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You and Whose Army?
by Sholmo Bloom. Journal entry providing further insight to a previously published report on the same incident. It’s Shabbat, the Jewish holy day, also the day when the settlers cause the most trouble in Tel Rumeida. I was sitting on Shuhada street with two human rights workers when a Palestinian woman came walked by and…
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Israeli Colonists Assault Palestinian, HRW and Steal Camera
by the Tel Rumeida Project and ISM Hebron At approximately 2pm on September 9th, 2006, six young settler men, between the ages of 16 and 19, moved down Shuhada Street, in Tel Rumeida, from the neighborhood checkpoint towards Beit Hadassah settlement. An elderly Palestinian woman was sweeping her stoop slightly more than halfway down the…
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Haaretz: “90% of Palestinian complaints to police ‘unsolved’ “
by Avi Issacharoff, from Ha’aretz, 11th September 2006. Followed by a collection of links to ISM reports on complaints to the Israeli police from which nothing has come. A total of 90 percent of the complaints filed by Palestinians in the West Bank against Israeli citizens for violent attacks have been closed without charges being…
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Israeli Settlers Harrass Palestinians, Soldiers Detain Human Rights Worker
by Tel Rumeida Project and ISM Hebron September 9th, 2006 Around 2pm today, while sitting on the top of the hill in Tel Rumeida, Hebron, soldiers ordered Palestinian children and Human Rights Workers (HRWs) to stop playing football in the street. The HRW asked the soldier what the problem was, and he replied, “You’re bothering…
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RMIT University press: “Mary’s Middle East mission”
Interview from community radio of RMIT university, Melbourne, Australia A former RMIT University lecturer has become a volunteer peacekeeper on a Middle East frontline – at 75. Mary Baxter, who lectured in statistics and mathematics from 1968 to 1996, is based in Tel Rumeida, a suburb of the Palestinian city of Hebron in the West…
