Tag: Demonstration
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Collective Wall-Building Effort Baffles IOF in An-Nabi Salih
International Solidarity Movement 12 February 2010 Israeli army and border police used tear gas, stun grenades, rubber- and plastic-coated bullets, live ammunition and “stinky water” to disperse close to 150 Palestinians who tried to reach their village well in An-Nabi Salih. The villagers were accompanied by over 20 Israeli and international solidarity activists. Following mid-day…
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Ma’asara Demonstration Takes a New Route to Settler Road
12 February 2010 Activists in Ma’asara village near Bethlehem changed their demonstration route today and marched to the “settler only” road outside the village. Once they reached Highway 60 the demonstration was surrounded by Israeli soldiers and the area was declared a closed military zone. Demonstrators were then besieged by tear gas as they made…
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Israel clampdowns on non-violent protest
Jonathan Cook | Middle East Online 12 February 2010 The Israeli courts ordered the release this week of two foreign women arrested by the army in the West Bank in what human-rights lawyers warn has become a wide-ranging clampdown by Israel on non-violent protest from international, Israeli and Palestinian activists. The arrest of the two…