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Updated: ‘Day of rage’ against Prawer Plan met with violent repression and over ten arrests
2nd August 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Ramallah Team | Palestine Update 2nd August: The Palestinian activist arrested at the protest near Hizma checkpoint has been released after paying 3000NIS. All arrestees at the demonstration in Wadi Ara have also been released but will have to be under house arrest for three days. ******* On August 1st, ‘day of rage’, thousands of people took to the streets to denounce the ethnic cleansing of a conservative estimate…
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Awad, 19, wounded by Israeli fire while gathering firewood
31st July 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Rosa Schiano | Gaza, Occupied Palestine On Thursday afternoon, July 25, 2013, a 19 year old, Rafat Awad Abdel Aty was injured while working in an area called “Jamarik” near Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip. Awad, who was admitted to the Kamal Odwan hospital, told us that he was collecting firewood to be sold at about 500 meters from the separation barrier with Israel. “At about 14:00…
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Bedouin in the West Bank: Settler attacks, denial of water
31st July 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus Team | Huwwara, Occupied Palestine In Huwwara, 9km south of Nablus there are two Bedouin families who have been living in tents with their animals since the start of June. They are usually camped near Hebron or in the Naqab desert, but for the summer they are based in Huwwara so the animals have room to move. They have had no problems thus far with the Israeli army…
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