Archive for October, 2008
[cpthebron] At-Tuwani Release: Settler violence against Palestinian schoolchildren under Israeli military escort; a report by Christian Peacemaker Teams and Operation Dove
Posted by opcol in Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories on October 31, 2008
RELEASE:
AT-TUWANI: Settler violence against Palestinian schoolchildren under Israeli military escort; a report by Christian Peacemaker Teams and Operation Dove
15 October 2008
“The beginning was worse, but after today it seems harder than the beginning. The settlers are still beating our children.” Mother of South Hebron Hills student after settlers stoned children on 27 July 2008 and inflicted head wound requiring hospitalization on CPTer accompanying them.
A new report by Christian Peacemaker Teams and Operation Dove about the Israeli military escort of Palestinian children to school in At-Tuwani, during the 2007-2008 school year, details a catalogue of violent settler attacks on the children and a complacent attitude regarding these attacks by the Israeli army.
At-Tuwani: Israeli military escort fails again to protect Palestinian children from settler attacks
Posted by opcol in Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories on October 15, 2008
Israeli settlers from the settlement of Ma’on in the South Hebron Hills attacked Palestinian schoolchildren on their way home from school yesterday, 14 October. The children were returning from school in the village of At-Tuwani to their homes in villages of Tuba and Maghaer al Abeed. Two adult Israeli settlers waited for them near the [...]