Category: Journals
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An email from Rachel Corrie to her parents
16th March 2016 | Rachel Corrie Foundation | Gaza, occupied Palestine February 27 2003 (To her mother) Love you. Really miss you. I have bad nightmares about tanks and bulldozers outside our house and you and me inside. Sometimes the adrenaline acts as an anesthetic for weeks and then in the evening or at night it…
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A new ISM’ers personal experience on Bil’in and tear gas
15th March 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine Miguel and Kolla came this morning from the al-Khalil team (several years ago it feels) and we went to Bil’in as planned for my first demonstration. The easiest thing to do is simply to describe it: We waited a while for people…
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Rani Burnat from Bil’in
15th March 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Bil’in, occupied Palestine Rani Burnat is an extraordinary human being in more ways than one. He was left paralysed from an injury sustained during the second intifada, learned to live the remainder of his life in a wheelchair, fathered three children (triplets) and now continues…
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Young prisoner, Marah, is fighting medical negligence to get her high school diploma
|December 23rd 2015 | Hamza Abu Eltarabesh | Gaza, occupied Palestine Palestinian journalist from Gaza, born in 1991, studied journalism at the Islamic University of Gaza, and works as a freelance journalist for various local media outlets. Participated in covering the third aggression against Gaza, & basically writes in social and political issues. (According…
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Everyday humiliation of Israeli military occupation
6th of December 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine Palestinians living in the Israeli militarily occupied West Bank face discrimination, racism and humiliation at the hands of Israeli forces on an everyday basis. Humiliation is entrenched in every aspect of daily life under the Israeli occupation. The message is clear: as…
