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A Steadfast Prelude to the Nakba: Duheisha resists

Posted on: May 15, 2013
Tear gas is fired at the demonstrators

15th May 2013 | International Solidarity Movement | Hebron, Occupied Palestine

By Team Khalil

On the 14th May 2013 , a day before the Nakba, on the edge of Bethlehem, a demonstration to remember the day of the catastrophe in 1948 marched from Duheisha refugee camp to the entrance of the village of Al-Khader. Demonstrators then clashed with the Israeli military between 11am and 1pm. Tear gas is fired at the demonstrators

Al-Khader was the chosen site of the demonstration as the villagers there have recently … Continue reading


Updated on May 15, 2013
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Activists continue to target the infrastructure of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank

Posted on: April 23, 2013
Stun grenades are thrown at demonstrators outside an Israeli military base

23rd April 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Bethlehem , Occupied Palestine

By Team Khalil

Palestinians and International activists held a brief demonstration outside the gates of an Israeli military base near Herodium mountain, east of Bethlehem. The activists stood outside the gates with Palestinian flags and shouted to the soldiers inside that the base was built illegally on Palestinian land. The demonstration also intended to highlight the illegal Israeli settlements nearby. Stun grenades are thrown at demonstrators outside an Israeli military … Continue reading


Updated on April 23, 2013
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Teenager dies following shooting in Bethlehem

Posted on: January 23, 2013
Teenager dies following shooting in Bethlehem

23 January 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Bethlehem, Occupied Palestine

On Friday January 18th at approximately 3.20 pm, fifteen year old Saleh Elamareen was shot in the head by an Israeli soldier in Aida refugee camp, Bethlehem. Today Wednesday 23 January he was pronounced dead.

Salah Elamareen was outside the Lajee Refugee Centre when he was shot through the left forehead. The Centre lies some distance from the wall itself. At the time of the shooting eyewitnesses have said that protests were not happening, and that the … Continue reading


Updated on May 16, 2013
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House demolitions and forced displacments in Area C

Posted on: September 2, 2012
Palestinian children n front of their destroyed home in Zenuta, August 28 2012 (Operation Dove)

By Abu Sarah

2 September 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank

Demolishing tents donated by the UN

Caterpillar Bulldozer demolishing tents donated to the residents of Susiya as emergency aid by the U.N.

On August 28 Israeli occupation forces demolished tents donated by the United Nations (UN) in the Palestinian village of Susiya in the South Hebron hills. This is the second … Continue reading


Updated on May 22, 2013
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Bethlehem: 18 year old Palestinian stabbed

Posted on: May 27, 2012
Saleh al-Zoghayer is currently chained to a hospital bed recovering from his wounds.

By Richard Frank and Dan Stingy

27 May 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank

18 year old Saleh al-Zoghayer, who was recently stabbed by Israeli soldiers in Bethlehem, has been at the centre of the media recently. Several contradicting and false reports surfaced along with a shocking photograph of Saleh following the stabbing.

The photograph which circled social media shows 18 year old Saleh al-Zoghayer following his stabbing with soldiers stepping on his hands.

On Sunday, May 20, Saleh took a day off. Leaving his construction job in the town of … Continue reading


Updated on May 17, 2013
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Press Release from the Welcome to Palestine Campaign

Posted on: April 16, 2012

by Mazin Qumsiyeh

16 April 2012 | Welcome to Palestine Campaign 2012
We did not have to show our 1500 visitors Israeli racism, arrogance, and human rights violations; the Israeli government showed them and also showed the whole world. Calling itself a democracy, this outlaw state denied the right of people from around the world to come visit us and see for themselves the reality of life under occupation.
We the Palestinian people are 11 million normal human beings, 7 million are refugees or displaced people simply because they are natives to a land that was wanted for a Jewish state. Five million of us … Continue reading


Updated on May 22, 2013
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Red Crescent medics treat 339 protesters in the West Bank

Posted on: March 30, 2012
Medics carry an injured protester during clashes between protesters and Israeli forces at a demonstration marking Land Day, at Qalandiya checkpoint Ramallah on March 30. (Reuters/Darren Whiteside)

30 March 2012 | Ma’an News Agency

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The Palestinian Red Crescent treated 339 protesters on Friday at protests around the West Bank to mark Land Day, a spokesman said.

Muhammad Ayyad told Ma’an that five people were seriously injured and 55 hospitalized as protesters commemorated six Palestinians who were killed by Israeli forces in 1976 at demonstrations against Israel’s land confiscation in the Galilee.

Three people in Bethlehem were critically injured, one of whom was hit in the face by a tear gas canister. A protester … Continue reading


Updated on March 30, 2012
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In Photos: Bethlehem met with rain of Israeli violence

Posted on: March 16, 2012
Click here for more photos | Photos courtesy Ahmad Mezher, 2012

by Mahmoud Zawahre

16 March 2012 | Al Ma’sara Popular Committee

Today the weekly demo of Al-Ma’sara, near Bethlehem, was underway as dozens of Palestinians and Israelis demonstrated in  the heavy rain against the wall in solidarity with Hana Shalabi . Israeli Occupartion Forces first attacked Mahmoud Zawahre, the coordinator Of Al-Ma’sara Popular Committee, tearing his clothes before he managed to escape them. After that they started attacking people with their batons and  arrested four Israeli activists. They were later released. They  also broke the camera of … Continue reading


Updated on March 16, 2012
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The isolated corner

Posted on: March 16, 2012
The isolated corner | Click here for more photos

by Axel

15 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank

In the outer part of Bethlehem very close to Rachel’s Tomb, Mariam (who wishes not to use her actual name) runs her small Palestinian souvenir shop. But this is not a shop in the usual touristic places of Bethlehem,  and not a place you find if you don’t know about it.

Despite these facts, this small shop has become the only income for Mariam and her family since it opened two years ago.

Before 2002 her husband had an auto mechanic shop in this building, perfectly located right next to the main road … Continue reading


Updated on March 16, 2012
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Al Ma’asara: House on the seam of looming Apartheid Wall becomes center for peaceful resistance

Posted on: February 15, 2012
Al Ma’asara: House on the seam of looming Apartheid Wall becomes center for peaceful resistance

by Aaron

14 February 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank
There is a place where a ground-level concrete line runs beside a country road through olive orchards, grape vines, blossoming almond trees, and homes—all Palestinian. This is the projected path of a new segment of Israeli Apartheid Wall through Al-Ma’sara, a small village 13 km south of Bethlehem in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Since 2006, protesters have held weekly demonstrations opposing the Wall’s construction—which was halted in 2009, possibly due to financial constraints. But attacks on Palestinian homes … Continue reading


Updated on May 16, 2013
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