Author: ISM Media
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Israeli military beats and arrests journalists, suppresses Kufr Qaddoum demonstration
By Marshall Pinkerton and Alma Reventos 18 August | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On Friday, August 17, 5 were injured and 8 arrested during the weekly protest in Kufr Qaddoum. Israeli soldiers fired tear-gas canisters, rubber-coated steel bullets, and beat protesters with wooden sticks. The village experienced an unprecedented amount of violence during the peaceful…
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In suspected Jerusalem lynch, dozens of Jewish youths attack 3 Palestinians
By Nir Hasson 17 August 2012 | Haaretz One of the Palestinians was seriously wounded and hospitalized in intensive care; eyewitness: Today I saw a lynch with my own eyes. Dozens of Jewish youths attacked three young Palestinians in Jerusalem’s Zion Square early on Friday morning, in what one witness described as “a lynch” on…
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Settlers invade Khan Al Luban
By Alex Marley 17 August 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank At around 10:30 p.m., a group of Israeli settlers from the nearby illegal settlement of Ma’ale Levona arrived in Khan Al Luban, a Palestinian hamlet located in the vicinity of Al Luban village. Armed with guns and wooden sticks, the settlers broke into a…
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Ethnic cleansing on the road to an Israeli colony
By Marshall Pinkerton 15 August 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank For the past four years, Khalid al-Sanih Daraghmah and his family have faced regular attacks by Israeli settlers at their home in Khan, 2 kilometers south of the West Bank village al-Luban. When Khalid bought the two homes on the road to the…
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Nabi Saleh: “The resistance is for our kids’ future”
By Markus Fitzgerald 15 August 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On the evening of July 26, social media lit up with messages from residents of the village Nabi Saleh. “Four army jeeps and around 20 soldiers standing at the entrance” tweeted Manal Tamimi, and later, “for the third day (in a [row]) the…
