6th September 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine Today was my first full day as an ISM’er in Al-Khalil (Hebron). A regular part of our work is to monitor Israeli checkpoints beside schools in the ...
Read More »Achieving education under occupation
31st August 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine The 28th of August 2016, a new school year in occupied Palestine has started after a 3-month summer holiday. In the occupied West Bank city of al-Khalil ...
Read More »School-children tear-gassed on 2nd day of school
29th August 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine On 29th August 2016 Israeli forces at Salaymeh checkpoint in occupied al-Khalil (Hebron), fired rounds of tear gas as school-children attempted to make their way home through ...
Read More »As Israel steps up its demolition programme the EU logo gets lost in the rubble
27th August 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Umm al-Kheir, south Hebron, occupied Palestine The villagers of Umm Al Khair look out at the remains of their EU-funded community center that now lies as rubble. Villagers tell of ...
Read More »Control and ID-check of Palestinians
23th August 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine As a Palestinian you have to have your ID on you at all times, otherwise you may get detained or arrested. In Palestine they have 3 different ...
Read More »Security or humiliation?
20th August 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine People queuing up in lines at the checkpoint, a father with his wife, two toddlers and a baby in the arms. Trying to pass. A soldier yells ...
Read More »“It’s not very quiet there” – the invasion of Al Fawwar refugee camp
Tuesday morning at 8:30 we received a call from Badee Dwaik, one of the co-ordinators of Human Rights Defenders, a Palestinian human rights group, about the unfolding situation in Al Fawwar refugee camp. Around 2:00 that morning, hundreds of Israeli ...
Read More »Settlers tour H1, Palestinian movement restricted in Bab E Zawiyeh
14th August 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine Surrounded by many Israeli Army and Border Police personnel, a group of several dozen Israeli settlers two days ago went on a tour of Bab E Zawiyeh, an area ...
Read More »Increased Israeli military harassment in Hebron
12th August 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine This Friday, like every other Friday, was a day that many Palestinian Muslims go to the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron to worship. It was also yet another day ...
Read More »Israeli Border Police question Palestinian children
10th August 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine What started and should have ended a few hours ago as a scuffle between two boys ended up with a Israeli Border Police action that once again demonstrated ...
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