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During a demonstration on the 24th of March, Israeli Border Police beat Adnan...

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By Asafa Peled - Yedioth Aharonot 14/4/2006
Translation: Adam Keller

The Separation Fence is closing in upon more and more Palestinian villages. Their inhabitants are cut off from sources of livelihood. Some Israelis are not willing to remain silent.

Matan Cohen lost an eye because of it. Shai Karmeli-Polak...

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On 14th April, my second day in Palestine, I visited the small village of Beit Sira, near Ramallah.

In many other countries the inhabitants of such a village would spend today tending their farms, being with their families...

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Villagers in Bil’in, Beit Sira, and Salem will continue to protest against the annexation of their land this Friday, despite threats of collective punishment by the Israeli Civil Administration.

Bil’in villagers, joined by Israeli and international activists and a Tibetan monk, will hold their weekly demonstration...

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Adnan Ahmad Nimer, a 19 year-old activist from Beit Sira, was taken from his home last night at 2am by the Israeli military. Thirty soldiers surrounded the house, his father opened the door and the troops gathered the family into one room. They singled...

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At 1:30 this past Friday, the Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements in the Palestinian village of Beit Sira, just west of Ramallah held a demonstration against the apartheid barrier being constructed on the village’s...

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The Israeli Civil Administration has threatened to deny workers in West Bank villages permits to work in Israel if their demonstrations against the occupation continue. Workers in Bil’in, Beit Sira, Beit Likya, and Harbata have received threats, but the villages have continued their demonstrations regardless

Last...

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Villagers of Bil’in will hold a demonstration against the wall which annexes village land into the Modi’in Elite settlement.

In Beit Sira villagers will hold a demonstration against the annexation barrier that will mean the loss of land to the Makabim settlement.

Both Bil’in and Beit Sira demonstrations...

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Wednesday was a quiet day in which I caught up with sleep lost to jetlag and fixed my email setup. On Thursday there was a demo in Beit Sira that we went to. It was Land Day, which commemorates a 1976 uprising of Palestinian citizens of Israel. The idea was to plant trees in the land of the village. This was unsuccessful because of the fully tooled...

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Just like many other Palestinian towns and villages, Beit Sira has it’s share of grotesque Israeli annexation barriers and surrounding of isolating settlements. In this case Makabim settlement. An ongoing expansion of land theft has resulted in thousands...

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