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Today in Jerusalem

3 November 2009 | de l’autre côté du mur When talking about Palestine and Palestinian’s rights it is difficult to decide where to start. So I will just tell you day about my day of today. 9:39am: I am drinking ...

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Israeli police demolish Gawi tent for the third time

1 November 2009 On Sunday 1 November 2009 at 9:50am, eight Israeli police vehicles and about 20 heavily armed police accompanied by several municipality officers arrived outside the Gawi family house in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of occupied East Jerusalem. ...

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Would Israel arrest a Jewish terrorist with only Arab victims?

Avi Issacharoff | Ha’aretz 2 November 2009 It’s reasonable to assume that if Yaakov (Jack) Teitel had focused only on attacking Palestinians, he would have encountered few problems with law-enforcement authorities. His big mistake, it seems, was targeting non-Arabs as ...

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Student expelled to Gaza Strip by force

Ben Lynfield | The Independent 30 October 2009 A Palestinian student has been handcuffed, blindfolded and forcibly expelled to the Gaza Strip by Israeli troops just two months before she was due to graduate from university. Berlanty Azzam, 21, who ...

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Harvesting in death zone, with a song

Eva Bartlett | Inter Press Service 30 October 2009 On a quiet October morning, Fida Zaneen, 19, sings a traditional love song as she pulls olives from trees in Beit Hanoun’s border region during the annual olive harvest. “My grandmother ...

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Ni’lin sets fire to the Apartheid Wall

Ni’lin Youth Center 30 October 2009 The heavy rain which fell down in the West Bank didn’t prevent the protesters of Ni’lin village from protesting against the Apartheid Wall, the pray held in one of the mosques in the village, ...

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