Ka’abna village, in the Jiflik area of the Jordan Valley, recently received an order for its 6th demolition in the last 5 years. Home to 80 villagers, the land on which these men, women and children live is in fact the area to which the Israeli government suggested they move when the military demolished their previous homes. Regardless, the army...
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On Friday 9th November, Oday Abdel Odeh was arrested whilst attending his uncle’s wedding in the village of Azzoun, near Qalqilya. Oday, sixteen years old and from the nearby village of Kafr Thulth, was standing with a group of friends at the celebration when Israeli soldiers approached, beat the youth and arrested him, witnesses report....
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The November 7 Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) invasion of Nablus’ Balata refugee camp left one two-story home destroyed by IOF-detonated explosions and another home damaged by a grenade and random shooting. Local sources further report that several homes in the camp were also invaded and ransacked by Israeli soldiers. Witnesses report up to...
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Tonight the village of Azzoun is once again under curfew. For the sixth time in eleven days, residents have been forced to stay indoors, under threat of extreme punishment. At 4pm Israeli soldiers entered the town, arresting four youths, and firing sound bombs, tear gas, rubber bullets and live ammunition, calling for residents to withdraw from...
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By Apartheid Masked
Yesterday saw the third in a series of non-violent protest against the Israeli system of Apartheid in the West Bank. 100 Palestinian, Israeli and internationals marched down to the side of Route 443 to convey the message of how Israel is denying Palestinians their rights to free movement within their own territory....
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On Friday 9 November a group of Palestinians and human rights volunteers gathered in Um Salamona, in the West Bank, to march against the planned route of the apartheid wall. Once built, the wall, which has been declared illegal by the International Court of Justice, will separate almost 3 million square meters of land containing thousands of grape...
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On Wednesday the 7th of November an international human right worker (HRW) in Hebron was arrested, handcuffed, blindfolded and beaten because he refused to give his passport away to soldiers at an Israeli checkpoint.
By Mohammed Khatib
For the people of our small village of Bil’in, which lies west of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, the planned negotiations between Palestinian and Israeli leaders in Annapolis, Maryland evoke mixed feelings. Like all Palestinians, we pray that our children will not spend their lives as we did, under Israeli...
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The French group “Two Peoples, Two States” calls the public for signing a petition (based on a “Two States Solution”, on the outlines of the Yossi Beilin and Yasser Abbed Rabbo’s “Geneva Initiative”, and the Ami Ayalon and Sari Nusseibeh’s “The Peoples Voice”), which “acknowledge the equal legitimacy of both liberation struggle...
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During the week of October 20th, ISM volunteers worked with farmers to harvest olives in Qusin, a small village on the outskirts of the Palestinian city of Nablus in the central Northern region of the West Bank. Nablus had recently experienced an invasion by the Israeli occupation forces. During this invasion, there were a number of innocent Palestinian...
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