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Shuhada Street in Hebron under snow, Dec 14, 2013 (Photo: Issa Amro)

PHOTO: ‘Snow makes everyone equal for a day on Hebron’s Shuhada St.’

Since the Middle East is normally a hot and dry place without much more than heat waves for meteorologists to report, it can be quite a big story when the weather turns stormy as it did this past weekend. The magnitude of snow, which spread across the region from Jerusalem to Cairo, Homs, Lebanon’s Bekaa…

By Mairav Zonszein December 15, 2013

An Israeli soldier fires tear gas toward Palestinian, Israeli, and international activists during a demonstration against the occupation and in support of Palestinian prisoners the West Bank city of Hebron, March 1, 2013. (Photo by: Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Activestills.org)

Netanyahu’s lesson from killing of Israeli soldier in Hebron: Fortify occupation

Just hours after an Israeli soldier was shot to death by a Palestinian sniper in Hebron Sunday, while the body was still warm, Prime Minister Netanyahu declared that settlers should inhabit more and more of the occupied West bank city. As Haaretz reported, Netanyahu said: Anyone who tries to uproot us from the city of…

By Mairav Zonszein September 23, 2013

Women challenge segregation of Hebron street in direct action

Palestinian, Israeli and international women activists dressed in traditional Palestinian garb attempted to walk down Shuhada street, Hebron’s main commercial thoroughfare. After only a few minutes, they were stopped by soldiers, and seven people were arrested in total. By Noa Shaindlinger A group of Israeli and international female activists joined Palestinian women on Wednesday in…

By +972 Magazine June 14, 2012

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