Category: Features
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Adalah-NY: Norway Divests from Leviev Companies Due to Israeli Settlement Construction
Adalah-NY FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New York, NY – In a major victory for the international movement for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel, the Norwegian government announced today that it has divested from Lev Leviev’s company Africa Israel Investments and its construction subsidiary Danya Cebus due to their construction of Israeli settlements in the…
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Live ammunition used on demonstrators in Gaza who move a section of the buffer-zone fence
18 August 2010 | ISM Gaza On Tuesday morning a demonstration in Gaza by Palestinian activists from Local Initiative Beit Hanoun, with four International Solidarity Movement volunteers and other international activists and journalists was met with live ammunition fired by the Israeli army. Soldiers opened fire on protestors in the buffer zone in Beit Hanoun,…
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Army violently attack Hebron demo again – yet only an innocent British peace activist is charged with assault
15 August 2010 | International Solidarity Movement On Saturday Palestinians were joined by internationals and Israelis in their weekly demonstration, asking for the opening of Shuhada Street and responding to the closure of three shops in the old city earlier in the week. The Israeli army, represented by soldiers and border police, entered from the…
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Ethnic cleansing continues: Bedouin village Al Araqib demolished for the third time
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Bedouin village of Al Araqib demolished for the third time 10 August 2010 Al Araqib, NEGEV The Bedouin village of Al Araqib in Southern Israel was destroyed for the third time in two weeks this morning, Tuesday August 10th, by Israeli civil administration forces. At approximately 5.45 this morning around 50 Israeli…
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Masked settlers attack international peace activists in Hebron
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 6 August 2010 Al-Buwayra, HEBRON – This morning, in a second day of violence in the village of Al-Buwayra, near Hebron, two international peace activists were attacked by three Israeli settlers wearing black masks. Both were left seriously injured and have been hospitalized following the unprovoked attack. The settlers knocked Canadian Peter…
