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Israel Police backtrack over injury to Palestinian MK
When MK Ayman Odeh received a head wound during clashes in Umm el-Hiran a fortnight ago, witnesses contradicted the police claim that he had been hit by stones. A new forensic report throws the official narrative further into doubt — and police spokespeople are now denying their original statements. When the news came out that MK Ayman…
By
Mairav Zonszein
January 31, 2017
Palestinian MK injured ahead of home demolitions: ‘The police are liars’
Although all evidence points to wounds from sponge-tipped bullets, police claim Joint List head Ayman Odeh was hit by stones thrown by Bedouin protesters in Umm el-Hiran. If the police are proven wrong, it means they shot the leader of the third-largest party in Israel in the face without any justification. UPDATE: This post was updated with a…
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Mairav Zonszein
January 19, 2017
A living legacy of displacement
The impulses that drove the dispossession of the 1948 war are still acted on today, on both sides of the borders it forged. “Did you know I’m afraid of sleeping? … I’m scared of sleeping and waking to find myself in a strange land whose language I can’t speak. I’m scared I won’t wake up.” —Elias…
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Natasha Roth-Rowland
June 19, 2015
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Cabinet OK’s razing Bedouin towns to build Jewish settlement in their place
After being expelled and relocated in the 1950s, the residents of Umm al-Hiran are about to lose their homes once again – this time to make way for a Jewish national-religious settlement. (This post has been updated.) The Israeli government on Sunday made one of its most outrageous decisions in recent years (and there is…
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Noam Sheizaf
November 10, 2013
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