Author: ISM Media Group
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Action Taken Against Two Israeli Checkpoints that Close Nablus
by Michael Yesterday, August 2nd, hundreds of people waited for hours at Huwarra checkpoint, which is the main entrance to Nablus from the south and one of the most restrictive in all of the West Bank. Everyone was packed into the terminal, while soldiers allowed one to pass at a time, after undergoing humiliating searches…
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Palestine Info: “Palestinian captives in Negev wage hunger strike over Qana massacre”
July 31st, 2006 Ramallah – Palestinian prisoners in the infamous Israeli Negev prison went on a hunger strike Monday in condemnation of the Israeli massacre in the Lebanese town of Qana as well as the intensified quelling measures the IPA is exercising against them. More than 2,320 Palestinian detainees in that prison heeded calls from…
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NGOs in Gaza Call Attention to Humanitarian Crisis and War Crimes
On July 30th, the Palestinian NGOs Network “PNGO” organized a demonstration in solidarity with the Lebanese people in front of the United Nations head quarter in Gaza city. Similarly, over twenty international humanitarian aid agencies and non-governmental organisations have joined forces to issue a joint appeal for action on July 27th in response to the…
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Observer: “We suffer together, we leave together”
from the Observer, Sunday July 30th By Fida Qishtais, a 23 year old community activist and educator from Rafah in the Gaza Strip. She founded Lifemakers Center which serves 300 children in Rafah. July 13th After two weeks of waiting with my parents and brother at the Egyptian border crossing, I returned home to Rafah,…
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Soldiers Make Residents Pay to Pass Checkpoint
by W.B. Asira Al Shamaliyeh, a town of about 12,000 located a few kilometers north of the mountains from Nablus, has come to suffer under a new aspect of occupation. Asira has in recent months been effectively cut off from Nablus by increasing restrictions at the Sabatosh checkpoint. In addition to the weekly incursions by…