14 Jun 2025

Issa Amro: Youth Against Settlements

From Saturday Morning, 9:35 am on 14 June 2025

Photo: https://rightlivelihood.org/

Issa Amro is nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize this year for his decades of work advocating for peaceful resistance against settlements, which are illegal under international law, advocacy which has seen him become a target. 

Amro is based in the occupied West Bank, in Hebron - a city of about 250,000 mostly Palestinian people. He founded Youth Against Settlements. 

He paints a picture about what daily life is like.

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