Tag: Checkpoint
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Photo Story: A checkpoint in Hebron
14th January 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine Checkpoints are numerous and inescapable in the H2 area of al-Khalil (Hebron), where thousands of soldiers guard around 600 Israeli zionist settlers occupying heavily militarised settlement enclaves in the heart of the most populous Palestinian city in the West Bank. The Israeli military imposes…
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VIDEO: No donkeys allowed
17th December 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine Mohammad Saleh, a sixty-six-year-old Palestinian resident of Tel Rumeida, al-Khalil (Hebron), waited with his mule outside Shuhada checkpoint for nine hours over the course of two days. He spent four hours waiting before being allowed through on Monday (15/12/14) evening. He then spent five…
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Injured and forced to walk
27th August 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine It was a warm Saturday night in late August in al-Khalil (Hebron). For the Palestinian children school was starting the next day, and a feeling of anticipation and excitement for a new year of learning floated over the hot Palestinian night. A group of…