Tag: Aboud

  • Funeral of 23 year old Mohammed Asfour leads to Israeli army invasion of village

    9th March 2013| Lisa Marchant, Occupied Palestine 23 year old Mohammed Asfour died on the 7th of March, from injuries sustained during a demonstration in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners on hunger strikers in Israeli jails. He was shot in the head with a rubber-coated steel bullet at the demonstration on the 22nd of February and…

  • Palestinian protester dies of injury sustained on February 22

    8th March 2013| Popular Struggle Coordination Committee  Muhammad Asfour, 23, was injured two weeks ago from rubber coated steel bullet in his head during a protest. His Funeral will take place after Friday noon prayer in Aboud. Since the beginning of 2013, six Palestinians were killed from soldiers’ shooting.   The medical staff of Echilov…

  • Israeli barrier bites into Palestinian village

    Ivan Karakashian | Reuters 18 May 2009 Israel’s land barrier is slowly destroying the fabric of this Palestinian village of Christians and Muslims in the West Bank, setting a prime example of why the United States wants settlements to stop. One third of Aboud’s open space has been turned into a buffer zone. Hundreds of…