Tag: Hebron

  • Settler violence escalates in the vicinity of Kiryat Arba illegal settlement

    Settler violence escalates in the vicinity of Kiryat Arba illegal settlement

    19th September 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Al-Khalil Team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine  The children of the Jabari family in Jabari neighbourhood of al-Khalil are singing along to a Palestinian children’s television show. It is a sunny Saturday morning but in the small living area, six tiny children sit with their mothers who explain to…

  • 10-year old boy arrested and blindfolded in Hebron

    10-year old boy arrested and blindfolded in Hebron

    18th September 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Al-Khalil Team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine  Tonight in occupied al-Khalil (Hebron), Israeli forces arrested a 10-year old Palestinian boy twice. Both times he was taken to the military base. Marwan Sharabati was playing outside his house, riding a bicycle in the street, in the vicinity of a military…

  • Additional restrictions for Palestinians during Jewish holidays

    Additional restrictions for Palestinians during Jewish holidays

    16th September 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Al-Khalil Team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine    On Monday and Tuesday was the Jewish holiday of Rosh Ha’Shannah, the Jewish New Year. In al-Khalil (Hebron), Israeli forces have taken this occassion to make the already tough every-day life of Palestinians in this segregated and oppressed city even more…

  • The women in Hebron cooperative

    The women in Hebron cooperative

    13th September 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Al-Khalil Team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine  International Solidarity Movement human rights monitors spend the afternoon at the Women in Hebron embroidery cooperative where Palestinian women are empowering themselves and persisting with grace in a colourful and beautiful way in a community space amidst the horror of the ongoing…

  • International arrested in al-Khalil and banned from part of the city

    International arrested in al-Khalil and banned from part of the city

    12th September 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Al-Khalil Team | Hebron, occupied Palestine Sunday night an international human rights observer was arrested by Israeli forces on bogus charges in al-Khalil (Hebron) in occupied Palestine. The activist was detained by Israeli soldiers when leaving a house in the Tel Rumeida neighbourhood  of al-Khalil. Only a few…