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Downtown Tel Aviv blockaded again
by the ISM media team, February 3rd photos by Active Stills In a replica of an action on December 28th, Israeli activists brought part of downtown Tel Aviv to a standstill this afternoon. This time they struck on Rothshild Street, where they speedily blockaded the road with razor wire from the Apartheid Wall. As last…
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Haaretz: “By the book”
by Gideon Levy, February 2nd There’s no question about it – everything was done by the book. The gate was locked at 7 P.M. and 16,000 people, residents of the villages of Beit Furik and Beit Dajan, were imprisoned behind it until 6 A.M. That’s the procedure. A woman who wants to cross the checkpoint…
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March against the Wall in Bethlehem Village
by the ISM media team, February 2nd Today around 100 residents of Umm Salamuna, Wadi Annis and neighbouring villages were joined by international and Israeli supporters in a prayer and march on their bulldozed land. Following the midday prayer villagers marched up the hill to a site overlooking land where work on the Apartheid Wall…
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The Guardian: “Time to get serious about Israel”
by John Hilary, January 31st You know that things are serious when a parliamentary select committee puts out a call for sanctions against another sovereign state. Doubly so when that state is supposed to be one of Britain’s key allies in the Middle East. Yet today the House of Commons international development committee is calling…
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Shepherd Abducted for Nothing in Tel Rumeida
by ISM Hebron, February 2nd Yesterday shepherd Bilal Il Qadi was abducted from his home in Tel Rumeida at around 2pm by the IOF after a sheep had been seen in an olive grove on CCTV. The sheep was seen in an olive grove belonging to the Abu Haykel family, which is frequently used to…
