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Israeli forces invade Balata refugee camp
29 June 2009 Early morning the 29th of June, the Israeli Occupation Force invaded four houses in the Balata Refugee Camp in Nablus. The soldiers arrested 3 boys of between 16 and 17 years old, without letting them or their family know why. In several of the houses, the soldiers had destroyed furniture, mirrors, cabinets…
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Israeli High Court rules against Judge Advocate General’s “extremely unreasonable” decision
B’Tselem, The Association for Civil Rights in Israel, The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel, Yesh Din 1 July 2009 The Israeli High Court ruled today in favor of changing the indictments filed against the soldier and commander who were involved in the shooting of a handcuffed detainee in Ni’lin, so as to reflect the…
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Israel to deport peace activists sailing to Gaza
Efrat Weiss | YNet News 1 July 2009 Israel is planning to deport within the next few days the 21 peace activists who arrived on a boat from Cyprus with the intention of entering the Gaza Strip. An Israeli Navy unit boarded their boat and escorted it to Ashdod port. Immigration police will transport the…
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Ha’aretz: ‘Court: IDF must toughen charges for shooting of bound Palestinian’
Tomer Zarchin | Ha’aretz 1 July 2009 The High Court ordered the Military Advocate General on Wednesday to file harsher charges against an Israel Defense Forces officer who ordered a soldier to shoot a rubber-coated metal bullet at a bound Palestinian. Lt. Col. Omri Burberg, the officer, and Staff Sgt. L., the soldier, were formally…
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Israeli incursion in Al Faraheen
ISM Gaza | Farming Under Fire 1 July 2009 Israeli forces have entered the village of Faraheen this morning and are still currently there using bulldozers to destroy farmland. According to local villagers there are now 2 graders, 4 tanks, 2 tanks armored with canons, 2 tractors and 4 bulldozers on the farmland. The army…
