Tag: Settlement

  • 10-year-old boy attacked and arrested for playing in the snow

    10-year-old boy attacked and arrested for playing in the snow

    22nd February 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil Team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine On the afternoon of the 21st of February Saleh Abu Shamsiya, a 10-year-old Palestinian boy, was attacked by settler youth in the Al-Khalil (Hebron) neighborhood of Tel Rumeida. Saleh’s father and activist with the group Human Rights Defenders Imad Abu Shamsiya reported  that the settlers, who looked around 18-19 years old, surrounded his son while…

  • Open Shuhada Street, demand Palestinian demonstrators

    Open Shuhada Street, demand Palestinian demonstrators

    21th February 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil Team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine On February 20, Israel forces threw at least thirty stun grenades and ten tear gas grenades at a peaceful Palestinian protest. Residents of occupied Hebron (Al-Khalil) were demonstrating against the closure of Shuhada Street, a former economic centre in Al-Khalil. The street, running through the middle of…

  • 19-year-old shot and killed by Israeli forces in Burin

    19-year-old shot and killed by Israeli forces in Burin

    3rd February 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus Team | Burin, Occupied Palestine       On the evening of January 31, 2015, Israeli soldiers shot and killed Ahmad Ibrahim Najar, a 19-year-old Palestinian from the village of Burin (Nablus region). In the attack, Israeli forces also injured 18-year-old Mohammed Raed Asaos. Mohammed and a third man, Abdulrahman…