Tag: Ramallah

  • Haaretz: “PM approves eastward move of section of separation barrier”

    by Meron Rapoport, January 31st Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has approved the moving of the separation barrier at least five kilometers eastward from the Green Line in the area of Modi’in Ilit, in order to take in the settlements of Nili and Na’aleh, according to security sources and a brief submitted by the state to…

  • Exit Denied: An Escalation in the Campaign of Ethnic Cleansing

    by Noura Khouri, January 26th At around 12:30 am this morning I was heading back to Bethlehem, by myself, from Ramallah so as to avoid the early morning delay at the dreaded Qalandia terminal. At night there are very few cars, so I thought I’d take advantage and avoid the waiting and anxiousness to cross…

  • “They’re the army. They’re always right”

    by Yifat Appelbaum, January 24th A. made some fried squash tonight at the office. He looked a little more serious than he usually looks. As we were eating, he told me a story. “Today I was at Qalandia,” he started, “Some army jeeps started going down the road towards Ramallah. And there were some kids.”…

  • A trip to the post office…

    by Lucretia Reflection, Yesterday I had to take some things to be mailed at the post office in Jerusalem and had conservatively estimated 4 hours for the trip. Oops, silly me ! When I first came to Palestine a year ago, the trip from Ramallah to Jerusalem took about 20 minutes. Fast forward one year…

  • Freedom Ride Against Apartheid Travel Ban

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Next Friday, January 19th Palestinian, Israeli, and International activists will form a caravan of cars against the Apartheid decree prohibiting Israelis and foreigner nationals from driving Palestinians inside the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Inspired by the freedom rides of the early 1960s which helped end Segregation in the American South, Israelis and Internationals…