• Ongoing Israeli incursion: Nour Shams Refugee Camp

    Ongoing Israeli incursion: Nour Shams Refugee Camp

    12/27/2023 Occupied West Bank By Diana Khwaelid A new Israeli incursion into the Nour Shams refugee camp northeast of the city of Tulkarm in the northern West Bank. Israeli incursion: Tuesday evening, December 26th the Israeli occupying forces stormed the Nour Shams camp in Tulkarm, accompanied by military vehicles, including D9 bulldozers, unmanned aerial vehicles,…

  • Nur Shams Refugee Camp – An Unbreakable Will

    Nur Shams Refugee Camp – An Unbreakable Will

    By Diana Khwaelid We witness an unbreakable will in the Nour Shams refugee camp, located north-east in the city of Tulkarem, despite being subjected to more than 10 incursions, killings, arrests, destruction of roads and other infrastructure, shelling, and burning of houses and shops. Storming the Nour Shams camp On the evening of Monday December…

  • 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…