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Announcing 9th annual Israeli Apartheid Week (Feb-March 2013)
23 January 2013 | Apartheid Week Ninth Annual Israeli Apartheid Week (February – March 2013) We are excited to announce the upcoming 9th annual Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) starting late February in Europe and moving to various countries through the month of March. Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) is an annual international series of events (including rallies,…
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Important Supreme Court session on the future of the Palestinian village of Susiya
29 January 2013 | Rabbis for Human Rights On Thursday 31st January the Supreme Court will hold two sessions regarding two petitions affecting the future of the Palestinian village Susiya. One will discuss the organization Regavim’s petition to expedite the demolition of most of the village. The other petition seeks to prevent the villagers’ remaining…
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Do not let settlers expel us from our home in Sheikh Jarrah
Update on 29 January by ISM: There is still imminent threat of eviction hovering upon the Shamane family. The family was given a brief reprieve of two months at the last minute [on 31st December 2012] when the Jerusalem District Court ordered the eviction delayed until 1st March 2013. There will be a weekly protest…
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Ongoing attacks result in injuries and 17 miscarriages in Urif, West Bank
29 January 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus, Occupied Palestine The Israeli army and illegal settlers have been, on almost daily basis for the past two months, invading and attacking the village of Urif in the West Bank. A local doctor reports that these actions have inflicted 17 miscarriages only in the month of December,…
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The most violent settlement in the West Bank encroaches on Asira al Qibliya
27 January 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Asira al Qibliya, Occupied Palestine According to OCHA statistics Yizhar is the most violent settlement in the whole of the West Bank with 70 recorded incidents in 2011 alone. Every week there is at least one attack by Yizhar settlers in the six affected villages. Four months ago,…
