Tag: Qalqilya
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Five arrested as Israeli forces cut down olive trees in Rastira
UPDATE: All activists have now been released Palestinian farmer has heart attack while Israeli forces cut down his olive trees. Three international and two Israeli activists arrested from demonstration. 8th March 2009, Rastira, Qalqilya region: A Palestinian farmer has had a heart attack while Israeli forces cut down olive trees on his and other farmers’…
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Israeli forces hold Palestinian youth hostage during invasion of Jayyous
6th February 2009 The Israeli Occupation Forces continued their most recent assaults on the village of Jayyous, near Qalqilya, invading on the 5th and 6th of February. On the 5th February , Israeli forces invaded at 2pm, imposing curfew on the village until 10pm. The following day, at around 12.30pm, the army once again entered…
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Two young men killed by Israelis in Salfit and Qalqiliya districts
January 8th & 13th, 2009 | IWPS Abu Dis; Azzun A 16-year-old boy and a 20-year-old man, from the Qalqiliya and Salfit districts respectively, were killed in unrelated incidents in January during Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip. On January 8th, Ibrahim Abdulkarim Shamlawi, a student at Al-Quds University in Abu Dis, east of Jerusalem,…
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Fourth youth killed by Israeli army in West Bank
Mofid Saleh Walwil, a 20 year old resident of Qalqiliya, was killed by Israeli forces at approximately 1pm on Sunday 4th December, making him the fourth Palestinian to be killed by the Israeli army in the West Bank in the past week. Mofid was assassinated close to the Apartheid Wall that surrounds the city, as…
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Al Arabiya: Hollywood stars shun pro-Israeli diamond store
To view original article, published by Al Arabiya News Channel on the 1st January, click here (Arabic version here) Hollywood stars have called for their pictures to be removed from the website of a diamond company that is associated with settlement expansion in Israel and human rights violations in Africa. The diamond stores owned by…