Category: Features
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Al-Kadoorie: the only university in the world with a military training zone inside its campus
November 18th 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Huwara Team | Tulkarm, occupied Palestine On the 17th of November, in a meeting in the University of Al Kadoorie, in the city of Tulkarm, the institution’s Director of Public Relations, Mr. Azmi Saleh, and a group of students described the recent human rights violations that the Israeli…
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Palestinians banned from land as Route 60 expands
17th november 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Huwwara team | Burin, occupied Palestine On monday morning, Mahmoud Yasser Eid, a 22 year-old palestinian from the village of Burin, was stopped by the Israeli forces as he went to pick olives with his mother, near the Huwwara checkpoint. The land, that the family has been harvesting…
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Amplify Palestine! NYC Cultural Boycott Pledge
17th November 2015 | Adalah-NY| New York, USA Eight leading artists, all with ties to New York, state their support for the cultural boycott of Israel in our new video. The video features actorKathleen Chalfant; musician Roger Waters, a founding member of Pink Floyd; musicians Kyp Malone and Tunde Adebimpe of TV On The Radio;…
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Eye-witness account of a murder: ‘They didn’t want her alive, they want her dead, they meant to kill her”
16th November 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine On 25th October 2015, 17-year old Dania Arsheid was gunned down by Israeli forces in front of the Ibrahimi mosque in occupied al-Khalil (Hebron) and left to bleed to death. One of the shopkeepers nearby the Ibrahimi mosque witnessed the events leading…
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“When soldiers see a camera they come to you like a beast”
16th November 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine Since the beginning of October Israeli soldier- and settler violence has increased sharply and resulted in even further restrictions on Palestinians’ everyday lives in occupied al-Khalil (Hebron). Imad Abu Shamsiyyeh, a volunteer with the Palestinian organization Human Rights Defenders, has been documenting…
