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Haaretz: Shady land deal unfolds from West Bank to California strip mall
By The Associated Press To view original article, published by Haaretz on the 19th December, click here The transformation of a piece of West Bank land from a Palestinian field into a Jewish settlement has roots in an unlikely place – Orange County, California – and in a document that a man supposedly signed more than four decades after the date of his death. Unfolding from the West Bank’s terraced olive groves to a strip mall…
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Protesters throw shoes at Israeli soldiers in Bil’in
Friday 19th December Report by Bil’in Popular Committee Against the Apartheid Wall and Settlements Video by Israel Puterman Video published by Al-Jazeera Demonstrators marched today after the Friday prayer carrying Palestinian flags and banners calling to end the Israeli occupation, stop the wall and settlement building, stop land confiscation and settler attacks, closures and roadblocks, and the release of all detainees. The demonstration was joined by internationals and Israeli activists. Members of the Peoples’ Struggle Front…
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One Palestinian arrested as IOF raid Beit Ummar
On Tuesday, December 16, 2008 at 1.00 in the morning, the IOF raided the home of the Al-Salabi family in Beit Ummar. About forty soldiers came to the village located near Road 60, south of Bethlehem. Two soldiers remained by the door, as six soldiers forcefully entered the house. The entire family, parents and their five children, were pushed outside. They were made to stand outside in the cold for two hours, the soldiers refusing to…
