Ni’lin sends eyewitnesses to UN to testify

4 July 2009 For Immediate Release: The United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza assault that investigates violations of Human Rights and International Law committed in the context of the Israeli assault on Gaza in December 08/January 2009 will hear as well accounts of the repression meted out in the West Bank during this period. As during any war and large scale assault Israel is conducting, during the attack on Gaza – which alone killed over 1400 people – the Occupation forces brutally repressed any protests and acts of solidarity by Palestinians anywhere within their reach. On the 28th of December, during a demonstration in Ni’lin in solidarity with Gaza, the Israeli army killed two young men in Ni’lin. Israeli forces shot Arafat Khawaje, 22, in the back and he was killed instantly. 20 year old Mohammed Khawaje was... [read full story]                    

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