Tag: Hebron

  • Fire Dancing in Hebron

    Today, during the daytime, we were sitting near some Border Police. Sometimes they like to joke and be friendly with us. What follows actually happened: one of them TOOK OFF his helmet, flak jacket and gun, put them down next to us and started doing back flips and no handed cartwheels in front of us.…

  • Israeli Soldiers in Hebron Refuse to Prevent Attacks Against Palestinians, Internationals

    June 14th: At approximately 12:30 PM, two Human Rights Workers (HRWs) on Shuhada Street noticed a group of between 8 and 10 settlers boys between the ages of 9 and 12 carrying plastic bags filled with water. The boys were coming out of the Beit Hadassah settlement and were headed up the stone stairs towards…

  • Israeli Military branches Collaborate with Settlers to Expand Settlement

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Israeli military, police, and secret service are collaborating with Beit Ayn settlers to confiscate Palestinian land. The settlers have claimed that the land of Mohammad Jaber Solaiby is their own and the different branches of the Israeli military are mobilizing to make it so. The Solaiby family has documentation proving their…

  • Ha’aretz: “20 Hebron settlers arrested for violently harassing Palestinians”

    by Amos Harel, Eli Ashkenzi, Haaretz Correspondent and Itim. 13/06/2006 Police on Tuesday detained 20 settlers in the West Bank city of Hebron after they hurled rocks, bricks and glass bottles at Israel Defense Forces soldiers and police. A policeman was lightly wounded in the riot. The rioting took place next to a Palestinian house…

  • “It is my land not the settlers’ land”

    One of Solayby’s grape vines that settlers knocked over and their sheep ate the leaves Muhammed Abu Solayby from Beit Ummar village near Hebron has suffered heavily from the settlers from the nearby settlement of Beit Ai’an. They have destroyed many of his grape vines, fruit and nut trees, and even beat Abu Solayby severely…