NOVANEWS
Wailing Wall of Shame
by Stephen Lendman

Supported, funded and armed by Washington, Israelis terrorize Palestinians daily. From late May to early June alone, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), Palestine News Network, and others reported:
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– an Iraq Bourin village child wounded;
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– in Bil’in village, one resident wounded, another 15 arrested, including eight international human rights activists against Israel’s illegal Separation Wall, stealing up to 12% of Palestinian land when completed;
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– on May 29 at 1AM, Israeli forces stormed Bil’in village, panicking residents with sound bombs while they slept;
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– on June 3, IDF troops attacked weekly Bil’in anti-Wall protesters with tear gas, sound bombs, rubber bullets, and sprayed sewage water, injuring six and many others from asphyxiating fumes;
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– Israel conducted 47 incursions into West Bank communities and one in central Gaza, arresting 29, including four children and two women;
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– two Jenin charitable organizations were closed and eight artisan wells destroyed;
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– a Qalqilya construction materials shop was bulldozed;
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– Israeli vessels fired on Palestinian fishermen, crashing into and destroying one boat in Gazan waters, injuring its occupant, rescued by others nearby;
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– Israeli tanks, military vehicles and bulldozers breached Gaza’s border east of the al-Buriage refugee camp, terrorizing residents and razing agricultural land gratuitously;
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– Israeli soldiers shot and wounded a Gazan man in Gaza City’s al-Zeitoun neighborhood;
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– extremist Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian shepherd in Madma village, burning four dunams of farmland there;
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– almost daily other settler attacks occur, protected by Israeli soldiers; and
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– IDF forces conduct regular West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza incursions any time day or night, terrorizing nonviolent civilians, including women and children.