3rd February 2017 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine No one can describe this feeling, when occupation did what it does best: humiliate, harass, humiliate. There is no words to say, today, I was treated like ...
Read More »The checkpoint regime: Israel and the fragmentation of Palestinian society
31st January 2017 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine There are 17 permanent checkpoints in the H2 area under full Israeli military control in occupied al-Khalil (Hebron), manned by Israeli forces and impeding Palestinian freedom of ...
Read More »A Day in the life
26 January 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, Al-Khalil team| Hebron, occupied Palestine Al-Khalil is unique from other villages, towns, and cities in the West Bank. Illegal Zionist colonial settlements are situated right in the center of the Old City. Whereas, ...
Read More »Photos of soldiers: crime or joy?
23rd January 2017 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine As an international, taking photos of the Israeli occupation soldiers is either considered wrong and harmful or a joy. Harmful…harmful to what exactly? The continuous illegal occupation? ...
Read More »Remembering Tom Hurndall
16th January 2017 | International Solidarity Movement, ISM Australia | Gaza, occupied Palestine It’s 13 years since Tom Hurndall, a British activist with ISM, was shot in the head while trying to carry a small boy away from a conflict ...
Read More »Israeli Forces escorting Israeli colonial settlers through Palestinian neighbourhood
14th January 2017 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine On the 14th of January, 2017, some 120 Israeli colonial settlers were escorted through the Old City by approximately 50 Israeli soldiers and Border Police, in occupied ...
Read More »Newborn baby – a security-threat?
14th January 2017 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine Imagine coming to a checkpoint, manned by a relentless occupying army, on your way home from hospital, holding your new baby who is less than a month old. ...
Read More »Staring down the barrel of a gun
14th January 2017 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine According to the theory of realism within the field of international relations, conflict and war is the outcome of an actual threat (a material/military threat). That is, ...
Read More »New checkpoints, access control-buildings and street-signs in the historical center of Hebron
6th December 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine As for colonial Israel, nothing happens without a reason. Periods of extreme violence are followed by relative calm periods with more intense colonial construction activities and preparations ...
Read More »Assira, surrounded on all sides
Assira al Quiblya is a West Bank village up on a hill between Huwwara and Nablus. But unfortunately, it is not sufficiently uphill enough to be free and safe from the Yitzhar settlement. This settlement, one of the most active ...
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