Saturday, March 26, 2011

Israel/Palestine News



In Australia, activists are targeting the L'Oreal Fashion Festival in Melbourne as part of the BDS campaign.


Israeli solidarity activists & Palestinians farmers were planting olive trees to replace old ones ripped out by settlers from Mt. Hebron. Settlers show up, driving sheep onto the land. The IDF is called, soldiers & border police show up & tell everyone to leave, the area is a closed military zone. The soldiers don't do much to the settlers, but throw concussion grenades at the Palestinians. The border police arrest a boy & two adults. One of the adults has to be taken away by ambulance after he loses consciousness. After the soldiers & police leave, the settlers return with the sheep, driving them onto a Palestinian farmers wheat field.


Bilin residents, Israelis, & internationals (including wheelchair bound Jody McIntyre) demonstrate once again this Friday at the Wall.


At a demo in Al-Ma'asara, near Bethlehem, the IDF turns the marchers back & then flings concussion grenades at them.


I don't get it. Who is Art? Is he one of the musicians, or someone else? ;>)


Israeli activists help Palestinians repair a cistern in Susya on March 19 (it had been bulldozed by the IDF.)


There was a bombing at a bus stop in Jerusalem on March 23, & this is a rather graphic video of the aftermath.


Last Friday, a group of youths continued their demonstration for national unity in Bethlehem.


From March 15, another view of the unity rally in Gaza. The guys with the green flags are Hamas supporters.


From last Friday, protesters take to the streets & fields on An Nabi Salih.


From January 2010, B'tselem shows Gaza teenagers working in the tunnels.


The village of Al-Nu'man was annexed to Israel as part of East Jerusalem in 1967. But its' Palestinian residents were issued only West Bank IDs, making them illegal residents in Jerusalem.