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The Israeli Occupation Archive 18 August 2011: J14 / Leahy Law / Beating Palestinians and more…
18 August 2011 — The Israeli Occupation Archive * Lia Tarachansky: The fight for equality in Israel’s J14 movement * Josh Ruebner: Hold Israel accountable with Leahy law * IDF officer who defended beating Palestinians to take over infantry Continue reading
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Video: Jenin's Freedom Theatre Attacked
The Freedom Theatre was attacked by the Israeli army at the early morning of the 27th of July. The army spokesperson has claimed that the Israeli army did not raid the theatre. Photo and film documentation confirms that the army raid resulted in the shattering of most of the windows of the theatre’s multimedia centre… Continue reading
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Video: Jenin’s Freedom Theatre Attacked
The Freedom Theatre was attacked by the Israeli army at the early morning of the 27th of July. The army spokesperson has claimed that the Israeli army did not raid the theatre. Photo and film documentation confirms that the army raid resulted in the shattering of most of the windows of the theatre’s multimedia centre… Continue reading
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Israeli Army storms Freedom Theater in Jenin
Special Forces of the Israeli Army attacked the Freedom Theater in Jenin Refugee Camp at approximately 03:30 this morning. Ahmad Nasser Matahen, a night guard and technician student at the theater woken up by heavy blocks of stone hurled at the entrance of the theater. As he opened the door he found masked and heavily… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 7 July, 2011: Israel Prepares To Stop “Welcome To Palestine” Activists
7 July , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center UN Rapporteur Slams UN Report Backing Israeli Raid On Flotilla IMEMC – Friday July 08, 2011 – 03:52, Olivier De Schutter, Special United Nations Rapporteur on the Right to Food, voiced strong criticism of a highly anticipated UN report that is said to Continue reading
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Former IDF Gen Rothschild gets red carpet treatment while Sheikh Raed Salah gets prison cell By Dr Hanan Chehata
With what is appalling timing, given the arrest of Sheikh Raed Salah a week ago on the order of the Home Secretary Theresa May, a certain Maj-Gen (ret) Danny Rothschild spoke in London on Jul 4 at the Royal United Services Institute in Whitehall; he followed this on Jul 5 with a speech in parliament… Continue reading
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Video: Selling Israeli Militarism Like Toothpaste
From children’s shows to national war drills, a discussion on militarism in Israeli society and gender equality in the army Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 9 April, 2011: Israel and the Arab revolutions
9 April, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Eighteen Palestinians Killed By Israeli Shells Since Thursday IMEMC – Saturday April 09, 2011 – 23:04, The Israeli Air Force bombarded on Saturday evening the Al Zeitoun neighborhood, south of Gaza City, killing one member of the Salah Ed Deen Brigades. Eighteen Palestinians were Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 20 March, 2011: The resurgence of Palestine
20 March, 2011 — VTJP News Ma’an News Israeli army kills 2 teenagers in Gaza 3/20/2011 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — The bodies of two Gaza teenagers were retrieved by Palestinian medics late Sunday morning, after being killed by Israeli fire some 12 hours earlier in the border area east of Gaza City. Medical crews Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 6 February, 2011: Egyptian Revolution, Israeli Exceptionalism
6 February, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Explosion in Egyptian gas pipeline disrupts Israel’s gas supply IMEMC – Sunday February 06, 2011 – 01:31, An explosion Friday morning took out a natural gas pipeline in the northern Sinai in Egypt, near the border with Israel. Egyptian national television initially reported that Continue reading
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Israeli soldiers talk about Operation Cast Lead
Exclusive: Israeli soldiers tell Channel 4 News they were ordered to “cleanse” Palestinian neighbourhoods, as filmmaker Nurit Kedar says “the atmosphere was that nobody should talk about this war”. Continue reading
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Budrus hero calls for Abdallah Abu Rahmah’s freedom By Jesse Bacon
In Ni’ilin, in the dark of night, Israeli soldiers have staged hundreds of military raids and arrests of civilians from the village; hundreds more were injured — forty by live ammunition, and five, including a ten year old, were shot dead. Today, a horrid 25 foot concrete wall stands in Ni’ilin, behind which lie 620… Continue reading
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Probe: IDF brass may have ignored risk of Gaza war civilian deaths Former Givati commander probed for ordering air strike on civilians despite warnings By Amos Harel
Senior army officers are under investigation for authorizing an air strike in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead that killed 21 members of the same family despite possibly receiving warnings from subordinates that there could be civilians in the area. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 21 October, 2010: Rate Of Israeli Settlement Construction Quadrupled In Last Month
21 October, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center The Changing Character Of East Jerusalem Is An Obstacle To Peace IMEMC – 22 Oct 2010 – Friday October 22, 2010 – 05:53, The possibility of a viable two-state solution being eroded by settlement expansion, Palestinian home demolitions and deportations Turkish Government Denies Direct Continue reading
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Free Gaza’s investigation has shown the following….
Regarding the attack on the flotilla, below is what we have found out. In addition, we are providing a link to the attack on the Irene from the ‘most moral army in the world.’ Continue reading
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IDF Soldier Belly Dances Beside Bound Palestinian
Newsy: Video of an Israeli soldier dancing around a bound female prisoner causes outrage. Continue reading
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What really happened when the boat was boarded By Glyn Secker Captain, the ‘Irene’
The IDF brought two boats alongside us, one on port side one on starboard side. All the crew and passengers (apart from myself as I was steering) linked arms.They boarded us simultaneously from both sides. At that moment we cut the engines and sat over the access points to the cut offs to prevent them… Continue reading
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Yonatan Shapira’s testimony from the Jewish Boat to Gaza
For some weeks already we have been making our way east, from the Greek island on which the yacht was bought, from north of the Peloponnese through the Corinthian Canal, the Cycladic islands. Already we have experienced just about every kind of mishap in the book: the engines overheated on us and died, the wheel… Continue reading
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Jewish Gaza-bound activists say IDF used excessive force in naval raid
Israel Defense Forces soldiers used excessive force while taking over a Gaza-bound aid ship organized by Jewish and Israeli activists, the boat’s passengers said Tuesday, countering the military’s official version claiming that the takeover had been uneventful. Continue reading
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NO ONE WAS SAFE: UN INQUIRY INTO ISRAEL’S FLOTILLA RAID
No one was safe,’ once Israeli soldiers began using live ammunition on board the Mavi Marmara, says an authoritative UN investigation team into the Israeli attacks on the Gaza aid flotilla. Continue reading
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