Al-Jalama, Tulkarm, a Palestinian village in the District of Tulkarm that was depopulated in 1948
Ali Hasan Nayfeh (born 21 December 1933 in the West Bank town of Shuwaikah / Tulkarm in Palestine) is the inaugural winner of the Thomas K. Caughey Dynamics Award.
She notes that the crucial moment of her political awakening occurred when she went to the Palestinian village Shufa where the IDF had set up a roadblock and fired rubber bullets on a Palestinian demonstration.
Talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority in 2004 have raised the possibility of reviving the old line from the Gaza Strip to Tulkarm and/or building a new line from Gaza to Tarkumia (near Hebron) with the aim of securely transporting people and goods between Gaza and the West Bank through Israeli territory as well as for transporting cargo to and from the Israeli port of Ashdod destined to the Palestinian Authority.
In 1596 Tulkarm appeared in Ottoman tax registers as being in the nahiya ("subdistrict") of Qaqun, part the Liwa of Nablus.
Combatants for Peace has organized a series of meetings between veterans from both sides, most taking place in East Jerusalem in the early years, but have expanded now into three local groups operating between Tulkarm-Tel Aviv, Beersheva-Hebron and Ramallah-Jerusalem.
Khirbat Zalafa, a Palestinian village in the District of Tulkarm that was depopulated in April 1948