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[1] Yesh Gvul: Four reservists in jail + details Saturday vigil
[2] New Profile: enlistment day for objector Uri Ya'acoby & solidarity vigils
[3] News about another jailed objector: Jonathan Ben-Artzi
[4] Also Saturday: Water convoy to Bedouin unrecognized village
[5] The new The Other Israel newsletter is out - one sample issue is free
reports
[6] Gush Shalom's: release Barghouti (ad in Ha'aretz)
[7] From Jerusalem to Bethlehem - report by Gila Svirsky on Ta'aysh action
[8] Appeal from Nablus Under Siege
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[1] Yesh Gvul: Four reservists in jail + details Saturday vigil
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From: "peretz kidron" <cherryk at zahav.net.il>
Date sent: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 18:07:29 +0200
Dear Friend,
As if the weather isn’t bad enough, the Israeli authorities have turned up the
heat: Thearmy continues to oppress the Palestinians with closures,
curfews, house destructions and expulsions (partial list).
Thepolice stop protests (with the Palestinians) in support of peace
Thelegal system threatens to investigate peace activists who oppose
war crimes
and,of course, the army has decided to come down hard on
refuseniks again. Now in jail:
Reservists in Prison 6:
Lt Ori Toker-Meimon (21/7 – 14/8) Ï 1st Sgt. Shuki Sadeh (23/7 – 16/8) Ï Lt.
Udi Elifantz (30/7 – 23/8) Ï Staff Sgt. Ran Ron (31/7 – 23/8) Ï Major
Rami Kaplan (6/8-30/8) Ï 1st Sgt. Shacham Remach (6/8-30/8) Ï 1st Sgt. Uri Fein
(6/8-30/8) Ï Maor Parsai (6/8-30/8) Ï Ron Smilanski (13/8 – 5/9) Ï Sgt.
Shachar Samucha (14/8-5/9) Conscripts in Prison 4 The army has started its
August draft, so many conscripts who refuse to be drafted are going to prison.
This includes: Jonathan Ben-Artzi (8/8 – 3/9) Ï Yoni Yechezkel (8/8 – 20/8) Ï
Victor Sabranski, jailed for the 5th time (11/8 – 4/9) Ï Dror Boimel (13/8 –
5/9) So what can you do to help? If you're in Israel , come to the solidarity
vigil at Prison 6 this Saturday at 12pm (at the Bet Oren junction on the old Tel
Aviv- Haifa highway). Transportation: Jerusalem – Binyanei Ha’uma - 9:30
Tel Aviv – Northern Train station – 10:45 If you're abroad,
send a letter of support to a prisoner: PO Box 16238 Tel Aviv e-mail:
dash at seruv.org.il or join an adoption group and adopt a refusenik for more
information contact: peretz at yesh-gvul.org A final request: Ometz L’sarev needs
help with their appeal to the Supreme Court. They need statements from soldiers
who have taken part in the Occupation and reliable statistics on the Occupation.
Anyone who can help should write to: webmaster at seruv.org.il peretz kidron –
ram rahat-goodman quick quiz: How many petitions to the Israeli Supreme Court,
that oppose Israeli Security Forces actions in the Occupation have been upheld
this month?
[2] New Profile: enlistment day for objector Uri Ya'acoby & solidarity vigils
[since this only gets to you now, we wrote "today" instead of the original
"tomorrow']
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From: Sergeiy
Sandler <sergeiy at netvision.net.il>
Date sent: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 10:17:36 +0200
Hi, all.
Three vigils and demonstrations in support of objectors will be held in the
coming days:
1. Today, Thursday, 15 Aug., is the enlistment day set for objector Uri
Ya'acoby, a signatory of the Letter of the Seniors. It is likely that later on
this day he will go to military prison. His fellow objectors will hold a vigil
in support of Uri and of objection in general, that will escort him all the way
to the bus.
When: Thursday, 15 Aug. 2002, 07:20 am.
Where: "Beit HaKhayyal" in Jerusalem.
For further details please contact:
Eilat Maoz: 067-447033 mailto:eilat at asia.com
Shani Werner: 055-865422 mailto:lifegirl at hotmail.com
Neta Rotem: 052-830494 mailto:neta_rotem at yahoo.com
2. This Saturday, 17 Aug., Yesh-Gvul and Courage to Refuse are holding a
joint demonstration in support of objectors on the hill overlooking Military
Prison No. 6.
When: Saturday, 17 Aug. 2002, 12:00
Where: Beit Oren Junction on the old Tel-Aviv - Haifa road
Transportation:
Jerusalem - Near Binyanei HaUma (The International Congress Centre) - 09:30
Tel-Aviv - Near the Tel-Aviv Central railway station (Arlozorov st.) - 10:45
For further details please contact Peretz Kidron at
mailto:peretz at yesh-gvul.org
3. Next Thursday, 22 Aug., the signatories of the Letter of the Seniors will be
holding a demonstration in support of imprisoned objectors and of the refusal to
cooperate with the occupation. The demonstration will be held opposite the
Ministry of Defence in Tel-Aviv.
The organisers asked people to bring their own signs and slogans. They are
also looking for an electric power generator and audio equipment for the
demonstration.
Transportation will be available if there is sufficient demand. If you would are
coming from afar, or if you are coming by car and can give a ride to other
people, please contact the organisers (details below).
When: Thursday, 22 Aug. 2002, 18:00
Where: Near the Ministry of Defence, Kaplan st., HaQirya, Tel-Aviv
Transportation: Would be organised according to demand
For further details please contact:
Eilat Maoz: 067-447033 mailto:eilat at asia.com
Shani Werner: 055-865422 mailto:lifegirl at hotmail.com
Neta Rotem: 052-830494 mailto:neta_rotem at yahoo.com
Please come to all three vigils!
All the best,
Sergeiy.
New Profile – Movement for the Civil-ization of Israeli Society
POB 48005, Tel-Aviv 61480, Israel
E-mail: mailto:newprofile at speedy.co.il
Voice box: ++972-(0)3-516-01-19
Website: http://www.newprofile.org/
[3] News about another jailed objector: Jonathan Ben-Artzi
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Date sent: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 14:00:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: Matania Ben-Artzi <mbartzi at yahoo.com>
Dear Friends,
We just came back from a first visit to Jonathan
(we're allowed only two visits for a full month term...).
His conditions are depressing, and it's
clear to us that the Israeli government is trying its
best to break the spirit of conscientious objectors.
We were left outside, in forty degree (celsius)
heat, to wait for more than three hours (we were told
to come at 15:00 and were allowed in at 18:15 for a
thirty minute meeting).
We were the last (of hundreds of visitors) to be admitted. It's clear
that people like Jonathan are considered (by our own government...) to
be more dangerous than all sorts of criminals. He was made to wait for
us from 13:00 (over FIVE hours),in the heat, and you can imagine the
psychological stress on him (he wasn't told we were waiting
outside...). We save you further details about their attempts to break
his spirit. We were, though, comforted by his strong standing.
We therefore need your action! International pressure on the
Israeli government and Embassies is our best hope.
Please see also the Amnesty International website concerning
Jonathan:
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http://web.amnesty.org/web/web.nsf/pages/IOT_Conscientious_Objectors
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With deep gratitude
Ofra and Matania Ben-Artzi.
[4] Also Saturday: Water convoy to Bedouin unrecognized village
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From: "amos gvirtz" <amosg at shefayim.org.il>
Date sent: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 11:07:31 +0300
Dear Friends
Pleasedistribut this invitation.
Thank you and see you!
Amos Gvirtz
THIRST IN THE BEDUIN VILLAGES
YOU ARE INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE WATER CONVOY TO THE
UNRECOGNIZED VILLAGES IN THE NEGEV ON SATURDAY AUGUST 17, 2002
The convoy will include – water tanks, buses and private cars
The convoy will leave from the Reading parking lot in Tel-Avivat 09:30
>From Jerusalem, Bel parking lott at 10:00
It will stop at the Castina Junction
(Tzomet Achim - near Kiryat Mal’achi fork) at 11:00
We’ll get together at the Paz gas station at the Shoket Junction at 12:00
Assembly/rally at the unrecognized village Swiwin at 13:00
Finishat 15:00
The plan is: to take the water tanks from Tel-Aviv, Rally, share the
water and meet with the Beduin villagers.
Background information:
Following the war of 1948, the majority of the Negev Beduins were uprooted and expelled.
Those who remained, were squeezed by the state into a small area of 1,500 square
kilometers in the Eastern Negev named the Sayag region. .
Today, the Beduin population in the Negev is about 140,000 people. 70,000 live in Rahat and
six other towns, most of which are run-down and neglected. The rest, about 70,000,
of them 35,000 children, live in villages officially unrecognized by the
state.
None of Israel’s governments recognized these villages. As a
result, they were also not considered entitled for services such as:
infra-structure, housing, education, health and water and electricity supply,
the rest of Israel’s citizens are entitled to. As part of this policy, efforts
have also been made to remove this population from it’s sources of livelihood
and to concentrate it in ghetto like towns. Unlike their Jewish neighbors,
they are not permitted to make choices concerning their life style. As means
of pressuring the villages population to abandon their villages, the state is
maintaining a campaign of home demolitions, land confiscation and destruction
of agricultural crops. At the midst of the hot summer, tens of thousands of
Negev’s inhabitants have no access to a water system supply thus presenting a
serious health hazard to the entire unrecognized Beduin villages
population. People have to travel long distances to bring water to their
homes. The water is stored in plastic or metal containers who often contaminate
the water and cause infectious diseases in both humans and cattle. Jewish
population is, in comparison, is provided by the state with all of the services
the Beduin unrecognized population is deprived of , including an abundant supply
of drinking water and water for agricultural purposes. To illustrate the
discrepancy: During the year of 1994, the average water consumption per
person at the Jewish settlements was 130 cubic meters per year and only 24
cubic meter at the non-Jewish settlements. During the year of 1988, the total
consumption of water for drinking and farming was 1.3 milliard cubic meters for
the Jewish population versus 26 million cubic meters for the non-Jewish. This
water convoy is a protest against the serious condition the Negev Beduins in
general, and of the inhabitants of the unrecognized villages in particular. It
is aimed at drawing Israeli public, as well as world attention to the fact that
hundreds of thousands of people in Israel live without flowing water in their
homes and communities. For this, and for future activities we would like to
carry on, a considerable amount of financing is necessary. We need your
contribution.
Contributions may be passed on to “Mate Hacoalitsia”.
Checks to
- P.O. Box 1335, Kfar-Saba, area code 44113.
Bank transfers to –
Account no.119442, Bank Hapoalim, branch no. 679, Tchernichovski St. Kfar-Saba.
Participating organizations: The Association of Civil Rights in Israel, The
Women’s Coalition for Peace. The Recognition Forum – The association of Fourty,
The united Councils of the Unrecognized Villages, Bustan Leshalom, The Israeli
Committee Against Houses Demolition, Unrecognized villages Committees, New
Profile, Shomrey Mishpat – Rabbies for Humans Rights (supporters, however, not
participators due to observance of the Sabbath), Ta’ayush – Arab Israeli
partnership.green organizations - Friends of the Earth in the Middle East,
Link for the Quality of the Environment, Green Action.
For more information
contact: Ya’acov Manor 09-767-0801, 050-733-276
Atiya Elasem050-702064
Michal Porat 058-292250
Connie Hackbarth 02-6241159
[5] The new The Other Israel newsletter is out - one sample issue is free
-----Forwarded message follows-----
From: otherisr at actcom.co.il
Date sent: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 18:07:29 +0200
Issue 103/104 bears the title "Inside the Maelstrom".
A comprehensive description enravels how after a flare-up of criticism in the
beginning of the yearSharon succeeded to drag the society behind him in an
unprecedented policy of reconquest, ruthlessness and humiliation towards a whole
population. Also: an analysis of the difficulties and internal contradictions
into which Sharon's policy is beginning to run. Furthermore, you find
descriptions of the many actions which you knew would take place, but nobody
sent you a report:big rallies in the streets of Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem.
Humanitarian convoys which sometimes encounter extreme poce brutality, and
actions of the few: penetrating into the cities under curfew. If you never saw
The Other Israel, order your free sample by mailing to <otherisr at actcom.co.il>
NB: please, write "free sample" in the subject line and include your postal
address.For subscription details, same addres but write in the subject line:
subscription details.
[6] Gush Shalom's: release Barghouti (ad in Ha'aretz)
RELEASE BARGHOUTI!
After the signing of the Oslo agreement, we got acquainted with a large group of
young Palestinian leaders. They were all activists of the first intifada, they
had all been in Israeli prisons, they all spoke Hebrew, they were all dedicated
with heart and soul to the cause of peace.
We held many joint demonstrations and many long and frank discussions about
peace, its terms and problems. We dreamed together about the future Israeli-
Palestinian alliance.
Marwan Barghouti was one of the outstanding members of this group.
Conducting a show-trial for Barghouti is intended to deligitimize the Oslo
partners and to bury the hopes of peace of both our peoples.
Gush Shalom,
Help us with donations to
P.O.Box 3322, Tel-Aviv 61033,
www.gush-shalom.org
[ad published in Ha'aretz, August 16, 2002.]
[7]From Jerusalem to Bethlehem - report by Gila Svirsky on Ta'aysh action
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Date sent: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 00:32:08 +0200
From: Gila Svirsky <gsvirsky at netvision.net.il>
10 August 2002
Friends,
Most of us who marched toward Bethlehem today came back home in wet
clothes and disappointed at not having entered this Palestinian city. And
yet, to quote Tamar Gozansky - the only Knesset Member at the event - as
we were starting out, "Events like this make you feel good about getting
up in the morning."
Activists came in chartered buses from all over Israel, but mostly from
Jerusalem, as our cities are separated by only a few open fields...and a
built-up checkpoint [=border crossing] manned by Israeli soldiers. We
were about 700 activists from Israel, Jewish and Palestinian, and a
handful of internationals. The organizers from Ta'ayush (Arab-Jewish
Partnership) carefully briefed everyone about the importance of
maintaining non-violence, even in the face of provocations. The briefing
was necessary: At a previous checkpoint event, army resistance to our
presence was brutal, landing over 20 activists in hospital afterwards.
The army knew we were coming, and had prepared themselves in large
numbers. A water-truck was also waiting, its turret directed right at us.
As we approached the line of border police who were blocking our advance
with their bodies, they began to get very rough. Several used excessive
force, hurling activists back even though we used no force to get past
them. Suddenly the water truck opened fire and drenched most of the
demonstrators. I ducked behind a police car and avoided the dousing,
though the car got well washed.
When the water did not dampen our spirits or forward drive, a much more
lethal weapon emerged. Suddenly horses with helmeted riders charged in
from behind us and plunged directly into the crowd, the riders flailing at
demonstrators with their whips, and driving the horses directly onto us.
It was terrifying to be charged by horses, and this did stop our further
progress. Several demonstrators were hurt, but none seriously, I believe.
One woman was taken to the emergency room and others sat down to tend
their wounds. It was infuriating to see this violent police response to
our peaceful action (never used at right-wing demonstrations, by the way).
Finally, when the melee died down, we all sat down on the road and blocked
the entry of more army vehicles to the site.
The next hour was one of waiting while appointed activists tried to
negotiate our passage. Meanwhile, one local and several international TV
stations interviewed participants. One "activist" grabbed the camera's
attention and shouted crazily that we were the beginning of a left-wing
underground and that our next step was to assassinate the political
leadership of this country. The organizers quickly announced that these
are not the views of Ta'ayush, which believes in democratic action and
nonviolent methods. The police hauled the guy off soon after. I did a
small investigation, and no one there knew who he was. Which strongly
suggests that he was a provocateur, planted by someone (the right? the
Shin Bet?) to discredit this peace group. Or simply deranged.
After about an hour of sitting on the hot asphalt in the August sun, we
regrouped and began to walk arm in arm toward the main checkpoint into
Bethlehem, where the border patrol and soldiers now awaited us in full
force, plus water truck, and now four horses. With the checkpoint in full
view, we still could not get there, despite our steady chanting of "Peace
- yes! Occupation - no!" and other slogans. We were stopped right there,
and chanted endlessly while our negotiators talked to the army and police.
One of those chants was a rhymed version (in Hebrew) of "Our partners for
peace are on the other side of that checkpoint". Did I mention that a
crowd of Palestinians was waiting for us for hours on the other side, in
the plaza of the Church of the Nativity? This was meant to be a joint
Israeli-Palestinian event, held with several Palestinian peace and
political organizations. The intent was to meet in Bethlehem and declare
our joint commitment to a just peace between our peoples.
We could not get in and, needless to say, there had never been any hope of
their getting to us. Too much closure. But the mobile phones did get
through, and soon we had speeches directly into the mike by two senior
Palestinian officials on the other side. I didn't get their names, but
one was the governor of Bethlehem and the other, a Fatah-Tanzim official.
What they said was pretty similar:
"Waiting for you here in Bethlehem are hundreds of Palestinians, some of
whom have had their homes destroyed and their relatives killed. And yet
all of us have gathered to express our appreciation for your efforts to
reach us, and our desire to end the bloodshed and reach a peaceful
agreement between our two nations." And on their side, a speech prepared
by the Ta'ayush group was read out loud in Arabic. Probably with similar
sentiments.
It was a very encouraging day. Yet we had to close it with a moment of
silence for Dafna Shpruch, veteran peace activist and Jerusalem Woman in
Black, who had been seriously injured in the Hebrew University bombing two
weeks ago, and died as we were on the way to the action today.
Said the moderator from Ta'ayush, quietly, before we dispersed, "This call
for peace - it will not be stopped."
>From Jerusalem,
Gila Svirsky
Coalition of Women for a Just Peace
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Coalition of Women for a Just Peace:
http://www.coalitionofwomen4peace.org
[8] Appeal from Nablus Under Siege
----- Original Message -----
From: "Amer Hadi" <amerhadi at yahoo.com>
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 7:05 PM
Dear Friends
Greetings from Nablus which has been languishing under
a continuous curfew imposed by the Israeli military
since June 20th with only sporadic lifting for a few
hours every two weeks or so. Every single dimension of
social, economic, cultural, and human life has been
disrupted. And now, we have been struck by the latest
Israeli aggression against the old city of Nablus,
more specifically the Kasabah neighborhood, in which
at least 3 Palestinians were killed, scores injured,
homes demolished and the history of our ancient and
beloved town erased from existence. This attack
against our past, present and future can only be
withstood with the support of freedom, peace, and
justice loving people around the world.
It is from our specific location under siege--with
food and medicine running out, water cut off and
electric generators destroyed, children terrorized,
and social, economic, and political developments
stunted-- that we issue an appeal to all of you for
you are our last and only hope. We ask you to
intervene and use the resources at your disposal to
pressure Israel to lift the curfew off Nablus and the
other Palestinian communities that are held hostage to
the whims of Sharon and his ruthless government.
We are trying desperately to carry out our journalist
mission and inform our public in Nablus of the
developments on the ground. However, as you may
already know, our job is dangerous and complicated.
Not long ago, a colleague of ours, Nasser Ishtaia, of
Reuters, lost his 4-day-old daughter, as they were
stopped endlessly at Israeli checkpoints; other
colleagues of ours were killed, injured or arrested by
the Israeli military for no reason. In April, Israel
decided to reoccupy all towns and villages in the West
Bank. During that time, our station was shelled almost
killing two of our reporters who refused to leave the
station and insisted on giving the Nablus population
news of what was going on. Unfortunately, heavy
bullets and rockets shuttered our studios completely
destroying two transmitters and other equipments
valued at over $50,000.00 dollars (the sum may seem
small to people in the US and Europe but it is a huge
investment to us here).
Things are getting worse as days pass by. Unlike
journalists elsewhere, our mission is not only to
øeport the news. We do not exaggerate when we say that
we are the lifeline of this community. Before April
and the direct Israeli re-occupation of Nablus, we
used to give out a bulletin on the "road situation"
every 15 minutes to inform our public of what
back-roads people could take to get the injured and
the ill to hospitals or to get some important
documents processed (sometimes people outside of
Palestine do not realize that no one would make a trip
and pass Israeli checkpoint unless their trip were
absolutely necessary. It is not just the danger
involved in taking such a trip, but the hardship of
walking long distances at the risk of being turned
back and most importantly at an exuberant cost when
people have no money for food, medicine, or water and
electricity bills). These bulletins were heard by the
population of Nablus and the surrounding villages and
refugee camps, such as Balata, Askar, and Ein. We
would issue an emergency bulletin every time someone
spotted an Israeli patrol near the open roads and
called on by Jawwal (local Palestinian mobile phones)
to notify us. Now that the roads are completely
blocked and no one comes in or leaves Nablus, we serve
as the only source of information as we sadly announce
the names of the martyrs to allow people to attend
funerals and offer condolences--the only form of
social support people can give to each other in the
face of a continuous 24-hour curfew.
Life style has changed for everyone in Palestine: The
high school general matriculation exams usually end by
mid June. In Nablus, the Tawjeehi exams were delayed
until the end of July. The delay in the taking,
grading and posting the results of the exams (August
6th) has already deprived Palestinian high school
students from much needed time to apply for and seek
acceptance at Palestinian and other Arab universities.
Most of the spots have already filled up and the road
blocks and border closures, combined with the high
cost of travel when 75% of Palestinians live below the
poverty line (at $2.00 per day for a family of four)
will surely make it impossible for Palestinian
students to enroll in colleges in September thus
losing a year and maybe more of their future. Under
normal circumstances, newspapers and school post the
results of the high school exams. But since we are
under curfew, no newspapers have reached Nablus for
quite a while. Schools are the other place at which
students find out their results. But most schools in
Nablus have now been occupied by the Israeli military
and turned into armed posts. As a result of these
obstacles, we decided to keep operating our radio
station in order to announce the name of each student
and the average she or he received in the exams on the
air. Although this decision has cost us funds we do
not have, not to mention the risk we took to get to
the station to make the announcements, we were more
than happy to bring some good news to our public that
has had nothing but bad and worse news day after day.
Students called to thank us and parents were
celebrating their children's success; this made it all
worth the risk.
Our services have also included receiving calls from
ill people requesting medicine or medical advices.
When we receive such a call, we contact doctors,
neighbors and paramedics to provide medical aid to
those who cannot otherwise obtain it. We have also
called and have been called by families who were held
hostage by the Israeli military. For example, on
August 4th, we called Mr. Nidal Shafiee, who was
locked up along with 97 other relatives and neighbors
who live in the Freitekh building in the old city of
Nablus. Mr. Shafiee explained on the air that the 98
people had no electricity, no water, and no baby milk.
We contacted the relief committees who were able to
get in through the Israeli military siege to provide
help.
All of our services are free of charge. We are listed
as a commercial radio station. We started out as a
medium to promote social justice and human rights. We
used to offer cultural and social analysis and cover
all local and national news. We would get sponsors for
various shows, especially from merchants who wanted to
promote their business. Since the outbreak of the Aksa
Intifada, however, we have not been able to raise
funds to pay the salaries of our staff nor cover the
phone, fax, mobile, or internet bills. We used to have
a link to the internet to broadcast live but we had to
suspend it for lack of funds. Even before the recent
Intifada, the Israeli military has seized our
transmitters from the top of the Jerzim mountain under
the pretext of stopping pirated Israeli radio
stations. And although the Palestinian Authority has
made it clear to its Israeli counterpart that we are a
legitimate and fully licensed radio station, our
transmitters were never returned to us nor were we
compensated for their loss. As a result, we could no
longer have broadcast coverage all over Palestine; we
had to limit ourselves to Nablus and the northern
parts of the West Bank. Now, even this is threatened
by the Israeli occupation on one hand and the lack of
funds on the other.
We therefore call on all of you to please help us in
our mission. Continue and escalate your efforts to end
the occupation of our land so that we could live
freely and peacefully like all people on the face of
the earth; we deserve no less than other human beings.
And we also ask you to help us raise funds to support
this station that is truly the only lifeline to the
people of Nablus. We promise you that we will continue
to resist all attempts to uproot us from our land and
erase our identity. We hope that you can offer the
support to allow us to maintain our sacrifices.
For Justice, Peace, and a free Palestine,
Amer Abdelhadi
General Manager
Tariq Al-Mahabbeh 97.7 FM´
Nablus Under Siege
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