Tag: Salfit

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • Land Day Actions

    Since 1976 Land Day is marked by Palestinians on the 30th of March to protest against the grabbing of Palestinian lands by Israel. This year, thousands of Palestinians, along with Israeli and international activists held a series of large-scale peaceful protests against the ongoing occupation and continued theft of Palestinian land by Israel. Demonstrations took…