31st December | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine At approximately 14:30 yesterday afternoon, ISM activists approaching Checkpoint 56 from both directions found that it was closed and Palestinians were stuck on either side. Israeli soldiers gave conflicting excuses for closing the checkpoint, ...
Read More »Extremist settlers hurls abuse at injured ISM activist
26th December | Ally Cohen – originally posted on Mondoweiss | Hebron, Occupied Palestine Hebron, Palestine, December 24th. As we made our way to ‘checkpoint watch’ we were discussing what it would be like that morning, would there be tear gas? Stun grenades? ...
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17th December 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine Mohammad Saleh, a sixty-six-year-old Palestinian resident of Tel Rumeida, al-Khalil (Hebron), waited with his mule outside Shuhada checkpoint for nine hours over the course of two days. He ...
Read More »VIDEO: Non-violent protest met with tear gas and stun grenades
29th November 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine Today in al-Khalil (Hebron) families gathered to stage a peaceful demonstration protesting the continuing closure of the Shuhada checkpoint. The rally consisted of approximately 50 Palestinians, of ...
Read More »20-year-old Palestinian activist violently detained and arrested at Hebron checkpoint
28th November 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine Israeli forces violently detained and arrested twenty-year-old Palestinian activist Imad Altrash at approximately two o’clock yesterday in al-Khalil (Hebron). Soldiers accused him of insulting and yelling at ...
Read More »Israeli military beat and detain young men in Hebron
23rd November 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil | Hebron, Occupied Palestine Yesterday evening Israeli forces beat and detained young Palestinians on Tel Rumeida hill in al-Khalil (Hebron). A twenty-two-year-old man was taken from the scene by an ambulance. Four ...
Read More »Israeli forces seize a tractor, its truck, four water tanks, and three bases from Susiya village
22nd November 2014 | Operation Dove | Susiya, Occupied Palestine On November 20th, the Israeli forces seized a tractor, its truck, four water tanks and three tanks’ bases from the Palestinian village of Susiya. In the early morning DCO [District Coordination ...
Read More »Armed settler invades schoolyard in Hebron
20th November 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine Yesterday, at approximately 11:00 in al-Khalil (Hebron) a settler from a nearby illegal settlement approached the Qurtuba school in H2 with a gun [H2 is the area of Hebron ...
Read More »Two Palestinian youths arrested in Hebron
20th November 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine Late yesterday afternoon in Hebron, Israeli forces arrested two Palestinian youths, 15-year-old Ahmed Alazeh and 21-year-old Dea’a Abu Dawoud. A local Palestinian contact reported to ISM that Alazeh was charged ...
Read More »Israeli forces fire 29 tear gas canisters towards youths and schoolchildren in Hebron
19th November 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine This morning in al-Khalil (Hebron), clashes broke out in the Qeitun area starting between 07:00 and 08:00 near the Qeitun checkpoint. By 08:00 the group of Palestinian teenagers and young boys ...
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