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CPT: Rampaging Israeli settlers invade Palestinian village of Tuba
16 May 2011 | Christian Peacemaker Team (Tuba, South Hebron Hills, West Bank) Late last night, Israeli settlers invaded the village of Tuba, damaged property, and killed and stole several sheep belonging to the Ali Awad family. Palestinians of Tuba reported that they counted seven masked settlers, who entered and left the village on foot, and saw two cars at the outskirts of Tuba, near the chicken barns of Ma’on settlement. The rampaging settlers stole seven…
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Demonstrations mark Nakba Day in Hebron
16 May 2011 | International Solidarity Movement Approximately one thousand people demonstrated in Hebron during the weekend to commemorate the Nakba day. Several protesters were injured after violent responses from the Israeli army. On Sunday the 15th May around a thousand Palestinians joined in a demonstration to commemorate the Nakba, (in English literally “the catastrophe”) which occurred in 1948 when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were expelled from their homes as the Israeli state was created.…
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Bloody Nakba Day; 16 killed, 400 injured as Israeli troops attack protesters
16 May 2011 | Palestine News Network As protests commemorating Nakba ended on Sunday night sources confirmed that Israeli military attacks on those protests left 16 killed and 400 injured. Israeli troops attacked Nakba protests in several parts of the West Bank, Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip, in addition to the Lebanese and Syrian borders. Maroun al-Ras: 10 Palestinian refugees were killed and some 80 others injured when Israeli soldiers opened fire at protesters at the border…
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