Tag: Israeli Army
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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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Collective Punishment for Deir Istiya village
6th January 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus team | Deir Istiya, Occupied Palestine On 29th December, Israeli military barricaded the village of Deir Istiya, Salfit with a roadblock. This type of roadblock, termed an ‘earth mound’, is a pile of rubble and earth dropped over the road to obstruct access. It prevents access from the…
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Palestinian family’s agricultural building demolished by Israeli forces in Hebron
6th January 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine On Monday morning in al-Khalil (Hebron), Israeli forces destroyed the building the Jaabari family used to house their farm animals. They appeared at 9:00 AM, armed with a bulldozer which tore up the ground and reduced the sturdy structure, used to house seventy sheep and thirty calves,…
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VIDEO: Israeli soldiers close key checkpoint in Hebron
31st December | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine At approximately 14:30 yesterday afternoon, ISM activists approaching Checkpoint 56 from both directions found that it was closed and Palestinians were stuck on either side. Israeli soldiers gave conflicting excuses for closing the checkpoint, none of which were supported by any apparent evidence. On the H2 (Israeli controlled) side…
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Journalist most recent victim of Israeli military violence at Kufr Qaddum
9th December 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus team | Kufr Qaddum, Occupied Palestine Bashar, a journalist from Palestine TV, was shot in the left leg at Kufr Qaddum on Friday the 5th of December 2014. The weekly demonstration aims to highlight the issue of the road that has been closed to Kafr Qaddum and…
