Category: Features
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Home demolition in Jerusalem: “They want our land. We need help to protect it.”
1st April 2015 | Jerusalem, Occupied Palestine Nureddin Amro and his brother Sharif Amro and their families were awakened at 5:30 am by over a hundred Israeli soldiers who came to demolish their home in the Wadi Al-Joz neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem on Tuesday, March 31, 2015. Both men are blind. The brothers live with their…
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Peaceful tree planting attacked by settlers and soldiers, two hospitalised and one arrested
1st April 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil Team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine On March 31st around 40 Palestinian children and adults gathered in Hebron near Qurtuba school, a Palestinian school in the H2 neighbourhood of Tel Rumeida, to plant trees in commemoration of Palestine’s Land Day. Israeli extremist settlers from the illegal settlements in Al-Khalil (Hebron) attacked…
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Nabi Saleh Land Day Protest met with extreme violence and M16 live ammunition
30th March 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Ramallah team | Nabi Saleh, Occupied Palestine On the 28th of March 2015, close to 200 protesters from all over the West Bank gathered in Nabi Saleh to protest the occupation in commemoration of Land Day. The protest was met with extreme violence as the Army and Border Police fired…
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Four Palestinians and one female German demonstrator shot with live ammunition at “Open Shuhada Street” protest
28th February 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil Team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine On February 27 in occupied Al-Khalil (Hebron), Israeli forces fired live ammunition towards nonviolent protesters participating in the annual Open Shuhada Street demonstration, injuring five including four Palestinian activists, one of them 17 years old, and one German citizen. More were also injured by rubber-coated steel bullets…
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19-year-old shot and killed by Israeli forces in Burin
3rd February 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus Team | Burin, Occupied Palestine On the evening of January 31, 2015, Israeli soldiers shot and killed Ahmad Ibrahim Najar, a 19-year-old Palestinian from the village of Burin (Nablus region). In the attack, Israeli forces also injured 18-year-old Mohammed Raed Asaos. Mohammed and a third man, Abdulrahman…
