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Women’s day demonstration in Qalandia for the rights of female Palestinian prisoners
by Satu 8 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On International Women’s day, March 8th, hundreds of demonstrators rallied in Qalandia in solidarity with hunger striker Hana Shalabi and calling for Israel to end the occupation. The demonstrators marched marched down the street next to the separation wall to Qalandia checkpoint, carrying placards…
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Thaer Abed Al Hameed Mahdi, murdered by the Siege
by Nathan Stuckey 8 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Thaer Abed Al Hameed Mahdi died on Saturday, March 3rd, 2012. He was 23 years old. A rope snapped and he plunged down a shaft to his death. He died instantly. His coworkers Jamal Kamel Mahdi and Raed Jaber Mahdi survived, they are still…
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Israeli flags hanged in Yanoun are a reminder of Itamar settler violence
by Ramon Garcia 7 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The illegal settlement of Itamar, constructed illegally on the land of Aqraba, Awarta, and Beit Furik, has taken a provocative step of incitement in the village of Yanoun, from which Zionists have also stolen land. On 7 March 2o12 illegal settlers entered the…
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The seen and unseen in the No Go Zone
by Nathan Stuckey 7 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Today, like ever Tuesday, we marched into the no go zone north of Beit Hanoun. We gathered by the half destroyed Beit Hanoun Agricultural College and marched north, towards Jerusalem. A Jerusalem that few of the protesters have ever seen, they have never been…
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Red flags over Gaza: Palestinian leftists rally for Hana Shalabi
by Joe Catron 5 March 2012 | Mondoweiss Hundreds of Palestinians, mainly from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), the Palestinian People’s Party (PPP), the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), and other leftist factions, rallied for administrative detainee Hana Shalabi, now on her 19th day of an open hunger…
