Category: Journals
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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…
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Ali Jiddah – an alternative tour guide
6th April 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, Ramallah Team | Jerusalem, Occupied Palestine Ali greets us international activists with a certain kind of warmth that those who are foreign to the middle east (or Palestine in this case) may have never experienced or have been accustomed to in our home countries. We have all learned very quickly to appreciate the…
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A night of protective presence needed
3rd April 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | al-Khalil, occupied Palestine The two boys met us at the store, shouting the name of our Palestinian contact and waving us along. The cobbled stones in the alley made a nice contrast to the darkness of the night. My feet landed softly on the mud…
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Laila: an unexpected entrepreneur and feminist
23rd March 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied West Bank I’ve wanted to find out more about Laila since I met her on my first day here. She is the only woman storekeeper in the souk and she has a bed and breakfast here. One evening I saw her standing up…
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Jamal, steadfastness and a death
21st March 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Ni’lin, occupied Palestine Jamal is younger than I am but he doesn’t look it. He is always there, as are all the storekeepers in the souk and he always greets us, as does nearly everybody (walking down the souk when it is open can be…
