Tag: An Nabi Saleh
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How Israel takes its revenge on boys who throw stones
26 August 2011 | The Independent, Catrina Stewart The boy, small and frail, is struggling to stay awake. His head lolls to the side, at one point slumping on to his chest. “Lift up your head! Lift it up!” shouts one of his interrogators, slapping him. But the boy by now is past caring, for…
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“Price tag” campaign a pattern more than a phenomenon
15 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The so called “price tag” campaign is regarded to be a product of the illegal Israeli settlement of Yitzhar, yet the price tag to Israeli occupation and fanatical land grabbing is much more a general concept, aligned with the policy and practice of Israel let alone…
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They try to steal our history, not just our land
9 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The demonstrations in Nabi Saleh started the 21 of November 2009, after the illegal settlement of Halamish expanded, costing locals in land and their source of water for home and agricultural use, a spring declared holy by the settlers. Since the beginning of the demonstrations the village faced outstanding…
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Nabi Saleh consumed with raids while fasting
9 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Following the unusually short demonstration on the first Friday of Ramadan, the Israeli army raided the village of Nabi Saleh just before Iftar, the Muslim time for breaking fast during Ramadan, resulting in the detaining of a 14 year old boy for approximately two hours and an excessive amount…
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Israeli soldiers violently suppress demo; sweep through houses to carry out arbitrary arrests in Nabi Saleh
29 July 2011 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Military checkpoints were set up early in the morning on all roads leading in and out of Nabi Saleh this Friday, as the Israeli army does every Friday in its attempt to prevent people from outside the tiny village to support the villagers in their struggle for…