Tag: Arrests
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Farmers, activists beaten and arrested in Saffa
Palestine Solidarity Project 15 June 2009 This Saturday, as has been done every Saturday for over a month, International and Israeli activists joined Hamad and Jabber Soleiby and their families as they worked their land in Saffa, near Bat ‘Ain settlement. This Saturday, however, both the Israeli army and settlers from the right-wing extremist settlement…
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Israeli forces kidnap two Ni’lin residents
11 June 2009 In the early hours of Thursday morning, at 2.15am, the Israeli army invaded the village of Ni’lin and kidnapped two young men from their family homes. Mohammad Waed Khawaja (22), and Mohammad Ratib Khawaja (20), were each forcibly arrested, blindfolded, handcuffed, and taken away. The soldiers arrived on foot from the nearby…
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Bound, blindfolded and beaten – by Israeli troops
Ben Lynfield | The Independent 9 June 2009 Two Israeli officers have testified that troops in the West Bank beat, bound and blindfolded Palestinian civilians as young as 14. The damaging disclosures by two sergeants of the Kfir Brigade include descriptions of abuses they say they witnessed during a search-and-detain operation involving hundreds of troops…