Tag: Demonstration
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Qalandia: White sky of tear gas looms over apartheid wall construction
by Rana H. 9 December 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Peaceful protesters came face to face with Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) in Qalandia on Friday before soldiers began to fire tear gas and rubber-coated steel bullets at the civilian group including children, women, and elders. Qalandia village is protesting the construction of the…
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No miracle yesterday in Nabi Saleh: Mustafa Tamimi murdered
by Linah Alsaafin 10 December 2011 | The Electronic Intifada “Ambulance! Ambulance!” So far, there were three people who had suffocated from the tear gas, and three people injured by rubber bullets. I saw gas, and so assumed that it was another case of suffocation. But the cries got louder, urgent, desperate — quite unlike…
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Critically injured Mustafa Tamimi of Nabi Saleh dies of his wounds
9 December 2011 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Mustafa Tamimi, who was fatally injured yesterday during a demonstration in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh passed away earlier today. Tamimi was hit in the face by a tear–gas projectile shot directly at him, from only a few feet away. Mustafa Tamimi, a 28 year…
