29th June 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Team | Gaza, Occupied Palestine
Today, the weekly concentration in solidarity with the Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails focused on the last victory of Khader Adnan.
Supporting Khader Adnan
Spokesmen from different factions and committees pointed to Khader Adnan as an example for all prisoners and all Palestinians for his steadfastness and patience. They celebrated that finally, his hunger strike got its reward.
“Khader Adnan is in danger”
All the people who demonstrated demanding his release, all the human rights activists, and all independent media were also thanked, as this victory wouldn’t have been possible without them. The spokesmen highlighted as well that they will keep fighting until the total liberation of the land and the release of all prisoners.
Spokesmen from different factions speaking on Khader AdnanWomen supporting Khader Adnan
Hussein Abu Naim, former prisoner and head of the Union of Prisoners, thanked Khader Adnan for adding a new victory to the cause.
A mural of Khader Adnan with the number 55, the number of days he was on hunger strike this time.
27th April 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Team Al Khalil | South Hebron Hills, Occupied Palestine
Located in the tip of the West Bank, the South Hebron Hills are dotted with farming and shepherd communities.
We are currently in the wheat harvest season and the children are spending their last few weeks at school before the holiday break.
But just like everywhere else in Palestine, the population is threatened by the Israeli occupation and the illegal settlements that overlook, menace and harm their daily lives.
“Existence is resistance”
At-Tuwani – village in the South Hebron Hills where an Italian organisation, Operation Dove, is located, helping provide international presence in the area.School children amusing themselves before taking the dangerous walk home.Israeli jeep accompanies the children on their walk to and from school. The path is squashed between a settlement and an outpost, which make the children at risk of settler attacks.Palestinians harvesting their land. They are at constant risk of being attacked by the illegal settler outpost overlooking them.Donkeys are a common way of getting around in the area.Nestled in the hills, about a 40 minute walk from At-Tuwani, lies the community of Tuba.Part of Tuba communityLike many other communities in the South Hebron Hills, people live inside caves.Inside one of the caves. Mattresses get spread around the floor in the evening to chat, share meals, watch tv and lay their heads.TV inside the cave. Electricity is powered by their wind turbine.The second to youngest of Tuba, posing in front of the pile of mattresses.Sheep running to their morning meal.Communal breakfast for the sheep of Tuba.The family’s breakfast – composed mainly of products that came from within a radius of 50 metres from their home. Bread from their wheat, eggs from their chickens, cheese and butter from their goats.Hiding away from the view of settlers and soldiers, men and women harvest their land.Bundles of wheat collected during the harvest season.Donkeys are used to carry the harvested crops.A goat is born.Sheep lined up reading for milking.
10th April 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus Team | Kafr Qaddum, Occupied Palestine
The Israeli military did not even wait for Kafr Qaddum’s Friday demonstration to start before firing at the crowd of demonstrators today. Before prayers had finished the Israeli military began firing at the demonstration with teargas, stun grenades and rubber-coated steel bullets. A 16-year-old child was hit in the head with a tear gas canister. He was taken to hospital with head injuries. International activists working with ISM have observed a pattern during recent Palestinian demonstrations of lethal violence starting at the beginning of the protest.
Israeli military bulldozer splattered with paint thrown by protesters
The Israeli military at this demonstration consisted of a mix of regular army and Border police. The military used two military bulldozers and a skunk truck to clear rubble and attempt to disperse the crowd. The protesters responded by disabling both bulldozers and skunk truck with bottles filled with paint throw at the windscreens of the vehicles.
Protesters defy the skunk truck
During the course of the demonstration Internationals witnessed a child of approximately 8 years old suffering from tear gas inhalation. Another 8 year old was wounded in his hand with a rubber-coated steel bullet.
The military moved into the village using .22 rifles and throwing stun grenades. The demonstration continued until the military withdrew.
Child hit by teargas canister taken away for medical treatment
21st March 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Ramallah Team | Nabi Saleh, Occupied Palestine
Israeli forces arrested three women in Nabi Saleh and injured several protesters, one with live ammunition, during the village’s weekly Friday protest on March 13.
The demonstration was met with the usual military violence as Israeli forces threw stun grenades and fired live ammunition at unarmed and peaceful protesters. After Friday prayers about forty Palestinian protesters together with international and Israeli activists marched down the main road towards the military tower and checkpoint at the entrance to the village, which Israeli forces had closed before the protest. Within less than five minutes the Israeli military fired the first of many rounds of tear gas canisters. The protesters continued regardless and were meet by a line of Israeli soldiers whose use of unnecessary physical violence and many stun grenades resulted in multiple injuries.
Israeli forces threw stun grenades at nonviolent demonstrators gathered in the streetThis young girl from Nabi Saleh faced an Israeli border policeman after being hit in the head in a confrontation with Israeli forces. Behind her illegal an illegal Israeli settlement occupied the hill beside Nabi Saleh.
Israeli forces threatened Nabi Saleh children, who walked down the road nearer to the closed gate. One young girl was hit with a rifle in the stomach and the head; she went to the hospital for treatment. Two Palestinian women – Bushra Tamimi and Shireen al-Araj – and Israeli activist Tali Shapiro were arrested and dragged away by Israeli forces.
Girls from Nabi Saleh confronted heavily armed Israeli soldiersIsraeli forces pursuing the children in Nabi SalehIsraeli forces arrested protesters after they sat down across the street
The violence escalated near the end of the protest; Israeli forces used live .22 caliber ammunition and shot a young Palestinian in the lower leg. The bullet missed the bone, and he will likely recover soon.
Israeli forces shot a young protester in Nabi Saleh in the leg with live ammunition.
The village of Nabi Saleh has been demonstrating against the theft of its natural spring by the occupation since 2009. Israeli authorities have violently suppressed the weekly Friday protests since their inception – in the last few months alone, several villagers have been shot in the leg with live ammunition. Since the actions began, two people have been killed in the village – Mustafa Tamimi and Rushdi Tamimi; many others have been seriously injured. Despite the Israeli forces’ severe repression, the people of Nabi Saleh continue to fight against the brutal military occupation.
Israeli forces released Tali Shapiro on the night of March 13, and Shireen al-Araj the following day. Bushra Tamimi was released on the evening of March 15 after paying 2000 NIS bail.
