Category: Press Releases
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French company loses €3.5 billion contract over involvement with Jerusalem light railway
Joakim Wohlfeil | Diakonia Stockholm, 20 January 2009 Today the Stockholm community council in Sweden announced that the French company Veolia who has been the current operator at the Subway’s in Stockholm County for 10 years lost the contract to the MTR-cooperation. The contracts for the coming 8 years is worth 3.5 billion EURO and…
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Samouni family members found dead in Gaza rubble
International human rights activists have witnessed the recovery of dead members of the Samouni family. Several bodies of the Samouni family have finally been retrieved, 12 days after an attack by Israeli military forces that led to the death of an unknown number of family members. Red Crescent ambulance crews finally gained access to the…
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Nine year old girl, shot twice by Israeli snipers as her family sought refuge in Al-Quds hospital, has died
Haneen al-Badran, a nine year old girl who was shot in the face and abdomen by Israeli snipers as her family ran to the AL-Quds hospital in Tel al-Hawa, died at 5pm on January 16th. The shooting of the al Badran family The Al Batran Family from Tel Al Hawa neighborhood in Gaza City fled…