Tag: Ramallah
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Palestinians hold iftar outside Ofer prison
10 September 2009 On Thursday, Palestinians, international and Israeli solidarity activists gathered to break the Ramadan fast with the iftar meal on a hilltop overlooking the Israeli prison, Ofer. After the meal, a series of speeches were given voicing opposition to Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian lands and brutal detention policy, noting that there are…
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IOF willfully kill a Palestinian child in al-Jalazoun refugee camp, north of Ramallah
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) 1 September 2009 The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) strongly condemns the willful killing of a 15-year-old Palestinian child by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF). The attack occurred yesterday, 31 August 2009, near the entrance of al-Jalazoun refugee camp, north of Ramallah. According to investigations conduced by PCHR,…
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Breaking the Israeli water siege
7 of August, 2009. International human rights activists together with Israelis and Palestinians escorted a convoy of water tankers, breaking the Israeli water siege of the village Qarawat Bani Zaid and delivering water to residents. At 12 pm ISM activists and other Internationals set off from Al Manara, Ramallah, to join the water convoy. After…
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Israeli barrier bites into Palestinian village
Ivan Karakashian | Reuters 18 May 2009 Israel’s land barrier is slowly destroying the fabric of this Palestinian village of Christians and Muslims in the West Bank, setting a prime example of why the United States wants settlements to stop. One third of Aboud’s open space has been turned into a buffer zone. Hundreds of…
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Palestinians mark the Nakba
AFP 14 May 2009 Thousands of Palestinians on Thursday marked the 61st anniversary of the Naqba, the “catastrophe” that sparked an exodus of hundreds of thousands of refugees after Israel was created in 1948. Holding Palestinian flags and photos of Arab villages razed by Israeli forces six decades ago, demonstrators marched in the centre of…