Operation Dove At-Tuwani – On the morning of Saturday, 12th June 2010, shortly before 11.00, about thirty Israeli settlers from Havat Ma’on oupost, masked and armed with slings and sticks, invaded At-Tuwani village, attacking the most exposed house of the ...
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Cultivating Resistance: Khirbet Bir al ‘Idd
International Solidarity Movement 27 February 2010 Last week, two small, rural outposts were awaiting two payloads from a 4×4 that was snaking its way along the winding, West Bank roads of the South Hebron hills. The first was the material ...
Read More »CPT: At-Tuwani Incident Report for December 2009
Christian Peacemaker Teams Summary: December 2009 was marked by invasions of Palestinian villages in the area by Israeli occupation forces, continued denial of the right of Palestinian children to access education, and consistent rejection of Palestinian owners’ rights to cultivate ...
Read More »Is it illegal to go to school?
25 December 2009 Is it illegal to go to school? That question has been asked many times in occupied Palestine. On 20 December 2009, the Israeli military confiscated a Palestinian vehicle used to transport children to and from school in ...
Read More »Israeli army forces children and teachers to walk an hour from school after confiscating truck
Christian Peacemaker Teams 20 December 2009 Masafer Yatta/South Hebron Hills – On Sunday, December 20, the Israeli army disrupted transportation of children and teachers from Al-Fakheit school to their homes. The Palestinian driver, accompanied by one CPTer, was on his ...
Read More »No freeze on Palestinian suffering
Seth Freedman | The Guardian 14 December 2009 Within minutes of our arrival in Tuwani, in the south Hebron hills of the West Bank, an army Jeep rolled into the village and shattered the mid-morning tranquillity. “We’re turning this place ...
Read More »Israeli military confiscates electricity pylons; Palestinians prohibited from improving quality of life
Christian Peacemaker Teams and Operation Dove 25 November 2009 For immediate release At-Tuwani, South Hebron hills – On Wednesday, 25 November, the Israeli military and police removed and confiscated two standing electricity pylons from the village of At-Tuwani. The electricity ...
Read More »Palestinians moving back to Bir el-Eid, a village from which they were expelled in 1999
22 November 2009 After spending a week in the modern city of Jerusalem, camping out on the street with a Palestinian family that the Israeli government had evicted from their home so that Israeli settlers could move into their house, ...
Read More »Israeli military stops work to bring electricity to At-Tuwani; confiscates building materials
Christian Peacemaker Team 30 October 2009 At-Tuwani – On Friday 30 October, the Israeli army forcibly stopped the electrical work of the village of At-Tuwani, located in the South Hebron hills. Officers from the Israeli District Coordinating Office (DCO), the ...
Read More »Bedouin community declared ‘closed military area’ while residents attempted to build new poultry-house
13 October 2009 On Tuesday, 13 October 2009, Israeli soldiers and police prevented the residents of Umm al-Kheir, located in the South Hebron Hills, from finishing the construction of a new chicken house. The families are not allowed by the ...
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