Sign in. It’s quick, free and it’s up to you.
An account is an optional way to support the work we do. Find out more.
RESIDENTS OF THE small Palestinian village Nabi Saleh claim that the Israeli army has used force to quash a peaceful demonstration held weekly in the town.
Nabi Saleh has been a flashpoint in the past with clashes between Palestinians and Israeli troops. An activist appeared in court on Sunday charged with incitement and organising protests in the town while a recent article in the Jerusalem Post details how the residents have protested every Friday since 2009. Numerous posts and photos have appeared on Twitter today following another day of protest.
The article reports that 40 per cent of the 200 villagers injured during the protests have been children. It also reports that during a visit to the town in May during a protest Israeli forces surrounded the demonstrators and fired tear gas.
A number of Twitter users have tweeted about children suffering from the effects of tear gas. More recent reports suggest that the Israeli troops are withdrawing from the village.
It comes as Israel launched a campaign in an attempt to stop a Palestinian state from gaining UN recognition. The Guardian reports that the foreign ministry in Jerusalem has sent classified cables to diplomats around the world urging them to vote against recognising Palestine at the UN general assembly in September.
That a 500 year leasehold was signed with a private developer in 1997, says a lot about the sad state of public planning in the city.
That’s a good news story to go to bed with. Good on Lord iveagh
@Niamh Hand: where was he the last 20 years?
@steve white: 20 years ago a still recent lease agreement was in effect, so he was as powerless to intervene as the rest of us.
@steve white: dope
@steve white: drinking pints I’d assume
Hands up if you agree that Alan Kelly is an eejit
@the-baldie-lad: utd fan out in the open was it Leo on the luas
Excellent news.
Be nice to have something along the lines of the English market in Cork
Hopefully, he won’t grant another lease to DCC so they can balls it up again!
My dad had a butchers shop there for years.
A market like the ones in Barcelona would be the job there..
Should be sequestered by the state along with all lands and properties that were divided amongst the lords of the English elite!
@D Cullen: That’d be great if the state were capable of managing the lands and properties. Read the article and you will understand that the State is not up to the job.
@D Cullen: so the state can then sell it on the ruthless developers and give themselves pay raises??
No thank, at least Lord Iveagh will do something that benefits the people of Dublin, like he has done many times in the past.
@D Cullen: except the Guinness’s are Anglo-Irish not English, just like many of Ireland’s rebel leaders of the past, Pearse / Wolfe Tone etc. The first Lord Iveagh was born is Dublin and is known for providing housing for the poor etc.
His Christian/First name is very odd, don’t you think – ‘Lord’ ??
have your say