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Teenage girl released from prison: Awarta
15 April 2011 | International Solidarity Movement Late on Thursday afternoon sixteen year old Julia Manzen Awwad arrived back to the village of Awarta, following her release from Israeli military prison. She had been detained for five days after being arrested by force during an army raid on her family home in the early hours…
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Solidarity Statements in honor of Vittorio Arrigoni
Organizations throughout Palestine and around the world are honoring Vittorio Arrigoni’s life and his work for the liberation of the Palestinian people. Collected here are some of those statements. If your organization is planning to issue a statement, please send it and any related URL to palestinesolidarity [at] gmail.com.
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Remembering Vik
Jeff Halper | Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions Less than two weeks after losing another friend and comrade, Juliano Mer-Khamis, I now have to mourn and remember my fellow Free Gaza shipmate Vittorio (Vik) Arrigoni, who was brutally murdered last night by religious extremists in Gaza (and who actually resembled Juliano, physically, in his buoyant…
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Vittorio Arrigoni: The man I knew
Nicole Johnston | Al Jazeera English There is a packet of pipe tobacco sitting in my Gaza City apartment. It’s Victor’s. He left it behind the last time I saw him, about one month ago. Anyone who knew Italian activist Vittorio Arrigoni knew that he was usually puffing away on a pipe. Like a wise…
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Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank unite in mourning of slain activist Vittorio Arrigoni
International Solidarity Movement Gaza FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Palestinians across the Gaza strip and the West Bank will join today in mourning slain activist Vittorio Arrigoni. People will gather both in the Al Manara square in Ramallah and at Al Jundi al Majhull, the unknown soldier park, in Gaza City. Mourners will be received by the…
