BilEoACAOin nonviolent resistance: stop the virus of occupation, more dangerous than any pandemic.Ramallah / PNN PNN Probabilistic Neural NetworkPNN Police National Network (UK) PNN Profesor No Numerario PNN Planet2025 News Network (internet news service) PNN Prediction-Based Nearest Neighbor PNN Plmn Network Name exclusive -- The Palestinian nonviolent resistance nonviolent resistance: see passive resistence. movement holds demonstrations every Friday throughout the West Bank and East Jerusalem East Jerusalem refers to the part of Jerusalem captured by Jordan in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and subsequently by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War. It includes Jerusalem's Old City and some of the holiest sites of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, such as the Temple Mount, Western in protest of the practices of occupation. These weekly demos came out of the movement to stop the Wall that was, and still is, built on Palestinian lands and which divides one town from another, creates long and difficult routes to places just a few kilometers away and prevents access to farm lands.In western Ramallah's Bil'in Village the nonviolent resistance has been active against the Wall for several years. Many of their people have been severely injured or killed, including Chamis, a young man who is healing from a shot with a gas canister to the head, and another, Bassam, who was killed by the same thing just a few weeks ago.Every week the nonviolent resistance finds a theme to mix things up, to get media attention and to keep themselves going.Today Palestinian demonstrators, along with their Israeli and foreign supporters, wore the surgical masks popular in Asia. The Bil'in demonstration was focusing on the "virus of occupation" while using the props of those attempting to prevent the spread of the swine flu swine flu n. A highly contagious form of human influenza caused by a filterable virus identical or related to a virus formerly isolated from infected swine. . A large banner was raised: "Stop the virus of occupation."Among the leadership of the local resistance is Abdullah Abu Rahma who said this was the way to get attention right now. "The world is interested in swine flu," he told PNN today, Friday.Abu Rahma continued, "With one there are deaths and there is quarantine quarantine (kwŏr`əntēn), isolation of persons, animals, places, and effects that carry or are suspected of harboring communicable disease. ; but the occupation causes the deaths of thousands of Palestinians and the detention of tens of thousands, and thus this is the most dangerous occupation on the face of the earth."He added among the dozens of supporters gathered near the fence and soldiers with guns, Today we are trying to draw the attention of the world to what we suffer under the occupation, more than any pandemic pandemic /pan·dem·ic/ (pan-dem´ik) 1. a widespread epidemic of a disease. 2. widely epidemic. pan·dem·ic adj. Epidemic over a wide geographic area. n. in the world. Copyright Palestine News Network The Palestine News Network is an Arabic language media network run by Palestinians in the Palestinian Territories (West Bank and Gaza). It cooperates with the International Middle East Media Center which translates many of its reports into English for international, non-Arabic , 2003 - 2009 Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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