Category: Hebron

  • Big turn out and high spirits at Wadi Fukin Land Day olive tree planting and protest

    Big turn out and high spirits at Wadi Fukin Land Day olive tree planting and protest

    31th March 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, al Khalil Team | Wadi Fukin, Occupied Palestine On Monday March 30th about two hundred people commemorated Land Day in the village of Wadi Fukin. The protest, which involved planting olive trees was a response to Israeli theft of village land. After midday prayer around two hundred Palestinians and internationals…

  • Stories from Al Arroub refugee camp

    Stories from Al Arroub refugee camp

    28th March 2015 | International Women’s Peace Service | Al Arroub refugee camp, Occupied Palestine Situated along the main Hebron-Jerusalem road, across the street from a University, sits the heavily fenced and concrete blockaded main entrance to Al Arroub Palestinian refugee camp. Taysir, a 39 year old former prisoner of the Israeli government and resident of the camp,…

  • Israeli forces raid yet another family’s home in Tel Rumeida

    Israeli forces raid yet another family’s home in Tel Rumeida

    11th March 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil Team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine Yesterday on the 10th of March around 1 AM in occupied Al-Khalil (Hebron), Israeli occupation forces raided the home of human rights activist Imad Abu Shamsiya and his family. The soldiers turned the house upside-down; the family watched as soldiers broke one of their cameras and stole…