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JPOST: Wounded activist testifies against IDF
By DAN IZENBERG Brian Avery, the American human rights activist who was shot in the face and badly wounded in the West Bank in 2003, took the stand for the first time since the incident in the opening hearing of a civil suit in Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court on Thursday that he filed for damages against…
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Action Alert! Non-Violent Demonstration in Qusin on Friday despite previous Army repression
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 21, 2007 The villages around Nablus have recently seen a rise in demonstrations against roadblocks. In Sarra, and now in Qusin, people are standing up to the bars and cages the Israeli army has erected around the villages. It has not been easy: people have been arrested, gassed, and shot. Despite…
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Peace Activist Wounded by IOF Fire Returns to Sue
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE On the night of April 5th, 2003, in the west bank city of Jenin, Brian Avery from North Carolina was shot in the face by machine-gun fire from an approaching Israeli Army APC. He did not die, the bullet penetrated his nose, broke the bones in his nose, hit his eye and…
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Dissident Voices: The 25th Anniversary of the Massacre at Sabra-Shatilla, A Letter to Janet
Will anyone remember? Does anyone really care anymore? by Franklin Lamb / September 12th, 2007 Martyrs Square Sabra-Shatilla Palestinian Refugee Camp Beirut A Letter to Janet Dearest Janet, It’s a very beautiful fall day here in Beirut today. Twenty-five years ago this week since the September 15-18, 1982 Massacre at the Palestinian refugee camps at…
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International HRWs evicted from the streets of Tel Rumeida by Police
September 18th –19th, 2007 Tel Rumeida, Hebron September 18th: At 5pm, a busload of soldiers in the midst of their training and a busload of settler-supporting tourists arrived to the illegal settlement of Tel Rumeida. At this time, two international Human Rights Workers (HRWs) were warned by an IOF soldier that if they were to…
