Tuesday, January 4 2011|Lisa Goldman The following is a detailed response to the army’s claims regarding the death on 1 January 2011 of Jawaher Abu Rahmah, who was taken to the hospital on 31 December after inhaling tear gas at the weekly demonstration against the separation barrier in Bil’in, a small Palestinian village near Ramallah. […]
Continue readingSignposting the occupation
by Eleanor K on January 3, 2011 My senses let me down. On Friday 31 December – the day Jawaher Abu Rahmah was murdered by the Israeli army – I thought I smelt manure in the village of Bil’in, but it was the skunk truck (The Boesh), used by the Israeli military to crush peaceful […]
Continue readingei: From Bilin to Tel Aviv, outrage at killing of Jawaher Abu Rahmah
Joseph Dana, Live from Palestine, 3 January 2011 A photograph of Jawaher Abu Rahmah hangs at her funeral on 1 January. (Oren Ziv/ActiveStills) “I am in shock, we are in shock,” Hamde Abu Rahmah told me as we stood outside the small cemetery in Bilin where 36-year-old Jawaher Abu Rahmah was buried on Saturday. One […]
Continue reading‘FREEDOM’S JUST ANOTHER WORD FOR NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE’
Posted by desertpeace on Monday, January 3, 2011 at 9:54 am. From the chorus of an obviously drug induced song…. Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose, Nothing don’t mean nothing honey if it ain’t free, now now. The writer obviously never visited Palestine or any other area where Freedom is nothing but […]
Continue readingUN voices concern at WB deaths
PressTV – Mon Jan 3, 2011 5:41AM The United Nations has expressed concern at the recent deaths of Palestinian civilians, including a woman, by Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank. “We are very worried that two Palestinians have lost their lives in recent days in incidents involving Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank,” […]
Continue reading“We meet again, Super-Gran!” Notes from a protest
Sunday, January 2 2011|Dimi Reider “We meet again, Super-Gran!” Notes from a protest Visually, the protest yesterday veered from the Italian cinema Through the violent The contextual And the chique: But the overwhelming sensation – despite the tension and the occasional violent flare-up* – was that of an almost good-natured surrealism. After […]
Continue readingHundreds rally in Tel Aviv to protest Bil’in woman’s death
Saturday, January 1 2011|Lisa Goldman Hundreds of Israelis rallied in Tel Aviv Saturday night to protest the death of Bil’in resident Jawaher Abu Rahmah, who died on Saturday morning after inhaling tear gas fired by Israeli forces during the weekly anti-fence demonstration. The 36 year-old woman was evacuated to a Ramallah hospital on Friday afternoon, […]
Continue readingProbe into Palestinian’s gas death
Israeli military launches probe into the death of a Palestinian protester as her family claims a cover-up. Last Modified: 02 Jan 2011 10:49 GMT Email Article Print Article Share Article Send Feedback Palestinians are blaming the Israeli security forces for killing a woman during protests in Bilin [Reuters] The Israeli military has said it will […]
Continue readingProtests in Israel against Killing of Jawaher Abu Rahmah
Sunday, 02 January 2011 11:02 Tania Kepler for the Alternative Information Center (AIC) In response to the killing of Bil’in resident Jawaher Abu Rahmah, around 25 Israeli activists took the empty tear gas canisters, used by the Israeli military in Bil’in during the Friday anti-apartheid wall demonstration during which Abu Rahmah was fatally injured, to […]
Continue readingHundreds rally in Tel Aviv to protest Bil’in woman’s death
Saturday, January 1 2011|Lisa Goldman Hundreds of Israelis rallied in Tel Aviv Saturday night to protest the death of Bil’in resident Jawaher Abu Rahmah, who died on Saturday morning after inhaling tear gas fired by Israeli forces during the weekly anti-fence demonstration. The 36 year-old woman was evacuated to a Ramallah hospital on Friday afternoon, […]
Continue readingWoman Killed After Being Asphyxiated by Tear Gas in Bil’in – International Middle East Media Center
Sunday January 02, 2011 00:28 by Ane Irazabal – IMEMC News Jawaher Abu Rahma, aged 36, died on Saturday, after suffering the effects of tear gas inhalation fired by the Israeli military during the Friday weekly protest in Bil’in. Medical sources reported that the cause of the death was suffocation from tear gas chemicals mixed […]
Continue readingPalestinian dies after inhaling gas at W Bank protest
BBC NEWS | 1 January 2011 Last updated at 22:20 GMT Palestinian dies after inhaling gas at W Bank protest About 3,000 people attended Jawaher Abu Rahmeh’s funeral in Bilin on Saturday Continue reading the main story Related stories Palestinians test out Gandhi-style protest West Bank village marks five years of protest A Palestinian woman […]
Continue readingPA blasts Israel over latest ‘war crime’
PressTV – Sat Jan 1, 2011 2:52PM Israeli troopers firing tear gas canisters at Palestinian protesters The Palestinian Authority (PA) has denounced Israel’s killing of a Palestinian woman by subjecting the victim to tear gas inhalation as a ‘war crime.’ The 36-year-old Jawahir Abu Rahmah died at the Ramallah medical compound in the central part […]
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