Settlers Attack Two Children In Hebron
A group of fundamentalist Israeli settlers attacked on Sunday two Palestinian children in Tel Romeida neighborhood, in the center of the southern West Bank city of Hebron. Resident Mohammad Abu…
Troops Kidnap 3 Palestinians In Hebron
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Thursday at dawn, the southern West Bank city of Hebron and kidnapped three Palestinians. Soldiers also invaded a number of nearby towns and villages, and installed…
Activists Hold Third Annual Conference on Boycott of Israel in Hebron
The Palestinian branch of the international campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel held its third annual conference in the southern West Bank city of Hebron on Saturday,…
Settler Sentenced To Three Months Public Service For Repeatedly Ramming Palestinian
The Israeli District Court in Jerusalem sentenced a settler, who rammed and repeatedly drove over a wounded Palestinian with his car, to three months “Public Service”.The Palestinian has been identified…
Troops Arrest Three Palestinians In Hebron
Israeli soldiers arrested, on Wednesday at dawn, three Palestinian youths in Beit Ummar town, north of Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, and took them to the…
Detained Legislator Receives Extended Remand For Six Months
For the third consecutive time, the Israeli Authorities decided to extend the Administrative Detention order against elected legislator, Nayef Rajoub, 55, for an additional six months.The family of the Hamas…
Israeli Military Destroys Wells Near Hebron
Israeli forces have used a bulldozer to destroy three wells and part of a home in the village of al-Bass, west of Hebron.The Ma’an News agency reported that three rooms…
The struggle of a family in the shadow of illegal annexation
“The Israelis hope that that the young people leave, the old people die, and then they can confiscate the land and the houses” says Sami, an activist working in Al…
Israeli Soldiers Accidentally Kill a Settler Near Hebron
Israeli sources reported that Israeli soldiers accidentally shot and killed an Israeli settler and wounded two others, early on Friday, in the Hebron district, in the southern West Bank.Israeli daily,…
Army kidnaps A resident In Hebron
Israeli soldiers kidnapped on Saturday a Palestinian resident, active in nonviolent resistance against the Annexation Wall and settlements, in Beit Ummar Town, north of the southern West Bank city of…
Israeli Army Abducts Three Hebron Residents, Including Two Children
The Israeli army kidnapped a young man and two children from the West Bank city of Hebron after breaking into their houses on Friday at dawn, the Palestinian news agency,…
Soldiers Attack A Nonviolent Protest Near Hebron, Injuries Reported
Israeli soldiers attacked on Saturday a nonviolent protest against Israeli settlements, in Beit Ummar town, near the central West Bank city of Hebron, five reporters and one resident were injured.The…
Troops Kidnap Three Residents In Beit Ummar
The Israeli military invaded, on Thursday at dawn, the village of Beit Ummar, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron, broke into and searched several homes, and kidnapped three…
Teachers Of Qurtuba School Continue Their Protest
The teachers of Qurtuba School are still protesting in front of the military checkpoint at the entrance to Martyrs Street, in the middle of the West Bank city of Hebron,…
Settlers Attack Qurtuba School Students Studying By Roadblock
A group of settlers again attacked students of Qurtuba School in Hebron on Thursday, October 13, the Palestinian News Agency (WAFA) reported. For the third day in row, students and…
Israeli Soldier Captured on Video Shooting Palestinian Youth in Beit Ummar
An Israeli soldier fired at a Palestinian youth, injuring him in the shoulder, in the village of Beit Ummar north of the West Bank city of Hebron, the Palestinian news…
Ten Female Students Injured In Hebron
Israeli soldiers assaulted dozens of female Palestinian students on Tuesday in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, injuring at least ten.Medical sources in Hebron reported that Israeli soldiers tried…
Arrest Of Ahmad Abu Hasham In Early Dawn Raid, Beit Ummar
Israeli forces arrested Abu Hasham, secretary of the Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements, along with his son Yousef, age 18, in Beit Ummar early Tuesday morning, the Palestinian…
Army Prevents Teachers, Students From Reaching School In Hebron
Israeli troops prevented on Tuesday morning teachers and students from reaching their school, located near the illegal “Beit Hadassa†settlement, in the old city of Hebron, claiming the area is…
Israeli Army Kidnaps Two Hebron Residents
The Israeli Army kidnapped two Palestinian residents from al-‘Aroob refugee camp, in the northern part of the West Bank city of Hebron on Monday, after breaking into their houses, the…
Israel Claims 3 Men Admit Causing Death Of Settler, Son
On Thursday evening Israeli police lifted a gag order on the arrest of three Palestinian men on October 4th, stating that during interrogation the three confessed to causing the death…
Israeli Authorities To Close Ibrahimi Mosque In Hebron, October 8
On Thursday morning, Israeli authorities decided to close the Ibrahimi Mosque, in the West Bank city of Hebron, to Muslims on October 8, because of the settlers’ celebration of the…
Massive Protest Held In Hebron In Support Of Political Detainees
Thousands of Palestinians held a protest in the southern West Bank city of Hebron in solidarity with the political prisoners incarcerated by Israel in several prisons and detention camps, and…
Army Closes Ibrahimi Mosque for Muslims, Opens It to Israeli Settlers
Israeli Military forces closed the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron in the West Bank today, October 4th, and only allowed Israeli settlers to enter it, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.…
Army Demolishes a House and Cowshed, Bulldozes Olive Orchard in Hebron
The Israeli army demolished a house and cowshed, bulldozed an olive orchard, and confiscated two caravans in the village of Beit Ola, northwest of the West Bank city of Hebron,…
Army Kidnaps Three Residents in Hebron
The Israeli army kidnapped three Palestinians from the town of Halhoul north of Hebron on Tuesday, and invaded the town of ad-Dahreyeh south of Hebron, Palestine News & Information Agency…
Two Residents, Activist ,Wounded As Army Attack Nonviolent Protest Near Hebron
Two Palestinians women and one international peace activist were injured after the Israeli army during attacked a nonviolent protest against settlements and the Annexation Wall in the southern West Bank…
Army Kidnaps a Palestinian man and Bulldozes Lands in Hebron
Israeli Army kidnapped a Palestinian man from the village of Dura near Hebron and bulldozed lands in the middle of the city, Palestine News and Information Agency(WAFA) reported on Thursday.Security…
Israeli Military To Start Working On A New By-pass Road Soon
Israeli military bulldozers are expected to start construction work to build a by-pass road in the southern part of the West Bank, Palestinian media sources reported on Thursday.The Israeli military…
Guard Committees Deter Israeli Settlers Attack
The local guard committees foiled on Tuesday night an attack by Israeli settlers that targeted the residents of Palestinian residents of Tel Rumeideh, in Hebron.Around one hundred settlers gathered and…
Israeli father and son die in car accident allegedly caused by Palestinian stone-throwing
According to Israeli police, a 25-year old Israeli-American settler and his 18-month old baby were killed on Friday in a car accident that they say may have been caused by…
Settlers Put Up Posters Calling For Killing Arabs, Palestinians
Dozens of armed Israeli settlers put up Israeli flags and posters on main and bypass roads close to Jewish settlements in the southern part of the West Bank, calling for…
Settler Hit-and-Run Incident Injures 8 Year Old Child
Ma’an News Agency are reporting Friday that an eight year old Palestinian boy has been struck down, in an hit and run incident, by a car driven by settlers in…
Settlers Attack A Palestinian Woman In Hebron
Palestinian Medical Sources reported Wednesday that a Palestinian woman was hospitalized after being attacked by extremist Israeli settlers in the southern West Bank city of Hebron.The woman, Intisar Al Rajabi,…
Army Attacks Protest In Hebron, Injuries reported
Israeli soldiers attacked on Thursday a nonviolent protest in the Al Arroub refugee camp, in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and injured several residents, including one child.The wounded…
Israeli Military Demolishes Home in Beit Ummar; Settlers Destroy Vine Crop
The Israeli military has, on Tuesday, demolished a partially constructed house in the West Bank town of Beit Ummar, near Hebron.Despite having obtained a building permit, the house, owned by…
Soldiers Invade Hebron, Kidnap Three
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Monday morning, three Palestinians from Al Sammoa’ town, south of Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, and installed roadblocks leading to several nearby…
Soliers Kidnap A Palestinian From Hebron
The Israeli military abducted, on Monday morning, Sami Mukhaimer, 30, from the town of Yatta, south of Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, and took him to…
Settlers Uproot Olive Trees, Grapevines, Plum Trees Near Hebron
Dozens of extremist Israeli settlers of the Beit Ayin illegal colony, north of Beit Umamar, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, attacked on Tuesday Palestinian orchards and…
55 Palestinians Injured As Army Invades Hebron
Palestinian medical sources in Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, reported that 55 residents were injured following clashes that took place between local residents and Israeli soldiers…
Troops Invade Hebron, Kidnap 35 Residents
Israeli soldiers invaded on Saturday, just before midnight, the southern West bank city of Hebron, broke into and searched dozens of homes, and kidnapped more than 35 residents, including elected…
Living Hell in Tel Rumeida
The first time I visited Hebron and thereafter, I thought the Old City, with its 700 Israeli settlers living under heavy protection by the Israeli army amongst about 30,000 Palestinians,…
Settlers Attack Internationals With An Iron Bar
Three settlers from the illegal West Bank settlement of Havat Maon harassed three Palestinian shepherds and attacked two internationals observers near Mesheha hill. The masked settlers threw stones at the…
Settlers Bulldoze Farmlands near Hebron
Israeli settlers uprooted on Tuesday Palestinian farmlands in Sair town, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron; Israeli soldiers were present but did not attempt to stop the…
Christian Peace Maker Team In Hebron Reports Increase In Raids
Christian Peace Maker Team in Hebron have reported in increase in house raids with the arrival of a new brigade of Israeli soldiers in the West Bank city. The team…
Israeli troops attack non-violent protest in Beit Ommar; 3 abducted
On Saturday June 25, about 50 Palestinian, Israeli and international activists gathered in Beit Ommar to demonstrate against the Israeli Karmei Tsur settlement, which has annexed hundreds of dunams of…
Army Kidnaps Three Children In Hebron
Israeli soldiers kidnapped on Sunday ay dawn three Palestinian children in Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, and took them to unknown destinations. Local sources reported that…
Detained Legislator Receives Extended Administrative Detention Order
An Israeli military court decided Thursday to renew, for six more months, the administrative detention order against elected legislator, Mohammad At-Til, from Al Thaheriyya town, south of the southern West…
Israeli Military Stop Christian Leader From Visiting Central Hebron
A visit to Hebron, in the southern West Bank, by the Archbishop of Jerusalem, Fuad Twal, was cut short on Monday when Israeli forces stopped the Archbishop from entering the…
Troops Demolish Homes, Tents, Near Hebron
Israeli soldiers demolished on Monday seven Palestinian homes and tents that belong to residents of Khirbet Bir Al-Ad, east of Yatta town, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron,…
Army Kidnaps Palestinian Legislator In Hebron
Israeli soldiers kidnapped on Thursday at dawn legislator Dr. Samir Al Qadi, 55, after breaking into his home in Surif town, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron,…
Settlers Hurl Stones At Palestinian Homes In Hebron
Dozens of fundamentalist Israeli settlers, living in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, hurled on Tuesday at night, stones at five Palestinian homes in the city while chanting racist…
Wells Demolished In Hebron
The Ma’an News Agency reports that Israel demolished 5 wells in Hebron area on Tuesday morning.According to Ma’an, the wells belonged to the al-Jamal family and were located in the…
Troops Kidnap Three International Activists Near Hebron
Israeli soldiers kidnapped on Saturday afternoon three international peace activists participating in the weekly nonviolent protest against the Israeli Annexation Wall and settlements in Beit Ummar town, near the southern…
Settlers Burn Palestinian Crops Near Hebron
The Palestine News Network reports that on Wednesday afternoon, extremist settlers set fire to crops owned by Palestinian farmers near Hebron.It is alleged that the settlers came from the settlement…
Soldiers Invade Hebron, Neabry Areas, Kidnap Three Children
Israeli soldiers kidnapped on Wednesday at dawn three children in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and took them to an unknown destination. Troops installed roadblocks in the Hebron…
Soldiers Detain Palestinians, Abduct International Peace activist Near Hebron
Israeli soldiers detained on Saturday evening five several Palestinians, including women and children, and kidnapped an international peace activist near Safa village, north of the southern West Bank city of…
Settlers Uproot 20 Olive Trees Near Hebron
A group of extremist Israeli settlers, living at the Beit Ayin illegal settlement built on Palestinian lands the belong to Beit Ummar village, north of the southern West Bank city…
Eight Palestinians, Including Four Children, Wounded In Hebron
Palestinian medical sources reported, Saturday evening, that eight Palestinians, including four children, were treated by the effects of teargas inhalation during clashes with Israeli soldiers and settlers in the Old…
Israeli settlers invade Palestinian village of Tuba
Israeli settlers invaded the village of Tuba in the South Hebron Hills late Sunday night, 15 May. They damaged property and killed and stole livestock belonging to the Ali Awad…
Army Demolishes Ten Homes Near Hebron
Israeli soldiers demolished on Thursday ten Palestinian homes in the Hebron district, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.The army invaded Um Nir village and Yatta town, near…
Army Kidnaps Four Palestinians, Including A Former Minister, In Hebron
Israeli troops kidnapped on Wednesday at dawn four Palestinian residents including a former minister, in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and the nearby village of Doura. Local sources…
Settlers Torch Palestinian Stores In Hebron
A group of armed extremist Israeli settlers hurled, on Wednesday at dawn, Molotov cocktails at several Palestinian stores in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, causing fire in four…
Israeli Sewage Dumped In Palestinian Village Known For Anti-settlement Protests
The Palestinian town of Beit Ummar, in the southern West Bank, was flooded with sewage from a nearby settlement on Tuesday, according to local eyewitnesses and officials. Locals say that…
Settlers Attack Homes, Smash Windshield Of Palestinian Car Near Hebron
Local sources in Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, reported that a group of extremist settlers attacked a number of Palestinian homes near the Keryat Arba’ illegal…
Army Occupies Several Homes In Hebron, Uses Them As Monitoring Towers
Palestinian sources in the southern West Bank city of Hebron reported Tuesday morning that Israeli soldiers broke into and occupied a number of homes and used them as monitoring towers.…
Israeli Soldiers Abduct Seven Citizens From Hebron
The Israeli military abducted, on Tuesday morning, seven citizens from the West Bank city of Hebron.Security sources reported to Wafa News Agency that the Israeli military invaded the town of…
Settlers Uproot Olive Trees In Hebron
A group of extremist Israeli settlers uprooted and destroyed more than 45 olive trees that belong to the residents of Beit Ummar village, near the southern West Bank city of…
Israeli Soldiers Abducts Three Residents From Hebron
The Israeli military abducted, on Wednesday morning, three Palestinians from the town of Hebron, while a group of Israeli settlers plowed Palestinian lands in the east of Yatta, south of…
Troops Kidnap Four Palestinians, Including a Hamas Legislator In The West Bank
Israeli troops kidnapped on Thursday morning four civilians including a legislator of the Hamas Change and Reform parliamentary Bloc, and took them to an unknown destinations.Soldiers stormed the city of…
Demolitions in the South Hebron Hills; Seven Injured
The Israeli military demolished twelve tents, on Tuesday, belonging to Bedouin families in the South Hebron Hills region of the West Bank. During the attack, seven persons were beaten.The tents…
Seven children; seven adults abducted by Israeli troops in Beit Ummar
In the latest in a series of raids targeting Palestinian villages engaged in non-violent weekly protests against the Wall, Israeli forces invaded the village of Beit Ummar, near the southern…
Settler Receives 18 Months Sentence For Attacking , Kidnapping A Palestinian Teen
The Israeli Magistrates Court in Jerusalem sentenced, on Sunday, an Israeli settler from a West Bank illegal settlement to 18 months imprisonment after convicting him of kidnapping and attacking a…
Hamas Mourns Political Leader In Hebron
The Hamas movement issued a press release mourning Dr. Andan Abdul-Hafeth Masoudy (Abu Al Abed), 72, who died on Saturday evening due to a number of chronic diseases. Dr. Abu…
9 Detained From Hebron District
Nine Palestinian residents from the district of Hebron were detained, on Thursday, in several locations according to the Ma’an News Agency.The Israeli military sealed all access roads to the town…
Two Palestinians Shot By A Settler In Beit Ummar
Medical sources reported Monday that Ahmad Ali, 59, from the southern West Bank city of Hebron, is currently in a serious condition after being shot in his neck by a…
Palestinian Stabbed by Settler Near Hebron
A Palestinian farmer was stabbed by a settler whilst working his land in Tuba village near Hebron on Monday.Palestinian news sources report that Mohamed Awad was attacked by a group…
6 Trees Cut Down in at-Tuwani. Settlers Accused of the Attack
Villagers from at-Tuwani, in the southern West Bank region, discovered, on Wednesday, that olive groves belonging to residents of the village had been attacked, with six trees destroyed. Residents believe…
Settler Opens Fire At Palestinian Vehicle Near Hebron
Palestinian sources reported, Tuesday, that an armed Israeli settler opened fire at a Palestinian vehicle driving near the entrance of Bani Neim town, south of Hebron, in the southern part…
Israeli Forces Arrest Residents From Hebron
The Israeli army arrested, on Thursday, residents from the West Bank city of Hebron.Israeli military forces raided the area of Bir al-Mhajer, north of Hebron, and arrested two brothers, Mohammed…
Army Kidnaps Elected Legislator
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Wednesday evening, legislator Azzam Salhab, 54 years old, from the southern West Bank city of Hebron, after stopping him at a military roadblock near Jericho city.…
Another Palestinian Child Run Over in Hebron
An Israeli settler hit a Palestinian boy with his car in Hebron, on Monday evening, Ma’an News Agency reported. Residents of the Old City of Hebron witnessed having seen a…
Settlers Attack Homes, Property In Hebron
A group of armed fundamentalist Israeli settlers attacked, on Tuesday at dawn, several Palestinian neighborhoods in the southern West Bank city of Hebron.Eyewitnesses reported that dozens of settlers led by…
Army Abducts Two Palestinians From Hebron
Israeli soldiers abducts, on Monday at dawn, two Palestinians from the southern West Bank city of Hebron.The two were taken from their homes after the army conducted an invasion into…
Israeli Settlers Demand Firing Of Bus Driver For Crime Of ‘being Arab’
A Palestinian-Israeli bus driver, who holds Israeli citizenship, has been threatened with firing after he was assigned to a route that serves the Israeli colonial settlement of Elazar. Jewish Israeli…
Palestinian Child Wounded After Being Run-over By Settler’s Vehicle
A Palestinian child was injured, on Sunday, after being run-over by a vehicle driven by a Israeli settler in the district of Hebron, in the southern part of the West…
Open Shuhada Street Protest takes place in Hebron
Around 500 Palestinians along with international and Israeli supporters protested, on Friday, in the Old City in Hebron demanding the opening of Shuhada Street. The Israeli military has barred Palestinians…
Israeli Military Abducts Two Children in Hebron
On Thursday morning, the Israeli soldiers abducted two Palestinian children from the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, and searched several houses.Mohammad Awad, Media spokesman for the Palestinian Solidarity…
Hebron Settlers Attack At Tiwana, Uproot Trees
A group of armed extremist Israeli settlers attacked, on Tuesday, at-Tiwana village, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron and uprooted several olive trees.Eyewitnesses reported that settlers of the…
Israel Demolishes Amniyr Bedouin Homes
The homes of a Bedouin community in the south Hebron hills have been bulldozed by Israeli authorities, according to the Ma’an News Network.A total of five tents, which housed approximately…
Israeli soldiers Abduct Two Palestinians From Hebron
On Monday morning, the Israeli military abducted two Palestinians from the town of Yatta, south of Hebron, and erected multiple checkpoints.Local sources reported to the Palestine News Agency ‘WAFA’ that…
Child, Beit Ummar Mayor, Wounded In Weekly Nonviolent Protest
Palestinian medical sources reported, Saturday, that a child and the mayor of Beit Ummar town, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron, were wounded after the Israeli army opened…
Settlers Attack Palestinias In Hebron & Yatta
On Saturday, Israeli settlers threw stones at several Palestinian residents in the city of Hebron and the nearby town of Yatta, wounding at least one.An eyewitness reported that Nassar Mohammad…
Israeli military invades houses in Hebron
The Israeli military erected, on Thursday morning, many checkpoints in the town of Hebron, southern West Bank, and searched several houses.Security sources reported to Palestine News Agency ‘WAFA’, that the…
Israeli Soldiers Abducted Two Palestinians In Hebron
The Israeli military abducted, on Tuesday morning, two young Palestinians after invading their houses in the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron.Mohamed Awad, Media spokesman for the Palestinian Solidarity…
Armed Israeli Settlers Storm Palestinian Village Near Hebron
A group of heavily-armed Israeli settlers stormed the village of Beit Ummar, in the southern part of the West Bank, on Sunday night. They harassed villagers but caused no injuries,…
Extremist Settler-leader Describes Spanish Foreign Minister As Anti-Semite
During her visit to the Ibrahimi Mosque, in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, also referred to as the Cave of the Patriarchs, extremist settler leader, Itamar Ben Gavir,…
Beit Ummar Resident Hospitalized By Rubber Bullet Fire
The Ma’an News Agency is reporting, on Tuesday, that a young man has been hospitalized by rubber coated steel bullet fire in the West Bank village of Beit Ummar, near…
Settler Activist Verbally Assaults Spanish FM During Visit to Hebron
During a visit to Hebron, on Monday, the Spanish Foreign Minister, Trinidad Jiménez, came under a torrent of abuse from the settler group she had agreed to meet.Settler activist Itamar…
Israeli soldiers abduct three teens, 1 adult In Hebron
The Israeli military abducted, on Monday morning, four Palestinians, three of whom were children, from the Hebron district in the West Bank.Security sources reported to Palestine News Agency ‘WAFA’ that…