Hebron

Protesters in Hebron mark Prisoners Day

Posted on: April 17, 2011

Remembering Palestinian prisoners in Hebron

17 April 2011 | International Solidarity Movement

Today, approximately 1,000 protesters in Hebron marked Palestinian Prisoners day with a demonstration calling for Israel to release Palestinian prisoners. At the same time thousands of prisoners joined in a one-day hunger strike to protest their treatment and their legal rights as prisoners.

Protesters in Hebron began by gathering at the Eben Roshd school in Hebron City. Amongst the participants were families of prisoners, members of the Palestinian Authority and international activists. After … Continue reading

Updated on April 18, 2011
Posted under: Reports
Tags: Hebron, Prisoner

The sharp end of Hebron

Posted on: April 11, 2011

11 April 2011 | Issa Amro

Hebron’s problems began after 1967. The Israeli army worked hard to create the Kiryat Arba settlement, and after that the settlers and soldiers started living inside Hebron, transforming it into an occupied city. We started to feel it when they created settlements in the heart of the city. In the early 1980s settlers started to come from all over the world, moving into our houses and markets. They treated Palestinians as slaves and animals, fourth-class humans, only there to be taken advantage of.

All this was not so obvious until 1994 and the Ibrahimi Mosque massacre, … Continue reading

Updated on April 11, 2011
Posted under: Journals
Tags: Hebron, Shuhada Street

Hebron experiences more settler violence

Posted on: April 1, 2011

1st April 2010 | International Solidarity Movement / Ma’an News Agency

According to Ma’an News Agency, in the past 48 hours the residents of Hebron have suffered a number of attacks by settlers. On Thursday a three year old girl was hospitalised in a hit-an-run attack by a settler car, outside the Al-Ibrahimi Mosque. Witnesses apparently report that the Israeli army was present at the time of the incident. This is the third time in March that Israeli settlers have hit Palestinians in their cars before fleeing the scene. Also on Thursday, settlers destroyed the contents of a store … Continue reading

Updated on April 1, 2011
Posted under: Reports
Tags: Hebron, Settlers

Israeli settler stabs Palestinian in At-Tuwani

Posted on: March 22, 2011

21 March 2011 | Operation Dove

At-Tuwani – On the morning of March 21st, 2011 soon after 7 o’clock a Palestinian man from the village of Tuba was attacked while he was going with his donkey to the village of At-Tuwani. Not far from the first house of the village a masked settler, coming from the Havat Ma’on outpost, ambushed him and stabbed him in his right arm and in his chest.

An inhabitant of At-Tuwani witnessed the incident from a close distance and immediately informed the other … Continue reading

Updated on March 22, 2011
Posted under: Reports
Tags: At-Tuwani, Hebron

Provocations and attacks by Israeli settlers obstruct Palestinian nonviolent action in the South Hebron Hills: two Palestinians are arrested

Posted on: March 22, 2011

19 March 2011 | Operation Dove

At-Tuwani – Saturday morning, around 9:00 am, during a nonviolent action, the inhabitants of At-Tuwani, accompanied by several international, planted some olive trees in Palestinian-owned Humra valley. In addition, during the action some shepherds of the village decided to graze their flocks in the area.

Immediately, several Israeli army jeep reached the area to monitor the situation. Soon after, settlers from the Havat Ma’on outpost, some of them masked, began to approach and provoke the Palestinians. They walked among their flocks and close to the women who were gathering herbs in … Continue reading

Updated on May 1, 2011
Posted under: Press Releases
Tags: Arrests, At-Tuwani, Closed military zone, Havat Ma'on Settlement, Hebron, Operation Dove, Settlers, South Hebron Hills

Settlers torch Palestinian car in Tel Rumeida, Hebron

Posted on: March 12, 2011

Soldiers speak to family of the owner of the torched car

12 March 2011 | International Solidarity Movement

At 8 PM tonight Palestinians living in the Tel Rumeida settlement, Hebron, discovered a flaming car parked just outside H2 that had been torched by settlers. They called the fire department, and ISM activists came to document the scene soon after the fire had been put out. No pictures were taken of the car while it was in flames, but witnesses say that earlier today they filmed seven or eight settlers walking up … Continue reading

Updated on March 12, 2011
Posted under: Reports
Tags: Hebron, Tel Rumeida

Hebron witnesses increase in settler harassment following al-Shuhada street demonstration

Posted on: March 3, 2011

02 March 2011 | International Solidarity Movement

Sunday a shop in Tel Rumeida was attacked by a middle-aged settler who smashed the shop’s window with a stick. Of the two shopkeepers inside, one was disabled in a wheelchair. The other went out and was then attacked by the settler. Soldiers from the nearby checkpoint did not aid or intervene on behalf of the shopkeeper. When ISM arrived at the site, nearly 20 soldiers were pushing away the palestinians near the shop, while allowing settlers to pass. A Palestinian teenager was arrested and brought in for questioning. He was released the same … Continue reading

Updated on March 3, 2011
Posted under: Reports
Tags: Hebron, Settlers, Tel Rumeida, Temporary International Presence in Hebron

Many injured and several detained at al-Shuhada street demonstration

Posted on: February 26, 2011

26 February 2011 | International Solidarity Movement

Hundreds gathered in Hebron on Friday to march against the continued closure of al-Shuhada Street. The non-violent protestors were met with tear gas, sound grenades, and rubber bullets from the Israeli army. Witnesses also said that the army fired tear gas canisters directly at the protestors, which is illegal under international law. Organizers say 20 people were taken to hospital – around half for physical injuries, the rest to be treated for tear gas inhalation – and one Israeli, two Palestinians, and three internationals were detained. Military sources say that only one arrest was … Continue reading

Updated on February 26, 2011
Posted under: Reports
Tags: Demonstration, Hebron, Shuhada Street

CPT: Israeli military demolishes village of Amniyr

Posted on: February 22, 2011

22 February 2011 | Operation Dove & Christian Peacemaker Team

Amniyr, South Hebron Hills, West Bank: At 5 AM this morning the Israeli army, accompanied by members of the Israeli District Coordinating Office, arrived at the village of Amniyr and demolished five tent-houses, two cisterns and the village’s olive trees. The demolitions effectively destroyed the entire village and left its three families homeless. All that remained unharmed after the military left was a cave and a small taboun oven.

According to villagers, the military had been coming frequently for the past several months and delivering demolition orders and maps claiming that the … Continue reading

Updated on March 3, 2011
Posted under: Reports
Tags: Christian Peacemaker Team, Hebron, House demolition, Operation Dove, South Hebron Hills

CPT: Masked Israeli settlers chase schoolchildren, give directions to Border Police

Posted on: February 8, 2011

8 February 2011 | Operation Dove & Christian Peacemaker Team

On the afternoon of 7 February 2011, three Israeli settlers from Havat Ma’on outpost chased a group of 12 Palestinian schoolchildren who were walking home from school. The Israeli military had failed to arrive to escort the schoolchildren, forcing the children to take a longer path without the army’s escort.

Shortly after the schoolchildren and Christian Peacemaker Teams(CPT) volunteers set out on the path towards Tuba and Maghayir al-Abeed villages, Israeli settlers, two of whom were masked, emerged from the grouping of trees which encompasses Havat Ma’on and began moving towards the … Continue reading