Hebron
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Why the Huwwara pogrom was inevitable
In early January, as Israel was forming its most openly extreme right-wing government yet, Nadav Tamir, a former Israeli diplomat and current lobby group director, gave a prescient warning. Continue reading
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Hebron plan is Israel’s reminder to Palestinians that settler-power knows no limits
Proposed destruction of the West Bank city’s market to make way for a new settlement is the Israeli government’s route to refashion its apartheid system as the rule of law Continue reading
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The observer mission in Hebron acted as a restraint on the settlers’ worst excesses. Now that has come to an end
You might imagine that a report by a multinational observer force documenting a 20-year reign of terror by Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers against Palestinians, in a city under occupation, would provoke condemnation from European and US politicians. But you would be wrong. The leaking in December of the report on conditions in the city… Continue reading
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Breaking the Silence about Israel’s occupation of Hebron
Ido Even-Paz switched on his body camera as his tour group decamped from the bus in Hebron. The former Israeli soldier wanted to document any trouble we might encounter in this, the largest Palestinian city in the occupied West Bank. It was not Hebron’s Palestinian residents who concerned him. He was worried about Israelis –… Continue reading
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Video: Israeli Government and Press Knew Teenagers Were Dead for Weeks
TRNN Middle East Correspondent Lia Tarachansky says Palestinian anger towards the Palestinian Authority has reached unprecedented levels, and that the Israeli government is now trying to instigate a third intifada in order to legitimize military actions in the West Bank and Gaza Continue reading
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“This is apartheid”: rapper Jasiri X on visit to Palestine By Amira Asad
Jasiri X says being in Hebron was “reminiscent of being a young black man in the inner city” in the US. Continue reading
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Email your leader, tell him to protest the cruel removal of Palestinians from their lands in Hebron Hills By David Shulman
Perhaps one or two of you will do something with this little quixotic story. Perhaps you’ll tell a friend, or call your congressman, or write an op-ed, or email the President or the Prime Minister of whatever country you live in, or go on the radio with a simple message: Stop the crimes of Israel… Continue reading
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Video: Israeli soldiers detain, terrify young Palestinian boys in Hebron By Annie Robbins
Israeli soldiers hid in an alleyway outside a school and fired stun grenades directly at school children, before grabbing two young boys and marching them towards a nearby police station. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 4 September 2013: PHOTOS: Life before expulsion in the South Hebron Hills
4 September 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterChildren, Women, Injured As Israeli Extremists Break Into The Al-Aqsa MosqueIMEMC – Palestinian medical sources in occupied Jerusalem have reported that several children and women were among the injured after extremist Israelis broke into the yards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque since early dawn hours Wednesday [August 4 Continue reading
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Treatment of Palestinians is Apartheid by Any Other Name By Franklin Lamb
Were it not for the razor wire, giant concrete blocks, steel gates, watchtower and standard-issue surly teenage soldier, it would be impossible to tell at what point the barren uplands of Israel’s eastern Negev give way to the South Hebron Hills of the West Bank. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 26 April 2013: Soldiers Uproot 700 Olive Trees Near Jenin
26 April 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterArmy Attacks Nabi Saleh Nonviolent ProtestIMEMC – Israeli soldiers attacked, on Friday afternoon, the weekly nonviolent protest against the Israeli Annexation Wall and settlements, in Nabi Saleh village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah. This week’s protest was titled “our detainees will be victorious”. … Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 23 April 2013: Apologists for Israel take top posts at BBC
23 April 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterPolice Arrests Two Israeli Teenage Settlers For Torching Palestinian CarsIMEMC – The Israeli Police announced on Tuesday evening that it apprehended two Israeli teenage setters living in an illegal settlement outpost near Dir Jareer village, north east of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, as they Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 21 April 2013: UNICEF tones down report on child detainees in wake of Israeli pressure
21 April 2013 — VTJP News Ma’an News Lawyer: Sick prisoner stops taking medication4/21/2013 – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — A sick prisoner on Sunday stopped taking medication in protest against Israeli medical negligence, according to a lawyer from the Palestinian ministry of prisoners’ affairs. Ahmad Saed al-Damouni, 43, from the Gaza Strip, has been held in Ashkelon jail Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 17 April 2013: Israel is the only country in the world that has devised military courts for children
17 April 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterArmy Opens Fire At Palestinian Ambulance In BethlehemIMEMC – Wednesday evening, April 17, 2013, Israeli soldiers opened fire at a Palestinian Red Crescent Ambulance while trying to provide medical care to family members, including an infant, injured by gas bombs fired by the army at their home, in Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 13 April 2013
13 April 2013 — VTJP News Ma’an News Israeli forces prevent visit to Samer Issawi4/13/2013 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) – Israeli forces on Saturday refused to let 12 Israeli leftist visit hunger-striking Palestinian prisoner Samer Issawi at Israel’s Kaplan Medical Center. Israeli media said two female activists were briefly detained after they tried to break into Issawi’s room. Earlier Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 11 April 2013: PHOTOS: Israeli troops shoot Palestinian photographer in the face
11 April 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterProminent youth activist abducted by Israeli troops in HebronIMEMC – The coordinator of the non-violent group called ‘Youth Against Settlements’ was abducted Wednesday by Israeli troops when he responded to a summons to appear at the police station at the illegal Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba. … Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 10 April 2013
10 April 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterSoldiers Invade, Uproot, Farmlands in Khan YounisIMEMC – Wednesday morning April 10, 2013, several armored Israeli military vehicles and bulldozers invaded Palestinian farmland east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. … Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 9 April 2013
9 April 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterPalestinians mark 65th anniversary of Deir Yassin massacreIMEMC – In Palestine and around the world on Tuesday, Palestinians and their supporters held vigils and events to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the massacre of over one hundred Palestinian civilians in Deir Yassin village, in what is now Israel. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 8 April 2013: Youth move back to Palestinian village stolen from their families
8 April 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterPalestinian Cameraman Shot In The Face In BethlehemIMEMC – Bethlehem, Monday April 8, 2013, Palestinian medical sources reported that a Palestinian cameraman was shot in the face, on Monday evening, by a rubber-coated metal bullet, in the Aida refugee camp in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. … Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 4 April 2013: Palestinian Amer Nassar, Aged Seventeen: A Last Poem
4 April 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center PCHR: “In Light Of Ongoing Violations, Palestine Must Join The ICC”IMEMC – PCHR urges President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian leadership to follow through on recent statements they have made, in which they have pledged to sign and ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court Continue reading
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