FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Over Passover holiday, under the guise of a “Closed Military Zone” (CMZ) the Israeli authorities in Hebron have been excluding Palestinians and international Human Rights Workers (HRWs) from the streets of the Old City and Tel Rumeida ...
Read More »Hebron Military Closure Extended Until ‘Undisclosed Date’
The military order for April 18. Volunteers have not been shown the current order. On Sunday, April 16 at 20:00 the Israeli military in the H2 area of Hebron established a closed military zone order for “persons or groups disturbing ...
Read More »Remaining Human Rights Workers Threatened with Expulsion from Hebron
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Israeli Army has threatened human rights workers in Hebron with further expulsions from the H2 zone, near the Old Souk (market). The activists from the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) and Tel Rumeida Project (TRP) have a ...
Read More »Karsten’s Journal: 5 days in Qawawis
I arrived in the village Tuesday 11th of april. 12.4.06 In the morning I go with Hadj Mahmoud, who takes his sheeps for grazing on the hillside opposite the settlement of Susya. After some time we see a settler car ...
Read More »The Surreal Story of Qawawis Continues
Take a trip to Qawawis and you step back in time, yet remain in a surreal and frightening present. It’s an extraordinary place of stark beauty, situated at the extreme southern tip of the Occupied West Bank. Most of the ...
Read More »Jab’a Ploughs its Land
This morning I travelled to the village of Jab’a, just South of Bethlehem, where local Palestinian farmers have faced intimidation by settlers when trying to access their land. Jab’a is a village of 900 people facing annexation of part of ...
Read More »Closed Military Zone Passes Over Israeli Settlers
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The phenomenon in Hebron of Jewish holidays being used as an excuse for widespread harassment and violence against Palestinians is set to continue today as the Israeli military evicted international Human Rights Workers (HRWs) from the area. ...
Read More »Settler Attacks and House Occupations in Hebron
by Tom Settlers attacked Palestinian houses and targeted the Palestinian residents of Tel Rumeida today, the first Shabbat of the Passover period. A Palestinian boy was attacked at 4.30pm by five settlers on Shuhada Street. The settlers knocked him off ...
Read More »Hebron Anticipates Escalating Violence over Passover
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Fears that settler violence against Palestinian residents will increase over the Jewish holidays came to a head as Israeli settlers took over a Palestinian house on Thursday. The army has refused to remove them until the squatting ...
Read More »Everyday resistance
by: Alys a member of IWPS (The International Womens Peace Service) Prologue By ISM media Palestinian child in Tel Rumeida Hebron, a city in the southern part of the West Bank, is unique in that the settlements, inhabited by fanatical ...
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