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A story from Balata refugee camp
22nd July 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus team | Balata, Occupied Palestine The Abu Leel family are refugees, who fled from Haifa to Balata refugee camp in Nablus in 1948. Asma Alshmeer gave birth to 10 healthy children, five of whom have been killed by the Israeli military. The first was killed when he…
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Young man injured by Israel army live ammunition in invasion of Iraq Bureen
21st July 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus team | Iraq Bureen, Occupied Palestine On Thursday, July 17, 19 year old Mohamad Yousef Kadan was shot by an Israeli soldier in Iraq Bureen, near Nablus in the northern half of the West Bank, during an army invasion into the village. Mohamad was playing football with…
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Video of Israeli sniper killing wounded civilian
21st July 2014 | International Solidarity Movement | Gaza, Occupied Palestine See Update here Yesterday, international and Palestinian volunteers accompanied Civil Defence and other rescue crews, as well as family members, into Shajiya neighbourhood in Gaza. They attempted to locate survivors of overnight and ongoing shelling by the Israeli army. A young Palestinian man in a…
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‘Death Zone’ in Shajiya
20th July 2014 | Rina Andolini | Gaza, Occupied Palestine There was a ceasefire today for 3 hours – so some of us internationals went to the area which I refer to as the ‘Death Zone’ – Shajiya, we went to see if we could help with the masses of injured amongst the rubble. The Death…
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Human rights defenders under live fire, one dead
20th July 2014 | International Solidarity Movement | Gaza, Occupied Palestine The Israeli military just shot a Gazan man trying to reach his family, during an announced ceasefire. He was with a group of municipality workers and international human rights defenders who were attempting to retrieve injured people in the Shajiya neighbourhood. “We all just watched a man…
