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Palestinians carrying a wounded Palestinian man at the Israel-Gaza border, during the Great Return March, Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, April 15, 2018. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

What’s causing unusual bullet wounds among Gaza protesters?

Palestinian medical experts have been reporting unusually large and destructive bullet wounds among protesters in Gaza, leading to claims that IDF snipers have been using prohibited, ‘expanding’ ammunition. There could be another explanation. By Avihai Stollar Palestinian and international medical experts and media outlets have been making an alarming claim over the past several months:…

By +972 Magazine June 13, 2018

Women hold posters depicting imprisoned Palestinian parliamentarian Khalida Jarrar at a protest against administrative detention in Nablus. Jarrar was put under administrative detention before Israel finally indicted her under international pressure, Nablus, West Bank. September 10, 2015. (Ahmad Al-Bazz/Activestills.org)

Mainstreaming administrative detention

Israel is currently imprisoning over 350 Palestinians and three Jewish Israelis without trial and with no way of defending themselves against charges they often aren’t even allowed to see. As Palestinians demand international intervention, Israeli lawmakers move to codify the practice. Activists in the West Bank city of Nablus on Thursday demanded that the International…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man September 12, 2015

Protests spread in solidarity with Khader Adnan’s hunger strike

UPDATE: Adnan’s appeal against his administrative detention order was rejected early Monday evening. Doctors have expressed grave concern for the life of Khader Adnan, who has been on a hunger strike for the 58 days since his arrest. He also recently stopped drinking water. Adnan, 33, is hospitalized at the Ziv Medical Center in Safed,…

By Haggai Matar February 13, 2012

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