A Demand from the Government of Israel to Stop the Land Grab at Bil'in

The Separation Wall in the occupied territories is illegal and perpetuates the Conflict!


The State of Israel is erecting the Separation Wall on Palestinian land out of security considerations, while the true objective is to annex land west of the Wall into Israel.

This provocative act is being conducted against the ruling of the International Court of Justice in The Hague, as well as the resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations which accepted the ruling of the Court. This act is being carried out with all the oppressive and violent means at the disposal of the occupying IDF forces through shooting and killing, serious injury, beating and threats, closures and curfews, and fear and intimidation tactics.

This aggression is currently faced by a growing non-violent opposition to this land grab and denial of Palestinians' human rights to exist and live freely on their native land.

Israeli and international activists for peace and human rights are expressing their opposition to this act through joint demonstrations and protest campaigns.

Up until now the State of Israel has built 180 Km of the planned 620 km of the Separation Wall, appropriating tens of thousands of acres of private land, uprooting tens of thousands of olive and fruit trees, and destroying the entire fabric of life of hundreds of thousands of people in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

The village of Bilin is a small and peaceful village near Ramallah, whose 1,700 residents gain their livelihood through agriculture and occasional external employment. The Separation Wall is appropriating 50\% of the village lands and about 70\% of its cultivated area.

The real objective of the Wall's route in this area, as in others, is the expansion of the massive settlement of Upper Modi'in illit. This settlement has already 35,000 residents, and according to the plans of the Ministry of Housing, will number, in 2020 150,000 people. The expansion of Modi'in Illit has and is being done at the expense of the seized lands of Bilin and neighboring villages.

We are launching the petition campaign with the intent that the Israeli government will retrace it's illegal land grab practices and restore the annexed land to it's proper owners, the Palestinian residents of Bil'in.