Category: Reports

  • Roof occupation in Hebron

    At 1 PM on November 1, 2007, six soldiers began occupying the roof of the house of the Ewawy family in the old city of Hebron, while only a 14 year old girl, who had just returned from school, was at home. The girl began screaming for help, and neighbors called for international human rights…

  • Ambulance stopped at checkpoint in Hebron

    October 30th, 2007 Today in the old city of Hebron, an ambulance carrying a Palestinian woman to her home was delayed by Israeli soldiers for two hours at the entrance to the Israeli occupied area of Beit Romano. Traveling from Jerusalem following intensive surgery, the woman, Ms. Abuhaikal from Tel Rumeida, was forced to wait…

  • Bedouin Village facing demolition near Bir Nabala

    *A villager looks toward the Apartheid Wall that has separated the village members. 18 members of the village are behind the Wall, which now takes 2 hours driving to reach.* In September this year, a village north of Jerusalem was divided in two when the Israeli government completed another section of the Apartheid Wall. The…

  • Rev. Dr. Naim Ateek of Sabeel defamed in Boston Globe – by two op-ed’s

    The combination of opeds: one from Jeff Jacoby and the other from CAMERA says more about the Globe than either of the slanderous pieces written. Tactics are the usual: Criticism of Israel or it’s brutal and illegal and immoral policies is anti-Semitic….. But both of these opeds are particularly disgusting. Please write and call the…

  • Targetted assault on Palestinian teen in Hebron

    On the evening of Tuesday October 23, a 15 year old boy, Hamze Shweke, was detained by the Israeli army at the Tel Rumeida checkpoint. The soldiers approached the boy sitting at one of the checkpoints and told him that he had five seconds to leave. The night before Hamze had been assaulted by the…