Tag: Settlers
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Illegal settlers and Israeli military attack Palestinian non-violent demonstration against settlement expansion
International Women’s Peace Service 8 January 2010 On January 8, villagers from the Palestinian village of An Nabi Saleh (population approx 500), located in the north of the Ramallah district, held its third demonstration in three weeks against creeping settlement expansion and land confiscation by the illegal Israeli settlement of Hallamish (also known as Neve…
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Twenty demonstrators injured in Nabbi Saleh
Popular Struggle Coordination Committee 8 January 2010 For immediate release: As part of a recent surge in popular protest in the West Bank, about 300 demonstrators occupied and blocked the main road in near the Halamish settlement for over two hours. The demonstrators, twenty of which were injured by rubber-coated bullets, protested recent land grabs.…
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Wave of arrests continue in Burqa village
7 January 2010 The Israeli army has abducted another young man from the northern West Bank village of Burqa. Muhammad Samir, 21 years old, was stopped outside the village by soldiers as he returned from his workplace in Tulkarem and arrested. Arrests and military invasions have surged this past month in Burqa, with Samir becoming…
