Photos and text by Diana Khwaelid for ISM Residents of Tulkarm – and in particular the Nur Shams refugee camp – woke up to a sad morning on Tuesday 5th of September. Dozens of military vehicles, troop carriers, and three ...
Read More »The International Solidarity Movement podcast episode one: An introduction to ISM
In this first episode of the International Solidarity Movement podcast, we interview Abdel Karim – who has been with the movement since the early 2000s. The ISM is a grassroots Palestinian-led organisation, with principles of non-violence , non-hierarchy, and anti ...
Read More »The funeral and death of the Palestinian martyr, Mohammed El Habili
Mohammed El Hibali was gunned down by the Israeli Occupation Forces in Tulkarem. The 22 year old mentally ill man was shot in the head and leg. He was rushed to the hospital and pronounced dead on arrival. The funeral ...
Read More »63-year-old widow lives in an isolated home facing a checkpoint
January 4th 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Tulkarem Team | Jubara, occupied Palestine In the outskirts of the village of Jubara, bordering the Jubara checkpoint, sits the home of 63-year-old, Shawqiye Hamaide, Umm Yousef. Mother of two daughters and grandmother ...
Read More »In Tulkarem, students afraid to go to university after two months of violence
December 2nd, 2015 | International Solidarity Movement with Meta Peace Team, Tulkarem team | Tulkarem, occupied Palestine Palestine Tech University (PTU) in Tulkarem has now been closed for two days, for unknown reasons. The school has been witnessing many clashes between ...
Read More »Action alert: Help free Ammar!
7th November 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Huwara Team | Tulkarem, occupied Palestine Updated on November 18th Yesterday we went to Tulkarem and finally met Ammar, together with his friend Warda. We had a long conversation, where Ammar told us how ...
Read More »Photo story: Palestinians march in Tulkarem to defend their right of return
31th May 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus team | Tulkarem, Occupied Palestine On the morning of the 31st of May, several buses filled with Palestinian and international activists from across the West Bank gathered in Tulkarem to march towards the ...
Read More »Protest against Israeli chemical factories in Tulkarem
5th November 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus Team | Tulkarem, Occupied Palestine On the 4th of November, associations, officials and activists protested against the chemical factories that sicken the population of Tulkarem. The construction of Israeli factories on Palestinian ...
Read More »Photo essay: March through Nablus and Tulkarem commemorates the Nakba
13th May 2013 | International Solidarity Movement | Nablus and Tulkarem, Occupied Palestine By Team Nablus Today, at around 8am, over thirty people from the Palestinian General Union of People with Disability marched through the city of Nablus to commemorate ...
Read More »Army Invades three Tulkarem towns
30 April 2012 | IMEMC Israeli soldiers invaded on Sunday the towns of Dir al-Ghsoun, Bal’a and Shewika, near the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem, installed several roadblocks and inspected the ID cards of dozens of residents. Israeli soldiers ...
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