CPTnet
5 January 2017
AL-KHALIL (HEBRON): A week in photos 26
December-1 January 2017

A Peaceful Demonstration

Pictured here: After a time of public prayer, demonstrators peacefully march to Checkpoint 56. The Israeli military meets them with teargas, soundbombs and arrests.

(12/29/2017)

Hypocrisy

Pictured here: Achild leads her younger sibling past Israeli soldiers. Several soldiers smile at the kids and offer cheerful hellos. These same soldiers throw tear gas into schoolyards, body search and arrest children.

(12/29/2017)

Emptying the Streets

Pictured here: An Israeli soldier stops a car while the military invades Palestinian-controlled H1 in response to a peaceful demonstration that marched to Checkpoint 56 after a time of public prayer. The Israeli occupying forces threw ninety-four sound grenades, many from rooftops, making six arrests before returning to the military base several hours later.

(12/29/2017)

Direct Inhuman Abuse

Pictured here: In a brave act of non-violent resistance, a man sits in the intersection outside of Checkpoint 56 with a Palestinian flag. An Israeli soldier throws a sound grenade that lands and detonates under the protestor’s leg.

(12/29/2017)

A Child’s Testimony

Pictured here: Fawzi al-Jundeidi, 16-years-old, was taken from a street near Bab iZaweyeh during an attack by the Israeli soldiers. Fawzi ran away as soldiers fired tear gas, was then ambushed by soldiers who were hiding. The soldiers him him in the chest with the butt of a gun at least five times, breaking his ribs in the upper part of his chest. Fawzi recounted later that he saw at least fifteen soldiers before they blindfolded, handcuffed him and beat him again, though photos show that at least twenty-three soldiers surrounded him and dragged him to Checkpoint 56 along with other detainees. Inside the checkpoint, soldiers beat the detainees’ hands and legs and poured cold water on Fawzi, then forced him to sit in a puddle in the corner. He was taken to two different police stations, where he was further interrogated and forced to sit on the ground. Israeli authorities examined him, noticed his battered condition but refused to admit him to a hospital. He was taken to Ofer prison in Ramallah. A judge ordered medical treatment, though the soldiers guarding him did not take him for treatment for at least four days. Fawzi was released on bail late at night on 27 December 2017, taken to the hospital, and then brought back to his family in al-Khalil. Four soldiers falsely testified that Fawzi threw stones, though three of them have withdrawn their testimony. He will have another court hearing in the beginning of January. The details of this report were recounted by Fawzi to CPT on the day of his release.

(12/28/2017)