Tag: Settlers
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Remembering Mohammed Abu Khdeir two years after his brutal murder
2nd July 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Occupied Palestine Today marks the two year anniversary of the brutal kidnap, torture and eventual murder of 16-year-old Palestinian Mohammed Abu Khdeir. The teenager was kidnapped in the Shufat neighbourhood of occupied Jerusalem by Ben David of the illegal settlement Geva Binyamin and two assailants…
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Hebron under selective and racist siege
2nd July 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine The southern West Bank city of occupied al-Khalil (Hebron) has been put under siege by Israeli forces – exclusively for Palestinians. Israeli forces declared a complete closure of the city as a ‘security measure’, closing all entries and exits into the city…
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Curfew on Hebron neighborhoods imposed by Israeli forces
2nd July 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine Israeli forces, on 30th June 2016 enforced a complete curfew on several neighborhoods in occupied al-Khalil (Hebron). Deliberately, this curfew was designed to be imposed only on the Palestinian population, with the expressive goal of allowing settlers to move around these neighborhoods…
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Worshippers for Ramadan prayer harassed by settlers and soldiers
1 July 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine On 1st July 2016, Israeli forces severly restricted access to Ibrahimi mosque in occupied al-Khalil (Hebron) for noon-prayer, while settlers were demonstrating at a checkpoint nearby the mosque. After pregnant 27-year old Sarah Tarayra was gunned down by Israeli forces at Ibrahimi…
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Arbitrary humiliation by Israeli forces in former closed military zone in Hebron
24th June 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine In occupied al-Khalil (Hebron), the Tel Rumeida neighborhood and the tiny strip of Shuhada Street still accessible to Palestinian pedestrians, has seen endless restrictions by Israeli forces. After the area was first declared a ‘closed military zone’ on 1st November 2015, Palestinian…
