Hadeel al-Hashlamon

Elior Azaria, the Israeli soldier, who shot a Palestinian attacker in Hebron, is seen at a court hearing in Jaffa's military court, July 11, 2016. Azaria was filmed shooting the Palestinian in the head, after the latter posed no threat. (photo by Flash90)

When Israel’s leaders incite, one soldier pays the price

Elor Azaria is guilty for firing the bullet that killed Abdel Fatteh al-Sharif this past March. But let us not forget the long line of inciting comments by top Israeli leaders that made it possible. By Noam Rotem Sgt. Elor Azaria stood on the witness stand during his trial this past week and described what led him to fire a…

By +972 Magazine July 29, 2016

Israeli soldiers raid the West Bank city of Hebron on June 17, 2014, as the hunt for three Israeli teenagers believed kidnapped by militants entered its fifth day. Thousands of Israel troops engaged in the search for the youths. Overnight, the army turned its attention during the night to the northern West Bank city of Nablus and surrounding areas, arresting dozens of Palestinians. (Photo: Tess Scheflan/Activestills.org)

Nobody should be shocked at the Hebron execution

When Israeli leaders keep pushing the message that killing Palestinian attackers is a laudable act, is it any wonder that the shooters become our national heroes? WARNING: This post contains a highly graphic video and images. The actions of an Israeli soldier who executed a wounded Palestinian attacker in Hebron on Thursday have been condemned…

By Natasha Soffer-Roth March 26, 2016

Israeli soldiers gather around the body of a Palestinian man who allegedly tried to stab a soldier at the Jewish settlement in the center of the Israeli-occupied city of Hebron, West Bank, on October 29, 2015. The city of Hebron has seen escalating violence in last weeks. (Yotam Ronen/Activestills)

Shooting attacks wound three Israelis in Hebron; Palestinian shot dead in Gaza

Three Israelis are wounded in two separate shooting attacks in Hebron on Friday. Meanwhile, Israeli undercover agents are filmed arresting and carrying away a Palestinian demonstrator in Bethlehem. Violence continued to stalk the West Bank on Friday, with numerous incidents leaving several Israelis wounded, some seriously, and one Palestinian dead after she allegedly attempted a…

By Natasha Soffer-Roth November 6, 2015

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IDF soldiers walk through Hebron. (photo: Activestills)

The only way to end the violence in Hebron

They tell us that terror and violence must be met with force, and if that doesn’t work — then even more force. But the military occupation of Hebron has not achieved security for either its Jewish or Palestinian residents. By Yehuda Shaul Over the past few weeks we have not only borne witness to a…

By +972 Magazine November 2, 2015

File photo of masked Israeli settlers threatening Palestinians while soldiers look on. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

A different type of terrorism

We’ve been trained to think that if there’s no blood then it’s not worth talking about, that it’s not ‘terrorism.’ But terror is also ridiculing the corpse of a religious woman, it is regular settler attacks against Palestinian villages, and it being attacked just for speaking Arabic. As we are inundated by reports of deaths…

By Samah Salaime October 7, 2015

Israeli settler couple killed, and the band plays on

Our hearts are desensitized by horror fatigue, convinced that nothing can change. But we must still try, if not for the dead then for the living. A lifetime of sorrow lies before four children who became orphans last night when their parents were killed in a hailstorm of bullets on a West Bank road. The children were…

By Dahlia Scheindlin October 2, 2015

Bystander Fawaz Abu Aisheh attempts to translate the soldiers’ commands for Hashlamon, and convinces her to step back behind the metal barrier. (Photo courtesy of Youth Against Settlements)

The IDF must come clean about the Hebron shooting

Why is the Israeli army refusing to release its footage from the shooting of 18-year-old Hadeel al-Hashlamon? By Noam Rotem Israeli soldiers shot to death Hadeel al-Hashlamon, 18, in Hebron last week while she was apparently on her way to school. Found inside the black bag she was carrying were notebooks, a blue Pilot pen,…

By +972 Magazine September 27, 2015

Hadeel al-Hashlamon stands frozen at the ‘Shoter’ checkpoint as soldiers train their weapons on her in downtown Hebron. (Photo courtesy of Youth Against Settlements)

The questions nobody is asking about Hebron shooting

Could Israeli soldiers have arrested, instead of killed a young knife-yielding woman in Hebron? And what will happen to those soldiers if it turns out they shot when they didn’t need to? A young Palestinian woman was shot dead by Israeli soldiers in the occupied city of Hebron Tuesday morning, hours before the Jewish holiday…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man September 24, 2015