Posts Tagged ‘hebron’
The West Bank – What About Fairness?
July 20th, 2010 • Awareness, Film & Documentary, News
Tags: Bedouin, hebron, israel, Nicholas D. Kristof, NYT, settlements, west bank
NYT columnist Nicholas D. Kristof‘s video report on the living conditions of Bedouins who live under Israeli control in the Southern Hebron Hills in the West Bank.
This was made during the recent trip he mentions in his “Waiting for Gandhi” Op-Ed. (Original NYT video)
You Can’t Blockade the Sun
July 19th, 2010 • News
Tags: car, energy, green, hebron, ingenuity, Palestine Polytechnic University, renewable, solar, students, vehicle
Students from Palestine Polytechnic University in Hebron have built a solar powered car, The Guardian reports:
Palestinians build solar car from scratch
Palestine Polytechnic University's Solar Powered Car
Students overcome scant resources to put green prototype on Hebron’s diesel and donkey polluted roads
Visitors to the West Bank town of Hebron this summer might find a strange-looking white vehicle motoring through its streets – the first Palestinian solar-powered car.
The product of an environmentally friendly project for Palestinian engineering students, the car is bedecked with banks of solar panels and doesn’t manage to reach a speed much above 19mph (30kph) – but it is being lauded as a feat of creative engineering in the face of limited funds and scant resources.
“It was a complicated project and our students designed and built everything in this car from scratch,” says Dr Zahdi Salhab, director of the mechanical engineering department at Palestine Polytechnic University in Hebron.
Read more at The Guardian…
12-year-old Child To Be Prosecuted As An Adult By An Israeli Military Court
March 24th, 2010 • News
Tags: arrest, child, court, defence of children international, hebron, military, west bank
via IMEMC (International Middle East Media Center):
Al Hasan Al Mohtasib - Maan Images
The Israeli Authorities decided to file charges against a 12-year-old Palestinian child from the southern West Bank city of Hebron after arresting him and charging him with throwing stones at the Israeli military.
The child was identified as al-Hasan al-Mohtasib, 12. His 7-year-old brother was also detained but was released later on.
Their father, Fadel, said that his sons were in al-Shallalah Street, in the center of Hebron. His 7-year-old son, al-Amir, was released ten hours after his was kidnapped by the army.
He added that local residents told him that soldiers kidnapped his two children and took them to the nearby al-Karaj military camp.
He went to the camp and the soldiers told him that his sons were moved to al-Haram military camp in the city. Upon arriving at the second military base, he was informed that his children were moved to the police station in Keryat Arba Jewish settlement, in the center of Hebron.
He went to the police station in Keryat Arba’ but to no avail. When he returned back home, he found his 7-year-old child standing in front of the door, shaking and terrified.
Later on, an adult detainee at the Ofer detention center, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, phoned him and told him that his son al-Hasan is there, and that he will be sent to court.
Al-Mohtasib voiced an appeal to human rights groups, and Defense for Children International, to intervene and ensure the release of his child.
The Observer covered Al Hasan’s story on March 14: Jail ordeal of hundreds of Palestinian children arrested for throwing stones
Find out more and how you can help at Defence of Children International
Send Mahmoud to Davos
January 11th, 2010 • Action, News
Tags: activist, davos, hebron, mahmoud jabari, peace, vote, youtube
The Davos Debate: Your Pitch to the World
Mahmoud Jabari, 18 years old, Palestinian youth activist and Peace Ambassador is talking to the world from the southern West Bank city of Hebron about his work and vision about the future of the world from his eyes, and the way leaders and individual should think in order to rearrange our world and promote peace.
