This afternoon in occupied al-Khalil (Hebron) Israeli forces gathered on Shuhada street, surrounding the doorways to the two houses belonging to Aamal Hashem Dundes, an elderly Palestinian woman, and her family. A soldier, wielding a torch and various other equipment, welded shut the doors. Soldiers and police kept international and Palestinian observers away as the houses were sealed up. Aamal’s family were not living in the houses at the time the soldiers came to seal up the doors – they rent an apartment across the street -but she and her daughter explained to international volunteers that the family had owned the houses for hundreds of years. Aamal sat near where the soldiers were working, sometimes weeping, sometimes speaking with journalists and local activists.
Posted on: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 23:15:32 +0000
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