8th July 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine Israeli forces during the last week of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan have increased and stepped up restrictions for Palestinians in occupied al-Khalil (Hebron). Thus they ...
Read More »Celebrating Israeli Independence day from the other side of apartheid fence
13th May 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, Verena, Al Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine Leaving the meeting I was searching for a safe way to go through the old City of Hebron alone, where there was a celebration of ”Israeli Independence ...
Read More »Solidarity visit to Ni’lin: Killings, arrests and invasions as part of the everyday life
“There was a single Israeli army jeep that invaded the village late at night. This was very strange, as usually if the army come, they would come with 10 or more jeeps…“ This is what we were told when we ...
Read More »Imad Abu Shamsiya: A lifetime of resistance
1st May 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil Team | Hebron, occupied Palestine On the morning of the 24th of March around 8:30 am two Palestinian youths, Ramzi Aziz al-Qasrawi, 21, and Abed al-Fattah Yusri al-Sharif, also 21, were shot ...
Read More »Israeli Forces shoot at family harvesting crops on their land
2nd May 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza team | Gaza, occupied Palestine After more than six months risking their lives while ploughing, planting seeds and weeding their land, and after investing a large amount of money on seeds and on renting a tractor, ...
Read More »Sami Janazreh enters 46th day of hunger strike
17th April 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, Al-Khalil Team | Hebron, occupied Palestine Today volunteers from ISM attended a demonstration in Al-Khalil for Prisoners’ Day. Once the main demonstration had ended in the city a group of young Palestinians invited ...
Read More »Ali Jiddah – an alternative tour guide
6th April 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, Ramallah Team | Jerusalem, Occupied Palestine Ali greets us international activists with a certain kind of warmth that those who are foreign to the middle east (or Palestine in this case) may have never experienced or have ...
Read More »A night of protective presence needed
3rd April 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | al-Khalil, occupied Palestine The two boys met us at the store, shouting the name of our Palestinian contact and waving us along. The cobbled stones in the alley made a ...
Read More »Laila: an unexpected entrepreneur and feminist
23rd March 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied West Bank I’ve wanted to find out more about Laila since I met her on my first day here. She is the only woman storekeeper in the souk ...
Read More »Jamal, steadfastness and a death
21st March 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Ni’lin, occupied Palestine Jamal is younger than I am but he doesn’t look it. He is always there, as are all the storekeepers in the souk and he always greets ...
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