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 ...
Read More »Control and ID-check of Palestinians
23th August 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine As a Palestinian you have to have your ID on you at all times, otherwise you may get detained or arrested. In Palestine they have 3 different ...
Read More »Security or humiliation?
20th August 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine People queuing up in lines at the checkpoint, a father with his wife, two toddlers and a baby in the arms. Trying to pass. A soldier yells ...
Read More »“It’s not very quiet there” – the invasion of Al Fawwar refugee camp
Tuesday morning at 8:30 we received a call from Badee Dwaik, one of the co-ordinators of Human Rights Defenders, a Palestinian human rights group, about the unfolding situation in Al Fawwar refugee camp. Around 2:00 that morning, hundreds of Israeli ...
Read More »Israeli Border Police question Palestinian children
10th August 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine What started and should have ended a few hours ago as a scuffle between two boys ended up with a Israeli Border Police action that once again demonstrated ...
Read More »Israeli military destroys six homes in Umm Khaeyr
9th August 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil team | Umm Khaeyr village, occupied Palestine On the morning of August 9, 2016, ten Israeli military jeeps each filled with five soldiers, arrived in the village of Umm Khaeyr. It was ...
Read More »Settler Harassment and Water Shortages in Beit Ummar
8 August 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil team | Beit Ummar, occupied Palestine Settler Harassment Ealier today we visited Abdullah Braigheith, a 54 year old farmer, who with his family are facing the risk of getting their agricultural water tank demolished, ...
Read More »Denied permission to go to the mosque to pray
13th July 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | al-Khalil, occupied Palestine During one of our walks today, we came across a sight that very unfortunately is all too common in this city. A group of men and women ...
Read More »The impossibility to know – navigating the (psychological) siege of Hebron
8th July 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine Israeli forces during the last week of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan have increased and stepped up restrictions for Palestinians in occupied al-Khalil (Hebron). Thus they ...
Read More »Celebrating Israeli Independence day from the other side of apartheid fence
13th May 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, Verena, Al Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine Leaving the meeting I was searching for a safe way to go through the old City of Hebron alone, where there was a celebration of ”Israeli Independence ...
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