Tag: An Nabi Saleh
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Teen critically injured as Israel cracks down on Nakba demos
13 May 2011 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Updated 14 May 2011: Milad Ayyash died of his injuries reported below. 17 year-old was critically injured from live fire in East Jerusalem. An American protester suffered serious head injury after being hit by a tear-gas projectile shot directly at him from close range. Israeli military and…
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UN Special Rapporteur on torture to give expert opinion on the arrest of minors in Israeli military court
10 May 2011 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee The Special Rapporteur’s expert opinion will be filed to the Ofer Military Court by the defense next Monday in a pre-trial hearing in the case of 14 year-old Islam Dar Ayyoub who was taken from his bed at gun-point by Israeli soldiers in the middle of the…
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Bassem Tamimi: “Our destiny is to resist”
2 May 2011 | Electronic Intifada When I met Bassem Tamimi at his home in the occupied West Bank village of Nabi Saleh this January, his eyes were bloodshot and sunken, signs of the innumerable sleepless nights he had spent waiting for Israeli soldiers to take him to prison. As soon as two children were…
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Hundreds celebrate popular struggle at the opening of the 6th Bil’in conference
20 April 2011 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Dozens of diplomats and senior figures from across the Palestinian political spectrum joined hundreds of activists in the opening of the 6th International Bil’in Conference on Popular Resistance. Palestinian PM, Salam Fayyad, called for the international community to promote Palestinian self determination. The 6th International Bil’in Conference…
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Military court orders Nabi Saleh protest organizer, Bassem Tamimi, remanded until end of legal proceedings
17 April 2011 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Bassem Tamimi’s political arrest was extended indefinitely by an Israeli military judge today despite problematic evidence. His trial will open on May 8th. The arrest of Bassem Tamimi, a 44 year-old protest organizer from Nabi Saleh and the coordinator of the village’s popular committee, was extended indefinitely…