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A day of violence and intimidation in Hebron
By Anna Conroy September 12, 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On the morning of September 10 in south west Hebron, at Checkpoint 56, a Palestinian man was shot with live ammunition by the Israeli military. Residents and army officials reported that Molotov cocktails were thrown at the checkpoint, and in response the soldiers fired with live bullets. Kamal al-Batsh, aged 31, was shot in the leg and was eventually transported to a hospital in…
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Families of Palestinian detainees call for urgent actions to support hunger strikers
September 11, 2012 | Ministry of Detainees’ and Ex-detainees’ Affairs For immediate release For more information: Doaa Abu Amer 0792599765048 [email protected] GAZA, PALESTINE, September 11 – The families of Palestinians detained by Israel called for a week of urgent actions to support a mass hunger strike on 13 September, as well as ongoing hunger strikes by individual detainees. Thousands of detainees will participate in a mass one-day hunger strike on Thursday, 13 September, beginning a…
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Ni’ilin struggles on
By Anna September 12, 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On Friday 7th September myself and four other international activists attended the weekly demonstration against the apartheid wall in the village of Ni’lin. Since 2004 the villagers of Ni’lin have been non violently protesting against the annexation of their lands. So far the village has lost over 50,000 dunum (1 dunum = .1 hectare) of land, in part to surrounding illegal settlements and in part…
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