Hebron

Settlers building illegal road on Palestinian land in Hebron

Posted on: June 19, 2013

Bulldozers clear the path for the construction of the illegal settler road

19th June 2013 | International Solidarity Movement | Hebron, Occupied Palestine

Israeli settlers in the Wadi al-Hussein valley neighborhood of occupied Khalil (Hebron) have begun building a new road on land owned by a Palestinian family. The road will be around four meters wide and lead to the illegal settlement of Kiryat Arba which is above the valley. When completed it will split two olive groves.

Bulldozers clear the path for the construction of the illegal settler road

The work on the … Continue reading

Updated on June 19, 2013
Posted under: Reports, Video
Tags: Hebron, Settlers, Video

Video: Ten-year-old boy arrested in Hebron

Posted on: June 17, 2013

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 held for around an hour in the military base on Shuhada Street and interrogated. He was then taken, handcuffed, by two soldiers on foot through the street to the checkpoint between the Israeli and Palestinian controlled areas – he was then released to the Palestinian Authority police.

The alleged reason for this arrest was that the boy was throwing stones; his brother … Continue reading

Updated on June 18, 2013
Posted under: Reports, Video
Tags: Checkpoint 56, Child Arrest, Hebron

Settler Tour, settler harassment in occupied Khalil

Posted on: June 16, 2013

16th June 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil Team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine
On Saturday, June 15, Israeli settlers and occupation soldiers spread through the old city of Hebron as part of a very provocative weekly tour that disrupts the daily lives of Palestinians living in the area. This week, soldiers also invaded the homes of several Palestinian families and climbed onto the roofs without the families’ consent.

Activist blocks the door trying to prevent soldiers from entering … Continue reading

Updated on June 16, 2013
Posted under: Reports
Tags: Hebron, Settler tour

Journal: Settler harassment in Tel Rumeida

Posted on: June 15, 2013

View on the old city of Hebron from Tel Rumeida (Photo by: Activestills)

15th June 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Saeeda | Hebron, Occupied Palestine
I am an ISM activist living in the occupied city of Hebron. I arrived home late in the evening of Friday, June 14, and outside my door some of the neighborhood kids had built a small fire and were cooking corn. They tried to sell me a piece for a couple of shekels but I was more interested in sleeping at that point of the night. I put on some music and started cleaning up the apartment, but then I heard yelling outside my house. … Continue reading

Updated on June 15, 2013
Posted under: Journals
Tags: Hebron, Settler harassment, Tel Rumeida

Journal: A word of caution from settlers to internationals in Hebron

Posted on: June 11, 2013

11th June 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil Team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine
On the evening of Thursday, 6 June 2013, a fellow activist and I were walking home from an innocent venture to get a refrigerator door in the Prayers’ Road area of the H2 area of Hebron. My companion saw out of the corner of her eye one Palestinian youth throw one rock at one settler car, then scuttle away before anyone could approach him. The settler got out of his car and ran to the nearest checkpoint and gave a description of the Palestinian … Continue reading

Updated on June 11, 2013
Posted under: Journals
Tags: Hebron, Settler harassment, Settler violence, Settlers, Shuhada Street

School’s out; harassment continues in Hebron

Posted on: June 11, 2013

11th June 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil Team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine
The Hebron street where the Israeli army and Police have recently been regularly intimidating schoolchildren and teachers was today the scene of harassment of a different nature.

Israeli military stopping cars in Hebron (Photo by ISM)
Tareq Bin Ziyad Street in Hebron was the scene of a mass arrest of schoolchildren earlier this year and intimidation continued until the end of the school year. Now that school’s out for summer, soldiers … Continue reading

Updated on June 11, 2013
Posted under: Reports
Tags: Checkpoint, Hebron, Israeli military

Hebron man arrested for filing complaint about settler attack

Posted on: June 8, 2013

Jawad Abu Eysheh being handcuffed and arrested (Photo by Youth Against Settlements)

8th June 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil Team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine
Human rights activist Jawad Abu Eysheh, 39, was arrested Friday 7th June following a complaint he made four months ago about a settler attack.
At 4:20 pm on 7th June, Israeli Police arrived at the house of the Hebron organisation Youth Against Settlements and demanded to see the ID’s of Jawad and three other men present. The police then told Jawad that they wanted to take him away ‘for investigation’, and called the Israeli military to escort Jawad away in handcuffs.

Updated on June 8, 2013
Posted under: Reports
Tags: Arrests, Hebron, Settler harassment, Youth Against Settlements

Two men arrested and a woman hospitalised in Hebron house raid

Posted on: June 3, 2013

3rd June 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil Team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine

A 58 year-old Palestinian man and his 28 year-old son were arrested and his wife hospitalised after Israeli soldiers invaded their home, smashing furniture and breaking electronic goods over a three hour period. Four more houses within the same building were also ransacked.

Yesterday at around 2.30pm, at least ten soldiers invaded the home of Mohammed Fathi Jabari (58) on the Western Prayer Road in the Israeli-controlled H2 area of Hebron. During the incident, the soldiers forced the residents all into … Continue reading

Updated on June 3, 2013
Posted under: Reports
Tags: Arrests, H2, Hebron, House raid, Israeli Army, Ransacking

Weekly settler tour invades old Hebron, disrupting lives of Palestinians

Posted on: June 2, 2013

Settlers and soldiers block streets in the souq - restricting Palestinian movement

2nd June 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil Team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine

On Saturday the 1st June, another group of illegal settlers of Hebron and other settler tourists invaded the old city of Hebron, a Palestinian area which is tightly controlled by the Israeli military. Palestinian homes were invaded by the soldiers and several incidents of violence and harassment were reported.

Settlers and soldiers block streets in the souq – restricting Palestinian movement – (Photo by ISM)

The … Continue reading

Updated on June 4, 2013
Posted under: Reports
Tags: Hebron, Settler tour, Settlers

Military presence at Hebron schools – regular updates

Posted on: May 28, 2013

Soldiers situated on roofs and in the road outside schools

7th May 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Team Khalil | Hebron, Occupied Palestine

Regular updates on harassment of Palestinian schoolchildren by Israeli military in Hebron monitored by the International Solidarity Movement.

30th May, Soldiers hiding down a side-alley outside the school

30th May: Today was the last day before the summer holidays for some schools in Hebron. Children received their typical morning welcome from 7am, in the form of four military jeeps waiting at the checkpoint and several heavily armed soldiers hiding up a … Continue reading