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Three Palestinians killed in Qalandia refugee camp north of Jerusalem

26/08/2013 Monday morning, three Palestinians killed in Qalandia refugee camp north of Jerusalem, and dozens were injured ranged from minor to serious, after Israeli special forces breaking in to the camp at dawn today, firing live bullets and tear gas and rubber-coated metal bullets.   32-year-old Robin Fares, Younis Jahjoh 22-year-old and Jihad Aslan, had been killed following the clashes that erupted between Israeli soldiers and residents in […]

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“We derive our energy to persist from you,” Hassan Karajah writes from Israeli prison

Eight months ago, during a night raid in January 2013, 29-year-old Hassan Karajah was arrested by Israeli occupation forces. Karajah, a youth coordinator for the Stop the Wallcampaign, has been accused of actively supporting Palestinian prisoners and participating in a student group affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Human rights advocates insist his arrest and […]

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Fact sheet – The village of Qaryut and the surrounding Gul settlement

The occupation government is carrying out a process of ethnic cleansing in the Palestinian territories in full view of the rest of the world.  Settlement expansion is happening at a ferocious rate alongside land confiscation and daily attacks by the Israeli army and settlers against Palestinian citizens and their property. According to the structural plans […]

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Dozens protest at PLO headquarters against disgraceful meeting with Israeli politicians

On Monday, 15/7/2013, dozens of Palestinians demonstrated in front of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Ramallah. The demonstration was a rejection of the normalization of dealing with Israelis and to demand the expulsion of the Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Organization, Yasser Abed Rabbo.   Various movements, youth groups, trade unions and activists […]

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Rejection of the Prawer Plan – angry demonstrations across occupied Palestine

On Monday, 15/7/2013, a wave of demonstrations swept across occupied Palestine in anger and condemnation of the Prawer Plan. The Prawer Plan, named after Ehud Prawer the former deputy chair of national security, aims to confiscate about 800,000 dunums of land in the Negev, displacing about 50,000 Palestinians and demolishing 35 Palestinian villages. A general […]

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The Popular Resistance Campaign launches events for the anniversary of the advisory opinion of the Hague

  The Popular Resistance Campaign launched a series of events against the wall and settlements from the village of Betien, east of Ramallah. More than 150 people participated in the demonstration to reclaim land confiscated by the "Bethel" settlement   The Israeli occupation forces suppressed the demonstration by firing rubber bullets and large amounts of […]

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Monthly report issued by the Wall and Settlements Information Centre for June 2013

Ramallah – 30/6/2013 – Monthly report issued by the Wall and Settlements Information Centre: 98 attacks carried out by the Israeli occupation forces and extremist settlers during June 2013 1 – Attacks by the Israeli occupation forces include: Demolitions There were a total of 23 demolition operations throughout June, most of which were focused on […]

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Press Statement : South African Officials Must Reject Israeli Blood Diamonds

  South African Officials Must Reject Israeli Blood Diamonds and Secure Jobs in Diamond Beneficiation    South African civil society and organised labour call on South African officials to show leadership by demanding change to the shamefully discredited “Kimberley Process Certification Scheme” which facilitates trade in diamonds that fund gross human rights violations by rogue […]