In the fourth episode of the International Solidarity Movement podcast we speak to Hafez Hurreini, a veteran organiser from the village of At-Tuwani. Hafez is the father of Sami, who we interviewed in episode three. When we did our interview, ...
Read More »The International Solidarity Movement podcast episode three: Steadfastness – Youth Resistance in Palestine
In this third episode of the ISM podcast our guest is Sami Hurreini, who is a really inspiring youth organiser from At-Tuwani in the South Hebron Hills. He’s part of a group called Youth of Sumud. Sumud is an Arabic ...
Read More »Attacks and disruption in Al-Khalil as settlers celebrate Sarah’s Day
December 29 | International Solidarity Movement | Al-Khalil Around 30,000 settlers gathered in Al- Khalil (Hebron) on Saturday, November 19, to celebrate Sarah’s Sabbath and wreaked havoc in the Old City market, attacking Palestinians and their shops, houses and destroying ...
Read More »Families Not Firing Zones: Defiance in Masafer Yatta
16 October | International Solidarity Movement | Masafer Yatta For the last 42 years the Israeli occupation forces have been slowly but surely grinding the region of Masafer Yatta into dust. Now, in 2022, the various injunctions, petitions, ...
Read More »Urgent Call out for Volunteers – Palestinians reject the ‘deal of the century’
At a time of heightened aggression against Palestinians by Israeli occupation forces suppressing “Deal of the Century” protests across the West Bank the International Solidarity Movement is issuing an urgent call out for volunteers. What is the ‘Deal of ...
Read More »About the legitimisation of the Palestinian oppression in Al Khalil (Hebron)
Personal reflections of a ISM activist about the settlers' violence and its related impunity in Al Khalil, West Bank. To which extent these people are allowed by the Israeli soldiers to transform a Palestinian city into their own amusement-park?
Read More »Waiting at a checkpoint
An ISM activist writes about her experiences volunteering in Hebron (Al Khalil) during Netanyahu's visit to the city.
Read More »Telling old stories in a new way: Palestinian dabke
At the first annual Hebron Festival, an event organized by the Hebron Municipality to celebrate the culture and history of Palestinians in Hebron, students from across the West Bank put on a theatrical performance, telling of life and history in Palestine through a play combined with music and dabke.
Read More »Al Shoroq: The activist farmers resisting Israeli annexation in Beit Ummar
August 20 | International Solidarity Movement | Beit Ummar, Occupied Palestine Beit Ummar is an agricultural town and farming community just north of Hebron, with a populace of about 17,000. Al Shoroq, a Palestinian led group comprised of ...
Read More »Education under occupation
August 11 | International Solidarity Movement | Hebron, occupied Palestine Whilst continuing my work with ISM this year, I spent four weeks working at the Hebron/al-Khalil office of Defence for Children International focussing on the way that the occupation has ...
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