A round up of the demonstrations of September across the West Bank against the occupation, the settlements and the Separation Wall.

A lot of nonsensical accusations are leveled at Israel’s anarchist activists, a small group of citizens engaging in civil disobedience and nonviolent protest against the occupation. Most of them are lies. The fact is that the anarchists are the only group in Israel engaged in serious anti-occupation activism.

Blocking Rothschild Street in Tel Aviv as a protest against restriction of movement and road blocks in Palestine /ActiveStills

Just as it is a story of suicide attacks, security, annexation, legal questions and political controversy – the story of the separation wall is also that of the popular, unarmed and joint struggle of Palestinians, Israelis and internationals against it. What started in September, 2002 as a small spontaneous action by a few farmers became the heart of Palestinian resistance to the occupation.

Palestinian and Israeli activists removing a road block close to Jaba, Palestine in 2007 / ActiveStills

Seven years after the incident took place, an officer in the elite ‘Metzada’ unit of the Israel Prison Service admits that his subordinates threw stones at soldiers in Bil’in – as part of their mission.

Basem and Nariman Tamimi after Basem's release from jail April 24 2012

Photograph by Dima Dany Zarkh for KTB

Kufr Qadum 

After Israeli army nightly incursion into Kufr Qadum accompanied by massive arrest of villagers , the children of the village have come out in protest with a message to the occupying army and the world: "You Arrested Our Fathers, So We Lead the Demonstration Today". The weekly demonstration has again been brutally suppressed by the army, who blacked all entrances to the village, took hold of a home, made use of the "Skunk", and fired the usual dose of teargas and shock rounds.