Category: Hebron

  • Nothing is simple in Palestine

    Nothing is simple in Palestine

    17th November 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Umm al-Kheir, occupied south Hebron Hills Almost nothing in Palestine is what you expect for the most part. And, this is so true of the negative things you see. No matter how bad you think things are or expect them to be, you are almost…

  • Palestinian woman arrested in Al-Khalil accused of carrying a knife

    Palestinian woman arrested in Al-Khalil accused of carrying a knife

    2nd November 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine A Palestinian female was arrested on the 1st of November near Qeitun checkpoint accused of carrying a knife. Eyewitnesses described her being ordered to kneel on the ground, open her dress and loosen her hijab in public, before being handcuffed and escorted…

  • Imprisoned life: the feeling of a ‘closed military zone’

    Imprisoned life: the feeling of a ‘closed military zone’

    30th October 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine ‘Closed military zone’ – a sterile term for an act of deliberate apartheid policies and dehumanisation with the clear and deliberate target of forcibly displacing Palestinian civilians: women, children, elderly, anyone that is Palestinian, from the Tel Rumeida and Shuhada Street neighborhood…

  • Imprisoned lives: closed military zone in occupied al-Khalil (Hebron)

    Imprisoned lives: closed military zone in occupied al-Khalil (Hebron)

    30th October 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine It’s like living in a prison. That’s how residents describe what Israeli forces are doing to their lives in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood and Shuhada Street in occupied al-Khalil (Hebron). The area was first declared a ‘closed military zone’ on 30th October 2015…

  • I’m sorry we never knew each other

    29th October 2016 | International Solidarity Movement | Hebron, occupied Palestine This is a the personal thoughts of an ISMer, remembering the execution of Hummam Adnan al-Saeed and Islam Rafiq Hammad Ibeido, on 27th and 28th October 2015. Israeli forces gunned down the two Palestinian men right in front of the ISM-apartment. The only thing…