Journals

August 31st 2018 | Kristin Foss, International Solidarity Movement | Ramallah I woke up feeling sad today. I’m just so sad. I’m crying now, I started crying in the supermarket, I cried a little when a farmer refused my money for grapes. ...

13th August 2018 | Kristin Foss, International Solidarity Movement | Northern Jordan Valley I lost my flight.. On purpose.. I was pretty sure I would though, when I left for Palestine. To be honest, I don’t think its gonne make it easier to ...

26th July 2018 | Steve Dhiman, International Solidarity Movement | Khan al-Ahmar, occupied Palestine An ISM volunteer describes his experience of being arrested and almost deported by Israeli forces   On Wednesday, the 4th of July, I began training with ...

  Mahmoud Sawalhi is an 11 year-old boy from Gaza who was shot in the head and the shoulder with live ammunition by an Israeli sniper on the 14th May Great Return March protests. A bullet passed through his eye ...

4th June 2018 | International Solidarity Movement, Al-Khalil Team | Hebron, occupied Palestine Nisreen Azzeh’s house sits high up on a hill in the Tel Rumeida area of the occupied city of Hebron (al-Khalil is the Arabic name of the ...

Every Saturday, Zionist settler tours take place in the narrow alleys of the souq in Al Khalil’s (Hebron). These guided tours usually last for about an hour, and settlers are always accompanied by armed Israeli forces, intimidating local Palestinians who ...

18th March 2018 | International Solidarity Movement, al Khalil team | Occupied Palestine Two years ago Dima al-Wawi woke up for school feeling sick. Her throat hurt and her lymph nodes were swollen. Her parents were already out of the ...

28th December 2017 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | al-Khalil, Hebron, occupied Palestine The South Hebron Hills is one of the battle zones against the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. This area stretches along the southern border of the West ...

19th December 2017 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | al-Khalil, occupied Palestine Most of us are plenty used to absent minded scrolling our Facebook feeds. After all you can find just about anything you want and not have to ...

11th November 2017 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Um al-Khair, Occupied Palestine Last month in northern Palestine brought stories of Israeli settlers from the illegal Yitzhar settlement that, however horrifying, all suffered an important shortcoming: the scope of the ...