Tag: At-Tuwani

  • Bedouin village of Umm Al Kheer under demolition threat, South Hebron Hills

    10 January 2012 | Operation Dove On January 8th, the DCO delivered stop working orders to 8 infrastructures in the Palestinian village of Umm Al Kheer. In the morning the Israeli Civil Administration, escorted by an Israeli army jeep, entered the Palestinian village of Umm Al Kheer. After examining different buildings, the officers registered the…

  • CPT-Palestine closes At-Tuwani project

    November 2, 2011 | Christian Peacemaker Team – Palestine In 2004, the village of At-Tuwani and its Israeli partner, Ta’ayush, approached CPT’s Hebron team and the Italian peace group, Operation Dove, asking if they could provide accompaniment for the children of the village whom settlers regularly attacked as they walked to school. Although CPT had…

  • Israeli settlers set fire to a house-tent in the Palestinian village of Susiya

    10 September 2011 | Operation Dove and Christian Peacemaker Teams [Note: According to the Fourth Geneva Convention, the Hague Regulations, the International Court of Justice, and several United Nations resolutions, all Israeli settlements and outposts in the Occupied Palestinian Territories are illegal. Most settlement outposts, including Havat Ma’on (Hill 833), are considered illegal also under…

  • CPT: Palestinians protest expansion of Havat Ma’on Outpost; Israeli Military responds with violence

    9 July 2011 | Christian Peacemaker Team – At-Tuwani Carrying a large banner that read “We want to live in Peace and Dignity,” over one hundred Palestinians, internationals and Israeli activists marched in protest of an extension to the illegal Israeli settlement of Havat Ma’on on the morning of July 9th. In response to the…

  • CPT: Israeli intelligence, backed by military, threatens villagers in At-Tuwani

    23 May 2011 | Christian Peacemaker Teams – At-Tuwani At Tuwani, South Hebron Hills, West Bank – On Monday May 23, Israeli intelligence entered At-Tuwani, escorted by about fifteen soldiers. In the operation the Israeli military invaded a local leader’s house, demanded that villagers stop their nonviolent resistance and threatened violent retaliation if the Palestinians…