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Two Palestinian Stories: Mona Samouni and Dr Mona El Farra
11 November 2010 | Adie Mormech When the story of the Samouni family of Zeytoun broke, news stations and media gathered to cover what was the epitome of the tragedy that hit Gaza during Operation Cast Lead – the Israeli military’s 3 week bombing and ground assault over the new year of 2009. The huge […]
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Army Raids Bil’in for Fifth Time in 24 Hours
11 November 2010 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee At 2 AM, soldiers returned to Bil’in in another failed attempt to arrest anti-Wall activist Ashraf Khatib, beating a local photographer and international activists. The jeeps returned to the village once more at noon, arresting a resident suffering from Down’s syndrome. Five military jeeps drove into the […]
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The Palestinians of Israel are poised to take centre stage
11 November 2010 | Seumas Milne, The Guardian In a quiet street in the Sheikh Jarrah district of occupied East Jerusalem 88-year-old Rifka al-Kurd is explaining how she came to live in the house she and her husband built as Palestinian refugees in the 1950s. As she speaks, three young ultra-orthodox Jewish settlers swagger in […]