Category: Journals
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2 realities
29st October 2018 | International Solidarity Movement, Ramallah Team | Gaza, occupied Palestine Last Friday, nearly fifty Israeli and ISM protestors demonstrated at the Gaza Border in solidarity with nearly 15,000 Gaza protestors heading toward the border. This action was in conjunction with the weekly Right of Return March. As the activists were confronted by…
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“I think that today, I’m just going to cry”: A journal entry by an ISM volunteer
August 31st 2018 | Kristin Foss, International Solidarity Movement | Ramallah I woke up feeling sad today. I’m just so sad. I’m crying now, I started crying in the supermarket, I cried a little when a farmer refused my money for grapes. I think that today, I’m just going to cry. Maybe I need it. Yesterday, I…
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Diary entry from an ISM volunteer. Northern Jordan Valley.
13th August 2018 | Kristin Foss, International Solidarity Movement | Northern Jordan Valley I lost my flight.. On purpose.. I was pretty sure I would though, when I left for Palestine. To be honest, I don’t think its gonne make it easier to leave later. The more I know, the more people I know – the more involved…
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Experiencing arrest in Khan al-Ahmar, threatened by demolition by Israeli forces
26th July 2018 | Steve Dhiman, International Solidarity Movement | Khan al-Ahmar, occupied Palestine An ISM volunteer describes his experience of being arrested and almost deported by Israeli forces On Wednesday, the 4th of July, I began training with the International Solidarity Movement, an organization where Palestinians and Israelis, Jewish people and Muslims work…
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“I just want him to be a normal boy again’: Gaza family appeal for urgent help to support treatment of 11 year old Mahmoud who was shot in the face by an Israeli sniper
Mahmoud Sawalhi is an 11 year-old boy from Gaza who was shot in the head and the shoulder with live ammunition by an Israeli sniper on the 14th May Great Return March protests. A bullet passed through his eye and out of the top of his head, and he lost both his eye and…
