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Narratives under siege: Overcrowded living
14 December 2011 | Palestinian Center for Human Rights Muhammed Salman Abu Rashad, 45, Amna Abu Rashad, 31, and their nine children live in the Jabalia refugee camp, one of the most densely populated areas on earth. The family represent just 11 of the 1.1 million refugees who make up the vast majority of Gaza’s…
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Record number of Palestinians displaced by demolitions as Quartet continues to talk
13 December 2011 | Amnesty International Israeli authorities have stepped up unlawful demolitions in the West Bank including East Jerusalem over the past year, displacing a record number of Palestinian families from their homes, an international coalition of 20 leading aid agencies and human rights groups said today. The statement comes as the Middle East…
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Planting the seeds of resistance and steadfastness in the no go zone
by Nathan Stuckey 13 December 2011 We set off from in front of the Beit Hanoun Agricultural College under the flags of half a dozen countries, but listening to the music of Palestine. Every Tuesday, for three years, we set off from here into the no go zone, that three hundred meter strip of death…
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Nedal, 14 years old, collected metal to support his family – they shot him from behind
by Rosa Schiano 13 December 2011 | il blog di Oliva This morning at the Eretz border in Beit Hanoun, Israeli soldiers shot a 14-year-old boy, Nedal Khaleel Hamdan. We went to the hospital to meet him. We found him sitting on the bed with his left shoulder bandaged, surrounded by his family. Nedal was collecting…
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Live updates from Sheikh Jarrah – Visit ISM’s Night Watch blog
14 December 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank ISM has been following the situation of the Al Kurd family from Sheikh Jarrah since 2009 and has kept a presence in the garden of their home. On December 4th Nabil Al Kurd and his mother, accompanied by international and Israeli activists went to the Court…
