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Israel refuses to pay medical bills for American-Jewish protester who lost eye

28 July 2010 | Ha’aretz Emily Henochowicz was wounded by a tear gas canister in a demonstration following Israel’s Gaza flotilla raid The Israeli government is refusing to pay the cost of medical care for an American-Jewish activist who lost an eye when Border Police officers fired a tear gas canister at her during a demonstration. Emily Henochowicz, who studying at the Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem and also holds Israeli citizenship, took part in…

July 29, 2010

Gaza City ceremony honours journalists killed reporting in Gaza

28 July 2010 | ISM Gaza Journalists killed by Israel while reporting in Gaza were remembered at an award ceremony in Gaza City yesterday; family members and co-workers received a plaque in their honour. Abu Walid Mahmoud Al-Zaq of the Palestinian Popular Struggle Front (PPSF), the group organising the event – on their 43rd anniversary – presented awards in memory of ten journalists. One of those was James Miller, a British documentary-maker killed in Gaza in…

July 28, 2010

Settlers riot in Burin, shooting and setting fire to olive trees

27 July 2010 | International Solidarity Movement At 11:30 yesterday, 26th July 2010, settlers from the Berakha Shomronim settlement began shooting at Palestinians in the village of Burin and setting fire to crops on their land. Trouble flared when Israeli authorities ordered the demolition of a structure in an illegal settler outpost because of the freeze on settlement construction. Israeli police failed to contain the settler riot which followed and closed Huwara checkpoint, near Nablus, in…

July 27, 2010