24th October 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine Imagine being an eight-year old boy, walking to school, and as you come close, close to the roadblock you have to pass every day, army jeeps are ...
Read More »The Weight of Each Stone
For generations, stones have played a significant role in both Palestinian society and within resistance movements. For this reason, it should be no surprise that the Israeli state has historically targeted the use of stones in a variety of ways, ...
Read More »Deported
24th October 2016 | Sarah Robinson | occupied Palestine On Monday, 17 October 2016, I was deported from Israel. This is my story. I left Johannesburg on Sunday evening, 16 October, and flew to Istanbul, Turkey. The check-in process was ...
Read More »Roadblocks, stun grenades and settler aggression: another Jewish holiday in occupied al-Khalil
23rd October 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine The events of Tuesday the 18th of October began to unravel as my friend and I accompanied school children through an Israeli checkpoint (Salaymeh) as they made ...
Read More »Nowhere to hide: New illegal observation tower in occupied Hebron
3rd October 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine Israeli forces put up a CCTV observation tower in the Ibrahimi mosque area, further increasing not only their all-encompassing surveillance of Palestinians, but also their slow but ...
Read More »No matter who wins the US Presidential election, Palestine has already lost
3rd October 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine One week ago, the United States and much of the world turned on their televisions to tune into the 2016 Presidential debate. Advertised as the most anticipated ...
Read More »Reduced to a number – robbing Palestinians of their humanity
25th September 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine Palestinians in the closed military zone in occupied al-Khalil (Hebron) are reduced to a mere number. Imagine ‘loosing’ your identity to a foreign occupying army not only ...
Read More »First day in Al-Khalil
6th September 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine Today was my first full day as an ISM’er in Al-Khalil (Hebron). A regular part of our work is to monitor Israeli checkpoints beside schools in the ...
Read More »Control and ID-check of Palestinians
23th August 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine As a Palestinian you have to have your ID on you at all times, otherwise you may get detained or arrested. In Palestine they have 3 different ...
Read More »Security or humiliation?
20th August 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine People queuing up in lines at the checkpoint, a father with his wife, two toddlers and a baby in the arms. Trying to pass. A soldier yells ...
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