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Free Gaza Movement: Dignity pulls into Gaza Port despite Israeli threats
Vittorio Arrigoni, one of the ISM volunteers kidnapped from Palestinian waters by the Israeli navy has returned to Gaza on-board the ‘Dignity’. Vittorio was deported by Israel, after engaging in a hunger-strike for the return of the Palestinian fishing trawlers stolen by the Israeli navy, despite never having been inside Israeli territory. He now returns…
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The Guardian: My expulsion from Israel
When I arrived in Israel as a UN representative I knew there might be problems at the airport. And there were By Richard Falk (Special rapporteur on the Palestinian territories) To view original article, published by The Guardian on the 19th December, click here On December 14, I arrived at Ben Gurion airport in Tel…
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Haaretz: Shady land deal unfolds from West Bank to California strip mall
By The Associated Press To view original article, published by Haaretz on the 19th December, click here The transformation of a piece of West Bank land from a Palestinian field into a Jewish settlement has roots in an unlikely place – Orange County, California – and in a document that a man supposedly signed more…
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Protesters throw shoes at Israeli soldiers in Bil’in
Friday 19th December Report by Bil’in Popular Committee Against the Apartheid Wall and Settlements Video by Israel Puterman Video published by Al-Jazeera Demonstrators marched today after the Friday prayer carrying Palestinian flags and banners calling to end the Israeli occupation, stop the wall and settlement building, stop land confiscation and settler attacks, closures and roadblocks,…
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One Palestinian arrested as IOF raid Beit Ummar
On Tuesday, December 16, 2008 at 1.00 in the morning, the IOF raided the home of the Al-Salabi family in Beit Ummar. About forty soldiers came to the village located near Road 60, south of Bethlehem. Two soldiers remained by the door, as six soldiers forcefully entered the house. The entire family, parents and their…
