Category: Hebron
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“When the soldiers saw him coming with the flag they drew their guns and shot him”: Cold blooded murder of 19-year-old in Dura
3rd July 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil Team | Dura, Occupied Palestine On Tuesday, between two and four a.m., the Israeli occupation forces invaded the town of Dura, near Hebron in the West Bank and killed 19-year-old Moataz Idris Sharawneh. They shot him with three dum-dum bullets to the chest (a weapon declared illegal…
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98 year old woman teargassed during military invasion of residential neighborhood in Khalil
1st July 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil Team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine On Sunday, 30th June, the Israeli forces in Khalil fired tear gas canisters in a residential area near the Ibrahimi Mosque. The soldiers claimed that this followed an incident of young Palestinian boys throwing rocks towards the checkpoint. The teargas canisters landed…
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“We don’t care” – A shocking response from Israeli soldiers arresting children in Hebron
28th June 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil Team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine Two brothers aged 10 and 13 were today taken by the Israeli occupation forces whilst playing outside their home in the old city of Hebron. They were forcibly taken to the military base on Shuhada Street which is closed to Palestinians, while…
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‘They have two roads on our land already, why do they need a third…?’
27th June 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil Team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine In the Wadi al-Hussein area of Hebron, Israeli occupation forces have started to build a new road ‘for military purposes’. The route of the road is from the illegal settlement of Kiryat Arba towards the city centre, directly across Palestinian-owned land. A…
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Witness to a child arrest in occupied Hebron
24th June 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil Team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine Since coming to the West Bank I had heard a lot about the Israeli army detaining and arresting children. Despite this, the first time I saw it myself, I was amazed. Amazed that people – young soldiers – could intimidate, harass and…
