Tag: Demonstration
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Non-violent protests against West Bank barrier turn increasingly dangerous
Rory McCarthy | The Guardian 27 April 2009 It began calmly enough with a march down the high street after midday prayers at the mosque. Palestinian villagers were surrounded by dozens of foreigners singing and waving flags. They turned and headed out to the olive-tree fields and up towards the broad path of Israel’s West…
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Palestinian prisoners’ families protest at Red Cross
ISM Gaza | Palestinian Prisoners 27 April 2009 The Palestinian Prisoners Day (14th of April) has gone but the families of the Palestinian prisoners continue their struggle. As every Monday for several years now, today again they peacefully occupied the yard of the Red Cross building in Gaza City. Mothers, wives, sisters, children, showing the…
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Israel kills at will and in total impunity while the world demands nonviolence from Palestinians
Frank Barat | Palestine Solidarity Campaign UK The death of Bassem Abu Rahme On April the 17th, like any Fridays afternoon for the last 4 years, the small village of Bil’in, north of Ramallah, was preparing for the usual demonstration against Israel’s annexation wall (some people call it apartheid wall or separation wall. The Israeli…