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Bil’in Outpost Under Attack
By Kobi On Friday night one of the Palestinian activist was beaten and threaten with murder by soldiers on patrol at the outpost. ( The outpost is a small room that the villagers of Bil’in built on their land separated from their village by the Apartheid Wall) Damage was also done to the structure and the water tank. The man needed to get to the hospital but was unable to walk back to the gate towards…
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5 years on, we remember Rachel Corrie
This article was originally published in The Observer newspaper on the 2nd March 2008 It is impossible to underestimate quite how much life for Rachel Corrie’s family has changed since she was killed by an Israeli army Caterpillar D9 bulldozer in the Gaza Strip on 16 March 2003. As Rachel’s elder sister Sarah puts it: ‘What was normal doesn’t exist for us now.’ ‘After Rachel was killed.’ When I meet the Corries, it swiftly becomes clear…
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Farmers protest against being denied access to their lands
On Thursday, March 13th, the farmers of Deir Al Ghusun, a village north of Tulkarm, gathered at one of the gates restricting them access to their land to confront the Israeli military. The farmers and other members of the village sat in protest in front of the gate demanding that it be removed. The village has three supervised gates that are opened three times a day for one hour at a time. The farmers must bring…
