Tag: Injury
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The broken truce
21 January 2013 | GazaStories, Beit Lahiya, Gaza Strip, Occupied Palestine A ceasefire was announced on 21st November, ending eight days of horrific bloodshed in Gaza. Has the delicate truce held over the past two months? It depends who you ask. Israelis or Gazans, each going about their daily lives on opposite sides of a…
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2 Internationals hit by tear gas canisters at the Bil’in weekly demonstration
By Vicky Blackwell Photographs by Vicky Blackwell 9th November 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Today, during the weekly demonstration against the separation wall in Bil’in, 2 international activists were struck by tear gas canisters shot by the Israeli army. One Italian activist was struck by a canister in the leg and an American…
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Live ammunition in Nabi Saleh
By Paddy Clark 31 August 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West bank Three Palestinians were injured and 5 arrested today during Nabi Saleh’s weekly demonstration. Israeli military set up road blocks surrounding the village early this morning in order to prevent people and journalists from participating. At 4.30 p.m., Malek Tamini was shot with a live bullet…
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Nabi Saleh: 11 arrested in weekly demonstration
By Hakim M. 16 July 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The weekly demonstration in Nabi Saleh faced brutal repression from the Israeli military on Friday, July 13. Beginning at 1:30 p.m., Palestinian and solidarity activists walked down the village road to find it closed off by Israeli border police and a ‘skunk’ tank,…
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Palestinian demonstrator arrested at weekly Kufr Qaddum protest
By Marshall Pinkerton 7th July 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) violently suppressed the weekly demonstration at Kafr Qaddum on Friday the 6th of July, injuring one man, and arresting another. Majid Joomaa, 40 years old, was arrested as the IOF stormed the village. Joomaa, who is a…