AL-KHALIL (HEBRON): A week in photos, 19-25 January 2016

Facebook
Twitter
Email
WhatsApp
Print

CPTnet
28 January 2016
AL-KHALIL (HEBRON): A week in photos, 19-25 January 2016

OMG Mom!!

Israeli Settlers have just forcibly occupied the homes of this little girl’s Palestinian neighbors – the home on her left and on her right. They are now caught in the middle. This is being  done with full and unequivocal protection by Israeli soldiers and Border Police. 

(January 21, 2016)
 

Moving in…

Israeli soldier helping Israeli Jewish Settlers occupy Palestinian homes
(January 21, 2016)
 
 

Gunned up

Israeli forces protecting the Israeli settlers in their occupation of Palestinian homes.

 

(January 21, 2016) 

Changes at the check points

The Israeli Civil Administration informing Palestinian representatives about the changes they are making to the checkpoints in front of the Ibrahimi Mosque and Checkpoint 29. 

(January 20, 2016)

Snow and cold

A light snow blankets the Old City of Hebron, shutting down the town. Pictured here is the storied Ibrahimi Mosque, the Tomb of the Patriarchs, sprinkled with a dusting of snow.

(January 26, 2016)

Checkpoints and Bread 

Motonabi military checkpoint – a van pulls up on one side of a military checkpoint and men get out and hang plastic bags of bread on the hooks of a door. Minutes later a Palestinian man comes with a shopping trolley to the other side of the checkpoint to collect the bread to deliver to Palestinian families. 
(January 24, 2016)
 

Life carries on

Palestinian men walking and chatting together maintaining normalcy in an occupation that is brutally far from normal. Two days later, two of the houses to the right were forcibly occupied by Israeli settlers

(January 20, 2016)

 
 
 
Share
Tweet
Forward

These are the stories of the Palestine team’s neighbors and friends
  
Help get these stories from the people of Hebron out.

Subscribe to the Friday Bulletin

Get Ryan’s thoughts and the entire bulletin every Friday in your inbox, and don’t miss out on news from the teams, a list of what we’re reading and information on ways to take action.

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Read More Stories

What has CPT accomplished?

I often get asked, “What has CPT accomplished?” This is a fair question as we celebrate forty years, especially when most organisations measure their work

palestine and tunisia flag painted on wall

Travelling doesn’t erase home

What if the most painful displacement is not leaving home, but returning to discover that the place you love is slowly being made to forget you?

A border wall

Walls

After a CPT delegation in the US-Mexico Borderlands, David Leaman joined our team in Palestine. In both places, he came across oppressive dividing walls. Here, he reflects on their role as colonial tools, and the common call of CPT in different parts of the world to dissolve them.

Skip to content