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Banksy and the Walled Off Hotel: a personal view
13th March 2017 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine Over the last weeks there has been a lot of noise about Banksy (a street artist from the UK, now darling of the art world) and his new hotel in Bethlehem. Initially the vast majority of news articles seemed to glow with praise for this new project. However I quickly found myself uncomfortable with the language that the project uses in its narrative. And other…
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A new generation learns to ‘shoot’ the occupation
Human Rights Defenders have started a new project to protect the human rights of the children who have to live and study in the middle of the occupation and ghettoisation which is the centre of Hebron. Last Sunday, 5th March, the first of four schools, Qurtuba School, had training in how to use video cameras as a tool to resist the attacks and harassment they regularly face from settlers and Israeli forces. Three other schools will…
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Step by step Israeli forces limit access to Ibrahimi mosque area
7th March 2017 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine Israeli forces on Monday night installed more concrete blocks near Queitun checkpoint in occupied al-Khalil (Hebron) further restricting Palestinian freedom of movement. Israeli forces put a new line of cement blocks several meters away from Shuhada checkpoint, entirely blocking the access to the checkpoint for cars, only allowing Palestinians on foot to approach the checkpoint. This even further impedes the freedom of movement…
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