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Israeli military targets al Khalayla in demolitions

11 July 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On Monday, July 11th, the Israeli military demolished 5 buildings of local Palestinian businesses in the closed neighborhood of al -Khalayla near al-Jib village outside of Jerusalem. At 6:30am the owner of a window shop received a call from the Israeli military that part of his business’s building structure would be demolished. Not long after the phone call, he arrived to the shop to find that they had already finished demolishing part of…

July 11, 2011

AP: Testimony ends in Israel case over killed American

10 July 2011 | Associated Press An Israeli court heard its final witness Sunday in a trial surrounding the death of American activist Rachel Corrie, who was crushed by an Israeli military bulldozer in the Gaza Strip in 2003. Israel’s commanding officer in Gaza at the time, Col. Pinhas Zuaretz, testified Sunday. Corrie, a pro-Palestinian activist from Olympia, Washington, who was 23 at the time, was killed when she stood before the bulldozer on the Gaza-Egypt…

July 10, 2011

WTP: Flytilla activists begin hunger strike in Israeli jail

10 July 2011 | Welcome to Palestine Israeli authorities set stringent conditions for release of “Welcome to Palestine” prisoners The large majority of international visitors are still incarcerated under brutal conditions, begin a hunger strike in Israeli jail Bethlehem, July 10, 2011. Over 120 internationals attempting to visit Palestine are still being illegally detained — kidnapped — in two Israeli detention centers, in Ramle and in Beer Al-Saba’ (Beersheva). These friends of Palestine, among which there…

July 10, 2011