Category: Features
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Targeting of children and civilians in Ni’lin
19th March 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Ni’lin, occupied Palestine On 18th March 2016, Palestinian villagers of Ni’lin protested against the Israeli land-theft and illegal settlements and the continuous violence Israeli forces use to stifle the weekly non-violent protests. Villagers commemorated Rachel Corrie, an American activist killed by Israeli forces in Gaza,…
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Checkpoint harassment – everyday ‘normality’?
17th March 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine Occupied al-Khalil (Hebron) is a city of far too many checkpoints. Operated by heavily armed Israeli forces, they create obstacles that all Palestinians must cross in order to go about their daily lives in al-Khalil: to go to school or work, to…
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An email from Rachel Corrie to her parents
16th March 2016 | Rachel Corrie Foundation | Gaza, occupied Palestine February 27 2003 (To her mother) Love you. Really miss you. I have bad nightmares about tanks and bulldozers outside our house and you and me inside. Sometimes the adrenaline acts as an anesthetic for weeks and then in the evening or at night it…
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The 13th anniversary of Rachel Corrie’s death
15th March 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Gaza, occupied Palestine Today marks the thirteenth anniversary since the passing of fellow ISM activist Rachel Corrie (April 10, 1979 – March 16, 2003). Rachel was tragically crushed to death under the front blade of an Israeli military, American funded, Caterpillar D9R bulldozer near Rafah, in the…
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School shooting a near miss in Gaza
15th March 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Gaza, occupied Palestine On the 2nd of March at 2pm, Israeli occupation forces fired into Beit Dajan School, located in Shijaia, near the annexation wall. Bilal Abu Asser was giving a lesson to his students when a bullet passed just next to his head. “Suddenly I…
