By Chris Floyd | Information Clearing House | June 07, 2011 I watched them marching toward the border. Row upon row of them in the hot, bright sun. They marched without guns, without tanks and missiles — although some, like the shepherd boy David, did pick up a few rocks to hurl into the impossible […]
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Amnesty: Israel must investigate Golan deaths
Published today (updated) 07/06/2011 19:30 Demonstrators carry a wounded protester who was hit by Israeli fire while trying to cut through a line of barbed wire and head into the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights on June 5. [AFP/Jack Guez] BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Amnesty International on Wednesday called on the Israeli authorities to investigate their army’s killing […]
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Solemn Funeral Processions for Martyrs of Liberation and Return (Names of Martyrs June 5 Naksa Day Massacre in Golan)
Jun 07, 2011| SANA QUNEITRA, (SANA) –Thousands of Syrian and Palestinian citizens paid the last honors to the 23 martyrs killed on Sunday by the Israeli fires at the borders of the occupied Syrian Golan in Ein al-Tina and the liberated city of Quneitra. The martyrs were escorted in solemn processions from Martyr Mamdouh Abaza […]
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Gaza government declares mourning day for Naksa Day victims
[ 06/06/2011 – 05:11 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Flags have been lowered half mast in the Gaza Strip as the government has declared an official day of mourning for those killed by Israeli soldiers during peaceful Naksa Day protests in occupied Golan Heights on Sunday. In a statement on Monday, the government declared that the […]
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Factions: Golan massacre war crime
[ 06/06/2011 – 05:19 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Palestinian national and Islamic forces in Gaza condemned on Monday the Israeli massacre in the Golan Heights against a peaceful march, describing it as a war crime. The factions issued a joint statement at conclusion of a meeting called for by the Islamic Jihad movement urging the […]
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Israel braces for fresh protests in Golan
Published today (updated) 06/06/2011 15:40 Demonstrators wave the Palestinian flag as the Israeli army fires teargas along Syria’s border with Israel. Israeli forces are bracing for fresh unrest along the Syrian ceasefire line a day after they reportedly killed 23 trying to break through to mark the 1967 Six Day War. [AFP/Jack Guez] MAJDAL SHAMS, […]
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After deadly day: Syria blocks Palestinian protesters near Israeli border
Published June 6, 2011 | Al Bawaba Syria – Israel border Syrian police blocked Palestinian protesters from approaching the Israeli border on Monday, a day after more than 20 demonstrators reportedly were killed by Israeli fire while trying to infiltrate into the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Syrian police set up two checkpoints near the border […]
Continue readingNaksa Day 2011 | Non-Violent Protests answered with Violence & Manslaughter – in pictures
UDHR 20(1) states: “Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.” (Universal Declaration of Human Rights) Not in Palestine and as it seems not even outside of Palestine. Israel claiming to defend it’s borders on Golan, while it isn’t actually Israel, but illegally occupied Syrian Land. This album is a wakeupcall. I […]
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Protesters stage sit-in on Golan Heights after massacre
Mon Jun 6, 2011 1:4AM Pro-Palestinians protesters take cover from Israeli forces shooting near the village of Majdal Shams in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, Sunday, June 5, 2011. Thousands of Syrian and Palestinian protesters are staging an open-ended sit-in in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights after Israeli forces killed dozens along the Syrian border. Israeli […]
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Prof. Em. Richard Falk on the Golan clashes – video
AlJazeera English | June 5, 2011 Prof. Em. Richard Falk is the UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian Territories. Source.
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Israeli Naksa Day War Crimes at Majdal Shams
By Richard Silverstein | June 6, 2011 « Tikun Olam-תיקון עולם: Make the World a Better Place Naksa Day wounded protester dragged to safety (Nir Elias/Reuters) Today and Nakba Day may go down in the recent history of the Israeli-Arab conflict as two days in which Israel massacred unarmed Arab civilians in cold blood thus […]
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Another Israeli Massacre to add to the list: 23 dead as Israel opens fire on Golan
Published yesterday (updated) 06/06/2011 09:25 Demonstrators flee Israeli fired tear gas as they gather along Syria’s border with Israel. Israeli troops opened fire on Sunday as protesters from Syria stormed a ceasefire line in the occupied Golan Heights, with Damascus saying 23 demonstrators were killed. [AFP/Jack Guez] MAJDAL SHAMS, Golan Heights (AFP) — Israeli troops […]
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If Arabs were Germans and Israel’s frontiers were the Berlin Wall | The Electronic Intifada
Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Sun, 06/05/2011 – 19:20 This video shows confrontations that took place on 5 June on the Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan Heights as thousands of people marched from the Syrian-controlled side toward the fortified Israeli-controlled line. Watch carefully. The images are shot from the from the perspective of Syrian residents of the […]
Continue readingWinds of Hope in the Occupied Syrian Golan
Sunday, 29 May 2011 11:47 Francesc Cabré Sánchez for the Alternative Information Center (AIC) Residents of the Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan city of Majdal Shams were those who restored calm after the Israeli military assassination of four Palestinians during the Nakba, on 15 May. Occupied Golan residents applaud the courage of the Palestinian refugees and are convinced […]
Continue readingGolan Israeli Violations of International Law 08
Al Marsad: The Arab Center for Human Rights in the Golan Heights The Alternative Information Center Declan Gannon Table of Contents Chapter 1: Overview 1.1 Background 1.2 The status of the Syrian Golan according to international law 1.3 Crimes committed by Israel in its 40 year occupation 1.3.1 The forcible transfer of civilians 1.3.2 Destroyed […]
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