Tag: Hebron

by ISM Hebron, 21st October After a few hours of quiet and calm at the guard post on the top of the hill, one Human Rights Worker (HRW) worker went inside the HRW flat very briefly to retrieve a few things. Just a few minutes after she went upstairs, a group of 6-8 soldiers and…

by Tel Rumeida Project and ISM Hebron, 18th October 2006 At approximately 12.40pm an Israeli border police van stopped and asked two international Human Rights Workers (HRWs) on Shuhada Street whether they spoke English. When they replied that they did, one of the border police said, “I no speak English” and the policemen drove away.…

by ISM Hebron, October 17th At 12.35pm two soldiers asked a Human Rights Worker (HRW) sitting opposite checkpoint 56 (the main entrance in and out of the Israeli controled H2 part of Hebron) to not watch the soldiers at the checkpoint and to move up the hill away from the checkpoint. The HRW refused to…

by ISM media team, October 17th The Palestinian news agency WAFA reported yesterday that settlers from the illegal colony of Susia, east of Yatta in the south of the Hebron region, annexed 150 dunams of farmland, plowed them and planted several trees. The annexed orchards are located near the colony. According to the agency, the…

ISM Hebron, Saturday 14th October, 2006 On two occasions this week Human Rights Workers (HRWs) witnessed colonist settlers from the illegal Israeli-Jewish caravans at Tel Rumeida stealing Palestinian olives (see “Israeli Colonists Steal Palestinian olives in Tel Rumeida”). We visited the owner of the olives today, he informed us that he had called the police…