Israeli soldiers violate court order and close off Palestinian homes, assault Human Rights Workers, confiscate cameras and destroy film in Tel Rumeida, Hebron

A human rights worker was filming the Israeli army’s violation of a recent Israeli court order to open a pathway to Palestinian homes at around 12:30 p.m., Wednesday,...

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By The Associated Press

www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/656456.html

The top Roman Catholic official in the...

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photo by AP

11 December 2005

Despite an Israeli checkpoint that prevented journalists from accessing the village, a peaceful march of one thousand people, Christians and Muslims, went forward on Sunday in the West Bank Village Aboud....

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By ISM local contact

Today, 11th December 2005, at 2:30am, the IOF troops invaded the west bank village of Jayyous. They searched houses and arrested theVice President of the Jayyous municipality, Mr. Issam Muhammad Hassan Shbaita.

Mr. Shbaita is known as a local human rights activist for his work that coordinated with international...

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1. The Power of Aboud
2. Resistance Continues in Aboud, Despite Israeli Violence
3. A brief list of numbers from today’s demo in Aboud
4. Human Rights Worker Refuses Deportation, Put in Solitary Confinement in Tzohar Detention Center, Israel
5. Scotish TV: “Scottish activist to be deported from Israel”
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by Mansour

The villagers of Aboud have taken up a campaign of nonviolent resistance against the Israeli Aphartied wall which will steal agricultural land, olive trees and water resources. On the second demonstration there, we touched the core of Palestinian popular resistance. The whole village decided that the popular movements...

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Scotland Today’s video about Scottish activist Andrew McDonald currently in Israeli detention awaiting deportation is worth watching. Their internet article, on the other hand erroneously refers to “Israel’s West Bank” and states that “The involvement of foreigners trying to help the Israelis and Palestinians live together is welcomed...

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Villagers from Bil’in, supported by international and Israeli activists, succeeded in planting three new olive trees at the construction site of the illegal apartheid wall, close to their village...

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1. From the Canadian Press: Deadline extended, fears continue for safety of hostages
2. A Week of Palestinian Calls for the Release of the CPT Volunteers Held Hostage in Iraq
3. Solidarity Returned: Press Conference in Nablus
4. Candle-lit Solidarity Demonstration in Ramallah for the “CPT Four”
5. Press Conference...

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[BILIN, West Bank] In our village of Bilin, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, we are living an important but overlooked story of the occupation. Though Israeli forces withdrew from Gaza earlier this year, they are continuing to expand their West Bank settlements.

On our village’s land, Israel is building one new settlement and...

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