Category: Journals
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Another segment of the journey
22nd September | Caoimhe Butterly | Serbian and Croatian border A few kilometres away from the small Serbian border town of Sid, a dirt track through corn and turnip fields serves as passage to tens of thousands of women, men and children seeking refuge and lives of more possibility. The unofficial border crossing between Serbia and Croatia…
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Settler violence escalates in the vicinity of Kiryat Arba illegal settlement
19th September 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Al-Khalil Team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine The children of the Jabari family in Jabari neighbourhood of al-Khalil are singing along to a Palestinian children’s television show. It is a sunny Saturday morning but in the small living area, six tiny children sit with their mothers who explain to…
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Additional restrictions for Palestinians during Jewish holidays
16th September 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Al-Khalil Team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine On Monday and Tuesday was the Jewish holiday of Rosh Ha’Shannah, the Jewish New Year. In al-Khalil (Hebron), Israeli forces have taken this occassion to make the already tough every-day life of Palestinians in this segregated and oppressed city even more…
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The women in Hebron cooperative
13th September 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Al-Khalil Team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine International Solidarity Movement human rights monitors spend the afternoon at the Women in Hebron embroidery cooperative where Palestinian women are empowering themselves and persisting with grace in a colourful and beautiful way in a community space amidst the horror of the ongoing…
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Testimony of Khuzaa’s massacre
8th September 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Team | Khuzaa, Gaza Strip, Occupied Palestine One year after Israel’s attacks in the Gaza Strip, the massacre in Khuzaa is vividly remembered by one of its inhabitants. Dr Mohammed Qudaih lived with his family in Khuzaa, in the southern Gaza Strip, less than a kilometre away…
