Category: Features
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Remembering Ziad Abu Ein
13th December 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, Huarra team | occupied Palestine Ziad Abu Ein- 22-11-1959/10-12-2014 On December 9th,2016, hundreds of people gathered in the small village of Turmas Ayya, north of Ramallah, to commemorate the death of Ziad Abu Ein, a high profile Palestinian politician, Minister and Fatah leader, who died after inhaling…
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After a good day comes a bad day
8th December 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine On 7th December 2016, Israeli forces at Shuhada checkpoint in occupied al-Khalil (Hebron) detained a group of teachers from nearby Qurtuba school, and then in collective punishment closed the checkpoint to everyone. Just after the teachers were finally allowed to reach their…
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Join now: ISM-Training in England!
6th December 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, England support group | England ISM-England is offering a training for interested ISM-volunteers in Sheffield on 18th and 19th of February ! If you’re interested in joining the team on the ground in Palestine, make sure to reserve the date and join the training. Any volunteer is required…
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Umm al-Hiran, a village off the maps
2nd December 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, Hebron/al-Khalil team | occupied Palestine Umm al-Hiran is a Bedouin village in the Negev desert in southern Israel. The village is surrounded by open landscape, the only structures in sight line. About a fifteen minute drive away is a small city called Hura, where the children from the village…
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Assira, surrounded on all sides
Assira al Quiblya is a West Bank village up on a hill between Huwwara and Nablus. But unfortunately, it is not sufficiently uphill enough to be free and safe from the Yitzhar settlement. This settlement, one of the most active in assaults, makes life more and more difficult for the Palestinian inhabitants. For many years…
