A temporary checkpoint was erected in Tel Rumeida, Hebron, complete with a landmine placed on the road. Human Rights Workers noticed a young boy being detained. HRW’s approached the boy to enquire over what was going on. It was established that he was 14 years old and therefore too young to have an ID card. When asked, the soldiers said he had been trying to steal the landmine. The boy was kept for a total of…

Susya 1st September 2007 12 Palestinians and 3 Human Rights Workers (HRWs) went to visit land which is overlooked by an illegal Israeli settler colony and which has taken the old Palestinian name of Susya. Access to this land by its owners has been restricted since 1984 when the Palestinian residents of Susya were forcibly evicted by the Israelis to form a colony. The visit was the first time the owner had been able to access…

1st and 2nd September 2007 At 9.30pm on 1st September an elderly Palestinian woman shouted in distress to the other tents of the village scattered across a hillside South of Hebron where the original inhabitants of Susya now live. She had been walking with a torch in the dark when some settlers drove up on a quad bike and grabbed her torch from her. She lives alone with her adult son in a tent alongside her…