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Special thanks go to Anne Paq (CHRONIQUES
DE PALESTINE), Ali Omar, and Eyad Bornat (Friends
of Freedom & Justice - Bil'in), who have helped us keep pace with
this incursion.
SUNDAY, APRIL 4th,
2010 (EASTER): At two o'clock this morning, the Israeli Occupation
Army forcefully entered a house in Howarah Town , South of Nablus. The house,
which was empty at the time, is used as an office for the MICHIGAN PEACE TEAM.
According to some neighbors, who were watching the scene from their windows
during the raid, tens of Israeli soldiers forcefully broke the garden gate and
the main door and entered the house using sound bombs. The soldiers caused
damage to the furniture of the house and confiscated pro-Palestinian banners and
posters.
The raid tonight follows the recent Israeli campaign to end Palestinian
nonviolent popular resistance, which takes the form of raids, arrest of local
activists and organizers, such as Adeeb and Abdullah Abu Rahmah, as well as
arrest and deportation of international activists, involved with Palestinian
popular resistance, such as the recent unlawful detention/deportation of Eva
Nováková, a Czech citizen, Ariadna Jove Marti, a Spanish journalist, and
Bridgette Chappell, an Australian student in the Beir Zeit university.
Nael Al-Ahmad, a resident of Howarah, described the unjustified raid as a failed
attempt to crash the grassroots movement against the Occupation and to hide and
bar access to information from the international community about the Israeli
inexplicable crimes against the Palestinian people.
NOTE:
MPT's Spring Team to the West Bank will be arriving soon. Once
they have an estimate of the damage done, we will post an update.
Despite this
unprovoked incursion, MPT remains committed to nonviolent social change, justice
for all, and basic human rights with dignity for everyone.
 
Pictures of MPT's office in the West Bank prior to the raid
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