Tag: Hebron

  • What Is Holy Here?

    by Marjorie, of Birthright Unplugged, Boston USA I’m overwhelmed by the desire to share what I’ve learned this week in Palestine, but also overwhelmed by the size of that task. We completed the Birthright Unplugged tour last night, and it’s hard to believe it was only a week long. The amazing people I was blessed…

  • Three Consecutive Days of Attacks In Tel Rumeida; Baruch Marzel Beats Palestinian Woman

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE After three consecutive days of numerous acts of settler violence in Tel Rumeida, Hebron, the IDF and Police are doing very little to stop or arrest settlers who violently oppose the removal of settlers from the illegally occupied Palestinian wholesale market in Hebron’s Old City. Some soldiers do nothing while the settlers…

  • Scottish ISM-activist Forcefully Deported From Israel After 7 Weeks in Prison

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE At 3:00 in the morning to Friday, ISM-activist Andrew Macdonald was forcefully deported from Israel, 7 weeks after being abducted from Palestine by the Israeli Border Police. Still refusing to comply with the State of Israel’s policy of deporting Human Rights Workers from Palestine, he was carried on to the plane and…

  • Hebron Disengagement And Violence Begins; Settlers Attempt to Occupy Palestinian Home

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE A mob of 30 female settler teenagers rampaged through Tel Rumeida on Thursday, January 12. Ten of them wore black ski masks to hide their identities, and attacked everyone they encountered, including IDF soldiers and Israeli police, with spit, paint bombs and insults, and surrounded an HRW, violently stealing the battery of…

  • Settlers of South Hebron Region Destroy Olive Trees

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE On the morning of Friday, January 6th, the village of Jwaya, near Tuwani in the southern region of the West bank, awoke to find one hundred and twenty of their olive trees cut down. The trees were approximately 30-31 years old and owned by Ibrahim Ahmad Al E’ moor and represent an…