Residents of Ni'ilin attempting to drive Israeli troops out of the village

Early Monday morning, Israeli troops descended on a piece of land behind the eastern houses of Ni’ilin, and proceeded to saw off the branches of several trees (part of the procedure for uprooting olive trees), and then uproot them. The Palestinian owners of the land were neither notified nor handed any warrants allowing for the destruction of these trees, and thus were denied their right to appeal such warrants, if any even exist. Seven people were injured in the clashes that ensued.

Demonstrators playing music in front of soldiers, alMa'asara

In the West Bank, residents of Bil'in, Ni'ilin, Jayyous and alMa'sara were joined on Friday by Israeli and international activists for protest marches in their villages against Israel's Wall, whose construction on confiscated Palestinian lands goes on. Israeli soldiers and border police responded by attacking demonstrators and their right to protest with teargas, rubber-coated steel bullets, arrests, batons or barbed-wire barriers. Several injuries were reported, including one from live ammunition.

Weekly demonstration against the wall, Bil'in. Video by David Reeb

On Friday, Israeli and international activists joined Palestinians in the West Bank villages of Bil'in, Ni'ilin and Um Salmuna demonstrating against the Apartheid wall built on their lands. As in previous weeks, protest marches in all three villages were met with repression from Israeli troops determined to stop the joint popular struggle against the occupation by military violence.

Palestinian and Israeli demonstrators running away from teargas canisters, Ni'ilin

On Friday, residents of the Palestinian villages Bil'in and Ni'ilin were once again joined by international and Israeli activists in protests against the confiscation of their lands by Israel's wall and adjoining settlements. Troops dispersed these demonstrations by firing teargas canisters, rubber-coated steel bullets and live ammunition from snipers armed with Ruger rifles (which have been banned by the army's Judge Advocate General itself in 2001).

Demonstrator struck in the head by teargas canister, Bil'in

On Friday, as in previous weeks, Israeli and international activists joined hundreds of residents in the West Bank villages of Bil'in, Ni'ilin and Jayyous demonstrating against the theft of their lands by Israel's settlements expansion and the construction of its Apartheid Wall. Israeli soldiers dispersed demonstrators and attacked the villages using teargas canisters, rubber-coated steel bullets and live ammunition, resulting in numerous injuries.