Video by David Reeb

150 anti-wall demonstrators were attacked by the army in Ni’ilin today. The force, composed of border policemen, was positioned at the edge of the village, only meters away from the built-up area and about a kilometer away from the path of the wall, and on sight started pushing and beating demonstrators, who were doing nothing but to calmly walk to the village’s lands. A Swedish protester was so badly beaten that her leg is apparently sprained after she was pushed down on the floor and stepped on.

For the first time since the murder and mortal injury that shocked Ni'ilin this week, about 600 villagers marched to their lands accompanied by Israeli and international supporters. The villagers prayed on their lands, and then, despite a massive presence of border police forces, went on to dismantle the razor wire barricade Ahmed Mousa was killed after trying to dismantle.

The body of ten years old Ahmed Mousa at the Ramallah hospital

Ten years old Ahmed Mousa was murdered by a border policeman in Ni'ilin today. He was shot in the forehead from a short distance, while on his lands and posing absolutely no threat. The shot killed him on the spot, and two of his brothers had to carry his lifeless body back to the village, about a kilometer away, leaving a thick trail of blood behind them.

Video by Keren Shayo

About two hundred Palestinian, Israeli and international women demonstrated in Ni'ilin against the apartheid wall being constructed by Israel cutting deep into the West Bank, effectively appropriating village lands to nearby settlement Hashmonaim. Soldiers welcomed the group with sound bombs and teargas, which kept the women from reaching the work site using violence, but demonstrators repeatedly forced the soldiers to retreat quite a bit over the hour long protest. There were two arrests, five injuries, and lots of gas; this is the first of a series of women's actions planned in the village

On July 7th, 2008, the village of Ni'ilin was under curfew imposed by the army in an attempt to suppress the demonstrations there. Ashraf Abu Rahma, 28, who participated in a march to break the siege, was arrested. Cuffed and blindfolded, he was led towards a military jeep by a high ranking officer. As the officer held him, another soldier, one of the officer's direct underlings, pointed his gun at him and shot a rubber-coated steel bullet at him from pointblank.

Video by Israel Poterman

Trying to illustrate the theft of the villager's land and livelihood, about 200 Palestinians, Israelis and internationals carrying olive branches tried holding a peaceful vigil along the settler roadside. Though the road was not block, and it was made very clear to the soldiers there was also no intention to try and do so, the protesters were immediately assaulted with teargas and rubber bullets and pushed back into the village, where barricades where erected on the main road to prevent the army from invading.