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Palestinian teen injured in Bil’in rally
Ali Waked | YNet News 4 June 2009 A 13-year-old boy suffered a rubber-bullet head injury Thursday, during an anti-security fence rally in the Palestinian village of Bil’in, located near the West Bank city of Ramallah. The boy was rushed to the Ramallah hospital in moderate condition and is said to be undergoing surgery. Anti-security […]
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Israeli forces kidnap 4 Palestinian residents of Ni’lin
2 June 2009 Israeli forces invaded the town of Ni’lin at 2 am on Wednesday, 2nd of June. The army forcefully entered five homes and siezed four residents, Sa’dat Ibrahim Mustafa Ameerah (19), Mahmod Abdallah Ameerah (26), Ibrahim Khalil Ad-Dik Srour (18) and Hamada Abdel Raziq Khawaja (28). All of them are suspected in taking […]
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UN: Israel exclusion zone eats up 30% of Gaza’s arable land
Ma’an News Agency Israel’s military “buffer zone” along the eastern and northern edge of the Gaza Strip eats up 30% of the territory’s arable land, the United Nations said this week. Fieldworkers with the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) told the Christian Science Monitor that they have been unable to verify conditions in […]