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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »Palestinian Farmer killed in Tulkarem
For Immediate Release 14 June The Israeli army is currently invading the village of Saida, in the Tulkarem district of the West Bank. According to local sources, Israeli special forces were occupying an old, abandoned Palestinian house in the center ...
Read More »PNN: Non-violent protest against Wall in Tulkarem for Land Day
Non-violent protest against Wall in Tulkarem for Land Day Palestine News Network March 30, 2007 The Popular Committee Against the Wall in Tulkarem and the National Action Committee organized a nonviolent march for Land Day, an occasion which Fateh spokesperson ...
Read More »The olive doesn’t fall far from the tree
by Joey Weinberg Photos by Pippi Lundgrensen Today (Thursday, Nov 16) is definitely a good day to pick some olives; in fact, with the heavy rain from yesterday, it is even better that we are doing this as soon as ...
Read More »The Sounds of War: Israeli incursion into Tulkarem
by Bill Dienst MD, November 3rd 04:15 – The roosters start crowing. The minarets start calling the faithful to prayer. I wake up here on the top floor dormitory of the Women’s Center in Tulkarem where I have been staying ...
Read More »Plan for the Olive Harvest Campaign 2006
On the 5th of October a special meeting made up of regional ISM coordinators took place to present their plans for the olive harvest and to make everyone aware of each other’s activities so that better coordination between the regions ...
Read More »The Small Battles
by Daniela, Tuesday 26th September This weekend I attended a small rally in Tulkarem, where Palestinian NGOs were calling for a boycott of Israeli goods. Although the group was small, they were organized and seemed intent to follow through with ...
Read More »Tulkarem Farmers in Boycott of Israeli goods
Palestinian traders and farmers will gather in the Tulkarem Refugee Camp on September 20th for a Palestinian goods market, boycotting Israeli products as a statement of resistance against Israel’s ongoing occupation, The Grassroots Palestinian Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign said. The Campaign ...
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