Tag: Salfit
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IWPS: 19 year old man shot at Huwarra checkpoint
12 August 2006 Today the International Women’s Peace Service (IWPS) visited a family in Haris whose son had been shot after he passed through Huwarra checkpoint on the way out of Nablus. Their son Salem is 19 years old and has permission to travel to Nablus. He works at Barqan Industrial Complex. He had been…
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Two Houses Demolished in Brukin, Salfit
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 30 May 2006: Two houses were demolished by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) in the village of Brukin, Salfit, West Bank, on Tuesday morning, 30 May, 2006. They were among 70 houses that have received demolition orders, according to Brukin’s Mayor Ekremah Samara. The village, which has lost 8000 dunums of land…
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IHT: “At the checkpoint, waiting for Palestine”
By Fareed Taamallah International Herald Tribune QIRA, West Bank As the line behind me grew, I read a novel. The drivers behind me leaned on their horns. I advanced a few meters and returned to reading “Memory in the Flesh,” by the Algerian writer Ahlam Mosteghanemi, thinking of her presentation of the ravages of colonialism…
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Palestinian Pain, One Kid at a Time
From CommonDreams.org By Fareed Taamallah Every day, world leaders think of new ways to punish the Palestinians for electing Hamas. But the people who suffer most are children like my daughter, Lina. Lina was less than 1 year old when she caught a virus that gave her a high fever and caused diarrhea and vomiting.…
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Shwayy shwayy, like prisoners in a cage
From the International Women’s Peace Service Shwayy shwayy, slowly slowly, like the Arabic of most internationals here, or, maybe better, silently silently… the Israeli government is turning the Salfit Region into one of the most enclosed areas of the West Bank. The original sin of our relatively unknown Palestinian governorate is hosting the infamous Ariel…