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East Jerusalem’s education crisis  t was not just that the school was a barely converted storage centre for goats, with stinking, broken waste pipes, and rooms that had chairs but no tables for the children. It was that the fumes from the huge metals factory at the back of the school were giving the children…

Israeli army fire on Gazan fishermen and international activists ISM, September 4th, 2008 On the 1st September 2008, the first day of Ramadan, several volunteers with the Free Gaza Movement and the International Solidarity Movement accompanied a small fleet of seven fishing vessels from Gaza City port. The fishermen exercised their right to fish in…

Israeli army targets family over brutality film Jonathan Cook, Foreign Correspondent September 01. 2008 The window through which Salam Amira, 16, filmed the moment when an Israeli soldier shot from close range a handcuffed and blindfolded Palestinian detainee has a large hole at its centre with cracks running in every direction. “Since my video was…

Israeli forces steal cash and jewelry from elderly Palestinian’s house inear Hebron Israeli forces on Wednesday morning ransacked the home of an elderly Palestinian man, 80-year-old Muhammad Abu Rayyan, in the West Bank town of Halhul, near the city of Hebron. According to a family member, Bilal Abu Rayyan, Israeli soldiers stole jewelry and cash…

Mofaz gave orders to IOF to kill 70 Palestinians daily The Ha’aretz newspaper said that Mofaz ordered his bodyguard, who was writing minutes of the meeting with army generals, to stop writing and then told the officers that he wanted 10 Palestinians killed daily in each of the seven military districts in the West Bank.…