Tag: Arrests
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Photo story: newly expanded Shuhada checkpoint is even more difficult to traverse
January 6th 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil Team | al-Khalil, occupied Palestine At the end of December Israeli forces re-opened the newly expanded Shuhada checkpoint in occupied al-Khalil (Hebron). The checkpoint had been closed since December 7th, when Israeli forces had declared they would be conducting “renovations” for a then-unknown period of time. Officially known as Checkpoint 56,…
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Israeli forces using skunk-water as a form of collective punishment
30th December, 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, al Khalil team | Al Khalil, occupied Palestine On 30th December 2015, Israeli forces showered the Abu Sneineh neighbourhood in occupied al-Khalil (Hebron) in tear gas and shot skunk water at family homes and a kindergarten. When students at the schools in the Abu Sneineh neighbourhood were leaving…
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“We were walking home and they shot at us”
2nd December 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine On the evening of the 1st of December 2015, five Palestinian boys were shot at by Israeli forces with live ammunition on their way home to Tel Rumeida. The five boys – between the ages of sixteen and seventeen years – were on…
