Journals

09 October 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank At one in the afternoon on Monday, the 8th of October, we received a call in Arabic: “We have big problems. Can you come?” Two calls later and we were on ...

September 25, 2012 Dear Friends of Palestine, I am writing to you from an apartment in Tel Aviv where I am under house arrest for standing in solidarity with Palestinians fighting a twelve-year road closure in their West Bank town ...

By Anna Conroy September 12, 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On the morning of September 10 in south west Hebron, at Checkpoint 56, a Palestinian man was shot with live ammunition by the Israeli military. Residents and army ...

By Anna September 12, 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On Friday 7th September myself and four other international activists attended the weekly demonstration against the apartheid wall in the village of Ni’lin. Since 2004 the villagers of Ni’lin ...

By Abu Sarah 31 August 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank “I can’t sleep. As soon as I close my eyes, I see settlers everywhere.”, says Amer the six years old son of my friend. Omar leaves his mattress and ...

By Markus Fitzgerald 21 July 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Saturday evening, around 6pm, a group of illegal Israeli settlers move through the Old City of Palestinian Al Khalil (Hebron). They are both surrounded and fortified by Israeli ...

by Sunny 5 May 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank A group of approximately 10 to 15 soldiers displayed their ineptitude in dealing with a group of rowdy settler children, roughly between the ages of 8 to 14, who ...

by Nathan Stuckey 23 April 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Today we went farming with the family of Ahmed Saadat.  We arrived in Khuzaa at about 7 AM and met Ahmed. He told us that the Israeli’s had already ...

by Nathan Stuckey 18 April 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza April 17th is Palestinain Prisoners Day.  All over Palestine demonstrations were held in solidarity with the approximately 5,000 prisoners still held in the occupations jails.  Bait Hanoun was no ...

by Nathan Stuckey 11 April 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza One year ago Vittorio Arrigoni was murdered.  Since coming to Gaza, Vik, as everyone knew him, had been a regular at Beit Hanoun’s weekly demonstrations against the no go ...