Category: Press Releases
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Incurion and Arrests in Tubas
Incursion and Arrests in Tubas from Brighton Palestine, 4 April 2007 On Monday April 2nd the IDF entered the town of Tubas (in Area A – the ‘Palestinian controlled’ area of the occupied West Bank). Around 40 soldiers and several vehicles surrounded the home of Ibrahim and Hamid Daragmeh and told the family that they…
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Construction of Israeli settlement under way in Jordan Valley
Full of settlers: construction of new Jordan Valley Israeli settlement by Jamil al-Husni, Brighton Palestine, 1 April 2007 EIN AL-HILWA, West Bank From his home in the Ein al-Hilwa village in the Jordan Valley, 23 year-old Nasser Kaabna watches ongoing construction of the new Israeli settlement named Maskot. Foundations for temporary housing and electrical lines…
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pout, pout, stick your lip out…
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Beit Furik: Palestinians Defy Israeli Apartheid
Hundreds defy apartheid restrictions on movement in Beit Furik from IWPS, 1 April 2007 Nearly 200 Palestinian and international activists defied Israel’s apartheid policies at the Beit Furik checkpoint in Nablus today. The non-violent demonstrators joined together to resist the closure of the checkpoints by the Israeli military for the Jewish Pesacht holiday. The demonstration…
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IWPS: For 7 hours, Israeli soliders resfuse to return Palestinian ID cards
Soldiers refuse to return ID cards after detaining three young men for over seven hours following Land Day demonstration by Gemma and Nova, IWPS, 1 April 2007 On March 30, 2007, three young men from the village of Rafat were arrested by the Israeli Forces following a nonviolent demonstration on the village’s land. At 1:44pm,…