Tag: Hebron

  • Protest against charity closure goes peacefully

    Yesterday at 12.00 in the centre of Hebron city around 1000 students, orphans and concerned people marched against the closure of a local charity. The Islamic Children’s Centre feeds, houses, educates and provides medicine for orphans in Hebron. However the charity has been ordered to close by the High Commander of the IOF in Hebron…

  • Street fighting and home invasions in Hebron

    03-05-08 Three days ago the city of Hebron awoke to the sound of shooting and shouting. The Army cleared the checkpoint area with tear gas and rubber-coated steel bullets and then occupied a house overhead to watch and shoot at the boys who threw stones. A few minutes later the army and the border police…

  • Israeli army forces Hebron orphanage and shopping mall to shut

    Orphanage charity closed, IDF claims links with Hamas The Islamic Study Centre in the centre of Hebron is a charity dedicated to the welfare and education of orphans in Hebron, it boasts a library and a study centre built into a shopping complex, and a school with working transport. However last Tuesday the IOF raided…