by ISM Hebron, November 26th November 15 At 12 noon a human rights worker at the crossing on Tel Rumeida St. noticed that there were two settlers on top of the military outpost on Palestinian land next to a huge ...
Read More »Palestinian children forced to go the long way home
by ISM Hebron, November 21st At 11:50am: several HRWs (human rights workers) left the apartment to begin monitoring the return of Palestinian school children. The children left school with no problems. The HRWs stayed on Al Shuhada St. and monitored ...
Read More »Another attack on human rights worker by Hebron settlers
by ISM Hebron, November 23rd At 11.30 three of us went to the olive groves to protect the Palestinian families living in isolated homes among the olive trees. Two settlers came towards us from the Seyaj House yelling abuse at ...
Read More »Amnesty International: “Israel: Fear for Safety”
23 November 2006, PUBLIC AI Index: MDE 15/092/2006 — UA 315/06 Fear for safety URGENT ACTION, ISRAEL/OT: Human rights defenders in the Occupied Territories Human rights defenders working in the Occupied Territories are at risk of attack by Israeli settlers. ...
Read More »Another Shabbat Trespass on Abu Haikal Land
By ISM Hebron The Abu Haikals had heard that the settlers were planning to trespass on their land again for a Shabbat celebration. A Human Rights Worker (HRW) visiting in the Abu Haikal house called the District Co-ordinating Office (DCO) ...
Read More »Large mob of Israeli settlers drive Palestinians from Tuba
by Operation Dove, November 19th At 8:45am 50 adult, male, Israeli settlers some of whom were carrying guns, walked from the illegal Israeli outpost of Havot Ma’on (Hill 833) toward the small Palestinian village of Tuba. On the way, they ...
Read More »Maariv: “The settlers’ welcome: a bottle in the head”
Translation from original Hebrew by Rann Bar-on. Tove Liljeholm, a 19-year old woman from Sweden, was attacked by settlers in Hebron, who threw a bottle at her while she was assisting Palestinian children. “Afterwards, they laughed” by Itamar Inbari, November ...
Read More »Streets of Hate: a journal entry on attacks in Hebron
by aspiringnomad, November 20th His panic-stricken little face lights up when he receives the information that we’ll escort him home, sending him skipping merrily down the road on an errand to buy potatoes. This is the Palestinian Authority controlled area ...
Read More »Tuwani accompaniment reaps partial success, despite settler farce
by aspiringnomad On Saturday 18th November a group of Israeli and international human rights workers met up with Palestinian farmers to plow fields in the shadow of an illegal Israeli outpost near the village of Tuwani. The joint Israeli-international accompaniment ...
Read More »Swedish human rights worker viciously attacked by Jewish extremists in Hebron
by ISM Hebron, November 18 UPDATE, November 22nd: Tove has been released from hospital and will return home soon. The Jerusalem Post has reported Swedish government dissatisfaction with the Israeli investigation into the attack on Tove: “The Swedish government is ...
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