Matthew Vickery

Matthew Vickery is an independent multimedia journalist based in the Middle East with a focus on the Levant and Iraq. Vickery has extensively covered the Palestine/Israel conflict on the ground, and has been published by numerous media outlets in the US, Europe and the Middle East. He holds a Master of Arts, Research Masters, and is a graduate of Qasid Arabic Institute. Follow Matthew on Twitter: @MMVickery

The High Cost Of Israel’s Brutal Assault On Palestinians In Search For Israeli Teens

“Hit me one time in the face, and then hit me again, and again, it will start to feel normal. That’s what the occupation is like. That’s what losing my sons is like.”

Matthew Vickery
Sheren Khalel
By Matthew Vickery
And Sheren Khalel
Nidal wife and mother

DHEISHEH REFUGEE CAMP, occupied West Bank --- Malka Abu Akar doesn’t have a single son left to join her at the dinner table this Ramadan, the holy month of fasting and feasting for Muslims. Although this isn’t the first time she’s been without her sons at the table, it never gets easier. As Operation Brother's Keeper -- the Israeli Defense

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Search For Israeli Teens Continues: West Bank Residents Respond To The Lockdown

“We are all being punished for this,” a taxi driver says of the roadblocks, raids, arrests and other restrictions on Palestinians during an ongoing Israeli manhunt.

Matthew Vickery
Sheren Khalel
By Matthew Vickery
And Sheren Khalel
Palestinians

HEBRON, the occupied West Bank --- A soldier leans in through a car window to check IDs. Armed jeeps and a dozen soldiers stand behind him, while a line of vehicles stretches up the road, far beyond what the eye can see. This is just one of the many new checkpoints that cropped up overnight throughout the occupied West Bank in response to the

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