Tag: Hebron

  • Soldiers Detain Palestinian Kids for getting hit with Settlers’ Rocks

    By Missy At approximately 4:00 PM August 14th, while sitting at Checkpoint #56 in Tel Rumeida, Hebron, three Israeli soldiers escorted two Palestinian boys who appeared to be around ten years of age to the police station. The boys were holding a kite and nothing else. They looked very nervous and scared, staring mostly at…

  • Israeli soldiers destroy home in Tel Rumeida in search of nothing

    Soldiers invade the home at night and keep internationals from entering. Settlers taunt internationals and watch. by Sunbula At around 10 pm on Friday August 11th in Tel Rumeida, 12 soldiers of the Israeli Occupation Forces entered an apartment building where 3 Palestinian families live as well as international volunteers with the International Solidarity Movement.…

  • Settlers Attack Internationals in Suseya

    A woman from Sweden, Gabby, and a man from Austria, Sebastian, were kicked, pushed, jumped on, and bitten by settlers while they walked on Palestinian farmland the evening of August 8th. The internationals live in Suseya in order to accompany farmers to their land, provide support for the community, and prevent attacks from settlers. They…

  • Settlers attack Palestinians and Human Rights Workers

    On August 5th, two Human Rights Workers (HRWs) from Denmark were sitting on Shuhada Street in Tel Rumeida. At around 2:45 PM a Palestinian boy, around age 15, wanted to use the stairs at the end of Shuhada Street, opposite the Beit Hadassa Settlement. A group of six settler children, around ten years of age,…

  • My Head Might Burst with Irony

    by Alizarin J. Crimson Sometimes I feel like my head is going to burst with irony. Like walking through Arab East Jerusalem and seeing Palestinian men wearing tshirts that say: “F.B.I. anti-terrorism unit”. And I wonder if they are wearing it out of irony or if they don’t actually know what it says. Clothing covered…