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Burqa festival marks reclaiming of Mas’oudia land
6th April 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus Team | Burqa, Occupied Palestine Today, the 5th of April, the village of Burqa, south of Nablus, held a march and festival to reclaim parts of their land in Mas’oudia, trying to alter it from area C to area B. The village of Burqa had sent an application to the High Court of Israel for the return of the land, and has yet to receive a response. Approximately 1000 people participated…
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Eight activists injured by live ammunition in prisoner release protest outside Ofer prison
4th April 2014 | International Solidarity Movement | Ramallah, Occupied Palestine This afternoon approximately 500 Palestinian, international and Israeli demonstrators gathered close to Ofer Prison in Ramallah to protest against the refusal of the Israeli state to release the fourth group of Palestinian prisoners. As part of the current round of talks between Fatah (the Palestinian government of the West Bank) and the Israeli government, a series of prisoner releases was promised by the state of…
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BDS: Bill Gates slammed over links to Israel prison torture
Addameer and Palestinian BDS National Committee Palestinian human rights organisations have criticised Bill Gates after it emerged that his charitable foundation is heavily invested in G4S, a private security company that helps Israel run prisons at which Palestinian political prisoners are held without trial and subjected to torture. In an open letter to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation published today, Palestinian human rights groups argued that the foundation was undermining international law and its stated…
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