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Twenty demonstrators injured in Nabbi Saleh
Popular Struggle Coordination Committee 8 January 2010 For immediate release: As part of a recent surge in popular protest in the West Bank, about 300 demonstrators occupied and blocked the main road in near the Halamish settlement for over two hours. The demonstrators, twenty of which were injured by rubber-coated bullets, protested recent land grabs. About 300 people took to the street today in the West Bank village of Nabbi Saleh, north-west of Ramallah, in protest…
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Wave of arrests continue in Burqa village
7 January 2010 The Israeli army has abducted another young man from the northern West Bank village of Burqa. Muhammad Samir, 21 years old, was stopped outside the village by soldiers as he returned from his workplace in Tulkarem and arrested. Arrests and military invasions have surged this past month in Burqa, with Samir becoming the 22nd person taken since the beginning of December. Samir was returning from his work at the Tulkarem offices of the…
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Settlers desecrate olive groves in Burin
7 January 2010 20 olive trees belonging to the Sufan family of Burin village were destroyed by settlers this morning. Burin, located in the northern West Bank, comes under frequent attack from the settlements of Yitzhar and Bracha enveloping the village. Under the cover of dark, settlers entered the olive groves of the Sufan family home at around 3am and began chopping the trees. The attack is the third of its kind in the last two…
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