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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsa powerful image:
Palestinian women and children prevent arrest of minor in Nabi Saleh
The Israeli soldier attempted to detain a 12-year-old boy during a demonstration in the West Bank village
http://972mag.com/watch-palestinian-women-and-children-prevent-violent-arrest-in-nabi-saleh/111117/
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kpete
Aug 2015
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another powerful image leads to 116k raised in one day for Palestinian refugee
Liberal_in_LA
Aug 2015
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broiles
(1,367 posts)1. Isn't that a cast on the child's arm?
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)2. Why would that matter to an Israeli soldier?
To them, Palestinians are nothing but animals.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)4. If that.
malaise
(269,019 posts)6. If that indeed n/t
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)3. Yep. nt
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)5. another powerful image leads to 116k raised in one day for Palestinian refugee
The pen is mightier than the sword: Touching photo of desperate refugee selling biros in Beirut street as he carries his sleeping daughter sparks viral fundraising campaign that raises £75,000 in just one day
Abdul was forced to flee Yarmouk in Syria which has been invaded by ISIS
The father of two was photographed in Lebanon selling pens on the street
Pictures uploaded by journalist Gissur Simonarson for funding campaign
Campaign raised $80,000 that Abdul will use to help other Syrian families
An online fundraiser has raised more than £75,000 for a refugee from Syria and his daughter after a sharing moving pictures of the man selling pens in the streets of Beirut.
Gissur Simonarson, founder of Conflict News, posted the pictures on Tuesday and was flooded with requests to help the man, a Palestinian from the devastated Yarmouk refugee camp in Syria.
The touching pictures showed Abdul, a single father of two, holding up pens on a roadside on the southern outskirts of Damascus while holding his sleeping four-year-old daughter, Reem.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3215167/Viral-photo-desperate-Syrian-father-selling-pens-street-carries-sleeping-daughter-raises-44-000-just-one-day.html#ixzz3kFoXak3w
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