Recent CPTnet stories

AL-KHALIL (HEBRON) REFLECTION: Darkness cannot drive out darkness

February 7th, 2012
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Hebron’s Old City has one main street.  It connects the Ibrahimi Mosque to Bab il Balideyya, an open square next to the Beit Romano settlement and military base.  Along this cobblestone road, narrower streets branch off, meandering deeper into the Old City, intersecting with other less trafficked alleys.  At night, the Old City is dark, with only the main road lit, and there, only in scattered places.

AL-KHALIL (HEBRON): Settlers from Outpost 26 once again attack Za'atari family home in Al-Bowereh

January 3rd, 2012
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On 30 December 2011, between ten to twenty settlers in Outpost 26 overlooking the Hebron neighborhood of Al-Bowereh used slingshots to launch stones onto the roof of the Za’atari family home.  The attack began at 6:30 p.m. and lasted approximately one and a half hours.

BETHLEHEM: Kairos Palestine commemorates second anniversary at international conference

December 21st, 2011
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More than sixty participants from fifteen countries (including CPT Palestine member Maria Delgado) heeded an urgent call by Kairos Palestine  on 4-10 December 2011 as they joined Palestinians in the Kairos for Global Justice encounter in Bethlehem.

AL-KHALIL/HEBRON: Soldiers enter Ibrahimi school grounds; invade civilian homes as part of training exercises

December 19th, 2011
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On 15 December 2011, CPT’s AL-Khalil/Hebron team received a phone call from the principal of Ibrahimi School around 8:30 in the morning, saying that Israeli soldiers had entered the school grounds. By the time CPTers arrived, the soldiers had left. Members of the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI), International Solidarity Movement (ISM), Temporary International Presence in Hebron (TIPH) and the Hebron Rehabilitation Committee (HRC) also arrived around the same time.

Translating for the principal, the HRC representative said that the boys had been at a school assembly celebrating the end of semester before exams when the soldiers arrived, accusing the boys of throwing a handful of plastic chips painted in a metallic color from the schoolyard.

AL-KHALIL(HEBRON): Israeli military and intelligence officers stop Old City shop renovations

December 15th, 2011
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On 12-13 December 2011, three armed officers in plain clothes from an Israeli intelligence organization, accompanied by a squadron of Israeli soldiers, forced workers to stop renovations in approximately thirteen Palestinian shops near the entrance of Hebron’s Old City.

The men in plain clothes started by inspecting the construction work going on in the shops near Bab il Baledeyya.  They asked questions of the owners, checking in particular the structures that had belonged to the Jewish community in Hebron prior to 1929.