Tag: Tubas

  • 14 Member Brighton Delegation Arrives in Palestine

    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. Lasting links will be made between Brighton and Tubas region in Palestine. The delegation includes…

  • “Martyr Palestine,” A new play in an old Israeli prison

    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 al-Far’a refugee camp in the northern West Bank, is preparing a new show. The show,…

  • Incurion and Arrests in Tubas

    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 vehicles surrounded the home of Ibrahim and Hamid Daragmeh and told the family that they…

  • Tree planting as popular resistance in the Jordan Valley

    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 and pick-axes to plant seedlings as part of a plan to grow trees throughout the…

  • Palestinians ethnically cleansed from the road

    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 ID from passing and meticulously searching them, the IOF issued fines to some Palestinian drivers.…