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AL-KHALIL (HEBRON) REFLECTION: Steadfast Resistance

A shopkeeper facing intimidation and the threat of vandalism lays claim to the peace intoned by those who want him gone.

 

AL-KHALIL (HEBRON): UNICEF Ambassador visits Hebron

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Agnes Chan visited the old city of Hebron and the CPT office November 6 together with a UNICEF delegation to see first hand effects of the occupation on children and their education.

AL-KHALIL (HEBRON): The “Firing Zone” land grab scheme

A combination of legal maneuvers, government-aided settler encroachment and unhindered abuse threatens to dispossess 1,500 Palestinians in the South Hebron Hills.

        

Prayers for Peacemakers, October 24, 2012

Shout with Bartimaeus the beggar’s prayer for eyes blinded by occupation, opposition and domination to be opened to conciliation, mercy and hospitality. Let global witness demand no new settlement in Hebron, no added violence, exclusion and humiliation against any of God’s children there.

AL-KHALIL (HEBRON) URGENT ACTION: Prevent new settlement outpost, increased settler violence in Hebron

CPT calls supporters around the world to ask their government officials to persuade Israeli authorities to prevent a new settlement in Hebron and avoid the associated violence and disruption to Palestinians that it would bring.

AL-KHALIL (HEBRON) REFLECTION: Within a stone’s throw

Harvesting olives can be a bruising experience -- but not every time.

 

AL-KHALIL (HEBRON): A walk on the wild side

Soldiers go into crisis mode when they catch two young girls walking on the street they live on.

    

AL-KHALIL (HEBRON) REFLECTION: Living with absurdity

Climbing two ladders to a rooftop and then passing through a hole in a wall to gain entry to their house is a daily experience of one Palestinian family living in Hebron. Can guilt and responsibility amid such absurdities reside in different people?

AL-KHALIL (HEBRON): Soldiers enter playground at Ibrahimi School

Soldiers threatened collective punishment at a school after an alleged bottle throwing incident.

Prayers for Peacemakers, October 3, 2012

Prayers for Peacemakers, October 3, 2012

Ask that the Holy Spirit may move in Israeli and Palestinian peacemakers to persuade minds set on “sovereignty,” exclusion and violence in Al-Khalil (Hebron) of the joyful possibilities of building constructive, mutually beneficial, neighborly relations instead.