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On Fridays 6th, people in Deir Istya protested against a new outpost that was built three months ago close to the village. After the prayer almost 70 protesters, among them members of the local Popular Resistance Committee, residents from the surrounding villages, ISM internationals and Israeli activists…
By. Diana Khwaelid Tulkarm â 5-10-2023 A rapid military operation carried out by the Israeli occupation forces in Tulkarem camp at dawn today, around 5 a.m. Dozens of Israeli military vehicles stormed Tulkarem camp in the centre of the city, in the northern West Bank. Strong confrontations and clashes…
Wadi Siq is a Bedouin community East of Ramallah, under threat of forced displacement. Some families have already been chased away. The combined pressure from the Occupation authorities and the fanatical settlers has been increasing dramatically in recent months. Four nearby communities â Ein Samiya…
On August 10th, three israeli soldiers harassed Abud Huraini, a palestinian teenager from the village At-Tuwani, in the region of Masafer Yatta in the South Hebron Hills, while he was brining out his flock of goats to graze. The three soldiers arrived by jeep from the illegal israeli settlement of Maâon…
By. Diana khwaelid for ISM Palestinian activists marked the third consecutive anniversary of the revival of national events to resist the occupation of the lands of Beit Dajan â east of Nablus. At noon on Friday-2-9-2023, Palestinians set off to participate in the weekly march from the village of Beit…
Solidarity visit to the Nur Shams camp, following the deaths of Abdulrahman Abu Daghash and Oseed Farhan Abu Ali, killed by indiscriminate Israeli Occupation Forces shooting during the raid on Sunday 24th September. Itâs hot, itâs the third day of mourning. There is a constant flow of visitors in…
Photos and text by Diana Khwaelid for ISM 20 days after the storming and the recent massacre in Nur Shams refugee camp (in Tulkarem), the Israeli occupation launched a military campaign into the camp again. On the night of Saturday, 24-9-2023, at 12:00 AM, dozens of Israeli military vehicles, two bulldozers…
Six Palestinian martyrs in one day â 19 Septemeber 2023 Jenin â 20-9-2023 By Diana Khwaelid An Israeli Special Force unit stormed the Jenin camp in the northern West Bank on Tuesday evening, 19-9-2023, around 20:30 to besiege a Palestinian house. Palestinian fighters were inside the house, which…
On Friday 15th of September the people of Qaryut â a village between Nablus and Ramallah â held a demonstration reasserting their rights over the village spring. The village is close to the illegal settlements of Eli and Shilo, and every Friday settlers come to wash in the spring. This is a clear…
The Palestinian village of Kafr Qaddum is located 13 kilometres west of Nablus and has a population of roughly 4300 citizens. Eleven thousand dunams of the villageâs land (roughly 52% of the total area) are part of area C, under full control of the Israeli Occupation Forces. Saqerobeed, the former…
Photos and text by Diana khwaelid for ISM Residents of Tulkarm â and in particular the Nur Shams refugee camp â woke up to a sad morning on Tuesday 5th September, Destroyed buildings in Nur Shams Dozens of military vehicles, troop carriers, and three Caterpillar D9 military bulldozers accompanied…
As the olive harvest season approaches (starting in October until mid/late November), the International Solidarity Movement is calling all activists and supporters to join us on the ground in Palestine. While this is a period when Palestinian families get together in the field and celebrate harvesting…
Archbishop Atallah Hanna in front of the separation wall, Jerusalem. Via MEE/Micheala Whitton On Wednesday, August 23, ISM volunteers met with Archbishop of Sebastia, Atallah Hanna, to discuss solidarity with the Palestinian struggle and the conditions of Palestinian Christians under the occupation…
The family of Maher Al-Akhras, who is on hunger strike in Israeli prison. Credit: Diana Khwaelid âI will go on a hunger strike until I get freedom or martyrdom.â This is what the prisoner Maher Al-Akhras (52), from the village of Hajjah, Jenin district, said after the Israeli occupation forces raided…
This is a diary kept by two UK-based volunteers with the ISM, Willow and Kevin, during some of their recent trip to Palestine. Day 1 â Colonial violence In the few days since arriving in Palestine we have already been repeatedly reminded of the extent of the violence which is perpetrated on a daily…
Following the killing of an israeli settler in Hebron on Monday 14 August, there has been an increase in the threat and use of violence by Israeli settlers in Masafer Yatta. On Tuesday, three settlers from the illegal Israeli outpost of Avat Maâon arrived in the village of Tuba with their flock, and…
Mohammed Zendiq at the hostpital. Credit: Mohammedâs family On Monday July 24, 16 year old Mohammed Zendiq lost his leg during the invasion of Nur Shams refugee camp, near Tulkarem, by the Israeli Occupation Forces. In the 4 hour long invasion, the IOF accompanied by a military bulldozer caused serious…
In Episode Ten of our podcast we speak to Jabba from the village of Khallet al-Dabaâ, in Masafer Yatta, in the South Hebron Hills. The Israeli supreme court has ordered the destruction of several villages in Masafer Yatta, and the occupation wants to destroy Khallet al-Dabaâ first. The residents…
In this episode Tom and Hazel speak to Sireen Khudairy, who is a resident of Dheisheh refugee camp in Bethlehem. For many years, Dheisheh has been a centre of determined resistance against the occupation. We spoke to Sireen in December 2022. And she told us about life and resistance in Dheisheh, and…
In this episode, Nicole and Tom interview Dr. Ghassan Hamdan of the Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS). PMRS is a grassroots NGO thatâs provided a much-needed response to the medical crises caused by the occupation. PMRSâ workers, like other Palestinian medical workers, are constantly targeted…
Mohammed Fouad Atta Bayyedâ sister standing next to a banner of her late brother On Friday 23rd July, Israeli occupation forces fatally shot Mohammed Fouad Atta Bayyed, 17, at a demonstration in Um Safa, a village north of Ramallah which, for the past few months, has been marked by increased settler…
Israeli army attack protestors at Friday demo On Friday, August 4, a peaceful demonstration was violently attacked by the Israeli army around the West Bank village of Deir Istyia, Salfit governorate. About 30 Palestinians from Deir Istiya, including women, the elderly and children were on their way to…
By ISM volunteer D. N. When I arrived in Jenin, on Tuesday July 4th, the city was a battlefield, the streets were destroyed and burnt, tear gas canisters and bullets lay on the ground, the air was filled with smoke, the sound of live bullets, the screams of young men. The residents were in a state of…
6/9/2023 Nabi Salah, Occupied Palestine, In the Aftermath of the Killing of infant Mohammad Tamimi the occupying forces invaded the sleeping village of Nabi Saleh again early Friday morning and aressted Wissam Tamimi, who had just turned seventeen, and twenty-two-year-old Mohammed Fadel Tamimi, from…
