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Peaceful demonstration in Ni’lin met with tear gas and rubber-coated steel bullets
8th April 2017 | International Solidarity Movement, Ramallah team | Ni’lin, occupied Palestine On April 7th Israeli forces repressed a demonstration in Ni’lin, during which soldiers fired tear gas and a rubber-coated steel bullet into the crowd of Palestinian protesters as well as Israeli and international activists. The demonstration began Friday afternoon after the prayer, where Palestinian protesters, joined by Israeli and international activists, went to the Apartheid wall outside of the town of Ni’lin. Around 20…
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Israeli forces threaten Palestinian families with house demolitions
7th April 2017 | International Solidarity Movement, Ramallah team | al-Bireh, occupied Palestine On 5th April, 2017, Israeli forces told Abbas Qar’an and his family that their home in al-Bireh was going to be demolished. The homes of two other anti-occupation activists in the area recieved similar threats. ISM activists met with Abbas, the son of the homeowner, to hear his story. Israeli forces arrived at the family home, located west of the illegal Israeli settlement of…
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Tel Rumeida faces closure by Israeli forces
6th April 2017 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine On April 20th, Tel Rumeida’s Palestinian residents will face the acceleration of its near total isolation in the H-2, Israeli military controlled section of occupied al-Khalil (Hebron). Upon military order, Israeli forces announced the fortification of checkpoints and further land seizure, leading to a worsening of the ghettoization of the residential area which has been under incremental incursion by illegal Israeli settlement activity beginning…



