Below is a story which speaks volumes about
the nature of the Israeli occupation.
Its violence has nothing to do with ‘terrorism’ but in destroying the
capacity of the Palestinians to live their lives and therefore resist.
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| Night raid in Tanweer Center in Nablus. Photo credit : Ziad Ameireh. |
What we see is Israeli state terrorism in
the wanton destruction of the property of a cultural centre. Nablus is in Area C, which is supposed to be immune
to the Israeli military but of course Israel’s terrorist army has carte blanche
to invade anywhere Palestinians live.
Needless to say the role of Abbas’s PA is to protect the Israeli
security state, not to protect Palestinians from that state.
Tanweer cultural centre in Nablus raided at night,
equipment stolen and damaged
On the night of the 10th of December, the Israeli forces raided the
Palestinian cultural Centre Tanweer, near the old city of Nablus, and stole
hardwares, wifi keys and a laptop after searching the whole centre. The
organisation lost all of their data from the raid.
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| Night raid in Tanweer Center in Nablus. Photo credit : Ziad Ameireh. |
When the volunteers arrived at 11 am the next day, they found the door
broken and everything spread on the floor. Volunteers from the centre have been
working on getting the place back into shape since then, but much of the
furniture and computer equipment have been severely damaged. The Rachel Corrie
computer room, established in 2011, was as well raided and the computers are at
the moment unusable. The team is thinking of launching a fundraising campaign
to help replace the lost equipment.
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| Night raid in Tanweer Center in Nablus. Photo credit : Ziad Ameireh. |
The volunteers’ coordinator has been arrested around three weeks ago during a
night raid, as well as about seven of the organisation’s volunteers. Tanweer is
not involved in any political activism; it’s a cultural center working to
educate the youth from the old city of Nablus and therefore the volunteers
don’t understand the reason for this targeting of their work.
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| Night raid in Tanweer Center in Nablus. Photo credit : Ziad Ameireh. |
The coordinators, along with Palestinian volunteers, organise activities,
support classes, computer courses and any cultural events. “You attack a
cultural center, it means that you don’t want people to be enlightened”, said
Mustafa Azizi, one of the volunteers.
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| Night raid in Tanweer Center in Nablus. Photo credit : Ziad Ameireh. |
Palestinian Cultural Enlightenment Forum’ in Nablus, West Bank, occupied
Palestine was raided by the Apartheid Israel occupation, (AIO) military forces
on the 9th of December 2015. The AIO military’s targets were a public access
computer facility named the ‘Rachel Corrie Room’ in memorial, established in
2011, in addition to the written courses for educating youth and the
furnishings of Tanweer.
besides turning everything inside-out – the internal hard drives of all nine
computers were confiscated, together with the WiFi keys, a laptop, a 1Tb USB
key, as well as a server computer.
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| Night raid in Tanweer Center in Nablus. Photo credit : Ziad Ameireh. |
this Palestinian civil association is seeking to tighten the noose on their
activity by raiding them and arresting their board members, so as to prevent
cultural development for the minds of Palestinian youth. For Tanweer, the AIO
military forces arrested 3 of its board members during the last 3 years, the
most recent being Wael Faqeh, the coordinator of voluntary work, including the
international solidarity friends in Tanweer, who was detained October 25th
at the AIO military check-point near Ramallah, while travelling for a workshop.
His tribunal hearing is to take place December 30th by military
tribunal, as Palestinians are still under AIO military laws despite the Oslo
accord and its Palestinian authority.
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| Night raid in Tanweer Center in Nablus. Photo credit : Ziad Ameireh. |
Voice For A Free Palestine’, which was initiated in cooperation with
Italian radio ‘Nurvo Resistance Radio’, on September 1, 2015 was able to reach
a half million listeners in Italy, Spain, the USA and France. Its purpose is to
educate the world about the reality of the occupation in Nablus and is likely
the foremost reason why the military raid took place.
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| Night raid in Tanweer Center in Nablus. Photo credit : Ziad Ameireh. |
rebuild the Rachel Corrie computer room by an appeal for funds to the Tanweer
Forum. The nine hard drives, WiFi keys and laptop will amount to 5,500 NIS
($3,000 USD).
host the Tanweer website, as well as generate revenue by hosting web site
services.
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| Night raid in Tanweer Center in Nablus. Photo credit : Ziad Ameireh. |
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