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Right of Return still key – Nakba Day demonstrations violently suppressed by Israeli forces
15th May 2013 | International Solidarity Movement | Ramallah, Occupied Palestine By Team Ramallah The 15th May marks the 65th anniversary of the expulsion of 750,000 Palestinians from their homes and the destruction – and massacre in some cases – of more than 500 Palestinian villages by Zionist forces in 1948. 65 years on, the same Zionist project of expelling the indigenous population of Palestine continues. House demolitions, land confiscation, settlement expansion, military occupation, restriction of…
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Sawiya night attack by settlers sees property damaged and graves vandalized
15th May 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, As Sawiya, Occupied Palestine By ISM Nablus In the early hours of Monday morning, a group of Zionist settlers from the Eli and Rechalim colonies attacked the Palestinian village of As Sawiah, east of Salfit. At about 3am, As Sawiah’s residents were sleeping as settlers attacked, first targeting a garden shop that had trees snapped and pots and plants thrown. The settlers continued to damage property letting down tires…
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A Steadfast Prelude to the Nakba: Duheisha resists
15th May 2013 | International Solidarity Movement | Hebron, Occupied Palestine By Team Khalil On the 14th May 2013 , a day before the Nakba, on the edge of Bethlehem, a demonstration to remember the day of the catastrophe in 1948 marched from Duheisha refugee camp to the entrance of the village of Al-Khader. Demonstrators then clashed with the Israeli military between 11am and 1pm. Al-Khader was the chosen site of the demonstration as the villagers…
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