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Norwegian Nakba protest sees 'wall' erected to highlight ongoing Palestinian oppression

(Sunneva Elvarsdottir and Runar Nygård at their checkpoint in the wall. Photo: Andrea Hegdahl Tiltnes)

Tromsø is formally twinned with Gaza. Thanks to iGaza user Floyd Rudmin for sending in this story from the Arctic Circle! Tromsø University is also home to Norwegian doctor Mads Gilbert who has done so much to expose the horrors inflicted by Israel's testing of its new tungsten munitions (DIME bombs) in Gaza. See story from the town's pro-Palestine youth group below. "Riv Muren" means "Tear down the Wall":
- Freedom of movement is an important part of human rights, and no one has the right to close within a nation such as Israel does to Palestinians. They do it anyway, "said political leader of the Palestine Committee's youth Tromso (PUT), Torkel Fjørtoft Nohr (18).

Saturday action, he and the rest of PUT on Main Street in Tromsø in connection with that it is 62 years since Israel was created.

Mur on Main Street
The young people built a wall across Main Street. They had to have an opening on both sides so that people could walk around, but they urged people to try to pass the checkpoint in the middle of the wall.

- By creating a wall, we want to visualize, giving people an impression of how the Palestinians have it every day. Several stops when we have a wall than if we just hand out flyers, "said the head of the PUT, Åsa Wilhelmsen Otterli (18).

Every day Palestinians pass checkpoints to get past the wall to get to work or other things. At the checkpoint on Main Street were young people on each side. People who would try to pass was subjected to a hard question round, before they may got let through. [Google translation] more
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  1. Anonymous24 May 2011 at 00:33

    I salute you ! Thank you for helping to bring to light the reality and the travesty that has been happening to the Palestinian people for all years! Despite media cowardice, political impotence and the israeli propaganda machine... The well funded pro- israel lobby - The truth is the truth! and inequality, injustice, and racism is ugly and evil- no matter how it is reported by a bias media and justified by cowered politicians!

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