Israeli soldiers grab Mohammed Al Khateb during a protest against the Israel’s illegal annexation barrier that’s being built through part of the West Bank village of Bilin. Al Khateb is a coordinator for the Bil’in Popular Committee Against the Wall. — REUTERS/Ammar Awad
Not a lot of time right now to sit down and hash out personal accounts of all that has happened in this blog’s frequently discussed village, but here’s the ISM report, followed with some links to some other coverage. I just like that ISM managed to help get Knesset members, even if just a couple of them, out to a Palestinian village for the day. While I normally enjoy getting to Bil’in for its Friday demonstrations, I was actually in the media office working the phones to hustle media to the village and keep track of where arrested people were being taken, so no tear gas this week. Still, I’d encourage people to site this village in their letters to representatives. This is your tax dollars at work.
ISM MEDIA GROUP — It was a chaotic day for villagers in Bil’in. It began just before dawn with the rude awakening of a military siege, and ended with odors of tear gas, burning tires and the arrest of a community leader of nonviolent anti-occupation demonstrations.
Bil’in has become a flashpoint in the battle between heavily armed Israeli soldiers and the spreading movement among Palestinians to employ nonviolent tactics against the occupation. Each Friday at 1 p.m. villagers have employed dramatic props, costumes and theatrics into their protests of the theft of Palestinian land with the construction of Israel’s illegal annexation barrier. The portion of the barrier being built in Bil’in will cut off more than half the village’s agricultural land, setting it aside for likely settlement expansion.
Read the rest right here.
See also: • Revenge on Bil’in.
• Knesset members get a whiff of tear gas in Bil’in
• Crackdown on peaceful protest under way
• 40 Demonstrators Wounded, 52 Arrested In Bil’in Anti-Wall Protest
• Breaking curfew in Bil’in
Israeli soldiers, in an impromptu act of religious persecution, surrounded the Bilin mosque and declared curfew at dawn, telling clerics they were forbidden from holding afternoon prayer. — AFP/Jamal AruriTags: Israel, occupation, Palestine
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