Author: ISM Media Group
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Tel Rumeida: Teachers Detained at Checkpoint, Settlers attacks human rights workers, steal camera
by ISM Hebron, Sunday, 1 April Checkpoint 56, Tel Rumeida: Palestinian school teachers were again delayed for a long time this morning on their way to school. The school teachers have an agreement with the DCO (District Coordinating Office) that they can pass through the gate at the side of the checkpoint instead of having…
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M.E. Times: Palestinian refugee marks Land Day away from her land
Palestinian refugee marks Land Day away from her land by Marwan Naamani, 31 March 2007 BEIRUT — Palestinian Umm Aziz was an 18-year-old newly-wed when she fled to Lebanon from her native village of Sheikh Daoud, in what is now Israel, when the Jewish state was created in 1948. On Friday, Umm Aziz marked what…
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Znet: How Palestine became “Israel’s Land”
How Palestine became “Israel’s Land” by Sonja Karkar of Women for Palestine, 31 March 2007 For Palestinians, theirs is not the land of conquest, but the land of their roots going back to time immemorial. Such a lineage does not rely on a biblical promise like the Jewish claim that God promised the land to…
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Pesach March to Nablus Checkpoint- “Let my people go”
On Monday, April 2, Palestinians will be joined by international solidarity activists in the West Bank city of Nablus for a non-violent demonstration at the Israeli checkpoint, Beit Furik. Activists will be demonstrating against Israeli Apartheid and Israel’s restriction of freedom of movement in Nablus. Since 2002 it has only been possible to enter Nablus…
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IMEMC: Um Salamuna village protest the construction of the wall
Um Salamuna village protest the construction of the wall by George Rishmawi Around two hundred protesters marched in the village of Um Salamuna, south of Bethlehem to protest the construction of the wall on their land and to commemorate the 31 anniversary of Land Day. Protesters, including Palestinians, Internationals and Israelis, carried signs and banners…