Peaceful tree planting attacked by settlers and soldiers, two hospitalised and one arrested
1st April 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil Team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine
On
March 31st around 40 Palestinian children and adults gathered in Hebron
near Qurtuba school, a Palestinian school in the H2 neighbourhood of
Tel Rumeida, to plant trees in commemoration of Palestine’s Land Day.
Israeli extremist settlers from the illegal settlements in Al-Khalil
(Hebron) attacked them as Israeli forces stood by, threatening to arrest
the Palestinians and international volunteers while doing nothing to
stop the settlers’ violence. Settlers pushed a 13-year-old girl down the
stairs leading up to the school, and soldiers injured a 48-year-old man
with a back condition; both were hospitalised. Israeli soldiers also
arrested Jenny, a 24-year-old German solidarity activist, while she was
filming the action.
Palestinians gathered to plant trees in Tel Rumeida in an event marking Land Day
Military
harassment began even before activists had reached the planting site.
Jenny, the German activist later arrested at the demonstration, recalled
the difficulty of getting the trees to the site: “Half of the trees had
already gone through the checkpoint when Israeli soldiers decided that,
as one officer put it, ‘trees are sensitive items’ and that the
children carrying them would not be allowed through.”
“It was a very peaceful action,” she recalled. “Small children were planting trees near the school in Tel Rumeida. Everything was calm until Anat Cohen (a notoriously violent extremist settler) turned up;....Lees verder http://palsolidarity.org/2015/04/peaceful-tree-planting-attacked-by-settlers-and-soldiers-two-hospitalised-and-one-arrested/
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