Haaretz
May 27, 2008
The Judea and Samaria Appeals Committee of the Civil Administration, the Israel Defense Forces arm that governs civilian affairs in the West Bank, approved on Tuesday eviction orders for two Hebron stores occupied by settlers roughly two years ago.
U.S. envoy cuts short Hebron trip after clash with settlers
Haaretz
May 2, 2008
The American bodyguards of a Bush administration envoy who was dispatched to the region to monitor the implementation of the road map engaged in a violent confrontation with right-wing Israelis who sought to disturb a visit to Hebron on Friday, Israel Radio reported.
B'Tselem reports steep rise of settler violence against Hebron Palestinians
Haaretz
October 19, 2007
According to the latest report of the B'Tselem human rights
organization, the level of anti-Palestinian violence carried out by the
Hebron settlers has seen a sharp increase since March, when the
settlers began to squat in the so-called "House of Dispute".
Peace Now to High Court:
Evict Hebron Squatters At Once
Haaretz
September 11, 2007
Israel's Peace Now
movement has petitioned the country's High Court of Justice, demanding that the
Court overrule an IDF Appeals Board decision to allow the Hebron Squatters to
remain in the building they seized until the end of the lengthy legal
proceedings.
Explosive and
malignant
Yehuda Litani in Ynet
August 10,
2007
Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai once compared
Jerusalem to an operation that has remained open while the surgeons went
to sleep in a far off place. In Hebron it's an
ongoing surgery, where the surgeons are helpless and are wringing their
hands in desperation.
Troops refuse
to evacuate Hebron families
Efrat Weiss in
Ynet
August 6, 2007
As thousands of police officers, soldiers
prepare to evacuate two Jewish families from Hebron wholesale market on Tuesday,
30 yeshiva students from Duchifat Battalion announce they will not take
part in evacuation after consulting rabbis. Central Command chief: Soldiers to
stand disciplinary trial.
'Settlers
forged ownership of Hebron House'
Aviram Zino in
Ynet
July 3, 2007
State prosecutors claim police investigation
reveals settlers from Hebron presented forged documents to prove ownership over
disputed house. But case remains open as contradictions in Palestinian story
come to light
Visit
to a Ghost Town
Amy Kapit, Program Director Meretz USA
June 12,
2007
Between June 11th, 2007 and June 14, 2007, Meretz USA
partnered with the World Union of Meretz to sponsor an educational program for young American
Jews to visit the West Bank. The second day of the
trip was spent in Hebron.
Squatters'
rights?
Amos Harel in Haaretz
June 6,
2007
The settlers at the "House of Dispute" in Hebron are using Israel's judicial bureaucracy to
the fullest in order to maintain their presence. The Defense Ministry
seems happy to do nothing.
"We will have to evacuate the settlers from
Hebron"
Lilach Shoval in
YNet
June 5, 2007
This is
the clear message delivered by Meretz MK Chaim Oron to a Peace Now
protest in Hebron.
1968
and 1979: How the settlements of Kiryat Arba and Hebron were
founded
The Foundation for Middle East Peace provides this
instructive background piece, which describes how, when it comes to the
settlers, squatters get their way.
The Spirit of the
Commander Prevails
Meron Rapoport in Haaretz
May 20,
2007
In the West Bank, Israel's military is carrying out a
number of policies without government authorization, and in defiance of
the Supreme Court. Among them is an "apartheid policy" designed
to cause the Palestinians to abandon downtown Hebron.
The New
Settlement in Hebron
Power Point Presentation by Peace Now
March 2007
Where
Silence Reigns: Israel's Separation Policy and Forced Eviction of Palestinians
from the Center of Hebron
Report by B'Tselem & The Association for
Civil Rights in Israel
May 14, 2007
Israeli authorities impose a regime
intentionally and openly based on the "separation principle", as a result of
which Israel created legal and physical
segregation between the Israeli settlers and the Palestinian majority.
Making
a home in Hebron tinderbox
Joel Greenberg in The Chicago
Tribune
May 6, 2007
Jewish settlers' move into W.
Bank building sparks controversy, brings more troubles for Olmert
Leftists say
violently attacked by settlers
Ali Waken in Ynet
April 27,
2007
Left-wing activists assisting Palestinians in Hebron claim to have been
beaten by settlers; police hold several people for questioning
Settlers trying to buy
two more Hebron homes, create area of control
Amos Harel in
Haaretz
April 24, 2007
Capitalizing on a weak and indecisive
Israeli government, settlers have recently been trying to
purchase two additional Palestinian houses in Hebron, in an attempt
to cement an area of settler control
between Kiryat Arba and Hebron.
The Other
Defeat
Doron Rosenblum in Haaretz
April 20, 2007
It is no coincidence that Sharon and Yitzhak Rabin, the
toughest of our generals, dared to stand up to the settlers. Both were cut down,
and the battle ended with their fall, perhaps forever.
IDF: Was Hebron street
'intentionally' closed to Palestinians?
Akiva Eldar in
Haaretz
April 18, 2007
Shuhada Street in Hebron
has been closed to non-Jewish pedestrians for the past six years.
Company that bought
Hebron house already in fraud probe
Amos Harel in
Haaretz
April 17, 2007
The company that
facilitated the purchase of the disputed house in Hebron, recently occupied
by settlers, is suspected by the police of having committed forgery and fraud in
other settlement activities.
An ominous house of
contention
Talia Sasson in Haaretz
April 15,
2007
The acquisition of real estate in the territories has
clear diplomatic and security aspects. As ruled by the High Court of Justice,
since the area is not under Israeli sovereignty, international law applies to
it.
Hebron settlement / Born
in sin, living in sin
Yossi Sarid in Haaretz
April 13,
2007
There is no such thing as a kosher deal under
occupation. Every purchase and every sale has the stench of foul play sanitized
by a law book.
With
two bold new actions, settler movement rebounds
Dina Kraft in the
JTA
April 2, 2007
Two recent
events - the march to Homesh and the alleged purchase of a
Palestinian
home in Hebron by Jews - are sending a message to the government and
the mainstream settler leadership that there's a more aggressive and proactive
mood in the settler camp.
Palestinian
accuses Hebron settlers of torching his car
Ali Waked in
YNet
April 5, 2007
Hebron resident says IDF soldiers did not prevent Jewish settlers from
setting his car on fire for fourth time; Palestinian farmers suspect settlers of
chopping down 120 of their olive trees.
Injustice in
Hebron
Yehuda Litani in Yediot Aharonot
April 5,
2007
The government – all governments – fear the settlers and
allow them to run wild. This was the case when settlers overtook Beit
Hadassah; it was the case during the settler takeover of homes and shops at the
center of Hebron.
B'Tselem
Report: New settlement in Hebron violates Palestinian rights and must be
evacuated
March 28, 2007
Israel's past practice regarding
the settlements and settlers in Hebron indicates that the new Hebron
settlement will result in a series of extremely severe violations of Palestinian
human rights.
B'Tselem
Report: Hebron,
Area H-2: Settlements Cause Mass Departure of Palestinians (summary)
The full report is available as a PDF
file or a Word
Document
August 2003
The city of Hebron is home to the West Bank's most extreme Jewish settler community, which includes followers of the late Meir Kahane. Starting in 1979, and with the help of the Israeli government, this small Jewish community (currently numbering some 600 adults and children) has imposed itself on the city's 150,000 Palestinian residents. Cloaking themselves with the mantle of genuine
Jewish affection for the city from the time of Abraham, and protected from
retaliation by Israel’s army, the Hebron settlers routinely engage in acts of
hooliganism, intimidating the city’s Palestinians and destroying their property
in a methodical effort to violently drive them out.
May 27, 2008 - Eviction orders approved for 2 settler-occupied Hebron stores
In response to IDF and Israel Police policy banning entry to
the city of Hebron and the Southern Hebron Hills region, representatives of
Israel’s peace organizations and of human rights groups active in the
territories assembled for an emergency consultation on Tuesday, August 5.
