International Solidarity Movement Nonviolence. Justice. Freedom.
29th May 2006. Tel Rumeida, Hebron
5:30 pm, Shuhada St, near Bet Haddasah settlement
Four settler children were throwing stones at a Palestinian home. The two youngest were less than four years old and the older two were between 7 and 8 years of age. A Danish Human Rights Worker (HRW) approached the Israeli soldier on duty, and asked him to stop the children. The older two settler children then turned on the Danish HRW, and began throwing stones at him, one of which hit an Australian HRW who was filming the incident.
The entire incident lasted about five minutes, and ended when the soldier on duty called for backup.
7:30 pm, Tel Rumeida St, just outside the ISM apartment
A Spainish HRW was in the street playing football with some Palestinian children. Ten or twelve settler children, around thirteen years of age came up Shuhada st, swearing at the Palestinian children. The HRW and a Palestinian man went to stand in the entrance of a nearby Palestinian store. The children threw stones at them, until the soldier on duty shooed them away. They moved up Tel Rumeida road, to a nearby Palestinian house, taking a table from the front yard and tossing it into the street.
When they moved further up Tel Rumeida strett, the HRW tried to return the table, at which point the settlers threw stones at him again.
