21 November 2010 | Christian Peacemaker Team At-Tuwani – Claiming that the children were throwing stones, Israeli soldiers detained five Palestinian schoolboys. Since the beginning of 2005, the children from the village of Tuba wait every morning for an Israeli ...
Read More »CPT: Livelihood of Hebron shepherd threatened
20 October 2010 | Christian Peacemakers Team Noah El-Rajabi is a shepherd, with two hundred sheep and goats. He lives in Bani Na’im, 17 kilometres from Hebron. He is married, and has seven children. Ten weeks ago the Israeli military ...
Read More »CPT: Keeping the quiet (when there’s no peace to be kept) on Shuhada Street
Sarah M, Christian Peacemaker Team – Hebron “Excuse me!” the Israeli soldier called to us. “You can’t walk down that street.” Elizabeth and I turned toward him, questioning. “We can’t? But the German tourists here earlier walked this way,” Elizabeth ...
Read More »CPT: Settlers Heat Up the Air in Al Bweireh
Christian Peacemaker Team – Hebron Since approximately 2000, the Israeli Military and nearby settlers have set in place an iron gate across the road leading to Al Bweireh. They have also positioned a huge several-ton rock perhaps 25 meters from ...
Read More »CPT: Palestinian fence damaged in village in At-Tuwani area
Christian Peacemaker Team – At-Tuwani & Operation Dove On the morning of Wednesday, 4 August, Palestinians from At-Tuwani found that their fence built between the village and the nearby Havat Ma’on settler outpost had been partially destroyed during the night. ...
Read More »Remembering Art Gish
1 August 2010 American peace activist Art Gish died on Wednesday in a tractor accident on his organic farm in Athens, Ohio, at the age of 70. Gish and his wife Peggy – currently in Iraq – dedicated much of ...
Read More »CPT: Israeli Border Police Demolish Water Infrastructure in Al Baqa’a Valley
Christian Peacemaker Team – Hebron For the third time in 12 days, Israeli Border Police carried out demolitions in Al Baqa’a valley, a fertile farming area northeast of Hebron, along route 60. On July 19, the Israeli Border Police, with ...
Read More »CPT: Israeli Border Police Demolish Cistern in Al Beqa’a Valley
Christian Peacemaker Team – Hebron Israeli border police demolished a rainwater cistern and removed irrigation pipes from several Palestinian fields in Al Beqa’a Valley just east of Hebron on July 14, 2010, the second day of incidents in the area ...
Read More »CPT: Israeli Police Invade Palestinian Home, Arrest Father in Hebron’s Old City
Christian Peacemaker Team – Hebron July 14, 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE On July 13, 2pm about 20 Israeli police and soldiers invaded the Awewi family home in Hebron’s Old City. They forced the mother and the eight children into the ...
Read More »CPT: Israeli soldiers arrest Palestinian shepherd, assault Palestinian youth
Christian Peacemaker Team On Tuesday afternoon, February 23, 2010, Israeli soldiers arrested a Palestinian shepherd, Khalil Ibrahim Abu Jundiyye, from the village of Tuba. Abu Jundiyye, 19, was grazing his flock near Tuba when four Israeli soldiers, coming from the ...
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