CPT: PalestineCPT Palestine recently launched Through their Lens: a new project with five children who live in a restricted area of the Old City in al-Khalil (Hebron). Through their Lens will give these children a platform to tell their stories through photography. This is one of our CPTer’s reflections on the beginning of the program. During […]
To the Coming Generations On May 10, 2019, CPT Palestine was called out to a major incident in Tel Rumeida. On arrival, we found that around 50 Israeli soldiers, together with a number of armed settlers, had just arrested two young Palestinian men. Talk about using a sledgehammer to crack a nut! At first, Israeli […]
On 7 February 2014, CPTers went to the routine Friday mosque patrol around prayer time. Often during Friday prayers, Israeli Border police will take the IDs of young Palestinian men while they going into the Ibrahimi Mosque, check to see if they have any outstanding warrants and then return the IDs when the men come […]
The most routine part of CPT Palestine’s work in Hebron is the monitoring of checkpoints through which students and teachers must walk to get to schools. For years, they have been stationed at the Qitoun checkpoint/Checkpoint 209*, which stands between boys walking from the H-1 area to il-Ibrahimi school and girls walking to al-Faiha school […]
Marwan Khalil al Jabari arrested by soldiers– photo ISM Hebron Around noon today 30 January 2014, members of the Christian Peacemaker Team in Hebron received a call from members of the International Solidarity Movement that soldiers had arrested a boy on New Shalala Street. Members of the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI) […]
An Israeli soldier, Staff Sgt. Gal Kobi, was shot in Hebron on Sunday, September 22 and pronounced dead at a hospital in Jerusalem. His death was the second Israeli soldier death in three days. During clashes, Kobi was shot, some sources say, by a Palestinian sniper, others say from friendly fire. Even to write about his […]
Remember if you can your childhood. Remember being a child during the holidays. Remember the feeling of being free of school for a week. Remember the feeling of anticipation; the presents, the food, your favourite aunt or uncle. Remember the decorations, the days of preparations. Remember the meal, the family together around a single table. […]