Gazan journalist speaks with Alaa Nizar Hamdan’s wife and family the day after he was shot and killed by Israeli forces in the Great March of Return in Gaza.
Read More »On the 71st week of the Great March of Return, the world forgets while Gazans remember
August 25, 2019 | International Solidarity Movement | Gaza, occupied Palestine Eleven consecutive weeks of protests in Hong Kong have captured the focus of online commentators, heads of state, and global media. In France, 39 weeks of protests by the ...
Read More »Inheriting resistance in the South Hebron Hills: “I am my father’s daughter, if he can do this, so can I… and more”
August 6 | International Solidarity Movement | South Hebron Hills, occupied Palestine “My life is occupation … all the time you have to be ready for the bad, and the most bad you can imagine,” Sameeha Huraini tells me, as ...
Read More »Education under occupation
August 11 | International Solidarity Movement | Hebron, occupied Palestine Whilst continuing my work with ISM this year, I spent four weeks working at the Hebron/al-Khalil office of Defence for Children International focussing on the way that the occupation has ...
Read More »A personal account of detention, racism and broken rules
May 8, 2019 | International Solidarity Movement, Al-Khalil team | Al-Khalil (Hebron), occupied Palestine The neighborhood of Salaymeh next to Salaymeh checkpoint (160) has been the center of tensions between Palestinians and the Israelis in the city of Al-Khalil (Hebron). ...
Read More »Settlers call the shots in Al-Khalil
February, 2019 | International Solidarity Movement, Al-Khalil team | Ramallah, occupied Palestine Last week, a notoriously violent and antagonistic Israeli settler Ofer, who calls for the extermination of Palestinians, had me arrested and detained by the Israeli police, and if ...
Read More »On beauty in Al-Khalil
February 2019 | International Solidarity Movement, Al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine I have spent about 30 days in Al-Khalil this year. A short stay by ISM standards, and nothing compared to the tens of thousands of people who call ...
Read More »Anat Cohen steals international observer’s notebook
February 17, 2019 | International Solidarity Movement, Al-Khalil team | Al-Khalil, occupied Palestine Anat Cohen (ענת כהן), daughter of the convicted Israeli terrorist Moshe Zar, attacked another international who was observing schoolchildren on their commute to the Qurtuba school this ...
Read More »Another interesting week in sunny Palestine
January 2019 | International Solidarity Movement, Al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine Al Khalil (Hebron), occupied West Bank, Palestine, late January 2019 It’s the first day of winter term for Palestinian schoolkids. Israeli settlers from the colonies in and around ...
Read More »Anat Cohen assaults ISM volunteers in Al-Khalil (again)
February 08, 2019 | International Solidarity Movement, Al-Khalil team | Al-Khalil, occupied Palestine ISM volunteers were detained by Hebron Police for over 8 hours after Anat Cohen assaulted them outside the Qurtuba school checkpoint on Thursday. In direct response to ...
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