Tag: Christian Peacemaker Team
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CPT: Israeli military demolishes village of Amniyr
22 February 2011 | Operation Dove & Christian Peacemaker Team Amniyr, South Hebron Hills, West Bank: At 5 AM this morning the Israeli army, accompanied by members of the Israeli District Coordinating Office, arrived at the village of Amniyr and demolished five tent-houses, two cisterns and the village’s olive trees. The demolitions effectively destroyed the…
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Israeli settlers chase Palestinian children after Israeli military fails to provide escort
08 February 2011 | Operation Dove & Christian Peacemaker Team At-Tuwani, South Hebron Hills, West Bank – On the afternoon of 7 February 2011, three Israeli settlers from Havat Ma’on outpost chased a group of 12 Palestinian schoolchildren who were walking home from school. The Israeli military had failed to arrive to escort the schoolchildren,…
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CPT: Masked Israeli settlers chase schoolchildren, give directions to Border Police
8 February 2011 | Operation Dove & Christian Peacemaker Team On the afternoon of 7 February 2011, three Israeli settlers from Havat Ma’on outpost chased a group of 12 Palestinian schoolchildren who were walking home from school. The Israeli military had failed to arrive to escort the schoolchildren, forcing the children to take a longer…
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A Normal Day in the Lives of My Palestinian Neighbors
Paulette S. | Christian Peacemaker Team Our neighbor Haniya shrugged her shoulders as she spoke in a disheartened way: “This is all normal for us now. What can we do anyway?” Yet, when I see armed Israeli soldiers on the rooftops, and when I witness Palestinians going through checkpoints to go to the Mosque, I…
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CPT: Armed man kills two animals near Maghayir Al-Abeed village; Escapes to Havat Ma’on settlement
24 January 2011 | Operation Dove & Christian Peacemaker Team In the early afternoon of 23 January 2011, an armed man killed two animals near the South Hebron Hills village of Maghayir Al-Abeed. Two teenage shepherds reported that they were watering their family’s flock at a well just above their village when a man running…