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International Solidarity: Photos for the liberation of Shuhada Street

Posted on: March 5, 2012
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5 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement
On February 20th, International Solidarity Movement put out a call for the international community to express their solidarity with the people of Al Khalil (Hebron) and the cause to open Shuhada Street. Individuals from all over the world took part in this symbolic campaign, which came just as locals in Al Khalil launched a week of activities and rallies to invoke the resilience of Palestine and its resistance against apartheid in their communities. Marking the 18th anniversary of the Ibrahimi … Continue reading


Updated on March 5, 2012
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Tel Rumeida: As locals march for rights, Israel sprays funeral procession and injures journalist

Posted on: February 27, 2012
The march for Shuhada Street | Click here for more photos

by Aaron and Silvia
26 February 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank
The divided city of Al Khalil (Hebron) was transformed into a war zone this Friday, as thousands of Palestinian, Israeli, and international activists attempted to peacefully reopen the segregated Shuhada Street and were violently attacked by the Israeli military. Soldiers and riot police used tear gas, sound bombs, sonic weapons, and foul-smelling ‘skunk water’ to break up demonstrations at three different locations, resulting in numerous injuries that sent at least 95 to area hospitals. The demonstrations were the culmination of a week of … Continue reading


Updated on February 27, 2012
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Military radio targets protesters for future arrests

Posted on: February 25, 2012
Military radio targets protesters for future arrests

24 February 2012 | Israeli Military Radio- Online

Shuhada Street in Hebron today may become the scene of a confrontation, as hundreds of left-wing Jews and Arabs are expected to march there to protest the closure of Shuhada Street from Palestinians. Police and army will attempt to keep order.

At 12:00 today (Friday) hundreds of leftists, anarchists and Palestinians are expected to arrive  in Hebron, walk along Shuhada Street, which is closed to Palestinians. Security forces are preparing for the demonstration and are trying to prevent it from sliding into serious violence and keeping the peace.

Right-wing activist Baruch Marzel, commented on protesters Issa Amr and others, stating: ”I expect the security forces to deal with terrorist Issa Amro and all partners who attack IDF soldiers… Issa Amro has been rampamtly inciting for years against the IDF soldiers, and no one does anything to him. ”


Updated on February 29, 2012
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In Photos: Clashes in Hebron’s Old city during a ‘Open Shudada Street’ rally

Posted on: February 24, 2012
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by Emilie Baujard

24 February 2012 | Demotix
Hundreds of Palestinian and international activists protest in Hebron calling for the city’s al-Shuhada Street to be opened up to Palestinian traffic. The Israeli Army dispersed the protestors with stun grenades and tear gas.  The Israeli Army entered the Old City to disperse the demonstration.

Palestinian youth activist and native of Al Bireh, Fadi Quran,was pepper sprayed in the face, assaulted, and arrested by Israeli forces while attending a protest calling for the reopening of a major thoroughfare for Palestinians in the city of … Continue reading


Updated on February 25, 2012
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When it is illegal to use your front door: Freedom of movement in Al Khalil

Posted on: February 23, 2012
Israei military checking IDs along Shuhada Street

by Andreas

23 February 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank

Al-Khalil (Hebron) is a divided city. As a result of the Oslo agreements negotiated in the 1990s – the people of Al Khalil  became familiar with two new terms – H1 and H2. H1 refers to 80% of the city, which is officially under control of the Palestinian Authority, while H2 makes up the remaining 20% and falls under full Israeli military control.  In area H2 Palestinians are daily exposed to human rights violations to an extent that can hardly be overestated. Israel severely restricts Palestinian freedom of movement in H2 … Continue reading


Updated on February 23, 2012
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Settler Violence: Broken Glass on Shuhada Street

Posted on: February 22, 2012
Israeli military is seen often in Palestinian neighborhoods in Al Khalil

by Silvia

21 February 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank
Five years ago Abed Seder’s wife, Kefah, was shot five times in the chest by Israeli soldiers as she went onto her roof to check her water tank. She was 23 years old and left three sons motherless. He tells me his sons are afraid to go on the roof, which overlooks the illegal Zionist settlement of Beit Hadassah. To an international community, Abed’s struggle is one of trauma and loss, but he tells it with shockingly familiar regularity.

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Updated on February 22, 2012
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The massacre of 1929 and the War of Narratives

Posted on: February 21, 2012
Competing narratives of the 1929 Pogram - Click here for more images

by Aaron 

21 February 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank
If you ask an Israeli settler in or around Al-Khalil (Hebron) what calls them to live on contested land, most will speak to a religious connection to the city and the Cave of the Machpelach (“patriarchs”), where Jews, Muslims, and Christians come to revere the biblical figures believed to be buried there. A series of signs posted nearby along Shuhada Street, the once-main road and market district now closed to Palestinians, tell a story of Hebronite Jewish habitation dating from biblical times, brought to a sharp and bloody end … Continue reading


Updated on February 21, 2012
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Closed shops, empty pockets: Israel’s policy of economic strangulation in Hebron

Posted on: February 20, 2012
Palestinian shops have been forcefully closed by Israeli military due to illegal settler presence in Hebron.

by Paige L

20 February 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank
Walking down Shuhada Street in occupied Hebron (al-Khalil) is an eerie experience even during peek commercial hours in the rest of the city. Nearly empty streets are framed by rows of closed Palestinian shops, doors welded shut under Israeli military orders. Armed religious settlers walk freely through the streets, while Palestinian vehicular and pedestrian access is severely restricted. Signs in English and Hebrew assert a purely Jewish heritage in Hebron, telling a narrative that simultaneously erases the Palestinian history and rightful ownership, in an attempt to forge Israel’s … Continue reading


Updated on February 21, 2012
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