• In a rotten state

    Eva Bartlett | Inter Press Service 29 August 2009 Abu Abed can’t make a profit, and although 54 years old, he still has not married. “I can’t pay my rent, I can’t afford a wedding.” His shop, roughly 3m by 4m, costs him more than 3,500 dollars a year in rent alone. His wares are laid out on tables on a busy pedestrian street in the Saha market area in Gaza City. The goods, plastic toys…

  • Ni’lin demonstrates against the Apartheid Wall

    28 August 2009 Around 250 Palestinian residents, alongside international and Israeli solidarity activists, gathered in Ni’lin to demonstrate against the Apartheid Wall around 12:30. Demonstrators marched towards the site of the Wall chanting slogans against the Occupation. Israeli forces used tear-gas grenades, sound bombs, tear-gas canisters and live ammunition against the unarmed protesters. Despite the excessive use of weapons from the Israeli army, no demonstrators were injured. The protest finished around 4:30. After a prayer was…

  • In village, Palestinians see model for their cause

    Ethan Bronner | The New York Times 27 August 2009 Every Friday for the past four and a half years, several hundred demonstrators — Palestinian villagers, foreign volunteers and Israeli activists — have walked in unison to the Israeli barrier separating this tiny village from the burgeoning settlement of Modiin Illit, part of which is built on the village’s land. One hundred feet away, Israeli soldiers watch and wait. The protesters chant and shout and, inevitably,…

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