Palestinian activist speaks about the illegal Separation Wall
14 August 2009
War on Want spoke to Nasir Samara, a 28-year-old member of the Bil'in popular committee, on the day that Stop the Wall Campaign had taken Naomi Klein, the award-winning political journalist and author of The Shock Doctrine, to one of their weekly demonstrations.
In June 2009 War on Want visited Bil'in, a Palestinian village in the West Bank which has lost 60% of its land to the Israeli Occupation and is threatened with further land confiscation due to the construction of the illegal Separation Wall. The Bil'in popular committee, an activist group that works with Stop the Wall Campaign, a War on Want partner, organises weekly demonstrations against the Wall.
These rallies are regularly met with tear gas and sometimes live ammunition from the Israeli forces. In April 2009 an unarmed protestor was killed during a demonstration, and many more continue to be injured or detained. In early August several youths were abducted in night raids conducted by the Israeli forces. (For more information about Bil'in, visit the popular committee's website.)
Stop the Wall Campaign works with over 50 grassroots popular committees, organising demonstrations and other non-violent political actions to protest against the ongoing illegal construction of the Separation Wall in the West Bank. For more information visit Stop the Wall's website.
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