At-Tuwani

About CPT At-Tuwani

CPT accompanies Palestinian shepherds, farmers and school children in the area around Israel's Ma’on settlement and its outposts. On several occasions, settlers from Ma’on have attacked Palestinian children going to and from school.

CPT Tuwani:

  • Monitors treatment of Palestinians at Israeli military checkpoints and roadblocks.
  • Intervenes during Israeli military invasions of Palestinian homes.
  • Continues regular visits, along with Israeli peace activists, to Palestinian families facing harassment from Israeli settlers
  • Provides daily accompaniment for Palestinian children walking to and from school
  • Accompanies Palestinian shepherds and farmers to fields where they are exposed to assault by extremist settlers
  • Joins Israeli peace groups to replant olive groves destroyed by settlers
  • Joins Palestinians and Israeli peace activists in acts of public nonviolent resistance to Israel's construction of a "security wall" which cuts through Palestinian territory.

Reflection

The Closed Road to Education: Palestinian Students Suffer under Violent Settlement Explansion

 

During the 2008-09 school year, nearly 20 Palestinian children, ages 6 to 14, from the villages of Tuba and Maghayir al Abeed attended primary school in At-Tuwani. To reach school, the children typically took the shortest route – the main road that connects their villages with At-Tuwani and passes between the Israeli settlement of Ma’on and the Israeli outpost of Havat Ma’on (Hill 833).

Because of ongoing Israeli settler violence against the school children, the Israeli military continued a daily escort of the children to and from school. Notwithstanding the Israeli military escort, settlers from the settlement of Ma’on and outpost of Havat Ma’on (Hill 833) continued to impede the children’s journey to school and use violence against the children.

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