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28 kilometers of distilled apartheid
Gideon Levy | Haaretz 29 December 2009 This highway has told the whole story. They pave a road, expropriate Palestinian land and the High Court of Justice approves the expropriation, in its words, “provided that it is done for the sake of the local population.” Afterwards they prevent the “local population” from using the road, and finally they build a wall with drawings of creeks and meadows so we don’t see and don’t know that we…
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Israel continues to violate rights of human rights defenders and peaceful activists
30 December 2009 Addameer * Al-Haq * Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights * Al Dameer Association for Human Rights * BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights * DCI – Palestine Section * ENSAN Center * Jerusalem Legal Aid Center * Women’s Centre for Legal Aid and Counselling Israel has for too long been allowed to violate the rights of human rights defenders and activists. As an occupying power and State Party to…
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“I live today, but I am afraid of tomorrow”
Jody McIntyre and Sema Onbus | The Electronic Intifada 29 December 2009 The following is former Palestinian political prisoner Sema Onbus’s story as told to The Electronic Intifada contributor Jody McIntyre: My name is Sema Onbus. I am 37 years old, from Tulkarem refugee camp. My story starts when my brother was killed, on 6 September 2001, when an Apache [attack helicopter] dropped a bomb on him and his friends. It was the same day that…
