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Vittorio Arrigoni writes from Gaza
By Vittorio Arrigoni in Gaza Translated from Il Manifesto To view original article, published by Il Manifesto on the 29th December, click here 6:05 PM, Marna house, Gaza city An acrid smell of sulphur fills the air while the sky is shaken by earth-shattering rumbles. My ears are now deaf to the explosions while my eyes are all out of tears from all the corpses. I stand in front of Al Shifa hospital, Gaza’s main hospital,…
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Al Arabiya: Hollywood stars shun pro-Israeli diamond store
To view original article, published by Al Arabiya News Channel on the 1st January, click here (Arabic version here) Hollywood stars have called for their pictures to be removed from the website of a diamond company that is associated with settlement expansion in Israel and human rights violations in Africa. The diamond stores owned by Jewish-American billionaire Lev Leviev had to remove pictures of several actresses after they complained of being linked to a company that…
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Young man in critical condition after being shot three times in the head by Israeli forces during demonstration for Gaza
December 29th 2008 – Abu Dis A young Palestinian man is in critical condition after having been shot three times with rubber-coated steel bullets by Israeli forces. He was shot from two metres away while attending a demonstration in solidarity against the Israeli massacres in Gaza on the 29th December. He is currently in critical condition in Muqassad Hospital in Jerusalem. The demonstration in support of the people in Gaza took place at 5pm in Abu…
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