Tag: school
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School shooting a near miss in Gaza
15th March 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Gaza, occupied Palestine On the 2nd of March at 2pm, Israeli occupation forces fired into Beit Dajan School, located in Shijaia, near the annexation wall. Bilal Abu Asser was giving a lesson to his students when a bullet passed just next to his head. “Suddenly I…
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School children denied their right to education in Hebron
December 10th, 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, al Khalil team | al Khalil, occupied Palestine Today, on International Human Rights Day, school children as well as teachers were denied access to the Cordoba school in Al-Khalil (Hebron). The mixed primary school is located in the neighborhood of Tel Rumeida at the end of the small strip of…
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Israeli forces and settlers increase efforts to force Palestinians out and silence observers
21st November 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine Monday 2nd November 2015, Israeli forces again attempted to prevent international observers from monitoring a checkpoint in a flashpoint location in occupied al-Khalil (Hebron). Settlers from the illegal settlements in al-Khalil physically attacked internationals while soldiers where standing idly by watching. As…
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Israeli forces increase harassment of Palestinian school-children in al-Khalil (Hebron)
1st Novemeber 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine This morning at Qurtuba school in al-Khalil (Hebron), Israeli soldiers harassed school-children, teachers and adults trying to pass the nearby checkpoint. The stairs leading to Qurtuba school, the scene of a heinous murder of a Palestinian youth by Israeli forces three days…
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School days become increasingly perilous as violence rages in Hebron
26th October 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine The morning of October 26th, four high-risk locations near schools in Hebron were monitored by international human rights workers, and all four saw incidents of violence to Palestinians and internationals at the hands of Israeli forces and illegal settlers. At the Qurtuba school location, two…