Tag: Prisoner
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Portrait with Fire: Khader Adnan
24th October 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Anata, occupied Palestine “Some people think being jailed is a destiny. I say freedom is a destiny.” In Heather Christle’s stirring poem, Self Portrait with Fire, bending to conceal flaming legs, (s)he sets the grass on fire. On this day, sitting with Khader Adnan, Palestinian…
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Dheisheh Refugee camp: One family’s story
12th October 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine Sun streams through the bedroom window of Amira, an elderly woman in her mid 70’s who has spent a lion’s share of her life living inside Palestinian refugee camps. Amira, who cannot speak and is completely immobile in her bed, shifts her…
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Young Palestinian man held in metal box in al-Khalil
10th October 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine As a part of the recent surge in violence, there has been an escalation in random ID checks and detentions across occupied al-Khalil,(Hebron) In the full Israeli military controlled H-2 section of al-Khalil this afternoon, several young Palestinian men were detained, interrogated…
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The broken wheel of Israeli ‘justice.’ The case of Mahmoud Abujoad Frarjah
4th October 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Al-Khalil team | Gaza, occupied Palestine Sireen Frarjarh and her husband Mahmoud Abujoad Frarjah met eyes numerous times during this past Tuesday’s trial in an Ofer military court hearing. The trial was to determine if the young, newly married Palestinian man from the Deishah refugee camp in Bethlehem, would be…
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Israeli forces escalate restrictions and violence against Palestinians during Sukkot-holiday
2nd October 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, the 28th – 30th September 2015 is the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. In the occupied West Bank city of al-Khalil (Hebron), while Israeli settlers from the many illegal settlements within al-Khalil celebrate their holiday, Israeli forces have escalated…
