Category: In the Media
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Israeli forces use excessive lethal force killing Palestinian civilian and wounding and arresting another in the north of the Gaza Strip
2nd October 2013 | Palestinian Centre for Human Rights| Gaza, Occupied Palestine In an excessive use of lethal force, on Monday, 30 September 2013, Israeli forces killed a Palestinian civilian, and wounded another one before arresting him, near the border fence, east of Beit Hanoun in the north of the Gaza Strip. According to investigations conducted…
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Israel exploits Egypt turmoil to increase attacks on Gaza farmers
18th September 2013 | The Electronic Intifada, Joe Catron | Gaza City, Occupied Palestine Farming in the Gaza Strip’s “buffer zone” is hazardous under the best circumstances. Israeli troops routinely shoot live ammunition at Palestinian farmers in the free-fire area, which stretches hundreds of meters into the besieged territory from the barrier separating it and Israel, and invade their fields…
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High Court orders state: Reopen probe of U.S. citizen wounded in West Bank protest
10th July 2013 | Haaretz | Jerusalem Court responding to petition charging that nobody questioned the Border Police soldier who fired the tear-gas canister that cracked Tristan Anderson’s skull in 2009. Israel’s High Court of Justice on Wednesday ordered investigators to reopen their probe into the incident of a Border Police officer who shot a…
