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  23. <site xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">28159872</site> <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:keywords>Palestine,Israel,nonviolent,resistence,intifada,rache,corrie,corrie,tom,hurndall,hurndall,peace,west,bank,gaza,hebron,ramallah,jenin,nablus,tulkarem,jericho,jerusalem,arabic,hebrew,tel,aviv</itunes:keywords><itunes:summary>The International Solidarity Movement is a Palestinian-led nonviolent movement that opposes the ongoing Israeli occupation of the Palestinian people.</itunes:summary><itunes:subtitle>The International Solidarity Movement is a Palestinian-led nonviolent movement that opposes the ongoing Israeli occupation of the Palestinian people.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:category text="Politics"/><itunes:category text="International"/><itunes:author>ISM Palestine</itunes:author><itunes:owner><itunes:email>palestinesolidarity@gmail.com</itunes:email><itunes:name>ISM Palestine</itunes:name></itunes:owner><item>
  24. <title>Palestinian Family at Um Darit Harassed and Isolated</title>
  25. <link>https://palsolidarity.org/2024/04/palestinian-family-at-um-darit-harassed-and-isolated/</link>
  28. <pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2024 10:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
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  31. <category><![CDATA[illegal settler]]></category>
  32. <category><![CDATA[Masafer Yatta]]></category>
  33. <category><![CDATA[Settler violence]]></category>
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  37. <description><![CDATA[Acts of harassment and terror are a daily fact of life for residents of Masafer Yatta, a collection of rural hamlets at the southern end of the West Bank. One example is Mohammed Abed’s family in Um Darit, where they are surrounded by a rapidly expanding network of illegal settlements. After the Israeli escalation in ...]]></description>
  38. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Acts of harassment and terror are a daily fact of life for residents of Masafer Yatta, a collection of rural hamlets at the southern end of the West Bank. One example is Mohammed Abed’s family in Um Darit, where they are surrounded by a rapidly expanding network of illegal settlements.</p>
  39. <p>After the Israeli escalation in October, they have been driven from their home by armed vigilantes and returned to find it largely destroyed. They have had sheep stolen, a vehicle burnt, a washing machine, water lines, and access panel destroyed, sewage system ruined, windows broken, their house turned upside down, and a Qur’an burned. Male members of the family have been imprisoned and beaten, and repeated incursions and acts of vandalism and terrorism are the norm.</p>
  40. <p>Other acts of violence are more subtle: cars, shepherds, joggers, horseback riders, soldiers and armed settlers regularly traverse the closest roads and hills surrounding the house. As elsewhere, the closest settlements of Avigayil and newly established outposts establish themselves in high places and forbid Palestinians from setting foot in the hills and valleys leading to them (or other arbitrary boundaries). As a result, the majority of the family’s land is stolen, for the exclusive use of the State and the settlers.</p>
  41. <div id="attachment_60878" style="width: 1610px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-60878" class="size-full wp-image-60878" src="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/signal-2024-04-03-113828.jpeg" alt="Settler shepherd grazing on Abed's land" width="1600" height="1200" srcset="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/signal-2024-04-03-113828.jpeg 1600w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/signal-2024-04-03-113828-400x300.jpeg 400w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/signal-2024-04-03-113828-600x450.jpeg 600w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/signal-2024-04-03-113828-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/signal-2024-04-03-113828-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w" sizes="(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px" /><p id="caption-attachment-60878" class="wp-caption-text">Settler shepherd grazing on Abed&#8217;s land</p></div>
  42. <p>For example, this week a young settler on horseback came off the road attempting to parade through Abed’s yard, garden, and flock, startling the sheep. Solidarity activists on premises asked him what he was doing there and asked that he leave. The belligerent youth aggressively and repeatedly pushed his horse, attempting to force his way past the activists. After 5+ attempts, another settler arrived with a long gun, and menaced the family and activists. Abed states he recognizes the armed settler as one of those that wrecked his home. This settler has also been involved with many other acts of harassment against Palestinians and solidarity activists. After the family spoke loudly about calling the police, two of the three settlers left and a third stayed to graze his flock of sheep on the family’s plants. In following days, this shepherd returned daily, apparently preferring to graze his animals on Abed’s land and in the valley between Palestinians villages over the closer lush valley reserved for only settler use.</p>
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  46. <div id="attachment_60879" style="width: 621px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-60879" class="size-full wp-image-60879" src="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/signal-2024-04-03-113820.jpeg" alt="Armed settler guards settler on horseback in Abed's land" width="611" height="807" srcset="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/signal-2024-04-03-113820.jpeg 611w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/signal-2024-04-03-113820-303x400.jpeg 303w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/signal-2024-04-03-113820-454x600.jpeg 454w" sizes="(max-width: 611px) 100vw, 611px" /><p id="caption-attachment-60879" class="wp-caption-text">Armed settler guards settler on horseback in Abed&#8217;s land</p></div>
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  48. <p>These daily incursions affirm what Indigenous activists of Turtle Island (so called Americas) have said for years: colonization is a process, not an event. It appears in the everyday disrespect for Palestinians’ safety, life, land and religion, the increasing isolation of Um Darit from other Palestinians&#8217; villages, daily military and settler harassment, the bright flood lights from the settlement shining into the village. These constant assaults and affronts aim to displace and wear down the spirit of Abed&#8217;s family and others like them.</p>
  49. <p>And yet they continue, spending time as family, coloring together, raising cabbage and animals, extending amazing generosity to others, harvesting thyme and other herbs, and remaining steadfast in their commitment to resist through existence.</p>
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  56. <title>Occupation Forces Targeted Series of Strikes Kills 7 Aid Workers in Gaza</title>
  57. <link>https://palsolidarity.org/2024/04/occupation-forces-targeted-series-of-strikes-kills-7-aid-workers-in-gaza/</link>
  60. <pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2024 18:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
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  63. <category><![CDATA[Ethnic Cleansing]]></category>
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  65. <category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category>
  66. <category><![CDATA[Gaza Siege]]></category>
  67. <category><![CDATA[Global Actions]]></category>
  68. <category><![CDATA[International law]]></category>
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  72. <description><![CDATA[02 April 2024 &#124; International Solidarity Movement &#124; Deir al Balah, Gaza       Following the offloading of a desperately needed 100+ tons of humanitarian aid into a Deir al Balah aid storage warehouse, a seven-person, three-vehicle World Central Kitchen convoy was traveling a deconflicted coastal road when the first Israeli army targeted strike ...]]></description>
  73. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>02 April 2024 | International Solidarity Movement | Deir al Balah, Gaza</strong></p>
  74. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">      Following the offloading of a desperately needed 100+ tons of humanitarian aid into a Deir al Balah aid storage warehouse, a seven-person, three-vehicle <a href="https://wck.org/">World Central Kitchen</a> convoy was traveling a deconflicted coastal road when the first <a href="https://www.axios.com/2024/04/02/world-central-kitchen-strike-gaza-jose-andres">Israeli army targeted strike</a> hit one of their vehicles.  As the surviving injured desperately scrambled into the two other vehicles in the convoy, occupation forces fired again, and again until each of the three clearly marked aid transports were destroyed and all <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/02/world-central-kitchen-aid-workers-killed-gaza-victims/">seven foreign aid workers dead</a>.  </span></p>
  75. <div id="attachment_60869" style="width: 795px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-60869" class="size-full wp-image-60869" src="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-02-1.53.50-PM.png" alt="" width="785" height="439" srcset="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-02-1.53.50-PM.png 785w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-02-1.53.50-PM-400x224.png 400w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-02-1.53.50-PM-600x336.png 600w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-02-1.53.50-PM-768x429.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 785px) 100vw, 785px" /><p id="caption-attachment-60869" class="wp-caption-text">A Vehicle in the WCK Convoy attacked by IOF. Photo Source: Ali Jadallah/Anadolu via Getty Images</p></div>
  76. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">       News began flashing across global media as World Central Kitchen confirmed the occupation forces’ precision attack on their <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68711282">volunteer aid workers</a> of which included foreign nationals of the U.K.,Poland, Australia, a Canadian/American dual-citizen, as well as their Palestinian driver; 26 year old Seif Issam Abu Taha.  They had been coordinating all movements on the ground with Israeli occupation forces, including the movement of their convoy from Deir al Balah which was almost immediately pursued and horrifically attacked again and again by the IOF to ensure the destruction in-totality of all life inside the three vehicles.  </span></p>
  77. <div id="attachment_60870" style="width: 1210px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-60870" class="size-full wp-image-60870" src="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/434936717_818081040346834_6269580883574801587_n.jpg" alt="" width="1200" height="630" srcset="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/434936717_818081040346834_6269580883574801587_n.jpg 1200w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/434936717_818081040346834_6269580883574801587_n-400x210.jpg 400w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/434936717_818081040346834_6269580883574801587_n-600x315.jpg 600w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/434936717_818081040346834_6269580883574801587_n-768x403.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px" /><p id="caption-attachment-60870" class="wp-caption-text">World Central Kitchen statement confirming the murder of aid volunteers</p></div>
  78. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">       In a statement on its massacre of the aid workers’ convoy which was unarmed, emblazoned with the World Central Kitchen logo on all sides and on the top of their vehicle and posing no threat who had communicated this movement with the IOF, Benjamin Netanyahu<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-airstrike-gaza-kills-foreign-aid-workers-hamas-run-media-office-says-2024-04-01/"> acknowledged</a> the “tragic mistake” which killed “innocent people” and stated that &#8220;such things happen in war.&#8221;  The killings of clearly marked humanitarian aid workers has been a routine strategy of the IOF who has, to date, murdered <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68711282">196 volunteers doing critical aid work</a> on the ground in Gaza as genocide, famine and ethnic cleansing across the strip move unabated across the threshold into its seventh month.  </span></p>
  79. <div id="attachment_60871" style="width: 525px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-60871" class="size-full wp-image-60871" src="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-02-2.01.25-PM.png" alt="" width="515" height="288" srcset="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-02-2.01.25-PM.png 515w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-02-2.01.25-PM-400x224.png 400w" sizes="(max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px" /><p id="caption-attachment-60871" class="wp-caption-text">The passports of the murdered WCK aid workers. Photo Source: Associated Press</p></div>
  80. <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">       World Central Kitchen, who had been serving over 10,000 life-sustaining meals in Gaza daily, have now <a href="https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-04-02-2024-9bdf66771b62af37d85a2800f71c0e6c">ceased all operations</a> in the area as occupation forces continue the daily murder of unarmed Palestinian civilians, journalists, medical staff and aid workers.  A large portion of the humanitarian supplies shipment WCK volunteers were preparing to receive through established maritime aid channels is now <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/International/foreign-aid-food-workers-killed-gaza-idf-attack/story?id=108725143">headed back to Cyprus</a> from where it shipped and was due to be supplied to Palestinians who are currently, and purposefully, <a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/03/13/intercepted-gaza-mass-starvation/">being starved to death by Israeli forces. </a></span></p>
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  86. <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">60868</post-id> <dc:creator>palestinesolidarity@gmail.com (ISM Palestine)</dc:creator></item>
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  88. <title>Illegal Israeli Settlers Continue Attacks on Shepherds in Masafer Yatta</title>
  89. <link>https://palsolidarity.org/2024/03/illegal-israeli-settlers-continue-attacks-on-shepherds-in-masafer-yatta/</link>
  92. <pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2024 16:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
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  97. <description><![CDATA[23 March 2024 &#124; International Solidarity Movement &#124; Masafer Yatta March 21. @ISM On March 20 and 21, Palestinian shepherds from the village of Umm Fagarah in Masafer Yatta faced violent attacks and incursions onto their grazing lands by illegal Israeli settlers. On the 20th March an armed settler, from the illegal outpost Jebel Dov, ...]]></description>
  98. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>23 March 2024 | International Solidarity Movement | Masafer Yatta</strong></p>
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  101. <p>March 21. @ISM</p>
  102. <p>On March 20 and 21, Palestinian shepherds from the village of Umm Fagarah in Masafer Yatta faced violent attacks and incursions onto their grazing lands by illegal Israeli settlers.</p>
  103. <p>On the 20th March an armed settler, from the illegal outpost Jebel Dov, moved up the Sarura Valley where they intimidated Palestinian shepherds pushing them out of the valley. The settler called nearby settler/soldiers who arrived and backed the settler, forcing the shepherds to leave and threatened to detain internationals present. Police arrived at the request of the Palestinians, recorded identification and left, with no justice for the shepherds.</p>
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  105. <p>Armed settler approaching a shepherd on March 20. @ISM</p>
  106. <p>At 9am on March 21, shepherds from Umm Fagarah, moved their flocks onto the hills directly to the south of the village. At 10am, two armed settlers ran down the hill from the nearby illegal settlement of Avigayil, located several hundred metres over the hill to the West. The settlers aggressively pushed the shepherds and their flock several hundred metres down the hill forcing them back to their village. At 10.30 two IOF soldiers arrived, also telling the shepherds to go back into the village.</p>
  107. <p>The loss of grazing pasture through land theft and violent settler attacks has greatly affected one of the remaining sources of income for rural Palestinian villages. These attacks have been ongoing for decades, but are rapidly increasing in frequency and violence.</p>
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  109. <p>Illegal settlers coming down the hill on March 21. @ISM</p>
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  111. <p>Settlers chasing away Palestinian shepherd and his sheep. @ISM</p>
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  113. <p>Settlers and soldiers walking away together. @ISM</p>
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  123. <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">60854</post-id> <dc:creator>palestinesolidarity@gmail.com (ISM Palestine)</dc:creator><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>23 March 2024 &amp;#124; International Solidarity Movement &amp;#124; Masafer Yatta March 21. @ISM On March 20 and 21, Palestinian shepherds from the village of Umm Fagarah in Masafer Yatta faced violent attacks and incursions onto their grazing lands by illegal Israeli settlers. On the 20th March an armed settler, from the illegal outpost Jebel Dov, ...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>ISM Palestine</itunes:author><itunes:summary>23 March 2024 &amp;#124; International Solidarity Movement &amp;#124; Masafer Yatta March 21. @ISM On March 20 and 21, Palestinian shepherds from the village of Umm Fagarah in Masafer Yatta faced violent attacks and incursions onto their grazing lands by illegal Israeli settlers. On the 20th March an armed settler, from the illegal outpost Jebel Dov, ...</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>Palestine,Israel,nonviolent,resistence,intifada,rache,corrie,corrie,tom,hurndall,hurndall,peace,west,bank,gaza,hebron,ramallah,jenin,nablus,tulkarem,jericho,jerusalem,arabic,hebrew,tel,aviv</itunes:keywords></item>
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  125. <title>Second Friday of Ramadan at Qalandia Checkpoint</title>
  126. <link>https://palsolidarity.org/2024/03/second-friday-of-ramadan-at-qalandia-checkpoint/</link>
  129. <pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2024 19:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
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  137. <description><![CDATA[22 March 2024 &#124; International Solidarity Movement &#124; Qalandia checkpoint Palestinians perform Friday mid-day prayer outside of Qalandia checkpoint this morning while held at gunpoint by Israeli occupation soldiers, after being forcefully denied their right to enter Al-Quds to pray at Al-Aqsa. People trying to enter were again met with an intensified militarisation of Qalandia ...]]></description>
  138. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>22 March 2024 | International Solidarity Movement | Qalandia checkpoint</strong></p>
  139. <div id="attachment_60839" style="width: 2570px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image00003-scaled.jpeg"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-60839" class="size-full wp-image-60839" src="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image00003-scaled.jpeg" alt="" width="2560" height="1920" srcset="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image00003-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image00003-400x300.jpeg 400w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image00003-600x450.jpeg 600w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image00003-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image00003-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image00003-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-60839" class="wp-caption-text">Women performing mid-day prayers outside Qalandia checkpoint. @ISM</p></div>
  140. <p>Palestinians perform Friday mid-day prayer outside of Qalandia checkpoint this morning while held at gunpoint by Israeli occupation soldiers, after being forcefully denied their right to enter Al-Quds to pray at Al-Aqsa.</p>
  141. <p>People trying to enter were again met with an intensified militarisation of Qalandia checkpoint of heavily armed occupation border police, some of them masked, and vehicles.</p>
  142. <div id="attachment_60838" style="width: 1670px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image00002.jpeg"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-60838" class="size-full wp-image-60838" src="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image00002.jpeg" alt="" width="1660" height="992" srcset="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image00002.jpeg 1660w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image00002-400x239.jpeg 400w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image00002-600x359.jpeg 600w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image00002-768x459.jpeg 768w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image00002-1536x918.jpeg 1536w" sizes="(max-width: 1660px) 100vw, 1660px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-60838" class="wp-caption-text">Israeli occupation forces at the checkpoint. @ISM</p></div>
  143. <p>While the Occupation Force officially has announced that men above 55 years, women above 50 years and children below 10 years from the West Bank are allowed to enter, today numerous people in the applicable age group were denied entry by Israeli occupation forces (IOF) claiming that “too many” had entered.</p>
  144. <p>Close to 12 noon, IOF completely shut the checkpoint entrance.</p>
  145. <p>In resistance, and under surveillance and held at gun point by IOF border police, denied women gathered in front of the closed gate to perform the midday Friday prayer, joined by a group of men.</p>
  146. <div style="width: 100%;" class="wp-video"><video class="wp-video-shortcode" id="video-60836-6" width="620" height="349" preload="metadata" controls="controls"><source type="video/mp4" src="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/New-Project-1.mp4?_=6" /><a href="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/New-Project-1.mp4">https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/New-Project-1.mp4</a></video></div>
  147. <p>One of the women stated: “We will pray here, what else can we do? Allah will understand that this is the closest we can get to Al-Aqsa”.</p>
  148. <p>She had come from Al-Khalil with a permission to enter, but was denied entry at two attempts, and so was her 66 year old father; IOF told both that “too many” had entered.</p>
  149. <p>Another 60-year old man who had been denied was told that now he had to apply online a week prior.</p>
  150. <p>As the women were praying, a masked IOF border police officer shouted to disturb the prayers, while another masked officer made dance moves towards the prayers. During the IOFs surveillance of people trying to enter, a border police officer was observed removing the safe on their gun.</p>
  151. <p>A large amount of Palestinian medics were present wearing fluorescent vest saying: “Don’t shoot me, I’m not a target. I am a health care provider”.</p>
  152. <div id="attachment_60837" style="width: 445px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image00001-scaled.jpeg"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-60837" class=" wp-image-60837" src="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image00001-scaled.jpeg" alt="" width="435" height="628" srcset="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image00001-scaled.jpeg 1773w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image00001-277x400.jpeg 277w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image00001-415x600.jpeg 415w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image00001-768x1109.jpeg 768w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image00001-1064x1536.jpeg 1064w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/image00001-1418x2048.jpeg 1418w" sizes="(max-width: 435px) 100vw, 435px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-60837" class="wp-caption-text">Medics at the checkpoint. @ISM</p></div>
  153. <p>&nbsp;</p>
  154. <div style="width: 100%;" class="wp-video"><video class="wp-video-shortcode" id="video-60836-7" width="620" height="1002" preload="metadata" controls="controls"><source type="video/mp4" src="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/New-Project1.mp4?_=7" /><a href="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/New-Project1.mp4">https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/New-Project1.mp4</a></video></div>
  155. <p>IOF dancing and disturbing prayers. @ISM</p>
  156. <div style="width: 100%;" class="wp-video"><video class="wp-video-shortcode" id="video-60836-8" width="620" height="1102" preload="metadata" controls="controls"><source type="video/mp4" src="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/New-Project2.mp4?_=8" /><a href="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/New-Project2.mp4">https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/New-Project2.mp4</a></video></div>
  157. <p>IOF closing Qalandia checkpoint. @ISM</p>
  158. <div style="width: 100%;" class="wp-video"><video class="wp-video-shortcode" id="video-60836-9" width="620" height="1078" preload="metadata" controls="controls"><source type="video/mp4" src="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/New-Project4.mp4?_=9" /><a href="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/New-Project4.mp4">https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/New-Project4.mp4</a></video></div>
  159. <p>IOF soldier removing safe from gun. @ISM</p>
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  168. <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">60836</post-id> <dc:creator>palestinesolidarity@gmail.com (ISM Palestine)</dc:creator><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>22 March 2024 &amp;#124; International Solidarity Movement &amp;#124; Qalandia checkpoint Palestinians perform Friday mid-day prayer outside of Qalandia checkpoint this morning while held at gunpoint by Israeli occupation soldiers, after being forcefully denied their right to enter Al-Quds to pray at Al-Aqsa. People trying to enter were again met with an intensified militarisation of Qalandia ...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>ISM Palestine</itunes:author><itunes:summary>22 March 2024 &amp;#124; International Solidarity Movement &amp;#124; Qalandia checkpoint Palestinians perform Friday mid-day prayer outside of Qalandia checkpoint this morning while held at gunpoint by Israeli occupation soldiers, after being forcefully denied their right to enter Al-Quds to pray at Al-Aqsa. People trying to enter were again met with an intensified militarisation of Qalandia ...</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>Palestine,Israel,nonviolent,resistence,intifada,rache,corrie,corrie,tom,hurndall,hurndall,peace,west,bank,gaza,hebron,ramallah,jenin,nablus,tulkarem,jericho,jerusalem,arabic,hebrew,tel,aviv</itunes:keywords></item>
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  170. <title>Deceptively “quiet” first week of Ramadan in Jerusalem: a result of restrictions at Qalandia checkpoint</title>
  171. <link>https://palsolidarity.org/2024/03/deceptively-quiet-first-week-of-ramadan-in-jerusalem-a-result-of-restrictions-at-qalandia-checkpoint/</link>
  174. <pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2024 20:06:22 +0000</pubDate>
  175. <category><![CDATA[Reports]]></category>
  176. <category><![CDATA[Qalandia Checkpoint]]></category>
  177. <category><![CDATA[Ramadan]]></category>
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  180. <description><![CDATA[19 March 2024 &#124; International Solidarity Movement &#124; West Bank/East Jerusalem Stories from Israeli and international press extoll a safe and unencumbered celebration of the first week of Ramadan for the thousands of Palestinians with Israeli or Jerusalem ID cards, who were allowed entry to Al-Aqsa in most cases with minimal delay. Unfortunately, Palestinian Muslim ...]]></description>
  181. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>19 March 2024 | International Solidarity Movement | West Bank/East Jerusalem</strong></p>
  182. <div id="attachment_60822" style="width: 1610px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-18-181115.jpeg"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-60822" class="size-full wp-image-60822" src="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-18-181115.jpeg" alt="" width="1600" height="1200" srcset="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-18-181115.jpeg 1600w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-18-181115-400x300.jpeg 400w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-18-181115-600x450.jpeg 600w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-18-181115-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-18-181115-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w" sizes="(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-60822" class="wp-caption-text">Queues at Qalandia checkpoint. @ISM</p></div>
  183. <p>Stories from Israeli and international press extoll a safe and unencumbered celebration of the first week of Ramadan for the thousands of Palestinians with Israeli or Jerusalem ID cards, who were allowed entry to Al-Aqsa in most cases with minimal delay.</p>
  184. <p>Unfortunately, Palestinian Muslim prayergoers from the West Bank encountered conditions very different from the story distributed by the press.</p>
  185. <p><a href="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-18-181129_002.jpeg"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-60824" src="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-18-181129_002.jpeg" alt="" width="1600" height="1200" srcset="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-18-181129_002.jpeg 1600w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-18-181129_002-400x300.jpeg 400w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-18-181129_002-600x450.jpeg 600w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-18-181129_002-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-18-181129_002-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w" sizes="(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px" /></a></p>
  186. <p>Instead of open access, the vast majority of Muslim Palestinians were denied entry to Jerusalem at a heavily militarized Qalandia checkpoint—the largest, most-trafficked access point out from the West Bank. This resulted in a chaotic scene of delay, frustration, and service taxis offering early long-distance rides home to Palestinians who traveled from far away for prayer, only to be immediately rejected at the gate.</p>
  187. <p>After much debate in the executive branch of Israeli government, it was recently announced that only Muslim men over 55, women over 50, and children under 10 would be granted passage through Qalandia. These parameters exclude more than 90% the West Bank population—and, of course, all of Gaza. For comparison, the Ramadan 2023 restrictions on passage from West Bank permitted all men over 45, and all women.</p>
  188. <p><a href="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-18-181153_004.jpeg"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-60827" src="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-18-181153_004.jpeg" alt="" width="1152" height="2048" srcset="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-18-181153_004.jpeg 1152w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-18-181153_004-225x400.jpeg 225w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-18-181153_004-338x600.jpeg 338w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-18-181153_004-768x1365.jpeg 768w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-18-181153_004-864x1536.jpeg 864w" sizes="(max-width: 1152px) 100vw, 1152px" /></a></p>
  189. <p>But the constraints and confusion did not stop here; even among those who met the age requirements, West Bank residents could not enter through Qalandia unless they had been previously approved for a special entry ID.</p>
  190. <p>Regarding his exclusion under the entry ID restriction, a Palestinian man in his early 60s shared: &#8220;They told me I needed a special permit. But no one here knows they need this permit. And even when you apply, they use any reason to deny you.” Absence of this “entry permit” was used as an excuse to turn away thousands of prayergoers on the first Friday of Ramadan. Another man denied entry (he was twenty days shy of 55) added that those standing outside Qalandia represented only a small fraction of those rejected, because &#8220;mostly everyone don’t bother to try. With the [Gaza] war, people don&#8217;t feel like celebrating. They don&#8217;t think they will be let in.&#8221;</p>
  191. <p>For many Palestinian Muslims, praying at the holy Al-Aqsa Mosque is considered a special religious responsibility.</p>
  192. <p>A group of women who had been banned from meeting this responsibility staged a protest Friday morning outside Qalandia. Together, standing meters away from heavily armed IOF soldiers, these women gathered and chanted—in the shadow of the wall, 10 kilometers from Al-Aqsa, as close to the Dome of the Rock as Israeli authorities would permit them to stand.</p>
  193. <p><a href="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-18-181153_003.jpeg"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-60826" src="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-18-181153_003.jpeg" alt="" width="2048" height="1152" srcset="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-18-181153_003.jpeg 2048w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-18-181153_003-400x225.jpeg 400w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-18-181153_003-600x338.jpeg 600w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-18-181153_003-768x432.jpeg 768w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-18-181153_003-1536x864.jpeg 1536w" sizes="(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px" /></a></p>
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  196. <p><em>Photos and videos @ISM.</em></p>
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  203. <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">60821</post-id> <dc:creator>palestinesolidarity@gmail.com (ISM Palestine)</dc:creator><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>19 March 2024 &amp;#124; International Solidarity Movement &amp;#124; West Bank/East Jerusalem Stories from Israeli and international press extoll a safe and unencumbered celebration of the first week of Ramadan for the thousands of Palestinians with Israeli or Jerusalem ID cards, who were allowed entry to Al-Aqsa in most cases with minimal delay. Unfortunately, Palestinian Muslim ...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>ISM Palestine</itunes:author><itunes:summary>19 March 2024 &amp;#124; International Solidarity Movement &amp;#124; West Bank/East Jerusalem Stories from Israeli and international press extoll a safe and unencumbered celebration of the first week of Ramadan for the thousands of Palestinians with Israeli or Jerusalem ID cards, who were allowed entry to Al-Aqsa in most cases with minimal delay. Unfortunately, Palestinian Muslim ...</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>Palestine,Israel,nonviolent,resistence,intifada,rache,corrie,corrie,tom,hurndall,hurndall,peace,west,bank,gaza,hebron,ramallah,jenin,nablus,tulkarem,jericho,jerusalem,arabic,hebrew,tel,aviv</itunes:keywords></item>
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  205. <title>Masafer Yatta: Israeli Settlers Burn a Family Car in Um Dhorit</title>
  206. <link>https://palsolidarity.org/2024/03/masafer-yatta-israeli-settlers-burn-a-family-car-in-um-dhorit/</link>
  209. <pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2024 10:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
  210. <category><![CDATA[Reports]]></category>
  211. <category><![CDATA[Masafer Yatta]]></category>
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  214. <description><![CDATA[17 March 2024 &#124; International Solidarity Movement &#124; Masafer Yatta Last night, illegal settlers burned a family car in Um Dhorit, in Masafer Yatta. They snuck onto the family’s land and set fire to the family only car in an attempt to make it irreparable. On previous occasions, the settlers have stolen the license plates, ...]]></description>
  215. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>17 March 2024 | International Solidarity Movement | Masafer Yatta</strong></p>
  216. <div id="attachment_60815" style="width: 1610px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-17-09-41-32-689.jpg"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-60815" class="size-full wp-image-60815" src="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-17-09-41-32-689.jpg" alt="" width="1600" height="1066" srcset="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-17-09-41-32-689.jpg 1600w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-17-09-41-32-689-400x267.jpg 400w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-17-09-41-32-689-600x400.jpg 600w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-17-09-41-32-689-768x512.jpg 768w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-17-09-41-32-689-1536x1023.jpg 1536w" sizes="(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-60815" class="wp-caption-text">The burned car</p></div>
  217. <div class="wp-video">
  218. <p>Last night, illegal settlers burned a family car in Um Dhorit, in Masafer Yatta. They snuck onto the family’s land and set fire to the family only car in an attempt to make it irreparable. On previous occasions, the settlers have stolen the license plates, slashed all the tyres, ripped out engine components, smashed all the glass and mirrors and destroyed the interior. This car was in working order before the 7th of October.</p>
  219. <div style="width: 100%;" class="wp-video"><video class="wp-video-shortcode" id="video-60813-12" width="620" height="349" preload="metadata" controls="controls"><source type="video/mp4" src="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Um-dhorit.mp4?_=12" /><a href="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Um-dhorit.mp4">https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Um-dhorit.mp4</a></video></div>
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  221. <p>In the recent months following the 7th of October and the subsequent spike in settler violence in the West Bank, multiple members of this family have been arrested and held in administrative dentition where they were subject to physical abuse and starvation over false accusations of stone-throwing. The house has been persistently raided and attacked by the occupation army and settlers during the day and at night.</p>
  222. <p>Settlers have entered the property on multiple occasions and proceeded to trash the family home, cutting electrics and breaking water pipes and water butts, destroying the vegetable garden and fruit trees and poured petrol into wells.</p>
  223. <p>Settlers attempt to make life here impossible, hoping to force the Palestinians to leave: cutting off all water sources is a common tactic used by the settlers.</p>
  224. <p>The family live isolated at the edge of the firing zone 918 within the Masafer Yatta region, surrounded by settlements and outposts and is at constant risk of attack and forcible displacement. Despite the army and settlers&#8217; efforts to remove them from their land, still they stay strong and hope to remain.</p>
  225. <p><a href="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-17-09-41-37-973.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-60814" src="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-17-09-41-37-973.jpg" alt="" width="602" height="401" srcset="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-17-09-41-37-973.jpg 1600w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-17-09-41-37-973-400x267.jpg 400w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-17-09-41-37-973-600x400.jpg 600w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-17-09-41-37-973-768x512.jpg 768w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-17-09-41-37-973-1536x1023.jpg 1536w" sizes="(max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px" /></a></p>
  226. </div>
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  232. <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">60813</post-id> <dc:creator>palestinesolidarity@gmail.com (ISM Palestine)</dc:creator><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>17 March 2024 &amp;#124; International Solidarity Movement &amp;#124; Masafer Yatta Last night, illegal settlers burned a family car in Um Dhorit, in Masafer Yatta. They snuck onto the family’s land and set fire to the family only car in an attempt to make it irreparable. On previous occasions, the settlers have stolen the license plates, ...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>ISM Palestine</itunes:author><itunes:summary>17 March 2024 &amp;#124; International Solidarity Movement &amp;#124; Masafer Yatta Last night, illegal settlers burned a family car in Um Dhorit, in Masafer Yatta. They snuck onto the family’s land and set fire to the family only car in an attempt to make it irreparable. On previous occasions, the settlers have stolen the license plates, ...</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>Palestine,Israel,nonviolent,resistence,intifada,rache,corrie,corrie,tom,hurndall,hurndall,peace,west,bank,gaza,hebron,ramallah,jenin,nablus,tulkarem,jericho,jerusalem,arabic,hebrew,tel,aviv</itunes:keywords></item>
  233. <item>
  234. <title>Violent arrest of Palestinian women in Susiya, Masafer Yatta</title>
  235. <link>https://palsolidarity.org/2024/03/violent-arrest-of-palestinian-women-in-susiya-masafer-yatta/</link>
  238. <pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2024 16:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
  239. <category><![CDATA[Reports]]></category>
  240. <category><![CDATA[arbitrary arrests]]></category>
  241. <category><![CDATA[Masafer Yatta]]></category>
  242. <category><![CDATA[Military]]></category>
  243. <category><![CDATA[Susiya]]></category>
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  246. <description><![CDATA[13 March 2024 &#124; International Solidarity Movement &#124; Masafer Yatta Israeli soldiers arresting a Palestinian woman. @ISM &#160; Today in Susiya (Masafer Yatta), on the third day in Ramadan, a large number of IOF soldiers and armed settlers arrested a Palestinian woman and an Israeli activist, shot live ammunition in the air and pointed guns ...]]></description>
  247. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>13 March 2024 | International Solidarity Movement | Masafer Yatta</strong></p>
  248. <div style="width: 100%;" class="wp-video"><video class="wp-video-shortcode" id="video-60800-13" width="620" height="349" preload="metadata" controls="controls"><source type="video/mp4" src="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/2403susiya_2.mp4?_=13" /><a href="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/2403susiya_2.mp4">https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/2403susiya_2.mp4</a></video></div>
  249. <p>Israeli soldiers arresting a Palestinian woman. @ISM</p>
  250. <p>&nbsp;</p>
  251. <p>Today in Susiya (Masafer Yatta), on the third day in Ramadan, a large number of IOF soldiers and armed settlers arrested a Palestinian woman and an Israeli activist, shot live ammunition in the air and pointed guns to prevent documentation.</p>
  252. <p>The IOF and settlers came and arrested the woman while she was picking akkoub in a place where the army said it is legal to do so.</p>
  253. <p>As Israeli and international activists arrived to observe and document, an Israeli activist got arrested and handcuffed for filming. Eleven armed soldiers and settlers guarded the area of the two detained and started to point guns and shoot live ammunition in the air to force the rest of the activists away from the area and prevent them from filming. IOF threatened to detain anyone who would get nearer calling their situation an “operation”.</p>
  254. <div style="width: 100%;" class="wp-video"><video class="wp-video-shortcode" id="video-60800-14" width="620" height="349" preload="metadata" controls="controls"><source type="video/mp4" src="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/2403susiya_1-1.mp4?_=14" /><a href="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/2403susiya_1-1.mp4">https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/2403susiya_1-1.mp4</a></video></div>
  255. <p>IOF arresting an Israeli activist. @ISM</p>
  256. <p>After keeping the detained for a long time on the ground in the burning sun, they took both the Palestinian woman and the Israeli activist in a big white van and drove off. A few hours later, the woman was released and the Israeli activist taken to a police station.</p>
  257. <p>The IOF brought in seven vehicles including a green army jeep, a police jeep and four vans and a large number of soldiers and police for the “operation”.</p>
  258. <div id="attachment_60806" style="width: 1223px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/2403susiya_5.jpeg"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-60806" class="wp-image-60806 size-full" src="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/2403susiya_5-e1710397925536.jpeg" alt="" width="1213" height="672" srcset="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/2403susiya_5-e1710397925536.jpeg 1213w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/2403susiya_5-e1710397925536-400x222.jpeg 400w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/2403susiya_5-e1710397925536-600x332.jpeg 600w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/2403susiya_5-e1710397925536-768x425.jpeg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1213px) 100vw, 1213px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-60806" class="wp-caption-text">A large amount of soldiers and military vehicles were present at the scene. @ISM</p></div>
  259. <p>The palestinian woman was picking Akkoub, a wild plant that Palestinians have been picking and using for cooking for decades. Akkoub is amongst the wild plants and herbs that the occupation force has made illegal for Palestinian to harvest under false accusations of over-harvesting; yet another fraction of the ethnic cleansing of all aspects of Palestinian life, culture and history.</p>
  260. <div id="attachment_60809" style="width: 1210px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/IMG_2063.jpg"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-60809" class="size-full wp-image-60809" src="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/IMG_2063.jpg" alt="" width="1200" height="1600" srcset="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/IMG_2063.jpg 1200w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/IMG_2063-300x400.jpg 300w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/IMG_2063-450x600.jpg 450w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/IMG_2063-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/IMG_2063-1152x1536.jpg 1152w" sizes="(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-60809" class="wp-caption-text">Israeli army at the scene. @ISM</p></div>
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  267. <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">60800</post-id> <dc:creator>palestinesolidarity@gmail.com (ISM Palestine)</dc:creator><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>13 March 2024 &amp;#124; International Solidarity Movement &amp;#124; Masafer Yatta Israeli soldiers arresting a Palestinian woman. @ISM &amp;#160; Today in Susiya (Masafer Yatta), on the third day in Ramadan, a large number of IOF soldiers and armed settlers arrested a Palestinian woman and an Israeli activist, shot live ammunition in the air and pointed guns ...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>ISM Palestine</itunes:author><itunes:summary>13 March 2024 &amp;#124; International Solidarity Movement &amp;#124; Masafer Yatta Israeli soldiers arresting a Palestinian woman. @ISM &amp;#160; Today in Susiya (Masafer Yatta), on the third day in Ramadan, a large number of IOF soldiers and armed settlers arrested a Palestinian woman and an Israeli activist, shot live ammunition in the air and pointed guns ...</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>Palestine,Israel,nonviolent,resistence,intifada,rache,corrie,corrie,tom,hurndall,hurndall,peace,west,bank,gaza,hebron,ramallah,jenin,nablus,tulkarem,jericho,jerusalem,arabic,hebrew,tel,aviv</itunes:keywords></item>
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  269. <title>Escalating Night Raids and Attacks on Shepherds in Jinba</title>
  270. <link>https://palsolidarity.org/2024/03/escalating-night-raids-and-attacks-on-shepherds-in-jinba/</link>
  273. <pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2024 21:16:36 +0000</pubDate>
  274. <category><![CDATA[Reports]]></category>
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  277. <description><![CDATA[11 March 2024 &#124; International Solidarity Movement &#124; Masafer Yatta On February 23, Israeli occupation forces (IOF) raided the village of Jinba, in Masafer Yatta, in the middle of the night. The army forced residents out of their houses and held them on their knees with hands over their heads at gunpoint while the soldiers ...]]></description>
  278. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>11 March 2024 | International Solidarity Movement | Masafer Yatta</strong></p>
  279. <div id="attachment_60793" style="width: 585px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-09-191036_002.jpeg"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-60793" class=" wp-image-60793" src="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-09-191036_002.jpeg" alt="" width="575" height="767" srcset="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-09-191036_002.jpeg 1200w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-09-191036_002-300x400.jpeg 300w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-09-191036_002-450x600.jpeg 450w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-09-191036_002-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-09-191036_002-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w" sizes="(max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-60793" class="wp-caption-text">The damage to a house done from the IOF, Jinba. Credit to local residents.</p></div>
  280. <p>On February 23, Israeli occupation forces (IOF) raided the village of Jinba, in Masafer Yatta, in the middle of the night. The army forced residents out of their houses and held them on their knees with hands over their heads at gunpoint while the soldiers vandalized their houses and grain storage.</p>
  281. <p>In the following two weeks, the army and illegal settlers have attacked Jinba’s shepherds and their flocks of sheep. The attacks have persisted over several days with the use of tear-gas or drones; on some days, the army approached and brutalized the sheep and threaten shepherds from their land. In some instances, the army have killed livestock.</p>
  282. <div id="attachment_60794" style="width: 585px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-09-191036_003.jpeg"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-60794" class=" wp-image-60794" src="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-09-191036_003.jpeg" alt="" width="575" height="432" srcset="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-09-191036_003.jpeg 1600w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-09-191036_003-400x300.jpeg 400w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-09-191036_003-600x450.jpeg 600w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-09-191036_003-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-09-191036_003-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w" sizes="(max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-60794" class="wp-caption-text">Damage to grain storage. Credit to local residents.</p></div>
  283. <p>Jinba has for years been under intense attempts of ethnic cleansing by the occupation force. Since 1980, more than 40 houses in Jinba have been demolished by the IOF.</p>
  284. <p>Jinba is one of the most isolated villages in the firing zone (a closed military area) established by the Israeli occupation in Masafer Yatta, and the area around Jinba is heavily militarized. The IOF has built an army base about one kilometer away and recently constructed an apartheid road through the Palestinian land. The Israeli army and settlers have declared all land around Jinba illegal for the people of Jinba to enter, including for grazing their sheep and harvesting their crops.</p>
  285. <p>The residents told us the soldier often come drunk, after long parties in the military base. During our stay in Jinba, ISM activists were able to hear the loud parties and yelling from the near by base.</p>
  286. <p>Since the 7th of October, the village of Jinba has experienced an increase of settler colonial violence.</p>
  287. <div style="width: 100%;" class="wp-video"><video class="wp-video-shortcode" id="video-60792-15" width="360" height="640" preload="metadata" controls="controls"><source type="video/mp4" src="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-09-191128_002.mp4?_=15" /><a href="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-09-191128_002.mp4">https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-09-191128_002.mp4</a></video></div>
  288. <p>Shepherds attacked with tear gas, Jinba. Credit to local residents.</p>
  289. <div style="width: 100%;" class="wp-video"><video class="wp-video-shortcode" id="video-60792-16" width="364" height="640" preload="metadata" controls="controls"><source type="video/mp4" src="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-09-191036_004.mp4?_=16" /><a href="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-09-191036_004.mp4">https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-09-191036_004.mp4</a></video></div>
  290. <p>Drone harassing a shepherd and scaring his flock.</p>
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  297. <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">60792</post-id> <dc:creator>palestinesolidarity@gmail.com (ISM Palestine)</dc:creator><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>11 March 2024 &amp;#124; International Solidarity Movement &amp;#124; Masafer Yatta On February 23, Israeli occupation forces (IOF) raided the village of Jinba, in Masafer Yatta, in the middle of the night. The army forced residents out of their houses and held them on their knees with hands over their heads at gunpoint while the soldiers ...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>ISM Palestine</itunes:author><itunes:summary>11 March 2024 &amp;#124; International Solidarity Movement &amp;#124; Masafer Yatta On February 23, Israeli occupation forces (IOF) raided the village of Jinba, in Masafer Yatta, in the middle of the night. The army forced residents out of their houses and held them on their knees with hands over their heads at gunpoint while the soldiers ...</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>Palestine,Israel,nonviolent,resistence,intifada,rache,corrie,corrie,tom,hurndall,hurndall,peace,west,bank,gaza,hebron,ramallah,jenin,nablus,tulkarem,jericho,jerusalem,arabic,hebrew,tel,aviv</itunes:keywords></item>
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  299. <title>The Many Faces of Ethnic Cleansing and Land Grab</title>
  300. <link>https://palsolidarity.org/2024/03/the-many-faces-of-ethnic-cleansing-and-land-grab/</link>
  303. <pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2024 19:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
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  309. <description><![CDATA[06 March 2024 &#124; International Solidarity Movement &#124; Masafer Yatta &#160; A few days ago, villagers of Khallet Adabaa stood at the edge of their village and watched two illegal Israeli settlers driving on motorbikes up and down the hills surrounding the village &#8211; all of it private Palestinian land. Earlier in the day, settlers ...]]></description>
  310. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>06 March 2024 | International Solidarity Movement | Masafer Yatta</strong></p>
  311. <p>&nbsp;</p>
  312. <p>A few days ago, villagers of Khallet Adabaa stood at the edge of their village and watched two illegal Israeli settlers driving on motorbikes up and down the hills surrounding the village &#8211; all of it private Palestinian land. Earlier in the day, settlers from the same nearby settlement of Mitzpe Yair kidnapped two Palestinian men from Khallet Adabaa. The settlers attacked the two men while they were working on their land, shot at them from a close distance, and took them to their settlement.</p>
  313. <div style="width: 100%;" class="wp-video"><video class="wp-video-shortcode" id="video-60782-17" width="620" height="349" preload="metadata" controls="controls"><source type="video/mp4" src="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/IMG_1435.mp4?_=17" /><a href="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/IMG_1435.mp4">https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/IMG_1435.mp4</a></video></div>
  314. <p>Illegal settlers on motorbikes on Palestinian land. @ISM</p>
  315. <p>&nbsp;</p>
  316. <p>While the people of Khallet Adabaa waited for the news of the kidnapped men, settlers started to loudly riding adventure dirt bikes around the village over land they had just barred the Palestinians from working on.</p>
  317. <p>Last week armed settlers in self-made military uniforms from the settlement Ha’vot Ma’on near A-Tuwani drove Palestinian shepherds from their lands in Humra. In the afternoon, in full view from the shepherds houses, a jogger crossed their lands from one settlement to another &#8211;and later, young settlers undressed and bathed in a Palestinian watering hole.</p>
  318. <div style="width: 100%;" class="wp-video"><video class="wp-video-shortcode" id="video-60782-18" width="408" height="230" preload="metadata" controls="controls"><source type="video/mp4" src="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-05-191229_004.mp4?_=18" /><a href="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-05-191229_004.mp4">https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-05-191229_004.mp4</a></video></div>
  319. <p>Settler jogging. @ISM</p>
  320. <div id="attachment_60784" style="width: 1251px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-05-191229_002-e1709754518772.jpeg"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-60784" class="size-full wp-image-60784" src="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-05-191229_002-e1709754518772.jpeg" alt="" width="1241" height="971" srcset="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-05-191229_002-e1709754518772.jpeg 1241w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-05-191229_002-e1709754518772-400x313.jpeg 400w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-05-191229_002-e1709754518772-600x469.jpeg 600w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-05-191229_002-e1709754518772-768x601.jpeg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1241px) 100vw, 1241px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-60784" class="wp-caption-text">Settler bathing in a Palestinian watering hole. @ISM</p></div>
  321. <p>Two weeks ago, settlers from Avigail kidnapped two men from Um Dhorit, and next morning, a settler youth paraded through the nearby villages on a horse.</p>
  322. <p>The occupation forces project of ethnic cleansing and land grab plays out in ways beyond directly violent attacks. It is also enforced through sinister though mundane acts of indirect violence when settlers exploit Palestinian land for everyday activities, made possible by the firearms they carry, and always backed up by military, police force, and Israeli courts and politicians.</p>
  323. <div style="width: 100%;" class="wp-video"><video class="wp-video-shortcode" id="video-60782-19" width="620" height="349" preload="metadata" controls="controls"><source type="video/mp4" src="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-05-191229_003.mp4?_=19" /><a href="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-05-191229_003.mp4">https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-05-191229_003.mp4</a></video></div>
  324. <p>Settler youth parading through Palestinian villages. @ISM</p>
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  332. <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">60782</post-id> <dc:creator>palestinesolidarity@gmail.com (ISM Palestine)</dc:creator><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>06 March 2024 &amp;#124; International Solidarity Movement &amp;#124; Masafer Yatta &amp;#160; A few days ago, villagers of Khallet Adabaa stood at the edge of their village and watched two illegal Israeli settlers driving on motorbikes up and down the hills surrounding the village &amp;#8211; all of it private Palestinian land. Earlier in the day, settlers ...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>ISM Palestine</itunes:author><itunes:summary>06 March 2024 &amp;#124; International Solidarity Movement &amp;#124; Masafer Yatta &amp;#160; A few days ago, villagers of Khallet Adabaa stood at the edge of their village and watched two illegal Israeli settlers driving on motorbikes up and down the hills surrounding the village &amp;#8211; all of it private Palestinian land. Earlier in the day, settlers ...</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>Palestine,Israel,nonviolent,resistence,intifada,rache,corrie,corrie,tom,hurndall,hurndall,peace,west,bank,gaza,hebron,ramallah,jenin,nablus,tulkarem,jericho,jerusalem,arabic,hebrew,tel,aviv</itunes:keywords></item>
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  334. <title>“We Have Suffered Too Much”: Friday Protests Continue in Kafr Qaduum</title>
  335. <link>https://palsolidarity.org/2024/03/we-have-suffered-too-much-friday-protests-continue-in-kafr-qaduum/</link>
  338. <pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2024 21:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
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  343. <description><![CDATA[1 March 2024 &#124; International Solidarity Movement &#124; Kafr Qaduum It is Friday, and the call to prayer is heard in the rural village of Kafr Qaduum, West of Nablus in the northern part of the West Bank. The streets are quiet, empty except some children playing and a few cars heading early to the ...]]></description>
  344. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>1 March 2024 | International Solidarity Movement | Kafr Qaduum</strong></p>
  345. <div id="attachment_60777" style="width: 2058px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-01-200233_002.jpeg"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-60777" class="size-full wp-image-60777" src="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-01-200233_002.jpeg" alt="" width="2048" height="1152" srcset="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-01-200233_002.jpeg 2048w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-01-200233_002-400x225.jpeg 400w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-01-200233_002-600x338.jpeg 600w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-01-200233_002-768x432.jpeg 768w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-01-200233_002-1536x864.jpeg 1536w" sizes="(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-60777" class="wp-caption-text">Palestinians gather in the village main road. @ISM</p></div>
  346. <p>It is Friday, and the call to prayer is heard in the rural village of Kafr Qaduum, West of Nablus in the northern part of the West Bank. The streets are quiet, empty except some children playing and a few cars heading early to the masjid. Around 11am, some men and boys gather and drink coffee off the main road next door. Younger children play and laugh. The scene appears calm if expectant, with an underlying tension. Like every Friday, after prayer, villagers march in protest of the closure of their village&#8217;s main road and against the Israeli Occupation.</p>
  347. <p>Protests are a regular part of life in rural villages across Palestine&#8211;some as far back as the second intifada. But in most parts of the West Bank unarmed protest marches left off after October 7th, when soldiers and settlers took advantage of Hamas&#8217; attacks to unleash a wave of violence, terrorism, land and resource theft against their Palestinian neighbors. While before, the military used principally tear gas, sound bombs, and rubber coated steel bullets to disperse protestors, since the 7th villagers of Kafr Qaduum report encountering exclusively live gunfire.</p>
  348. <div style="width: 100%;" class="wp-video"><video class="wp-video-shortcode" id="video-60776-20" width="620" height="349" preload="metadata" controls="controls"><source type="video/mp4" src="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-01-200233_003.mp4?_=20" /><a href="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-01-200233_003.mp4">https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-01-200233_003.mp4</a></video></div>
  349. <p>Israeli drone flying over the protestors. @ISM</p>
  350. <p>But protests in Kafr Qaduum never stopped. Abu Masseib, former mayor of the village, proudly states they have marched for the opening of their main road every Friday for 13 years&#8211;ever since the Israeli courts refused to uphold their rights. He reports that while military aggression has made protesting more dangerous, the villagers have persisted, adapting their practices to minimize harm. Fewer villagers go out each week, they move cautiously and report back and withdraw quickly if military movements are observed. In spite of these precautions, Masseib reports that the military have caused serious injuries. Since 2011, he states that over 100 villagers have been shot with live ammunition. Over 150 were arrested, he says, for weeks to as long as a year. While none have died, 2 children suffered horrifying brain injuries from &#8220;less lethal&#8221; rounds to the head. Just last week a youth was shot in the face, but survived when the bullet rebounded into his jaw. Many more villagers have lost eyes or suffered serious injuries to legs or stomach. In a group of 14 Palestinian youths and adults sitting with us, he says &#8220;10 of us have been shot with live [ammunition]&#8221;.</p>
  351. <p>When asked why he thinks the people of Kafr Qaduum continue to protest when other villages have paused marches, he says, &#8220;We had this issue before Oct 7th; we want a free road. We have suffered too much; we understand the Occupation.&#8221; Over 50% of the village is in Area C&#8211;parts of the West Bank annexed by Israel, made available for Israeli settlement and off limits to Palestinians. This includes most of the villagers&#8217; olive trees, their primary agricultural production and of immense symbolic value. &#8220;It hurts all the people of the village,&#8221; Abu Maseib says.</p>
  352. <p>Today the military presence is mostly hidden. A low flying drone watches overhead, and four soldiers&#8217; helmets and hair peek out over the closest hill. The protest moves conservatively, quietly, without shouted slogans or flung stones. Still the Palestine Red Crescent ambulance and media are ready to respond and document military aggression. The protest ends abruptly when report comes of military movements, and we &#8212; the only internationals present&#8211;are shuttled safely out of town before anything escalates.</p>
  353. <div id="attachment_60779" style="width: 2058px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-01-200233_004.jpeg"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-60779" class="size-full wp-image-60779" src="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-01-200233_004.jpeg" alt="" width="2048" height="1152" srcset="https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-01-200233_004.jpeg 2048w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-01-200233_004-400x225.jpeg 400w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-01-200233_004-600x338.jpeg 600w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-01-200233_004-768x432.jpeg 768w, https://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-01-200233_004-1536x864.jpeg 1536w" sizes="(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-60779" class="wp-caption-text">The illegal Israeli settlement just outside Kafr Qaduum. @ISM</p></div>
  354. <p>It is hard to guess whether solidarity activist presence acts as a deterrent these days. Indeed, organizer Murad Shtaiwi reports there haven&#8217;t been other solidarity activists present since October 7th. Villagers worry about exposing outsiders to the level of violence they themselves experience on a weekly and sometimes daily basis. Murad reports that much of the violence occurs during the week, when soldiers enter the village to damage property, arrest protestors identified in drone photos, or just fire guns indiscriminately. He shares a phone video that clearly shows soldiers firing their weapons at head height and up into residential buildings. These are not shots intended only to frighten or disperse, but to injure and kill.</p>
  355. <p>Before solidarity activists are driven away, everyone walks together back to the relative safety of home. Murad affirms that this is good timing. &#8220;It is an honor,&#8221; he says, &#8220;for us to have martyrs; but it is a greater honor to have living children&#8221;.</p>
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  361. <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">60776</post-id> <dc:creator>palestinesolidarity@gmail.com (ISM Palestine)</dc:creator><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>1 March 2024 &amp;#124; International Solidarity Movement &amp;#124; Kafr Qaduum It is Friday, and the call to prayer is heard in the rural village of Kafr Qaduum, West of Nablus in the northern part of the West Bank. The streets are quiet, empty except some children playing and a few cars heading early to the ...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>ISM Palestine</itunes:author><itunes:summary>1 March 2024 &amp;#124; International Solidarity Movement &amp;#124; Kafr Qaduum It is Friday, and the call to prayer is heard in the rural village of Kafr Qaduum, West of Nablus in the northern part of the West Bank. The streets are quiet, empty except some children playing and a few cars heading early to the ...</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>Palestine,Israel,nonviolent,resistence,intifada,rache,corrie,corrie,tom,hurndall,hurndall,peace,west,bank,gaza,hebron,ramallah,jenin,nablus,tulkarem,jericho,jerusalem,arabic,hebrew,tel,aviv</itunes:keywords></item>
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