• Wheat harvest met with live ammunition in Gaza “buffer zone”

    International Solidarity Movement 13 June 2010 Israeli forces attacked women farmworkers and international human rights activists with heavy gunfire during three days’ wheat harvest in the southern Gaza Strip. The Israel-imposed “buffer zone” illegally claims over 30% of Gaza’s arable farmland. In Khoza’a village, east of Khan Yunis, substantial wheat remains unharvested despite severe poverty and food shortages, as a result of the attacks. Tuesday, the first day of harvest, did not take place inside the…

  • Palestinian activist faces prison sentence

    Amnesty International 13 June 2010 Amnesty International has urged an Israeli military court not to convict a Palestinian non-violent activist who has been detained since last July, after he took part in a protest against the Israeli built fence/wall on Palestinian land. Adeeb Abu Rahma has been charged with “being present in a declared military zone”, “incitement” and “activity against public order”. There is a real concern that the Ofer Military Court in the Israeli-occupied West…

  • Operation Dove: Israeli masked settlers attack At-Tuwani Palestinian village

    Operation Dove At-Tuwani – On the morning of Saturday, 12th June 2010, shortly before 11.00, about thirty Israeli settlers from Havat Ma’on oupost, masked and armed with slings and sticks, invaded At-Tuwani village, attacking the most exposed house of the village and throwing stones against Palestinian villagers. The settlers approached the house and soon damaged the low stone fence and broke the glass of a window using an iron stick. At the time of the attack,…

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