Tag: Tulkarem

  • Journal: About the Combatants for Peace Meeting in Shufa

    Shufa, Tulkarem Area, 14th August 2007 Members of Combatants for Peace with the Vice President of the European Parliament Louisa Morgantini A meeting of Combatants for Peace, with an audience of more than one hundred people, took place in this small village adjacent to the illegal settlement of Avne Hafez and with a checkpoint blocking…

  • The story of Sima – Female Political Prisoner

    Sima is a 35 year old Palestinian woman who was released approximately four months ago following two and a half years in an underground Israeli jail. She has four young children who were left without any parents during her stay in prison, as the Israeli army had assassinated her husband a little while prior to…

  • Tulkarm Struggles Against the Wall, Settlements and Israeli Chemical Factories

    The Tulkarm area covers the city of Tulkarm and 31 villages in its surrounding areas. In this area live approximately 180,000 inhabitants. About 45,000 live in the city itself, 18,000 live the larger refugee camp and 8,000 in the smaller camp. Tulkarm is only 13 km away from the Mediterranean Sea by the Israeli town…