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Umm Salamuna Demo Proceeds, Despite IOF Interference
On Friday August 24 at 12:00pm around 40 Palestinians and 40 internationals gathered in Umm Salumuna, in the region of south Bethlehem, to protest the building of the apartheid wall. The village had been declared a military zone by the IOF, thus preventing anyone who didn’t live there from entering by road. However, this did not make it illegal to be present within the village because soldiers at the checkpoint did not present a map of…
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133rd Demonstration in Bil’in – IOF Violence Against Peaceful Demonstration
Bil’in 24 august 2007 video: The 133rd consecutive demonstration against the illegal apartheid wall in bil’in took place today. The illegal wall segregates Palestinian farmers from their legitimately owned land depriving them of their livlihood and their economic means of survival. With approximately 100 demonstrators participating, of these around 50 were international and Israeli, and the other 50 Palestinian, the demonstrated got underway following friday prayers at the local mosque. The demonstrators marched towards the olive…
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Eyal Weizman Interview: Israel’s Oppressive Architecture of Occupation
Eyal Weizman interview: Israel’s oppressive architecture of occupation The Migron settlement Dissident architect Eyal Weizman explains the mechanics of Israel’s occupation of Palestine to Anindya Bhattacharyya The occupied West Bank, 1999. A group of Israeli settlers complain that their mobile phone reception cuts out on a bend in a road from Jerusalem to their settlements. The mobile phone company Orange agrees to put up an antenna on a hill overlooking the bend. The hill happens to…
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