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Villager beaten and arrested at Bil’in
by the ISM media team, February 2nd UPDATE 10.30: Farhat Burnat will be held at Ofer Military Detention Centre for another 4 days on suspicion of ‘assaulting a soldier’. Many Bil’in residents have been abducted and held at Ofer on trumped up charges only to have their cases collapse due to lack of evidence. Farhat…
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YNet: “Prosecution: Soldiers must detain settlers harassing Palestinians”
by Aviram Zino, February 2nd Following incident caught on video in which soldiers failed to interfere while female settler harassed Palestinian neighbor in Hebron, State Prosecutor’s office rules: Soldiers must block violence towards people, property and alert police When a soldier witnesses settler violence towards Palestinians or their property, he must detain the suspects and…
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Civil Rights Lesson and Art Class at Hebron Checkpoint
by ISM Hebron, February 1st Today at 2pm ISM Hebron held a teach-in at the Tel Rumeida checkpoint in Hebron. The kids learned about Martin Luther King Jr. and his successful non-violent struggle for the freedom and civil rights of black people in the United States. We compared the situation of black Americans during segregation…
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The Guardian: “A doctor’s call”
by Victoria Brittain, January 30th Mona el-Farra, a Palestinian doctor working in Gaza should have been in London this evening, launching a campaign for peace between Israelis and Palestinians based on recognition of international law. The campaign, simply called “Enough”, is backed by various aid organisations, trade unions, faith and other campaign groups. Dr Farra…
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Wall Route Around Bil’in and Land Theft Approved by Occupation Planning Board
by the ISM media team, January 31st Today the Planning Board in Beit-El gave its decision to approve the new scheme for the Matityahu East neighborhood, on the lands of Bil’in west of the Apartheid Wall. The Planning Board, composed of IOF and settler-colonist representatives, rejected all the fundamental objections to the scheme, but did…
