Category: Press Releases
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Four houses raided in military incursion to West Bank villages Bil’in and Ni’ilin
Popular Struggle Coordination Committee 19 December 2009 For immediate release: The Palestinian villages of Bil’in and Ni’lin have been invaded by the Israeli military in the early hours of Saturday, 19 December 2009. Soldiers entered both villages at 2.30am and raided houses of four families. In Bil’in, 5 military jeeps carrying about 30 soldiers entered…
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Twenty seven activists arrested at protest against settler expansion in Sheikh Jarrah
18 December 2009 For immediate release: A peaceful demonstration of around 300 people, held in solidarity with the evicted Palestinian residents of Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in East Jerusalem, was violently dispersed by the Israeli police. Following a violent dispersal of a similar demonstration last week, the police was blocking the roads in Sheikh Jarrah from…
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Jerusalem culture event shut down by Israeli forces
Ma’an News 17 December 2009 Bethlehem – Ma’an – Israeli forces arrested several and scuffled with Palestinians while shutting down a cultural festival meant to proclaim attachment to Jerusalem on Thursday. Organizers, including Prisoners’ Club President Nasser Kaws, were hustled out of the Damascus Gate area of the Old City of Jerusalem and detained by…