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…
