Tag Archives: Tubas

The Unbelievable Stench of Irony by Dan Glass, Brighton-Palestine, 10 April 2007 The look in their eyes gave it all away. They knew something was wrong – how could they not? Only sixty-five years ago my grandparents were running from ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE In commemoration of Palestinian Prisoner’s Day on April 17th, prisoner solidarity events will emerge in the West Bank region of Tubas. For 8 years, the Prisoner’s Society of Tubas has been organizing such events, emphasizing the plight ...

New Palestinian Play in an Old Israeli Prison FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 8 April 2007 JORDAN VALLEY- Moans from Palestinian prisoners from their torture cells will be heard from the beginning of the show. Checkpoints, army tents, and dungeons will set ...

Brighton Tubas Friendship Group arrives in Palestine FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 5 April 2007 Fourteen volunteers from Brighton Tubas Friendship Group arrived in the Israeli Occupied Palestinian Territories on April 5th for a 10 day cultural exchange and fact finding tour. ...

The first of its kind: Palestinians prepare art demonstration in old Israeli prison by Jameel al-Husni, 4 April 2007 Defying the traditional Palestinian method of denying expressions of the occupation, Wasfi Tayeh, the leader of a local theatre group in ...

Incursion and Arrests in Tubas from Brighton Palestine, 4 April 2007 On Monday April 2nd the IDF entered the town of Tubas (in Area A – the ‘Palestinian controlled’ area of the occupied West Bank). Around 40 soldiers and several ...

by Jamil al-Husni It is surely a celebration. Everyone is bustling about, preparing for the day’s activities. But it is different than a typical celebration. Instead of carrying brightly colored drinks and holding plates of food, people are carrying shovels ...

by the ISM media team, February 13th In recent months Occupation authorities have escalated their policy of issuing fines to Palestinian drivers at certain checkpoints without reason. At Za’atara checkpoint near Salfit today, as well as preventing drivers with Nablus ...

by Jamil Husni, After having finished a hard-working day in the area, three Palestinian Water Authority employees reached al-Hamra checkpoint in the Jordan Valley, on their way to Ramallah. The Israeli army refused to let them through, claiming that their ...

by Ali Samoudi, January 28th The President of the Aqaba Village Council says the small community in the Jordan Valley is facing a new scheme which includes demolishing the village mosque, kindergarten, clinic and rural women’s center. Israeli forces issued ...