At least 30 Palestinian, International and Israeli peace activists and farmers are preventing the Israeli army from bulldozing land near the village of Artas south of Bethlehem on Wednesday morning.At least 30 Palestinian, International and Israeli peace activists and farmers are preventing the Israeli army from bulldozing land near the village of Artas south of Bethlehem on Wednesday morning.
The Protestors arrived to the site after they received news about the bulldozers near the village.
Israeli army is bulldozing the land near the Monastery in order to build the wall in that area.
Troops prevented the peace activists from reaching the bulldozers, and claimed the area as a closed military zone.
Hussam Jubran, one of the coordinators of the ‘Stop the Bleeding of Bethlehem’ campaign told IMEMC that the soldiers did failed to provide any document proving that the construction area is a closed military zone.
The ‘Stop the Bleeding of Bethlehem’ campaign aims at mobilizing more Palestinians to nonviolently resist the wall, settlements, land confiscation and other forms of the Israeli military occupation in Bethlehem.
On Tuesday, the Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements in Bethlehem organized a peaceful protest on a settler road to commemorate the 59 anniversary of the Nakba of 1948.
