Palestine Projects

About CPT Palestine

CPT Palestine is a faith-based organization that supports Palestinian-led, nonviolent, grassroots resistance to the Israeli occupation and the unjust structures that uphold it.  By collaborating with local Palestinian and Israeli peacemakers and educating people in our home communities, we help create a space for justice and peace.

We maintain a project in the southern West Bank city of Hebron (Al-Khalil in Arabic).

The Work of CPT Palestine:

  • Supporting Palestinian nonviolent resistance to the occupation in coordination with Israeli and international organizations
  • Providing daily accompaniment for Palestinian children walking to and from school
  • Accompanying Palestinian shepherds and farmers to fields where Israeli settlers often assault them
  • Monitoring treatment of Palestinians at Israeli military checkpoints and roadblocks
  • Intervening during human rights abuses and violations, including Israeli military invasions of Palestinian homes and markets
  • Sharing reports and documentation with CPT's network, media contacts, governmental and human rights organizations, and consular and embassy officials
  • Hosting international delegations organized by CPT, in addition to hosting groups visiting Hebron/Al-Khalil and At-Tuwani; connecting these groups with local peacemakers and organizations
  • Advocating for the reduction of foreign support for the occupation, through increasing awareness of the occupation’s realities and through support of the boycott, divestment, and sanction (BDS) movement

CPT in Hebron/al-Khalil

 

Latest Updates

The Dangerous Road to Education: Palestinian Students Suffer Under Settler Violence and

Military Negligence

2009-2010 report on the Israeli military escort to the Palestinian schoolchildren from the villages of Tuba and Maghayir al-Abeed.

Since 2001, Israeli settlers from Havat Ma'on have routinely attacked the children on their journey to and from school, but it was not until November 2004 that Israeli authorities established a daily military escort.  Despite the Israeli military escort, the children have been victims of violence 104 times between November 2004 and June 2010.  The soldiers carrying out the escort have at times failed to protect the children and have frequently arrived late, causing the children to wait, sometimes for hours, before and after school.

 During the 2009-2010 school year, children missed almost twenty-seven hours of school and waited fifty-three hours for military escort after school. In addition, the soldiers regularly failed to provide a complete escort of the children, almost always leaving the children to walk unescorted beside settlement buildings, in an area where settlers have attacked them.

Read the full report [pdf]

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. 

PALESTINE LETTER: “It takes love to fight an Occupation”

December 14th, 2011
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Jesus’s message is to love your neighbor and love your enemy. Jean Zaru asks in her book, “What if your neighbor is your enemy?” Love doesn’t cancel love; we have to love our neighbors twice as much in this case!

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