Author: ISM Media
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Letter of affirmation to Black Lives Matter
The world watches as Black and Brown bodies continue to be gunned down by a racialized, hyper-militarized US police force. And we are indignant. We affirm Palestinian solidarity with Black liberation and support their struggle for the swift and long absent application of justice against police officers who commit heinous, extrajudicial murders of Black people…
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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 mornings since the teachers ask for an international presence. Often there can be problems with…
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Israeli attacks on Gaza farmers
3rd September 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza team | Khan Younis, occupied Palestine According to the Council for European Palestinian Relations the Palestinian agricultural sector’s contribution to the GDP dropped between 1993 (Oslo Accords) and 2009 from 13% to 4.8%, due to the illegal practices of the zionist entity, such as land theft, confiscation…
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Achieving education under occupation
31st August 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine The 28th of August 2016, a new school year in occupied Palestine has started after a 3-month summer holiday. In the occupied West Bank city of al-Khalil (Hebron), Palestinian children living in the H2-area, under full Israeli military control, are posed with…
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School-children tear-gassed on 2nd day of school
29th August 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine On 29th August 2016 Israeli forces at Salaymeh checkpoint in occupied al-Khalil (Hebron), fired rounds of tear gas as school-children attempted to make their way home through the highly militarised checkpoint. The Salaymeh checkpoint, for many school-children, is one of the unavoidable…
