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Broken Promises – Doves and bullets fly during Kafr Qaddum Demonstration
March 01, 2019 | International Solidarity Movement, Al-Khalil team | Kafr Qaddum, occupied Palestine Peaceful weekly demonstrations have been happening in Kafr Qaddum since 2011, in response to the closure of a historical road by the Israeli Defense Forces in 2002. Kafr Qaddum has been denied access to this road for over almost two decades now, restricting their travel and commerce, and more insidiously, allowing further illegal settlements to expand all around them. This February, the…
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Prayers end with tear gas in Ras Karkar
March 8, 2019 | International Solidarity Movement, Al-Khalil team | Ras Karkar, occupied Palestine This Friday, the inhabitants of the villages around Mount al-Risan–where an outpost has been established by illegal settlers on Palestinian land–gathered for a day of peaceful protest and prayer. As soon as the religious ritual ended, the military ritual began. Before the villagers finished rolling-up their prayer mat, the Israeli military launched a large number of tear gas canisters upon the crowd.…
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Settlers call the shots in Al-Khalil
February, 2019 | International Solidarity Movement, Al-Khalil team | Ramallah, occupied Palestine Last week, a notoriously violent and antagonistic Israeli settler Ofer, who calls for the extermination of Palestinians, had me arrested and detained by the Israeli police, and if I was Palestinian, I could have been killed. Furthermore, this was another incident demonstrating the concerning and increasing trend of collaboration between settlers and the Israeli Occupation, as they attempt to force the remaining witnesses out…



