About two dozen Israelis and two dozen internationals joined the village people in Bil'in for a nice spring day Friday demonstration against the separation fence and occupation. On the noon march from the village center to the gate in the separation fence were the usual chants and placards - including reference to the Dir Yasin massacre of 1948 day.
At the last part of the march, we could see the far away new route of the separation fence, which after a two years' delay in enacting the decree of the Supreme Court is in the process of being moved by about one kilometer to the west.
At the gate, the more daring participants entered in between fences, hung flags on the electronic fence and ridiculed loudly the soldiers, which were half hidden near by. After a long while the state forces started to shoot at us with tear gas grenades, and got themselves a significant doze too - thanks to the changing wind and accident of theirs.
Haitham arrested
After most of the demonstrators retreated, few soldiers passed the fence to our side and arrested Haitham - the village video photographer. He was released only late at night.
Tens of soldiers invaded Ma'asara Thursday night, threatening two members of the local popular committee with arrests if there were to be "any problems" during the weekly demonstration. Soldiers made it clear that they didn't care whether the two, Hassan and Muhamad Barjia, were in any way responsible themselves to the presumed "problems".
In spite of the threats, some 50 demonstrators marched through the village Friday noon towards the soon to be stolen lands. On the main village road a similar number of soldiers waited for the march with barbed wire, and prevented the procession to proceed. Demonstrators gave speeches in Arabic, English, Hebrew and French, defying the occupation and commemorating the 62nd anniversary of the Dir Yasin massacre.
At some point demonstrators tried to remove the barbed wire, but were shoved back by soldiers. In response demonstrators sat on the ground, beat drums and sang songs. After about an hour of protest demonstrators returned to the village, promising to return in greater numbers next week, for the Palestinian Day of the Prisoner. 
Ma'asara demonstration
The Palestinian residents of Ni'lin were joined by a group of ten Israelis and a similar number of internationals in their weekly protest against the wall. After about half an hour of protesting near the route of the wall, with soldiers firing tear gas at the protesters, and some of the latter throwing stones over the wall, a group of soldiers crossed the wall and began chasing protesters through the village's olive groves. The soldiers fired tear gas and several live bullets, probably in the air. Around an hour later, the soldiers retreated to their base and the village youth returned home. No injuries were recorded, aside from some teary eyes and a flat tire in one activist car, and a ruined clutch in the other.
Around 80 Nabi Saleh residents, other Palestinians and international and Israeli supporters participated in this week's demonstration against the occupation, the Halamish settlement's annexation and the theft of a growing amount of land and resources from the village.
This Friday saw yet another escalation in the Israeli army's collective punishment criminal strategy against the entire village. The demo began, as always, with an unprovoked Israeli invasion and attack on a peaceful march, while protesters were even starting to sit down on the ground, to signify their will to protest non-violently. This time the Israeli army has also chosen to use its "skunk" stink-liquid cannon directly and deliberately on the village's houses, yards and main street. The track spraying the liquid even went back for a refill and then continued with its awful abuse. As one of the inhabitants of the houses targeted said: "It is not resistance, it's our living they were targeting". The stink-liquid is expected to stay and spread stink in the area sprayed for days afterwards.
The Israeli army also used its jeep-installed cannon a few times to shoot barrages of tear gas canisters, as well as single high-velocity and regular canisters, on the entire village, and kept pushing the protesters back into the village's built area.
At a certain point a few protesters climbed the hill overlooking one of the village's springs, attended by provocative settlers, and as a result the Israeli army sent some of its forces to expel the settlers from the area.
For a few hours protesters refused to disperse and re-gathered again and again in protest, some of them throwing stones to ward off the army incursion, others just standing peacefully against the armed-to-the-top soldiers, documenting, or taking care of the injured from the army's aggression.
Stink water
Watch a clip from the demonstration here.
As usual the last Fridays, the march from West Jerusalem to Sheikh Jarrah was banned by the police. The usual converging of few hundred demonstrators was allowed only on the square at the near by street facing the street of the evicted houses. The usual circle of drummers was joined by the clowns' troop. Chants, calls and short speeches were carried during the 90 minutes vigil.
In parallel to the demonstration at the square, some 40 people – mainly famous Israeli artists and politicians – tried to maintain a vigil closer to the houses from which Palestinians were evicted for the benefit of Jewish settlers. In breach of the relevant laws the state forces forced them to move to the main body of the demonstration and arrested 4. In fear of another denunciation by the judge if held till next day court hearing, they were released on bail few hours later with ban from returning to the neighborhood for a one week.
Israeli forces clashed with several dozen Palestinian protesters in the area of Beit Umar on Saturday, arresting 14 people. The protesters were joined by Israeli peace activists and foreigners at a rally, charging that Jews from nearby Bat Ayin settlement were farming on Palestinian-owned land.
The march started at one o'clock in the afternoon at the municipality and moving in the direction of the area where settlers had laid a stone foundation last week for a new outpost. When the area where the new outpost is to be built was reached, some of the people in the protest march proceeded to symbolically dismantle small parts of the foundations, already laid by the settlers. Initially the occupation forces present at the scene did not intervene, and just gave the protesters a 10 minutes warning. As soon as the ten minutes period was over, Israeli "border police" arrived and started to attack the people using disproportionate violence. They started firing rubber-coated metal bullets, teargas and stun grenades at the people in the march and in the area of the village. This led to four injuries from rubber-coated metal bullets. Dozens of people suffered respiratory problems, among them residents of Khirbet Safa who had stayed in their homes.
Earlier on Saturday Israeli occupation forces arrested five members of the local committee against the Wall and Settlements in Khirbet Safa. In addition to these five, another five international solidarity activists were arrested during the weekly march.
Beit Jalla demonstration
Around 50 Palestinians, internationals, and a dozen Israelis, marched chanting with flags and banners along the road that leads to the construction of the apartheid wall in Beit Jalla on Sunday. After a short march down the road they were stopped by about 20 Israeli soldiers and a spool of barbed wire that blocked the road. Chants and speeches were held in Arabic, English and Hebrew, mentioning the 1948 massacre of Dir Yasin, and stressing Palestinian rights of movement and access to their land.
After the speeches demonstrators sat down on the road facing the spool of the barbed wire and the Israeli state forces. After a while the demo ended peacefully and protesters went swiftly away from the soldiers.
