Tag: Ethnic Cleansing
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Non-violent protest in Ni’lin again met with collective punishment against whole village
12th April 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Ni’lin, occupied Palestine On Friday, the 8th of April 2016, the villagers of Ni’lin nonviolently demonstrated against Israeli apartheid politics, the theft of the villagers land through the building of the apartheid wall and illegal settlements, and the increasing collective punishment of the village of…
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Targeting of civilians with excessive force in Ni’lin
1st April 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Ni’lin, occupied Palestine On 1st April, the weekly non-violent protest in Ni’lin village commemorated the Palestinian Land Day – and was, as every week, attacked by Israeli forces with endless rounds of tear gas, including long-range tear gas canisters that mainly targeted civilians. The demonstrators,…
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Israeli forces return to dehumanizing number system in wake of Hebron killings
26th March 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, West Bank, occupied Palestine After completely closing Shuhada checkpoint to Palestinians in occupied al-Khalil (Hebron) on Thursday, 24th March 2016, Israeli forces have now returned to the practice of ‘numbering’ Palestinian residents in order to restrict access to the adjacent neighborhoods. Soldiers are now…
