Bil'in

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The northern entrance to the Bil'in
The southern entrance to the Bil'in
The main mosque in Bil'in

Bil'in ( Arabic بلعين, DMG Bilʿīn ) is a Palestinian village twelve kilometers west of Ramallah in the West Bank . The village has 1,800 residents, mostly Muslims.

history

After the Six Day War in 1967, Bil'in was occupied by the Israeli army . It has been administered by the Palestinian Authority (PA) since the West Bank and Gaza Strip Preliminary Agreement was signed in 1995 . It borders on the Israeli barriers and the Jewish settlement Modiʿin Illit .

Historically a small agricultural village, modern Bil'in is largely a suburb of nearby Ramallah , the headquarters of the PA. Bil'in is considered to be the ideological stronghold of Fatah , and many PA employees live there.

Court judgments

Bil'in is four kilometers east of the Green Line , near the Israeli barriers. On July 9, 2004, the International Criminal Court declared the wall a violation of international law. A week earlier, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that the Israeli government has the right to build a wall for security reasons, but that parts of the wall would cause undue hardship for Palestinians and should therefore be diverted. In 2005, the local leader of the Bil'in Council, Ahmed Issa Abdullah Yassin, hired Israeli human rights attorney Michael Sfard to represent the village in a petition to the Supreme Court. On September 4, 2007, the court ordered the government to change the course of the wall near Bil'in. The Israel Defense Ministry said it will respect the law.

On September 5, 2007, the Israeli Supreme Court legalized the Israeli settlement Mattityahu East, near Modiʿin Illit , which was built on Palestinian land but which Israel regards as state land. Bil'in vowed to continue the resistance and offered assistance to other villages with similar problems. The wall separates the village from 60 percent of its agricultural land.

According to the New Left Review, the settlements around Bil'in were financed by Israeli businessmen Lev Awnerowitsch Lewiew and Shaya Boymelgreen to advance their political and economic interests.

Weekly protests

Since January 2005 the village has organized weekly protests against the building of the wall. These protests have attracted media attention as well as the participation of many international solidarity organizations as well as left-wing groups such as Gush Shalom , anarchists against the wall and the International Solidarity Movement . The protests take the form of marches to the site of the illegal wall, with the aim of breaking off the construction and dismantling the parts that have already been built. The Israeli military intervenes regularly to prevent protesters from reaching the wall, which leads to violence; both protesters and soldiers were seriously injured. Demonstrators carried gas masks and shouted, among other things, "Israel is a fascist state!". Arab boys were also seen throwing stones on the edge of the group of demonstrators.

The weekly protests attract international activists like Richard Bronson and Jimmy Carter. The 1976 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Corrigan was hit in the leg by a rubber-coated bullet and, according to witnesses, inhaled large amounts of tear gas during a demonstration in April 2007. In June 2008, the Vice-Presidents of the European Parliament , Luisa Morgantini and Julio Toscano, became one Italian judge, injured in Bil'in. In April 2009, a resident of Bil'in, Bassem Ibrahim Abu-Rahma, was killed after a tear gas canister hit him in the chest.

Between 2005 and 2011, the Palestinian Emad Burnat documented the protests of the village community in the multiple award-winning documentary 5 Broken Cameras, which was produced together with the Israeli Guy Davidi .

Abdullah Abu Rahma, coordinator of the Bil'in Popular Committee Against the Wall, was arrested in December 2009 after organizing an exhibition of used ammunition used against demonstrators. He was convicted of gun possession, incitement and throwing stones at IDF soldiers. Desmond Tutu urged Israel to release him.

On March 15, 2010, soldiers posted information leaflets in the village declaring the area between the Wall and Bil'in as a closed military zone on Fridays at the time of the protests. This lockdown affects foreigners and Israelis, not local residents.

Web links

Commons : Bil'in  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2007 PCBS Census (PDF; 2.5 MB). Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, p. 114.
  2. ↑ a b c Rent-a-Crowd Fridays in Palestine , Neil Rogachevsky, The American Interest, November-December 2010
  3. ^ Martin Asser: West Bank village hails victory . In: BBC News , BBC MMVII, September 5, 2007. Retrieved April 17, 2011. 
  4. ↑ Israeli Court Orders Barrier Rerouted. In: New York Times , September 4, 2007, accessed April 17, 2011
  5. ^ High Court: Controversial settlement neighborhood to remain in place . Hair net. Archived from the original on October 10, 2008. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 17, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.haaretz.com
  6. ^ Planning council approves illegal West Bank building plan . Hair net. Archived from the original on November 16, 2007. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 17, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.haaretz.com
  7. ^ High Court to Hear Bil'in petition , JPost
  8. ↑ Mohammed Khatib: Bil'in will continue to struggle against the wall and settlements . Zmag. September 20, 2007. Archived from the original on October 8, 2007. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 17, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zmag.org
  9. ^ Offshore Zionism . New Left Review. Retrieved April 17, 2011.
  10. ↑ Under the Guise of Security (PDF; 6.6 MB) B'Tselem . Retrieved April 17, 2011.
  11. ↑ Soldier hit by stone during anti-fence protest loses-eye . In: www.haaretz.com . June 3, 2005. Retrieved April 17, 2011.
  12. ^ Hundreds mark second anniversary of Bil'in barrier . In: www.haaretz.com . February 25, 2007. Retrieved on April 17, 2011: “Demonstrators say their protests are non-violent, but in most cases soldiers fire tear gas, sound bombs and rubber-coated steel bullets, and demonstrators have thrown stones. One soldier lost an eye to a stone thrown by Palestinians, and three Palestinians each lost an eye after riot-control actions. "
  13. ↑ 22 wounded in weekly Bil'in anti-separation fence protest . In: www.haaretz.com . March 20, 2007. Retrieved April 17, 2011.
  14. ^ Israel pays NIS 3.25 million to protester shot by Border Police . In: www.haaretz.com . July 28, 2009. Retrieved April 17, 2011.
  15. ^ Mass demonstration in Bil'in marks five years of protests against West Bank separation fence . In: www.haaretz.com . February 21, 2010. Retrieved April 17, 2011.
  16. ^ Nobel peace laureate Corrigan injured in anti-fence protest - Israel News, Ynetnews . Ynetnews.com. June 20, 1995. Retrieved April 17, 2011.
  17. ↑ EU VIPs hurt at West Bank protest , BBC, June 6, 2008
  18. ^ Palestinian killed in Bilin protest - Israel News, Ynetnews . Ynetnews.com. June 20, 1995. Retrieved April 17, 2011.
  19. ↑ MEMORIAL: Remembering Bassem Abu Rahmah of Bil'in April 17, 2010 . Retrieved May 6, 2011.
  20. ↑ "5 Broken Cameras" in the ARD media library ( memento of the original from September 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 10, 2014.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ardmediathek.de
  21. ↑ Praised by film critics, criticized in Israel . In: Die Zeit , February 20, 2013, accessed on September 19, 2014.
  22. ↑ Official website , accessed September 19, 2014.
  23. ^ Daniel Edelson: Bilin resident charged with displaying used bullets . In: Ynetnews . December 23, 2009. Retrieved May 6, 2011.
  24. ^ Amira Hass: For Palestinians, possession of used IDF arms is now a crime . In: Haaretz . December 24, 2009. Retrieved April 17, 2011.
  25. ↑ Maan News Agency: Masked soldiers post closed zone signs in Bil'in, Ni'lin . Maannews.net. Retrieved April 24, 2011.

Coordinates: 31 ° 56 '  N , 35 ° 4'  E