Category: Features
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Young prisoner, Marah, is fighting medical negligence to get her high school diploma
|December 23rd 2015 | Hamza Abu Eltarabesh | Gaza, occupied Palestine Palestinian journalist from Gaza, born in 1991, studied journalism at the Islamic University of Gaza, and works as a freelance journalist for various local media outlets. Participated in covering the third aggression against Gaza, & basically writes in social and political issues. (According…
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Yet another day of body searches and intimidation in Hebron
21st December, 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, al Khalil team | Al Khalil, occupied Palestine Children and teachers of Ziad Jaber elementary school in occupied al-Khalil (Hebron) are daily subjected to body searches and intimidation by armed Israeli soldiers at checkpoints, as they walk to school. International ISM activists monitored a checkpoint right in front…
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Israeli forces injure 3 Palestinians before shooting tear gas at bypassers in the market of Hebron
December 20th, 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, al Khalil team | Al Khalil, occupied Palestine Sunday, 20th December 2015, Israeli forces shot and injured three Palestinians at Shuhada checkpoint in occupied al-Khalil (Hebron), before arbitrarily firing towards civilians and journalists in the area. Israeli forces shot a girl in the head with live ammunition. A…
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UN : “Stop unacceptable harassment of human rights defenders in occupied Palestinian Territory”
December 18th, 2015 | UN Press release | al Khalil, Occupied Palestine GENEVA – United Nations independent experts today expressed grave concerns at continued reports that human rights defenders are being subjected to physical attacks, harassment, arrest and detention, and death threats, particularly in Hebron in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), in an apparent bid…
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Palestinians remove roadblock restricting movements of villagers near Tulkarm
December 18th, 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Tulkarm team | Shufa, occupied Palestine UPDATE 22nd December: After the removal of the road block during last weeks demonstration in Shufa village, Israeli forces told villagers that they will keep the road open in the future. But since then the road has remained closed almost every day,…