Palestine

Applies to CPTnet releases from Palestine projects

AL-KHALIL (HEBRON): Peace and good neighbors, not another settlement outpost

CPT Al-Khalil (Hebron) invites informed prayers after a Jerusalem magistrate's approval of a new illegal Israeli settlement outpost in what amounts to an "application of Israeli sovereignty" over this occupied city.

AL-KHALIL (HEBRON): Freedom Bus tour visits Al-Khalil

Freedom Bus tour promotes dramatic and musical expression of youth under occupation.

  

SOUTH HEBRON HILLS: “Tell the world” to help stop evacuation of villages for war practice

Jewish and Palestinian Israelis and internationals join Palestinians resisting the threatened evacuation from their villages in the name of clearing the land for the practice of warfare.

 

 

UNITED STATES REFLECTION: A breath before speaking

A personal encounter during a public witness action tests and deepens a facebook friendship.

 

  

PALESTINE: Freedom not just for birds

No checkpoints,
passbook
or metal detector
for her.

AL-KHALIL (HEBRON) REFLECTION: “You are CPT!”

For a moment my heart stopped. An Israeli border police officer stationed near the Ibrahimi Mosque had recognized me, even though I wore neither the vest nor the red cap.


  

AL-KHALIL (HEBRON): Media package now available

A new resource highlights CPT’s work and the historical context of this unique city in word and image.

  
  

AL-KHALIL: CPT Palestine in the News

CPT Palestine announces the launch of the “CPT Palestine in the News,” a web page featuring articles, interviews and references by and about members of Christian Peacemaker Teams’ Palestine project.
  
  
  


AL-KHALIL: Israeli military forcefully shuts down Old City

On 10 July the Israeli military entered the old city of Hebron without warning or explanation and shut down every shop in the old market. They blocked pedestrian exits and detonated percussion grenades at close range to shopkeepers and pedestrians. They also threw the grenades into homes before searching them.

AL-KHALIL: Palestinians protest turnstile installation at military checkpoint

Sixty Palestinians protested the installation of a turnstile at an Israeli military checkpoint in Al-Khalil on 9 July. Children as young as six played a key role in the protest and faced soldiers' physical and verbal responses to the protesters' indignation.