Category: Features
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Increasing collective punishment in occupied al-Khalil (Hebron)
3rd of December 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine Israeli forces closed the al-Hareka neighbourhood putting up new roadblocks and completely closing off a whole neighbourhood in occupied al-Khalil (Hebron). The neighbourhood’s access to the main street has been blocked off with an iron gate for a long time already. Recently,…
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The long journey, for a Palestinian, to get a permit for medical appointments in Israel
December 2nd, 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Huwwara team | It can be complicated to be a medical patient in Palestine. It is especially complicated when Palestinians need to have treatment in Israeli hospitals without having permission to travel freely to Israel. The army/DCO can basically give a death penalty when they deny patients travel permits…
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“We were walking home and they shot at us”
2nd December 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine On the evening of the 1st of December 2015, five Palestinian boys were shot at by Israeli forces with live ammunition on their way home to Tel Rumeida. The five boys – between the ages of sixteen and seventeen years – were on…
