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Photos: Rally to save sick prisoner Ibrahim Bitar follows Gaza sit-in for detainees
20th January 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Team | Gaza, Occupied Palestine Dozens of Palestinians joined a rally organized by the Popular Campaign to Save the Life of the Captive Patient Ibrahim Bitar outside the International Committee of the Red Cross’ Gaza office this morning. The gathering followed a weekly sit-in by families and supporters of Palestinian detainees that has been held in the ICRC courtyard every Monday morning since 1995. Bitar, a resident of Khan…
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One Palestinian and one international activist arrested in peaceful protest in the Jordan Valley
18th January 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus Team | Jordan Valley, Occupied Palestine A Palestinian activist and an international were arrested today whilst peacefully protesting in the Jordan Valley. The international activist is falsely charged by Israeli forces with endangering people’s lives on the road, assaulting a soldier and trying to grab his rifle. The march held in Jiflleck Adam Junction saw around 60 people gathered to protest against the ongoing demolition of Palestinian houses in…
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VIDEO: Protesters in Gaza’s “buffer zone” under fire from Israeli forces
17th January 2014 | Institute for Middle East Understanding | Gaza, Occupied Palestine They are young, and they are fearless. In Gaza, a growing nonviolent movement, led predominantly by youth, is challenging Israel’s ongoing occupation of Palestinian lands in the so-called “buffer zone” — a unilaterally demarcated and militarily patrolled area that, according to Harvard researcher Sara Roy, now absorb[s] nearly 14 percent of Gaza’s total land and at least 48 percent of total arable land.” The zone…
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