Young boy beaten, detained and extorted in Al Khalil by IDF – 19/3/19

March 19, 2019 | International Solidarity Movement, Al-Khalil team | Salaymeh check point, occupied Palestine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtNMN4I99YY&feature=youtu.be

This teenager got arrested today after him and his little brother got attacked by the Israeli police and an illegal settler in the streets of Hebron. His testimony is as follows: ‘”This morning, my sister came to me and told me that the army kidnapped my younger brother. When I went there to see what’s going on, i found them beating him up, I tried to protect him but the army pushed me away to a corner, while I was in that corner, a Settler tried to run me over with his car, I escaped, then he came out of his car and beat me up, then the army came and beat me up and held me from here (chin). He took my ID and my phone and detained me here. Don’t know what to do, every few days I got arrested, I have a suspended sentence for 10 months against me and if he calls the court now, I will probably have to pay 10.000 shekels, where will I get them this money then?! I work the whole day for 50 shekels. Not long ago, i was arrested for two months because I was beaten up by a settler and there a video of that incident where they were attacking me”.

Children denied entry to Mosque – Hebron – 18.03.2019

March 18, 2019 | International Solidarity Movement, Al-Khalil team | Al-Khalil (Hebron), occupied Palestine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yttNhYJ741k&feature=youtu.be

A group of small school children are stopped by the Israeli Defense forces for over an hour at an illegal checkpoint on their way to a school field trip to their local Mosque, in Al-Khalil. Tourists and other Palestinians alike, also held and denied entry. This is the daily life for the youth in Hebron.