Category: Features

  • Non-violent protest in Ni’lin again met with collective punishment against whole village

    Non-violent protest in Ni’lin again met with collective punishment against whole village

    12th April 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Ni’lin, occupied Palestine On Friday, the 8th of April 2016, the villagers of Ni’lin nonviolently demonstrated against Israeli apartheid politics, the theft of the villagers land through the building of the apartheid wall and illegal settlements, and the increasing collective punishment of the village of…

  • Press release: Last day of demolition order leaves Palestinian family in Wadi al-Joz in fear of losing their home

    Press release: Last day of demolition order leaves Palestinian family in Wadi al-Joz in fear of losing their home

    10th April 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil Team | Jerusalem, occupied Palestine The 10th of April is the last day of the demolition order on the home of the Totanji family. The family lives in the Sawaneh district in Wadi al-Joz, a village in East Jerusalem near the Old City, which Israel has declared…

  • Tree Planting and Protest in Beit al-Baraka

    Tree Planting and Protest in Beit al-Baraka

    10th April 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil Team | Hebron, occupied Palestine Trees were planted and a demonstration took place today at Beit al-Baraka today to protest the extension of the illegal Gush Etzion settlement bloc.   An international presence had been requested by the organisers so two ISM volunteers headed to Beit Ummar to…

  • Bil’in protesters keep fighting after more than a decade of friday demoes

    Bil’in protesters keep fighting after more than a decade of friday demoes

    9th April 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, Al-Khalil Team | Bil’in, occupied Palestine   The weekly protest took place in Bil’in on Friday April 8th, as it has done every Friday for over a decade. Around 35 protesters, a mix of multi nationals and Palestinians, took part. Very soon after the peaceful march started, the…

  • IOF Military Training Exercises in the Jordan Valley

    IOF Military Training Exercises in the Jordan Valley

    4th April 2016|International Solidarity Movement | Al-Khalil Team, occupied Palestine In the north of the Jordan Valley, and adjacent to the town of Tubass, are three agricultural communities: Yarza (with 4 families), Ibzk (13 families) and Samre (11 families). These families have existed on this land for hundreds of years, and some were born in…