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Support the Gaza 6; citizens decommission weapons for Israeli use in attacks on Gaza
Support the EDO Decommissioners 6 April 2009 On Jan 17th, while Israeli bombs were still raining down on the people of Gaza, six people gained entry to EDO MBM/ITT, a factory in Brighton manufacturing military equipment being used by the Israeli air force, and smashed machinery and computers causing at least 300 000 pounds worth of damage and closing the factory for nearly a week. According to one witness computers and filing cabinets were hurled out…
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Sheikh Jarrah residents organize in the face of mass house evictions
Electronic Intifada 7 April 2009 “We are like the roots of a tree. The Israelis may cut us in places, but we will never die. We will not be transplanted from Jerusalem. I will not leave this house,” Maher Hanun tells a crowded room of Palestinian community members supported by Israeli and international solidarity activists. Hanun is one of 51 residents of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem living in two housing units that…
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Israeli forces shoot at farmers in Al Faraheen
ISM Gaza | Farming Under Fire This morning, the farmers from Al-Faraheen in the Gaza Strip persisted with their efforts to harvest the year’s crop of lentils. Volunteers with the International Solidarity Movement, and a camera crew from Press TV accompanied the farmers as they set out to work in a field about 300m from the border. Before the farmers reached the field, an Israeli jeep stopped next to the border fence several hundred metres away.…
