Israeli Forces Continue to Target Non-Violent Palestinian Resistance
August 21, 2009 - 9:53am
Israeli Forces Continue to Target Leadership of Palestinian Non Violent Resistance
http://palsolidarity.org/2009/08/8152
"Once again the night in Bil'in was disrupted by a raid ending in the arrest of one of the members of the Village's Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements. This occurred the night after the children's demonstrations where the children chanted slogans like "We want to sleep", "Stop the night raids"..
The Israelis torture children? How democratic of them.
If you want to find some links, send the village a solidarity message, write your MP (for all the good that will do, tho I suppose it's better than writing the PMO) see this urgent action.
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Why shouldn't those in the Zionist entity attack non-violent resistance? They can get away with it. The rest of the world ignores their atrocities, or at best, accuses their victims of war crimes.
War crimes on both sides in Gaza conflict: UN
The Israeli pogrom in Gaza was a "conflict?" I suppose it would be antisemitic to call it a massacre.
Where's that "Media Bias" thread? Over half were civilians, "many" of those were children.
When the Zionists kill 1400 people, while the Palestinians kill none, yet the UN says they are equally guilty, it isn't hard to see why the UN is hated from Ramallah to Baghdad.
Israeli forces raid Bil'in, beat Popular Committee member
Sept. 16, 2009
Since the trial began Israeli forces have arrested 30 people (most of which are under 18). Twenty-one residents of Bil'in remain in Israeli detention.
Through Israel's interrogation and intimidation tactics, some of arrested youth have falsely 'confessed' that the Bil'in Popular Committee urges the demonstrators to throw stones. With such 'confessions', Israeli forces then proceed to raid the village at night invade homes and arrest leaders of the non-violent struggle in the community.
Two of the three popular committee members who traveled to Montreal to represent the village's case , Mohammad Khatib and Mohammad Abu Rahme were arrested and have since been released on bail....
Another leading Bil'in non-violent activist, Adeeb Abu Rahme, remains in detention since his arrest during a non-violent demonstration on 10 July 2009.... Adib has been charged with "incitement to damage the security of the area."
On 29 August 2009, two additional Bil'in houses were simultaneously raided by at least 40 soldiers, arresting Ashraf Al-Khatib (age 29) and Hamru Bornat (age 24). A local cameraman, Haitham Al-Khatib, brother of the arrested Hamru, was repeatedly forcibly moved and hit, and threatened with arrest unless he stopped filming. Soldiers declared his home a "closed military zone" but could not produce any military order.
The Palestinian village of Bil'in has become an international symbol of the Palestinian popular struggle. For almost 5 years, its residents have been continuously struggling against the de facto annexation of more than 50% of their farmlands, confiscated for the construction of the Apartheid Wall.