Tag: Hebron

  • RMIT University press: “Mary’s Middle East mission”

    Interview from community radio of RMIT university, Melbourne, Australia A former RMIT University lecturer has become a volunteer peacekeeper on a Middle East frontline – at 75. Mary Baxter, who lectured in statistics and mathematics from 1968 to 1996, is based in Tel Rumeida, a suburb of the Palestinian city of Hebron in the West…

  • Olive Harvest 2006

    Your presence is needed for the Olive Harvest 2006 in Palestine! Palestinian communities are calling for the presence of international activists to support them in the 2006 Olive Harvest. Throughout the West Bank and Gaza, Palestinian land continues to be stolen for illegal Israeli colonies and the Apartheid Wall as well as settler roads, checkpoints,…

  • Palestinian Child Attacked by Israeli Colonist in Hebron

    Click here to view video of the interview with the boy’s father mentioned below. Click here to download it. by ISM Hebron and Tel Rumeida Project At 1:15pm on September 1, 2006, in Tel Rumeida, Hebron, two Human Rights Workers (HRWs) were approached by a young boy of approximately six or seven years, and an…

  • Settler Children Burn Down Palestinian Olive Tree in Hebron, Israeli Soliders Block Firefighters

    by ISM Hebron On Saturday August 26th, at approximately 12 noon, a Palestinian family in Tel Rumeida, (in the Israeli controlled H2 district of Hebron) noticed a group of settler boys setting fire to the dry grass in front of their home. This land contains many olive trees and settlers have attempted to burn down…

  • Palestinian Children Assaulted by Israeli Army

    by ISM Hebron On Sunday August 27th, two HRWs were on Shuhada Street in front of the military post which watches the Beit Hadassa settlement in Hebron. At around 5 p.m. a group of six Palestinian kids between approximately 10 and 12 years of age, who had been around the area for a few hours,…