Tag: Ramallah
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It’s International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, but Israel still lays claim to the longest occupation of our time
30 November 2018 | International Solidarity Movement, Ramallah team | Ramallah, occupied Palestine November 29 marks the 71st anniversary that the UN General Assembly adopted Resolution 181 in 1947, which later became known as “International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.” Leaders in Ramallah called on the UN to recognize that resolution, during a…
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“I just want him to be a normal boy again’: Gaza family appeal for urgent help to support treatment of 11 year old Mahmoud who was shot in the face by an Israeli sniper
Mahmoud Sawalhi is an 11 year-old boy from Gaza who was shot in the head and the shoulder with live ammunition by an Israeli sniper on the 14th May Great Return March protests. A bullet passed through his eye and out of the top of his head, and he lost both his eye and…
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Protestors in Ramallah honor Razan Al Najjer, young medic executed by Israeli forces in Gaza
3rd June, 2018 | International Solidarity Movement, Ramallah team | Ramallah, occupied Palestine Yesterday at midday, hundreds of protestors marched through the streets of Ramallah to mourn the execution of Razan Al Najjer, the 21-year-old medic who was executed by Israeli forces in Gaza on Friday. Members of the Palestinian Medical Relief Society from across…
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Many injured in Beit El protest on 15th May in commemoration of the Nakba
Palestinians marched from Arafat square in Ramallah at 11am this morning 15th May to the DCO checkpoint near the illegal settlement of Beit El to confront Israeli forces. At around 12PM there were over 1000 protestors. Israeli forces fired excessive amounts of rubber coated steel bullets, tear gas, sponge tipped batons and reportedly also used…
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“We witnessed at least 40 Palestinians dropping to the ground from tear gas inhalation”
On Monday the 14th of May at 11am, thousands of Palestinians gathered in Arafat Square in Ramallah and proceeded to march to Qalandiya checkpoint to confront Israeli forces. The US embassy was officially moved to Jerusalem on this same day. Palestinians held signs and placards to assert their right of return and in remembrance of…
