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Palestinian Arab stone throwers attacked two young Jewish worshippers on their way to the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron early Saturday evening. One of the victims had his nose broken in the assault and was transfered to a hospital in Jerusalem. The Arabs also attacked the Israeli soldiers who arrived to extract the two youth. According to local reports, Arabs in the Hebron area also sexually assaulted two Jewish high school girls on Thursday. Representatives of Hebron's Jewish community warned of a severe escalation in Arab violence in recent weeks.

Jewish worshippers returning to Hebron's Cave of the Patriarchs after Muslims were given exclusive access to the holy site at the weekend reported that the cabinet containing their Torah scrolls had been urinated on. One Jewish resident of Hebron told Israel National News that he and several other men had to move the cabinet to another part of the room because of the strong smell of urine in the area where it is usually positioned. Additionally, green Hamas flags were found placed in the windows that mark the burial sites of Abraham, Isaac, Sara, Rebecca and Leah. The Cave of...

The Massacre in Hebron Posted Saturday, August 23, 2008 on IsraCast.com Headline in the newspaper "Baltimore" on the massacre in Hebron The Hebron Massacre refers to the mass murder of 67 Jews on 23 and 24 August 1929 in Hebron, then part of the British Mandate of Palestine, by Arabs incited to violence by false rumors that Jews were massacring Arabs in Jerusalem and seizing control of Muslim Holy Places Related Articles bloodbath at jerusalem yeshiva .audiocontainer { <p> font-size: 11px; color: #996633; text-align: center; padding-top: 3px; padding-bottom: 5px; border-top-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-top-color: #CCCCCC;...

An Israeli citizen who entered Hebron this morning was arrested by Palestinian security forces and removed from the city in cooperation with civil administration officials. Nineteen Israelis have been arrested entering Palestinian Authority-controlled territory since the beginning of the year. In a response, the IDF emphasized that entry to Palestinian Authority-controlled areas is forbidden to Israeli citizens.

Hebron settlers, Arab clan chiefs said holding 'reconciliation talks' By Haaretz Service Last update - 00:04 11/02/2008 www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/952855.html The heads of the largest Palestinian clans in Hebron met with the Kiryat Arba local council chief and prominent leaders of the Jewish community in Hebron on Wednesday in what both sides described as a meeting of reconciliation, Army Radio reported. Sheikh Abu-Hader Ja'abri, the head of a prominent Palestinian clan and a relative of a former mayor of Hebron, and the head of the Abu Sneinah clan, Haj Akram Abu-Sneinah met with the head of the Kiryat Arba settlement council, Zvi...

IDF broadens search for Islamic Jihad gunmen who killed two off duty soldiers Friday afternoon to Palestinian hospital. Israeli officers praise conduct of slain commandos who managed to kill one terrorist, wound others during exchange of fire: 'They fought bravely till the bitter end' Ali Waked Published: 12.28.07, 21:32 / Israel News Palestinian sources reported Friday evening that IDF forces entered the al-Ahli hospital in Hebron to search among its patients for the Palestinian gunmen involved in the killing of two Israeli hikers earlier in the day. According to the report soldiers entered the hospital and are examining patients ID's...

Judea Brigade rabbi, soldiers and Chabad members hold religious ceremony at one of most sensitive places in West Bank. 'This place is strictly Jewish,' participant says. Peace Now: IDF has become Settler Defense Forces Efrat Weiss Published: 12.20.07, 11:14 / Israel News A military rabbi, along with a number of IDF soldiers and Chabad members affixed a mezuzah last Monday on a wall at the entrance to one of the most sensitive areas in the West Bank – the Casbah in Hebron. Judea Brigade Rabbi Captain Eliyahu Peretz presided over the unusual ceremony, which lasted only a few minutes. The...

Quiz yourself on the Israeli Arab ["Palestinian"] conflict       1) When was the Arab immigration to [the historic Jewish land of] Israel -"Palestine" boosted?   A When they wanted to see Jewish holy sites. B When [anti French and anti British] Arab nationalism spread across the middle east. C When the Zionists Jews came and cultivated the deserted land.     2) What's [Arab "Palestinian" highest "national" icon] Yasser Arafat's country of origin?   A Israel ["Palestine"]. B Jordan. C Egypt.     3) Why were there --initially-- more Arab immigrants ["residents"] than Jewish immigrants (Arab majority)?   A Because...

ISRAEL - PEACE - SURVIVAL, NOT GENOCIDE! In the beginning...Israel has always faced genocide, from the moment the Islamo Arab fascist leader, the infamous [later on exposed as Hitler's buddy] Mufti Haj Amin Al Husseini has called, incited, led to "kill the Jews" in the 1920s. The Mufti, that prior to inciting to "kill the Yahud [Jews]" & leading massacres such as Hebron 1929 and the Farhud in 1941, has participated in the massacres and genocide of Christians, the Armenian Genocide that is [http://Armenian-Genocide.org], where 1.5 Million Christians were brutally murdered. An ally of the Nazi "Fuhrer": Adolph Hitler,...

Because for 'Christianne Amanpour': Luxuary of ONE or two Arab "Palestinians" is more worth than LIVES of scores of Israelis? You haven't missed anything if you haven't seen the propaganda piece "God's warriors", or the bigoted part therein where a 'Palestinian' complains about the wall... The Threat Everybody knows what a genocide bomber is, everybody knows the massacres by "freedom fighters" 'Palestinians' as well as their reduction thereof after the erection of the security wall, or what radical 'Palestinians' intentions are, in their charter, as well as here and there declarations, from annihilation of all non Muslims, non Arabs [aka...

Why Does Olmert Evict Jews, But Not Arabs, From Unauthorized Dwellings Following yesterday’s forcible eviction by some 3,000 Israeli military personnel of two Jewish families from their homes in Hebron who had been originally promised permits... “We are shocked and deeply concerned by the deployment of 3,000 Israeli armed personnel ... to evict two Jewish families from their homes and destroy the holy place of worship, the Shalhevet Pass synagogue, named in commemoration of the ten-month-old baby murdered by a Palestinian Authority (PA) sniper in 2001. At a time when little or no action is being taken by the Olmert...

Hebron And Darfur Aug 9, 2007 Yesterday, Hebron marked the 78th anniversary of the 1929 riots and massacre during which 67 Jews were slaughtered and more than 70 injured. ...

The Israeli and international medias are abuzz with reports out of Hebron regarding yesterday’s forced removal of two Jewish families from an old wholesale market building they took over outside of the tiny defined Jewish area of the biblical town. Nearly every report I have read makes it sound as though these families invaded an active market and evicted the poor Arabs who were trying to do business there. The truth, however, is that this particular market has been abandoned for over 13 years. The Jewish families in question moved into an empty building adjacent to the present-day Avraham Aveinu...

In the largest act of military insubordination since 2005's disengagement from the Gaza Strip, a group of Orthodox soldiers from the Kfir Brigade on Monday refused direct orders to participate in the planned evacuation Tuesday of two Jewish families from the Hebron marketplace. OC Central Command Maj.-Gen. Gadi Shamni immediately ordered disciplinary measures against the 12 soldiers - including two squad commanders - and some of them were sentenced on Monday night to 28 days in prison. Shamni also decided to dismiss the soldiers from their combat units. In his decision, Shamni said the soldiers' refusal to obey orders "undermined...

HISTORY - Time line [some] Important dates in radical ISLAM VS WORLD 1263 - 1328 The 'Godfather of Islamic Fundamentalism' Who is the True Godfather of Islamic Fundamentalism? His name is Ibn Taymiyyah, or Taq ad-Din Ahmad ibn Taymiyyah, and he lived from 1263 to 1328. His name by birth was Ahmad ibn Abdul-Halim ibn Abdas-Salaam. This individual could be considered as the real godfather of fundamentalism. Maududi borrowed extensively from Taymiyyah's writings. http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/index.php? id=1194248__________________1347 [The Bahmani sultans & genocide on Indians]The Muslim conquests, down to the 16th century, were for the Hindus a pure struggle of life and death....

Army warns Hebron settlers to evacuate market willingly Military Advocate General’s office says Jewish families residing in West Bank city’s market will be held financially responsible should IDF be instructed to forcefully evacuate them from the site Efrat Weiss Published: 07.30.07, 21:43 / Israel News The Military Advocate General’s office on Monday warned Jewish families residing in Hebron’s old market that should the IDF be instructed to forcefully evacuate them from the site, they would be held financially responsible. “The deadline for a voluntary evacuation (from the market) has passed, and the authorities in the area plan to work toward...

Hundreds of left-wing protestors hold demonstration in Hebron marking 40 years of 'Israeli occupation.' Right-wing activists call rally goers 'traitors seeking provocation.' After rally Palestinians pelt Peace Now bus with rocks Lilach Shoval Published: 06.05.07, 14:50 / Israel News Under heavy security by dozens of police officers and IDF soldiers, some 300 Peace Now activists held a demonstration in Hebron on Tuesday marking 40 years since the Six Day War and "the Israeli occupation" of the territories. The demonstration, held near the Tomb of the Patriarchs, passed largely without incidents and only several dozen right-wing activists arrived to hold a...

Government policy in the Israeli-controlled area of Hebron has forced thousands of Palestinian residents to abandon their homes and businesses and turned the area into a ghost town, the human rights groups B'Tselem and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel charged in a 70-page report released early Monday morning. "The abandonment of the area by the Palestinians is primarily the 'foul' results of the 'separation policy' that Israel is applying there," the report charged. "The repressive measures imposed on the Palestinians in downtown Hebron are part of that policy. We are talking about an official and declared plan by...

Targeting religious Pious pacific non-Zionist Jews August 1929 Hebron Massacre 1929 (Vicious attack was mainly on the pious non Zionist religious Jews) What happened during the Arab riots of 1929? http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_mandate_riots_1929.php The Hebron massacre 1929 by Arabs - (another) important milestone, Arab propaganda machine would want you to ignore http://haveitclearly.blogspot.com/2006/04/hebron-massacre-1929-by-arabs-another.htmlHebron Massacre http://israelreporter.com/index.php/2006/08/12/77-years-from-the-tarpat-massacre-in-hebron-an-histor ic-and-graphic-121-photo-galleryPhotographs - the places http://www.hebron.org.il/english/article.php?operation=print&id=256 July 2002 Eighth Immanuel victim was too young to have a name http://www.jr.co.il/terror/israel/020718.txt 2001 Bomb Discovered in Ultra Religious non Zionist Neighbourhood http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/2000_2009/2001/10/Background%20on%20the%20PFLP%20-%2017-Oct-200 1 August 2003 The Arab Muslim "Palestinian" cold blooded massacre on bus filled with ultra orthodox non Zionist pious Jews,...

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/121909 Expulsion from 'Peace House' in Hevron? The extreme-left group Peace Now has been pressuring Peretz to expel the Jewish families, claiming that Jews should need special government permission to buy Arab houses. The group has made no similar request requiring special permission for Arabs to buy Jewish homes.

IDF, Civil Administration and police looking into ownership documents of house occupied Monday evening. Meanwhile, they say, settlers will not be evacuated. Last year, Palestinians documented two cases of settlers taking over Palestinian houses Efrat Weiss Latest Update: 03.20.07, 11:32 / Israel News Police have no plans to evacuate the settlers who occupied a house in Hebron Monday evening, a senior police official told Ynet on Tuesday morning. "We have no legal basis to evacuate them," he explained. Israel Defense Forces soldiers have been guarding the house since Monday night and will continue to guard it until the legal examination...

Head-on collision near Hebron kills parents of eight, Palestinians stone rescue services Efrat Weiss Published: 03.15.07, 14:09 / Israel News Eight children were orphaned Thursday morning, when their parents were killed in a head-on collision with a bus near Hebron. One of the couple’s daughters was critically injured in the accident, and three others were lightly injured. The accident may have occurred as a result of poor weather conditions, which caused the driver to lose control and collide with the bus at the intersection. A Magen David Adom crew arrived at the scene in order to treat the injured, but...

Unidentified vandals caused damage to Jesse's Tomb in Tel Rumeida in Hebron and stole the charity box, police reported on Tuesday. Police said that the thieves also ripped the mezuzah off of the door at the entrance to the grave and broke the memorial candle device. Investigators arrived at the scene shortly after receiving the report and gathered evidence. They said that thus far there are no suspects in the case. The Hebron police are investigating into the incident.

That woman, the one who it turns out is named Yifat Alkobi, the Jewish woman that confronted, cursed, spat on and threatened her Arab neighbor in Hebron, she who is imprisoned in her own home, seemed somehow familiar to me. Gradually, from the cobwebs of my childhood memories, I dredged up the image of a Hungarian neighbor in Novi Sad, who used to stand at the entrance to her home and curse us every time we went into the street - just like Yifat Alkobi. When we decide, and rightly so, to never under any circumstances compare the behavior of...

VIDEO) Tape obtained by B’Tselem shows heated argument between Palestinian family in Hebron and woman Jewish settler; quarrel just one example of suffering we endure on daily basis, head of Palestinian family tells Ynet. Settlers’ spokesman: Claims exaggerated Ali Waked Published: 01.10.07, 00:17 VIDEO - The Abu- Aisha family in Hebron has been suffering at the hands of their neighbors from the nearby Jewish settler community of Tel-Rumeda for a along time now. A video filmed by 16-year-old Raja Abu Aisha and obtained by B’Tselem depicts a confrontation with a woman resident of the “Ramat Yishai” neighborhood in Tel-Rumeda. Members...

Gov´t Allows Arabs To Squat on Jewish Farmland 22:19 Jan 07, '07 / 17 Tevet 5767 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=118929 (IsraelNN.com) The Civil Lands Administration has allowed Arabs from Yatta, near Hevron, to squat on land 10 miles away that has been farmed by Jews for 10 years. Nearby residents of Beit Yatir, in the southern Hevron Hills, protested on the property Friday, claiming that the presence of the Arabs presents a danger to the area. "Their tractors are unlicensed and they drive them on the roads at night without lights," said a Yatir spokesman. Army officers who arrived on the scene confirmed...

Tens of Thousands of Jews will ascend to Hevron for the annual reading of Chayei Sarah, the Torah portion which records the Jewish patriarch Abraham’s purchase of the Cave of the Patriarchs. Each year tens of thousands arrive at the site where the Jewish patriarchs and matriarchs Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebecca, and Jacob and Leah are buried, for the annual reading to retell and relive Biblical history. According to the Torah, Abraham made the purchase in front of a large local community gathering, for an exorbitant price, to serve as the burial ground for his deceased wife Sarah...

To be a "good" Muslim! Part I http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1726241/posts Part II http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1727912/posts Part III http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1728361/posts Dehumaize victims of Islamic terror, especially Israeli men, women & children as "tanks". Never apologize for the continuing exposed (Like Muhammad Aldura, Reuters "images", Jenin "numbers" & added bodies) long tradition of lying, faking, inventing hoaxes, faking images, etc. but rather be already busy with preparing the next one. Islamic violence and bloodshed is always ahead of West's "reprisal", in other words, Bin Laden, Muhammad Atta, etc. have massacred Americans on 9/11/2001 was because the US will eventually go into Afghanistan afterwards, Islamists almost succeeded with...

Dozens gather around Hebron home to protest evacuation Yaakov katz, DAN IZENBERG, TOVAH LAZAROFF and JPost Staff, THE JERUSALEM POST May. 4, 2006 Dozens of settlers gathered around a house in downtown Hebron to protest the eviction of three families which was scheduled for Sunday night. Several adults and youths mounted the roof of the house and scuffles broke out between the settlers and police, who were were pelted with eggs. Police previously declared the area a closed military zone. Earlier on Friday, the High Court of Justice approved a petition, submitted by OC Central Command Maj.-Gen. Yair Naveh, to...

HEBRON-Tens of thousands flocked here yesterday to the biblical town of Hebron to celebrate Passover festivities alongside the Tomb of the Patriarchs-the second holiest site to Judaism-amid fears the neighborhood would soon be evacuated as part of Acting Prime MInister Ehud Olmert's planned withdrawel from most of the West Bank.

Thursday, March 09, 2006 Annexation? Colonies? Inflammatory U.K. Media Bias On March 6th The Scotsman ran a story with the incredible headline Israel 'plans to annex West Bank colonies' in response to Hamas. The story, of course, was about former GSS Chief and Kadima Knesset candidate Avi Dichter's detailing of Prime Minister Olmert's plans for unilateral withdrawal from most of Judea and Samaria. The headline was the most inflammatory part of the piece, of course, and it colors how a reader not intimately familiar with the history of the area and the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians will view...

FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU West Bank withdrawal 'within days' Acting PM orders Israeli forces to remove Jewish enclave near Hebron Posted: February 17, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Aaron Klein © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com JERUSALEM – Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has directed Israeli forces to evacuate within days a small Jewish enclave alongside the biblical city of Hebron in the West Bank and to use all force necessary during the evictions, security officials told WorldNetDaily. The order follows Olmert's announcement this week his administration will seek to withdraw from most of the West Bank, which borders major Israeli cities and...

Mazuz: No deal on Hebron evacuation-Descendant of market's orginal Jewish owner tells gov't: Let me decide fate. Attorney-General Menahem Mazuz denied on Monday that the government had reached an agreement with the Jewish settlement in Hebron regarding the evacuation of the homes in the city's wholesale market. The government had made it known long before that it was ready to consider leasing the buildings to the settlers - although not the current ones - in its replies to a petition currently under consideration by the High Court of Justice, said Mazuz. The state clarified its position again on December 15,...

A group of Israeli rabbis have cautioned Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert over his government's sudden rush to curtail Jewish life in Hebron, reminding the stand-in leader of the consequences paid by former premiers who dared to “disengage” from the Land of Israel. “All those who harm the Land of Israel declare war on God and his commands, and face the consequences,” Ynet quoted from a letter written by Rabbi Gedalia Axelrod, a former Haifa rabbinical judge, and Rabbis Shalom Wolpe and Yekutiel Rapp of SOS Israel. The rabbis brought as examples the fates of Menachem Begin, Yitzhak Rabin and...

OC Central Command Maj.Gen. Yair Naveh signed orders on Monday night declaring Hebron a closed military zone. Fearing a further escalation in violence, the order is designed to prevent more settler supporters from reaching the city to participate in the clashes. Security officials said the closed military zone that will go into effect in the morning, will allow security forces to restore law and order and will also facilitate the arrests of those spotted participating in violent acts against security forces. As an additional measure to restore the calm, Police are also gearing up to forcibly remove t

Last update - 10:51 16/01/2006 Challenge of the Hebron hooligans Yesterday's unrestrained rioting by Hebron settlers provided yet more unneeded proof of a well-known reality: Hebron is outside the control of the government of Israel and the rule of law, and is an enclave of hooliganism that receives protection from the Israel Defense Forces, but is unwilling to obey its orders. As a direct continuation of the rampage that accompanied the police's attempt two weeks ago to issue evacuation orders to settlers living in Hebron's vegetable market - an incident in which officers and soldiers were injured by stones and...

Jan. 4, 2006 6:50 | Updated Jan. 4, 2006 11:12 In the Schlissel's living room By REBECCA STOIL Hebron resident Tzippi Schlissel is no stranger to conflict. Her father, Rabbi Shlomo Ra'anan, was murdered by a Palestinian terrorist in Hebron's Tel Rumeida neighborhood in 1998. A great-granddaughter of Rabbi Abraham Yitzhak Kook, Schlissel lived at the time in Charasha in an outpost of trailers overlooking Ramallah. Following her father's murder, Schlissel's husband, Rabbi Yisrael Schlissel, was asked to teach in a kollel in his father-in-law's memory in Hebron. With the outbreak of the second intifada, the Schlissels decided that the...

Hebron police arrested two Israeli youths suspected of throwing stones at Palestinian homes Two teenagers were arrested over the weekend after settlers visiting Hebron for a special prayer session reportedly stoned Palestinian homes and residents. Settlers attacked local residents, students and journalists on several occasions, Palestinian sources charged, but security sources claimed relative quiet prevailed throughout the weekend. Noam Arnon, Spokesman for the Jewish community in Hebron, has rejected the accusations of Hebron Palestinians, who claimed that members of the Jewish community had acted violently against them. "I don't know of any of the incidents they reported. The Arabs have...

Arab leaders in Hevron have contacted the city’s Jewish leaders for help in getting rid of self-proclaimed anarchist volunteers who, they complain, are destroying their traditional way of life. The anarchists, many of whom are members of the International Solidarity Movement, flock to flashpoints throughout Judea and Samaria, ostensibly to help PA Arabs contend with IDF closures and protect them from harassment. In actuality, many of the volunteers seek confrontations with IDF soldiers and local Jewish residents, taking advantage of their Western passports to cause havoc – knowing that, at worst, they will be deported, not jailed. The local Arabs...

MK Meir Porush (Agudat Yisrael) blamed left-wing Jewish activists for inciting Arab residents of Hebron to desecrate prayer books and Bibles at the Machpela Cave Friday. David Wilder, a spokesman for the Jewish community in Hebron, said that on Friday afternoon the torn remains of the holy books were found blowing on the ground near the Gutnik Center, adjacent to the Machpela Cave. The desecration took place during one of the 11 days allotted to Muslim prayers in the month of the Ramadan when the Machpela Cave is closed to Jews, said Wilder. "As we searched the area for the...

Off the record, many Christians in Bethlehem who were interviewed last week expressed deep concern over increased attacks by Muslims on members of their community. "The Christians here are perceived as easy prey," says a prominent Christian businessman. "After the Palestinian Authority arrived here in 1995, many Muslim families from Hebron and other parts of the West Bank have moved to Beit Jala," said a local physician. "Some of them have illegally seized privately-owned lands." Fatah gunmen in Beit Jala who fired into the Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo in the first years of the intifada are also responsible for the...

In a provocation aimed at Hevron’s Jewish community, Arabs in Hevron have put down two trailers on one of the ancient city’s Jewish cemeteries. Hevron’s Jewish community awoke Wednesday morning to discover that two caravan trailer homes had been placed on an ancient Jewish Ashkenazi cemetery frequented by the Chabad-Lubavitch movement due to the fact that Menucha Rochel, the grand daughter of the first Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, is buried there. The cemetery had been destroyed during the years following the violent riots in 1929 during which Jews were thrown out of the city. It is now...

The conflict between Jews and Palestinians in the Tel Rumeida quarter of Hebron is heating up. Five Jewish families recently moved into a building purchased by residents of the Jewish settlement in Hebron, near a longstanding trailer park and a new apartment building intended to replace the trailers. This brings the total number of Jewish families living in Tel Rumeida to 20. International organizations, aided by the Palestinian Authority, are planning to move foreign volunteers into one of the nearby residential buildings as part of the Tel Rumeida Project (TRP). According to the project proposal on the TRP's Web site,...

The cabinet voted Sunday to leave about two dozen synagogues in the Gaza Strip intact, leaving the fate of the houses of worship in the hands of the Palestinians. The cabinet voted 14-2 against razing the structures, even though a year ago the same ministers approved the demolitions. Critics said last-minute considerations - including a desire to win the support of leading rabbis ahead of general elections - prompted several Cabinet members to change their minds. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told his cabinet ministers Sunday morning that he opposed the demolition of the synagogues in the Gaza Strip as part...

Following the deportation of 8,500 Jews from Gush Katif and northern Shomron, next to be targeted are 11 families living in the marketplace of Hevron, adjacent to the Avraham Avinu neighborhood. The area in question is Jewish-owned, but was emptied of its Jews during the Hevron massacre of 1929 when 67 Jews were slaughtered in their homes and synagogues. Hevron is considered Judaism's second-holiest city because of the presence of the Machpelah Cave in which are buried Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Rebecca, Jacob and Leah. It is located near Kiryat Arba, south of Jerusalem. From the year 1540 until 1929, Jews...

Most of us surely remember those cute but chilling childhood games played with toy pistols. Sometimes they were packed with nothing more harmful than water or a well-worn plastic bullet, chewed several times over by the family dog. The game always ended when a shrill, childish voice would call out “Bang, bang, you’re dead” and the “victim” would fall to the ground faking death, before running in for lunch. If only all the innocent Jewish men, women and children felled by Arab bullets could just get up off the ground and run in for lunch. But the Palestinians are playing...

An Israeli teenager from Beit Hagai was killed and four other people were wounded in a drive-by shooting attack near the South Hebron Hills settlement of Beit Hagai. A 17-year-old boy, also of Beit Hagai, and a 14-year-old resident of Otniel, also in the South Hebron Hills, were both classified as seriously wounded. The two were evacuated to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem. A third youth was also taken to Hadassah Ein Karem suffering from shock. Two more victims, a man and a woman, both aged 23 were both described in good condition and were taken to Soroka Medical...

An overriding sense of fear, meaninglessness and atrocity were evoked by a recent visit to Hebron that I undertook with fellow activists from Machsom Watch. We were left with a numbing sensation of the horror of war, epitomized by the occupation's devastating effect on a generation of young Israelis and Palestinians. One feels the physical threat as an unceasing attack on the nerves, forcing soldiers, settlers and the locals to cope with primal, instinctive fear. Additionally, the pocketful of Palestinians who still reside in the Jewish neighborhood of Hebron appear to live in appalling conditions - the overall effect of...

Mayor: insulting to all Moslems, Israeli government must act to prevent escalation By Ali Waked HEBRON – Residents here awoke Wednesday morning to find graffiti denouncing Moslems and the Prophet Muhammed scrawled on a wall outside the Jewish city of Kiriat Arba. Previous clash One resident told Ynet local residents were "boiling" over the perceived slight, and said signs reading "Muhammed is a pig" were driving people to the point of insanity. Many residents gathered together near the wall where the offensive graffiti was written, and several protesters were arrested. Palestinian sources report at least seven people arrested. Police suspect...

Jerusalem Magistrates Court Judge A. Cohen ruled today that five girls from Hevron, aged 13 and older, would remain imprisoned until further notice. The girls are charged with "attacking policemen." The five were arrested on Sunday night on the path between Kiryat Arba and Hevron, where a group of youths attempted to rebuild a shack. The site, located on "Worshipers Way," is across the street from where 12 men, including three civilians and 9 officers and soldiers, were killed by Palestinian terrorists two and a half years ago. The police accused the girls of attacking them; a film of the...