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US admits Afghan civilian deaths. “”” Far more civilians and children were killed in several US air raids on a village in Afghanistan in August that was first acknowledged.US officials had maintained only about seven civilians had died in the attacks on Azizabad in western Afghanistan on August 22.The Afghan government and UN officials said at the time about 90

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Israeli Settlers Terror (BBC NEWS)

“They don’t want us to stay on our land. But we won’t leave. We’ll die here. It’s ours,”… That’s what the Palestinian woman said after being hospitalized for three days because some rotten “Israeli settlers” have beat the hell out of her, leaving her with a shattered cheeckbone. Not just that but they beat her husband and

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Come September (by Arundhati Roy) -text

[EN] Transcription of Arundhati Roy reading and Ms. Roy and Howard Zinn in conversation Lensic Performing Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico(18 September 2002). “”” Recently, those who have criticized the actions of the U.S. government (myself included) have been called “anti-American.” Anti-Americanism is in the process of being consecrated into an ideology. The term “anti-American”

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Israel accused of targeting Gazan children

The Israeli military is facing accusations from a human rights group that it is responsible for civilian deaths. And for deliberately targeting children in Gaza.

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Violence at West Bank olive harvest

[EN only] “”” The Israeli police responded to the situation on Saturday by stopping the harvest.The scuffle near the town of Hebron was the latest in a series of incidents blamed on settlers trying to disrupt the annual harvest which provides a livelihood for many Palestinians.Jewish settlers have been caught on camera punching and kicking

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MIDEAST: Breaking the Silence (by Cherrie Heywood)

[EN] “”” RAMALLAH, West Bank, Oct 2 (IPS) – An Israeli police commander has called them “provocateurs”, “militants”, and, “lawbreakers”. Earlier in the year the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) decided that their presence in the city of Hebron, 30km south of Jerusalem in the Palestinian West Bank, constituted a security threat and banned them from

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B’Tselem video reports – II –

The Rashid family lives in a cave in the village of Haribat a-Nabi in the Southern Hebron Hills – right next to the Separation Barrier. In September 2007 the family made a video tape to introduce Israelis to their home and way of life. The tape also presents one of the children reading a letter

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B’Tselem video reports.

During a search for wanted persons soldiers destroyed seven housing units, and forced male residents of the neighborhood to undress in front of their families and neighbors. ~~~ Almost 9,000 Palestinians are being held in prisons inside Israel, in violation of international humanitarian law. In hundreds of cases, Israel forbids adult relatives to visit, so

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Tunnels feed the hungered people from besieged Gaza

[EN only] “”” Hundreds of tunnels under the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt are keeping many of the Palestinian territory’s 1.5 million impoverished residents supplied with food and fuel. On Saturday, Egyptian authorities found the entrances of three tunnels and confiscated a large amount of fuel about to be smuggled into the territory. Sources say there are

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Poverty forces Afghan children into smuggling.

Poverty in Afghanistan is driving some families to take desperate measures. They are sending boys as young as five across the border into Pakistan, to buy cheap flour, and smuggle it back home. But the youngsters are risking injury, even death. Poverty forces Afghan children into smuggling… but who’s fault it is ?! Who bring

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