Summary
The West Bank village near Ramallah that Falk names as a particularly active site of the nonviolent weekly protests against the separation wall (Palestine: The Legitimacy of Hope, PDF p.138).
Details
- The protests at Bil’in are against continued Israeli construction of a separation wall extending throughout the whole of the West Bank; Falk says the Israeli penchant for using deadly force to disrupt the nonviolent demonstrations there raises deep legal and moral concerns (PDF p.138).
- Jawaher Abu Rahmah died on the first day of 2011 from tear-gas inhalation in connection with a large year-end Bil’in demonstration that included 350 Israeli and international activists, although she was standing above the demonstration as a spectator, not taking part in it (PDF p.138-139).
- Falk places the Bil’in protests against the background of the International Court of Justice’s 2004 ruling that the wall’s construction on occupied Palestinian territory was unlawful and should be dismantled with compensation, which Israel has defied (PDF p.138).
Related pages
Palestine: The Legitimacy of Hope, Separation wall, Jawaher Abu Rahmah, State Terrorism, International Court of Justice