Category: Journals

  • The story of Sima – Female Political Prisoner

    Sima is a 35 year old Palestinian woman who was released approximately four months ago following two and a half years in an underground Israeli jail. She has four young children who were left without any parents during her stay in prison, as the Israeli army had assassinated her husband a little while prior to…

  • Epilogue: Get Out and Stay Out

    By Katie This is the “and Stay Out” part. Friday morning I left Ramallah for Egypt to see Jonas in Sinai and to give him some of his stuff. I road a bus from Jerusalem to Eilat and was going to cross the border from Eilat, Israel into Taba, Egypt. I gave Jonas a ballpark…

  • Jenin: Army Harrasment on the Streets of Jenin Camp

    A Ordinary Afternoon in Jenin Refugee Camp, 9th August 2007. It is 5.00 pm at the Jenin Governement hospital when the first rumours are spread that the IOF is once again on its way to Mukhaiyem Jenin, the Jenin Refugee Camp. Ambulance drivers jump in their cars, make their self ready for what usually happens…

  • Tel Rumeida: Detention and Harassment for Children on Camp Trip

    Occupation-Style Field Trip

  • Jerusalem: ICAHD Continues to Rebuild!

    July 17th, 2007. The below report was written by Summer Camp participant: P.R. The decision was made. We as the summer camp now officially have two houses to reconstruct. We all woke up this morning with a day of brick setting and cement pouring ahead of us. Some of us woke to the sound of…