Category: Hebron
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Palestinians and ISM’ers clean up after demolition of Palestinian home
20th August 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil team | al-Walja, Occupied Palestine At 10am on the 18th of August in al-Walja, north of Bethlehem, the Israeli army demolished the residence of a Palestinian man. The man was alone on his land when the solders arrived with a bulldozer. The soldiers stated that they had a court…
