Tag: Al Khalil
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Ethnic Cleansing and Apartheid During Ramadan
Ramadan is the holiest month for Muslims. It holds a deep spiritual, religious and communal meaning within Islam, including for most Palestinians. However, the Israeli occupation, the escalation of violence from colonial settlers, and the context of attacks by the United States and Israel against Iran, has significantly affected this observance in the occupied Palestinian…
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Visual diary: a day in occupied Al Khalil
Friday, 26 December, 2025 Good evening from Al Khalil! It’s a really beautiful city, and has been suffering severely from the combination of colonization and lack of tourism post-Oct 7. Shop doors welded shut by the occupation to prevent Palestinians from making a living in the Old City, with layers of graffiti revealing resistance and…
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A Matriarch’s Memory
The West Bank city of Al-Khalil, known as Hebron in Hebrew, is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world- and one of the most painfully divided. It is a place where the word occupation stops being abstract. Above the ancient stone of the Old City, new concrete rises: Israeli settlements built directly…
