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FGM: Free Gaza returns the Dignity on Friday Nov. 7 with 13 MPs
To view the Free Gaza Movement website click here On Friday, November 7, the DIGNITY leaves at 5:00 pm from Larnaca to Gaza. This time, thirteen European Parliamentarians (from England, Ireland, Italy, Turkey, Wales, Switzerland, and Scotland) are on board. After two successful voyages, one in August and one last week, members of the Free…
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The Independent: Britain to crack down on exports from Israeli settlements
By Donald Macintyre in Jerusalem To view original article, published on the 3rd November, click here Britain is taking the lead in pressing the EU to curb imports from Israeli producers in the occupied West Bank as a practical step towards halting the steady increase in the construction of Jewish settlements. An internal EU note…
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Israeli Occupation Forces invade Al Faqr refugee camp
Early on the morning of Monday 3rd November, approximately 400 Israeli soldiers entered Al Faqr refugee camp to the north of Nablus city, destroying homes, throwing tear gas and sound bombs and imposing a curfew on the camp. At 2am soldiers disrupted the sleep of the residents of the camp, raiding almost 200 homes and…
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ISM Gaza: Gazan fisherman injured during Israeli water cannon attack
On Friday 31st October, 2008, seven trawling vessels from the port of Gaza City were accompanied by ten international human rights observers. Activists from the International Solidarity Movement were joined by volunteers from the Free Gaza Movement who reached Gaza on October 29th on the MV Dignity. The fishing fleet left port at about 07:30.…
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IWPS: Israeli soldiers beat Palestinian farmer unconscious near Kufr Qaddum
To view the International Women’s Peace Service (IWPS) website click here On Tuesday, November 4th, 2008, a family of about 15 was harvesting its land on a slope of Jebel Mohammed north of Kafr Qaddum village, close to the eastern side of a caravan outpost of the Qedumim settlement, when they were approached by Israeli…
