Archive for the 'Bethlehem Region' Category
BBC: Hope flowers for West Bank school
Friday, October 5th, 2007 | Posted in Press clippings, Bethlehem RegionBy Raffi Berg
For the Palestinian children of Hope Flowers School, violence and conflict is a part of everyday life.
Just six km (four miles) from Jerusalem, their village has seen repeated Israeli incursions, shootings and demolitions by the army.
It is fertile breeding ground for militancy, but, at the hilltop...
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Anti-wall Protests: army violence in Bil`in, relative restraint in Walaja
Sunday, September 30th, 2007 | Posted in Reports, Bil'in Village, Video, Bethlehem RegionBy Ghassan Bannoura/John Smith
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September 28, 2007
Christian Science Monitor: Nonviolent protest gains in West Bank
Monday, September 24th, 2007 | Posted in Press clippings, Bil'in Village, Bethlehem RegionIndymedia: Al Walaja resists roadblocks and Illegal Apartheid Wall
Saturday, September 22nd, 2007 | Posted in Reports, Bethlehem RegionOn Friday, September 21st, the people of Al Walaja village, in coordination with international and Israeli activists, came together to protest the Apartheid wall as they have done before. This week however, they added a variation, trying to demonstrate also against the matrix of repression throughout the West Bank, represented by roadblocks in this...
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Non-Violent Protest in Al-Walaja Turns Ugly as Israeli Army Rears its Head
Friday, September 14th, 2007 | Posted in Reports, Video, Bethlehem RegionLet Them East Grapes!
Sunday, September 2nd, 2007 | Posted in Reports, Bethlehem RegionUmm Salumona
For the first time in two months a Palestinian farmer was given permission today to visit his land at Umm-Salumona in the district of North Bethlehem. A large area of land has been annexed by the Israeli military, just below the illegal Jewish settlement of Efrata, to construct the Apartheid Wall, an act which is in violation...
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Umm Salamuna Demo Proceeds, Despite IOF Interference
Saturday, August 25th, 2007 | Posted in Reports, Video, Bethlehem RegionOn Friday August 24 at 12:00pm around 40 Palestinians and 40 internationals gathered in Umm Salumuna, in the region of south Bethlehem, to protest the building of the apartheid wall. The village had been declared a military zone by the IOF, thus preventing anyone who didn’t live there from entering by road. However, this did not make it illegal...
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Umm Salamona: Soldiers Get Rough With Protesters
Sunday, August 19th, 2007 | Posted in Reports, Bethlehem RegionOn Friday afternoon August 17th over 150 Palestinian landowners and their families were accompanied by Israeli and international human rights activists to protest against the Apartheid wall in Umm Salamona and W’laga on the outskirts of Bethlehem.
The demonstration has become a weekly event as residents become more and more determined...
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Bethlehem: Michigan Peace Team Report
Sunday, August 12th, 2007 | Posted in Reports, Bethlehem RegionMPT August, 2007 Report #4
On Friday, August 10, Bill and Peter took a taxi to Al Walaja west of Bethlehem to join in the demonstration against the construction of the separation wall/fence and confiscation of the residents’ land by the Israeli military. When the wall is completed, it will entirely encircle the village, making it a walled...
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