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Shepherds detained for crossing a road
26th August 2014 | International Solidarity Movement | Qawawis, Occupied Palestine While shepherding approximately 1 km south of Qawawis, a village south of al-Khalil (Hebron), on Sunday 24th near the illegal settlement and army base of Suseya, three shepherds were stopped by the Israeli army and detained for 20 minutes. The three shepherds were just on their way back from grazing their sheep in the fields outside of the village when the Israeli army arrived in a jeep, stopping the…
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VIDEO: 15 tear gas grenades and 5 stun grenades fired at schoolchildren
25th August 2014 | International Solidarity Movement | Hebron, Occupied Palestine Today in al-Khalil (Hebron), Israeli forces fired 15 tear gas grenades and canisters, as well as five stun grenades at children as they waited to go to school. Each morning and afternoon the children of al-Khalil, some as young as four-years-old, are forced to cross through a checkpoint manned by Israeli border police. This morning, the second day of school after summer break, four young teenagers…
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Action alert: Open Rafah now
18th August 2014 | Open the Rafah crossing permanently and unconditionally | Occupied Palestine In response to calls from human rights defenders in Gaza who ask that we bring an end to the Egyptian government’s complicity in Israel’s genocide of the people of Gaza an urgent call to action was issued. The call was endorsed by renown anti-apartheid and freedom and justice activists such as: Former Robben Island inmate, and ANC leader Ahmed Kathrada, Former ANC Minister for Intelligence Services…
