Tag: Tel Rumeida

  • “If you don’t open the door in 5 minutes, we will blow it up”

    “If you don’t open the door in 5 minutes, we will blow it up”

    24th February 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil Team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine 

During the night of the February 22nd, Israeli occupation forces raided two homes belonging to the Edies family, in the Al-Khalil (Hebron) neighbourhood of Tel Rumeida. At least thirty soldiers invaded the homes of Yahya Edies and Saleh Edies at around 2:30 am on Sunday morning.…

  • 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…

  • UPDATED: ISM honors Kayla Mueller

    UPDATED: ISM honors Kayla Mueller

    9th February 2015 | International Solidarity Movement | Occupied Palestine Update 10th February 2015: Today, 10th February, Kayla Mueller’s family confirmed she has been killed. Abdullah Abu Rahma, coordinator of the popular committee in the village of Bil’in where Kayla joined the protests, told ISM: “Kayla came to Palestine to stand in solidarity with us. She marched with…