Tag: Settlement

  • Assira, surrounded on all sides

    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…

  • Children: marvelous examples that life must go on whatever happens

    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…

  • Not business as usual: colonial settlers in al-Khalil for Jewish festival

    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…