News Under Seige: Poster on Apartheid Wall Action

This poster is part of a series of media interventions on what goes unreported about the American and Israeli occupations, News Under Seige.

Text used in the poster:

Anouncement by
Anarchists Against the Wall
No to the ghetto that's being built by Jews! No to walls between people!
Stop the occupation!

In this moment, Friday afternoon {seventh candle of Hanuka}, dozens of activists are tearing apart and breaking down the gate of the apartheid wall which is also known as the "separation fence", to enable a free passage for the people of Mas'ha to their lands.

The activists, equiped with tools, are breaking the gate that has remained closed since the wall was built two months ago.

The farmers, whose land is on the other side of the fence were told that they would be able to cross through the gate to work their lands. That promise turned out to be a methodical, crude and cruel lie. All throughout the suffocating wall the gates remain blocked and the Palestinian residents remain with no access to their only source of income.
The army is present — at the Mas'ha village gates which are located next to Elkana settlement — and yet, its not clear how the confrontation between the army and the activists will end. The activists are calling for a joined active resistance of Israelis and Palestinians toward the ghettoizing policy that the Israeli government is issuing.

The action is being held as a part of The Alternative Protest Camp Against The Apartheid Wall that started a week ago in Deir Balut. The camp is hosting Israelis and Palestinians, and located on the path of the Apartheid Wall, on the land of the village's elementary school. (The building of the school was stopped due to the land being confiscated for the building of the wall.)

We invite the media that follows Ariel Sharon's promises, for the so called evacuation of he settlements, to come and see for them selfs the land confiscating and settlement expansion operation that is operating this days. Deir Balut protest camp and other protest actions that take place and that will take place in the future will set a live and kicking alternative to the occupying, stealing and confiscating actions that the Sharon government and the Israeli army are responsible for.

Update: In activity against the apartheid wall an Israeli anarchist was seriously injured by Israeli forces live ammunition and an internationalist by rubber bullet. They were shot at as 100 activists have damaged the wall near the village Mesha. The activity initiated by the Anarchist Movement against the Wall (The One Struggle collective) Israel occupation soldiers shot and wounded two people during a demonstration against the West Bank security fence Friday. An Israeli anarchist - Gil Naamaty of Kibbutz Nirim sustained serious live ammunition wounds, while International Solidarity Movement comrade was moderately wounded by rubber bullet. The incident occurred close to the Palestinian village of Mahase, east of Rosh Ha'ayin. were protesting against the construction of the security fence.

During the protest, troops used live ammunition shooting to hit. At a later stage, the ISP activist was wounded by a rubber bullet. Gil, whose friends said was hit by two bullets, and the ISP volunteer were evacuated to Beilinson hospital in Petah Tikva.

December 26, 2003