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Israeli flags hanged in Yanoun are a reminder of Itamar settler violence

by Ramon Garcia 7 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The illegal settlement of Itamar, constructed illegally on the land of Aqraba, Awarta, and Beit Furik, has taken a provocative step of incitement in the village of Yanoun, from which Zionists have also stolen land. On 7 March 2o12 illegal settlers entered the village of Yanoun and rose the flag of Israel over the home of village elder Abu Muhmad al Ajoori, who resides…

March 8, 2012

The seen and unseen in the No Go Zone

by Nathan Stuckey 7 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Today, like ever Tuesday, we marched into the no go zone north of Beit Hanoun. We gathered by the half destroyed Beit Hanoun Agricultural College and marched north, towards Jerusalem. A Jerusalem that few of the protesters have ever seen, they have never been allowed to go to Jerusalem, it is forbidden to them, just as the land in the no go zone is forbidden…

March 7, 2012

Red flags over Gaza: Palestinian leftists rally for Hana Shalabi

by Joe Catron 5 March 2012 | Mondoweiss Hundreds of Palestinians, mainly from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), the Palestinian People’s Party (PPP), the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), and other leftist factions, rallied for administrative detainee Hana Shalabi, now on her 19th day of an open hunger strike, outside Gaza’s International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) this morning, ahead of International Women’s Day Thursday. Their presence bolstered…

March 5, 2012