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Letter of Palestinian Refugee Organizations to President Mahmoud Abbas
The following letter was presented to President Mahmoud Abbas’s office on behalf of 78 Palestinian organizations on Wednesday September 22, 2008 Dear Mr. President, Greetings of Return We, the undersigned Palestinian refugee organizations, civil society movements and institutions in the Palestinian homeland and in exile are national organizations working to defend the right of return. We appeal to you now because we are convinced that the alignment of the official Palestinian position and the position of…
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Three more residents of Ni’llin arrested by Israeli forces
Three more people from the village of Ni’lin were arrested in the early morning of the 25th September Israeli forces. Moumin Abed Shadah Flror (17), Ibrahim Khalil Mussleh (19) and Said Attalah Amira (23) were all abducted from their homes at around 1am on the 25th September. Israeli forces entered the village, where large- scale demonstrations against the construction of the apartheid wall have been taking place for several months, at around 1am, firing sound bombs…
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Member of the Ni’lin Popular Committee shot in the head with tear-gas cannister
On the 23rd September at about 11:00 Ahed Khawajeh, Salah Khawajeh, Mohammed Amira, 5 EU Parliament representatives and the head of the municipality Ayman Nefeah went to the fields to show the Parliament members the impact of the apartheid wall before a planned demonstration. Photo by Iyad Haddad The Israeli army approached them and told them to go back to the village because they were not allowed on their land. They showed them an order for…
