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Why is Israel laying claim to an Arab home in Jaffa?
Dana Weiler-Polak | Ha’aretz 22 November 2009 Tziona Tajer Street in Jaffa, off the main thoroughfare, Yefet, begins with a lush park and ends in a narrow picturesque alleyway bounded by refurbished old homes. One of these houses, behind a heavy blue gate, belongs to the Shaya family. Hanging by the entrance is a large portrait of the family patriarch, Salim Khoury Shaya, a priest who served in the 1920s as the spiritual leader of the…
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Palestinians moving back to Bir el-Eid, a village from which they were expelled in 1999
22 November 2009 After spending a week in the modern city of Jerusalem, camping out on the street with a Palestinian family that the Israeli government had evicted from their home so that Israeli settlers could move into their house, I now have been down in the South Hebron Hills for two weeks near At-Tuwani where I spent the past five winters. I know most of the people in the area. I am now living in…
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Palestinian goes on hunger strike over denial of medical treatment
Popular Struggle Coordination Committee 21 November 2009 Ibrahim Burnat, a resident of Bil’in, who was shot in the thigh with live ammunition during an anti-Wall protest in the village on 13 June 2008, went on hunger strike last Thursday, after he was denied a permit to attend medical treatment in a Tel Aviv hospital. After being refused a permit to enter Israel for the sake of receiving medical treatment for the First time, Bil’in activist Ibrahim…
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