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Disaster prompts president to lift moratorium on death penalty, a move human rights groups say is ‘a retreat into barbarism’
ISRAELI occupation troops blockaded the West Bank city of Ramallah yesterday as collective punishment for a shooting attack the day before.
Soldiers closed all roads into the Palestinian Authority’s administrative capital.
Except in “humanitarian cases” only residents were allowed in and non-residents allowed out.
Police crackdowns on Israeli peace demonstrators combined with court rulings and settler organisations are designed to strip Palestinian families of their homes and land. The Israeli state has tried to silence both Israelis and Palestinians who resist, according to Zo HaDerekh (This Is The Way) the Communist Party of Israel’s Hebrew-language weekly
