Sharon Lock | Tales to Tell I’m told the bursts of noise that are currently shaking the net cafe a little are probably F16 sonic booms and not rockets, so that’s nice! Last night’s attacks involved seven rockets on the ...
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French company loses €3.5 billion contract over involvement with Jerusalem light railway
Joakim Wohlfeil | Diakonia Stockholm, 20 January 2009 Today the Stockholm community council in Sweden announced that the French company Veolia who has been the current operator at the Subway’s in Stockholm County for 10 years lost the contract to ...
Read More »One Palestinian arrested as IOF raid Beit Ummar
On Tuesday, December 16, 2008 at 1.00 in the morning, the IOF raided the home of the Al-Salabi family in Beit Ummar. About forty soldiers came to the village located near Road 60, south of Bethlehem. Two soldiers remained by ...
Read More »Second arson attack in Burin in a week
For the second time in one week, Palestinian firefighters were called to put out a fire in Burin, a village south of Nablus. According to eyewitnesses, at approximately 3pm, on Thursday 6th November, Israeli settlers from the nearby illegal settlement ...
Read More »Settlers engaged in “price-tag” campaign
There has been a noticeable surge in attacks by Israeli settlers throughout the West Bank over the past few months, with a large percentage of those attacks coming from the illegal settlements in the Nablus region. Residents of the Palestinian ...
Read More »Harassment of Palestinian woman by Israeli soldiers goes unpunished
On Tuesday 16th September, two Israeli soldiers insulted a Palestinian woman in Susiya. The insult, of a sexual nature, is incredibly offensive in Palestinian culture. When confronted with their acts, the soldiers refused to apologize and called their supervising officer ...
Read More »Settlers torch hundreds of olive trees around Nablus region
Israeli settlers torched olive groves in two arson attacks in villages to the south of Nablus on Thursday 18th September, 2008. Approximately 300 trees belonging to the village of Sarra, and another 30 trees belonging to farmers from villages of ...
Read More »Action Alert: Tell the UK government not to rent Tel Aviv Embassy from settlement-builder Leviev
From: Architects & Planners for Justice in Palestine, the village of Bil’in, the village of Jayyous, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Palestinian Boycott National Committee,[1]Adalah-NY, and Jews Against the Occupation September 10, 2008 – The UK Guardian’s Comment Is Free posted an ...
Read More »Ni’lin continue their struggle against the apartheid wall
On Monday September 8th 2008 approximately 100 Palestinians, Israelis and international solidarity activists marched in protest towards the construction site of the illegal apartheid wall in Ni’lin. Video By Israel Putermam Photos courtesy of Activestills The protest started at 1pm ...
Read More »The Guardian: The wrong message to Israel
Britain seems reluctant to take a firm stand against the illegal colonisation activities by Jewish settlers By Abe Hayeem To view original article, published by the Guardian on the 9th September, click here When Britain’s prime minister, Gordon Brown, visited ...
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