Following Israel's expulsion of the TIPH observer group from Hebron last
month, a group of Palestinian activists from the city formed their own
team of observers to fill in the gaps. Issa Amro and his team of
observers head out every morning to the Tel Rumeida neighborhood in
Hebron's Old City and stand watch as children make their way to school.
The kids must pass through several checkpoints monitored by armed
soldiers, and streets that are patrolled by notoriously violent
settlers. In the month since they began their work, Amro's team have
been given more than 10 military orders to stop work, and have been
attacked by settlers several times. Amro told Mondoweiss that since TIPH
was expelled, the situation in Hebron has gotten a lot worse.
Mondoweiss followed the team around one morning, and in the span of half
an hour, the group, including our cameraman, were attacked and harassed
by Israeli settlers, while one international activist who was filming
the altercation was arrested by police.

Video: Yumna Patel & Akram al-Wa'ara