Israel will bar pro-Palestinian activists from entering the country, in an attempt to prevent more injuries to “human shields.” Members of the International Solidarity Movement try to block Israeli soldiers from bulldozing terrorists’ houses, and American Rachel Corrie was killed earlier this year in one such incident.
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