Tag: Tear-Gas Canister
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In al-Khalil (Hebron) the situation grows gravely worse
18th October 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine After a day of intensified violence in al-Khalil the midnight hour brought horrifying screams for help from local mosques, the screaming sirens of ambulances and clouds of teargas drifting through the streets from Bab al-Zawiya. Three young Palestinians in Khalil lay dead…
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Escalating tear-gas deployment against school children in Hebron
Monday morning, October 12th, 2015 Israeli forces pummeled Palestinian children going to school near Salimeh & Queitun checkpoints in Hebron with a total of 19 rounds of tear-gas and one stun grenade fired. The onslaught began at 7:41 am when a crowd of children could be heard playing noisily in the street near several primary…
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Non violent action by elderly Palestinian despite Israeli military violence
10th October 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine Today on October 10th in Al-Khalil at around 13h, thousands attended the funeral of Mohammed Fares Mohammed Abdullah Al-Jabari, killed yesterday near Kiryat Arba at the hands of an Israeli police officer, after allegedly trying to stab him. After the funeral a…
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Beit El demonstration under attack by Israeli forces after Martyr laid to rest
10th October 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Al-Khalil team | Ramallah, occupied Palestine Less than one hour after the Halabi family laid their son, martyr Mohannad al-Halabi, to rest in a cemetery in Ramallah, violent confrontations broke out in the nearby Beit El area. In a continuation of the sharp escalation in violence seen across…
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More Palestinians injured as Israeli forces violently attack mourners at a funeral in Bethlehem
6th October 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Al-Khalil team | Bethlehem, occupied Palestine The funeral of the 13-year old Abed al-Rahman Obeidallah, who was shot and killed by Israeli forces on his way home from school yesterday, took place today in Betlehem with over a thousand attendees. They marched from the Beit Jala hospital to Abeds house…
