International Solidarity Movement with IWPS | November 30, 2015 Deir Istyia, Occupied Palestine – Deir Istyia, in Salfit district, is a village of 4000 inhabitants who mostly live on agriculture. The Salfit district has 19 villages and 24 settlements. Land confiscation is ongoing in the area and many of the settlements are growing, as the […]
Hashem al-Azzeh harvests his family’s olives directly beneath the Israeli settlement of Tel Rumeida in the West Bank city of Hebron in October 2012. Ryan Rodrick BeilerActiveStills
International Solidarity Movement | February 9, 2015 Occupied Palestine – Kayla Mueller volunteered with the International Solidarity Movement from August to September of 2010. Kayla, sitting under a poster of Ashraf Abu Rahma from Bil’in. On 4 August 2013 Kayla, 26, originally from Prescott, Arizona, was working with Syrian refugees when she was kidnapped after leaving […]
International Solidarity Movement | November 2, 2014 Ramallah, Occupied Palestine – Today during a protest at Qalandia checkpoint, an Italian ISM volunteer was shot in the head with a rubber-coated steel bullet. The injury is just two centimetres above her left eye. Photo by IWPS Giulia, the ISMer, stated, “I was just standing on the side […]
International Solidarity Movement| July 19, 2014 Gaza, Occupied Palestine – Hospital staff and international activists, from the U.S., Sweden, and the UK, attempted to travel to the recently bombed el-Wafa hospital, in an attempt to retrieve salvageable medical supplies. When they arrived at the hospital it was, “still smoking from the attack this morning.” Stated U.S. International […]
International Solidarity Movement | July 6, 2014 Shu’afat, Occupied Palestine – On the 4th July 2014, at least 2,000 Palestinian mourners gathered in Shu’afat for the funeral of Mohammed Abu Khdeir, who was kidnapped last week. His mutilated body was later found in a forest on the outskirts of Jerusalem. The autopsy indicates that he […]
International Solidarity Movement | July 6, 2014 Shu’afat, Occupied Palestine – On the 4th July 2014, at least 2,000 Palestinian mourners gathered in Shu’afat for the funeral of Mohammed Abu Khdeir, who was kidnapped last week. His mutilated body was later found in a forest on the outskirts of Jerusalem. The autopsy indicates that he […]
17-year-old Izz Adel Bedo, from Hebron was knocked off his bike and run over by a Israeli settler driving a bus on the way to the illegal Tel Rumeida settlement.
“What happened today is part of an ongoing campaign to intimidate the local population: Israeli forces harass children here in Hebron all the time”.
At approximately 7 am on April 23rd, Rami Rajabi, a six-year-old child, was 20 meters away from checkpoint 29 when he threw several pebbles in al-Khalil (Hebron). As Rami walked away towards his school, three Israeli soldiers burst out of an alleyway, grabbed his arm, and detained him in the street.
