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Posts Tagged ‘Checkpoints’

Samer Mustafa / Rima Isam Anabtawi – Two Tales from a Checkpoint

By Guest Post • Feb 15th, 2010 • Category: Biography, Features, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

"I had prayed Samer, prayed that I would not have to witness bloodshed at their hands because I would go for the kill.. period – and I can and I would, I was not worried about my dying.. that would have been fine.. lovely actually. I would rather die there so it made no difference, but I would not stand by and let any of my brothers or sisters lie hurt and bleeding.. because it is our blood.. all of us, our blood."


Roadblocks and checkpoints in West Bank – Occupied Palestine

By Haitham Sabbah • Dec 5th, 2008 • Category: Maps, Newswire, Palestine

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Twilight Zone / Dead on Arrival

By Guest Post • Sep 19th, 2008 • Category: Human Rights, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Zionism

WRITTEN BY Gideon Levy
Nothing helped. Not the pleas, not the cries of the woman in labor, not the father's explanations in excellent Hebrew, nor the blood that flowed in the car. The commander of the checkpoint, a fine Israeli who had completed an officers' course, heard the cries, saw the women writhing in pain in the [...]


Reham Alhelsi – Saying "I didn’t know" is no excuse anymore

By Reham Alhelsi • Jun 9th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Israel, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

A couple of days ago I read an article by Haitham Sabbah entitled Murder at Huwara Checkpoint. It talks about the killing of a 15 year old Palestinian boy by the Israeli soldiers at the Huwara Checkpoint. What drew my attention to the article was the accompanying photo. It was a painting of a Palestinian [...]


Reham Alhelsi – What about the children of Palestine?

By Reham Alhelsi • May 16th, 2008 • Category: Children's Corner, Features, Human Rights, Israel, Nakba and Right of Return, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

While the children of Palestine face the atrocities of the Israeli military occupation, the children of Israel celebrate the on-going ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people.
Two days ago I was visiting a friend of mine and as we walked down the old city, we more than once came across Hebrew-speaking tourists, a language I would [...]