Category: Journals
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Saturdays under the settlements
25th June 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine Saturday is supposed to be a holy day for the Jewish settlers of the illegal colonies in the West Bank; many don’t work, they don’t turn on electrical appliances, they don’t drive cars. But some of the violent and Zionist among them…
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Witness to a child arrest in occupied Hebron
24th June 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil Team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine Since coming to the West Bank I had heard a lot about the Israeli army detaining and arresting children. Despite this, the first time I saw it myself, I was amazed. Amazed that people – young soldiers – could intimidate, harass and…
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Settler harassment in Tel Rumeida
15th June 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Saeeda | Hebron, Occupied Palestine I am an ISM activist living in the occupied city of Hebron. I arrived home late in the evening of Friday, June 14, and outside my door some of the neighborhood kids had built a small fire and were cooking corn. They tried…
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A word of caution from settlers to internationals in Hebron
11th June 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil Team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine On the evening of Thursday, 6 June 2013, a fellow activist and I were walking home from an innocent venture to get a refrigerator door in the Prayers’ Road area of the H2 area of Hebron. My companion saw out of the…
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Palestinian farmer wounded by Israeli army fire
7th June 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Rosa Schiano | Gaza, Occupied Palestine Sunday morning a young Palestinian farmer was wounded by Israeli army fire in an area called Abu Safiyeh, East of Jabalia, in the Northern Gaza Strip. The young man, Ahmad Hamdan, 21, was rushed to the hospital Kamal Odwan. We went to…
