Tag: Tubas
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PNN: “Palestinian nonviolent protest at checkpoint as Israeli soldiers beat student”
by Ali Samoudi, December 20th On Wednesday Israeli forces occupying Al Hamra Checkpoint in Jenin confiscated the identity cards of hundreds of Palestinians, detaining them for five hours. While the soldiers were confiscating identification and detaining citizens, a young man spoke to the soldiers while others shouted to stop oppressing students. Eyewitnesses report that an…
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“Welcome to Israel” – a trip down the Jordan Valley
by John, December 14th Today we had a trip down the Jordan valley which didn’t start too auspiciously for our Palestinian contact – he had just been delayed for two hours at a checkpoint. A soldier on the way through a checkpoint had drawn a star of david in the dust of the car. When…
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Palestine News Network: “Settlements further encroaching into Tubas; major loss imminent”
by Ali Samoudi, December 10th The northern West Bank’s Tubas is under imminent threat by Israeli settlers who have long had their eye on the Palestinian town’s agricultural lands. The settlements are already encroaching onto the land with continual expansion. One of the leaders of the local community said that all facts indicate that there…
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Israel Plans House Demolitions in Al Jiftlik, Jordan Valley
from brightonpalestine.org, October 16th I visited Al Jiftlik, a Palestinian town in the Jordan Valley last week in the hope of making connections between grassroots groups in the valley and in Brighton. Al Jiftlik is in the Israeli controlled area of the valley although it is part of occupied Palestine. The residents leased land from…
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Soldiers Disrupt Medical Work in Tubas
by Tom Hayes We had gone to meet Red Crescent workers in the hope of establishing links between the branch and grassroots groups in Brighton. The paramedics at the branch told us of how Israeli checkpoints and closures made it impossible to give their patients proper care. The road from Tubas to Nablus has recently…