Six years have passed since residents of Bil'in, together with their Israeli and international supporters, started regularly demonstrating against the Wall and the confiscation of more than half their land by it.

Yousef Ikhlayl was the second Palestinian youth shot by settlers in as many days following the shooting of Oday Maher Hamzanear Nablus on Thursday. 

Yousef  Ikhlayl

On Jan 11 2011 Jonathan Pollak began a 3 month sentence at Hermon prison in Northern Israel. The formal charge is Illegal assembly but the real reason he is in prison is that he is uncompromising in resistance to oppression and the state that carries it out.  

Jonathan Pollak and his father outside Hermon prison (11/01/2011)

Jawaher Abu Rahmah, 36, was evacuated to the Ramallah hospital yesterday after inhaling massive amounts of tear-gas during the weekly protest in Bil'in, and died of poisoning this morning. Abu Rahmah was the sister of Bassem Abu Rahmah who was also killed during a peaceful protest in Bil'in on April 17th, 2010.

Jawaher Abu Rahmah 

Marking the 6th Araft day, Palestinians, Israelis and internationals, participated in the Friday noon demonstrations in Bilin, Ni'ilin and Nabi Saleh.

Bilin

A special four-year aniversary demonstration took place in Ma'asara this Friday, while a new village joined the protest not too far from there, and regular demonstrations went on in the face of military oppression.