14-04-04 PALESTINE: Video - Hebron - IDF attempts to stop activists' tour to Tel Rumeida

View video of talk by Youth against Settlements, a non-violent, local Palestinian group, which maintains a visitors/ education center on Tel Rumeida.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSizh4U-QE8

14-04-04 PALESTINE: Hebron - IDF attempts to stop activists' tour to Tel Rumeida // צה"ל ניסה למנוע סיור של פעילי שוברים שתיקה בתל רומידה בחברון

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===14-04-04 PALESTINE: Hebron - IDF attempts to stop activists' tour to Tel Rumeida===
Hebron, March 4 - attempt was made by IDF to stop a Breaking Silence tour to Tel Rumeida, under a fake "Decree", purportedly issued by the town's military commander, setting the area a "closed military zone".

Breaking the Silence, is an IDF veterans' Human Rights initiative, which documents the abuses, resulting from IDF military rule over Palestine, and also educates the public in Israel and abroad regarding such abuses.

After being stopped by military personnel on the ground for about 30 minute, the tour continued to Tel Rumeia, when it turned out that the purported "Decree" had never existed. Later, the tour was hassled by local settlers.

Tell Rumeida is a small hill in the center of Hebron. It is the location of:
* Palestinian homes and lands, among them:
- the "Cage House" of the Abu Essa family, completely caged in metal for protection against settlers' abuse.
- Guest house and education center of Youth against Settlements - a non-violent, local Palestinian group.
* An Israeli Archaeological Park of dubious archaeological merits
* A small but militant settlement, home of Baruch Marzel, a local settlers' leader.
* Dubious new Jewish holy sites: The Tombs of Jesse and Ruth.
* An IDF base.

The testimonies of Breaking Silence and Youth against Settlements document the daily absurd and abusive conditions, where people on the same locale are subjected to separate and different legal systems (i.e. Israeli civil courts versus Israeli military courts) relative to their conduct at the same event, at the same time and place, based on their ethnic affiliation, which also correlates with religious affiliation.

During the tour, around 2:00 pm, shots and bast grenades were heard elsewhere in Hebron. Such incidents are routine on Friday at the end of prayers in the mosques.

The town of Hebron is home to some 20,000-30,000 Muslim Palestinians, and some 700 Jewish settlers. The worst violence in Hebron was in the 1994 massacre of Palestinians by an Israeli settler at the Tomb of the Patriarchs. The town' Palestinians, but not the settlers were subsequently subjected to months long curfew, where Palestinians were not permitted to exit their homes.

Also since the 1994 massacre, a six-nation force - ITPH (International Temporary Presence Hebron). under United Nations coordination - patrols the city on a regular basis.
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Joseph Zernik, PhD
Human Rights Alert (NGO)
http://www.scribd.com/Human_Rights_Alert
OccupyTLV
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* The Human Rights Alert (NGO) submission to the Human Rights Council of the United Nations was incorporated into the 2010 Periodic Review Report regarding Human Rights in the United States, with the note: "corruption of the courts and the legal profession and discrimination by law enforcement in California".
* The Human Rights Alert (NGO) submission to the Human Rights Council of the United Nations was incorporated into the 2013 Periodic Review Report regarding Human Rights in Israel, with the note: "lack of integrity of the electronic records of the Supreme Court, the district courts and the detainees courts in Israel."

===14-04-04 פלסטין: צה"ל ניסה למנוע סיור של פעילי שוברים שתיקה בתל רומידה בחברון===

למרות שהסיור תואם מראש עם הרשויות, טענו חיילי צה"ל במקום שתל רומידה הוא "שטח צבאי סגור" על פי צו מח"ט. לאחר שהתברר שצו כזה לא הוצא מעולם, נמשך הסיור. תל רומידה הוא גבעה קטנה בלב חברון ועליה בתי פלסיטינים, פרק ארכאולוגי שנבנה מסיבות לא ברורות, התנחלות קטנה, שהיא ביתו של ברוך מרזל, אתרים קדושים יהודיים מפוקפקים - קברי ישי ורות, ומרכז הסברה של "נוער נגד התנחלויות" - ארגון פלסטיני מקומי, בלתי אלים. 

בזמן הסיור נשמעו גם יריות ורימוני הדף מן העיר, חלק מאירועים קבועים בתום התפילות בימי שישי.