• Reflections from an Irish Activist in Palestine (Part 1/3)

    The following is not an attempt at a comprehensive analysis of the current situation in the Occupied Territories of Palestine. Instead, it is a reflection on the past few weeks I have spent with the International Solidarity Movement in the city of Hebron and its environs and what brought me here in the first place. It is completely subjective and deliberately intended to be so. I am a firm believer that the shortest distance between a…

  • Jayyus Village Demonstrate Against Theft of Land, Life, and Culture

    Jayyus, September 8th On Saturday, the 8th of September, 50 villagers from Jayyus and the surrounding area met together with an equal number of Israeli and international activists to demonstrate non-violently against the Apartheid Wall. They gathered at one of the gates in the wall which local farmers have to go through to reach their land. Only those farmers lucky enough to have permits are allowed to reach their land, and as demonstrators learned later from…

  • Needless House Occupation During Daytime Incursion

    Nablus, September 8th On the Saturday the 8th of September the Israeli army invaded the home of the Abu Shhab family in Nablus. Twenty soldiers and four vehicles arrived at the house at 15:00 and threw all the inhabitants outside. When humanitarian and medical workers arrived they were not allowed in the vicinity of the house. An army jeep repeatedly rammed the ambulance when it arrived on the scene. A soldier was heard to say; “do…

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