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The ever-changing Israeli police reports
Within 48 hours of Yahya Atta Rayahin Bani Minnah’s death, the official Israeli statement on the cause of death changed considerably. As documented in previous report, the Israeli army physician who was present at the scene of the murder told the mayor of Aqraba, Mr Jabr, directly that the wounds were caused by M16 bullets.…
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Settlers murder 18 year old boy from the village of Aqraba, Nablus
On Saturday 27 September settlers from the illegal outpost of Itamar settlement, to the east of Nablus city, executed 18 year old shepherd Yahya Atta Rayahin Bani Minnah from Aqraba village. Yahya Minnah had left the village of Aqraba in the early morning along with a number of other shepherds to graze their sheep in…
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ISM Rafah: Life on the Green Line
This is the story of a family living in the Al Farahin neighbourhood of Abassan Alkabeera in southern Gaza. Translated, filmed and edited by Fida Qishta Language edit by ISM Rafah The family’s home is situated extremely close to the ‘Green Line’ with Israel and subsequently has suffered many cases of Israeli military aggression. There…
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The Israeli army’s cooperation with settlers in Hebron increases pressure on Palestinian residents
Sunday, the 29th of October – 15 Israeli soldiers invaded the house of the Samouh-family in Hebron. Its 22 members share three apartments in their house in Tel Rumeida, opposite the Beit Hadesa Settlement. Claiming a search for weapons, the soldiers forced their way into the apartments. From 12.00 to 15.00 the family-members were detained…
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Former Iraq hostage, assaulted, unlawfully deported by Israel for human rights work, files official complaint
AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND – Harmeet Singh Sooden, who was held hostage in Iraq for four months in 2005-2006, has filed an official complaint to the governments of Canada and New Zealand and the United Nations for human rights violations committed against him by the Government of Israel in the course of denying him entry to…
