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Several injuries during Bi’lin weekly demonstration

16th October 2013 | Friends of Freedom and Justice | Bil’in, Occupied Palestine Yesterday during the weekly Bi’lin demonstration, an Egyptian photographer was injured after being shot by a tear gas canister in his back, Ismaeil Mohamed Abu Rahma (17-years-old) was shot by three rubber bullets in his back and Mohamed Hamed (21-years-old) suffered from tear gas spray in his eyes. Dozens of citizens of Bil’in and international activists suffered from tear gas inhalation in the weekly march…

November 16, 2013

Updated with video: Apartheid wall smashed on anniversary of independence declaration

15th November 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Ramallah Team | Bir Nabala and Rafat, Occupied Palestine This morning, November 15, 2013, 25 years after Yasser Arafat declared independence of the Palestinian state, a group of Palestinian activists undertook a direct action against the annexation wall and fence, supported by both Israeli and international activists. At approximately 6:30 am groups of Palestinian, Israeli and international activists traveled to a section of the annexation wall in Bir Nabala. Sledgehammers…

November 16, 2013

Palestinian farmer injured by Israeli gunfire in the Gaza Strip

16th November 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Rosa Schiano | Gaza, Occupied Palestine On Wednesday, 13th November, gunfire by Israeli occupation forces injured a Palestinian farmer near al-Maghazi refugee camp, in the center of Gaza strip. Mneifi Abu Abdullah, age 25, was working with three other farmers about 600 meters from the separation barrier. Abu Abdullah is a worker who ears 30 shekels per day in the fields. Farmworkers near al-Maghazi are used to hearing gunshots. The…

November 16, 2013