RAMALLAH, September 19, 2011 (WAFA) – The Palestinian Popular Resistance Committee Monday launched the biggest popular campaign called ‘Refusing to Die in Silence’ to document and stop settler attacks on Palestinians in a non-violent way.
Mohammad Khatib, a member of the popular committee in the West Bank village of Bil’in said that this campaign started due to settlers’ increasing attacks, under the protection of the Israeli army, on Palestinians and their properties.
He added that the campaign will include Palestinian, Israeli and international activists, who will patrol the West Bank, documenting and trying to prevent settlers’ attacks against Palestinians.
Several cars carrying reporters will drive around the clock in areas that are threatened of settlers’ attacks. This crew will have a toll-free number so that Palestinians can contact them in case of any attacks.
Khatib said that the campaign will provide all possible assistance to the affected Palestinians, stressing the risk in the crews’ work since they will be in the front lines during any attacks.
The campaign aims to scare off the settlers by making them know that there are media crews on standby around the clock to document their attacks, as well as to give Palestinians reassurance that they can contact these crews at any time for help.
The crews will be directed from a control room in Ramallah, which will receive the Palestinian residents’ calls and distribute the tasks among the crews according to their locations.
The Israeli army is training Jewish settlers in the West Bank and supplying them with tear gas and stun grenades in preparation for “Operation Summer Seeds,” which aims to ready the Israeli army for Palestinian “mass disorder’, coinciding with the Palestinian bid to gain full United Nations membership of a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders later this week.Palestine News & Info Agency - WAFA
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