Tag: Settlers
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‘It is my job to scare Palestinian children’ – Israeli forces justify intimidation of kindergarten children
6th March 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine Kindergarten-children in occupied al-Khalil (Hebron) often face harassment and intimidation by Israeli forces on their way to kindergarten. Listen to this audio recording of a discussion between an international volunteer and the soldiers about why the soldiers ‘have to’ scare the kindergarten-children…
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Israel’s silent war on the children of Palestine
29th February 2016| International Solidarity Movement, Al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine Fortunately much of the world is now fully aware of Israel’s apartheid wall and the zionist state’s grotesque, illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories that it represents. But few are aware of the endless number of other apartheid structures scattered throughout Palestine with the…
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Israeli forces continue policy of arbitrary and violent arrests in Hebron’s Old City
25th February 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine On 25th February 2016, Israeli forces violently arrested two Palestinian men in the souq, the Palestinian market, in occupied al-Khalil (Hebron). Both of them were arbitrarily arrested and finally allowed to leave only after residents intervened. Israeli forces entered a Palestinian house…
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Wreath-laying in commemoration of Ibrahimi mosque massacre
25th February 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine 25 February 2016 marks the 22nd anniversary of the 1994 Ibrahimi Mosque massacre in occupied al-Khalil (Hebron). In commemoration of the Palestinians killed in this massacre, the Hebron Defense Committee (HDC) organised a wreath-laying at the martyrs cemetry. Baruch Goldstein, an Israeli…
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Aggressive settler interrupts nonviolent commemorative event hosted by Youth Against Settlements
24nd February 2016 | Youth Against Settlements | Hebron, occupied Palestine Notorious settler Anat Cohen interrupted a peaceful movie screening, which was hosted by Youth Against Settlements to commemorate the victims of the Ibrahimi Mosque Massacre in 1994. Every night, Palestinians gather around a bonfire in the Salaymeh neighborhood of occupied Hebron to keep watch…
