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Justice?
By Marcie Yesterday I woke up early and headed for a small village in the West Bank, outside of Ramallah, called Bil’in. I arrived earlier than I had expected so I wandered around trying to see where the new portion of the Apartheid Wall will be built to encircle this town and imprison its inhabitants.…
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Israeli troops kill Palestinian boy
By Laila El-Haddad english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/42A7E710-15AF-46E5-B128-86B38B30455A.htm Israeli forces have shot dead a Palestinian boy and injured 18 others in separate incidents in the West Bank during protests against the illegal separation barrier, officials and witnesses said. Fifteen-year-old Muheeb Ahmad Assi was pronounced dead at the scene after being shot by an Israeli security guard, according to Mohammad…
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Anniversary Protest in Bil’in met with military violence
By A. To mark the one year anniversary of the International Court of Justice decision that the annexation barrier being built by Israel is illegal, hundreds of villagers, Palestinians from surrounding villages, internationals, and Israelis demonstrated in Bil’in on Friday. The people of Bil’in constructed a three-meter high scale, with Israel on one side and…
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Child shot dead today and another in critical condition one year after ICJ decision
17 year old Mahayoub Aasi was shot dead by the private security guard defending the construction of Israel’s illegal barrier in the west bank village of Beit-Likya. Today (Friday) around 5 p.m., confrontations developed between the security guards of the Barrier and five children from the village of Beit-Likya. Shortly afterwards, the guards shot at…
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SALFIT VILLAGERS DEMAND U.N. TAKE ACTION TO STOP THE WALL
Place: Mas’ha Village, Salfit District, West Bank Date: Friday, July 8, 2005 Time: 12:00 noon Residents of the Salfit Region will march from the Mosque to the Separation Wall in Mas’ha. The residents demand that the United Nations enforce the International Court’s decision to halt construction on the Wall. The demonstration is organized by the…
