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Israel/Palestine

Purveyor

(29,876 posts) Sat Jul 2, 2016, 06:57 PM Jul 2016

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Israel Continues Siege On Palestinians In Hebron [View all]

Israeli forces have shot and injured two Palestinians in the village of Dura amid a continued army blockade on the Hebron area of the southern occupied West Bank.

"All of the villages south of Hebron have been closed off," Issa Amro, director of the Hebron-based Youth Against Settlements activist group, told Al Jazeera by telephone on Saturday night.

"We've been under siege for two days now."

Amro said all entrances to Hebron - the most populous Palestinian city in the West Bank - had been closed except for one, which leads to Road 60, a major north-south highway.

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http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/israel-continues-siege-on-palestinians-in-hebron/

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Israel Continues Siege On Palestinians In Hebron [View all] Purveyor Jul 2016 OP

Issa Amro provides the quote in the second paragraph of this article oberliner Jul 2016 #1

the director of Hebron youth against settlements 6chars Jul 2016 #2

They no longer see people living in settlements as human beings oberliner Jul 2016 #3

There is a long history of certain people . . . MousePlayingDaffodil Jul 2016 #4

some of that history actually goes through Hebron 6chars Jul 2016 #5

According to a former Mossad deputy chief, terror is the price of Israel’s settlement policy in the Little Tich Jul 2016 #6

For goodness sake Little Tich..... Israeli Jul 2016 #7

If terror is the price of settlement activity, then it should've stopped after the Gaza pullout... shira Jul 2016 #8

Ariel Sharon. n/t Little Tich Jul 2016 #9

Huh? The Gaza pullout proves you're wrong about ending violence. n/t shira Jul 2016 #10

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