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Invading Israeli troops injure 80 Palestinians, shoot ambulance

Israeli soldiers injured over 80 Palestinians, including 2 medics, and damaged an ambulance during the weekly processions on Sbeih Mountain in Beita town & in Beit Dajan, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Villagers have been holding ongoing processions on their lands since May of last year after a group of illegal Israeli colonizers installed an outpost atop the mountain. During these protests, Israeli soldiers have injured thousands of Palestinians and killed several others, including children.

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Israel’s ongoing “Water War” against Palestinians

Israel controls water resources from the river to the sea, illegally pilfering water from Palestinian aquifers and selling it back at exorbitant prices to Palestinians. Israel’s “water war” is just a facet of its ongoing settler-colonial project to make life unbearable for Palestinians, and ultimately replace them with Israeli Jews.

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Israeli forces shoot dead 16-year-old Palestinian boy

Since 2013, Israeli forces and settlers have killed at least 168 Palestinian children in the Occupied Palestinian Territory with live ammunition and crowd-control weapons, according to documentation collected by Defense for Children International. Israeli forces shot Mohammad Said Mohammad Hamayel, 16, with live ammunition during a protest in the village of Beita in the occupied West Bank.

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