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‘Legitimate’ targets
26th August 2014 | Charlie Andreasson | Gaza, Occupied Palestine This article was published before the recently agreed ceasefire. High-rise buildings have now been declared as legitimate targets for F-16 aircraft attacks. Yesterday evening a 16 story house called Little Italy, home to 100 families, was destroyed. No one was killed, but around 20 people was injured,…
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Shepherds detained for crossing a road
26th August 2014 | International Solidarity Movement | Qawawis, Occupied Palestine While shepherding approximately 1 km south of Qawawis, a village south of al-Khalil (Hebron), on Sunday 24th near the illegal settlement and army base of Suseya, three shepherds were stopped by the Israeli army and detained for 20 minutes. The three shepherds were just on their way back…
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VIDEO: 15 tear gas grenades and 5 stun grenades fired at schoolchildren
25th August 2014 | International Solidarity Movement | Hebron, Occupied Palestine Today in al-Khalil (Hebron), Israeli forces fired 15 tear gas grenades and canisters, as well as five stun grenades at children as they waited to go to school. Each morning and afternoon the children of al-Khalil, some as young as four-years-old, are forced to cross…
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Action alert: Open Rafah now
18th August 2014 | Open the Rafah crossing permanently and unconditionally | Occupied Palestine In response to calls from human rights defenders in Gaza who ask that we bring an end to the Egyptian government’s complicity in Israel’s genocide of the people of Gaza an urgent call to action was issued. The call was endorsed by renown anti-apartheid and…
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Resistance and tear gas
21st August 2014 | Saeeda Al-Rashid | Occupied Palestine It’s late May [2013], and the air is stifling. Heat sizzles from the pavement, and Khalili youth, though well-adapted to these conditions, can be seen wiping sweat from their brows as they trek home from school. A few trickle through Checkpoint 56 into the Tel Rumeida neighborhood, formally designated Israeli-controlled territory…
