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Abdullah Abu Rahmah: A Message from Israeli Military Prison on International Human Rights Day

by SR Editor December 15, 2010

I find it strange that the military judges could call our demonstrations illegal and charge me for participating in and organizing them after the world’s highest legal body, the International Court of Justice in The Hague, has ruled that Israel’s wall within the occupied territories is illegal and must be dismantled. Even the Israeli supreme court ruled that the Wall’s route in Bil’in is illegal.

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20 Palestinian fatalities at demos against the apartheid wall

by Haitham Sabbah April 14, 2010

To date, twenty Palestinians, ten of them minors, were killed while protesting the Wall. 20. 5 June 2009: Yousef ‘Akil’ Tsadik Srour, 36 Shot in the chest with 0.22 calibre live ammunition during a demonstration against the Wall in Ni’lin. 19.  April 17, 2009: Basem Abu Rahme, age 29 Shot in the chest with a [...]

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Haitham Sabbah – Israeli soldiers fire on Al Jazeera correspondent

by Haitham Sabbah September 5, 2009

By Haitham Sabbah The Israeli soldiers fired tear gas at Jacky Rowland, Al Jazeera’s correspondent who was covering live event from near the village of Bilin. Israeli forces also shoot two demonstrators with live ammunition in the West Bank village of Ni’lin. Eyewitnesses reported that the Army began to shoot live ammunition towards demonstrators. David [...]

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Roane Carey – Palestinian Revolution?

by SR Editor March 22, 2009

On Friday I went to the anti-separation wall demo in Ni’lin in the West Bank, the same village where International Solidarity Movement activist Tristan Anderson was critically wounded last week. Several hundred villagers were accompanied by Jewish Israeli activists (most with Anarchists Against the Wall ) and ISMers, plus a few journalists like me. The [...]

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