A-Infos (en) Palestine-Israel, Bil'in, West of Bethlehem, Jafa - the joint struggle continue

It was a "regular" Friday demonstration in Bil'in - the 116th since it started 
25 months ago. As usual, we started at noon the march towards the route of the 
separation fence which is used to rob most of the lands of the village for the 
building additional district in the settler colonialist town Modi'in Ilit. The 
marchers - Palestinians from the village and the region, internationals, 
Israelis of the Anarchists Against The Wall initiative, did not choose the road 
that leads to the Western lands and blocked by the gate of the fence structure. 
Instead, we went the other direction, part of it through paths within olive 
groove. We out smarted the Israeli state force who were expecting us in the 
main road (about kilometer away) to prevent us from coming near the fence - as 
they did the two previous Fridays. The last few hundred meters where the far 
away soldiers could see us we were running.

Till the main force of the soldiers arrived, few of us already passes through 
the razor wire spools and the metal fence beyond on our side of the route of 
the fence, and stood along the electronic fence. Most of the others stood along 
the metal rails at the edge of the route - banging on it with stones. The state 
force tried to drive the intruders and the rest of us who were near by with 
tear gas grenades, but after they got few of them thrown back - they stopped. 
They tried the water canon to drive us away - but in the hot spring day it was 
mainly refreshing us... They tried to arrest two of the ones that were near the 
electronic fence - but comrades dearested them and the soldiers yielded.

In this unusual situation, the stone throwers who do not approve our nonviolent 
demonstration and usually disrupt it, were in position among us, but hesitated 
due to the "interesting" way the demonstration developed, and did not throw 
stones till the demonstration was declared finished and the nonviolent 
demonstrators started to disperse.

When part of us tried to pay a visit to the usual site of the Friday 
demonstration - near the gate on the road leading to the lands of the village 
West of the fence, the soldiers resisted us with tear gas mainly, and arrested 
one of the village comity as a way to press us to return to the village faster 
- promising to release him when we will be on the way to the village. They 
shoot tear gas canisters to hasten us, but when we were near the houses of the 
village they released the comrade.

No one was injured seriously this Friday, but many of us were wet and colored 
by the turquoise powder added to the water of the water cannon.
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West of Bethlehem:

Today. over a hundred demonstrators from the villages of Beit Fag'ar, um 
Salamuna, Wadi An-Nis, Al- Masara, Al-Khadr, and Beit Ommar joind by joind by 
internationals and israeli activists made an attampt to block route 60 outside 
the settlement of Efrrat, the demonstrators carred signs against the building 
of the apartheid wall in the area south of beit leham only a large presence of 
border police and soldiers who waited in the area manegd to keep the 
demonstrators from blocking the road. doing this kind of activity in the front 
door of a big settlement is another step for the struggle in the area .

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Jafa , long ago annexed to the Jewish Tel Aviv municipality and settled with 
lot of Jewish immigrants which "diluted" the remnants of the original 
Palestinian residents who where not transfered out during the 1948 Nacba.

Last Friday few hundred Jafa residents and supporters marched through the city 
against a move by the municipality to transfer some 500 Arab-Israeli families 
out of their homes. The marchers included local government officials, a rainbow 
of local organizations, residents, and supporters from around the country - 
including activists of the anarchists against the wall. There were cries of 
'Jews and Arabs Against Home Demolitions' and 'This Transfer Will Not Pass', 
comparing current events to the Nakba in 1948, but altogether the march was a 
bit subdued. As usual for Jafa protests there was no police presence in sight, 
to keep things calm but also in reflection of the relationship between the Arab 
residents and the police. At the end marchers sat in a basketball court 
overlooking Jaffa's reef beach, that after years of neglect and 20 years in the 
planning, is now being converted into a grand park -- just in time for the 
hundreds of new wealthy residents who are entering Ajame neighborhood. Speakers 
included representatives of the new popular committee established to combat the
situation, residents who's homes have become part of the struggle, and members 
of organizations supporting it -- all were encouraged by the large turnout and
hopeful about the days ahead.

At some point anarchists raised a banner with the anarchist "A" and flag but 
took it down on request of the organizers.
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