Tag: Hebron

  • Dancing children attacked by Israeli forces

    Dancing children attacked by Israeli forces

    25th February 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil Team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine On the 24th of February in occupied Al-Khalil (Hebron), Israeli forces opened fire on dancing Palestinian youth, firing tear gas and throwing stun grenades at group of young children performing a traditional Palestinian dance as a form of protest in front of Shuhada checkpoint. The fifteen…

  • “If you don’t open the door in 5 minutes, we will blow it up”

    “If you don’t open the door in 5 minutes, we will blow it up”

    24th February 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil Team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine 

During the night of the February 22nd, Israeli occupation forces raided two homes belonging to the Edies family, in the Al-Khalil (Hebron) neighbourhood of Tel Rumeida. At least thirty soldiers invaded the homes of Yahya Edies and Saleh Edies at around 2:30 am on Sunday morning.…

  • 10-year-old boy attacked and arrested for playing in the snow

    10-year-old boy attacked and arrested for playing in the snow

    22nd February 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil Team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine On the afternoon of the 21st of February Saleh Abu Shamsiya, a 10-year-old Palestinian boy, was attacked by settler youth in the Al-Khalil (Hebron) neighborhood of Tel Rumeida. Saleh’s father and activist with the group Human Rights Defenders Imad Abu Shamsiya reported  that the settlers, who looked around 18-19 years old, surrounded his son while…