Journals

27th October 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine   Acts of injustice done between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one. – W. H. Auden, from “The Ascent of ...

25th October 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine Last Friday I attended a demonstration in the small town of Kafr Qaddum, situated in the Northern region of the West Bank, just west of the city ...

24th October 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine Imagine being an eight-year old boy, walking to school, and as you come close, close to the roadblock you have to pass every day, army jeeps are ...

For generations, stones have played a significant role in both Palestinian society and within resistance movements. For this reason, it should be no surprise that the Israeli state has historically targeted the use of stones in a variety of ways, ...

24th October 2016 | Sarah Robinson | occupied Palestine On Monday, 17 October 2016, I was deported from Israel. This is my story. I left Johannesburg on Sunday evening, 16 October, and flew to Istanbul, Turkey. The check-in process was ...

23rd October 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine The events of Tuesday the 18th of October began to unravel as my friend and I accompanied school children through an Israeli checkpoint (Salaymeh) as they made ...

3rd October 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine Israeli forces put up a CCTV observation tower in the Ibrahimi mosque area, further increasing not only their all-encompassing surveillance of Palestinians, but also their slow but ...

3rd October 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine One week ago, the United States and much of the world turned on their televisions to tune into the 2016 Presidential debate.  Advertised as the most anticipated ...

25th September 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine Palestinians in the closed military zone in occupied al-Khalil (Hebron) are reduced to a mere number. Imagine ‘loosing’ your identity to a foreign occupying army not only ...

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 ...