International Solidarity Movement | August 29, 2015 Occupied Palestine – A 52-year old Palestinian man was arrested at Shuhada checkpoint in al-Khalil (Hebron) yesterday, for ‘not obeying soldiers’ orders. Israeli forces painfully handcuffed and blindfolded him. Around 1:30 pm, Hisham Azzeh walked through Shuhada Checkpoint in order to reach his house that is located up […]
Ma’an – August 28, 2015 JERUSALEM – Israeli authorities have renewed the administrative detention of 85 percent of Palestinians detainees held under the policy, a prisoner rights group said Friday. The Prisoners’ Center for Studies said that at least 75 of the 480 Palestinians held under the detention without trial policy have had their sentences […]
Ma’an – August 3, 2015 JERUSALEM – The Israeli authorities on Sunday denied Palestinian footballers from the occupied West Bank visa permits to enter Gaza to face a rival team in the first leg of a cup competition, the Palestinian Football Association said. The Israeli authorities denied the players and managers of Ahli al-Khalil, based […]
CPTnet | July 31, 2015 “Recognizing that, in all countries in the world, there are children living in exceptionally difficult conditions, and that such children need special consideration…” – from the Preamble of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child In the past two weeks, CPT has witnessed a significant increase in the […]
CPTnet | July 18, 2015 This summer marks the twentieth year of Christian Peacemaker Team’s presence in Palestine. While that does not seem to be a reason to celebrate, we do feel we should mark the occasion. 1995: Armed Settlers Pictured here: An unchanged reality since 1995 that clearly shows the imbalance of force between Israeli […]
Press TV – July 3, 2015 Israeli forces have detained 550 Palestinians, including women and children, in the occupied West Bank since the beginning of 2015. The detainees, who were arrested in the southern city of al-Khalil (Hebron), included seven women and 105 teenagers, Amjad Najjar, the head of the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) in […]
(PNN/Hebron/)Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) on Saturday morning arrested Bishop Atallah Hanna during his participation in a march protesting the illegal seizure of a hospital building which is part of al-Baraka church, north of Hebron.
Palestine Information Center – June 24, 2015 AL-KHALIL – Israeli courts issued, since the beginning of June, 30 administrative detention orders against Palestinian prisoners from al-Khalil, Prisoners Media Center said. The center stated that 43% of administrative detainees held currently without charge or trial in Israeli jails are from al-Khalil. As a whole, there are […]
CPTnet | June 8,2015 STONED BY SETTLERS Pictured here: A Mexican tourist in Hebron was struck in the head with a rock, thrown from the Beit Romano settlement. The Red Crescent ambulance responded. (30/05/2015) RESISTANCE STARTS EARLY Pictured here: A young Palestinian girl looks through the wall of the soldiers. The weekly settler tour restricts […]
Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) Abdul Aziz Duwaik Press TV – May 25, 2015 An Israeli military court has handed down a months-long prison term to the speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) and ordered him to pay more than a thousand dollars on charges on of delivering a speech at a […]
