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New Statesman: The grim reality in Gaza
By: Mohammed Omer 10 December 2007 Traffic in the Gaza Strip slowed to a trickle last week, and this week medical centres have scaled back treatment in the medicines and sustenance-destitute Strip. “Israel’s decision is a death penalty: our reserve of fuel is almost zero and it may very likely run out by the end…
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Property destruction in Hebron
Dec 16, 2007 Two shopkeepers from Hebron’s old city told ISM that at 3pm yesterday approximately 70 settlers and tourists, many in Jewish religious garb, came through the old city from the direction of the Ibrahimi Mosque, accompanied by roughly 15 soldiers. On the way through they knocked, scattered and stamped on merchandise from a…
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FFJ: Weekly Friday Demonstrations
Three injured in Bil’in weekly anti-Wall protest Friday December 14, 2007 Palestinians from the village of Bil’in, near Ramallah in the central West Bank, along with their international and Israeli supporters conducted their weekly protest against the Israeli Annexation Wall on Friday midday. Shortly after the midday Friday prayers, villagers and their Israeli and international…
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No News is Good News
Dec 14th, 2007, Hebron Today roughly 15 internationals and Palestinians joined the Jabri family of Hebron (AKA al-Khalil) for a mid-morning action on the Jabri family land. The Jabri land is uncomfortably nestled between two particularly notorious Jewish settlements, Kiryat Arba and Givat Ha’avot. The expansion of these settlements onto the Jabri property–meaning the theft…
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PNGO: Palestinian Delegation Withdraws from Madrid Just Peace Forum
For immediate release 13 December 2007 Protesting Serious Violations The Palestinian civil society delegation to the Forum for a Just Peace in the Middle East, planned for December 14 to 16 in Madrid, has decided not to participate in the Forum due to serious last-minute violations. Coordinators of the delegation, which was to be led…
