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Photo essay: Israeli activist injured with a rubber-coated steel bullet at Nabi Saleh demonstration
19th July 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Ramallah Team | Nabi Saleh, Occupied Palestine Today, around fifty Palestinians together with Israeli and international activists marched from the centre of Nabi Saleh down the main road towards the stolen spring. Protesters made barricades of burning tyres to prevent Israeli forces from raiding the village. Soon after…
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Palestinian shepherd assaulted by settlers in South Hebron Hills
19th July 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil Team | Mirkez, Occupied Palestine On the 16th of July, Omar Jabril, 28, was pasturing his sheep in the surroundings of Mirkez, in the middle of firing zone 918, when three settlers assaulted him, injuring him severely. Some villagers witnessed broken teeth and a large amount of…
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Video- Journalists’ protest violently supressed by Israeli forces at Qalandiya checkpoint
18th July 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Ramallah Team | Qalandiya, Occupied Palestine Yesterday, around 150 Palestinian journalists protested at Qalandiya checkpoint demanding freedom of movement for journalists. Israeli forces violently suppressed the demonstration by throwing sound bombs and shooting rubber coated steel bullets at journalists, resulting in five people injured. At 12am, journalists arrived…
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Third interview with Ilan Pappé: “All international activists that come to Palestine should be VIP’s…they should Visit, they should Inform and they should Protest”
18th June 2013 | International Solidarity Movement | Haifa Ilan Pappé is an Israeli academic and activist. He is currently a professor at the University of Exeter (UK) and is well known for being one of the Israeli “new historians” – re-writing the Zionist narrative of the Palestinian Israeli situation. He has publicly spoken out…
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Land grab in Qaryut; residents fear illegal settlement expansion
16th July 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus Team | Qaryut, Occupied Palestine On the 3rd of July 2013, settlers from the illegal colony of Shilo bulldozed land belonging to Qaryut, destroying around two hundred recently planted olive trees. Citizens of Qaryut are now concerned that new houses for the illegal settlement are being built…
