Tag: Jerusalem
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A Dozen Weeks of Restriction: Muslim Worshipers Blocked from Al-Aqsa Mosque
29 December 2023 | International Solidarity Movement | East Jerusalem On Friday, December 29th, streets surrounding the Al Aqsa Mosque compound were filled with the sight of Muslim worshipers prostrate in prayer. Arbitrary access restrictions by occupation forces were amplified through the erecting of barricades to the Old City, allowing only some elders…
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Settler Mob Ambushes Armenian Quarter
They came covered in black and wearing ski masks. Thirty extremist ideological settlers, armed with clubs and tear gas, invaded the Armenian Quarter’s ‘Cow’s Garden’ (Goveroun Bardez) in the Old City and attacked members of the Armenian community.
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Impending Famine, Infectious Disease and Starvation. It is Christmas in Palestine.
Gaza / Occupied West Bank 12/24/2023 Hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children in Gaza are at risk of famine and preventable death from disease as the world’s observant retreat into family and faith to mark the birth of another Palestinian child. In a lightless, treeless Bethlehem, haunting displays capture the specter of a…