CPTnet
20 April 2015
AL-KHALIL (HEBRON): A week in photos 5-11 April 2015

Below is a sampling of the Palestine team’s best photos for the week of 5-11 April 2015. Life in the Old City of Hebron has its daily traumas, but also its moments of beauty.

BLOCKADED

Pictured here: A group of young Palestinian girls make their way past an Israeli military blockade in front of Al Fayha Elementary School. In the days surrounding Passover, CPT witnessed a surge in the amount of Israeli military and a rise in the restriction of movement for Palestinians.
(9/4/2015)

MAHER

Pictured here: Maher stands above the 48 soldiers who invaded his home and took a group photo. The 14 year-old boy was arrested earlier in the week for allegedly throwing stones, and this is the third time the military has entered his house.
(7/4/2015)

ASSAULTED

Pictured here: After being grabbed by an Israeli settler outside school, this 11 year-old boy is then pushed and yelled at by a border policeman.
(7/4/2015)

GATES OF APARTHEID

Pictured here: Two Palestinian boys look on as Israeli soldiers literally unlock the gates of apartheid, allowing for an exclusive Jewish-only tour of Hebron. This week, hundreds of Israeli settlers, religious tourists, and military forces occupied the Palestinian market streets for three and a half hours.
(6/4/2015)

PRAYER TIME

Pictured here: Israeli forces systematically stop and check IDs of 61 Palestinian men on their way to pray at the mosque. According to The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Everyone has the right to manifest their religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship, and observance.
(10/4/2015)

CHILDHOOD SEGREGATED

Pictured here: One of the kindergartners that CPT accompanies to school stands on the littered, broken path by the apartheid fence. On the other side of the fence is a bouncy castle put up for Israeli children, in the park where Palestinian children are not allowed.
(5/4/2015)

MOON RISE OVER HEBRON

“I have many memories. I was born as everyone is born.
In the deep horizon of my word, I have a moon, a bird’s sustenance, and an immortal olive tree. I have lived on the land long before swords turned man into prey.
I belong there.”
-from I Belong There by Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian poet
(6/4/2015)