Category: Hebron

  • Waiting at a checkpoint

    Waiting at a checkpoint

    An ISM activist writes about her experiences volunteering in Hebron (Al Khalil) during Netanyahu’s visit to the city.

  • Telling old stories in a new way: Palestinian dabke

    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.

  • Al Shoroq: The activist farmers resisting Israeli annexation in Beit Ummar

    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 local activists based in the region since 2013 founded by longstanding committee members, work with…

  • Education under occupation

    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 compromised the access to education in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza. It is…

  • Israeli settlers attack Palestinians and harass internationals, IOF arrest observers

    Israeli settlers attack Palestinians and harass internationals, IOF arrest observers

    August 11 | International Solidarity Movement | Hebron, occupied Palestine Yesterday in Tel Rumeida, the afternoon before Eid, settlers attacked an elderly Palestinian couple as they walked home. International activists in the area attempted to document the abuse. The soldiers were not protecting the Palestinians. They were allowing the actions of the violent settlers.  …