Monday 21 December 2015

Photo story: daily harassment by Israeli Forces on the way to school


December 18, 2015

 December 18th, 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, al Khalil team | al Khalil, occupied Palestine

On Thursday, 17th December 2015, Israeli forces yet again body-searched every male adult – and also youth – passing Ziad Jaber school in occupied al-Khalil (Hebron). Most female adults were also searched by male soldiers, a clear violation of their privacy. Various female students were also searched or had their bag searched.

These body-searches by Israeli forces are humiliating and often conducted aggressively with soldiers kicking the legs of the Palestinians and pushing them in the kneepit almost making them fall.

Not even children and youth – especially protected by UN-Conventions and international law, are exempted from these rigorous, frightening and humiliating searches. All of this hapens regularly both on the way to and from school thus also infringing on the children’s basic right to education.

Israeli soldier checking trash-bins before allowing the care-taker to dispose of the trash just five meters past the military gate

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Israeli soldier checking trash-bins before allowing the care-taker to dispose of the trash just five meters past the military gate

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School-children walk past soldiers and infamous settler Ofer on their way to school

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A school-boy looks on as his teacher is body-searched by Israeli forces right outside the school

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Israeli forces body-searching elderly man at gunpoint

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Israeli forces body-searching teenage boy

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Israeli forces aggressively body-searching teenage boy

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Teenage boy empties his pockets before body-search by Israeli forces

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Teenage boy aggressively body-searched by Israeli forces

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A group of school-children looks on as Israeli forces body-search a teenage boy

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Palestinian youth body-searched at gunpoint by Israeli forces

Two boys watch Israeli forces body-searching their father
Two boys watch Israeli forces body-searching their father

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