Tag: Ethnic Cleansing

  • Open The Zone: information on CMZ and Hebron

    Open The Zone: information on CMZ and Hebron

    Friday, May 27th Tel Rumeida and Shuhada Street are among the oldest areas of the city of Hebron. They are also among the most difficult places for Palestinians to now live. The first illegal settlements set up after the Israeli occupation in 1967 were along Shuhada Street and in Tel Rumeida. Populated by ideological Israeli settlers…

  • Open The Zone campaign against Closed Military Zone launched in Hebron

    Open The Zone campaign against Closed Military Zone launched in Hebron

    3rd May 2016 | Open The Zone Campaign| Hebron, occupied Palestine On May 3rd 2016, the Open the Zone campaign was launched in cooperation with Zleikha Mohtaseb with a children’s play about oppression, which took place directly outside the arbitrary borders of the closed military zone in Tel Rumeida, Hebron. The campaign targets the deliberate…

  • Open The Zone: personal accounts

    Open The Zone: personal accounts

    Saturday, May 28th (Mufeed Sharabati) Mufeed Sharabati, 50-years, Shuahda Street resident compares living in the closed military zone (CMZ) with prison – just worse: “Life here is even worse than being in jail. A prisoner knows when his sentence is over. A prisoner knows when he can have visits. No-one knows that here. We are…

  • Open The Zone: Palestinians are people – not numbers

    Open The Zone: Palestinians are people – not numbers

    3rd May 2016 | Open The Zone Campaign: International Solidarity Movement & Youth Against Settlements | Hebron, occupied Palestine *******UPDATE 20th May 2016******* The closed military zone order has officially been ‘lifted’ – many restrictions and discrimination remain. ******* 3rd May is number 186 of the closed military zone in Tel Rumeida and Shuhada Street.…

  • Violent night raid in Ni’lin leaves 7-days old baby suffering from tear gas inhalation

    Violent night raid in Ni’lin leaves 7-days old baby suffering from tear gas inhalation

    3rd May 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil Team | Ni’lin, occupied Palestine During nighttime on the 1st of May, Israeli Forces raided the village of Ni’lin in the West Bank in occupied Palestine without any reason. First, with the arrival of one military jeep, villagers were already aguishly awaiting why the Israeli army is…