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Combined Systems Inc.: stop providing equipment that Israel misuses to kill and maim unarmed protesters

3 January 2010: Open letter to Combined Systems Inc written by Palestine solidarity groups From: Adalah-NY: The New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel (adalahny.org) CodePink: Women for Peace (www.codepink4peace.org) Jewish Voice for Peace (www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org) The US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation (www.endtheoccupation.org) Dear Combined Systems Inc., As US groups committed to justice and peace, we are writing to ask that Combined Systems Inc. cease providing CSI equipment to the Israeli government in response…

January 4, 2011

Civilian killed by Israeli military in Gaza

2 January 2010 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza On Tuesday evening, December 28, 19-year-old Hassan Mohammed Qedeh was killed by the Israeli military in the village of Khoza’a, east of the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis. According to the Israeli forces, and subsequently repeated by various media outlets, he was a resistance fighter. However, witnesses in the area, as well as relatives, have confirmed that he had civilian status at the time when he was…

January 3, 2011

Demonstrators ‘return’ tear gas canisters to US ambassador’s home

2 January 2011 | +972 Magazine Israeli activists protesting the killing of Bil’in’s Jawaher Abu Rahmah ‘returned’ spent tear gas canisters to the residence of the American ambassador to Israel late Saturday evening. Jawaher Abu Rahmah, 36, was evacuated to the Ramallah hospital on Friday after inhaling massive amounts of tear-gas during the weekly protest in Bil’in, and died of poisoning Saturday morning. The tear gas used by the Israeli forces in Bil’in is manufactured by…

January 2, 2011