Tag: Ethnic Cleansing
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Harvesting While Harassed- Jabari family face military and settlers to gather their crops
3rd May 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil Team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine The Jabari family owns land sandwiched in between the illegal settlements of Kiryat Arba and Givat Ha’vot. In 2001, settlers illegally took over part of the land to erect a synagogue-tent on the Jaabari-family land. All settlements are illegal under international law,…
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Journal: House demolition in East Jerusalem
27th April 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Team Al Khalil | East Jerusalem, Occupied Palestine This has been hard to write down. The three of us put off again and again the thoughts and fears of that day, to remember them and to finally write them down. We have been avoiding it, because it is easier to…
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Four Palestinians and one female German demonstrator shot with live ammunition at “Open Shuhada Street” protest
28th February 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil Team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine On February 27 in occupied Al-Khalil (Hebron), Israeli forces fired live ammunition towards nonviolent protesters participating in the annual Open Shuhada Street demonstration, injuring five including four Palestinian activists, one of them 17 years old, and one German citizen. More were also injured by rubber-coated steel bullets…
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Palestinian Christian struggle mapped in new book
5th May 2014 | The Electronic Intifada, Joe Catron | Gaza City, Occupied Palestine In Mapping Exile and Return: Palestinian Dispossession and a Political Theology for a Shared Future, American Mennonite theologian and aid worker Alain Epp Weaver explores a legacy of Palestinian Christian exile, and struggle for return. The book’s terrain ranges from the ethnically-cleansed villages of the Galilee to the Upper…
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Announcing Israeli Apartheid Week 2014
14th February, 2014 | Israel Apartheid Week | Various Locations Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) seeks to raise awareness about Israel’s apartheid policies towards the Palestinians and to build support for the growing Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign. Reflecting the global grassroots rejection of Israel’s military and political aggression, IAW was held in more than 200 locations…
