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Urif: Israeli settlers attack village, Palestinian shot in abdomen

Posted on: May 28, 2012
Israeli soldiers prevent Palestinians from putting out the fires started by Israeli settlers further up the hill - click here for more photos

By Tete Tele

26 May 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank
On May 26, the village of Urif, south of Nablus, was attacked by Israeli settlers from the illegal Yitzhar settlement. Extensive amounts of agricultural land belonging to Urif were burned and settlers threw stones and shot live ammunition at civilians from the village. A Palestinian man was shot with live ammunition in the abdomen and a Franco-British volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement was injured by a tear gas canister.
The attack began around 1p.m. with shooting coming from a hill east to the village, nearby to … Continue reading


Updated on June 4, 2012
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Twilight zone / An organic bond

Posted on: September 16, 2011

16 September 2011 | Haaretz

This is a bad story with a happy ending. It’s also a story that makes one happy, but still leaves a bit of a bitter taste in one’s mouth.

It’s the story of a Palestinian baby girl who was born during a period of unrelenting siege and curfew in her village and became ill, so that her parents had to carry her through the hills to a hospital. It’s the story of a Palestinian infant who needed a kidney transplant but for whom no suitable donor was found in the family; finally, a courageous South African … Continue reading


Updated on September 16, 2011
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