Category: Reports
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Closed shops, empty pockets: Israel’s policy of economic strangulation in Hebron
by Paige L 20 February 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Walking down Shuhada Street in occupied Hebron (al-Khalil) is an eerie experience even during peek commercial hours in the rest of the city. Nearly empty streets are framed by rows of closed Palestinian shops, doors welded shut under Israeli military orders. Armed religious…
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Kufr Qaddoum: 5 people injured in demonstration
by Veronica 17 February 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank In advance of last week’s regular demonstration in Kufr Qaddoum the Israeli military attempted to prevent it by turning off the electricity supply to the village from 4AM that morning. But it did not deter about 150 Palestinians from the village from marching up…
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Idhna: Tent replaces home as local resists illegal Israeli land confiscations
by Sylvia 16 February 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Idhna has suffered considerably since the Israeli occupation, particularly due to the construction of the segregation wall and some 3,000 dunums of land which has been stolen since the second Intifada. Idhna is surrounded by the Israeli settlements of Adora and Telem to the…
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Jordan Valley: Demolitions and arrests of two Palestinians
by Satu and John 15 February 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On February 14, 2012, in the small village of Twael of the Aqraba district, southeast of Nablus in the Jordan Valley, the home of the Bunni Jaber family was destroyed by an Israeli backhoe protected by 20 soldiers in four military vehicles.…
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61 year old released from hospital after Yitzhar settler attack
by Fransisco Reeves 15 February 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Following her horrific ordeal of having her family’s vehicle attacked by Zionist settlers in early February, Maysar Abd Al Majeed Ghanem is finally healthy enough to return to home. The attack resulted in Ghanem spending 36 hours in the Intensive Care Unit and…