Update on Balata Camp
After a day of confrontations between the camp youth and the military the Israeli military withdrew from Balata at 17:00 They wounded at least another four people during there retreat.
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Beit Sira raise protest tent on the path of the wallWednesday Februaury 22nd at 8:30 in the morning the villagers of Beit Sira will attempt to stop the destruction of the land for the construction of the annexatoin barrier.
Today at 12:00am the people of the West Bank village of Beit Sira raised a protest...
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Wednesday February 22nd 2006 at 11:00
Jordan Valley Farmers will march to the Bradala checkpoint to protest their lands annexation to Israel. Farmers in the Jordan valley have been Isolated from the rest of the west bank and at the same time prevented from selling their produce to Israel.
Today, Tues the 21st of February at 11:00 Bil’in villagers will inaugurate a football field on land cut off from their village by the route of the Annexation Barrier. This land has been earmarked by the Israeli authorities for the expansion of Modi’in Elite’s illegal outpost Metityahu Mizrah. Work in Metityahu Mizrah has recently been frozen...
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19:10 February 19, 2006 Twenty-two year old Mohammad Subkhi Abu Hanade was shot in the chest with live ammunition while he was in his home by a sniper in an occupied house adjacent to his. A medical team andinternational volunteers who were in the vicinity say that the atmosphere was quiet when they heard two shots followed by screaming coming from...
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Why Palestine?
Palestine is a place where you can not only learn valuable lessons in community organizing around non-violent resistance, but can experience first-hand a place where people are resisting occupation every day. Palestine needs internationals to support their demonstrations, to help protect their land, and to support their...
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The following letters were printed on Friday, February 17, 2006, in the Washington Post:
Regarding the Feb. 12 Close to Home commentary by Eric Adler and Jack Langer [”Why Is Georgetown Providing a Platform for This Dangerous Group?”] about the student conference being held on the Georgetown University campus this weekend:
By Simon Assaf
The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) in Palestine have joined the denunciation of the caricatures of the prophet Mohammed.
The movement, that brings together activists from around the world to stage non-violent direct action in support of Palestinians, released a statement denouncing the cartoons.
By Jennifer Moody
Originally published in the Albany Democrat-Herald
Cindy Corrie used to think the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians had no beginning, no end and no solution — if she thought about it at all.
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