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Israeli ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children - a report

If you want to be notified the next time I write something, sign up for FREE email alerts or subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!DCI-Palestine* released a report which documents the widespread ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children at the hands of the Israeli army and police force - Palestinian Child Prisoners: The [...]

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Israeli army refuses to escort Palestinian school children past settlers

[Note: According to the Geneva Conventions, the International Court of Justice in the Hague, and numerous United Nations resolutions, all Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories are illegal. Most settlement outposts are considered illegal under Israeli law.]
The Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) in Hebron issued a press release on Monday accusing Israeli soldiers of not [...]

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Roane Carey - Palestinian Revolution?

On Friday I went to the anti-separation wall demo in Ni'lin in the West Bank, the same village where International Solidarity Movement activist Tristan Anderson was critically wounded last week. Several hundred villagers were accompanied by Jewish Israeli activists (most with Anarchists Against the Wall ) and ISMers, plus a few journalists like me. The [...]

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West Bank Barrier and Closure

There is only one place on earth where you can find all the types of barriers and closure systems, forcibly imposed by the Israeli occupation forces. This place is the Occupied West Bank, Palestine.

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Financed by the British taxpayer, brutal torturers of the West Bank

The horrific torture of hundreds of people by Palestinian security forces in the West Bank is being funded by British taxpayers.
An investigation by The Mail on Sunday has found that the forces responsible get £20million a year from the UK.
The victims – some left maimed – are rounded up for alleged involvement with the militant [...]

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Terrorist Jewish Settlements expanded faster in 2008

On day US Mideast envoy arrives in Israel, Peace Now movement publishes report on settlement expansion activity last year.
According to the report, there were 285,800 settlers living in the occupied West Bank as of 2008, with 1,518 new structures built in the occupied territories last year, including 261 outposts.
Sixty-one percent of the new structures were [...]

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Palestinian girl confronting Israeli terrorist

A Korean television broadcast this amazing video of a Palestinian girl confronting some terrorist of the Jewish State.
Huwaida Arraf, a Detroiter married to Adam Shapiro, a University of Michigan Poli Sci graduate, and a founder of International Solidarity Movement, a non-violent activist organization confronting Israeli terrorists. They are trying to fire at demonstrating Palestinian [...]

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Updated: Gaza Massacre - Photo Gallery

Israeli terrorist massacre in Gaza killed 200, 230, 280, 300, 345, injured 600, 800, 1000, 1400, 1600 and counting…
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Two Poems for the Beloved People of Gaza and Occupied Palestine

Not Like Us © Lorelei Loveridge/Orderly Bazaar Records & Publishing, 2008.
Raze down those olive trees
Bulldoze those houses, please
Build the wall and damn them all
Raze down those olive trees
Fire on the boys with stones
Send all those bullets home
Lie to the world and deny you killed a schoolgirl
Fire on the boys with stones

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A Must See Video: Israeli Terrorist Settler Shooting Palestinians in Hebron

Spread and distribute WIDELY!
Footage filmed by Jamal Abu-Sa'ifan, a Palestinian resident of Hebron, documenting a terrorist Israeli settler shooting two members of his family.
The event occurs following the eviction settlers from a Palestinian house they occupied in Hebron. Settlers attacked the nearby house of the Abu-Se'ifan family, and during ensuing clashes, a settler fired his [...]

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Italian Judge Injured By Israeli Army In Peaceful Demonstration Against The Wall, In Bil'in

PRESS RELEASE
BY
LUISA MORGANTINI
Vice President of the European Parliament
(GUE/NGL)
ITALIAN JUDGE INJURED BY ISRAELI ARMY IN PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATION AGAINST THE WALL, IN BIL'IN (WEST BANK)
Bil'in, (West Bank) 6th June 2008
A demonstration against the wall in Bil'in, a Palestinian village close to Ramallah, just concluded the Third Annual Conference (2nd-4th June) organized by the Bil'in Popular Committee for [...]

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Qaffin: my home town against apartheid

I'm proud to announce that my home town village, Qaffin, Tulkarem, started this year's camping, 'Summer Against Apartheid.
Following reports was issued by ISM:
Protest camp built in Qaffin, Tulkarem, as part of 'Summer Against Apartheid'
On the 5th June, hundreds of Palestinians, joined by international and Israeli activists demonstrated in the village of Qaffin, in the Tulkarm [...]

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Murder at Huwara checkpoint

Note: Checkpoints are under 100% Israeli surveillance. After you read the story ask yourself: Why aren't the surveillance camera tapes being shown to the public? I guess it's obvious.
May the killers never sleep a full night again as they see Fahmi in their nightmares!
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Murder at huwara checkpoint
By Aya Kaniuk, Vivi Sury, Tamar Goldschmidt. Huwara Checkpoint, [...]

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Today in History: Hebron Massacre - 1994

14 Years of Lessons after Al-Ibrahimi Mosque Massacre - A Memorial History for the 30 Palestinian Martyrs
The story:
The dawn of Friday 15 Ramadan 1414 a.h. / 25 February 1994 marked the first of three massacres perpetrated by Israeli settlers accompanied by the Israeli Army. There were more than 30 martyrs and 270 injured. The main [...]

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Not seen on CNN: Israeli Soldiers "Mooning" Palestinian Shepherds

Warning - PG: Recommended for mature audiences only.
Israeli Soldiers Bare All In South Hebron Hills:
Soldiers Expose themselves to Palestinian Shepherds as Part of Ongoing Harassment

Rate the video at YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA2a7KF9sxA
Video also available at:
Dailymotion: http://tinyurl.com/2ltpak
Google Video: http://tinyurl.com/262r5y
BlipTV: http://blip.tv/file/637180/
Friday, January 12 2008, soldiers from the Israeli Army displayed their buttocks in an exhibition known colloquially as "mooning" [...]

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