Archive for June, 2005

Israeli army shoots live bullets at children in Marda

Thursday, June 9th, 2005 | Posted in Press Releases

From IWPS

Four bulldozers that had been uprooting Marda’s trees to make way for the “Ariel loop” of the Annexation Wall stopped working as soon as the villagers began their march, a major victory for the day. Mere minutes into the ascent upwards and only a few hundred meters up the slope, the group, consisting mainly of...

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Gandhi Redux

Thursday, June 9th, 2005 | Posted in Press clippings

By Meron Rapaport
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/586551.html

Last Friday Laser and Hassan walked side by side along the main street of Bilin. Laser Peles (who was born in Kfar Chabad, abandoned religion,...

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Salfit has been announced a closed military zone

Wednesday, June 8th, 2005 | Posted in Reports

Curfew was imposed on the village of Marda at 5:30 AM, and the entire area of Marda, Iskaka, and Salfit was declared a closed military zone. The Civil Administration informed Israeli activist Laiser Peles from Tel Aviv, who protested the curfew, that the village was being punished because some residents had thrown stones. Soldiers and border police...

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The Caves of Last Resort

Wednesday, June 8th, 2005 | Posted in Press Releases

The Stories of Quawawis and Massafer Yatta

On Tuesday, June 8, the Israeli civil administration told the villagers of Quawawis to remove the roofless structures built in front of the caves where they are living. If they don’t tear the structures down themselves, the civil administration will bulldoze them into the ground. Last...

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Israeli army attacks disabled demonstrators

Wednesday, June 8th, 2005 | Posted in Press Releases, Reports

Bil’in Village
Ramallah District

The Israeli army’s conduct reached an unprecedented low when Israeli soldiers attacked a demonstration of Palestinians who had been disabled by past Israeli army attacks. The procession included ten people in wheelchairs, several people on crutches, and a number of blind people. As soon...

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The Ceasefire Continues

Wednesday, June 8th, 2005 | Posted in Press Releases

by ISM Nablus

On Tuesday 7th June, Electronic Intifada reported the extra-judicial killing of Muraweh Khaled Ekmayel in Jenin by Israeli forces, under the headline “Israel Resumes Assassinations of Palestinians”. Al Jazeera news reported six deaths on the same day....

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I Wish You Knew

Wednesday, June 8th, 2005 | Posted in Journals

by Hannah

I’ve been meaning to write for days. I’ve been meaning to sit down, have a free moment, compose my thoughts, figure out how to translate my experiences into something understandable to a world where injustice is not quite as daily, quite as random, quite as violent. I wish I could just say “There was curfew in...

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Stink bombs and the Scream: Bil’in

Wednesday, June 8th, 2005 | Posted in Reports

Palestinians from Bil’in taped their hands together to express their intention to hold a non-violent demonstration. As they marched out of the village soldiers laid barbed wire along the path. A van with a load speaker on it then appeared behind the barb wire and let out a loud high pitch that caused the crowd to disperse. Palestinian youth...

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Villagers mounted bulldozer in AL Ramadin

Tuesday, June 7th, 2005 | Posted in Reports

The people of the village of Al Ramadin in South Hebron staged a protest two days ago against the Israeli annexation wall. The wall is being built on land stolen from the village and will cut the population off from all except 12% of the West Bank.

On Wednesday around 200 villagers assembled and marched along the main road that leads to...

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Large military force secures destruction of olive trees

Monday, June 6th, 2005 | Posted in Journals

By Alison

For photos of today’s demonstration see:
www.flickr.com/photos/95353139@N00

At 7 am this morning, I joined a group of Palestinian villagers, Israelis, and internationals in the centre of...

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