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International release
Febr. 25, 2004

While the world looks at The Hague, and suicide bombers are the only 
Palestinians to make headlines, Palestinian farmers - and with them Israeli 
and international peace activists - are engaged persistently in nonviolent 
ways of fighting the Wall. 
Beit Surik and Budrus - names of villages until recently not heard of. 
The following are reports and articles of the past days as well as an earlier 
background article.

1- Blocking road to Defence Ministry - and spending the night at the police
2- Tuesday report Beit Surik: demonstrators under fire - 50 trees uprooted.
3- The sight of the army and Border Police was too much
4- Huwaida Arraf & Jessica Hanson arrested while protesting against Wall
5- An article from Huwaida Arraf published two days ago
6- 'The peaceful way works best'  - the example of Budrus
     By Gideon Levy, Haaretz Feb. 11
 
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1- Blocking road to Defence Ministry - and spending the night at the police

It all began at 8:00 AM on Monday, February 23, in the parking lot outside 
Tel Aviv's Habima Theater).  At the Hague, the International Court of 
Justice was starting.  The Palestinians had organized mass protests  
throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip, with Israelis explicitly invited to 
take part in the more prominent actions. 
"Anarchists against Fences" were headed for  Dir-el-Rasun - a village of  
8,500 people north of Tul Karm, more than half of its lands were left on the 
other side of the Israeli fence erected last year; and only some 10% of the 
villages were granted permits to cross the fence and cultivate their lands. 
In preliminary meetings the villagers had shown themselves enthusiastic 
for Israeli participation.
However, while the bus driver stood waiting for the activists to arrive, a 
man in civilian clothes approached and started interrogating him about his 
plans and where the bus was headed for. Though pressed, the driver gave 
no answer beyond "I am hired  to go somewhere in the north, my 
passengers will give me more details en route." Losing patience, the 
interrogator pulled out a police ID, informing the driver that the police 
would follow the bus wherever it went, and "advising" him  to "give up 
your plans and go home." 

Indeed, from the moment the Anarchists boarded the bus and set out, they 
had a police tail - first the original plainclothes detective on his 
motorcycle, later joined by an increasing number of police partol cars. 

The bus reached the Green Line (pre-'67 border) and set out on Route 5 - a 
major east-west highway bisecting the West Bank and mainly used by 
settlers. In general, police and army patrols on that road are instructed to 
stop any car with Palestinian plates and let Israeli ones proceed. But not 
this particular Israeli bus. It was stopped about 20 kilometers
into the West Bank and ordered to pull to the side, while settler cars 
continued to whiz by. 
The police took the driver’s  license and also demanded the keys to the 
bus.  When the driver refused to surrender these, the police changed tack 
"Turn back immediately, you are in a closed military zone". - "What about 
these settler cars ? Why aren't you stopping them?" - That's none of your 
business".  

Following this, the group decided to try to reach their destination by a
different road, but with no greater success.  Near Qalqilya the bus was 
again stopped.  This time the driver was informed that were he to be 
caught one more single time in the Territories, his license would be taken 
away for 30 days.  
While wating at the road block and arguing with police, a phone call from 
Dir-el-Rasun informed the activists that the villagers had already held their 
rally - to be immediately dispersed by a heavy barrage of tear gas from the 
army. 
Refusing to end the day in frustration,  the Anarchists improvised a new 
plan: destination - the Defence Ministry in Tel-Aviv. The police were 
waiting there, too, a phalanx blocking the approaches to the military 
complex's main gate. But the Anarachists went a bit further along the 
Defence Ministry outer wall, leaving the police behind, and then sat down 
in the middle of the road, blocking it to traffic and displaying T-shirts with 
the words "The Wall - Ghetto 2004" on a backgrond of barbed wire. 
They had sat no more than five minutes when the police came up and 
waded in with little ado. No less than fourteen activists were kicked and 
beaten while being dragged to the waiting patrol cars, all the while 
chanting "The Wall will fall! The Wall will fall!"  The scene was caught by 
hastily-called press photographers, to appear  the following day on the 
pages of "Yediot Aharonot" and "Ha'aretz". 
Unlike most such cases, the police refused to release the detainees that 
evening, and insisted on letting them spend the night in the Abu Kabir 
Detention Center. Moreover, on being unloaded at the Harakevet Street  
Police Station, several of the detainees were treated to an additional, 
gratuitous round of beating, one of them getting his nose broken. 

The following morning before Judge Muki Lansman of the Tel-Aviv 
Magistrate's Court, the police wanted to make their release conditional 
upon their staying five days in house arrest and undertaking "Not to come 
for the next thirty days within a one-kilometre radius of the Defence 
Ministry". A protest by Adv. Gabi Lasky got the house arrest dropped 
and the restriction reduced to "10 days of not coming within 200 metres of 
the ministry". 
At the time of writing, an offcial complaint about the beatings is being 
prepared. 
Contact: cat at squat.net

[The above is based on the account written by Dorothy Naor, 
supplemented by infornmation given verbally by several of the Anarchists 
themselves.]




2- Tuesday report Beit Surik: demonstrators under fire - 50 trees uprooted.

Press release Tue, 24 Feb 2004:  50 olive trees uprooted at Beit Souriq, 
demonstrators under fire, ongoing resistance 

50 TREES UPROOTED BY IDF ON 2ND DAY OF ICJ HEARING
Today, Israeli authorities started to destroy olive groves in Beit Surik to 
expand the Wall in the N.W. region of Jerusalem: bulldozers uprooted 
trees under protection of IDF and Border Police. Villagers, ISM 
Internationals and Israelis demonstrated on the planned Wall path. Troops 
fired tear gas, sound grenades and rubber bullets -- at least 10 Palestinians 
were wounded, including a child seriously injured in the chest by rubber-
coated steel bullet. Police detained two Palestinians and an Israeli.
Tens of Palestinians and 7 ISM members sat in front of bulldozers to stop 
them uprooting more trees, surrounded by troops who fired tear gas at 
them. A group of village youth then tried to ward off the two bulldozers by 
throwing stones at them. Later, bulldozers and soldiers retreated out of 
sight but tear gas was still fired at demonstrators.

Palestinians farmers expect the bulldozers to return tomorrowand do not 
intend to leave their lands, but insist the demonstration must be non-
violent with no stone-throwing. ISM volunteers are in the village 
overnight to support the farmers' struggle. Palestinians from neighboring 
villages and Israeli activists will join inhabitants early tomorrow. Last 
Friday, 60 Israelis marched to Beit Surik’s anti-Wall demonstration from 
nearby Mevasseret Zion.

Beit Surik (4,000 residents) is a small village N.W. of Jerusalem, on the 
Green Line. In the ‘80s Israel seized 1,500 dunums of its land, for 
settlements. In 2003, another 500 dunums near Har Adar settlement was 
seized plus another 700 dunums north of Beit Surik; all such lands belong 
to villagers.

These villages have been informed Israel is seizing 350 dunums for Wall 
construction, spelling disaster: up to 6,000 dunums more will be lost on the 
wrong side of the Wall, including eight vital wellssupplying all local 
villages in summer. Even the local garbage dump will be expropriated. 
Roads have already been blocked off, limiting freedom of movement or 
trade, leading to rising unemployment. The Wall’s route means all local 
villages: Biddu, Beit Idesh, Beit Iqsa, Nabi Samuel, Kubeiba, Beit Anan, 
Qataana, Beit Dukku and Khirbet Um El Lahem will be cut off from each 
other -- the whole area an enclave, hemmed in at the north by “settler-
only” Road 443.

Villagers say: “We are helpless villagers, eager only to earn our living and 
live in dignity on the lands our forefathers carefully nurtured. Dare anyone 
call this wall a “Security Wall”!! It is nothing else but the final stage in the 
complete annexation of our land.” 
For more information, please call:

Mohamed Qundiel: 050 494 083 // Tarek Al Sheikh : 067 544 919
ISM Media Office: 02-277 4602 / Neal : 066 346 165 / Max : 053 471 226


3- The sight of the army and Border Police was too much
--------------forwarded message follows
From:           	"Rabbis for Human Rights" <info at rhr.israel.net>
Date sent:      	Wed, 25 Feb 2004 17:42:29 +0200

[From Rabbi Arik Asherman]

 I spent a good part of today, along with other Israeli activists, in Biddu 
and Beit Surik where bulldozers continued their work on the barrier which 
will encircle seven villages north-west of Jerusalem and separate them 
from over 51,000 dunums of their land. Unfortunately, in spite of efforts 
by the leadership of the villages to organize a non-violent resistance 
(including organizational meetings and announcements over 
loudspeakers), the sight of the army and Border Police was too much of a 
provocation and we saw a great deal of stone throwing and tear gas.  
Nevertheless there were some inspiring moments such as when a line of 
about 8 non violent women confronted soldiers who eventually retreated. 
At one location in Beit Surik some 4,000 villagers quietly sat on their land 
singing songs. There the bulldozers did not show up today.

4- Huwaida Arraf & Jessica Hanson arrested while protesting against Wall

------- Forwarded message follows -------
From:  "International Solidarity Movement" <ism-alerts at palsolidarity.org>
Date sent:      	Wed, 25 Feb 2004 18:50:03 -0000


TWO ISM AMERICAN ACTIVISTS ARRESTED WHILE PROTESTING 
AGAINST THE WALL

Eye witnesses report use of excessive violence from the soldiers

[Beit Surik, Occupied Jerusalem] Two female activists Huwaida Arraf
and Jessica Hanson were arrested while trying to negotiate with the
soldiers during the demonstration against the building of the Wall of
Apartheid in Beit Surik this afternoon. Eye witnesses reported that the
two American citizens were beaten by male soldiers during the arrest.
Huwaida Arraf was reportedly punched in the face by a soldier. The
demonstration began yesterday, as bulldozers started to destroy olive
groves surrounding the village. The demonstrators attempted to stop the
bulldozers from uprooting more olive trees today. The Israeli army fired
tear gas and rubber bullets at the crowd and arrested around 15
Palestinians, 2 Israeli activists and a journalist. The two American
activists have been first taken into a nearby settlement called Har Adar
before being transferred to the police station of Givat Ze'ev settlements
later in the afternoon and are still detained there. Later in the evening,
Jessica Hanson was released but Huwaida Arraf is still detained and
officially arrested. No court hearing has been scheduled so far. 


For more information, please contact:

Neal (ISM Activist): +972 66 346 165

ISM Media Office: +972 2277 4602

5- An article from Huwaida Arraf published two days ago

ISRAEL'S BARRIER: Tear it down: It's an oppressive grab of Palestinian
land 

February 23, 2004

BY HUWAIDA ARRAF  - Detroit Free Press

http://www.freep.com/voices/editorials/earraf23_20040223.htm

The International Court of Justice at the Hague today convenes hearings 
on the legality of the controversial barrier Israel is building on the West
Bank. The UN General Assembly asked the court for an "advisory 
opinion."
Here is one perspective on the debate.

Today, as they debate the wall at the Hague, here in Israel and the
occupied Palestinian territories, we're wondering: Is the world going to
watch this happen again? Will we let walls and fences be erected around
communities and allow people to be stripped of their livelihoods and
freedom of movement because of their religion and ethnicity? 

In Beit Surik, a Palestinian village northwest of Jerusalem, the
destruction of olive groves, greenhouses and homes hasn't started yet, but
the 4,000 residents need our help. Almost 90 percent of Beit Surik's land
and its eight wells will be isolated on the other side of the wall. The
villagers will be imprisoned by this structure and denied free access to
work, school and medical care. They will have to apply for permits to
enter and exit their village. 

Will we support their efforts to resist the inevitable, if only so history
will record that Beit Surik stood defiant in the face of this land grab?
Will we support their efforts to stay on their ancestors' land despite
efforts to force them to leave? 

Less than 20 miles from Beit Surik, volunteers from the International
Solidarity Movement have been supporting nonviolent resistance to the 
wall for the past two months in the village of Budrus. Last November, 
Budrus' residents were notified that their land would be razed and isolated 
by the wall. Since then, they have been mobilizing nonviolent protests and
calling for international support. Israeli bulldozers uprooted about 100
of Budrus' olive trees before stopping, possibly in response to the
increased visibility brought by peace activists' participation in the
village's protests. 

The Israeli occupation forces have responded with violence. More than 60
villagers have been injured by rubber-coated metal bullets. Troops invade
Budrus and open fire with live ammunition. Nine nonviolent activists are
imprisoned, including young children. Women and children alike are 
beaten and tear-gassed at each demonstration, and the leaders of Budrus'
nonviolent resistance were abducted from their homes by soldiers in the
middle of the night. Yet the villagers have not been deterred and refuse
to sit still while their land is destroyed and their village becomes a
large open-air prison. 

A year and a half ago, the ISM was part of a similar effort with the
villagers of Jayyous. However, despite the petitions, protests, sit-ins,
and beatings and arrests of demonstrators, thousands of Jayyous' olive 
and fruit trees were destroyed. Seventy-five percent of Jayyous' farmland 
was taken from its owners. More than 200 greenhouses are now 
abandoned because Israeli soldiers forbid Jayyous farmers from crossing 
to their land. All of the village's wells fall on the other side of this 
"security" fence.
Today, Jayyous is nearly surrounded by a 9-foot high razor-wire fence,
equipped with motion sensors and security cameras. Jayyous' residents 
have to request special permission to enter and exit their village. 

Do the people of Budrus and Beit Surik have reason to believe that their
nonviolent resistance can save them from a similar ghetto-like future?
Veterans of the Palestinian freedom struggle have little hope. The world
community has thus far failed to act to stop Israeli violations of
international law and Palestinian human rights. Instead, the overwhelming
focus of the international community has been on the Palestinian armed
resistance, with little recognition of the prominent nonviolent struggle. 

Over the years, Palestinian nonviolent tactics have included the boycott
of Israeli goods and services, civil disobedience and rejection of Israeli
military administration, the establishment of neighborhood schools (when
the Israeli army shut down Palestinian schools), marches, strikes and
refusal to pay taxes. 

The ISM was created to support unarmed resistance to Israeli occupation 
by providing the Palestinian people with a resource -- an international
presence and a voice -- with which to continue nonviolently resisting an
overwhelming military force. As Palestinians, Israelis and foreigners take
the lead on the ground to oppose and defeat an oppressive occupation, 
will the policymakers and international judges follow? Or will they be left
behind?

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HUWAIDA ARRAF is a cofounder of the International Solidarity 
Movement.  


7- 'The peaceful way works best'  - the example of Budrus
     By Gideon Levy, Haaretz Feb. 11

Ha'aretz Wed., February 11, 2004
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/393347.html  

There's a remote little village in the West Bank that decided to behave
differently. A village whose residents decided not to lament and not to
blow themselves up. They chose another way between violence and 
surrender.
The residents of the village of Budrus, west of Ramallah and close to the
Green Line, chose to wage a nonviolent struggle against the separation
fence that is being built on its land. The whole village has pitched in -
the Hamas and Fatah members, the old and the young, men and women, 
and for three months they have been going down by the hundreds to their 
olive groves every week, to demonstrate against the uprooting of their 
trees and the encircling of the residents. 

The IDF and the Border Police have been faced with an unfamiliar 
phenomenon: What are they supposed to do about hundreds of unarmed, 
nonviolent residents slowly descending toward the bulldozers, with 
women and children leading the pack, and a handful of Israeli and 
international volunteers sprinkled among them, approaching to within 
touching distance of the armed soldiers? Should they shoot to kill? Shoot 
to injure?

So far, the IDF has fired, but less - no one has been killed, and about
100 people have been injured, most of them lightly, in the course of about
25 demonstrations over a two-month period. Most of the injuries were from
batons and rubber bullets, like in the old days. Twelve villagers have
been arrested, and nine of them are still in jail, for participating in
clearly nonviolent demonstrations. This, too, is a violation of the IDF's
rule s, as one military judge noted when he refused to send one of the
leaders of this pacifist revolt to administrative detention. The arrested
man's brother, however, was sent straight to administrative detention by
another military judge. But the most important point is that the
construction work on the fence near the village has been stopped, for now.

Budrus against the occupation. Budrus against the separation fence, which
will encircle the village on all sides and cut it off, like eight other
villages slated to be enclosed in fenced-in enclaves opposite Ben-Gurion
Ai rport. The fence could have been built along the Green Line, several
hundred meters from the present route, but Israel had other ideas - about
the vineyards, about the olives, about life. Today, or tomorrow, the
quarrying and paving work will resume, and so will the protest 
demonstrations.

Will this remote village become a milestone in the struggle over the
fence? Will the residents of Budrus herald a change to nonviolence in the
Palestinian struggle against the occupation? Or, in a week or two, will
the se paration fence cut off life in this village, too, and show that
nonviolence doesn't pay, with the scene in Budrus soon becoming a
forgotten episode?

Cacti wherever you look. Old stone houses standing alongside half-built
ones that will never be completed. Things look promising as you enter the
village, but the further inside you go, the more the reality hits you.
Afte r the last house, from within the olive groves, is the sight that is
frightening the residents: the rising orange of the bulldozers, blotches
of color in the wadi cutting into the rock, digging up and scarring, and
after them the steamrollers and the heavy trucks. Olive trees whose tops
have been cut off stand in mute testimony to the work of the bulldozers so
far.

This is where the fence will pass. Through these olive groves. One fence
to the west of them and another to the east of them, leaving them stuck,
imprisoned in the middle. Why? Because.

"If the fence were on the mountain, it would give more security," ventures
Iyad Ahmed Murar, a leader of the protest in Budrus, whose two brothers
are in administrative detention. "But they want a fence in the wadi. Commo
n sense says that if you want a security fence, put it on the mountain and
not in the wadi. But they want to destroy the land and the olives. What
difference would it make if they moved 200 meters toward the Green Line?"

Before 1948, Budrus had approximately 25,000 dunams. Of that, 20,000 went
to Israel and the village was left with about 5,000. Now, according to
Murar's calculations, about another 1,000 dunams will be stolen. The
constru ction work near the groves has stopped for now, but is continuing
not far away, toward the neighboring village of Qibiya. But it's not just
the fate of the land that is worrying the village, which hasn't had a
resident ki lled since 1993. What's more worrisome is how the fence will
effectively choke off the village.

Murar: "The fence will be around nine villages. Ramallah is our mother and
only one gate will lead to it. And what if the soldier is on a coffee
break? Or off smoking a cigarette? Maybe he'll lock the gate so he can go
to the bathroom. Maybe there will be a problem in Tel Aviv and they'll 
close the gate. And then you won't be able to get to the university, to the
hospital or to work, and in the end, people will start to live where they
work. If someone gives me a job, and I come one day and not the next, in 
the end he'll tell me to stay there where the job is or be fired. People will
start thinking about having to stay where their job is. And the student
and the sick person will start thinking the same way."

This is what the village is the most afraid of - a "willing" transfer; of
life being made so difficult that they'll be compelled to move east. A
1,000-year-old village. That's why the fence is here. In Budrus, they're
con vinced that Prime Minister Sharon is continuing what Captain Sharon
began: In Qibiya, he tried it with dynamite, now he's trying it with a
fence. The objective is the same: to move them away from the Green Line,
especiall y in the vicinity of Ben-Gurion airport. What can they do?
"Demonstrate in a peaceful manner," says Murar the rebel.

It all began on November 9, when construction work first started here.
Since then, they've been demonstrating and demonstrating, always in a
peaceful manner. Sometimes once a week, sometimes every day; 
sometimes the entir e village; sometimes only the women and children. 
They walk down through the groves toward the route of the fence and get 
as close as possible to the soldiers and Border Police officers. Murar likes 
to describe the little  rebellion, stage after stage, almost hour after hour. 
How they once stood  there for a whole day, how they brought lunch and 
ate in front of the soldiers, how they were beaten with batons and rifle 
butts.

He records every detail: During one demonstration in December, he 
counted 15 humvees, six Border Police jjeeps, two blue police jeeps and 
another two military jeeps inside the village, 25 jeeps altogether. At another
demonstration, the officer declared the area a closed military zone.

Murar: "They had a letter in Hebrew - maybe about this area, maybe about
the whole village, maybe about the whole world, declaring a closed
military zone. They said they'd impose a curfew if we did anything." He
also talk s about how they managed to go out to the land despite the
curfew and to demonstrate in front of the bulldozers.

We decide to go down now toward the route that has already been paved.
Murar remains behind. "If there are too many of us, they'll think it's a
demonstration." The last demonstration was last Friday; tear gas canisters
ar e still scattered about. The residents know the work is going to resume
soon. Maybe today, maybe tomorrow. Here are the red markings on the
ground. They have scouts on the balconies of the outer houses of the
village, who will report if they see something. The treadmarks left by the 
bulldozers are still visible in the mud. From here, the route is supposed to 
ascend toward the olive groves, another four kilometers. The first trees 
have already been uprooted. Yesterday was Tu Bishvat (Jewish arbor day).

A group of volunteers from the International Solidarity Movement, along
with two young Israelis, accompany us through the olive groves, but they
do not go down toward the fence route. They are staying in the village
now, preparing for what is to come. Today they're here, tomorrow they'll
be in the next village that the fence is approaching. Young dreamers and
fighters who pay 20 shekels a night to stay in a rented apartment in the
village . Yonatan Pollak of Anarchists Against the Fence, a 21-year-old
with blue eyes, dimples, acne scars, a worldview and a past: Europe is
already closed to him because of anti-globalization demonstrations he
participated in there. He pulls a black sleeve over the tattoos on his
arm. He won't buy an Israeli soda in the village grocery store. While his
contemporaries are standing at checkpoints and deciding which woman in
labor to let pass and  which not, he is here, with the Budrus residents, in 
their struggle.

We return to the village. The Amhassein family's two-story house: the
family on the first floor, the chickens on the second. The mother, Suriya,
just returned from Mecca and the house has been decorated in her honor.
The children play loudly at recess at the school at the edge of the
village. The fence will pass right behind the border of the school and the
border of the nearby cemetery. Mighty Israel is spread out all around:
Modi'in, Ra mle, Shoham, Rosh Ha'ayin - and on a clear day, you can even
make out the Shalom Tower in Tel Aviv. And on the other side, to the east,
Kiryat Sefer, Nili, Na'aleh. "Tell me, could the fence go into the
cemetery?," Murar asks.

A meeting at his home: About 20 women sit in the yard of the attractive
house on the edge of the green valley and plan the exhibition they want to
stage here on the 23rd of the month, the first day of hearings on the fenc
e in the International Court in The Hague. Half the women came from Salfit
and half are from the village. They sit in the shade of the banana tree in
Murar's yard and talk about the exhibit of olivewood products they will
 present in a tent in the center of the village. Maybe people from all
 over the world will come to see. A Swedish member of parliament was
 already arrested here by the IDF. Murar says that the exhibition will
 include a dove carved out of olivewood. They're also planning a 
demonstration of children soon.

Murar: "We've learned lessons - where we did good and where we did bad.
They [the Israelis] have also learned lessons. Maybe they'll strengthen
the curfew more when they're working. But our plan is to defend our land
and our trees in a peaceful manner. Sometimes among our people there are 
a lot of ideas about what to do against the occupation. We here have 
chosen a different strategy. Our strategy in this small village is that we're
turni ng things over. In the north, from Jenin until Budrus, there were
Israeli and international demonstrators, supported by Palestinians. But
here, we think that it's our problem and that we have to defend our land
and do som ething, and the Israelis and international protesters are only
supporting us. First the Palestinians, and then the internationals. We are
very grateful for Israeli and international support, but the Palestinians
have to m ake a stand. We're adopting a special strategy, a peaceful
strategy. The Hamas here, too. In the beginning, they walked with their
green flags in the demonstrations. After the first three demonstrations,
we only carry the flag of Palestine. Everyone together. In a totally peaceful 
way. We also all agreed on one thing: We are not against the Israelis and 
not against the Jews and not against the soldiers. We are only against the
occupation. We are against the bulldozers. And we in Budrus believe that
killing is easier than crying. But just crying over the land isn't
enough. A peaceful demonstration is stronger than killing. If you stand
before the Israeli soldier, right beside him, you'll be stronger.

If someone asks: Why peaceful? I tell him: I've tried all the ways and the
peaceful way works best. The worst thing is to kill the innocent. That's
the worst thing in the world. They kill day and night and say that we are
 terrorists. But we need all the world to be on our side. I'm against
 killing people. All people, Jews and Arabs. I'm not afraid or ashamed to
 say that. That's why I'm demonstrating peacefully against the fence."


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