by Harry and Kyle July 19-22, 2006 In Tel Rumeida, Hebron, six settler men between the ages of 16 and 25 entered a Palestinian shoe manufacturing shop across the street from the ISM/TRP apartment. They began throwing shoes around, disrupting ...
Read More »Israeli Soldiers Contaminate Water Tanks of Human Rights Workers
By Joe Skillet On Saturday, July 15, 2006, human rights workers in Tel Rumeida, Hebron, discovered that Israeli soldiers had been using the Human Rights Workers’ (HRWs) four water tanks as waste bins. Though it is unsure how long the ...
Read More »War Games in Beit Ummar
Journal entry by Ernesto. Provides a deeper insight to a previous ISM eyewitness report about the same incident. After visiting the family of Yusuf Abumariya we headed to the house of another family. We were served tea and fresh fruit ...
Read More »On Shabbat, Settlers Escalate Attacks on Palestinians and Internationals
large rock thrown at human rights workers By Joe Skillet Israeli settlers in the Tel Rumeida section of Al-Khalil (Hebron) celebrated the shabbat yesterday by attacking several Palestinian children and international supporters. During the attacks, one 15 year old Palestinian ...
Read More »Musa Abu Mariya Released from Prison
After nine days of imprisonment, on July 12, 2006 Musa Abu Mariya, a peace activist from Beit Ummar, was released from prison after a “military court for petitions in Judea and Sumaria regions” ruled that he should be released. Musa ...
Read More »Small Incursion in Beit Ummar
by Jonas and Signifier Yesterday June 12, at approximately 3:00pm in the West Bank village of Beit Ummar, Isreal Occupation Forces shot tear gas cannisters at two human rights workers (HRW) that were sitting and eating plums in a backyard. ...
Read More »Israeli Army in Hebron Violates Israeli High Court Order – Again
The back entrance to the Abu Haykal family’s home. The Israeli military is now confining them to this rather than the front of the their home. by ISM Hebron and Tel Rumeida Project The Hani Abu Haykal family, which lives ...
Read More »Ancient Olive Tree Destroyed in Hebron
by Harry in Tel Rumeida July 5th: A fire apparently set by Israeli settlers destroyed a large and obviously ancient olive tree in the Tel Rumeida section of Al-Khalil (Hebron) today. The tree, located about 100 meters west of “Abraham’s ...
Read More »Beit Ummar and Halhul Pray for Justice – Israeli Army Kidnap Villager
by Ernesto in Beit Ummar Today, Friday July 7th, 2006, at noon, over 300 farmers and residents of the Palestinian villages of Beit Ummar and Halhoul held Friday prayers together on their land that has been ravaged by Israeli bulldozers ...
Read More »Beit Ummar and Halhul Farmers Will Pray on their Destroyed Land.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tomorrow, Friday July 7th, at noon, the people from the villages of Beit Ummar and Halhul will gather together to pray on the land that has been destroyed by bulldozers in the last few days. They will ...
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