Category: Hebron

  • A Palestinian story of resistance: The Abu Haikal family

    A Palestinian story of resistance: The Abu Haikal family

    31th May 2014 | Christian Peacemakers Team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine With only a sliver of their land left to protect, having their entire lot of land encircled by Israeli settlements, Faryel and Arwa Abu Haikal climbed over a pile of rubble and boulders and stopped the Israeli bulldozer from shearing further into their property, dumping their…

  • Israeli army arrest and beat two Palestinian men in Hebron

    Israeli army arrest and beat two Palestinian men in Hebron

    30th May 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine Thursday 29-May-2014. At approximately 11pm yesterday evening in al-Khalil (Hebron), ISM activists went to checkpoint 56 where they had been told there was an ongoing incident. Palestinian eyewitnesses gave the following account: About an hour earlier, two Palestinians youths were detained by the Israeli…

  • Four Palestinian 12-14 years old girls detained after settlers accused them of stealing cherries

    Four Palestinian 12-14 years old girls detained after settlers accused them of stealing cherries

    29th May 2014 | Operation Dove | At-Tuwani, Occupied Palestine On May 27th, four Palestinian 12-14 years old girls from the South Hebron hills villages of Tuba and Maghayir Al Abeed were arrested by the Israeli police on the charge of theft of cherries in a field in which Israeli settlers from Ma’on settlement are growing several cherry…