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Israel’s discriminatory civil service program challenged
Only a few months away from her high school graduation, 17-year-old May Jabareen will soon be preparing applications for university. Soft-spoken yet confident, the Palestinian teenager from Haifa said...
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Teens refuse army service
Two Israeli teenagers — Noam Gur and Alon Gurman — publicy refused to serve in the Israeli military earlier today. They explained that they refused to join the army because of Israel’s occupation of...
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Universal draft ignites tensions
For more than 60 years, Israel has required nearly all citizens over 18 to enlist in its military. There has been a long-standing exemption for religious students, but that expired this week, after the...
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Fighting against soldiering
JERUSALEM, Aug 14 2012 (IPS) – Thousands of ultra-Orthodox men, women and children have been demonstrating in Jerusalem against the Israeli government’s move to make military service mandatory for...
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Israel not responsible in activist’s death
An Israeli court ruled today that Israel is not responsible for the death of American activist Rachel Corrie. Corrie was crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer while trying to prevent the...
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Israel using weapons ‘unlawfully’
JERUSALEM, Jan 31 2013 (IPS) – The Israeli army is systematically using crowd control weapons and live ammunition unlawfully against Palestinians in the West Bank, signaling a widespread breach of...
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No justice in Israeli military courts
OFER PRISON, West Bank — Dozens of Palestinian men and women are caged in behind a grey metal fence topped with barbed wire. Some pace back and forth. Others sit on benches in silence. A group huddles...
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Israel’s ‘crowd control’ weapons deadly
AL-RAM, West Bank — Several hundred Palestinian mourners solemnly carried the body of 35-year-old Moayad Ghazawneh — draped in a Palestinian flag, and lying in a wooden, open casket — to the cemetery...
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Military requirement discriminates against Palestinians
JERUSALEM — A government move to provide jobs in Israel’s high-tech industry to ultra-Orthodox Jews who haven’t served in the military has raised pointed criticism that Israel is conditioning basic...
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Israel cracks down on accused stone-throwers
Hares, Occupied West Bank – Nema Shamlawi’s eyes swell up with tears every time she talks about her son, Ali. The 16-year-old has been held in an Israeli prison for the past four months for allegedly...
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Freedom Denied: Palestinians decry detention
An estimated 800,000 Palestinians in the occupied territories have been detained under a set of over 1,600 Israeli military laws since Israel’s occupation began in 1967. This figure makes up about 17.5...
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Q&A: Israel’s ultra-Orthodox fight enlistment
On Sunday, the Israeli military is set to jail an ultra-Orthodox 19-year-old for refusing to enlist in the army. Uriel Ferera, who grew up in the southern town of Be’er Sheva, is a signatory to a...
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