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Dr. Erakat deems Israeli’s canceling residency of Palestinians as ” war crime”
11 May 2011 | Palestine News Network Member of the PLO Executive Committee and Chief Palestinian Negotiator Dr. Saeb Erakat was reacting to a report appearing today in the Israeli online Haaretz confirming that Israel stripped almost 140,000 West Bank Palestinians of their residency rights upon their departure from the occupied Palestinian territories between 1967 and 1994. This represents 5.5% of today’s Palestinian population living in the West Bank . It also excluded around 20.000 Palestinian…
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BDS victory: German company pulls out of illegal Israeli railway project
10 May 2011 | Electronic Intifada In a substantial victory for the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, a major German rail transportation company — Deutsche Bahn, or DB — has pulled out of the $550 million illegal A1 train project, which is designed to connect Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. The projected route of the rail project cuts more than 6 kilometers through the occupied West Bank in two places, and construction work has already been…
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B’Tselem: Report on Israeli expropriation of Palestine’s natural resources
11 May 2011 | B’Tselem Dispossession and Exploitation: Israel’s Policy in the Jordan Valley & Northern Dead Sea Click here for an interactive version. Download the full report here (pdf). The Jordan Valley and the northern Dead Sea area contains the largest land reserves in the West Bank. The area covers 1.6 million dunams, which constitute 28.8 percent of the West Bank. Sixty-five thousand Palestinians, live in 29 communities, and an estimated additional 15,000 Palestinians reside…
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