Articles in the ‘Hebron District’ category
CPT: Israeli Settlers Attack Children for the Fourth Time in One Week
Chrisitian Peacemaker Teams, At-Tuwani:
On Wednesday July 30, settlers attacked fourteen Palestinian children between the ages six to twelve on their way from summer camp to their homes in the villages of Tuba and Magher Al-abeed. Five settlers hid themselves along the route of the children and waited for them. … Read more
Beit Ommar: 3 Nights of Israeli Military Invasions
For three of the past four nights soldiers have entered Beit Ommar en masse, entering many homes and shooting live ammunition. It began at 2 am Thursday morning when five jeeps entered the village and fired volleys of live ammunition into the air. Over bullhorns, they declared a … Read more
Administrative Detention and Its Effects on Palestinian Families
The Israeli Military has used Administrative detention in the past 10 years as a tool to dispel political dissent and break up Palestinian resistance, both armed and non-violent. It is also used as a way to disrupt the fabric of Palestinian communities. According to B’tselem, an Israeli human … Read more
Palestinians Require Hospitalization After Settler Attack in South Hebron
From Christian Peacemaker Teams-Tuwani
On 24 June 2008, around 6:30, two Israeli settlers beat two unarmed Palestinian shepherds from Mantiquat Shi’bal Butum. The settlers came down from the nearby Israeli settlement outpost of Mitzpe Yair to an area where the shepherds, aged fifty-five and twenty, routinely graze their sheep. Armed … Read more
CPT: Israeli military again blocks main access road in South Hebron Hills
From the Christian Peacemaker Teams-Tuwani
At 11am on 5 June, 2008, the Israeli military again blocked the road between At-Tuwani and Yatta. A bulldozer massed a six-foot-high mound spanning the width of the road using concrete slabs, boulders and earth. Several villages … Read more
Incursion in Beit Ommar Leaves Teen in Critical Condition, Home Trashed
At approximately 1am today, June 5, Israeli soldiers, with their faces painted in camouflage (to blend in with the gray concrete and tan stone walls of Palestinian homes?) invaded the home of Mohammed Fuwad Al-Qoom near the central mosque in Beit Ommar, Hebron … Read more
CPT: Palestinians Rebuild Demolished Homes In Qawawis
From Christian Peacemaker Teams
Palestinians from the South Hebron Hills gathered today in the village of Qawawis to begin rebuilding homes destroyed by the Israeli military on March 19.
Villagers from At-Tuwani, international human rights workers and the families of Qawawis … Read more
Children, International Observers and a Pregnant Woman Abused in 3 Days of Harassment in South Hebron
from the Christian Peacemaker Teams
March 17, 2008
An Israeli settler yelled threatening remarks, and wielded a rock at young Palestinian children on the way to school in the village of At-Tuwani in the South Hebron Hills. About twenty children from the villages of … Read more
CPT: When Grazing Sheep Becomes Act of Non-Violent Resistance
From Christian Peacemaker Teams
In At-Tuwani Village, South Hebron Hills, Israeli soldiers and ‘border police’ assaulted Palestinian shepherds.
While they grazed their sheep and worked in their olive groves in the Khoruba Valley, Israeli police threatened the shepherds with arrest and assaulted them. This was on Palestinian land in the southern West … Read more
1 Youth Killed as Thousands Demonstrate Throughout Palestine
In Ramallah, thousands participated in a demonstration called jointly by Fatah and Hamas. In Betlehem, Palestinians gathered near the Church of the Nativity, in Hebron, near a University. Schools were closed throughout the West Bank as thousands marched to apparatuses of the Israeli Occupation: checkpoints, watchtowers, the Annexation … Read more
