Year: 2012
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Update: ‘They are not the same as you’ – detention continues for Kufr Qaddoum prisoners
By Ben Greene, Ellie Marton, and Anna Conroy 17 October 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On Monday 15th October, Palestinian political prisoners Majd and Abdulateef Obeid appeared before a military court for a third time. Their lawyer argued that, as four international activists arrested at the same time with the same evidence had…
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Letter from International Activist Under House Arrest in Israel Asking for Support and Solidarity
September 25, 2012 Dear Friends of Palestine, I am writing to you from an apartment in Tel Aviv where I am under house arrest for standing in solidarity with Palestinians fighting a twelve-year road closure in their West Bank town of Kufr Qeddoum. This weekend, I spent forty eight hours in Israeli prisons. I was…
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Hebron: Soldiers invade Kurtuba School, attempt arrest
By Ruby Astaire 26 September | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Israeli soldiers invaded a Palestinian school in the city of Hebron with intentions to arrest two sixth grade students after false allegations of throwing stones at a nearby checkpoint. Israeli soldiers based in the Palestinian city of Hebron entered the Kurtuba school on Sunday…