After a week of night-time raids into villages and activists' houses throughout the West Bank, with many leaders of the popular struggle arrested and others threatened, Friday demonstrations took place in Bil'in, Ma'asara, Ni'ilin, Sheikh Jarrah and An Nabi Saleh. Army and police brutality continues to rise, and demonstrators have been beaten, shot and arrested. The struggle continues.

Launching a one week long international campaign against the siege on Gaza, on the occasion of the first anniversary to Israel's war on Gaza, 500 Palestinian and Jewish demonstrators marched the streets of Jaffa Saturday night. On the very next morning, Sunday, 25 Israeli activists tried to directly breech the siege by marching south towards the Gaza Strip on the Israeli beach of Zikim. 16 were arrested.

Later in the week, a small demonstration of Be'er Sheva University students was opressed by the police, while Jerusalem and Haifa universities cenceledthe memroial events planned on their grounds. On Thursday, more than a thousand demonstrated at Erez checkpoint, parallel to demonstrations in Gaza and all over the world.

The week culminated in a march and rally in Tel Aviv, on Saturday, the 2nd of January. Our struggle continues.