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Two Youth Murdered As Israel Tries To Suppress Ni’ilin Uprising

Posted by sofialorenzombi on August 6, 2008

For almost 4 months residents of Ni’ilin Village in the occupied West Bank, along with their Israeli and international supporters, have been trying to defend their lands through grassroots popular resistance, which includes almost daily demonstrations, attempts to block bulldozers and clashes. After losing much of its land in 1948 and due to the massive construction of settlements on its lands since 1967, Ni’ilin is now left with merely 7,000 dunams (1,700 acres). 2,500 dunams (about 620 acres) of these lands are expected to be left isolated and effectively confiscated behind Israel’s illegal segregation wall according to the current trajectory.

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