Category: Reports
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Tel Rumeida Diary: The Israeli Idea of “Quiet”
by Mary, October 14th A young soldier told me that he didn’t care what anyone thought of him. He did not want peace, just quiet. He wanted quiet! And quiet he has, I suppose. He has no need to arrest anyone or shoot anyone. And that is the best a young conscript can hope for!…
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Journalists Join with Villagers of Bil’in in Solidarity With Emad Bornat
by Ash For more pictures, see this blog entry. Palestinians along with international and Israeli peace activists gathered this morning along with cameramen from different press agencies in solidarity with Emad Bornat. Emad Mohammad Bornat of the village of Bil’in, video photographer for Reuters and documentary film maker, was arrested on Friday October 6th, 2006…
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“Boycott Israeli Goods” UK National Day of Action
Indymedia UK, 9th of October 2006 As the Lebanese people are reeling from Israel’s illegal bombing campaign, and the people of the West Bank and Gaza are suffering a continuous onslaught by the Israeli military, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) and the Boycott Israeli Goods Campaign (BIG) activists joined a nationwide Boycott Day of Action…
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Three days in Nablus: Four Killed, Six Injured, Eight Arrested
by ISM Nablus, October 11th The funeral of Abdullah Mansour, murdered by Israeli soldiers. Photo credit: AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh The Nablus region is constantly under siege by soldiers from the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF). In the past three days in Nablus alone, IOF soldiers have killed four Palestinians, injured more than six, and seized at…
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Israeli Soldiers Start to Use Checkpoint to Extort Money from a Palestinian Child
by Tel Rumeida Project Tuesday, 10 October 2006 At approximately 2pm two Human Rights Workers (HRWs) at the top of Tel Rumeida Street noticed that a small group of Palestinian boys were talking to the soldiers stationed at the guard post there. Shortly afterwards, a Palestinian HRW arrived and asked the boys what the matter…