Tag: Hebron

  • Injured and forced to walk

    Injured and forced to walk

    27th August 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine It was a warm Saturday night in late August in al-Khalil (Hebron). For the Palestinian children school was starting the next day, and a feeling of anticipation and excitement for a new year of learning floated over the hot Palestinian night. A group of…

  • VIDEO: 15 tear gas grenades and 5 stun grenades fired at schoolchildren

    VIDEO: 15 tear gas grenades and 5 stun grenades fired at schoolchildren

    25th August 2014 | International Solidarity Movement | Hebron, Occupied Palestine Today in al-Khalil (Hebron), Israeli forces fired 15 tear gas grenades and canisters, as well as five stun grenades at children as they waited to go to school. Each morning and afternoon the children of al-Khalil, some as young as four-years-old, are forced to cross…

  • Resistance and tear gas

    Resistance and tear gas

    21st August 2014 | Saeeda Al-Rashid | Occupied Palestine It’s late May [2013], and the air is stifling. Heat sizzles from the pavement, and Khalili youth, though well-adapted to these conditions, can be seen wiping sweat from their brows as they trek home from school. A few trickle through Checkpoint 56 into the Tel Rumeida neighborhood, formally designated Israeli-controlled territory…