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 ...
Read More »An ISM diary, July-August 2023
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 ...
Read More »International Solidarity Movement Podcast episode 10: Resisting demolitions in Khallet-Al-Daba’
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 ...
Read More »Invasion of Jenin Camp – A Photo Journal.
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, ...
Read More »The International Solidarity Movement podcast episode four: People’s Resistance in the South Hebron Hills
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 olive harvest: Struggle, resistance and oppression
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 ...
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 »Keep Palestinian-led activism alive during COVID-19
ISM's human rights activism faces an unprecedented challenge in the current COVID-19 pandemic, international travel bans and global economic down turn. We ask for your support to help us maintain our ongoing projects and keep our offices ready to resume on the ground international solidarity and action for Palestine when the virus is contained.
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 »