Palestine
Cave of the Patriarchs.
i love hebron.
(Source: stephgelb)
Swedish Minister for International Development Cooperation Gunilla Carlsson (R) listens to the mayor of Hebron Khaled al-Osseili (L) during a tour of Hebron’s Old City in the occupied West Bank on June 19, 2011, where a protective grille had been installed above the souk or shopping district to protect passers-by from garbage and bricks thrown at Palestinians by hardline Israeli settlers who live there illegally in the occupied section of the city. (Getty Images)
Israeli soldiers detain Palestinian photojournalist Nasser Shiyuki to prevent him covering a protest against illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank village of Beit Omar, near Hebron, on September 25, 2010. (Getty Images)
Israeli settlements (as mentioned above) violate international law. The?Fourth Geneva Convention reads:
?The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies?
(Source: mfsarabia)
An Ultra Orthodox Jewish man (R) looks at a Palestinian shop owner reading the Muslim holy Koran outside his shop near the Ibrahimi Mosque, or Tomb of the Patriarchs, in the divided West Bank city of Hebron on September 15, 2010. (Getty Images)
Palestinian children passing the time in Hebron, West Bank. ?{Free Palestine.}
Palestinian and foreign bikers wait behind barbed wire and a cordon of Israeli security forces to ride their bicycles under the slogan of ‘biking without borders’ across a Palestinian road closed off by Israeli troops to be used by Israeli settlers living illegally in Hebron in the occupied West Bank on June 28, 2011. (Getty Images)
Israeli settlements (as mentioned above) violate international law. The?Fourth Geneva Convention reads:
?The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies?
(Source: cuttermacleod)