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“I just want him to be a normal boy again’: Gaza family appeal for urgent help to support treatment of 11 year old Mahmoud who was shot in the face by an Israeli sniper
Mahmoud Sawalhi is an 11 year-old boy from Gaza who was shot in the head and the shoulder with live ammunition by an Israeli sniper on the 14th May Great Return March protests. A bullet passed through his eye and out of the top of his head, and he lost both his eye and…
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‘The camera is our peaceful weapon’: In conversation with the youngest activists in Hebron
Translated by Badee Dueik and interpreted for written article by ISM members Abdullah and Saleh live with their families in the Tel Rumeida area of occupied Hebron, under Israeli control. They are both twelve, and have been best friends for around four years. They are the youngest members of Human Rights Defenders (HRD), a collective…
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Summer of Return 2018
This is a call for all those who believe in justice, equality and freedom to come to Palestine and support the Palestinian struggle for liberation. The International Solidarity Movement is looking for volunteers from now until the end of August to join the Summer of Return campaign. Volunteers will assist actions across Palestine that raise…
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Call on Israel’s parliament to oppose the bill criminalizing the documentation of soldiers
Israel’s parliament is to consider a law banning the photographing or filming of soldiers. The proposed legislation is entitled the “Prohibition against photographing and documenting IDF Soldiers”. “Anyone who filmed, photographed, and/or recorded soldiers in the course of their duties, with the intention of undermining the spirit of IDF soldiers and residents of Israel, shall…
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‘Why Ahed slapped the soldier’: an interview with Bassem Tamimi
12th June 2018 | Mondoweiss | Nabi Saleh, occupied Palestine This interview with Bassem Tamimi was recorded on May 4, 2018 in the occupied village of Nabi Saleh, by International Solidarity Movement activists. His daughter Ahed Tamimi, 17, is serving an eight-month prison sentence for slapping an Israeli soldier on the family’s property on December 15…
