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Army Invades three Tulkarem towns

Posted on: April 30, 2012

30 April 2012 | IMEMC
Israeli soldiers invaded on Sunday the towns of Dir al-Ghsoun, Bal’a and Shewika, near the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem, installed several roadblocks and inspected the ID cards of dozens of residents.
Israeli soldiers invaded on Sunday the towns of Dir al-Ghsoun, Bal’a and Shewika, near the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem, installed several roadblocks and inspected the ID cards of dozens of residents.

Local sources reported that five armored Israeli military vehicles invaded Shewika area and installed a roadblock on its main road before stopping dozens of … Continue reading


Updated on April 30, 2012
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Israeli army arrests teenagers at protest north of Tulkarem

Posted on: February 21, 2011
Protestors in Tulkarem

20 February 2011 | International Solidarity Movement

Eight young Palestinian men were arrested by the Israeli military yesterday in the village of Deir Al Ghusun, north of Tulkarem. Three of them remain in custody, Jala Anwar, Omar Abu Safa and Sohayb Abu Shakra, all aged 17 years. The teenagers were taking part in a protest against the illegal Israeli separation barrier when soldiers and the border police entered through the gate on foot and in army jeeps. The protesters were running away from the army, but the soldiers managed to grab and take eight young men from the crowd and detain … Continue reading


Updated on February 21, 2011
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Tulkarem and Ramallah mark the seventh anniversary of the death of Rachel Corrie

Posted on: March 16, 2010
Newly dedicated Rachel Corrie Street in Ramallah.

16 March 2010

On March 16th 2003, an Israeli bulldozer killed the American activist Rachel Corrie in Rafah, Gaza. Today, in Kafr Sur, near Tulkarem, and in Ramallah, family, friends and supporters gathered together to commemorate the anniversary of her murder.

Students of Kafr Sur Secondary School, who have been working on a research project about Rachel’s life and death, today marked the anniversary with a march to a memorial stone at the entrance to the village. The students were joined … Continue reading


Updated on March 16, 2010
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Network of road gates tightens its stranglehold on Shufa village

Posted on: January 15, 2010
An earth mound at the entrance to Shufa village

15 January 2010

The village of Shufa continues to struggle with restricted road access and no electricity grid connection, as a new road gate is established at the entrance to the village.

Israeli Occupation Forces established a new road gate at the entrance to Shufa village one week ago, enabling the military to restrict or forbid access to the village at any given time, by closing the gates. The gates are effectively – or at times a precursor to – a form of road block. A similar gate was constructed 2 … Continue reading


Updated on January 15, 2010
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Thousands protesting the Siege of Gaza face repression from local authorities

Posted on: December 31, 2009
Hundreds of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah rally in solidarity with the Gaza Freedom March on New Year's Eve Day

31 December 2009

Thousands of people in Egypt, the besieged Gaza Strip, Israel, and the occupied West Bank rallied on New Year’s Eve Day to call for an end to the international blockade and siege of Gaza, but the protests were marred by police brutality in Cairo and the cancellation of a solidarity action in the occupied West Bank town of Tulkarm at the behest of the Palestinian Authority.

In Cairo, Egyptian riot police brutally beat Gaza Freedom March demonstrators who were unable to enter the Gaza Strip after the Egyptian … Continue reading


Updated on January 1, 2010
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“I live today, but I am afraid of tomorrow”

Posted on: December 30, 2009
Sema Onbus in her home in the Tulkarem refugee camp. (Jody McIntyre)

Jody McIntyre and Sema Onbus | The Electronic Intifada

29 December 2009

The following is former Palestinian political prisoner Sema Onbus’s story as told to The Electronic Intifada contributor Jody McIntyre:

My name is Sema Onbus. I am 37 years old, from Tulkarem refugee camp.

My story starts when my brother was killed, on 6 September 2001, when an Apache dropped a bomb on him and his friends. It was the same day that my sister was due to get married, and he was on his way from Ramallah … Continue reading


Updated on December 30, 2009
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IDF uses ‘two-two bullets’ in Ni’ilin clash

Posted on: November 16, 2009

The Jerusalem Post
15 November 2009
IDF troops used ammunition equivalent to live bullets against protesters at Ni’ilin on Friday, where a weekly protest by Palestinians and left-wing activists from Israel and abroad is held against the West Bank security barrier.
The military ordinarily only uses protest-dispersal means such as tear gas and a recently introduced “skunk bomb” that is harmless but exudes a pungent stench.
One Border Police officer was lightly wounded in Friday’s clash when he was hit by a rock. He was given preliminary treatment at the scene and later taken to a hospital.
A rioter at Friday’s protest said … Continue reading


Updated on November 17, 2009
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10-year-old Palestinian boy jailed for 11 hours

Posted on: November 16, 2009

Ali Waked | YNet News

15 November 2009

Hussam Faisal Muhana, 10, heeded the calls made on Saturday over the loudspeakers throughout his village of Deir al-Ghusun near Tulkarem encouraging residents to participate in a demonstration against the separation fence.

Together with other children and youth from the village, he went to the demonstration. The children threw stones at the security forces that clashed with the demonstrators. Despite his young age, Muhana was arrested. “There were two soldiers there who beat me in the legs with a club. After that, they took me to Ariel,” the boy told Ynet the day after … Continue reading


Updated on November 17, 2009
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Eighteen demonstrators arrested after a gate in the Wall was breached in Deir alGhussoun

Posted on: November 15, 2009
Eighteen demonstrators arrested after a gate in the Wall was breached in Deir alGhussoun

Popular Struggle Coordination Committee

14 November 2009

The protesters were arrested as the demonstration was coming to an end, by soldiers who invaded the village and flanked them from the back.

Eighteen demonstrators were arrested today in the West Bank village of Deir alGhussoun, north of Tulkarem, after Israel’s Separation Wall was breached by Palestinian, Israeli and international activists. The protesters intended to march to village’s lands that were left isolated behind the Wall, and managed to break open one of the barrier’s gates.

The demonstrators managed to break the lock on the gate by … Continue reading


Updated on November 17, 2009
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Eighteen Palestinian protestors arrested in Deir alGussoun demonstration

Posted on: November 14, 2009

14 November 2009

ISM activists joined residents of Deir alGussoun today in a demonstration against the Apartheid Wall. The Wall cuts deep through the village’s land, located to the north of Tulkarem. In an extreme number of arrests, 18 Palestinian protestors were arrested by soldiers in the aftermath of the demonstration.

Meeting in Deir alGussoun this morning, approximately 50 protestors marched from the village towards the Wall, where Palestinian youth succeeded in forcing open the gates on the first of the series of three high fences comprising the Apartheid Wall in the Tulkarem area. Their efforts were met with sound bombs and … Continue reading


Updated on November 16, 2009
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