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A Palestinian story of resistance: The Abu Haikal family
31th May 2014 | Christian Peacemakers Team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine With only a sliver of their land left to protect, having their entire lot of land encircled by Israeli settlements, Faryel and Arwa Abu Haikal climbed over a pile of rubble and boulders and stopped the Israeli bulldozer from shearing further into their property, dumping their…
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VIDEO: Violating the land they do not own: Kufr ad-Dik resists
25th May 2014 | International Women’s Peace Service | Kufr ad-Dik, Occupied Palestine It was so different this time around. It had gotten much worse. There was not one occupation bulldozer but four; the whole hilltop to the East of the Palestinian village of Kufr ad-Dik (Salfit governorate) had been flattened, huge rocks stacked to the side to make…
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Israeli army arrest and beat two Palestinian men in Hebron
30th May 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine Thursday 29-May-2014. At approximately 11pm yesterday evening in al-Khalil (Hebron), ISM activists went to checkpoint 56 where they had been told there was an ongoing incident. Palestinian eyewitnesses gave the following account: About an hour earlier, two Palestinians youths were detained by the Israeli…
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The occupation never sleeps
30th May 2014 | International Women’s Peace Service | Deir Istiya, Occupied Palestine Over seven families in Deir Istiya were rousted from their beds in the early morning today, some to the sounds of banging on their doors, others to fully armed soldiers in their bedrooms. Approximately 200 soldiers entered the village, closing off the main road…
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Four Palestinian 12-14 years old girls detained after settlers accused them of stealing cherries
29th May 2014 | Operation Dove | At-Tuwani, Occupied Palestine On May 27th, four Palestinian 12-14 years old girls from the South Hebron hills villages of Tuba and Maghayir Al Abeed were arrested by the Israeli police on the charge of theft of cherries in a field in which Israeli settlers from Ma’on settlement are growing several cherry…
