Author: ISM Media Group
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Soldiers Allow Settlers to Stone Palestinians, Threaten to Assault Homeowner
Wednesday February 6th, 2008: At around 7.30 this evening settlers began stoning the home of the Sidr family, adjacent to Beit Hadassah settlement in Hebron’s Old City. Stones, some as large as bricks, were thrown first from the vicinity of an army post on a roof opposite the house, hitting the window of the bedroom…
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Starting Today: Escalation in Collective Punishment of Gaza – With High Court Approval
Further Electricity Cuts Planned Human Rights Groups: “Israel is Depriving Civilians in Gaza of Basic Needs – in Violation of International Law”. Wed., February 6, 2008: Beginning tomorrow (Thursday, Feb. 7), Israel will reduce supplies of electricity it sells to Gaza, as part of punitive measures taken against Gaza’s civilian population, with the approval of…
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PYN, Paz Ahora, and ISM attempt to break the blockade by sending a 50,000 Euro medical convoy into Gaza.
February 6, 2008 For Immediate Release [RAMALLAH] The Palestinian Youth Network (PYN), together with the Spanish Paz Ahora Association, and the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) in Spain will deliver 50,000 euros worth of medicine to United Nations-operated clinics in Gaza’s eight refugee camps. A delegation in which participates Julio Rodriguez, President of Paz Ahora Association,…
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Ongoing invasions in Deir Istiya, suggests Israeli army training in villages has not stopped
The village of Deir Istiya was again subject to Israeli military invasion on Monday 4th February, with soldiers again invading and occupying a family home. In activities almost identical to those that took place on 24th-25th January 2008, Israeli soldiers entered the village at approximately 7pm on Monday night, before forcibly occupying a multiple-story family…
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EI: George Habash’s contribution to the Palestinian struggle
By: As’ad AbuKhalil 30 January 2008 I lived more than half of my life in the US and I never felt the alienation that I felt on the day I read George Habash, the Palestinian revolutionary who passed away last week, labeled as a “terrorism tactician” in a front page obituary in The New York…