Tag: Jenin

  • Palestinian youth killed by Israeli military explosive

    26 February 2009 On February 26th, one youth was killed and two seriously injured when a landmine, leftover from Israeli military training in the area, exploded near the town of Tubas in the northern West Bank. The landmine exploded around 3pm, as the three boys were walking home from school in the fields east of…

  • Israeli forces extra-judicially execute man in Jenin area

    A 21 year old man, Ala Ad-Din Abu Ar-Roub, from Qabatiya village near Jenin was killed early Thursday morning after his home was surrounded and entered by a large number of Israeli forces. According to family members, Ala was working on his computer in his room at 4:30am when the soldiers attacked the house, blowing…

  • JPost: State to compensate wounded activist

    By Dan Izenberg To view original article, published by The Jerusalem Post on the 19th November, click here The state will pay human rights activist Brian Avery NIS 600,000 in damages in an out-of-court settlement reached Wednesday with his Israeli lawyer, Shlomo Lecker. Avery, a member of the pro-Palestinian International Solidarity Movement (ISM), was shot…