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30 days against borders
The Palestinian Body for Dialogue, Peace, and Equality (HASM)
Sunday 14 Th of January 12 pm:
School children from Nablus dressed up like Native Americans
will gather in a peaceful demonstration at the Huwarra checkpoint.
On the other side of the checkpoint, Israeli peace activists
will be gathered to support their demonstration.
Why are we not demonstrating to end the occupation together?
No civilian Israelis are allowed to enter Nablus, and the
children from
Nablus
will have big difficulties to get out through the Huwarra
Checkpoint.
During four weekends in January Palestinian, Israeli and
international peace organizations will gather at both sides of the
Huwarra Check point to show their protest towards the barrier system
which makes life difficult in the West Bank .
They will sing and play, have a photo exhibition and in
different ways demonstrate for peace.
Why are we doing this?
Nablus
is one of the most closed cities of the West Bank. Since 2002 it can
only be entered through 6 checkpoints. It is even more difficult to
exit. Men between 16 and 45 (it varies from day to day) can only
exit their city with a special permission that can be achieved only
outside of Nablus. Each night its citizens victims to violent
military raids and their lives have not been peaceful or normal for
years.
The people of Nablus are looked upon as terrorists and
treated accordingly, violence leads to violence and the many
resistance movements in Nablus do often use violent methods.
Why do we believe in non-violent methods and cooperation?
Internal Palestinian political conflicts have resulted in
large number of
Palestinians refraining from participation in collective a
resistance against Israeli Occupation. The violent resistance has
resulted in factional conflicts and has given few improvements for
the Palestinian population. We therefore support non-violent methods
of resistance and cooperation between different Palestinian, Israeli
and international groups. Until now there has not been a clear
strategy to coordinate various peace activities to achieve justice
for all. The lack of greater steps of progress towards peace and has
made the new generation of Palestinians disillusioned and made them
lose faith in their abilities to change their situation into a
better one.
• This project expresses the will of most Palestinians and
represents their rejection of the Occupation without sacrificing
their children or themselves.
• We designed these activities to express our resistance to
the occupation in general and the closures around Nablus in
particular.
• We hope that people from all countries and organization
will support the children of Nablus in these peaceful demonstrations
at the Huwarra Checkpoint.
The Palestinian body for dialogue, peace, and equality (HASM)
For more information plz contact
Mohammad.hazeem@gmail.com
+972 59 9355286
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