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  • Asira Attacked 4 Nights in a Row

    Asira Attacked 4 Nights in a Row

    7th May 2014 | International Women’s Peace Service | Asira al-Qibliya, Occupied Palestine Israeli army raided the village of Asira al-Qibliya (south of Nablus) at 1 am on 5 May, arresting a 21-year-old, brutally assaulting his uncle, and terrorising the family’s children with attack dogs. Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded Asira by foot, sneaking in from the backside of…

  • Update on Hunger Strikes: Administrative Detainees put in Solitary Confinement, Denied Salt Supplements

    Update on Hunger Strikes: Administrative Detainees put in Solitary Confinement, Denied Salt Supplements

    7th May 2014 | Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association | Ramallah, Occupied Palestine   The latest wave of mass hunger strikes continue for the 14th day as Palestinian prisoners demand the end of the policy of administrative detention. Administrative detention is a procedure in which Palestinians are arbitrarily arrested and detained without charge or trial based…

  • Israeli army target children in Azzun

    Israeli army target children in Azzun

    7th May 2014 | International Women’s Peace Service | Azzun, Occupied Palestine If the people of ‘Azzun seem nervous, they have a right to be. The town (population approximately 10,000) sits on crossroads – Qalqiliya is to the west, Nablus to the east, Salfit to the south and Tulkarem to the north. This is a junction that is vulnerable…

  • Daily Harassment in the Qeitun area

    Daily Harassment in the Qeitun area

    6th May 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil Team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine Residents of Qeitun area of Al-Khalil, near Shuhada St. are presented with a very different kind of daily routine than other areas of the occupied West Bank. Israel occupation forces not only raid houses and harass people on a daily basis, but…

  • Palestinian Christian struggle mapped in new book

    Palestinian Christian struggle mapped in new book

    5th May 2014 | The Electronic Intifada, Joe Catron | Gaza City, Occupied Palestine In Mapping Exile and Return: Palestinian Dispossession and a Political Theology for a Shared Future, American Mennonite theologian and aid worker Alain Epp Weaver explores a legacy of Palestinian Christian exile, and struggle for return. The book’s terrain ranges from the ethnically-cleansed villages of the Galilee to the Upper…