Jenin – 20-9-2023 By Diana Khwaelid An Israeli Special Force unit stormed the Jenin camp in the northern West Bank on Tuesday evening, 19-9-2023, around 20:30 to besiege a Palestinian house. Palestinian fighters were inside the house, which belongs to ...
Read More »Palestinians in Qaryut reassert their right to visit their spring, despite IOF violence
On Friday 15th of September the people of Qaryut – a village between Nablus and Ramallah – held a demonstration reasserting their rights over the village spring. The village is close to the illegal settlements of Eli and Shilo, and ...
Read More »Report on the weekly protests in Kafr Qaddum
The Palestinian village of Kafr Qaddum is located 13 kilometres west of Nablus and has a population of roughly 4300 citizens. Eleven thousand dunams of the village’s land (roughly 52% of the total area) are part of area C, under ...
Read More »Steadfastness in the face of occupation: A report on the attack on Nur Shams camp
Photos and text by Diana Khwaelid for ISM Residents of Tulkarm – and in particular the Nur Shams refugee camp – woke up to a sad morning on Tuesday 5th of September. Dozens of military vehicles, troop carriers, and three ...
Read More »Autumn 2023 call to action: join us in Palestine during the olive harvest
As the olive harvest season approaches (starting in October until mid/late November), the International Solidarity Movement is calling all activists and supporters to join us on the ground in Palestine. While this is a period when Palestinian families get together ...
Read More »“The Palestinian cause is a cause for all free people in the world, regardless of their cultures, backgrounds, religions, or ethnicities” – an interview with Archbishop Atallah Hanna
On Wednesday, August 23, ISM volunteers met with Archbishop of Sebastia, Atallah Hanna, to discuss solidarity with the Palestinian struggle and the conditions of Palestinian Christians under the occupation. The Archbishop is an outspoken critic of the occupation and has ...
Read More »An unbreakable will
“I will go on a hunger strike until I get freedom or martyrdom.” This is what the prisoner Maher Al-Akhras (52), from the village of Hajjah, Jenin district, said after the Israeli occupation forces raided his house and arrested him ...
Read More »An ISM diary, July-August 2023
This is a diary kept by two UK-based volunteers with the ISM, Willow and Kevin, during some of their recent trip to Palestine. Day 1 – Colonial violence In the few days since arriving in Palestine we have already been ...
Read More »Increase in settler violence and threat of school demolition in Masafer Yatta
Following the killing of an Israeli settler in Hebron on Monday 14 August, there has been an increase in the threat and use of violence by Israeli settlers in Masafer Yatta. On Tuesday, three settlers from the illegal Israeli outpost ...
Read More »Palestinian child looses leg after Israeli occupation invades Nur Shams Camp
On Monday July 24, 16 year old Mohammed Zendiq lost his leg during the invasion of Nur Shams refugee camp, near Tulkarem, by the Israeli Occupation Forces. In the 4 hour long invasion, the IOF accompanied by a military bulldozer ...
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