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The ongoing repression of Palestinian protesters

Jonathan Pollak | Huffington Post 18 December 2009 On a pitch black early December night, seven armored Israeli military jeeps pulled into the driveway of a home in the West Bank town of Ramallah. Dozens of soldiers, armed and possibly ...

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27 arrested, 3 wounded during Sheikh Jarrah protest

18 December 2009 Twenty-six Israeli protesters and one international solidarity activist were arrested and three Palestinian children wounded during a nonviolent demonstration against the Israeli settlement project in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah this Friday. Over 300 ...

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Childhood in ruins

Harriet Sherwood | The Guardian 17 December 2009 Ghiada abu Elaish’s fingers twist in her lap and her eyes cloud over as she recalls the day an Israeli shell killed four of her cousins and left her in a coma ...

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Jerusalem culture event shut down by Israeli forces

Ma’an News 17 December 2009 Bethlehem – Ma’an – Israeli forces arrested several and scuffled with Palestinians while shutting down a cultural festival meant to proclaim attachment to Jerusalem on Thursday. Organizers, including Prisoners’ Club President Nasser Kaws, were hustled ...

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IDF raids Naalin photographer’s home

Ali Waked | YNet News 16 December 2009 Family members of a girl who shot a video showing an Israel Defense Forces soldier firing a rubber bullet at a bound Palestinian in the West Bank village of Naalin last year ...

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Die on my Palestine land

Jody McIntyre | Ctrl.Alt.Shift 16 December 2009 Fatima Mohammed Yassen, aged 49, is a farmer from Bil’in. Despite the crippling Israeli occupation of her village, she continues to work her land, along with her husband, on a daily basis. Jody ...

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