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International Solidarity Movement, 26 November 2010 Palestinian mother sitting with her kids on the rubble of her home In the last few days, with a wave of demolitions, Israeli bulldozers have spread destruction and despair in the villages across the West Bank: in Qarawat Bani Hassan near Salfeet, in al-Jiftlik in the Jordan Valley, in [...]
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David Cronin, The Electronic Intifada, 24 November 2010 Volvo prides itself on being a byword for sturdiness, safety and reliability. After a careful examination of the vehicle-maker’s investment in Israel, perhaps it should also become synonymous with enabling torture. The Swedish company has a direct shareholding of 26.5 percent in the Israeli company Merkavim, manufacturer [...]
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Alternative Information Centre, 23 October 2010. Hundreds of Palestinian, international and Israeli activists participated in a demonstration on Friday 22 October commemorating the four year anniversary of the al-Masara village’s popular struggle against the Separation Wall, land confiscation and settlements. Israeli soldiers used stun grenades and tear gas in an attempt to disperse the demonstrators [...]
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Irish Palestine Solidarity Campaign Press Release, 11th November 2010. Leading Human Rights barrister, Michael Mansfield QC, is to lead an investigation into the construction materials company CRH’s activities in Israel. The international tribunal, to be held in the Law Society in London on November 20-22nd , will put the spot light on 8 major multinational [...]
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Adalah-NY Press Release, 4 November 2010. Africa Israel, the flagship company of Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev, announced this week that it is no longer involved in Israeli settlement projects and that it has no plans for future settlement activities. Africa Israel subsequently denied that this was a political decision. However, in the last few years [...]
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Jonathan Lis, Ha’aretz, 3 November 2010. Israel on Wednesday said it would reduce cooperation with the United Nations’ cultural watchdog after the body classified Rachel’s Tomb in the West Bank as a mosque. Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said Israel would not cooperate with UNESCO – the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization – [...]
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Irish Palestine Solidarity Campaign Press Release, 30 October 2010. “Israeli Diamonds… no longer a girl’s best friend” On Saturday 30th October 2010 the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) held a nationwide awareness-raising day to expose the contamination of the global diamond market with Israeli “blood diamonds” ahead of the annual meeting of the Kimberley Process Certification [...]
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Global BDS Press Release, 21 October 2010. Occupied Palestine – An Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) “High Level Roundtable” conference on tourism hosted by Israel has begun in Jerusalem without the presence of at least eight countries, several of whom have stated their absence is politically motivated. Following attempts by Israel to use [...]
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Ma’an News, 20 October 2010. NABLUS (Ma’an) — A group of Israeli settlers broke into an all girls’ school in the Nablus districton Wednesday, setting fire to its storehouse containing furniture and unused sports equipment, the headmistress said. Maysoon Sawalha said the cleaning woman at the school in As-Sawiya village arrived to find the lock [...]
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Testimony from the wild West Bank: Settlers burn thousands of olive trees in broad daylight, soldiers arrest… the Palestinian land owners Gush Shalom press release, Oct, 17, 2010 The testimony of A., a Palestinian farmer from the village of Far’ata telling of what happened to his olive grove yesterday morning, was written down by peace [...]
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By Adie Mormech Major bomb attack in central Gaza City, 17 injured At around 11:30pm Friday night, ‘The Arafat Compound’ Police College was bombed by Israeli F-16s, in the area of ‘Al Montada’ injuring 17 people, 3 seriously. 3 children were also among the injured. We felt the enormous impact of the bomb in a [...]
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Al-Haq Press Release, 14 October 2010. Al-Haq is pleased to announce that it has lodged a criminal complaint against a Dutch private rental company, Riwal, for its involvement in the construction of the Annexation Wall, ‘the Wall,’ and illegal settlements in the Occupied West Bank. Al-Haq instructed Liesbeth Zegveld of Bohler advocates to lodge the [...]
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