Today is International Human Rights Day, commemorating 10 December 1948,
the day the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was proclaimed by
the UN. The declaration, composed in the wake of the horrors of World
War II, states that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity
and rights and, as such, are all deserving of life, security, liberty,
equality and dignity. On the other side of the Green Line (the 1949
Armistice Line), a line essentially invisible to Israelis, millions of
people – Palestinian residents of the West Bank, including East
Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip - are being deprived of their rights. The
West Bank city of Hebron is one of the places where these rights are
violated particularly blatantly. To mark International Human Rights Day,
we’ve put together a short clip that gives a brief explanation of the
background to current events in Hebron, and the daily oppression in the
city that has become a flashpoint for violent flare-ups.