Tag: Israeli Army
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5 Palestinians shot in Kafr Qaddum
12th June 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Al Khalil Team | Al Khalil, Occupied Palestine At Kafr Qaddum’s weekly demonstration yesterday, 12th June 2015, Israeli occupation forces invaded the village hours before the protest was set to start. Five Palestinians were shot with live ammunition. Two were shot in the leg, one was shot in the arm and two were shot in the…
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UN spurns Palestinian children
8th June 2015 | Hemaya Center for Human Rights | Gaza, Occupied Palestine FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE UN spurns Palestinian children Ban Ki-moon’s decision not to include Israel on the list of violators of children’s rights twists the knife in the heart of every Palestinian parent, making it very clear that in the eyes…
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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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Another violent attack on Palestinian family
23rd May 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Al Khalil Team | Al Khalil, Occupied Palestine On the 23rd May, settlers in Al Khalil (Hebron) blocked the entrance to Hashem Younes Azzeh’s house and attacked his family. Large rocks were thrown at them and his daughter was hit in the hand. Hashem lives with his wife and four children in…
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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…