The following photos are from the anti-apartheid protest that toke place yesterday and blocked busy Highway 443, one of many highways that run on occupied Palestinian land but are reserved for Israelis only.
As usual, the Israeli Occupation Forces used force to move the peaceful demonstrators.
Organizers of the protest said that 70 demonstrators participated, most of them Palestinian residents of nearby towns. Israel Defense Forces soldiers and police arrived at the scene to disperse the crowd approximately 10 minutes after the road was blocked. Seven people were taken into custody for questioning, according to Army Radio. [Ha'artz]
The Israeli Apartheid Occupation could not tolerate a roadblocking for 10 minutes while they occupy the land and the man for the last 60 years and their roadblock are everywhere in the occupied lands operation 24/7.
On the other hand, Israel is pressuring ill Palestinians to be informers.
Israel gave Hiyya permission to leave the Gaza Strip last month and cross Israeli territory for immediate surgery in the Palestinian-controlled West Bank.
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But when he arrived at the Israeli border crossing, he learned that there was a catch. In a daylong interrogation, Hiyya said, Israeli intelligence offered him a deal: Tell us about your brother, a wanted militant, and we'll let you enter Israel for the operation you need.
When Hiyya refused, they turned him away.
Human rights groups charge that Hiyya's case is one of nearly a dozen they've documented in which Israelis allegedly have tried to recruit ailing Palestinians as informers in the low-intensity war with the militant Islamic group Hamas.
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Now, the rights groups charge, Israel is trying to turn them into collaborators.
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Since June, at least five Palestinians have died after being denied permits to leave Gaza for emergency medical treatment, according to Physicians for Human Rights, an Israeli human-rights group that's working to help patients in Gaza.Israel's General Security Service, better known as the Shabak, declined to discuss any of the cases or its strategy for collecting information, but it rejected allegations that it's refusing to let critically ill Palestinians out of Gaza for treatment unless they became informants. [More details: McClatchy Washington Bureau]
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