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Jamal, steadfastness and a death

Jamal

21st March 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Ni’lin, occupied Palestine Jamal is younger than I am but he doesn’t look it. He is always there, as are all the storekeepers in the souk and he always greets ...

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Checkpoint harassment – everyday ‘normality’?

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17th March 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine Occupied al-Khalil (Hebron) is a city of far too many checkpoints. Operated by heavily armed Israeli forces, they create obstacles that  all Palestinians must cross in order ...

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An email from Rachel Corrie to her parents

Rachel Corrie

16th March 2016 | Rachel Corrie Foundation | Gaza, occupied Palestine February 27 2003 (To her mother) Love you. Really miss you. I have bad nightmares about tanks and bulldozers outside our house and you and me inside. Sometimes the adrenaline ...

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Rani Burnat from Bil’in

Rani Burnat

15th March 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Bil’in, occupied Palestine Rani Burnat is an extraordinary human being in more ways than one. He was left paralysed from an injury sustained during the second intifada, learned to live ...

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Everyday humiliation of Israeli military occupation

Israeli soldiers and the flying checkpoint outside the village

6th of December 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine Palestinians living in the Israeli militarily occupied West Bank face discrimination, racism and humiliation at the hands of Israeli forces on an everyday basis. Humiliation is entrenched ...

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Gaza: between rebellion and sacrifice

The body of Ahmed Al Sarhi, killed by snipers of the zionist occupation forces on October 20, 2015, Al Bureij, Gaza Strip (Photo credit: Ashraf Amra)

22nd October 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Valeria Cortés | Gaza Strip, occupied Palestine How much hopelessness, suffering, unpunished abuse, how much spilled blood can the human heart take before bursting? “All I possess in the presence of the death ...

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Dheisheh Refugee camp: One family’s story

Village Zakariyya, evacuated violently during the Nakba, circa 1926.

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 ...

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