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Adalah-NY: New Yorkers protest Leviev’s Israeli settlements, commemorating Palestinian “Land Day”
New York, NY, March 29 – Forty New Yorkers commemorated the Palestinian national holiday Land Day Saturday with the eighth protest at the Madison Avenue jewelry store of Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev. The protest included songs, theater and testimonials from villages threatened by Leviev’s settlements. Land Day marks Palestinians’ ties to their land, in defiance…
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Tulkarm Continues Land Day Commemmoration, Israeli Military injures 2
Today, Friday, March 28, 2008 two demonstrators were injured with rubber-coated steel bullets (one seriously), as the second of Tulkarm’s Land Day demonstrations took place in the village of Deir al Ghusun, 8km north of the center of Tulkarm. The focus of the demonstration was against the separation wall – which prevents farmers accessing their…
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Israeli military attacks weekly Bil’in protest, 17 injured including 7 journalists
Original article found on IMEMC. For original article click here. On Friday March 28, 2008 scores of residents of Bil’in, a village near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, along with their international and Israeli supporters, took to the streets to conduct their weekly nonviolent protest against the Israeli wall and illegal confiscation of…
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Two young men arrested in Birzeit
On Thursday, March 27, 2008 at around 3:15 am, the Israeli military invaded the Birzeit homes of two young Palestinian men and proceeded to arrest both men. One of the young men, 25 years old and father of a two week old baby girl, had been badly injured by live ammunition about one month ago…
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Tulkarm Holds First of Many Actions Commemmorating Land Day
On Thursday the city of Tulkarm began the first of its Land Day demonstrations – a national event held on 30th March each year to commemorate the killing of seven Palestinians citizens of Israel by Israeli soldiers in 1976, during protests over land confiscation. The city began by replanting trees along Al Khadouri street –…
