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Photo Story: Friday Prayer at Ibrahimi Mosque- Running the Gauntlet

22nd July 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | al-Khalil, occupied Palestine Every Friday, many Palestinian Muslims come to Ibrahimi Mosque for prayers. To get to their place of worship, and home afterwards, they must run a gauntlet of Israeli military checkpoints. The Israeli Border Police invest their time and effort into making this a difficult and challenging experience for people whose only purpose in coming is to worship God. Palestinian Muslim worshipers coming from…

July 24, 2016

Deir Qaddis resists ongoing theft of village land

20th July 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, Al-Quds team | Deir Qaddis, occupied Palestine On the morning of July 14th, Israeli excavators arrived on Majid Mahmoud’s farmland in Deir Qaddis to begin work on an illegal expansion of a wastewater facility for the nearby illegal settlement of Nili. Construction vehicles and Occupation forces were met by about fifty Palestinians from Deir Qaddis and nearby Nil’in in protest of the theft and destruction of village land, who…

July 21, 2016

Petition to free Shadi Farah

20th July 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, East Jerusalem | East Jerusalem, occupied Palestine ISM encourages everyone to copy and paste the letter below and send it to your Members of Parliament, Congresspeople, and other political representatives. To support Shadi and his family financially during this very difficult time, please see: https://palsolidarity.org/donate/ Dear Sir/Madame: I am writing to urge you to act and condemn the violations on children’s rights that are being enforced by the Israeli government…

July 20, 2016