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Palestinian still detained after he was shot in the head at peaceful demonstration

5th March 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Hebron, Occupied Palestine 22 year old Ibrahim Saadi is still being held at Ofer Prison in Ramallah after being shot in the head close range by a rubber bullet and arrested during a peaceful demonstration in Hebron on Friday. His brother told us he had recieved a number of stitches on his head before being transferred to Ofer. The peaceful protest organised in remembrance of the Abraham mosque massacre…

March 5, 2013

“Our prisoners are dying.” Students mobilise in Gaza

3rd March 2013 | International Action for Palestine, Gaza, Occupied Palestine “Our prisoners are dying.” said Gaza student Khaled Shehab from the Islamic University. “We won’t wait till the death of another prisoner to move in solidarity with all the detainees.” Khaled was joining the thousands attending the growing number of demonstrations in the Gaza Strip right now. It is not lost on young people in Palestine acting in support of Palestinian prisoners that many who…

March 3, 2013

International activist faces deportation after Kufr Qaddoum demonstration

One international activist and two Palestinians were arrested at this Friday´s demonstration in Kufr Qaddoum. Around 150 Palestinians, together with Israeli and international activists, participated in Kufr Qaddoum’s weekly demonstration against the closure of the road leading to Nablus. After midday prayers, protesters marched from the center of the village up the main road, but they were soon blocked by Israeli border police who threw stun grenades at the crowd. Clashes ensued for half an hour,…

March 1, 2013