Tag: Ethnic Cleansing
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Surviving in Gaza’s caravan houses
27th May | Miguel Hernández | Gaza, Occupied Palestine The family El Najjar was expelled during the Nakba from the Palestinian village of Salamah. This village was the subject of a total ethnic cleansing by the Zionist colonizers. Nowadays just ten houses remain from the almost 2000 that formed the village. In its place today we can…
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Jerusalem Day: Palestinians met with extreme violence
On Sunday 17th May 2015, I witnessed some of the most violent and painfully blatant acts of Apartheid since my time in Palestine. I went to Al Quds for the annual ´Jerusalem Day´, to document the racist chants, commonly known to occur. ‘Jerusalem Day’, or ‘Yom Yerushalayim’ is a zionist celebration of the 6 day…
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Day of Rage: commemorating Nakba day in Ni’lin
15th May 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Al Khalil Team | Ni’lin, Occupied Palestine On Friday 15th May 2015, hundreds of Palestinians from all over the West Bank traveled to Ni’lin for a mass protest commemorating the 1948 Nakba (‘catastrophe’). The local villagers were joined by a large amount of other Palestinian protesters, as well as Israeli and international solidarity…