Tag: Hebron

  • Haaretz: “IDF probing accusations troops destroyed Palestinian property”

    by Mijal Grinberg, December 24th The Israel Defense Forces’ Investigations Military Police have opened a probe into claims that IDF troops committed a series of offensives against Palestinian residents of the Hebron area, including throwing stones, destruction of private property, damaging vehicles and unlawful detention. The investigation was opened after a human rights group filed…

  • Transcript of BBC World Servce interview with Mary Baxter

    This BBC interview relates to Mary’s arrest in Tel Rumeida on December 17th Mary: On this occasion some children who were going up at the very top of Tel Rumeida were being stopped from going home from school. For some reason at the top of the hill on private Palestinian land there were a whole…

  • While shepherds watch their flocks in the South Hebron Hills

    by the ISM media team from reports by Operation Dove, December 24th Documenting IOF damage in Al Birki, December 10th Two Doves went to Al Birki in order to collect data and pictures of the damage the army caused on November 29th and December 7th. They met several people whose houses and cars were damaged.…

  • Villagers Unite Against Apartheid Road

    by Sam, December 23rd This afternoon over 200 Palestinian, Israeli and international activists participated in a protest against the proposed new settler-only, apartheid road which will run from the Gush Etzion settlement block to the south and illegally annex Palestinian farmland, affect homes and destroy significant heritage sites including a cemetery in the Halhul and…

  • Israel has the right to defend herself

    by John, December 18th “Israel is a democracy and a friend and has every right to defend itself from terror.” George Bush, May 2004 I had a tour of Hebron today going a bit further than the Tel Rumeida settlement. But we did pass through this area – it turns out that the soldiers often…