Category: Reports
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Report from ISM Gaza Strip as Israeli rockets hit Gaza
By Sharon from Australia 3pm from Gaza city I was at home beside the small Gaza port, eating a bread and jam breakfast, when the rockets began to fall at about 11am. Six or seven deafening explosions occurred not far from my building, which rocked from the impact, smoke and dust filling the air. This…
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Soldiers attack international HRWs in Hebron
On Christmas Eve, Dec. 24 at 10:40pm, three international human rights workers (HRW’s)were assaulted by a group of six soldiers on the roadway after the Jewish cemetary in the Tel Rumeida district of Hebron. The HRW’s had just returned from celebrating Christmas Eve in Bethlehem and had been denied entry through Checkpoint 56 to the…
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Settler youth spray burning liquid at Palestinian man in Hebron
On the morning of the 24th December, a settler youth attacked a Palestinian man outside the Beit Hadassah settlement in Hebron. The man, who works as a caretaker at the Palestinian Qurtuba School, was running an errand in to the city centre. On returning he saw a settler boy around 12 years old chatting with…
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Um Kamel al-Kurd again claims her Right of Return
On Monday 22nd of December, the people of Sheikh Jarrah, together with international and Israeli activists, returned for the second time to Um Kamel’s former house in Talbieh to express her right of return. Around 50 people took part in the non-violent demonstration at 3pm to protest in the streets about Um Kamels eviction from…
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Three residents of Ni’lin arrested during night invasion
December 22, 2008 At 2.30 am on the 22nd of December, more than 100 soldiers invaded the village of Ni’lin, abducting three people in their homes. A fourth person they were looking for was not captured. The three arrested were: Saeed Ibrahim Mustafa Amireh, 17 Mohammed Daoud Husain Khawaja, 17 Mohammed Abdallah Yousef Amireh, 32…