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Protests continue in An Nabi Saleh

14 January 2011 | International Solidarity Movement On Friday, the weekly demonstration was again held in the village of An Nabi Saleh. The situation in the village is getting worse: from 6 o´clock in the morning soldiers closed the newly installed gate at the checkpoint so that nobody could enter the village. This makes it extremely difficult for international and Israeli activists to join the protest, and for two weeks now the village is considered on…

January 14, 2011

Collective punishment continues as army raids Nabi Saleh

13 January 2011 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee From the hours of 12:00 until 03:00 last night, soldiers raided eighteen houses in the village of Nabi Saleh. Soldiers, in full combat equipment, raided the houses in order to photograph people, mostly young men, and check ID cards. No arrests were made. However, the intentions of the army are clear. The pattern has been used many times in the past. The army raids a house in the…

January 13, 2011

Thirteen homes and three school buildings destroyed by Israeli forces

12 January 2011 | International Solidarity Movement More than 13 homes and three school buildings were bulldozed this morning by occupation forces in the small Bedouin village of Dkaika near Yatta south of Hebron. One eye witness – an English teacher at the school – said “the Israeli army arrived at the village at around 7:30am with over fifty military vehicles and at least six bulldozers before forcibly removing the children from the school and destroying…

January 12, 2011