Category: Reports

  • George Orwell meets Mel Brooks in detention of international activist

    by Jack English 20 January 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The ongoing repression of international activists took a turn for the ridiculous on Thursday night in Al Khalil, also known as Hebron. At approximately 7:30pm on January 19th, an activist approached a military checkpoint en route to his apartment, where two soldiers on duty,…

  • Eight homes ordered to be demolished in Khalit Al-Dar

    Eight homes ordered to be demolished in Khalit Al-Dar

    by Jack English 17 January 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On January 4th, an Israeli military commander served 8 demolition orders in the town of Khalit Al-Dar, just south of the city of Al-Khalil, also known as Hebron. The reason given for issuing demolition orders to the families is that they have built…

  • Israeli army complicit in settler car-burning

    by Sarah 17 January 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On Sunday, the 16th of January, at approximately 2 AM, about fifty settlers, accompanied by Israeli soldiers, entered the Abu Haikal family’s field in the neighborhood of Tel Rumeideh in Hebron. After throwing stones at the family’s house, they savagely burnt the car of…

  • 17 January 2009 – The Al Ashqar family

    17 January 2009 – The Al Ashqar family

    17 January 2012 | Palestinian Centre for Human Rights “Madleen refuses to sleep by herself; she will only sleep in her parent’s room” says Nujoud, “she’s afraid to be by herself at all. The other day we were in the garden and I asked her to go to the bedroom to bring something. She refused…

  • 16 January 2009 – The Shurrab family

    16 January 2009 – The Shurrab family

    16 January 2012 | Palestinian Centre for Human Rights “Can I go to a court to restore my sons? No” says Mohammed. “What is the point in bringing the soldiers who killed my sons to justice when there will simply be more and more after them? When others will lose their sons as well? Soldiers…