Palestinians hold anti-wall protests

PressTV –  Fri Jan 7, 2011 2:28PM Hundreds of Palestinians and international peace activists have held a protest rally against the Israeli separation wall in the occupied West Bank, calling for the destruction of the illegal barrier. Protesters say Israel has forcibly and illegally captured land owned by Palestinians to construct the ‘apartheid wall,’ which […]

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Friday January 7 at 11.30 in Bili’in: Call for Women to come to remember, to honor Jawaher Abu Rahmeh

Editor Palestine Monitor 5 January 2011 We call for all women to participate alongside Italian Parliament member and peace activist Luisa Morgantini, in a silent vigil in Bil’in to express our grief and sorrow for the loss of the gentle and courageous Palestinian woman, nonviolent resister, Jawaher Abu Rahmeh. As the world was celebrating the […]

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Israel clamps down on WB protesters

PressTV –  Wed Jan 5, 2011 4:10AM Israeli police officers detain a Palestinian protester during a demonstration against the construction of the Israeli separation barrier in the West Bank. Israel’s military has begun setting up gates near several villages in the occupied West Bank, buttressing them with barbed wire in an effort to further clamp […]

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ei: 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 […]

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Hundreds 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, […]

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Probe 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 […]

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Protests 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 […]

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Woman 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 […]

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PA 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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