Today, Palestinian, Israeli, and International activists dismantled a section of the Israeli separation barrier at the village of Beit Mirsim.

This action is the second of such actions in the past two weeks, following a similar action in Surif

Beit Mirsim is a tiny Palestinian village in the Southern West Bank. It has been known as an archaeological site and as a site of a war crime committed in 1967 by the army.

Every one of the hundreds of kilometers of the wall is hated and despised by the people on whose land it is built and who are imprisoned by it.

Today, on the lands of the village of Surif Palestinians internationals and Israelis demonstrated what this resentment means: At any moment any part of the hated wall might be dismantled when an opportunity arises.

Bil’in’s Friday protest saw over 300 Palestinian, Israeli and international supporters march towards the Israeli Apartheid Wall. As soon as the protesters were in sight of the Israeli soldiers, the latter began shooting a rain of tear gas and rubber bullets towards the protesters. Nevertheless, the demonstrators managed to regroup numerous times at different points, always getting closer to the wall.

Bilin. Friday, July 13th, 2007. 100’s of Palestinian, international and Israeli activists marched for yet another demonstration against the apartheid wall which has annexed over 50% of the
village of
Bil’in’s. For this week's demonstration, the popular committee of the village decided to surprise the soldiers and arrive from another point. As the demonstrators marched, they noticed the soldiers were waiting on the other side of the valley, at the usual spot. In order to try and reach the wall before the soldiers, the protesters ran towards the wall - as did the soldiers. Within a few minutes, the protesters found themselves in a cloud of tear gas and smoke... The hot tear gas canisters, once they hit the dry ground, ignited the fields and some olive trees!

June 5, 2007, will be the fortieth anniversary of the malignant Israeli occupation of the
West Bank, Gaza Strip and
Golan Heights.  For six days, June 5 to 11 - corresponding to the days of the 1967 War - a wide spectrum of events will take place, including exhibitions, demonstrations, theatre plays, academic conferences etc., in order to place a the occupation and the millions suffering  under its yoke on the public agenda.