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Four days of settler violence in Burin and the Nablus area
03 April 2011 | International Solidarity Movement On Friday afternoon at around 4.30 pm, three young men from the village of Burin, south of Nablus, were attacked by two settlers while picking “akoob” (a plant used in cooking) in the mountains. The men were around 200 meters away from the illegal settlement of Bracha when two settlers attacked them by throwing stones. Ten minutes later, 35 more masked settlers, two of them carrying M16 rifles, came…
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Three killed in Israeli air strike on southern Gaza
02 April 2011 | Ma’an News Agency Israeli war planes struck the southern Gaza Strip overnight Friday killing three Palestinians and seriously injuring a fourth, medics said. Gaza medical services spokesman Adham Abu Salmiya said the deceased were transferred to the Al-Aqsa Hospital in Khan Younis, adding that their bodies were charred from the intensity of the strike. The three were identified as Isma’il Labad, 31, and his brother Abdullah, 24, from Ash-Shati refugee camp in…
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Army uses disproportionate force against small demonstration in Beit Ommar
02 April 2011 | International Solidarity Movement Today, small peaceful demonstrations in Beit Ommar were met with disproportionate force by the Israeli army. Just after 11 o’clock this morning, a small group of villagers and internationals marched to the entrance of the village where they were met by lines of soldiers preventing them from exiting the village. The soldiers soon declared the area a closed military zone and erected a barricade preventing vehicles from entering and…
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