Category: Journals
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I’m sorry we never knew each other
29th October 2016 | International Solidarity Movement | Hebron, occupied Palestine This is a the personal thoughts of an ISMer, remembering the execution of Hummam Adnan al-Saeed and Islam Rafiq Hammad Ibeido, on 27th and 28th October 2015. Israeli forces gunned down the two Palestinian men right in front of the ISM-apartment. The only thing…
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Settlers attack boy’s school, Israeli army traps students
26th October 2016 | ISM & IWPS | Urif, occupied Palestine Last Tuesday both the IWPS team and ISM team were harvesting olives in separate areas when we received a phone call telling us that there had been trouble with settlers from the illegal settlement Yitzhar and Israeli occupation forces near the high school for…
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Remembering Hummam, Remembering Islam: Reflections on genocide, one year on.
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 F6″ Today marks one year since the murder of a young man outside the ISM…
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Kafr Qaddum: Peaceful people under violent occupation
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 of Nablus. In 1974 Israel began to illegally erect settlements in the nearby Keddumin area.…
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Occupation through the eyes of a child: the way to school
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 everywhere, blocking the roadblock and the gate. You have to squeeze past the jeeps on…
