Recent CPTnet stories

AL-KHALIL (HEBRON): Soldiers invade numerous homes in Old City

February 9th, 2012
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Early on the morning of 8 February 2012, more than twenty Israeli soldiers and Border Police broke into at least thirty homes in the Al-Khalil (Hebron)’s Old City.  The soldiers, many of whom are part of a unit of the Golani Brigade, used rifles, boots, and pry bars to break in doors and destroy locks.  Soldiers ransacked more than a dozen houses, ordered families outside into the night, damaged and destroyed property and verbally and physically harassed families who were asleep in their homes when the raid began.  Soldiers also broke down the door of the Ministry of Labor, which was empty in the early morning hours.

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.