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Settlers smash Palestinian family’s car while soldiers refuse to intervene during olive harvest in Azmut
At approximately 10:40 on Thursday morning a Palestinian family from Azmut, in the northeast of Nablus, was harvesting their land near the illegal Elon Moreh settlement when a group of five settlers terrorized the family. The settlers, wielding bats and knives, proceeded to attack the family car, smashing all windows and slashing all tyres, before retreating up the hill to the settlement. Handala Assus, the owner of the land was picking olives nearby with his family…
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ISM Gaza: ‘Sailors the world over face danger every time they put to sea. However, their risk stems from the elements, not from state-sponsored terrorism’
Personal account of accompanying Gazan fishermen by ISM activist On Sunday 12th October, I joined a group of international human rights observers dispersed amongst a small fleet of seven Palestinian trawlers from the port of Gaza City. We left port at 8.00am and headed out to sea in a westerly direction. Soon after leaving port we observed two Israeli gunboats some distance away, their outlines like sharks. Predators patrolling Gazan waters seeking prey. On seeing our…
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Two Palestinians injured and five Israeli activists arrested after settler attack in Turmas’ayya
Two Palestinians were injured and five Israeli activists arrested in the village of Turmas’ayya during an Israeli settler attack. Israeli settlers from the illegal settlement outpost near Shilo surrounded villagers from nearby Turmas’ayya during the yearly Palestinian olive harvest, attacking two villagers who had been separated from the rest of the harvest. Talal Gebrara, an elderly member of the Turmas’ayya municipality, had parked his car and was walking back to the mountains when he was confronted…
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