Archive for December, 2005

Today! Bil’in and Aboud to Protest Theft of Their Lands

Friday, December 30th, 2005 | Posted in Press Releases, Bil'in Village, ISM Media Alerts, Aboud village

Palestinian and Israeli Parliament members and Rachel Corries Parents to join the protest

Bil’in:

Starting at 8 AM on Dec. 30, Palestinian villagers in Bil’in, accompanied by Israeli and international activists, are working their agricultural lands isolated behind Israel’s annexation wall. At 12 PM, prayers will...

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The Tale of Two Outposts

Thursday, December 29th, 2005 | Posted in Reports, Bil'in Village, Photos

A story of Israeli Apartheid

On the left of the picture is the house that Bil’in villagers have built on their land in an area that they are calling “Bil’in west”. On the right of the pictures are buildings under construction in the Modi’in...

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Bil’in: Land Grab thanks to the Wall

Thursday, December 29th, 2005 | Posted in Reports, Ramallah Region, Bil'in Village

Bil’in is a small village located six km east of the green line, west of Ramallah. The village rests on 4,000 dunams (about 1,000 acres) and is home to 1,700 residents, whose livelihood depends on agriculture and work outside the village. Most of the villages land lies between two streams (the Modi’in stream in the south and the Dolev...

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West Bil’in Outpost exposes truth behind the Wall-Press conference Tomorrow

Wednesday, December 28th, 2005 | Posted in Press Releases, Bil'in Village, ISM Media Alerts


The Palestinian outpost of “West Bil’in”, deemed illegal by Israeli authorities, has dramatically highlighted the true nature of the Wall as a means to expand illegal outposts and allow settlement expansion confirming the findings of a report...

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Bil’in Turns the Tables on the Occupation

Tuesday, December 27th, 2005 | Posted in Press Releases, Bil'in Village, ISM Media Alerts


The people of Bil’in are using the symbols and language employed by Israel for the theft of Palestinian land in a bid to hold onto village land that Israel is attempting to annex for the Wall and settlements. Last week Palestinians from Bil’in, with...

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Christmas Stories from Occupied Palestine

Tuesday, December 27th, 2005 | Posted in ISM Digests

1) Christians, Jews and Muslims Meet on the Road to Bethlehem
2) The Tent of Defiance
3) The Palestinian Outpost Strikes Back!
4) Trailer Evacuated and Removed But Bil’in’s Outpost Remains
5) Christmas lights in Bil’in
6) Detained Peace Activists barred from accessing Bethlehem
7) Does Santa get through...

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Christmas lights in Bil’in

Tuesday, December 27th, 2005 | Posted in Reports, Bil'in Village

By Maria and Anna
Bilin 26/12/05

On Christmas day, a day representing love and hope for millions of people around the world, the brave people of Bilin brought a new caravan on their land that has been unrightfully cut off by the Israeli authorities for the construction of the annexation barrier and the expansion of the Modi’in...

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Four articles on Bil’in In the Israeli press

Tuesday, December 27th, 2005 | Posted in Press clippings, Bil'in Village

1) There’s a system for turning Palestinian property into Israel’s state land
By Akiva Eldar, Haaretz

2) Bilin: Illegal outpost may become school
By Ali Waked, Ynet

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Does Santa get through the checkpoint?

Monday, December 26th, 2005 | Posted in Journals, Nablus Region

Huwarra checkpoint is the main checkpoint to the south of Nablus, and probably one of the worst ones that I have experienced in Palestine.

Every time I pass through, people are being humiliated in many ways: screamed at, beaten, detained, forced to wait for no reason, arrested, you name it. Some days it is open, some days closed. Some days...

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Trailer Evacuated and removed But Bil’in outpost remains

Monday, December 26th, 2005 | Posted in Press Releases, Bil'in Village


Class in new structure Today.

At 11:00 AM the Israeli military forcefully broke into, evacuated and removed by crane a trailer placed by the villages of Bil’in on their land cut off from their village by the wall. But, the villagers of Bil’in...

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