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Israeli police beat a Palestinian and confiscated his tractor

13th August 2014 | Operation Dove | at-Tuwani, Occupied Palestine On August 12th, at approximately 9.45 a.m., near the South Hebron hills area village of at-Tuwani, Israeli Police beat a Palestinian and confiscated his tractor. The 20-year-old man was driving his tractor, carrying a water tank, from the village of at-Tuwani to Yatta City when the Israeli police stopped him. Palestinian witnesses reported that policemen beat him and sprayed pepper spray into his eyes. When international volunteers and medical…

August 13, 2014

Video: Israeli soldiers celebrate shooting an 18-year-old

12th August 2014 | International Solidarity Movement | Hebron, Occupied Palestine On August 9th in Hebron, Israeli soldiers celebrated shooting an 18-year-old Palestinian youth in the leg with live ammunition. The Canadian volunteer, Vern, who witnessed the soldier firing, stated, “After the soldiers left the roof, I went to confront them about why they had fired. One of them said to me that he was the one who fired and that he was proud of his actions. He…

August 12, 2014

The world heeds the call of Palestinians in Gaza for pressure on Israel

August 9th 2014 | International Solidarity Movement | Occupied Palestine Update: Please help us spread the word in Arabic, Italian, French, Hebrew and Spanish via your networks. ******* Hundreds of thousands of people worldwide have taken to the streets in response to a call from Palestinian civil society in the occupied and besieged Gaza strip, and the BDS National Committee (BNC), for a day of rage. The mobilisations come as grassroots pressure mounts on western governments to impose a military embargo…

August 10, 2014