Tag: Popular Struggle Coordination Committee
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Gate forced open in Ni’lin’s separation barrier – eight demonstrators wounded and one arrested
Popular Struggle Coordination Committee 28 November 2009 For immediate release: This morning, a group of demonstrators in the West Bank village of Ni’lin managed to surprise the Israeli army and, using bolt cutters, cut open one of the gates in the fence built on the village’s lands. Israeli soldiers arrived at the scene and fired…
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Palestinian goes on hunger strike over denial of medical treatment
Popular Struggle Coordination Committee 21 November 2009 Ibrahim Burnat, a resident of Bil’in, who was shot in the thigh with live ammunition during an anti-Wall protest in the village on 13 June 2008, went on hunger strike last Thursday, after he was denied a permit to attend medical treatment in a Tel Aviv hospital. After…
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Bil’in: Undercovers arrest Palestinian youth at his workplace
Popular Struggle Coordination Committee 19 November 2009 In an escalation of the recent arrest campaign conducted by the Israeli military in attempt to crush the popular struggle against the Wall in the village, an undercover army unit invaded Bil’in this morning and arrested a local youth, 19 year old Mohammad Yassin. In the morning hours…
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Eighteen demonstrators arrested after a gate in the Wall was breached in Deir alGhussoun
Popular Struggle Coordination Committee 14 November 2009 The protesters were arrested as the demonstration was coming to an end, by soldiers who invaded the village and flanked them from the back. Eighteen demonstrators were arrested today in the West Bank village of Deir alGhussoun, north of Tulkarem, after Israel’s Separation Wall was breached by Palestinian,…