Saturday August 13, 2011 21:31 by IMEMC & PNN On Friday three children were injured, and dozens of children and adults were treated for the effects of tear gas inhalation, as Israeli troops attacked anti-wall protests organized in a number of West Bank communities. Teargas surrounds Palestinian demonstrator (archive image – PIC) Protests took place [...]
Tag Archives: non-violent
Refusing to Be Enemies – Book Review
By Jim Miles | Palestine Chronicle | Aug 11, 2011 Refusing to be Enemies – Palestinian and Israeli Nonviolent Resistance to the Israeli Occupation. Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta. Ithaca Press (Garnet Publishing, Reading, UK), 2011. Israel has always indicated that there is no partner for peace in its relationships with the Palestinian people. Refusing to be Enemies [...]
Ni’lin continues with strong will despite Israeli raids
8 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On the 7th of August at 2:30am, 13 military jeeps entered the village of Ni’lin, took control of its southern region, and proceeded towards the nearby village of Qibya to arrest a Palestinian following an aggressive raid the previous night. Locals curious about the raid have [...]
Palestinians Hold Non-violent Anti-Wall Protests In 4 Villages
Saturday August 06, 2011 03:10 by IMEMC & PNN Non-violent protests took place on Friday in the central West Bank villages of al-Nabi Saleh, Bil’in, and Nil’in in addition to al-Ma’ssara in the southern West Bank. Tear gas at non-violent anti-Wall protest (archive image by PressTV) Local and international protesters were tear gassed today as [...]
Tent protests panic Netanyahu (and just might shake foundations of occupation)
by Dena Shunra on July 31, 2011 | Mondoweiss The Globes financial daily, which tends to lean towards free-market libertarianism, puts the word Panic in big, bold letters right over the picture of Netanyahu. (picture thanks to Didi Remez) Netanyahu does, in fact, have something to panic about. 150,000 Israeli citizens were out in [...]
Israeli troops to use putrid gas to disperse protest rallies
[ 30/07/2011 - 09:09 AM ] NAZARETH, (PIC)– The Israeli army plans on using putrid gas to disperse potential upcoming protests, Israel’s Ynet has reported. The Israeli war ministry has spent a total of US $22 million on ”anti-riot” weapons as Israel’s military gears up for possible riots, the paper also said. The sickening gas [...]
Israel’s war on nonviolent protest
Jonathan Cook |The Electronic Intifada |Nazareth |19 July 2011 Israel’s crushing of nonviolent protest will leave violence as the only remaining option. (Oren Ziv /ActiveStills) It was a Palestinian legislator who made the most telling comment to the Israeli parliament last week as it passed the boycott law, which outlaws calls to boycott Israel or [...]
Israel stops French boat near Gaza Strip
#Flotilla2 | World is Watching | Israeli Warschips after Non-Violent Mission to Gaza Vessel the Dignity PressTV -Tue Jul 19, 2011 8:5AM At least three Israeli military ships have surrounded a small French boat as it approached the Gaza Strip to break Israel’s blockade of the Palestinian coastal sliver. “The boat is surrounded by at [...]
Israel is unable to cope with non-violent Palestinian activism
Abir Kopty | July 14, 2011 | Mondoweiss This week, Israeli Knesset passed the anti-boycott bill, which outlaws the non-violent action of economic, academic and cultural boycott. Last week, it attacked another non-violent action, the fly-in campaign, and week before that, it was the flotilla. Every Friday, it oppresses non-violent demonstration in Bil’in, Nabi [...]
Demo Nabi Saleh | July 9, 2011 – video
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Israeli troops attack non-violent protests in four West Bank villages
Saturday July 09, 2011 02:28 by IMEMC & PNN On Friday, Israeli troops attacked the weekly nonviolent protests in a number of West Bank villages. This week, protesters marched in solidarity with Freedom Flotilla 2 detained in Greece and the Welcome To Palestine participants. Non-violent march in Nabi Saleh (archive image from alternativenews.org) Protests [...]
IOA destroys solidarity tent supporting sit-in legislators in Occupied Jerusalem
[ 08/07/2011 - 11:48 AM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) has destroyed the solidarity tent that human right activists erected in support of the three Palestinian officials the IOA threatens to deport from their hometown. The solidarity tent was put up opposite to the ICRC headquarters in Sheikh Jarrah suburb in [...]
Live Updates | Weekly Demo’s West Bank Palestine – July 8, 2011
1 Follow @RichardDufek@RichardDufekRichard Dufek IOF in the #NabiSaleh http://twitpic.com/5mxhhw about 1 hour ago via TwitpicReplyRetweetFavorite 3 Follow @danmike1@danmike1Mike WATCH Occupation Live on USTREAM: ustream.tv/channel/palyou… #Palestine #Palspring #Paltweets #occupation BOOKMARK via @PalYouthVoice about 1 hour ago via Tweet ButtonReplyRetweetFavorite 5 Follow @PalYouthVoice@PalYouthVoicePal Youth Voice Gas thrown in big amounts #NabiSaleh http://yfrog.com/kemesyj about 1 hour ago via [...]
Greece proves it: no massacre needed to stop a Flotilla
Sunday, 03 July 2011 08:15| DocJazz | DocJazzMusic.com I wish to be clear about one thing: this is article is NOT a compliment to the Greek government. Greece has played a treacherous role in the recent Freedom Flotilla saga , and undoubtedly had long decided to stop the boats before it actually implemented its [...]
IOF soldiers quell Nabi Saleh march, arrest two foreigners
[ 25/06/2011 - 08:31 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) used brutal force to disperse the weekly peaceful march of the Nabi Saleh village, near Ramallah, despite the presence of a big number of children and foreign activists. Local sources said that the IOF soldiers fired rubber bullets, teargas, and stun grenades at [...]