Tag: Qalqilya

  • DCI/PS: 10-year-old subjected to torture by Israeli soldiers

    Defence for Children International: Palestine section To view original press release click here Name: Ezzat H Age at incident: 10 Date of incident: 11 June 2008 Location: Sanniriya, Qalqiliya Accusation: None A 10-year-old boy was subjected to physical abuse amounting to torture for 2.5 hours by Israeli soldiers who stormed his family’s shop on 11…

  • Demonstration in Wadi Qana against Israeli system of apartheid

    On 21st June, approximately 100 residents of the Qalqiliya region, as well as international and Israeli activists, and six Palestinian officials, joined the residents of Wadi Qana, a small village on the Qalqiliya/Salfit border, surrounded by seven illegal Israeli settlements, to protest against the system of apartheid that has stolen their land and water; demolished…

  • NY Jewish Week: Protesting Leviev, From Here To Dubai

    by Walter Ruby – Special to The Jewish Week. To view original article, click here N.Y.-based Arab-Jewish group claims credit for UAE snub of diamond merchant; Leviev spokesman says stores will open under his name. Leviev already operates two jewelry stores in Dubai under the name “Levant” through a Moroccan-Palestinian agent Arif Bin Khadra. Israeli…

  • Israeli soldiers beat residents and damage vehicles during curfew in Azzoun

    The village of Azzoun, nine kilometres west of Qalqilya, was again put under curfew by Israeli soldiers at 6pm on Friday 2nd May, lasting until 2pm the next day. This is the ninth curfew to be imposed on the village of 11000 people in the past eleven days. Villagers were forced to close their stores…

  • Ha’aretz: Senior official in Dubai government: Leviev has no license for opening a store in the Emirates

    Senior official in Dubai government: Leviev has no license for opening a store in the Emirates The Marker: Ha’aretz Daily’s Hebrew-language business magazine (Israel), click here to view (Translated by Adalah-NY) May 1, 2008 By Ora Coren and Michal Ramati The “Gulf News” reported yesterday that the Leviev jewelry chain has no license to open…