• Impending Famine, Infectious Disease and Starvation.   It is Christmas in Palestine.

    Impending Famine, Infectious Disease and Starvation. It is Christmas in Palestine.

    Gaza / Occupied West Bank 12/24/2023      Hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children in Gaza are at risk of famine and preventable death from disease as the world’s observant retreat into family and faith to mark the birth of another Palestinian child.  In a lightless, treeless Bethlehem, haunting displays capture the specter of a…

  • More White Roses

    More White Roses

    Tears come easily. Today I watched and listened to a hundred Jewish Israelis outside the U.S. embassy affirm that “grief has no borders,” as they collectively mourned those murdered in Gaza.

  • Palestinians Demand to Rescind the “State of Emergency in Prisons”

    Palestinians Demand to Rescind the “State of Emergency in Prisons”

    19 December 2023 | International Solidarity Movement | Ramallah   This morning, ISM volunteers joined with the relatives, friends and supporters of Palestinian detainees at a rally in Ramallah, one of many held across the Occupied West Bank, demanding to immediately rescind  the “state of emergency in prisons”, introduced by the Israeli authorities in the…

  • Tulkarm Bids Farewell to 5 Palestinians Killed in an Israeli Military Operation.

    Tulkarm Bids Farewell to 5 Palestinians Killed in an Israeli Military Operation.

    18 December 2023 | International Solidarity Movement | Nour Shams refugee camp By Diana Khwaelid  An Israeli military operation lasted for more than 10 hours in the Nour Shams  refugee camp. Destruction of infrastructure       Dozens of military vehicles stormed the city of Tulkarem on the evening of Sunday, December 16, as they targeted the…

  • Jenin: The Other Gaza

    Jenin: The Other Gaza

    17 December 2023 | International Solidarity Movement | Jenin On Wednesday, December 13, I received a message from a fellow actress of the Freedom Theatre informing me that the occupation forces had arrested without charge Mustafa Sheta, theatre director and general manager, Ahmed Tobasi, artistic director, as well as Jamal Abu Joas, acting coach. The…