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Israeli Army Shoots Civillians at Checkpoint, Destroys Houses in Nablus
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Israeli army shot two Palestinian civillians in the legs near Nablus this morning. The Sebehtash (17th) Checkpoint between the the Nablus village of the Assiri Ashamalya and the Centre of Nablus has been closed and Nablus has been declared a closed military zone. The army has been very vocal with racist…
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Peace Demonstrators Beaten in Bil’in
by ISM Media Office volunteers At today’s weekly demo against the Apartheid Wall in Bil’in soldiers attacked protesters with batons and fired rubber bullets at them from close range. Around 100 protesters including international and Israeli peace activists marching from the village mosque to the site of the Wall were confronted by lines of soldiers…
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Twelve Year Old Boy Shot in the Back in the Name of “Security”
by ISM Nablus The Israeli military blocked the road to three villages south-east of Nablus city for nine hours on Thursday. Iraq Burin – a breathtakingly beautiful village of 1,000 people situated on top of a cliff from where, on a clear day one can see all the way to the Mediterranean (or “the white…
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Baltimore Sun: “Unilateral Action by Israel Spawns Violence in Gaza”
Published on Thursday, August 17, 2006 by the Baltimore Sun (Maryland) by George Bisharat SAN FRANCISCO – With the spotlight on Lebanon, another Middle East milestone is passing largely unnoticed. However, its lessons are just as important. A year ago this week, Israel began implementing its unilateral Gaza disengagement plan — yet the region is…
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Full Account of Israeli Army House Invasions in Hebron
The following is a more detailed account of the events first publicised in yesterday’s press release. by ISM Hebron and the Tel Rumeida Project Today, August 23, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) forcibly entered and searched many Palestinian homes in the Tel Rumeida area of Hebron. The checkpoints in the area were closed, and Palestinians…
