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50 arrested during pre-dawn sweeps in Hebron

21 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Just before dawn today, Sunday August 21, IDF forces raided the towns of Hebron and Bethlehem in the West Bank. Preliminary reports indicate that up to 250 people have been arrested ...

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Gaza: There was no calm before the storm

20 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza For the last two days Gaza has been under heavy attack by the Israeli military. The calm has been shattered. That is what the international press would have you believe. Perhaps they ...

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Gaza strikes: Destroying just to destroy

20 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Israeli attacks on Gaza are not limited to trying to kill people.  Sometimes, they bomb things just to destroy them, pointless destruction.  On the morning of August 19th, 2011 Israeli warplanes bombed ...

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Kufr Qaddoum cutting the wire on illegal settlements

19 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank A joyful demonstration occurred in Kufr Qaddoum today, when more than 100 demonstrators successfully cut open and tore down a razor wire fence on a road leading to Nablus just outside ...

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75 year old woman shot in Johr al-Dik

16 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Strip Selma Al Sawarka, or Um Ahmad, is an active woman, a mother of seven, and a grandmother of 35, who has never quit working.  August 10, 2011 dawned like most days ...

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Why boycott Israel?

13 August 2011 | Al Jazeera English, Lisa Taraki and Mark LeVine A founding member of the campaign for the academic and cultural boycott outlines the motivation behind the movement. Author and history professor Mark LeVine speaks with sociologist Lisa Taraki, ...

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