Tag: Qeitun Checkpoint

  • After School in Hebron, A Journal – 6 boys detained by Israeli forces in 2 Days

    After School in Hebron, A Journal – 6 boys detained by Israeli forces in 2 Days

    5th December 2018 | International Solidarity Movement, Al-Khalil Team | Hebron, occupied Palestine   [Updated December 6] For two days running, Israeli occupation soldiers and Border Police ambushed young children aged 10-14 years after school in Hebron. Tuesday, 24thDec. 2 boys were detained at Salaymeh checkpoint after being ambushed by a group of soldiers sneaking around…

  • First day in Al-Khalil

    First day in Al-Khalil

    6th September 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine Today was my first full day as an ISM’er in Al-Khalil (Hebron). A regular part of our work is to monitor Israeli checkpoints beside schools in the mornings since the teachers ask for an international presence. Often there can be problems with…

  • VIDEO: “They look like they’re in a war zone, but what they’re aiming at is five-year-olds”

    VIDEO: “They look like they’re in a war zone, but what they’re aiming at is five-year-olds”

    31st December | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine By 10:30 am on Tuesday morning of December 30, Palestinian children attending school near Qeitun checkpoint in al-Khalil (Hebron) had endured over forty tear gas canisters, multiple rounds of rubber coated steel bullets and stun grenades, and the arrest of a twelve-year-old boy. Israeli forces fired down the road…