Tag: Hebron

  • Close Encounter of a Settler Kind

    (Israeli settler after assaulting a Human Rights Worker. Behind the car is the settlment of Suseya) by Jon Qawawis is a village in the south Hebron Hills, very close to the green line, and surrounded by settlements and settlement outposts. In Qawawis are about 5-6 families, all of whom have roughly 10 kids (the kids,…

  • Life in Tel Rumeida; “It is clear who are the terrorists around here.”

    by Katie The city of Hebron (al Khalil) is divided into two areas, one controlled by the Palestinian Authority (H1) and the other controlled by the Israeli military (H2). Tel Rumeida is a Palestinian majority neighborhood in H2 with two illegal (under international law) Israeli settlements named Tel Rumeida and Beit Hadassa. The settlers of…

  • Human Rights Worker Released from Israeli Detention

    David Parsons, a Canadian citizen who was arrested while doing human rights work in Hebron, has been released on bail from Israeli detention. An Israeli Interior Ministry official ordered his release on condition Parsons not participate in any “international activity” in Hebron. Parson’s lawyer Gaby Lasky views this as a victory and says that the…

  • A Gun in one hand and the Torah in the other

    by Caroline BOSTONTOPALESTINE HEBRON – From January 11 to 15, I was about an hour south of Jerusalem, in the city of Hebron, where four hundred settlers of the most extremist militant ideological faction of the settler movement live amongst more than 120,000 Palestinians. The once bustling historic old city remains eerily quiet, covered in…

  • IOF Evacuated Human Rights Workers Instead of Illegal Settlers

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: While the evacuation of illegal settlers from the Hebron market has been postponed, the IOF has not halted its campaign of indimidation and lies against Human Rights Workers. At 2:20 on Thursday January 19th, David Parsons, a Human Rights Worker from Canada, was arrested by the Israeli Police in the Tel Rumeida…