Tag: Al Khalil
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A Matriarch’s Memory
The West Bank city of Al-Khalil, known as Hebron in Hebrew, is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world- and one of the most painfully divided. It is a place where the word occupation stops being abstract. Above the ancient stone of the Old City, new concrete rises: Israeli settlements built directly…
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Firebombing in Al-Khalil
A trail of charcoal tire tracks are an unwelcome sight this morning in Hebron’s old city, tracing a grim path past shuttered shops and beneath wire netting that sags with the weight of rubbish, bottles, and stones thrown from above. A tailor’s shop and car were firebombed last night by Israeli colonizers in the Old…
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Israeli Occupation Forces Deny Muslims Right to Pray
On Friday, October 24, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) denied over 100 Palestinian Muslims the right to pray Duhr – or noon prayer – at the Al Ibrahimi Mosque in Al Khalil. Friday, or Juma’ah in Arabic, is the holiest day of the week in Islam. And Duhr is among the most popular times to…
