Thursday, August 28, the demonstration in Ni’lin began ‘unofficially’ hours before the appointed time, when soldiers took up posts around the edges of the village mid-morning. Not content with ‘simply’ firing tear gas canisters at pockets of youth with stones, by noon Israeli Occupation Forces were firing enormous amounts of tear gas into the center of town, not even taking care to see where they were firing, they rained down tear gas on young girls age 6-16 walking home from school. Several small girls panicked at the shots being fired and the clouds of tear gas surrounding them and began running into nearby homes crying and gagging on the suffocating gas. … Continue reading

Sahar Vardi, 18, has long been a friend of PSP and a committed solidarity activist in the Occupied Territories. Palestine Solidarity Project is honored to work with her and support her and the other Israeli youth who refuse to serve in the Israeli Occupation Forces. These young men and women, who have made a huge commitment to Palestinian liberation by not supporting their government’s policies and participating in the solidarity movement inside the Occupied Palestinian Territories, are true solidarity activists.

She is part of a larger group of High School seniors who signed a joint letter informing the Israeli Ministry of Defence of their intention to refuse to serve.

On August 25 Sahar … Continue reading

This Sunday, August 17, Palestine Solidarity Project, in conjunction with the city council of Beit Ommar, hosted Beit Ommar’s fiirst ever conference on The Wall and Settlement Expansion. More than 130 people, mostly local farmers who were the intended audience, came to listen to guest speaker Dr. Moustafa Barghouthi, along with the head of the city council, Abu Rashid Sabarnah and PSP co-founder Yousef Abu Maria, as they spoke about the roots of land confiscation in Beit Ommar and the surrounding area and what can be expected if The Annexation Barrier and settlements are built without resistance.

Beit Ommar lost a significant amount of its land shortly after the occupation of the West Bank by Israel in 1967. … Continue reading

On Thursday, August 14, more than 100 people gathered in the center of the town in Ni’lin and set out on a familiar path to the international and Israeli activists that have been supporting this popular resistance against the construction of the Annexation Barrier for several months now. Residents and solidarity activists got relatively close to the bulldozers, an accomplishment in and of itself after months of violent repression by the Israeli military. However, they were met with copious amounts of tear gas and rubber-coated steel bullets and were forced back into the village. Soldiers then rained tear gas into the center of town and, in particular, shot at a … Continue reading

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From Anarchists Against the Wall

A private security guard, hired by the Israeli Ministry of Defense, opened fire on unarmed Palestinian, Israeli and international demonstrators in Ni’ilin. No one was hit by the bullets, but a number of demonstrators were hit by bits of stones that ricocheted as a result of the bullets’ impact.

The shooting began only several minutes into the demonstration, as demonstrators got close to the heavy machinery, and despite the fact that some of the protesters held their hands over their heads. There was absolutely no threat posed to the guards or work crew. The shooting was not preceded by stone throwing or any other … Continue reading

This Friday, more than 100 residents of Ni’lin along with their Israeli and international supporters held Friday’s midday prayer on the land near the site of the Annexation Barrier construction and then attempted to march towards the site of the construction. Though bulldozers do not work on construction on Fridays, participants wanted to march to the razor-wire fence that had been erected on Ni’lin land and attempt to dismantle it. During the prayer, Israeli Occupation Forces were spread out throughout the fields, just out of site and surrounding the group on three sides. After speeches about the need to continue the popular resistance, the participants set out to march towards … Continue reading

After a long day in the Israeli Supreme Court, 3 judges decided that Mousa Abu Maria, co-founder of Palestine Solidarity Project, would remain in administrative detention and that no review of the secret evidence against him was required. The court refused to hear a major part of advocate Gaby Lasky’s argument, namely, that the procedures for appeal of administrative detention in place now by the Israeli Occupation Forces are not in line with the Fourth Geneva Conventions and international law. After less than 15 minutes of presentation of Mousa’s case the court was emptied while the prosecution, aided by secret ‘evidence’ and members of Israeli intelligence service (Shabak) presented to the … Continue reading

Shortly after 11:00am Thursday, August 7, a group of approximately 50 Palestinian, international, and Israeli activists approached the worksite of the Annexation Barrier outside of Ni’lin. The area contained approximately 20 members of the Israeli Occupation Forces and a private security officer. Initially, soldiers responded to the activists’ presence with a minimal use of force, and Palestinian activists, along with Israeli members of Anarchists Against the Wall and internationals were able to closely approach one of the bulldozers. One Palestinian activist jumped onto the hood of the bulldozer and broke the windshield with a thrown stone. Demonstrators were successful in forcing the heavy equipment off site and interrupting operations … Continue reading

Yousef Ahmed Amira, 19, who was shot in the head by two plastic-coated steel bullets by the Israeli Occupation Forces after the funeral of 10 year old Ahmed Mousa in Ni’lin on July 30, died of his wounds on August 4th. Later that day, hundreds of men from Ni’lin and surrounding villages went to meet his body at a Ramallah hospital. When entering Ramallah, the procession was stopped by Palestinian Authority police who arrested 6 men for carrying Hamas flags. The mayor of Ni’lin pleaded with the police to avoid confrontation and release the men but it was not until part of the procession marched to the Palestinian Authority police … Continue reading

Friday, August 1, residents of Ni’lin, who have buried a 10 year old boy, Ahmed Mousa, and have another youth, Yousef Amira, brain dead in a hospital in Ramallah, returned to their struggle against the confiscation of their land. Palestinians were joined by Israeli and international solidarity activists as they marched towards the site of the construction of the Annexation Barrier and where Ahmed Mousa was fatally shot in the head. More than a hundred meters away from the site several rolls of razor-wire had been set up by the military to prevent access to the construction site after several demonstrations had successfully reached the bulldozers and prevented their work in … Continue reading