Category: Reports
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Live ammunition used on demonstrators in Gaza who move a section of the buffer-zone fence
18 August 2010 | ISM Gaza On Tuesday morning a demonstration in Gaza by Palestinian activists from Local Initiative Beit Hanoun, with four International Solidarity Movement volunteers and other international activists and journalists was met with live ammunition fired by the Israeli army. Soldiers opened fire on protestors in the buffer zone in Beit Hanoun,…
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Gaza’s record-breaking children
18 August 2010 | Vittorio Arrigoni, Electronic Intifada Gaza’s kids truly are record-breakers. They survived Israel’s 2008-09 winter invasion and every day they put up with a state of war during a so-called ceasefire. Smeared in blood, they’ve crawled through the rubble of shelled buildings, taking care of younger siblings, and tending to languishing parents,…
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West Bank demonstration reports
An Nabi Saleh – 13/8/2010 On Friday around 35 Palestinians demonstrated against Hallamish settlement with around 15 Israeli and international peace activists in the village of An Nabi Salih. When the peaceful demonstration started, as usual after the noon prayer, the demonstrators went down to the entrance of the village where soldiers and border police…