CPT: Palestine
Soldiers in the occupied Old City neighborhood of Hebron (H2) arrested and detained nine children between the ages of eight and 16 from April 5 to April 22. Most recently on April 21 soldiers arrested a 15-year-old boy who was playing outside the Ibrahimi Mosque. According to witnesses the boy sustained serious injuries to […]
April 20, At 4:15 PM soldiers arrested a 12 year old Palestinian boy as he rode his bicycle through Bab il Baledeyya near the entrance to Hebron’s Old City. The soldiers brought the boy into the military base at Beit Romano settlement and held him for about one and a half hours. They then walked […]
Hebron, oPT April 15, 2012 On the night of April 14, Israeli soldiers in Hebron took a thirteen year old boy from his house, blindfolded and handcuffed him and closed him inside a nearby checkpoint container for 20 minutes. The soldiers then walked him, still blindfolded and handcuffed, to another checkpoint a block away and […]
OCCUPIED CHILDHOODS Impact of the actions of Israeli soldiers on Palestinian children in H2 during February, March and April 2013 OCCUPIED CHILDHOODS: Report by International Human Rights Workers in Hebron, OPT, Documents the Loss of Childhood in Occupied Hebron. A newly released report compiled by internationals working in the West Bank city of Hebron documents […]
Israeli soldiers arrested 27 children outside of Hebron Public Elementary School on March 20
On the morning of April 7 the 105 residents of Khirbet al Majaz, in the southern West Bank region of Masafer Yatta, were awakened by a low-flying Israeli helicopter passing over their homes at about 6AM. At 6:30 soldiers fired a half-dozen large mortar shells, which sounded like bombs going off close-by their homes. Currently […]