Category: Hebron

  • Tel Rumeida settlers occupy Palestinian land by cutting down trees and farming the land

    21st April 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Hebron, Occupied Palestine By Team Khalil Settlers from the Tel Rumeida area in Hebron gradually cut down 15 almond trees on privately owned Palestinian land over the last two weeks. The settlers also installed an irrigation system and planted seeds with the clear intention of taking over the…

  • Child arrests continue in Hebron

    20th April 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Hebron, Occupied Palestine UPDATE: Child arrests in Hebron continue today as a 15 year old Palestinian boy, Az Dweik, was arrested in the morning. He was allegedly carrying a knife around the Ibrahimi mosque and taken to the Kiryat Arba police station. The Israeli authorities regularly falsely accuse…

  • Settlers harass Palestinian residents of Hebron as soldiers watch on

    20th April 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Hebron, Occupied Palestine By Team Khalil Hashem Al-Azzeh, activist and resident of Tel Rumeida (a neighbourhood in Israeli-controlled H2 Hebron) was today attacked by Israeli settlers who broke into his brother’s house and attempted to force their way through his garden. Hashem caught the settlers leaving the house…

  • Twelve-year-old arrested and blindfolded in Hebron

    20th April 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Hebron, Occupied Palestine By Team Khalil Ahmed Ibn Bilal Abu Rumeileh, a 12-year-old boy from Hebron, was today arrested in the Old City and detained for over an hour before being released. Ahmed was riding his bike through Bab Al-Baladia when six Israeli soldiers stopped him and arrested…

  • Video: Soldiers continue to intimidate and provoke school children in Hebron

    17th April 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Hebron, Occupied Palestine By Team Khalil This morning an Israeli jeep drove around an area of Hebron that is home to 5 schools as children made their way to class. To get to school, the pupils of these schools already need to pass through a metal detector at…