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Yesterdays streaming from #CombatantsForPeace about the situation in #Tulkarem in the Westbank is now online avaible: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1w36YOTEsinOgdyvrs2D39EBMQloQpPWw/

Resisting Erasure- Voices from Tulkarm Refugee Camp.mp4

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Oliver Knabe 3d ago

Nour Shehada from #Tulkarem: "My house was the first on the 27th of January that was demolished. We had 5 minutes". They bombed our door. We wanted our pet out afterwards. It took us a month just to get the pet out.

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Oliver Knabe 3d ago

On the situation in #Tulkarem in a live-screening tonight: "We have an emergency committee that helps people who were displaced from #Tulkarem and who live now in places not suitable for human living like greenhouses. There’s a lack of food and water.

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Oliver Knabe 3d ago

This summer, the army invaded #Tulkarem refugee camp. They demolished my home, my brother’s home, and my nephew’s home: three houses from my family alone. Well over 10,000 people from the camp are now homeless. So many families were once again driven from their homes in fear, carrying nothing but the clothes on our backs.
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Oliver Knabe 3d ago

Nour Shehada from #Tulkarem refugee camp, one of the founders of #CombatantsForPeace: "We have never seen such circumstances. Words are not enough to describe our situation."

"My family is from the Palestinian village of Qaqun. In 1948, during the #Nakba, Israeli forces attacked the village. Many were killed, and the survivors — including my parents — fled with nothing. They came to Tulkarem Refugee Camp, where the UN later built rows of small houses for families like mine.
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Oliver Knabe 5d ago

"On August 13th, I will be speaking at a virtual gathering as part of our summer campaign. I’ll share more about what is happening in #Tulkarem Refugee Camp, and answer your questions directly. I hope you will join me. It would mean so much to know you are listening and standing with us. Register below."
https://form.jotform.com/252181001143035

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Oliver Knabe 5d ago

In 1948, during the #Nakba, my family was forced from our original home in Umm al-Fahm in the north, like hundreds of thousands of other Palestinians. We rebuilt our lives in #Tulkarem refugee camp. For more than 30 years, we made a home there. Every corner held part of our life: the smell of coffee in the morning, my children’s footsteps in the hall, my wife’s voice calling them to dinner. These weren't just memories they were our roots.

Oliver Knabe 5d ago

Listen to Mounir from #Tulkarem:
"My name is Mounir. I’m a husband, father of four, a taxi driver, and for over 20 years, I’ve been part of #CombatantsforPeace because I believe in #nonviolence, dignity, and a future built on shared humanity instead of hatred or domination.

But today, I write to you as a refugee. Again.

agitprop & absurdity Jul 19

🚨 Journalist Sami Al-Sa’i, from the Artah suburbs near #Tulkarem, reveals he was brutally tortured in the occupation’s prisons — including degrading assaults with hard objects amounting to rape and sexual torture.

Below is a translation of Sami's testimony:
"They stripped me of my lower clothing and forced me into a prostration position on the ground. Then they began a form of indirect rape — which meant bleeding and extreme psychological distress.