July 15, 2016, +972 Magazine http://972mag.com (Israel)
By Dahlia Scheindlin*
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.
Foto: Activists
with the Center for Jewish Non-Violence
clear brush from the yard of the
would-be cinema as
Israeli soldiers and settlers look on, Hebron, July 15,
2016. (Wisam Hashlamoun/FLASH90)
The streets in
the Israel-controlled section of Hebron were sunny and silent at 9 a.m. on
Friday. The Palestinian shops on the main streets were all shut, as most of them have been for over 20
years. Jews were home preparing for Shabbat.
On a sloping
street rising through the Tel Rumeida neighborhood where, in April, a
Palestinian stabber was wounded, then executed, there is a small commotion. A scattered
group of Israeli soldiers, blue-uniformed police, and a few local Israeli
settlers are hovering around a battered fence, peering inside as if
