Boycott Roundup: US Tear Gas-maker CSI Urged To Cancel Israel Sales
Four activist groups in the US are calling on a tear gas manufacturer to stop providing its products to the Israeli military following the death of Jawaher Abu Rahmah from…
Police Raid Homes of Israeli anti-Wall Activists
Israeli activists who are involved in protests against the Israeli annexation wall had their homes searched by Israeli police.According to a Ma’an News report, Israeli special police forces attempted to…
Child, Paramedic Wounded By Army Fire During Nabi Saleh Weekly Protest
As dozens of residents and international peace activists held their nonviolent weekly protest against the Annexation Wall in Nabi Saleh village, near the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Israeli soldiers…
Israeli Deputy PM: Wall Should Become Official Border For Israel
Verifying the fears that Palestinians have voiced for years (which have constantly been denied by Israel), Deputy Prime Minister Dan Meridor told an interviewer with Ha’aretz newspaper that Israel plans…
15 Injured; Homes Burned by Israeli troops in attack on Nabi Saleh Protest
On Friday, at least 15 civilians were injured and three homes were burned by the Israeli military during the weekly anti wall protest in the village of Nabi Saleh in…
Three Civilians Injured in Bil’in Anti Wall Protest
The weekly non-violent anti-wall protest in the West Bank village of Bil’in ended with two adults and one child injured by Israeli forces, who attacked the protesters with so-called ‘non-lethal…
Two Journalists Wounded In The Weekly Non-violent Protest In Bil’in
Two journalists were wounded and dozens suffered effects of tear gas inhalation during the weekly non-violent demonstration in the village of Bil’in on Friday.This week’s action was dedicated to the…
Dozens Suffer From Tear Gas Inhalation in Bil’in
Dozens of people suffered the effects, on Friday, of inhaling gas fired by the Israeli army in the village of Bil’in, during the weekly non violent protest against the wall…
Baby caught in checkpoint turnstile; face cut, hand fractured
A 10-month old baby was injured Monday when he was caught in a turning metal slatted turnstile in an Israeli checkpoint near Bethlehem, where his face was repeatedly slammed into…
Israeli forces move section of Annexation Wall near Gilo settlement in Bethlehem
Media reports in Israel and the US over the weekend applauded the removal of a section of Wall near Bethlehem, but failed to mention that just meters away, another section…
Construction Speed Increased At Al-walajah
The construction of the wall at al-Walajah has picked up pace, when it is finished it will surround the village on three sides.Residents and NGOs observing the situation in al-Walajah…
Israel To Expropriate 30 Dunams Near Hebron
The Israeli Authorities decided to illegally expropriate 30 Dunams of Palestinian lands that belong to villagers of Beit Ola, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron. Local farmers said…
Israeli forces attack weekly anti-Wall protest near Bethlehem
Local sources reported that six Palestinian protesters sustained bruises when Israeli forces attacked an anti-Wall rally in Beit Jala with clubs and rifle butts.The protest began on Sunday afternoon after…
Soldiers Attack Weekly Protest In Ni’lin
As Palestinian residents in Ni’lin village, near Ramallah, held their weekly nonviolent protest together with international peace activists, Israeli soldiers attacked them and fired gas bombs and rubber coated bullets.Several…
154,000 Palestinians Of Jerusalem Isolated From The City
The al-Quds International Institution reported that the Israeli Authorities are continuing the construction of the annexation wall and Jewish settlements leading to the isolation of more than 154,000 Palestinians of…
Teachers Not Allowed Into School Isolated Behind The Wall
For the second day, Israeli soldiers prevented on Thursday teachers of the Al Dab’a School, totally isolated behind the Annexation Wall in Qalqilia district, from reaching the school, and demanded…
Dutch Photographer Wins Award For Ni’lin Photo
A Photographer from Holland won the Silver Camera Award for a picture he took of the Israeli army showering the nonviolent protesters in Ni’lin village, near Ramallah, with tear gas.…
Army Invades Bil’in, Soldiers Say “we Are Just Doing Our Job”
In a rather familiar scene in the village of Bil’in near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, Israeli troops invaded the village, once again, and stormed the house of…
Coordinator Of Stop The Wall Campaign Imprisoned By Israel
Jamal Juma’, coordinator of the Stop the Wall Campaign, is in an Israeli jail – the latest in Israel’s attempt to silence Palestinian non violent resistance. Israeli security first summoned…
Marking The Fall of Berlin Wall, Palestinians Down Section Of The Annexation Wall In Bil’in
Dozens of protesters reenacted the 20the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall by downing part of the Israeli Annexation Wall built on local Palestinian lands near the Qalandia…
The Daily Harassments at Qalandiya Checkpoint
Qalandiya Monday afternoon, 2.11.2009 Phyllis W. and Natanya G. (reporting) 15:30: We drove past Atarot CP on our way to Qalandiya. Twenty-five vehicles were wending their way slowly past the…
Soldiers attack a peaceful protest in Ni’lin
Israeli soldiers attacked on Sunday a nonviolent protest against the Annexation Wall in Ni’lin village, near the West Bank city of Ramallah. Soldiers fired gas bombs causing several injuries and…
Israeli Court orders rerouting a section of the Wall near Jerusalem
After two petitions were filed against the route of a section of the Annexation Wall near Jerusalem, the Israeli High Court of Justice decided to reroute the Wall in order…
Israel agrees to dismantle sections of the Wall near Qalqilia
Israel finally agreed o dismantle a 2.4 Kilometer section of the Annexation Wall north of Qalqilia in the northern part of the West Bank. The decision came after five years…
Israel agrees to demolish part of illegal wall
Israel says that it will demolish the illegal wall separating Palestinians from their land north of Qalqalya. Israeli sources report that the Israeli Army has agreed to demolish the illegal…
The Israeli army bans Jenin’s City farmers to reach their lands behind the wall.
Local sources reported that the Israeli army refused to give the farmer’s of Najla village in the West Bank city of Jenin permission to reach their farm lands behind the…
Al Khader village stages a nonviolent protest at a nearby settlers’ road
Scores of Al Khader villagers, located near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, along with their international supporters conducted a nonviolent protest at a nearby Israeli settlers road on…
PLO calls for implementing the ICJ ruling against the Wall
The National and International Department at the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) called on the various international peace groups and the Arab countries to act in order to achieve the implantation…
Palestinians in Jerusalem protest against the Wall
Marking the fourth anniversary of the advisory ruling of the International Court of Justice in which it ruled that the Israeli Annexation Wall is illegal, hundreds of Palestinians from the…
Non Violent protest against the wall in Al Ma’sarah village near Bethlehem
Around 50 villagers supported by Israeli and international peace activists protested the Israeli Wall on Wednesday midday at Al Ma’sarah village located near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem.…
Non-violent protest against the wall in Azun al Atmeh village near Qalqilia
200 Palestinians supported by international and Israeli peace activists staged a nonviolent protest on Wednesday midday near Azun Al Atmeh village east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia.…
Entire Palestinian village threatened with expulsion
Israeli military forces have told the residents of the village of Arab ar-Ramadin that they will all be expelled from their homes in the coming weeks, as part of the…
U.S. Consulate employee dies of heart attack at Israeli checkpoint
Mohammed Mousa, 63, who has worked for forty years at the US Consulate in Jerusalem and is an American citizen, died of a heart attack when Israeli soldiers refused to…
Israeli military announces plan to uproot 440 olive trees from Naalin village
In a town that has become the forefront of the Palestinian non-violent resistance to the Israeli annexation Wall, the Palestinian residents of Naalin received notice today that the Israeli military…
Anti Wall demonstration in a Bethlehem village, two Palestinians injured
An anti-Wall demonstration of at least two hundred of the residents of the al Ma’sarah village near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem and dozens of International peace activists…
Army attacks an anti Wall demonstration near Ramallah
Friday afternoon, dozens of residents of Shabateen village , north west of the central West Bank city of Ramallah marched to the construction site of the Separation Wall on their…
Israeli security head: No roadblock removal until Wall is completed
Yuval Diskin, the head of the Israeli Security Service Shin Bet, stated that Israel must not remove any of the over 700 roadblocks and checkpoints that cover the Israeli-occupied Palestinian…
Israeli Army attacks anti-Wall protest near Bethlehem, injures two children
On Friday morning, 150 Palestinian residents of al Ma'sarah village near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, joined by around thirty International and Israeli peace activists, gathered in the…
Several children recently injured by military fire in villages north west of Jerusalem
Palestinian medical sources reported that in recent period Israeli soldiers shot and injured several Palestinian children, and harshly attacked and clubbed others, as they were playing near the Annexation Wall…
Three Palestinian women forced to give birth at Israeli checkpoints since mid-December
The Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has issued a warning to the Israeli military after two different women had to give birth in cars in December after being prevented from…
Residents of Barta’a and the surrounding areas isolated and repeatedly assaulted
Wasfy Qabha, Palestinian Minister in charge of Settlements and the Wall portfolio reported that Israel has increased its attacks against the Palestinians people, and institutions, and that the Israeli Annexation…
Israeli army detonates an explosive device near the wall surrounding Gaza
Israeli army troops found a suspicious device near the wall that surrounds the Gaza Strip, a military spokesperson said on Friday. Sappers unit arrived at the scene and safely detonated.…
Minister of Information slams Israel for detaining a peace activist
The Palestinian Minister of Information, Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, criticised Israel for detaining an international peace activist for 96 hours after he raised the Palestinian flag on a communication tower during…
Bethlehem: activists plant trees in memorial to students killed in Virginia
Palestinian residents and international peace activists, including Americans, and Israelis, held on Friday a protest against the Israeli Annexation Wall surrounding and suffocating Um Salmouna village, near the West Bank…
Israel considering changing Wall route to create “perimeter” around settlements
Israeli sources reported on Tuesday night that senior Israeli military officials are considering an alternative plan for the Illegal Wall, by sealing it around settlements and settlement blocks to keep…
Civilians, activists, ministers and legislators hold nonviolent protest against the Wall in Qalqilia
The National And Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements held a nonviolent protest against the Israeli Annexation Wall in Izbit Al Tabeeb village, near the northern West Bank city…
Non-violent protest against illegal Wall in Tulkarem for Land Day
The Popular Committee Against the Wall in Tulkarem and the National Action Committee organized a nonviolent march for Land Day, an occasion which Fateh spokesperson in Tulkarem, Samir Naifa said,…
Israel to sieze 80 dunams of Palestinian land to construct a Wall section in Qalqilia
The Israeli Authorities decided on Tuesday to annex 80 dunams of farmland that belongs to residents of the northern West Bank area of Qalqilia for the construction of the Illegal…
Villagers barred from their land in Tulkarem area
Residents of the West Bank village of Far’oun near Tulkarem said that they have not been able to enter their farmland since the Israeli army closed the gate in the…
Israeli High Court authorizes Wall construction on Palestinian farmlands
The Israeli High Court of Justice ruled on Thursday that it is permissible for the Israeli Army to construct sections of the Annexation Wall around Israeli settlements in the occupied…
Olive trees planted in western Ramallah on lands now blocked by the illegal Wall
The Palestinian nonviolent resistance against illegal Israeli practices continued in Bil’in on Sunday. The western Ramallah village began its protests two years ago when Israeli forces were confiscating its lands…
Bethlehem student protest against Israeli demolitions at Al Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem’s Old City
Several student blocs from Bethlehem University and Al Quds University protested the Israeli destruction of Al Aqsa Mosque’s Moroccan Gate on Tuesday afternoon. The students took to the streets of…
Living in exile in their own land
In Nu'man, a village of 35 Palestinian families located on Israeli territory, you can hear both a muezzin calling the faithful for prayer in East Jerusalem, and the bells tolling…
Israeli peace activists in Tel Aviv protest against the Wall
Israeli peace activists, members of the ‘Anarchists Against the Wall’ movement, protested on Saturday in Tel Aviv and closed a road using barbed wire taken from a fence soldiers installed…
Residents, peace activists protest against the Wall in Bethlehem
Dozens of Palestinian residents of Salmouna village, south of Bethlehem, protested along with International Peace activists against the Annexation Wall Israel is constructing on their lands.The protest took off after…
Struggling for Education: The gruelling path to school of the students in Beit Ur
Twelve year-old Hamaam Ismael sits down leaning against a massive tree that died after it was uprooted by an Israeli bulldozer to prepare the land for the footprint of the…
Bartaa residents boycott obtaining Israeli permission to move
In the northern West Bank, Palestinians are boycotting increased measures of Israeli control on their lives. Although it will be difficult to be trapped, it would be more difficult to…
A Ghetto Called Israel
As the taxi sped from Tel-Aviv towards Jerusalem, I was struck by the vast open spaces between towns. Occasionally small olive groves and a cluster of small stone houses appeared. …
Bethlehem University student: I could offer no gift other than stones from our demolished home
“I could only provide stones as gifts to the heads of the British churches after Israeli bulldozers demolished our house,” 19 year old Bethlehem University student Motaz told PNN…
‘I was born here 80 years ago. I prefer death than to see the Wall eat my home.’
Twenty Israeli military vehicles stormed Umm Salamuna Village south of Bethlehem to protect four military bulldozers. The bulldozers were massive and there to bulldoze Palestinian land for Wall construction. What…
Wall gate delays transfer of body of a deceased resident for three hours
Even the dead cannot cross through this gate installed in the Annexation Wall section leading to Barta'a village, south-west of Jenin in the northern part of the West Bank. As…
Bethlehem welcomes the world although this year Christmas will be celebrated behind the Wall
Mayor of Bethlehem, Dr. Victor Batarsa, held his traditional Christmas season kick-off press conference and stressed that “the birthplace of Jesus Christ is in its worst economic, political and tourist…
The Olive Doesn’t Fall Far From The Tree
Today (Thusday, Nov 16) is definitely a good day to pick some olives; in fact, with the heavy rain from yesterday, it is even better that we are doing this…
Elderly woman resists further land destruction
A 65 year old woman attracted international attention to the plight of Palestinian olive farmers when she grabbed hold of the trunk of an olive tree, refusing to allow Israeli…
Several meters away from her orchard, four hours to reach it
Um Ibrahim [the mother of Ibrahim] lives only several meters away from her olive orchard, but when she wanted to pick her olive trees, she had to travel for more…
Palestinian Village Near Jerusalem Targeted by Israeli Government
The village of Wadi Fukin, west of Bethlehem, has been targeted by Israeli soldiers due to its water resources, rich agricultural land and its short distance to Jerusalem. It is…
Al Khader village protests against the Wall
At around 1:30 p.m. on Friday afternoon, scores of Al-Khader village residents, near the West Bank city of Bethlehem, including children, supported by international and Israeli peace activists, marched to…
Beit Ummar residents, internationals continue resistance to Israeli bulldozers
For the second consecutive day, the people of the southern West Bank town of Beit Ummar, with support from international activists, have blocked Israeli bulldozers attemptings to destroy Palestinian farmland…
South Hebron Villages Persist to Resist
Today, June 30th, the people of Qawawis accompanied by people from Tuwanwi and other neighboring villages as well as Israeli and international activists demonstrated against the settlements and the wall.…
Israeli Sewage dumped in Brukin village
Brukin village, located in the central West Bank, in the Salfit district, has been subjected to massive sewage dumping from the illegal Israeli settlements ‘Ariel’ and ‘Brukhin’, which are ‘Jewish-only’…
State Must Dismantle and Reroute The Annexation Wall near Jayous and Azoun
The Center for the Defense of the Individual and Palestinian residents won approval, on Thursday morning, for their petition filed before The High Court of Justice. The High Court ordered…
Israeli officials: Wall will be 93% complete by beginning of 2007
By the beginning of 2007, 486 kilometers of the Annexation Wall will be completed, reported Israeli defense Ministry officials this week. This constitutes 93 percent of the 523-kilometer fence route…
18,000 Palestinians in W. Bethlehem villages about to be enclosed into a ‘ghetto’
In West Bethlehem, between al-Khader and the villages to be isolated in a ghetto on the west side of the Wall, Israeli forces have begun building a tunnel under the…
Insults against Prophet Mohammad at wall gates surrounding Qalqilia
In an incident indicative of the general practices of the Israeli soldiers operating at the gates surrounding Qalqilia, two soldiers would not allow a farmer to pass without them knowing…
Qalqilia resident reject a wall reroute that would isolate villages
More than six months after the Israeli Supreme Court issued its decision to change the route of the Wall cutting through Qalqilia in the northwestern West Bank in order to…
Bil’in Protesters demonstrate, through street theater, the suffering of Palestinians
Hundreds of Palestinian residents of Bil’in village, and dozens of Israeli and international peace activists, held their weekly protest against Israel’s annexation Wall in the village of Bil’in, near the…
Farmers in Qalqilia suffer from Wall: I cannot add a thing because all there is, is pain
The hope of the farmers in Qalqilia is that their fruits and citrus will survive the season behind the Wall. Since 2002 farmers have been isolated from their lands, suffocated…
Israeli forces detain a Qalqilia resident for 10 hours because he had a public map of the Wall route
Israeli soldiers occupying the gate that leads in and out of the city of Qalqilia detained a Palestinian for 10 hours because he carried a map of the Wall route. …
Israel resumes construction of the wall near Hebron
Scores of farmers and land owners in addition to a number of residents gathered at their land to the east of Hebron in the West Bank where Israeli bulldozers started…
Israeli Annexation Wall blocks water drainage; one dead, one injured from flooding
After a seasonal rainstorm Saturday night, many Palestinian areas have experienced extensive flooding due to the Annexation Wall constructed by Israel that has blocked water drainage. Iad Salamah Rabi’a, 29,…
United Nations Study: Palestinian land has been divided into separate ‘ghettos’ enclosed by Wall
A report compiled by the United Nation Office for the Coordination of the Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) revealed a new social and economic reality that has emerged in the last year…
Israeli leader: Wall to be completed by end of year
Acting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Tuesday said the construction of the annexation wall in the West Bank will be completed within several months. "By the end of…
Israeli Soldiers beat and arrest two children in Bethlehem
Israeli soldiers arrested on Sunday two Palestinian children, 14 and 15 years old, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. Soldiers ambushed the two children when they came near to…
International Conference Against the Wall begins in Bil’in
A two-day conference in the village of Bil’in, known throughout the world as a focal point of the non-violent struggle against the Israeli Wall construction in Palestine, began today with…
Extended Family isolated behind the Wall appeals for rights
The Association for Human Rights (ASRI) in Israel appealed to the Israeli High Court of Justice on behalf of a Palestinian family against the Separation Wall which has isolated them…
Israeli Military Orders to confiscate more land in West Bank
Israeli military issued orders to confiscate some 300 Dunams (75 acres) from the village of Kufur Thilith near the West Bank city of Qalqilia, Palestinian sources said on Monday. The…
PCBS: 149 Palestinian areas Affected by Separation Wall
The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) reported that 149 Palestinian localities were affected by the construction of the Separation Wall in different cities of the West Bank (WB). In…
Qalqilia students; school and Wall
When you visit the Ras Atiya School in Qalqilia, a question enters your mind: How could such a lovely building be next to such a Wall, Gate and checkpoint?, Students…
Wall to annex wide areas to Israel in the southern West Bank
A Map published in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz of the route of the separation wall sections, in the southern part of the West Bank shows that the wall will annex…
40 wounded in Anti-Wall demonstration in Bil’in
Dozens of Palestinians, International and Israeli peace activists marched on Friday in the village of Bil’in near the West Bank city of Ramallah protesting the construction of the separation wall…
Israel to confiscate land to build a wall near Ma’aleh Adumim
The Israeli army began issuing land confiscation orders for the construction of the Wall around the settlement of Ma’aleh Adumim, east of Jerusalem after most of the sections of the…
Army attacks a peaceful procession in Bil’in, 30 injured
Israeli soldiers used excessive forced against a peaceful protest against the Separation Wall in Bil’in, west of Ramallah; 30 protestors were injured; seven international peace activists and four Israelis were…
Eight injured in Bil’in, 35 arrested including Israeli female-soldier
Israeli soldiers attacked a peaceful protest against the Separation Wall in Bil’in village, west of Ramallah, and arrested 25 Israeli activists and nine internationals. Eight protestors were injured, including one…
Youth seriously injured in Azzoun
Severe clashes erupted in Azzoun village, east of Qalqilia, after the residents held their Friday prayers in lands east of the village that Israeli is trying to annex. One youth…
Soldiers delay ambulance near Qalqilia, patient dies
Israeli soldiers based at the Separation Wall Gate in Kafer Qaddoum village, near Qalqilia, delayed an ambulance transferring and old man to hospital after sustaining a heart attack, the man…
Five injured, 17 arrested in Anti-wall protest in West Bank
At least five civilians have been injured in an anti-wall protest organized by the resident of Bil’in village near the West Bank city of Ramallah on Friday, Eyewitnesses a Palestinian…
Israel to grab more land in Hebron
Israeli authorities on Wednesday issued two military orders grabbing hundreds of dunams of farmlands near the settlements of Kiryat Arba’ and Kharseena, east of Hebron, in order to construct the…
Switzerland urges Israel to dismantle the wall in future
Switzerland, in its capacity as guardian of the Geneva Conventions, urged Israel on Friday to promise to dismantle its West Bank separation wall in the future. Swiss Ambassador Peter Maurer,…
Knesset: ‘Wall will isolate 55.000 residents around Jerusalem’
Israeli ministers decided during a weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday that the Separation Wall will cut off 55.000 Palestinian residents of east Jerusalem. Also, the cabinet decided that the construction…
17 residents injured west of Ramallah
Hundreds of residents, Israeli and international peace activists protested against the Separation Wall in the village of Bel’in, west of Ramallah, soldiers fired rubber-coated bullets and gas bombs at the…