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Six injured as settlers attack farmers in Qusra
23 January 2011 | International Women’s Peace Service On January 23, the residents of Qusra organised an action to reclaim village land, which settlers had attempted to confiscate. Four volunteers from IWPS attended, at the request of the village, who asked for an international presence due to settler attacks the previous week, which left six villagers injured. Qusra, a village of 4,000 people, is situated near the settlement of Migalim. There have been incidents of settlement…
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Hebron: Checkpoint soldiers shoot driver
21 January 2011 / Ma’an News Soldiers at a flying checkpoint on Route 60 north of Hebron shot and critically wounded a Palestinian citizen of Israel on Thursday night. The Israeli military said events around the shooting were unclear. Security sources identified the man as 28-year-old Jalal Al-Masri, and said he sustained a bullet wound in his head. Officials said the Israeli report was that Al-Masri disobeyed orders of checkpoint soldiers and was fired on. According…
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Another young stone-collector is killed in Gaza
20 January 2011 / International Solidarity Movement, Vera Macht It had been only eight days since the last innocent was killed. People die here one after another, killed one by one, without consequences, without justice, without an outcry in the media. Innocent civilians trying to make a living amidst the stifling four-year siege. Palestinian civilians, whose lives become only an entry in the statistics: “So that’s what I can do: register it in my notebook. It…
