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At Least 10 Injured In Nabi Saleh Weekly Protest
IMEMC - Palestinian medical sources reported Friday that at least ten protesters were wounded in Nabi Saleh village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, after Israeli soldiers attacked the weekly nonviolent protest against the Wall and settlements in the village. ...

Soldiers Attack Weekly Protest In Al-Ma’sara
IMEMC - Media sources reported that Israeli soldiers attacked the weekly nonviolent protest against the Annexation Wall in Al-Ma’sara village, near Bethlehem. ...

Child Killed, 10 Injured, In Nahr Al-Bared Refugee Camp
IMEMC - The Palestine Press News Agency reported that one Palestinian child was killed, on Friday evening, and ten others were wounded, during clashes that took place with the Lebanese army. ...

Resident Injured In Bil’in Weekly Protest
IMEMC - The Friends of Freedom and Justice in Bil’in village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, reported Friday that one resident was shot and wounded in his left forearm and his abdomen, while dozens were treated for the effects of teargas inhalation after Israeli soldiers attacked the weekly nonviolent protest against the Annexation Wall and Settlements, and fired rubber-coated metal bullets and gas bombs. ...

Three Fishermen Kidnapped In Gaza
IMEMC - The Israeli Navy kidnapped, late on Thursday evening, three Palestinian fishermen, while in Palestinian territorial waters, close to the Gaza shore, the Palestinian Fishermen Syndicate reported. ...

Army Kidnaps Several Residents In Ramallah
IMEMC - Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Friday at dawn, several Palestinians in the central West Bank district of Ramallah. Some of the kidnapped residents are former political prisoners who were previously kidnapped and imprisoned by Israel. ...

Two Injured By Israeli Shells In Gaza
IMEMC - Palestinian medical sources reported Thursday that the army fired a number of shells into al-Kurd Hill, located between al-Qarara town, near the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, and Dir al-Balah city, in central Gaza. ...

Gaza Water Unfit For Human Consumption
IMEMC - Several charitable non-governmental organizations in the Gaza Strip issued a statement warning the residents that drinking water in Gaza is unfit for human consumption, and adding that the water in the coastal region cannot be consumed by human beings due to the fact that it is contaminated with chemical manure and waste-water. ...

IJV Canada Endorses United Church Working Group Call to Boycott Settlement Products
IMEMC - Independent Jewish Voices-Canada (IJV) today issued a response endorsing the recommendations of the United Church of Canada’s Working Group on Israel/Palestine Policy (WGIP). ...

Israeli Navy Attacks Oliva Boat and Holds another Boat in Gaza Waters
IMEMC - On Wednesday, 13 June 2012, the Israeli Navy attacked Oliva Boat, which monitors the situation off the Gaza coast, and held a fishing boat in Rafah waters in the southern Gaza Strip with 2 fishermen on board. ...