Category: Hebron
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When it is illegal to use your front door: Freedom of movement in Al Khalil
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…
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Settler Violence: Broken Glass on Shuhada Street
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…
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The massacre of 1929 and the War of Narratives
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…
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Closed shops, empty pockets: Israel’s policy of economic strangulation 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…
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Idhna: Tent replaces home as local resists illegal Israeli land confiscations
by Sylvia 16 February 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Idhna has suffered considerably since the Israeli occupation, particularly due to the construction of the segregation wall and some 3,000 dunums of land which has been stolen since the second Intifada. Idhna is surrounded by the Israeli settlements of Adora and Telem to the…
