Full interview with Amer Abdelhadi, manager of Radio Tariq Al Mahabbeh (TMFM 97.7) in Nablus, in the occupied West Bank. An edited version of this was broadcast on Undercurrents on 3 October 2002.

The station started as a commercial enterprise. But when the whole city was put under curfew during the Second Intifada, TMFM became a community station, helping a community to survive under occupation, siege and curfew.

The curfew has been going for 103 days (since 20 June 2002). Now people have started to break the curfew, for instance many families are sending their kids to school over the past two weeks despite the risk from the Israeli army. Some teachers deliver their lessons over the radio as they can’t access school physically due to Israeli army blockades. Palestinian kids can talk about their experience of the occupation.