://awalls.org http://ilan.shalif.com/anarchy/glimpses/glimpses.html
Ahdut (Unity) blog: http://unityispa.wordpress.com/

Palestine-Israel, The joint struggle not only in occupied west bank not only about settler colonialism*

This week the focus of struggle enlarged a bit to include the ugly racist politics of the Israeli naZionist establishment regarding the refugees. The same strategy of sporadic vicious attacks on the back ground of ongoing harassment and pressure to get out applied to the Palestinians within the 1968 borders and the new 1967 ones is also applied to the 53 thousands African refugees. The racism inbuilt in the Zionist settler colonialism which built Israel and expand it in every opportunity is only refraining from harsher measures because of international pressure. Though Israel never adopted international conventions (with support of overwhelming majority of its Jewish community) it refrain from prolonged defying them. Thus, it did not kill the refugees freely on the border. It just make them as miserable as it can and put increasing numbers in a concentration camp.


Bil'in 27.12.2013

Haitham Al Khatib
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10202105784299095
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10202105750498250
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Nabi Saleh 27/12/2013

Demonstration against the occupation
Israeli forces shot a local female activist from Nabi Saleh Manal Tamimi today with rubber coated steel bullets from a close range. In addition to Manal, two more Palestinians and two journalists Abbas Momani and Maath Mash'al were lightly injured.
Manal was hit with 4 rubber coated steel bullets in her knees and legs and was later taken to a hospital in Ramallah. Another girl from Nabi Saleh was also taken to hospital after being hit with skunk water. Dozens protestors have also suffocated from tear gas shot at them during the protest.
Israeli forces attacked the protestors in the village who protest weekly against the settlements with tear gas canisters, sound grenades, rubber bullets, rubber coated steel bullets and skunk water.
The video below taken by Bilal Tamimi shows the shooting of Manal Tamimi from a close range: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SL_Hdrlsik
Bilal Tamimi: Manal injury https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_emwONlZWI
Yisrael Puterman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqyuewQN_GY
TAMIMI PRESS https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.676265829084567.1073741881.113817528662736
israelpnm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqyuewQN_GY
David Reeb http://youtu.be/kyomV4xiOsU


Qadum

"Hello everyone. What happened yesterday in Qadum is hard to describe. Long before we arrived - around ten o'clock' the occupation army was inside the village. The quantities of teargas fired was unbelievable. The Israeli state forces positioned soldiers on rooftops and fired from there aplenty. Conduct of members of the village was awe-inspiring. The absence of Murad and the circumstances
around the efforts to his release instilled in the villagers energies which are hard to describe in words. The atmosphere was impressive all the villagers demanded freedom.
Some of us know the efforts made to the justified release of Murad which was not sure to succeed. The respect we got from the friends in the village was far above and beyond what we deserve. All the houses were open to us and people came to congratulate and thank us.
One demonstrator was wounded in the head, got treatment in the village including stitches.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.673966079292115.1073741893.271405776214816


South Hebron hills

Saturday, 28-12-13,
A new post on yesterday's Ta'ayush activity. A weird encounter with the police. A weird encounter with a coexistence group. Another weird day of struggle against apartheid.
Israeli police try to block anarchists reaching South Hebron hills:
A police car stops the transit. The cop approaches asking if we’re anarchists. “We’re here to identify anarchists, and send them back!” He explains. He asks for IDs or passports. G refuses, saying there’s a court rule against arbitrary controls that forces police to conduct a search only with a provable suspicion. The cop threatens to detain him if he doesn’t identify himself. Uriel jumps in and presents his ID.
“Mr. V, are you anarchists?” The cop asks.
“Am I an anarchist?!” Uriel exclaims, and shuffling through his wallet, says: “Do you see an anarchist ID in here?”
The group is then released. This possibly immortal scene was captured in a hilarious video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXv0na7ojZg


Sheikh Jarrah weekly demonstration 27.12.2013

https://www.facebook.com/guy.butavia/media_set?set=a.10152125820967138.1073741987.779192137

Tel Aviv

Saturday 28-12-13 late evening. About 15 thousands African refugees and few hundred Israelis converged near Tel Aviv central bus station and marched to the municipal city square.
About 100 activists of the anarchist scene were among the marchers. Half the march was in silence and in the second half the shout "freedom" shacked the streets.
"NOW IN TEL AVIV: Thousands of African asylum seekers hold a 'silent march' to protest Israel’s immigration policies. The marchers are calling for the release of all refugees imprisoned under the Prevention of Infiltration Law, and for the recognition of their rights as refugees. Check back here for developments and more photos: http://bit.ly/1cYPqfU
www.ustream.tv/channel/yomgashum1 "

Jewish Ethiopian women attempted to defend African asylum seekers and prevent their arrests during immigration raids that took place in south Tel Aviv (near the central bus station) Monday night.
Nationalist Israelis also showed up to support the police and cursed the Ethiopian Jewish women, shouting at them racist slogans, including, “Go back to Ethiopia.”
See more: http://972mag.com/nstt_feeditem/photo-ethiopian-israeli-women-attempt-to-protect-asylum-seekers-are-accosted-by-israeli-nationalists/

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Don’t say we didn’t know #393

In 2003, the IDF blocked the main entrance to the Palestinian village Qaddum. Since then, the army has limited the residents’ access to their land (some 11 square kilometers or 11,000 dunams) near that main entrance road, to only once or twice a year. In 2011, the residents started weekly demonstrations, calling for the roadblock to be removed. In response, the IDF started attacking the village. Those attacks include nightly incursions and arrests (about 100 people have been arrested so far). Often, during those incursions, IDF soldiers throw tear gas and stun grenades into residents’ homes.

On 8th December, 2013 a two month old baby was injured by a tear gas grenade thrown into his home. He was taken to hospital where they saved his life.

On Friday, 20th December, 2013 IDF soldiers carried out a night raid and arrested two people, who were released after a while. The soldiers raided the home of the head of the popular committee, Murad Ashtawi, and interrogated him aggressively. A few hours later, soldiers returned to the village and arrested him. After he had been caught, he was sprayed with pepper spray and taken into custody in Huwwara. By Sunday morning he had still not been interrogated.

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: http://awalls.org http://ilan.shalif.com/anarchy/glimpses/glimpses.html