Tag: Settlement
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After a good day comes a bad day
8th December 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine On 7th December 2016, Israeli forces at Shuhada checkpoint in occupied al-Khalil (Hebron) detained a group of teachers from nearby Qurtuba school, and then in collective punishment closed the checkpoint to everyone. Just after the teachers were finally allowed to reach their…
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Assira, surrounded on all sides
Assira al Quiblya is a West Bank village up on a hill between Huwwara and Nablus. But unfortunately, it is not sufficiently uphill enough to be free and safe from the Yitzhar settlement. This settlement, one of the most active in assaults, makes life more and more difficult for the Palestinian inhabitants. For many years…
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Children: marvelous examples that life must go on whatever happens
29th November 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine Children: marvelous examples that life must go on whatever happens, even if their growing up is influenced by negative experiences with settlers, soldiers, torture, humiliations… We experienced this in the two days of the Jewish festival of “Chaye Sara” in occupied al-Khalil…
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Not business as usual: colonial settlers in al-Khalil for Jewish festival
27th November 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine The Jewish holiday/celebration of Chayei Sarah and the reading of the Torah regarding Sarah took place in occupied al-Khalil (Hebron) on 25th and 26th November 2016. Beginning of Friday hundreds of Jews from illegal colonial settlements within the West Bank as well…
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Israeli forces cause fires at Ni’lin weekly protest
25th November 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, Huwarra team | Ni’lin, occupied Palestine The non-violent demonstrations against the illegal occupation of Palestine and the Apartheid Wall in in the West Bank village of Ni’lin have been going on weekly since 2008, as an attempt to get back the land and the fields, that was stolen…
