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Villagers resist threatened demolition
 The heat pressed down on the sheet metal structures of Khan al-Ahmar. Mistrustful of outsiders, villagers asked that their voices not be recorded when they sat down to discuss the threatened demolition of their village.
Children played near the village school over which a banner in Arabic proclaimed: "We are the Jahalin Bedouin Tribe, don't demolish our homes that have been here for 50 years!"
On 24 May, an Israeli high court ruling authorized the demolition of the entire occupied West Bank village "any time the government sees fit," as of June.
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Hewlett Packard (HP) Faces $120 Million in Potential Losses Due to its Complicity in Israel’s Violations of Palestinian Human Rights
 THewlett Packard (HP) faces over $120 million in potential losses since India’s largest student federation passed a resolution to support the BDS movement and to boycott Hewlett Packard (HP) companies over their well-documented complicity in Israel's grave violations of Palestinian human rights.
Apoorva Gautam, the India-based South Asia coordinator for the Palestinian BDS National Committee, which leads and supports the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement for Palestinian rights, explained: The Students Federation of India (SFI) is more than 4 million members strong, and on June 9, they joined the global campaign to boycott HP. This means that Hewlett Packard companies now risk losing over 4 million potential clients in India because of their complicity in Israel's gross violations of Palestinian human rights.
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Palestine Sets Precedent with Legal Case
Attention has been focused on the state of Palestine's recent submission of a "referral" to the International Criminal Court (ICC), alleging that Israeli officials committed war crimes and crimes against humanity against the Palestinian people. However, another complaint recently submitted by the state of Palestine has received much less attention, although its findings will be important in building the factual and legal basis for prosecutions against Israeli officials who may face charges before the ICC and other fora - as well as against the state of Israel itself should an advisory opinion be sought at the International Court of Justice.
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