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Nakba Day demonstration in Al Walaja: “Al Walaja is one of the symbols of the past and present displacement”
16th May 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus Team | Al Walaja, Occupied Palestine Yesterday 15th May, villages from Al Walaja marched for their right of return, on a day marking the 66th anniversary of the Nakba (catastrophe in Arabic). The demonstration was met with violent repression from Israeli forces with many tear gas canisters fired…
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Hunger strike solidarity tent in Nablus
16th May 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus Team | Nablus, Occupied Palestine Erected in the duar (city center) in the northern Palestinian city of Nablus, is a large tent utilized throughout the day by those in solidarity with the exceeding-one-hundred Palestinian administrative detainees. “We will stay here as long as it takes” says Yousef, a Lawyer and…
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Two more martyrs as the Nakba continues
16th May 2014 | International Women’s Peace Service | Occupied Palestine In commemoration of the 66th annual Nakba day, hundreds of Palestinian youth from the Ramallah district moved against Israeli soldiers outside of Ofer prison in Beitunya. Soldiers retaliated with tear gas, live ammunition and rubber coated steel bullets. During the clashes, soldiers killed two demonstraters, aged seventeen…
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Israeli attacks on fishermen in the Gaza sea
15th May 2014 | Palestinian Center for Human Rights | Gaza, Occupied Palestine Israeli Naval forces continued to carry out attacks on Palestinian fishermen in the Gaza Strip during the reporting period[1] (1-30 April 2014), including 11 shooting incidents; 3 chasing incident that led to the arrest of 2 fishermen, and confiscation of 2 fishing boats and fishing equipment…
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UPDATED: House demolitions at Khirbet al-Taweel
30th April 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus Team | Khirbet al-Taweel, Occupied Palestine Update 15th May: On Monday the 12th of May, at 7AM, approximately 350 Israeli soldiers, two buses, and several military jeeps arrived at the remote village of Khirbet al-Taweel and ordered the inhabitants of two houses to remove all furniture in order to proceed with their illegal…
