Palestinian families are under attack in Hebron!
We are fundraising to start our campaign to secure the houses and install fences, fire alarms and security cameras to protect families from Israeli soldier and settler violence. We fear for the lives and safety of the families living next to the settlements in Hebron. Protect a family now!
All donations go toward fortifying Palestinian families' houses and buying and installing security systems in select high risk families' homes.*
We fear that we will experience a new wave of settler violence as the new U.S. administration comes into power. We need to urgently secure the homes of Palestinian families to ward off settler attacks, such as home invasions or bullets shot toward the houses.
What will be your contribution?
$50 to buy a family a CCTV camera for their counter surveillance system.
$100 to help secure a window against settler violence.
$300 to get family a secured door.
$500 to provide a family with a fence surrounding the home.
We need $3000 for a fully secured home with fortified doors, gates and fences. For a full camera surveillance system, we will need to raise $4000.
Our team on the ground will place fences around the homes of vulnerable Palestinian families and secure their doors and windows against projectiles and break-ins. Security cameras are also a valuable source of protection that empower families to retake control of their own homes. Fire alarms protect the families from arson and prevent a repeat of the Duma tragedy where Israeli settler extremists burned a baby and his parents to death.
Never again – Protect a family now!
Our team on the ground assesses the needs of each vulnerable family and will tailor the protection system and equipment specifically to each family's house. Amounts are based on averages.
In Hebron, families live directly next to extremist Israeli settlers protected by Israeli soldiers. The families have faced decades of violence, which has intensified in recent years. Many families have been driven out of the area. Of those that remain, many have no option to leave while also bravely standing up for their right to remain in their homes. Families have faced vandalism, violent break ins, physical assaults, threats of gun violence, projectiles, and severe restrictions on their movement. Attacks from Israeli settlers often happen in broad daylight in front of Israeli soldiers, who rarely if ever take steps to stop the violence or hold the assailants accountable, and occasionally participate in the attacks themselves.
Help protect a Palestinian family now!
*recurring donations may also contribute toward our other projects.
After October 7th, Hebron families were been placed under a strict curfew with no visitors allowed. Parents could work, and children could attend school at all or play outside. Soldiers and armed settlers threatened to shoot the children if they try to step out. Life was unbearable. We campaigned to lift the curfew, which was eventually eased. However, restrictions are still sporadically enforced, and now families will have to live under these conditions with a severely increased risk of settler violence. We fear for their lives and wellbeing!
Last year, we embarked on a families aid campaign to provide for families in need in and out of H2, since they were suffering from economic devastation of the war. Many were going hungry and our team stepped up to support the families through this time. Now, we are returning to our project of counter surveillance in which families are empowered to watch and record human rights abuses against them, an act that works as both information gathering for international media and legal courts, as well as alerting families to break ins or attacks, and providing deterrence through cumulative countersurveillance. We are combining this project with our new project to protect families through home fortification. In combination, we are securing houses both physically and through camera systems to keep families safe from violence in the upcoming escalations of attacks.
Eyes On Hebron builds on Youth Against Settlements' Human Rights Press and B'Tselem's "Shooting Back" camera distribution projects, which were coordinated in Hebron by Issa Amro. These projects empowered families to use video cameras to document the human rights abuses that they experience every day. Eyes On Hebron turns to security cameras for a more well-rounded documentation of human rights violations in and near the homes of Palestinian families. Security footage is useful in court and also acts as a deterrence.
Installation of security systems will be coordinated closely with the families by our local volunteers. All donations on this page will go toward purchasing these systems, save for recurring donations which may also be used for our other projects.
