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Imprisonment without trial

By suzanna, February 17, 2012

B'Tselem, the Israeli Information Centre for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, noted that according to figures received from the Israel Prison Service, the number of Palestinian administrative detainees being held in Israel increased from 219 in January 2011, to 307 in December.

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Settlements in Focus

By suzanna, February 8, 2012

The actual built-up area of West Bank settlements takes up only a little more than one percent of the West Bank. But the settlements' built-up area is just the tip of the settlements iceberg. The impact of the settlements goes far beyond this one percent.

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Illegal Settlements

By suzanna, February 8, 2012

Interesting information from Americans for Peace Now, Settlement Watch:

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Boycott the Guardian!!

By suzanna, January 26, 2012

Letter in the Guardian:

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Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank

By suzanna, January 20, 2012

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Palestinians Live in Fear For Their Lives

By suzanna, January 20, 2012

A 20 per cent rise in settlement construction across the West Bank and East Jerusalem in the past year has taken land critical to the creation of a Palestinian state and placed a two-state solution further away than ever, a report has found.

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Recognition of yet more ethnic cleansing of Palestinians

By suzanna, January 12, 2012

The Palestinian presence in the largest part of the occupied West Bank – has been, "continuously undermined" by Israel in ways that are "closing the window" on a two-state solution, according to an internal EU report seen by The Independent.

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The Humanitarian Impact of Israeli Settlement Policies

By suzanna, January 10, 2012

http://www.ochaopt.org/documents/ocha_opt_settlements_FactSheet_January_...

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Veolia Takes Severe Blow As It Fails To Win 485 Million Pound Contract In West London: London 23rd Dec 11

By suzanna, December 23, 2011

Human rights campaigners are celebrating after the West London Waste Authority ('WLWA') excluded French multinational Veolia from a £485 million contract covering 1.4 million inhabitants of the London boroughs of Brent, Ealing, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow and Richmond-upon-Thames, for treatment of residual domestic waste.

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Record number of Palestinians displaced by demolitions

By suzanna, December 23, 2011

(December 13, 2011) - Israeli authorities have stepped up unlawful demolitions in the West Bank including East Jerusalem over the past year, displacing a record number of Palestinian families from their homes, an international coalition of 20 leading aid agencies and human rights groups said today.

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Americans for Peace Now

By suzanna, December 16, 2011

Historically, there is ample documentation showing that a separate local Palestinian identity among Arabs living in Palestine started formulating in the 16th and 17th century, and that a national Palestinian consciousness started crystalizing early in the 20th century, as anti-colonial movements took root around the world.

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Shot children

By suzanna, December 16, 2011

http://www.dci-palestine.org/sites/default/files/ua_4_10_children_of_the...

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Non democratic Bills in the past year

By suzanna, November 18, 2011

*16 November 2011 - Bill to curtail left-wing groups' ability to represent victims in the High Court. "Public petitioners" who are not a direct victim will not be permitted to file petitions for individual victims.

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BDS in Sweden.

By suzanna, October 5, 2011

More than 200 students, professors and lecturers across Sweden have signed on to a growing academic boycott call demanding that Swedish universities not participate in any academic cooperation with Israeli educational institutions. They also called on the Swedish government to “act [towards] the cessation of the [European Union’s] research support to Israel.”

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The Terrorizing of Children

By suzanna, August 26, 2011

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/how-israel-takes-its...

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Democracy in action

By suzanna, August 10, 2011

Bushra Altaweel, a 17 year-old teenager was arrested on July 6th 2011, during a dawn raid at her home in Al-Bireh, near Ramallah in West Bank.

No explanation was given for her arrest, and more than a month later she has not been charged without any crime.

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Settlements & land

By suzanna, August 10, 2011

From 1967 to mid-2010, Israel established 121 settlements in the West Bank that were recognized by the Interior Ministry as “communities.” In addition, some 100 outposts (settlements built without official authorization but with support and assistance of government ministries).

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http://forward.com/articles/140140/

By suzanna, July 28, 2011

http://forward.com/articles/140140/

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The face of occupation

By suzanna, July 27, 2011

http://972mag.com/watch-palestinian-youth-abducted-in-silwan/

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"What's happening in the field is terrorism,"

By suzanna, July 19, 2011

A senior Israeli army commander has warned that unchecked "Jewish terror" against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank threatens to plunge the territory into another conflict.

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