Tag: South Hebron Hills

  • Wave of demolitions in Jerusalem, Jordan Valley and South Hebron

    25 November 2010 | ICHAD & Al Jazeera Following the demolitions and evictions in East Jerusalem and the Jordan Valley yesterday, this morning the Civil Administration accompanied by large Army and Border Police forces demolished a mosque in the Jordan Valley and several structures in the South Hebron Hills. Yesterday the Ministry of Interior demolished…

  • Israeli soldiers detain five Palestinian Schoolboys in South Hebron Hills

    21 November 2010 | Christian Peacemaker Team At-Tuwani – Claiming that the children were throwing stones, Israeli soldiers detained five Palestinian schoolboys. Since the beginning of 2005, the children from the village of Tuba wait every morning for an Israeli army escort to accompany them to the school in At-Tuwani, along the shortest road that…

  • Operation Dove: South Hebron Hill Settlers attack Palestinian boy and internationals

    21 October 2010 | Operation Dove At-Tuwani – On Thursday, 21st October, at around 9.20 am, two Operation Dove volunteers, coming back to the village of At-Tuwani after having visited some Palestinian families in the village of Tuba, were attacked by Israeli settlers from the illegal outpost of Havat Ma’on (Hill 833). While walking, the…

  • Civil Administration backtracks on granting Palestinians access to Bir el-Eid

    Amira Hass | Haaretz 6 January 2009 The Civil Administration ordered Palestinian residents of the West Bank this week to stop erecting tents and building animal enclosures in the Bir el-Eid area – even though the state allowed them access to the site only two months ago, after a 10-year enforced absence and a protracted…

  • Is it illegal to go to school?

    25 December 2009 Is it illegal to go to school? That question has been asked many times in occupied Palestine. On 20 December 2009, the Israeli military confiscated a Palestinian vehicle used to transport children to and from school in al-Fakheit in the southern tip of the West Bank, as they were returning from school.…