Raids and arrests for the second week in a row in Bil'in

30/06/2009

Bil’in popular committee

The force of the Israeli occupation army raided the village at dawn today, and Bilin surrounded the house of Suleiman Seif (17 years) and then for his arrest after they searched his home and tampering with its contents.

This has a military force composed of seven other troops yesterday raided the home Emad Mahmoud Yassin (16 years), Hosni Rasim al-Khatib (16 years) and the arrest after they searched the home and tampering with its contents. And will continue this campaign for the second week in a row, with last week’s arrest of four boys who are: Kamel Kamal Khatib (16 years), and Khalil Ibrahim Yassin (16 years), and Mohammed Khalil Abu Rahma (23 years), and Moatassem Faisal Al-Khatib (17 years).

The result of this campaign for the continuation of the people of the village of Bil’in in their confrontations to build the apartheid wall and settlements, where the extremists, the Israeli army for many of the means to discourage citizens from further trained to resist, including the arrest, which used this method before, but could not find the benefit.

The people of Bil’in continued their action During the past five years. The Popular Committee has to continue to maintain in terms of resistance to the occupation that the arrest will not stop them from doing so.

A fierce attack on the village of Bil'in by the occupation forces

At around 4am soldiers from the Israeli military stormed the village of Bil’in by foot. They abducted Suleiman Sif, aged 16 years, from his home and dragged him to an unknown destination.

This raid is part of a broad campaign over the last two weeks by the army to strike terror into the villagers of Bil’in. It is meant to stop the people from continuing their peaceful, non violent resistance at a time when a major court case against nearby settlement builders is pending in Canada.

It is yet another case of collective punishment by the Israeli government which fears that the resistance in Bil’in is achieving results.