• France ‘will recognize’ Palestinian state

    08 December 2010 | PressTV France has declared that it will recognize a free and independent Palestinian state based on borders before the 1967 war, becoming the first European nation to do so. Bernard Valero, a spokesman for the French Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that Paris agrees with the formation of a Palestinian state based on the exchange of land between Israel and the Palestinians. Valero also expressed hope that peace talks between the Palestinian Authority…

  • IDF resumes use of prohibited tear gas canisters

    8 December 2010 | Ha’aretz, Chaim Levinson   The canisters, which are used to disperse demonstrations in the West Bank, have been responsible for serious injuries and at least one death Israel Defense Forces soldiers recently resumed the use of prohibited tear gas canisters to disperse demonstrations in the West Bank. These tear gas grenades, which are in effect 40 mm rounds with a range of 250 meters, were responsible for numerous serious injuries and at…

  • Shootings in Gaza ‘buffer zone’ continue

    4 December 2010 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza On Saturday, the 4th of December 2010, three people were shot and injured at the northern border near to Bait Lahya. All of them sustained multiple fractures that required surgery, and two of them were hit with ‘dum-dum’ bullets, which explode on impact. The three of them were civilians who have no other way to survive than by collecting scrap at the border. Belal Elhsomi is 17 years…

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