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Imad Abu Shamsiya: A lifetime of resistance

1st May 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil Team | Hebron, occupied Palestine On the morning of the 24th of March around 8:30 am two Palestinian youths, Ramzi Aziz al-Qasrawi, 21, and Abed al-Fattah Yusri al-Sharif, also 21, were shot ...

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Sami Janazreh enters 46th day of hunger strike

Prisoner's day demonstration in occupied Hebron

17th April 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, Al-Khalil Team | Hebron, occupied Palestine Today volunteers from ISM attended a demonstration in Al-Khalil for Prisoners’ Day. Once the main demonstration had ended in the city a group of young Palestinians invited ...

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Ali Jiddah – an alternative tour guide

Ali

6th April 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, Ramallah Team | Jerusalem, Occupied Palestine Ali greets us international activists with a certain kind of warmth that those who are foreign to the middle east (or Palestine in this case) may have never experienced or have ...

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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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