At 1:30 in the morning on July 19th armed Israeli soldiers drove into Bil'in under the cover of the pitch black night, and raided the house of well known activist Wajeeh Burnat, one of the main characters in the film Bil'in Habibti. This time, the raid was conducted to take Ahmad, his 17 year-old son.
Soldiers and Border Police officers attacked a peaceful demonstration in the Old City of Hebron today. A Palestinian, an Israeli, a Swede and three French activists were arrested.
Israeli forces arrested Lusia Morgantini, the former Vice President of the European Parliament, and three others during the weekly anti-wall demonstration in the West Bank village of Bil'in earlier today. All were released once the soldiers realized who was in their hands.
More than one hundred people gathered in alMa'sara today to join the weekly protest against the Wall and settlement. One demonstrator suffered a light injury and a journalist was detained.
Abdallah Abu Rahmah's first trial from 2005 had reached conclusion yesterday, with his sentencing to two months of imprisonment and a six months suspended sentence for participating and organizing demonstrations and for walking the streets of his village during a curfew designed to prevent a demonstration. A verdict in Abu Rahmah's main case for which he is already in jail since December is expected soon.
In accordance with a recent escalation in the campaign to expel the nomad residents of the Jordan Valley more home demolitions took place today in the area of alFursiye.
Ni'ilin Popular Committee coordinator sentenced to eleven and half months in jail and nine thousand shekel fine for participation in weekly Ni'ilin protests against the separation wall.
Three videos prove the canister was fired directly at Bassem Abu-Rahmeh, but the army ordered the investigation only after threat of High Court petition