Sunday, 27 February 2011

Final entry from al-Khalil

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Since joining the ISM, it seems that everything I have written has been about the protests and the tear gas - although, to be fair, that is...
Sunday, 20 February 2011

Tear gas, settlers, and farewells

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My time working in Palestine is drawing to a close. Although I don’t fly back for almost another month, I will stop working at the end of Fe...
Sunday, 13 February 2011

Do not blame them father, they are but children and only machines.

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Another weekend goes by full of protests and demonstrations. On Friday I went to An Nabi Saleh – the weekly demonstrations there apparently...
Friday, 11 February 2011

Mubarak falls and the Middle East celebrates.

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We were in the service taxi from Ramallah to Hebron when the news came through: after over a fortnight of protests the Egyptian dictator,...
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Saturday, 5 February 2011

Egyptians still hold the streets, and Palestine joins in

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Today, we enter the 12 th day of protests by people calling for the Egyptian dictator, Hosni Mubarak, to step down. Mubarak has confirme...
Sunday, 30 January 2011

Youths are buried and Cairo burns

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The funeral for the Palestinian I wrote about in my last post was on Friday, and on the same day another youth – 17-year old Yousef Ikhleil...
Thursday, 27 January 2011

He ain't dead, he's just asleep

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This morning we were sat on the balcony of the ISM apartment in Nablus, playing backgammon and drinking coffee. The local coordinator had...