Tag: Jericho
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Haaretz: “Dates of Infamy”
from Haaretz, September 16th, by Gitit Ginat Imagine a person. He might be a man over 40 years old, married, with children. Or he might be a teenager, who until recently was in school. Now perch him on top of a date palm that soars to a height of 10 or even 12 meters –…
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ISM Responds to Internet Photos, Reaffirms Commitment to Non-violence
Ramallah, 16th September 2006: Recently, photos were posted on the internet showing five foreigners posing with members of the Palestinian security services in Jericho while holding police weapons, along with the claim that four of the foreigners were volunteers with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM). The article accompanying the photos also claims that the fifth,…
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Israeli Army raid on Kindergarten in Jericho
12th July: The ISRAA is a small, community based organisation working with the poorest children and their families in the town of Jericho in the West Bank, providing funding for underprivileged students. They run two kindergartens, one for children age 0-3 and one for those age 3-6, catering for around 150 children in the same…
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What I saw in Jericho or Olmert’s Election Campaign
By Neta Golan British Chris and I beginning our attempted entry. We were stopped minutes later. Jericho Tuesday March 14th After a four-hour walk around two Israeli checkpoints and an illegal Israeli settlement, we arrived in Jericho to find that the neighborhood around the compound surrounded by Israeli jeeps and Palestinian children throwing stones at…