Tag: Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
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Israeli Forces use excessive force killing Palestinian civilian in Qabatya village near Jenin
31st October 2013 | Palestinian Center for Human Rights | Qabataya, Occupied Palestine In an excessive use of force, on Thursday morning, 31 October 2013, Israeli forces killed a Palestinian civilian in Qabatya village, southeast of the northern West Bank town of Jenin. According to investigation conducted by the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR),…
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Photo: A freed detainee joins his mother at the Gaza protest she began 18 years ago
18th October 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Team | Gaza, Occupied Palestine Ibrahim Baroud joined his mother, Ghalia Baroud, or Um Ibrahim, at Gaza’s weekly sit-in for Palestinian prisoners, which she co-founded, on Monday morning. Baroud, a former Palestinian detainee, was captured by Israeli forces on 9 April 1986, at the age of 23.…
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Israeli forces use excessive lethal force killing Palestinian civilian and wounding and arresting another in the north of the Gaza Strip
2nd October 2013 | Palestinian Centre for Human Rights| Gaza, Occupied Palestine In an excessive use of lethal force, on Monday, 30 September 2013, Israeli forces killed a Palestinian civilian, and wounded another one before arresting him, near the border fence, east of Beit Hanoun in the north of the Gaza Strip. According to investigations conducted…
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Israeli forces use excessive force killing Palestinian civilian and wounding 4 others, including 3 children, in Jenin refugee camp
18th September 2013 | Palestinian Centre for Human Rights | Jenin, Occupied Palestine In an excessive use of lethal force, on Tuesday morning, 17 September 2013, Israeli occupation forces killed a Palestinian civilian and wounded 4 others, including 3 children, in Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank. According to investigations conducted by the Palestinian Center…
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Israel exploits Egypt turmoil to increase attacks on Gaza farmers
18th September 2013 | The Electronic Intifada, Joe Catron | Gaza City, Occupied Palestine Farming in the Gaza Strip’s “buffer zone” is hazardous under the best circumstances. Israeli troops routinely shoot live ammunition at Palestinian farmers in the free-fire area, which stretches hundreds of meters into the besieged territory from the barrier separating it and Israel, and invade their fields…
