Tag: Hebron

  • Tel Rumeida – Stones & Struggle

    By Joe Carr The Tel Rumeida neighborhood of Hebron is a major flashpoint of tension between Palestinians and Israeli colonial settlers. Around forty Israeli soldiers protect over sixty of the most racist and violent of Israeli settlers, forcing over one thousand Palestinians (whose families have lived in Tel Rumeida for hundreds of years) to live…

  • Settlers and Shepherds

    by Greta B Saturday, September 3, the day after the demonstration in Bil’in, two of us boarded a bus bound for Hebron, a town of 130,000 Palestinians, 600 lunatic settlers, and thousands of soldiers and police to ‘guard’ the settlers. Arriving at noon on Saturday, the day most settlers run rampant over everyone, we were…

  • School, stones and settlers

    by Greta B It was the children’s second day of school in the old city of Hebron. We had been asked to accompany them to prevent settler children from stoning small boys and girls. Settlers had gone on a rampage yesterday, stoning us, the police and even the soldiers as they came down their ‘settler…

  • Qawawis and the mustawtaneen

    Qawawis is a small village with big problems. After an Israeli court ruled that villagers had the right to live on their land, settlers have harassed them with humiliation and violence. ISM and other organizations have kept a constant presence in the village. Here’s an account from one of the volunteers who recently stayed in…

  • Palestinians Struggle to Hold on to Land, Watering Holes

    by Henry Norr Berkeley Daily Planet Life in the tiny Palestinian hamlet of Qawawis seems straight out of the Old Testament, but that doesn’t stop the Jewish settlers in the hilltop outposts that surround the place from doing their best to destroy it. And if something isn’t done soon about the settlers’ latest threat—denying Qawawis’s…