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Al Jazeera: Gazans wounded in border protest
At least 15 Palestinians have been wounded after Israeli troops used gunfire to stop about 3,000 Hamas supporters from approaching one of the Gaza Strip’s main border crossings with Israel, witnesses say. Palestinian medical workers said on Friday that at least two of the wounded are in a critical condition. “The IDF [Israeli army] will operate with all its strength to prevent the demonstrators from approaching the security fence or the crossing … and from entering…
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Mahsanmilim: Murder at Huwwara
To view original article, published in www.mahsanmilim.com, click here This time we came to the checkpoint especially in order to gather testimony about the murder of 15.5-year old Fahmi Abd al Jawaad al Darduk (فهمي عبد الجواد الدردوك), who was shot by the soldiers at this checkpoint on Monday, May 19th 2008. After he was shot, the army claimed that pipe bombs had been detected in his belt. That wires had been seen hanging from under…
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PACBI: Urgent appeal to all academics
CONDEMN U.S. GOVERNMENT COMPLICITY IN BLOCKING PALESTINIAN RIGHT TO MOVEMENT AND ADVOCATE MEASURES TO PRESSURE ISRAEL To view original appeal click here May 30, 2008 The news that the US State Department has decided to cancel all previously approved Fulbright grants to Palestinian students in Gaza is deeply shocking. In yet another clear demonstration of US complicity with the Israeli occupation regime, the State Department has decided to withdraw the grants for graduate studies in the…
