Category: Hebron

  • Injured and forced to walk

    Injured and forced to walk

    27th August 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine It was a warm Saturday night in late August in al-Khalil (Hebron). For the Palestinian children school was starting the next day, and a feeling of anticipation and excitement for a new year of learning floated over the hot Palestinian night. A group of…

  • 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…