Tag: Ethnic Cleansing

  • No matter who wins the US Presidential election, Palestine has already lost

    No matter who wins the US Presidential election, Palestine has already lost

    3rd October 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine One week ago, the United States and much of the world turned on their televisions to tune into the 2016 Presidential debate.  Advertised as the most anticipated debate in a generation, millions watched as Democrat Hillary Clinton sparred off against Republican Donald…

  • The slow creep of ethnic cleansing – closed military zone in Hebron

    The slow creep of ethnic cleansing – closed military zone in Hebron

    30th September 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine Israeli forces in occupied al-Khalil (Hebron) have further expanded the closed military zone (CMZ), now covering the whole Tel Rumeida neighborhood, while setting up new and enforcing existing checkpoints with increased restrictions. Parts of the Tel Rumeida neighborhood and the tiny strip of Shuhada…

  • Remembering Muhammad al-Durrah and the stolen dreams of Palestine

    Remembering Muhammad al-Durrah and the stolen dreams of Palestine

    29th September 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Gaza, occupied Palestine Mere days ago, on the 22nd of September, the city of occupied al-Khalil (Hebron) remembered and mourned the murder of 18 year old Hadeel al-Hashlamoun, another Palestinian youth executed in cold blood by Israeli forces outside the Shuhada Street checkpoint one year…

  • Reduced to a number – robbing Palestinians of their humanity

    25th September 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine Palestinians in the closed military zone in occupied al-Khalil (Hebron) are reduced to a mere number. Imagine ‘loosing’ your identity to a foreign occupying army not only taking your land, but attempting to take your personality, your identity, your whole existence; reducing…

  • World Week of Peace 2016

    World Week of Peace 2016

    24th September 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Bethlehem, occupied Palestine Fire. That seemed to be the theme yesterday as we celebrated World Week for Peace in Bethlehem. Fire, when tear gas canisters erupted into flames in the Aida refugee camp, showing the continued violence. Fire, as we lit candles in the shape…