Tag: Hebron

  • Israeli Colonists Steal Palestinian olives in Tel Rumeida

    by ISM Hebron, October 13th For the duration of the week the streets of Tel Rumeida, close to the illegal Jewish-only colonies of Tel Rumeida and Beit Hadassah have been adorned with Israeli flags, slogans and orange ribbons (signifying support for the settler movement). On Monday over a thousand Israeli tourists descended on Tel Rumeida…

  • Israeli Soldiers Start to Use Checkpoint to Extort Money from a Palestinian Child

    by Tel Rumeida Project Tuesday, 10 October 2006 At approximately 2pm two Human Rights Workers (HRWs) at the top of Tel Rumeida Street noticed that a small group of Palestinian boys were talking to the soldiers stationed at the guard post there. Shortly afterwards, a Palestinian HRW arrived and asked the boys what the matter…

  • Israeli Holidays Impede Palestinian Freedom of Movement

    by Tom Hayes, October 11th I visited the village of Bil’in, close to Ramallah, on Saturday. The villagers had asked for an international presence in the village after the IOF had arrested Emad, a Palestinian cameraman who works for Reuters on Friday after the weekly demonstration against the Apartheid Wall, which will separate the villagers…