A Checkpoint for Women
We were sent this from Abu Dis: I was told by my sister Abeer that there was a checkpoint just for women on the University Street. The soldiers stopped her […]
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“Sweet smell of Abu Dis”
My car smelt wonderful all Tuesday afternoon. It was filled with the aroma of freshly ground Arabic coffee: a fat mound of roasted beans, a good slug of cardamom pods,
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One of the children who visited Camden in summer 2006 writes about the new Al-Zeitunah checkpoint
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم معاناة جديدة يعانيها سكان قرية ابوديس والعيزريه والسواحره من القوات الاسرائيلة قامت قبل اشهر القوات الاسرائيله ببناء معبر يطلق عليه اسم الزيتونه وهو يفصل بين العيزريه
Checkpoint Birth
ON Sunday, 13th March 2007, Afaf Bader the pregnant wife of Motamed Bader from Abu Dis went to the Civil Department together with her husband after she received a letter from Almaqased Hospital
Solana says he is shocked by settlement growth in occupied West Bank
Javier Solana, EU Foreign Policy Chief, toured several Arab towns near Jerusalem on Sunday and said that he is shocked by the Israeli settlement growth in the occupied West Bank.
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The Temples of the Occupation – article in Ha’aretz by Meron Benvenisti
So far, of the dozens of checkpoints promised to be removed from the West Bank in a “gesture” to Mahmoud Abbas, not a single checkpoint has been dismantled. Read
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