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A night of protective presence needed

Emad in his family home

3rd April 2016 |  International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team  |  al-Khalil, occupied Palestine The two boys met us at the store, shouting the name of our Palestinian contact and waving us along. The cobbled stones in the alley made a ...

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Laila: an unexpected entrepreneur and feminist

Laila

23rd March 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied West Bank I’ve wanted to find out more about Laila since I met her on my first day here. She is the only woman storekeeper in the souk ...

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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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