Journals

The Palestinian village of Kafr Qaddum is located 13 kilometres west of Nablus and has a population of roughly 4300 citizens. Eleven thousand dunams of the village’s land (roughly 52% of the total area) are part of area C, under ...

This is a diary kept by two UK-based volunteers with the ISM, Willow and Kevin, during some of their recent trip to Palestine. Day 1 – Colonial violence In the few days since arriving in Palestine we have already been ...

In Episode Ten of our podcast we speak to Jaber from the village of Khallet al-Daba’, in Masafer Yatta, in the South Hebron Hills. The Israeli supreme court has ordered the destruction of several villages in Masafer Yatta, and the ...

By ISM volunteer D. N. When I arrived in Jenin, on Tuesday July 4th, the city was a battlefield, the streets were destroyed and burnt, tear gas canisters and bullets lay on the ground, the air was filled with smoke, ...

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, ...

  December 31 | International Solidarity Movement | Olive Harvest journal  The olive harvest in Palestine (October – November) represents much more than simply picking olives. While it is an important contributor for the income of thousands of families in ...

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 ...

  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, ...

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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?