Archive for the 'Ramallah Region' Category

Action Alert! Mass demonstration against the apartheid highway 443 and the apartheid road system in the occupied territories

Monday, December 31st, 2007 | Posted in Ramallah Region, Action Alert

This Friday, January 4th, Human Rights activists will meet at a mass demonstration against the system of Israeli Apartheid being imposed upon the Palestinian people. They will protest the network of apartheid roads which dissect the West Bank and which Palestinians themselves are blocked from using.

Tel Aviv meeting point : Arlozorov train...

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Ha’aretz: Twilight Zone / Deer hunters

Sunday, December 30th, 2007 | Posted in Press clippings, Ramallah Region

By Gideon Levy

Dec. 30

After a night of rain, the sun broke through the clouds. Two brothers and their brother-in-law decided to go for a hike in the wild, through the spectacular valley of olive trees, west of Ramallah in the West Bank. Around midday they suddenly noticed a herd of deer descending pell-mell into the valley....

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FFJ: Weekly Friday Demonstrations

Saturday, December 15th, 2007 | Posted in Reports, Ramallah Region, Bil'in Village

Three injured in Bil’in weekly anti-Wall protest


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FFJ: Injuries and arrests at demonstrations across the West Bank on Friday

Sunday, December 9th, 2007 | Posted in Reports, Ramallah Region, Bil'in Village, Bethlehem Region

Four injured and two arrested in Bil’in anti-Wall protest

After the weekly Friday prayers, residents of the West Bank village of Bil’in, near Ramallah and a group of international and Israeli peace activists took to the streets of the village. The protesters carried Palestinian flags and banners celebrating the...

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ACTION UPDATE! 11 Human Rights activists arrested in E-1 Area!

Saturday, December 8th, 2007 | Posted in Press Releases, Jerusalem Region, Ramallah Region

**UPDATE** As of 6:00 pm all of those arrested have been released. But the conditions of their release reveals the apartheid nature of the Israeli courts system. The Israelis and internationals arrested have only been made to sign conditions, the Palestinians alone are forced to go to court. We will see what happens tomorrow when settlers try to...

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Three Nonviolent Protests in the West Bank

Monday, December 3rd, 2007 | Posted in Reports, Ramallah Region, Bil'in Village, Video, Bethlehem Region

Nov. 30

Palestinian villagers protest on Road-443, Israel prevent them from using it


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Apartheid Masked: Demonstrations for the protection the fundamental rights of Palestinians turned ugly

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007 | Posted in Press Releases, Hebron Region, Ramallah Region, Bethlehem Region

On Tuesday, the 27th of November, non-violent demonstrations calling to uphold the fundamental rights of Palestinians turned ugly. In demonstrations across the West Bank, from Ramallah, to Bethlehem, to Hebron, protesters were set...

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Day of Violence at Nonviolent Demonstrations Accross the West Bank

Friday, November 23rd, 2007 | Posted in Reports, Ramallah Region, Bil'in Village, Video, Bethlehem Region

Today at around 12 pm, in the village of kheirbet al musbah, 200 non-violent Palestinian activists, joined by Israelis and internationals, gathered from the surrounding villages to demonstrate against the closure of route 443. The demonstrators marched towards what was once the access route to route 443, but which has been blocked as part of Israel’s...

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Demonstration against Apartheid Roads

Sunday, November 4th, 2007 | Posted in Reports, Ramallah Region, Disengagement

On Sunday, November 3, 2007 , Palestinians delivered a message to Condoleezza Rice on the Israeli-only 443 highway: The segregation that Condoleezza’s parents suffered from and struggled against did not die in Alabama, but lives today in Palestine. The demonstration took place on the side of road 443, above the bridge near Beit Ur that runs...

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Anti-Apartheid Demonstration this Sunday near Beit Ur

Friday, November 2nd, 2007 | Posted in Press Releases, Ramallah Region, ISM Media Alerts, Action Alert

On Sunday, at 10 am, November 4th a demonstration against the apartheid road system will take place on the Israeli-only 443 highway. The demonstration will take place at the bridge near Beit Ur that runs above the Palestinian only tunnel that runs beneath the highway.

For seven years now, Highway 443 has been accessible to Israelis only....

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