The weekly demonstrations against the wall took place this week as usual - in Bilin, Ni'ilin & Maasarah.

Four weekly demonstrations took place this Friday: A mass demonstration in Bilin emphasizing the ongoing night raids on the village, and demonstrations in Ni'ilin, Maasarah & Azun-Atme checkpoint.

Some 100 Palestinians, 50 internationals and ten Israelis gathered this Friday in the village of Ma'asara for a wedding march, which was combined with the weekly anti-wall demonstration in order to highlight the severe personal and social implications of the occupation, the oppression and the wall. Demonstrators accompanied a couple that got married just the night before and two other couples disguised as newlyweds all the way across the village, with marriage songs and protest slogans interchanging and completing each other. Coming close to the end of the built area of the village the couples left to prepare themselves for the next part of the wedding-protest

In the village of Bil'in the Jericho Palestinian Struggle Youth Union marching band joined several dozen Palestinians, international and Israelis, who conducted an exceptionally big demonstration against the annexation wall and the night and day arrests of residents of Bil'in (on the night before a 13th villager was snatched by the army for investigation, while the army's lawyers prepare to appeal a decision to release one of the local organizers). The marching band led the procession drumming and chanting toward the demonstration site, but stayed behind due to its members' young age. Upon arrival the demonstrators kicked footballs to the soldiers, who failed to follow the script of the current Israeli TV commercial and engage in a peaceful football match, possibly because in this real life situation their Palestinian opponents were clearly visible from across the barbed wire. Instead, the soldiers threw gas canisters at the demonstrators. On Sunday morning, 5AM, soldiers stormed into the village and arrested a member of the popular committee.

Some 250 Palestinians, Israelis and Internationals demonstrated today in the West Bank village of Bil'in against the Apartheid Wall and the settlements built on Palestinian land. Prior to the demonstration a press conference took place, where a representative of the village's popular committee, a member of the Palestinian Boycott National Committee and world renowned Canadian journalist and author Naomi Klein spoke of the local struggle, of the village's new court case in Canada against Canadian companies building the new neighborhoods on Bil'in land, on the boycott, and of the inability to detach art and politics.

No serious injuries were noted.