Khoolod Badawi, a charismatic and passionate Palestinian woman takes us to the "ground zero" of her identity -- the village of Safuri, from which her family was exiled in 1948.

Mohammed Khatib speaks out in support of the freeing of Ashraf Abu-Ramha, a fellow anti-wall and anti-occuption organizer from the village of Bil'in who has been arrested by the Israeli military. The village of Bil'in has led non-violent protests against the separation wall since 2004, and successfully changed the route of the wall in the village if Bil'in.

There were tears of joy in the West Bank and Gaza as friends and relatives welcomed back Palestinian prisoners freed by Israel. Thousands gathered outside the Palestinian presidential compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah to celebrate the moment. Many were reunited with relatives who had been held in Israeli jails for years. Large crowds also waited on the outskirts of east Jerusalem for returning prisoners. Some ran alongside the convoy of vehicles apparently carrying freed prisoners.

The video is of Haj Sami Sadeq, who is mayor of the village of Al-Aqaba in the occupied Jordan Valley. Israel has vowed to never give up the Jordan Valley, and there are two Israeli army bases near Al-Aqaba. The Israeli army regularly comes in and destroys roads in the village. Under this assault, the village's population has plunged, from more than a thousand many years ago to a couple of hundred.

Friday, 17 April 2009, during a demonstration in Bi'lin, in the Ramallah District, a soldier fired a tear-gas grenade from an increased distance at Bassem Ibrahim Abu Rahma, 30. The grenade left a hole in his chest, causing massive internal bleeding, which led to his death. This video clip filmed at the site proves that Abu Rahma was standing on the eastern side of the fence, about thirty meters from the soldiers, when he was hit. The video clip also shows that during the incident, he did not throw stones, did not damage the fence, and did not endanger soldiers in any way whatsoever.

Palestinian demonstrators disrupted the construction of a new neighborhood in the adjacent settlement of Nili. Israeli soldiers responded with baton charges, tear-gas, rubber-coated bullets and live ammunition. One organizer was arrested. Two Palestinian youths in their twenties were hit by live ammunition today, during a demo against settlement expansion in the village of Dier Qaddis.