Category: Journals
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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 day” going on. I wanted to reach my ISM team members who were already patrolling there.…
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Solidarity visit to Ni’lin: Killings, arrests and invasions as part of the everyday life
“There was a single Israeli army jeep that invaded the village late at night. This was very strange, as usually if the army come, they would come with 10 or more jeeps…“ This is what we were told when we visited Ni’ilin on Friday 6 May, referring to the start of the terrible Israeli incursion…
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Imad Abu Shamsiya: A lifetime of resistance
1st May 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil Team | Hebron, occupied Palestine On the morning of the 24th of March around 8:30 am two Palestinian youths, Ramzi Aziz al-Qasrawi, 21, and Abed al-Fattah Yusri al-Sharif, also 21, were shot to death by Israeli forces after an alleged stabbing attempt in the Palestinian neighbourhood of…
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Israeli Forces shoot at family harvesting crops on their land
2nd May 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza team | Gaza, occupied Palestine After more than six months risking their lives while ploughing, planting seeds and weeding their land, and after investing a large amount of money on seeds and on renting a tractor, the Qudaih family from the village of Khuzaa were finally ready to start harvesting their barley and…
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Sami Janazreh enters 46th day of hunger strike
17th April 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, Al-Khalil Team | Hebron, occupied Palestine Today volunteers from ISM attended a demonstration in Al-Khalil for Prisoners’ Day. Once the main demonstration had ended in the city a group of young Palestinians invited the volunteers to the Fawwar refugee camp outside the city. At the camp they were…
