While the first village to resist the wall was Jayous, as early as September 2002, it was the struggle of the village of Budrus that was the spark that set the fire.
Late in November 2003, the people of Budrus rose up and stood together to block the bulldozers, soon after Israeli and international activists joined them.
Through its persistence in community mobilization, struggle and popular resistance, the village of Budrus was able to achieve significant victories.
Without appealing to the Israeli courts, utilizing only popular resistance, the village succeeded to push the path of wall almost completely off its land.
Budrus' success inspired many other villages to build a popular resistance, which is perhaps an even greater success. For a good part of the year, almost every village to which the construction of the wall reached rose up against it.

Qalandiya checkpoint, the gate that strangles the Ramallah area, and that isolates it from Jerusalem, was the ending point of a march along the path of the wall - from Jenin to Jerusalem.
In this empowering event, demonstrators - Palestinians, Internationals and Israelis - were able to challenge the checkpoint, even if just for a short time, and break through and occupy it.

Extreme military violence at a demonstration against the wall in the village of Beit Liqya on April 14th, 2004.
Beit Liqya suffered one of the most brutal efforts to suppress the resistance to the wall, including a few separate cases of soldiers opening fire at unarmed demonstrators using live ammunition.
Three of Beit Liqya's youth - Qamal 'Assi, 'Uday 'Assi and Mahayub 'Assi - were shot dead while taking part in the demonstrations.

Demonstrators being shot at and teargassed during a demonstration against the wall. The reason for the shooting: demonstrators were standing on village's lands that were to be destroyed by the wall.

On December 26, 2003, the Israeli army deliberately shot at Gil Namati, a 21 year old Israeli protestor that demonstrated against the wall. Gil was shot with live ammunition in both legs. The incident invoked a media ferenzy and raised many questions.
What would have happened if the army didn't lie about the shooting of Gil Namati. Would it have justified the actions taken by the soldiers? Is there a difference between shooting a Jew and a non-Jew?
This film is divided into three parts, the first part presents the investigation which was shown at an AATW press conference, and proved the army was lying about the circumstances of the shooting. The second part criticizes the investigation itself and how the media reacted and portrayed the incident and the wall. The third part is a mock propaganda piece about the "danger" the anarchists pose in Israel.

November 9th, 2003 – the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, and the first international day against the wall in Palestine – was marked in the village of Zbuba by dismantling a part of the wall.
Palestinians, Israelis and international managed to remove about 30 meters of the wall with no serious injuries, and no arrests.