On Wednesday 14th May approximately 500 refugee school children from the city of Tulkarem, in the north-west of the West Bank, attempted to march back to their families’ homes in Jaffa, near Tel-Aviv, in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of Al-Nakba (the catastrophe).
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Dear AP bureau chiefs and editors
Re: Your article ‘U.S.: Bush won’t hold three-way meet during Mideast visit’, 8th May 2008
We were greatly disturbed to read this paragraph in the above article. “Both sides in the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian dispute have failed to take basic trust-building steps considered...
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Jewish Activists Draw Attention to 60 years of Palestinian Forced Exile and Dispossession
By M.
Published in Indybay 08-05-2008. To view original article click here
On 12th of May 2008 around 200 Palestinians, Israelis and internationals gathered at Jerusalem Theatre situated in West Jerusalem to raise awareness and remember the Nakba by listening to a few of the stories from the victims.
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South Hebron Hills – At 2.30pm on Saturday, May 10th 2008, about 20 settlers from Ma’on settlement gathered near the village of At-Tuwani and proceeded to enter the village. When an Israeli army jeep arrived, settlers spoke with the soldiers and then followed the soldiers who began walking closer toward the village. The settlers yelled...
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On Saturday 10th May, approximately 200 Israeli, Palestinian and international activists converged on the village of Shufa, seven kilometres south-east of Tulkarem in the north-west of the West Bank, to remove the Israeli-imposed roadblocks that deny the residents of the village freedom of movement.
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