Shuhada Street

Israeli soldiers are seen enforcing the closure of Palestinian-owned stores in Hebron's Old City, occupied West Bank, Jan. 29, 2022. (Basil al-Adraa)

Israeli soldiers force closure of Palestinian stores in Hebron’s Old City

After settlers attacked Palestinian store owners, the Israeli army punished the Palestinians by shutting their businesses for nearly a week.

By Basel Adra February 3, 2022

Israeli President Isaac Herzog lighting a candle during a ceremony marking the first night of Hanukkah in the Tomb of the Patriarchs/Ibrahimi Mosque in the Old City of Hebron, occupied West Bank, Nov. 28, 2021. (Oren Ziv)

Israel’s president lights first Hanukkah candle for apartheid

Protesters decried Isaac Herzog’s participation in a Hanukkah ceremony in occupied Hebron, seeing it as an endorsement of the city's extremist settlers.

By Ben Reiff and Oren Ziv November 29, 2021

Israeli officers arrest Al Jazeera reporter Givara Budeiri in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, June 6, 2021. (Oren Ziv)

How Israel is turning Sheikh Jarrah into another Hebron

Israeli police have transformed Sheikh Jarrah into a hyper-militarized area designed to quash Palestinian resistance and embolden Jewish settlers.

By Oren Ziv June 10, 2021

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Palestinian activist Issa Amro poses for a photo in the West Bank city of Hebron, December 2, 2014. (Activestills)

For this Hebron activist, every protest could end in a trial

Israel's conviction of Palestinian activist Issa Amro shows that there can never be justice when the judge and prosecutor wear the same army uniform.

By Oren Ziv February 11, 2021

A Palestinian man seen during clashes between Palestinians and Israeli soldiers in the West Bank city of Hebron, December 10, 2017. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Open your eyes in Hebron and see the whole of the occupation

The settlements, checkpoints, and walls that have been the reality for Hebron’s Palestinian population are now being copied everywhere across the West Bank. By Eyal Hareuveni First-time visitors to the Jewish settlement in Hebron’s ancient city center might feel as though they have stepped into the heart of darkness. This is where the Israeli military occupation’s…

By +972 Magazine September 29, 2019

Israeli soldiers arrest a Palestinian man during a raid on the West Bank city of Hebron, September 20, 2017. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

In Hebron, Tlaib and Omar would have seen Israel’s apartheid city

Had Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar been allowed to visit Hebron, they would have seen Israel’s official policy of discrimination and segregation for the city’s 215,000 Palestinian residents. By Avner Gvaryahu Outside the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron lies a beautiful leafy garden. In it stands a large stone with the names of the…

By +972 Magazine August 28, 2019

Hundreds of Palestinian, Israeli and international protesters march in Hebron to demand the end of settlements and segregation in the city, February 22, 2019. (Photo by Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Hundreds protest segregation in Hebron’s Shuhada Street

While Palestinians continue paying the price for the Ibrahimi Mosque massacre, carried out by a Jewish settler 25 years ago, those who share the attacker’s racist ideology are now being offered ministerial positions in Israel’s Knesset. By +972 Magazine Staff Hundreds of Palestinian, Israeli and international demonstrators marched in the West Bank city of Hebron on Friday…

By +972 Magazine February 22, 2019

Palestinian woman walk on the segregated Shuhada Street, in the divided West Bank town of Hebron, January 15, 2013. (Nati Shohat/FLASH90)

WATCH: How Hebron went from integration to segregation

A tour of Hebron covers the history of the city, from its former incarnation as a space shared by Jews and Arabs to the massacres in 1929 and 1994, and from the Oslo Accords to segregation. Read more: How the 1929 Hebron massacre invigorated the Zionist movement Special Coverage: The Goldstein massacre – 20 years of…

By Social TV April 5, 2017

Palestinian workers squeeze themselves to pass through the Israeli checkpoint of Bethlehem while heading to their work in Israeli cities, Bethlehem, West Bank, March 19, 2017. (Ahmad Al-Bazz/Activestills.org)

50 reasons to resist the occupation in its 50th year

Fifty reasons to join a growing coalition united in creating a more just future in the region, in order to make the 50th year of the occupation its last. By Talia Krevsky and Isaac Kates Rose 1. January 1: The onset of the 50th year of violating the Fourth Geneva Convention through Israel’s military occupation over…

By +972 Magazine March 30, 2017

Screenshot of Richard Gere touring the West Bank city of Hebron with Breaking the Silence, March 2017.

Richard Gere on segregation in Hebron: It’s exactly like the Old South

‘It’s exactly what the Old South was in America. Blacks knew where they could go: they could drink from that fountain, they couldn’t go over there, they couldn’t eat in that place,’ the American actor tells an Israeli TV station during a tour of the segregated West Bank city. Richard Gere visited the West Bank…

By Lisa Goldman March 22, 2017

Open Shuhada Street demonstration in Hebron, February 24, 2017. (Activestills.org)

Hundreds march in Hebron: ‘Open segregated Shuhada Street’

Israeli soldiers fire volleys of tear gas to break up the protest, prevent the march from reaching the street Israel has forbidden Palestinians but not Jews from walking or driving down. Around 400 people marched through the West Bank city of Hebron on Friday to mark 23 years since the Ibrahimi Mosque (Cave of the…

By Haggai Matar February 24, 2017

An Israeli Border Police officer is seen stepping on an eight-year-old Palestinian girl's bicycle, Hebron, July 25, 2016. (Screenshot: B'Tselem)

WATCH: Border cop confiscates Palestinian girl’s bicycle in Hebron

Video shows Border Police officer taking away eight-year-old Anwar Burqan’s bicycle and throwing it into the nearby bushes. An Israeli Border Police officer was caught confiscating a bicycle from an eight-year-old Palestinian girl in the West Bank city of Hebron last week. In a video shot by B’Tselem volunteer Raed Abu Ramileh and published Tuesday afternoon, the officer…

By Edo Konrad August 2, 2016

An Israeli soldier attempts to stop activists with the Center for Jewish Non-Violence in the West Bank city of Hebron, July 15, 2016. (Dahlia Scheindlin)

Jewish, Palestinian activists try to build a cinema in Hebron

As soldiers and settlers look on, dozens of foreign Jews join Palestinians in the segregated city of Hebron try ‘to make the unbearable a little more bearable.’ Police detain six Israelis among the group, prevent others from even joining. The streets in the Israel-controlled section of Hebron were sunny and silent at 9 a.m. on Friday. The Palestinian shops…

By Dahlia Scheindlin July 15, 2016