Tag: Hebron
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Beit Ula names garden after slain Italian activist
25 April 2011 | Ma’an News Agency Hebron’s Youth Development Association re-named a small garden west of the city after murdered Italian activist Vittorio Arrigoni in a Sunday ceremony. Beit Ula Mayor Rateb Al-Omla presided over the event, thanking the development association for its initiative in commemorating Arrigoni, who was murdered in Gaza City on…
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Unprovoked settler attack and military house invasion in Shuhada Street, Hebron
25 April 2011 | International Solidarity Movement At approximately 11pm on Sunday 24, two Palestinians were physically beaten, one also attacked with pepper spray, by Israeli settlers in Hebron. Shortly afterwards, a reported 20 Israeli soldiers forcibly entered a house in Shuhada Street and ordered all under 16s out into the street. According to a…
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Protesters in Hebron mark Prisoners Day
17 April 2011 | International Solidarity Movement Today, approximately 1,000 protesters in Hebron marked Palestinian Prisoners day with a demonstration calling for Israel to release Palestinian prisoners. At the same time thousands of prisoners joined in a one-day hunger strike to protest their treatment and their legal rights as prisoners. Protesters in Hebron began by…