Tag Archives: Checkpoint 56

An ISM activist writes about her experiences volunteering in Hebron (Al Khalil) during Netanyahu's visit to the city.

26th March 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, West Bank, occupied Palestine After completely closing Shuhada checkpoint to Palestinians in occupied al-Khalil (Hebron) on Thursday, 24th March 2016, Israeli forces have now returned to the practice of ...

14th January 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine Checkpoints are numerous and inescapable in the H2 area of al-Khalil (Hebron), where thousands of soldiers guard around 600 Israeli zionist settlers occupying heavily militarised settlement enclaves in the ...

31st December | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine At approximately 14:30 yesterday afternoon, ISM activists approaching Checkpoint 56 from both directions found that it was closed and Palestinians were stuck on either side. Israeli soldiers gave conflicting excuses for closing the checkpoint, ...

17th December 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine Mohammad Saleh, a sixty-six-year-old Palestinian resident of Tel Rumeida, al-Khalil (Hebron), waited with his mule outside Shuhada checkpoint for nine hours over the course of two days. He ...

28th November 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine Israeli forces violently detained and arrested twenty-year-old Palestinian activist Imad Altrash  at approximately two o’clock yesterday in al-Khalil (Hebron). Soldiers accused him of insulting and yelling at ...

27th August 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine It was a warm Saturday night in late August in al-Khalil (Hebron). For the Palestinian children school was starting the next day, and a feeling of anticipation and excitement ...

1st June 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine This morning in al-Khalil (Hebron) Israeli forces detained two young Palestinian boys, 10-year-old Fares Abu Senene and 7-year-old Haitham Asrawi for one hour. ISM activists spoke to an eyewitness who ...

9th July 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil Team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine On July 9th at around 4pm in occupied Hebron, Israeli soldiers arrested and held a five-year-old boy in their military base along with his father. They kept ...

17th June 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil Team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine Around 8:30pm on June 16th, a ten-year-old local Palestinian named Amed was arrested by Israeli soldiers in the market of the old city of Hebron. He was ...