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More than ten years
ago, a palestinian radio and tv was
likely to be an impossible dream
under the hateful Israeli occupation
which suppressed free expression
trying to impose its own fake side
of the story .
The impossible came true.Palestine
had a radio and TV station on its
land to carry the message of its
giant,steady citizen and the
Palestinian.
PBC came to being as the lighthouse which shined in the sky of
Palestine carrying the voice and
image worldwide after a long
occupation.
The foundation decree was declared by Mr. President Yasser Arafat by an
issue carrying No. (40506)in Tunisia
on 6/7/1993 , President Arafat
assigned Radwan Abu Ayyash for the
mission of establishing the
corporation .
The legality of having a palestinian TV and Radio was also
mentioned in the principles
declaration agreement signed between
the Palestinian Liberation
Organization PLO, and the Israeli
government on 13/9/1993 emphasizing
the importance of the PBC role in
stability and comprehensive peace.
PBC had its first breakthrough in
Palestine on July 2nd,1994 .This
step was a complementary of the
palestinian long radio marsh across
Arab capitals and in Diaspora which
can be traced as follows:
After the Arab Summit’s decision to
establish PLO-,Voice of Palestine
started off transmission from Cairo
on 1/3/1965, moved to Amman under
the name ‘Zamzam 105’ in the mid
1969s, until September, 1970 when it
moved to Der’a in 1971 till 1973
.Then to Algeria and Baghdad in 1969
, to San’a and Adan, 1973-1974, to
Beirut in 1975, it also transmitted
from Terran- Albania . After that,
Voice of Palestine joined ‘Sawt
Alasefa’ Radio programs carrying its
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In 1972, all “Sawt Alasifa’s” programs were transmitted from ‘Sawt
Filastin’ station as an application
of the decision which unified the
media activities of the palestinian
resistance.
It is a national public civil institution that forms a main part in
the construction of the palestinian
society through its way to achieve
the independent state
As the result of the occupation policy which aims to destroy
the infrastructure of the
Palestinian Authority ,the
palestinian media has always been a
target:
The Israeli forces occupied the
transmission station in Ramallah in
13/12/2001 ;the station was shelled
at dawn , military tanks demolished
the station, took off trees , then a
special engineering military force
exploded the 240 - meter long
transmission tower causing cutting
off the AM radio transmission on 675
kilo hertz.
Despite that attack ,Voice of Palestine resumed at local FM
wave ,90.,7 kilo hertz.
That transmission tower was one of
the historical, common ,famous
locations for the citizens of
Ramallah and Albeireh and other
districts.
The destroyed transmission station was built in 1938 at
the beginning of the British Mandate
to strengthen the transmission of
the Near East Radio, then was used
by the Jordanian Radio, then by
Israel (after 1967 for military and
broadcast purposes after
confiscating the palestinian wave on
frequency (738 kilo hertz ).
After Israel withdrew from Ramallah ,the station was restored by
the Voice of Palestine in 1995.
There was another attack on the same location on 12/10/2000 when it
was shelled by the Israeli Apatchi
,it was not functional for one month
then resumed on local waves.
On 20/11/2000, again the Israeli planes shelled the tv transmittor
,the satellite station , the radio
transmitter station ‘second program
‘in Gaza.
In Jenin ,a private Israeli troop broke into the tv transmission
building on 28/2/2002 , they began
shooting and throwing bombs ,then
exploded all the transmission
devices .
And once again, on the 19th January ,2002 ,the Israeli tanks broke
into the PBC. soldiers put
explosives in the rooms of the
five-story building,then exploded
the place with all its contents by
the remote control after they
confiscated some files and
equipment.
In one of their countless mean crimes, flames broke out at the dawn
, ‘I could see aching faces through
flames , enemies faces were their
too’.They burned the dream , yet, it grew
in hearts.
Mr. Radwan Abu Ayyash PBC Chairman had commented on this last
crime"
"Flames were everywhere , loss was
too big .
The destruction of equipment will not lead to mute the
palestinian voice, PBC is still
working".
‘Our voice and image raged them,
that’s why they spread lies and
accusations of incitement,
threatened, and jammed transmission
frequencies, but their hopeless
effort are still going astray.
In brief ,we are staying and carrying out the message that we
inherited from our prophets and
ancestors . We are the winners , and
tomorrow our voice and picture will
be even louder and more beautiful'.
"We defend our freedom ,hopes, and holy land ; we are the
voice and image of martyrs and
wounded , yet ,they shelled the air
that carried those dreams and
voices; first in Ramallah ,then in
Gaza, then once again they
sneaked to the PBC building in
ramallah and destroyed it'.
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