Category: Features
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Moving the Goalposts: Delaying Palestinian Football Justice
Originally published by Visualizing Palestine For many years, the Israeli football association has given membership status to six teams that play in illegal settlements built on Palestinian land in the West Bank. This is in direct violation of FIFA’s rules, which state that permission is needed to play matches on another member’s territory. Instead of…
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Israeli forces invade Hebrons commercial center on Friday
10th September 2017 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine On Friday, 8th of September, large amounts of Israeli soldiers went into the H1 area of occupied Hebron, supposedly under full Palestinian control. The army used teargas and stun grenades at one of the main junctions in downtown Hebron, effecting the accessibility…
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Israeli military shot 20-year old in the chest with rubber coated steel bullet
8th September 2017 | International Solidarity Movement, Huwwara-team | Kafr Qaddum, occupied Palestine During the demonstration in Kfar Qaddum today, Friday the 8th of September, a 20-year old Palestinian protester was shot with a rubber coated steel bullet in his chest, and treated at the scene, while camera drones were buzzing above the heads of…
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Two nights in Umm al-Kheir: a journal
5th September 2017 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Umm al-Kheir, south Hebron, occupied Palestine Spent the last two days at Umm Al Khair, a Bedouin village in the South Hebron Hills enjoying the wonderful hospitality, generosity, and loving kindness. This was not my first trip there. And as much as I hate to…
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Right to education severely impeded for Qurtuba school students
29th August 2017 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine Israeli forces in occupied al-Khalil (Hebron) are severely restricting, for the second day in a row, the freedom of movement for Palestinian students and teachers at Qurtuba school. Whereas on Monday students and teachers were detained by Israeli forces for almost half…
