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CIA tortured and sodomised terror suspect, human rights court rules
Masri was seized in Macedonia in December 2003 and handed over to a CIA "rendition team" at Skopje airport and secretly flown to Afghanistan. It is the first time the court has described CIA treatment meted out to terror suspects as torture. "The grand ch ...[Read more]
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Israel Detains 10 Ahed Tamimi Relatives, Teen Who Was Shot in the Face
Mohammed Tamimi was hit by a rubber bullet fired by an Israeli soldier which was the cause of Ahed’s altercation with the Israeli troops. Nearly 10 Palestinians, including five minors, were abducted and detained by the Israeli forces, during a raid in t ...[Read more]
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Israel to Deny Benefits for Pro-BDS Citizens, Local Groups
The government will create a blacklist for local individuals and groups known to support the pro-Palestinian boycott movement against Israel. Israel is ramping up its crackdown on the pro-Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement as the gover ...[Read more]
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Palestinian Teenager Ahed Tamimi’s Trial Adjourned, Israeli Judge Bars Public
The Palestinian 17-year-old could face up to 14 years prison for defying the occupation. The trial of Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi started in the Israeli military court at Ofer military prison in the West Bank on Tuesday. The teen activist faces 12 ch ...[Read more]
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Why liberal Zionists have nothing to say about Ahed Tamimi’s slap and arrest
As Ben Ehrenreich writes at the Nation, Israel’s response to the slapping exposed “a hideous nerve” in that society. Scott Roth detailed that nerve: Israelis are in “sheer denial” that their country has any responsibility for the “humiliation, ...[Read more]
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Palestinian teen in viral arrest photo released on bail following interrogation and torture
The Israeli Authorities released, on Wednesday at dawn, a Palestinian child who was abducted and assaulted by 23 Israeli soldiers earlier this month, and [he] was instantly moved to a hospital for treatment. Media sources in Ramallah said the soldiers rel ...[Read more]
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Israel Tackles Existential Threat Posed By 16-Year-Old Palestinian Girl
Israeli military court extended the detention of Ahed Tamimi, a 16-year-old girl who has become the face of Palestinian resistance to Israel’s military occupation of the West Bank for many who follow the weekly protests in her village through social med ...[Read more]
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Two more Tamimi family members are said to be arrested, as Ahed, 16, appears in court
Today the arrest of Ahed Tamimi, 16, in occupied Nabi Saleh early Tuesday morning, after a video surfaced showing her slapping an Israeli soldier, is gaining global attention, including from the Washington Post. Ahed’s arrest by Israeli soldiers was fol ...[Read more]
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Ibrahim Abu Thurayya: an icon of dignity and defiance
Abu Thurayya was actually one of four people killed by Israel on the same day. All were protesting against Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Yet because both of his legs had previously been amputated, the local and in ...[Read more]
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Wheelchair-bound man with no legs killed by IDF in Gaza during Jerusalem protest
A disabled Palestinian man missing both legs is among those killed by Israeli security forces that opened fire on demonstrators in the West Bank and along the border with Gaza, Gaza’s health ministry said. Abu Thurayeh, 29, was shot dead east of Gaza Ci ...[Read more]
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Ex-Agent Admits CIA Played Role in Nelson Mandela’s 1962 Arrest
The former CIA operative revealed he gave the tip leading to Mandela's arrest. The African National Congress says the CIA is still operating against them. The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency was involved in the 1962 arrested of anti-apartheid crusader an ...[Read more]
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