A-Infos (en) Palestine-Israel, In spite of Israeli state escalation of settler colonialism the joint struggle expand.

This weekend the Israeli anarchists against the wall initiative were involved in even more 
struggles in more locations that become regular fronts: Beit Jalla, Bait Omar, Bil'in, Jeb 
Altheeb, Ma'asara, Nabi Saleh, Ni'ilin, Sheikh Jarrah. The state forces continued half 
heartedly to prevent the access of demonstrators to come to Bil'in and Ni'ilin but failed. 
Many activists continued from the noon demonstrations to the one at Sheikh Jarrah. Last 
night (Monday early morning) at 02:00 AM, state forces entered the village. Many copies of 
a document was posted around the whole village. This document declared that Israeli and 
international activists were strictly prohibited from entering Bil'in between the hours of 
8 am and 8 pm on every Friday, the day in which the weekly demonstration takes place.

BEIT JALA

This Thursday, 11.3.10 there will be a demo in Beit Jala.

Palestinians, Israelis and Internationals met in Beit Jallah this morning to rebuild a 
playground that bulldozers destroyed last week while clearing the path to complete the 
wall near Bethlehem. 12 people armed only with pick axes and hoes, flattened out the 
bulldozer tracks and deep holes left from uprooted trees, reset two swing sets, and 
brought in sand by the bucket for the new playground. Young olive trees were replanted in 
place of the mature trees that were destroyed during the first days of uprooting last 
week. The playground is used by many of the neighborhood children, and the family who owns 
the land welcomes people to enjoy the shade next to their home in the heat of the summer. 
As people worked in the sun today, army jeeps made rounds on the road above the home, and 
stood watch from the road on the opposing side of the highway. One jeep came down to the 
playground, but people continued their work as soldiers took pictures and asked for the 
Palestinian participants identification cards.

video of Beit Jala actions 03/08/2010 10:18 AM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR7TWzMxEUM
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/03/14/18640915.php

There will be another demo in beit jalah tomorrow (Sunday).

There will be an action in Beit Jalah this Thursday 11-03-10

BEIT OMAR

Bait Omar on Saturday and tree planting near maasara on Saturday as well
Three Protesters and a Journalist Arrested During Beit Ummar Demonstration

Dozens of residents of Beit Ummar, accompanied by Israeli and international supporters, 
marched from the center of the village towards Road 60 that connects Jerusalem with Hebron 
this morning. The procession was attacked as soon as the large contingent of soldiers, 
which was positioned at the entrance to the village to to fend off demonstrators, noticed 
the marchers and without provocation.

Demonstrators continued to advance towards the road despite the attack, and managed to 
block it for almost an hour in response to the Army's aggressiveness, for the second time 
in two weeks. Two Israeli activists were arrested soon after protesters took over the 
road, and were taken to the Kiryat Arba police station. When demonstrators were not 
deterred by the initial violence, soldiers continued to target people holding a camera, 
arresting an AP cameraman, Nasser Shyouhi, and breaking numerous cameras. Youssef Abu 
Marya, the coordinator of the Beit Ummar National committee, the group that organized the 
protest today was also arrested.

After finally dispersing the demonstrators, who remained peaceful despite the attack on 
them, the Army invaded the town in large forces. Soldiers occupied at least one house in 
the village without showing its owner a seizure order as required by law. Following the 
aggressive invasion, clashes ensued between local youth who tried to ward off the 
incursion by throwing stones at the armored jeeps, and between soldiers who used tear-gas, 
stun grenades and rubber-coated bullets.

Beit Ummar is located eleven kilometers northwest of West Bank city of Hebron and is home 
to roughly 14,500 people.

Peaceful action broken up by Israeli Occupation Forces violence
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/03/14/18640932.php

BILIN

Some 25 Israelis, over 30 internationals, Palestinian supporters, a DFLP delegation and 
the Palestinian Minister of Culture joined Bil'in locals for the weekly demonstration 
against the wall. Demonstrators carried posters of Tristan Anderson, who was hit in his 
head a year ago by a gas canister in Ni'lin, and is still in critical condition.

This time the army decided to set a "honey trap" for the protesters. The gates in the 
fence were left open for them to charge through, while soldiers without protective gear 
(so they can run faster) hid on the Palestinian side of the fence, waiting to charge the 
protesters from behind and make arrests. The local shabab, however, quickly picked up the 
soldiers in hiding, and stormed forward despite the showers of gas canisters and rubber 
bullets that injured two youths. The soldiers retreated back behind the fence, and the 
shabab celebrated by charging to the fence. Soon enough, the organizers took over, 
restrained the local youth, and led some 30 protesters to the fence for a peaceful 
demonstration. As the wind was favorable and the soldiers slightly less trigger happy than 
usual, an Israeli recovered ex-soldier took advantage of the opportunity to preach to the 
soldiers, urging them to recognize their exploitation by Israeli politicians and 
contractors and to cross over and join the Palestinians demonstrating against occupation.

Haitam http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGsXZJcqFYE

A strange night raid in Bil'in http://www.youtube.com/user/haithmkatib#p/a/u/0/4J9LdZykj38

At 2 AM on this night, Bil'in was once again raided by the Israeli Army. A document was 
posted around the whole village of Bil'in. This document declared that Israeli and 
international activists were strictly prohibited from entering Bil'in between the hours of 
8 am and 8 pm on every Friday, the day in which the weekly demonstration takes place. 
Every Israeli and international activist must leave the village during this time, or else 
he or she will be deported or arrested by Israeli soldiers. The head of the police, 
Benjamin, ordered that this action be taken. The permit declares Bil'in to be a closed 
military area until August 17th. This is an attempt to stop Israeli and international 
activists from supporting the popular struggle of Bil'in, and is therefore just another 
action to repress and destroy the village's resistance against the occupation and also 
against the annexation of it's land.

Also, earlier in the day, Iyad Burnat, the head of the Popular Committee, received a phone 
call by the 'shabak.' He was ordered to report to an office tomorrow for questioning.

JEB ALTHEEB

20 people joined the Bethlehem Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements in what 
has become a weekly work-day in Jeb Altheeb. Last week the group of Palestinians, Israeli, 
and International activists build a rock wall to mark the boundaries of the farmers land 
near the road. Settlers destroyed the wall during the week, but it was rebuilt today. 
Neither army nor settlers were present.

Jeb Altheeb is a small village south-east of Bethlehem (near Herodion) which is flanked by 
the Nokdim settlement (where Avigdor Liebermann lives). Since around 5 years, the village 
is directly neighbored by an outpost with seven settlers who are continuing to curb the 
ongoing dispossession of the village's land. In recent weeks, the settlers have prevented 
the farmers and shepherds from working on the remaining land of the village and grazing 
their sheep.

In the last few weeks lawyers were brought to the village and confirmed the legal right of 
the villagers to the land and its use, and a court case will be opened. Nonetheless, 
settlers frequently appear and harass as soon as farmers and shepherds try to work on 
their remaining lands.

MA'ASARA

A smaller than usual weekly demonstration in Ma'asara, no more than fifty people strong 
(of different nationalities), was met after marching in the heavy heat through the village 
streets by a larger than usual combined army and border police force. Soldiers set up near 
the first houses of the village, deeper than ever before, and prevented the demonstration 
from proceeding towards the village lands.

After giving speeches in Arabic, English and Hebrew, a small group of demonstrators went 
through the barbed wire set on the road, and was pushed by the soldiers who also 
threatened activists will be arrested as the area is a closed military zone. Demonstrators 
on both sides sat on the ground, beat drums, sang songs, and called upon the soldiers to 
abandon the oppression of the popular struggle and join it in stead. The soldiers, already 
with stun and tear gas grenades at hand, were somewhat taken aback faced with this act of 
non-violent resistance and the many cameras documenting all over the place. And so, with 
nobody arrested and no attack on the demonstrators, activists eventually decided to leave 
willingly and escape the burning sun, promising to return next week as well.

NABI SALEH

This week's demonstration at Nabi Saleh faced severe repression. Even before the march 
from the village started, some activists tried to talk soldiers out from staying on one of 
the hills of the village and serving an occupying army. The soldiers responded with 
violence, throwing stun grenade directly at activists' feet.

Around 80 Nabi Saleh residents, other Palestinians, Israelis and internationals 
participated in this week's demonstration against the crippling occupation and the 
Halamish settlement's annexation and destruction of a growing amount of land and resources 
from the village. The march from the village encountered immediate attack by the army, 
deep inside the village's main street, as the march was just forming. The army invaded the 
village and shot barrages of tear gas canisters through a cannon at the marching 
protesters and effectively almost the entire village population. It then continued the 
assault shooting rubber coated bullets indiscriminately at protesters. As the protesters 
gathered back, the army once again used its cannon to shot barrages of tear gas canisters 
on the entire village.

Eventually protesters did manage to take the demonstration to various directions, some of 
them outside the village's populated area. One group went on a hill top of one the 
village's springs, where settlers defiantly swam and stayed around. As a result of the 
approaching protesters, witnessing the scene from a safe distant, the army very kindly 
managed to convince the settlers to leave the area, and against those who refused - it 
persisted in verbal anti-Jewish dispersing techniques. The settlers than moved to another 
spring, the one threatened by growing annexation of the settlement, but were again asked 
kindly to leave by the army, who on the other hand, shot some tear gas canisters at two of 
the witnessing protesters who descended closer down the hill. The group then proceeded to 
join other scenes of protest.

Up until sunset protesters refused to disperse and re-gathered again and again in protest, 
some of them throwing stones to push back the attacking army, others just standing 
peacefully against the armed-to-the-top soldiers, documenting, or taking care of more than 
a dozen of wounded from the army's aggression.

Friday 12.3.2010 Nabi Saleh video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJcmc9_-7HM

NI'ILIN

Hundreds of people from the town and surrounding villages of Niâlin gathered on the 
threatened land, where they affirmed the need to resist the aggressive policies of 
occupation. Villagers were accompanied by their animals, a symbol of their age old 
connection with the land that they have farmed for generations. Images and posters of 
Tristan Anderson were prevalent, the American ISM activist now in a coma after being 
struck with a tear gas canister during a demonstration.

Nilâin resident Salah Amira and an unnamed Israeli activist were arrested during clashes 
that lasted late into the afternoon. Israeli soldiers fired rubber bullets and tear gas to 
disperse the crowd, but no serious injuries were reported.

Press Release:  Family Appeals Decision to Close Investigation on Shooting of US Citizen 
Tristan Anderson

http://popularstruggle.org/content/family-appeals-decision-close-investigation-shooting-us-citizen-tristan-anderson

Two Arrested During Demonstration
Ni'ilin demo - 12-3-2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMvlFq53ufc

SHEIKH JARRAH

The mass protest that took place last Saturday was a huge success and constituted a 
breakthrough for the struggle in Sheikh Jarrah.  But the struggle over the neighborhood is 
far from over. During the last week the settlers and their political supporters have been 
attempting to take over the street and set facts on the ground. On Tuesday the deputy 
Mayor David Hadari toured the street of the disputed houses, and declared that "this 
neighborhood is 'Simon the Righteous' not Sheikh Jarrah", and that he intends to open a 
municipality office in the neighborhood.

Come again this week to stand in solidarity with the residents of Sheikh Jarrah! The march 
will start Friday at 14:00

from the Mashbir plaza, on the corner of King George and Ben Yehudah to a demonstration in 
Sheikh Jarrah in which begin at 15:30

Friday, Around 200 protestors marched from Hamashbir square, without letting offensive and 
fascist remarks from passersby to interrupt them along the way. 50 others joined them when 
they got to Sheikh Jarrah. High presence of Yassam (Police Special Patrol Unit) in the 
area was noted. The protestors tried to make their way to the house of one of the evicted 
families, where they intended to hold a protest vigil. They were blocked by 
police-officers that decreed the protest illegal. After several minutes of negotiation, 
the officers, breaking supreme and district court rulings, started to forcefully shove the 
protestors to the other side of the road, arresting two of them in the process. Moving the 
demonstration to the garden didn't suffice to the police officers, and they maintained 
their violent attacks on the protestors. Later on, small groups of demonstrators that made 
their way back to the family house, also were brutally dispersed, some of their members 
arrested, as well. In total, 11 activists were illegally arrested during the 
demonstration. After a few hours, all of them were released, after signing a restraining 
order for 15 days from the neighborhood, which is currently under discussion in the 
district court.

Meanwhile in the neighborhood, after the demonstration dispersed, settlers violently 
assaulted the Palestinian dwellers and Israeli activists that remained in place. The 
settlers threw stones at people and cars, some of which were damaged. Needless to say that 
none of them was detained or arrested.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy7nWppt5nM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou7SLQl0s4I

See previous reports at:
http://ilanisagainstwalls.blogspot.com
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