Tag: Hebron

  • CPT: Keeping the quiet (when there’s no peace to be kept) on Shuhada Street

    Sarah M, Christian Peacemaker Team – Hebron “Excuse me!” the Israeli soldier called to us. “You can’t walk down that street.” Elizabeth and I turned toward him, questioning. “We can’t? But the German tourists here earlier walked this way,” Elizabeth recalled. “I walked down the street three days ago,” I added. “No one stopped me…

  • CPT: Settlers Heat Up the Air in Al Bweireh

    Christian Peacemaker Team – Hebron Since approximately 2000, the Israeli Military and nearby settlers have set in place an iron gate across the road leading to Al Bweireh. They have also positioned a huge several-ton rock perhaps 25 meters from the barrier gate on the same road and another gigantic heap of rock and earth…

  • Masked settlers attack international peace activists in Hebron

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 6 August 2010 Al-Buwayra, HEBRON – This morning, in a second day of violence in the village of Al-Buwayra, near Hebron, two international peace activists were attacked by three Israeli settlers wearing black masks. Both were left seriously injured and have been hospitalized following the unprovoked attack. The settlers knocked Canadian Peter…

  • Army vandalism in Hebron: soldiers destroy family’s well in Wad Lerus

    3 August 2010 | ISM Media Yesterday morning (2 August 2010) a group of Israeli soldiers, reportedly drunk, used two bulldozers to destroy a well that belonged to a family living in Wad Lerus, Hebron. Several ISM activists went out to talk to members of the Al Jaabel family in Wad Lerus, close to the…

  • The weekend in protests

    August 2010 | ISM Media Reports of all the weekend demonstrations in the West Bank attended by ISM activists. Bil’in: tributes paid to Olympia and music from rappers in solidarity with Palestine (July 30th) Dozens suffered from tear gas inhalation and stun grenades in Bil’in’s weekly demonstration, and two people were injured. On Friday 30…