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The shells have been falling non stop
By Leila al Haddad from Gaza City The shells have been falling non stop we are being silenced and consigned to the realm of the irrelevant, the over and done with they are nailing the coffin on Gaza. Gaza is like a neglected prison in zoo where the zookeepers turn off the faucets cast it…
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al-Aqsa Martyr Brigades Issues Press Release
1. Press Release from al-Aqsa Martyr Brigades 2. Israel Denies Work Permits to Protesting Villages 3. Beit Sira Demonstrates Despite Threats from Israeli Civil Administration 4. Hebron Anticipates Escalating Violence over Passover 5. Just another Gaza Friday 6. ‘Bite’ Activist Arrested 7. Farmers in Nablus Prevented from Working their Land by Both Settlers and Military…
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Farmers in Nablus Prevented from Working their Land by Both Settlers and Military
Farmers in Salem, near Nablus, were joined on Friday the 7th of April by Israeli and international human rights workers to protect against further settler violence. Earlier in the week a 68 year-old villager was beaten by settlers and required hospitalization. Rabbis for Human Rights, members of the Kibbutzim movement, and internationals accompanied the farmers…
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‘Bite’ Activist Arrested
Adnan Ahmad Nimer, a 19 year-old activist from Beit Sira, was taken from his home last night at 2am by the Israeli military. Thirty soldiers surrounded the house, his father opened the door and the troops gathered the family into one room. They singled Adnan out, took him outside, handcuffed and blindfolded him and took…
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Beit Sira Demonstrates Despite Threats from Israeli Civil Administration
At 1:30 this past Friday, the Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements in the Palestinian village of Beit Sira, just west of Ramallah held a demonstration against the apartheid barrier being constructed on the village’s land. This was all despite recent threats from the Israeli civil administration to withdraw permits to work in Israel…