Category: Features
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The checkpoint regime: Israel and the fragmentation of Palestinian society
31st January 2017 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine There are 17 permanent checkpoints in the H2 area under full Israeli military control in occupied al-Khalil (Hebron), manned by Israeli forces and impeding Palestinian freedom of movement. The official rhetoric of the Israeli government is that these checkpoints serve ‘security purposes’.…
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Sebastiya will not be ruined
24 January 2017 | International Solidarity Movement| occupied Palestine The Israeli Forces have been making their presence known in Sebastiya almost daily; sometimes just for show, and other times with bulldozers under the guise of ‘maintence and cleaning’. But, when exactly did a bulldozer ever clean up a site? Instead, what they are doing is…
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A Day in the life
26 January 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, Al-Khalil team| Hebron, occupied Palestine Al-Khalil is unique from other villages, towns, and cities in the West Bank. Illegal Zionist colonial settlements are situated right in the center of the Old City. Whereas, elsewhere the illegal settlements are outside of the Palestinian towns and cities. This makes life…
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Israeli forces harass 3 children in Occupied Hebron, arresting 1
25th January 2017 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine At 8:30 pm on January 24th, two young Palestinian boys–14 and 12 years old–were stopped in the streets of the old city of Hebron by six Israeli soldiers, who were armed with assault rifles. They accused the boys of throwing stones. The soldiers…
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Violent raid on family home – Israeli forces keep family locked up
22nd January 2017 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine Israeli Forces raided a Palestinian family home on Thursday night in the Jabari-neighborhood near the illegal Kiryat Arba settlement in occupied al-Khalil (Hebron). A group of approximately 50 heavily-armed Israeli forces, accompanied by a dog, surrounded the house at 1am and woke up the…
