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Tree planting met by tear gas and settlers’ death threats
27th March 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Qaryut, Occupied Palestine By Team Nablus In commemoration of Land Day, five hundred villagers planted trees on land banned from cultivation for 17 years in the Palestinian village of Qaryut. The action was met by tear gas by Israeli soldiers and threats from Israeli settlers. On 27 March, this action took place with a relatively large group of about 30 Palestinians including all of the owners of the land, near the…
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Call to Action: Join Addameer’s Global End Administrative Detention Campaign!
8th April 2013 |Addameer, Occupied Palestine Addameer calls on activists and people of conscience to stand in solidarity with all political prisoners and join Addameer Prisoners’ Support and Human Rights Organization’s upcoming global campaign against administrative detention. Over 4,743 Palestinians are currently detained by Israel; 10 of them women, 193 of them children, and 178 of them held under administrative detention, a decrepit policy that Israel uses to hold Palestinians on secret information indefinitely without charging them…
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Olive tree planting in the village of Atuf, Jordan Valley
8th April 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Atuf, Jordan Valley, Occupied Palestine By Team Nablus On Monday 8 April the village of Atuf in the Jordan Valley, planted olive trees on their land accompanied by solidarity activists. The group planted twenty-five trees, dedicating them to prisoners and international activists killed by the Israeli authorities. Just prior to the solidarity groups arrival the village reported that the army had come to the village taking pictures and examining…
