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Puerto Rican activist under Israeli house arrest
April 24, 2007
A well-known Puerto Rican activist was under Israeli house arrest Tuesday after he climbed a tower near Israel’s West Bank separation barrier and planted a Palestinian flag on it.
Puerto Rican activist arrested at Second Bil'in International Conference on Nonviolence
April 23, 2007
"Thanks to the media here for telling the truth … Bring this truth to whatever country you come from!"
These were Mairead Maguire’s words, a Nobel Peace Prize winner from Northern Ireland, just one hour before she was shot with a rubber-coated steel bullet by Israeli Occupation Forces.
Irish Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire Shot With Rubber Bullet by Israeli Military at Nonviolent Protest
April 23, 2007
We turn now to Israel and the Occupied Territories. Israeli forces have killed eight Palestinians over the past two days including a 17-year-old girl and a Palestinian police officer. Meanwhile Israeli troops fired rubber bullets and tear gas at a non-violent protest against the separation wall near the West Bank village of Bilin. Several protesters were injured including the Nobel Peace laureate Mairead Maguire who was shot with a rubber bullet. Mairead has just returned to Ireland.
Against The Wall in Bilin: 30 Marchers Wounded and an International Rounded Up
April 21, 2007
In anti-Apartheid wall peaceful demo in Bilin village, North West Rammallah city of the West Bank 30, demonstrators were wounded and an international peace activist when the Israeli occupation troops met the peaceful demonstrators among were Israeli and international peace activists in addition to Palestinians ministers and deputies, by firing rubber coasted steel bullets and stun grenades.
Nobel prize winner, and others, injured at Bil'in protest
April 21, 2007
“This is terrible what’s happening here to the Palestinians. They’re suffering so much — and they can’t even have a voice to nonviolently protest against what’s happening to them. It’s a disgrace, it’s a disgrace what’s happening to the Palestinians”, said Mairead Maguire, a Nobel Peace Prize winner from Northern Ireland, after she was shot in the leg by a rubber bullet fired by Israeli military forces.
