Category: Hebron

  • Shepherds detained for crossing a road

    Shepherds detained for crossing a road

    26th August 2014 | International Solidarity Movement | Qawawis, Occupied Palestine While shepherding approximately 1 km south of Qawawis, a village south of al-Khalil (Hebron), on Sunday 24th near the illegal settlement and army base of Suseya, three shepherds were stopped by the Israeli army and detained for 20 minutes. The three shepherds were just on their way back…

  • VIDEO: 15 tear gas grenades and 5 stun grenades fired at schoolchildren

    VIDEO: 15 tear gas grenades and 5 stun grenades fired at schoolchildren

    25th August 2014 | International Solidarity Movement | Hebron, Occupied Palestine Today in al-Khalil (Hebron), Israeli forces fired 15 tear gas grenades and canisters, as well as five stun grenades at children as they waited to go to school. Each morning and afternoon the children of al-Khalil, some as young as four-years-old, are forced to cross…

  • Resistance and tear gas

    Resistance and tear gas

    21st August 2014 | Saeeda Al-Rashid | Occupied Palestine It’s late May [2013], and the air is stifling. Heat sizzles from the pavement, and Khalili youth, though well-adapted to these conditions, can be seen wiping sweat from their brows as they trek home from school. A few trickle through Checkpoint 56 into the Tel Rumeida neighborhood, formally designated Israeli-controlled territory…