Wadi Siq is a Bedouin community East of Ramallah, under threat of forced displacement. Some families have already been chased away. The combined pressure from the Occupation authorities and the fanatical settlers has been increasing dramatically in recent months. Four ...
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An ISM diary, July-August 2023
This is a diary kept by two UK-based volunteers with the ISM, Willow and Kevin, during some of their recent trip to Palestine. Day 1 – Colonial violence In the few days since arriving in Palestine we have already been ...
Read More »Israeli army violently represses peaceful Friday demonstration
On Friday, August 4, a peaceful demonstration was violently attacked by the Israeli army around the West Bank village of Deir Istyia, Salfit governorate. About 30 Palestinians from Deir Istiya, including women, the elderly and children were on their way ...
Read More »Silwan Bustan Neighbourhood Under Increased Threat
Silwan’s Bustan neighbourhood situation has worsened of late and is now even more urgent. Report By Jahalin Solidarity Silwan, Bustan neighborhood, Occupied East Jerusalem JUNE 6, 2023 1. The most recent meeting with the Mayor, and Adv. Ziad Qawar’s letter ...
Read More »The International Solidarity Movement podcast episode five: ISM Volunteer Experiences on the Frontlines
In the fifth episode of the International Solidarity Movement podcast we are joined in the village of At-Tuwani by two ISM volunteers – Herbie and Maria – who both spent several months volunteering as internationalists in Palestine. They tell us ...
Read More »The International Solidarity Movement podcast episode one: An introduction to ISM
In this first episode of the International Solidarity Movement podcast, we interview Abdel Karim – who has been with the movement since the early 2000s. The ISM is a grassroots Palestinian-led organisation, with principles of non-violence , non-hierarchy, and anti ...
Read More »The International Solidarity Movement podcast episode two: Surviving settler violence in Masafer Yatta
In episode two of our podcast we speak to Gassim Hamad Tahan from the village of Mufagara, in Masafer Yatta, in the South Hebron Hills. Gassim told us how the experience he had growing up is different to those of ...
Read More »The International Solidarity Movement podcast episode three: Steadfastness – Youth Resistance in Palestine
In this third episode of the ISM podcast our guest is Sami Hurreini, who is a really inspiring youth organiser from At-Tuwani in the South Hebron Hills. He’s part of a group called Youth of Sumud. Sumud is an Arabic ...
Read More »IOF destroys Isfey al Fauqa school for second time in one month
On 6th December Israeli occupation forces (IOF) confiscated two tents, which were being used as a school in Isfey al Fauqa, a village situated within the region of Masafer Yatta in the South Hebron Hills. Israeli forces – with tear ...
Read More »Families Not Firing Zones: Defiance in Masafer Yatta
16 October | International Solidarity Movement | Masafer Yatta For the last 42 years the Israeli occupation forces have been slowly but surely grinding the region of Masafer Yatta into dust. Now, in 2022, the various injunctions, petitions, ...
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