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Hebron: Israeli military targets Palestinian children for searches and detention

Posted on: January 15, 2010

Christian Peacemaker Team Hebron

In the last month, the Israeli military has been detaining children for extended lengths of time in the Old City, and at times appearing to be “practicing” soldiery by randomly selecting boys off the street and searching them.

In one incident, a fifteen-year-old neighbor of the Hebron team was cutting a rope on a package of materials in his father’s shop when soldiers saw him. They grabbed him, blindfolded him, and led him off to their military gate at another checkpoint close to a settlement. The father followed the soldiers, pleading for his son, trying … Continue reading


Updated on January 15, 2010
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From Hebron to Nablus

Posted on: December 27, 2009
From Hebron to Nablus

From Pork to Palestine Blog

27 December 2009

I’m banned from Sheikh Jarrah and occupied East Jerusalem so I spent the last two days in Hebron and recently arrived in Nablus.

Hebron is one of the oldest inhabited cities in the world and the place where Isaac and Ishmael buried their father, Abraham, signaling a reconciliating between the two feuding brothers. Unfortunately there is no such reconciliation in Hebron today.

Hebron is unlike any place I’ve ever seen before. The old city reminds me of the old city in Jerusalem, except … Continue reading


Updated on December 29, 2009
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The US cash behind extremist settlers

Posted on: December 8, 2009

Andrew Kadi and Aaron Levitt | guardian.co.uk

8 December 2009

The Hebron Fund is raising vast sums for Israeli settlements that violate the Geneva convention, with little scrutiny

Last month, a Brooklyn-based non-profit organisation called the Hebron Fund, which supports Jewish settlers in the Israeli-occupied city of Hebron, held a fundraiser at the New York Mets’ stadium, Citi Field.

The fundraiser went forward despite calls for its cancellation from grassroots human rights organisations from the US, Palestine and Israel. The fact that the Hebron Fund likely raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for extremist Israeli settlers at a major US venue with … Continue reading


Updated on December 10, 2009
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Letter to family and friends: Bir el-Eid, West Bank

Posted on: December 6, 2009

I have now been in the village of Bir el-Eid for three weeks. This has been a great time of connecting with the people here, helping with chores with the sheep, going out in the hills with the sheep, and helping rebuild the village.

Israeli settlers attacked a flock of sheep on Saturday, November 28. About 30 Israeli soldiers and police came and did nothing except to remove all the Israeli peace activists from the area.

A major issue continues to be whether Palestinians can use the road they built and paid for back in 1984, or whether they have … Continue reading


Updated on January 6, 2010
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Shock follows footage of settler running over Palestinian

Posted on: December 3, 2009

Ma’an News

3 December 2009

An amateur video shocked Palestinians on Tuesday, catching what appeared to be an Israeli settler repeatedly running over a wounded Palestinian at a gas station in Hebron last week.

The Palestinian, an unidentified man shot several times following an alleged knife attack at the station, appeared to be staggering when a silver Mercedes ran him down, stopped, reversed, and ran him over again.

The video was reportedly taken on Thursday, although at the time, Israeli representatives made no mention of the settler’s alleged attack, telling reporters only that a Palestinian man had been shot after he stabbed and … Continue reading


Updated on December 3, 2009
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Peace activists say beaten by settlers

Posted on: November 18, 2009

Tal Rabinovsky | YNet News

18 November 2009

Two foreign peace activists say they were assaulted by settlers Tuesday in South Mount Hebron while accompanying a Palestinian family to the village of Tuba. One of the activists was reportedly kicked in the stomach and needed medical attention. The two women, who filed a complaint with the police, had their cameras stolen as well.

“My colleague and I were with a family that was on its way home when we were harassed and assaulted by settlers,” Sarah MacDonald, one of the activists, told Ynet.

MacDonald, who is hear as part of her activities with … Continue reading


Updated on November 18, 2009
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Baseball team urged to cut ties with Israeli group

Posted on: November 14, 2009

Eli Clifton | IPS News

14 November 2009

A coalition of 11 U.S., Israeli and Palestinian groups are calling on the New York Mets baseball team to cancel a fundraiser by the “violent and racist” Israeli Hebron Fund which is scheduled to be held at the Mets’ stadium, Citi Field, on Nov. 21.

The Hebron Fund participates in “the raising of capital for the improvement of daily life for the residents of Hebron, Israel”, a city in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, according to its website, but the Fund has been accused of encouraging violence towards Palestinians and participating in illegal … Continue reading


Updated on November 17, 2009
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Eleven organizations demand that Mets cancel Citi Field fundraiser for Israeli settlers

Posted on: November 4, 2009

Adalah NY

4 November 2009

Eleven organizations from the US, Palestine and Israel have called on baseball’s New York Mets to cancel a November 21st dinner at the Caesars Club at Citi Field for the Brooklyn-based Hebron Fund. The dinner is a fundraiser for Israeli settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank City of Hebron. In a letter sent to the Mets on November 3rd, the groups said, “The New York Mets will be facilitating activities that directly violate international law and the Obama administration’s call for a freeze in settlement construction, and that actively promote racial discrimination, and the ethnic … Continue reading


Updated on November 4, 2009
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Israeli army set cars on fire close to the southern Green Line

Posted on: October 16, 2009
Israeli army set cars on fire close to the southern Green Line

13 October 2009

During the last week, the Israeli army patrolling the area close to the Green Line in the South Hebron Hills, started to destroy and burn cars they suspected belonged to Palestinians trying to travel inside Israel for work without permit. On the 12 and 13 October, activists from different groups documented seven destroyed cars in the area.

When the Israeli soldiers approach a car they want to target, they … Continue reading


Updated on October 16, 2009
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Bedouin community declared ‘closed military area’ while residents attempted to build new poultry-house

Posted on: October 15, 2009
Umm al-Kheir

13 October 2009

On Tuesday, 13 October 2009, Israeli soldiers and police prevented the residents of Umm al-Kheir, located in the South Hebron Hills, from finishing the construction of a new chicken house. The families are not allowed by the army to build houses and are therefore living in tents that are located just outside the gate to the illegal settlement of Carmel.

During the day one of the families started to build a small house, approximately 2,5 x 3m, using stones and cement, … Continue reading


Updated on October 16, 2009
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