In the Occupied Territories, Israeli troops beat dozens of Israeli peace activists protesting a roadblock in the West Bank city of Hebron. The group had come to help local Palestinians place ropes around large stones to remove them from blocking a main road. They were able to move one stone before Israeli troops arrived on the scene. This is Israeli activist Ben, who did not give his last name.

Israeli peace activist Ben: “He knows I’m Israeli, but he doesn’t care. He started hitting people. He hit my friend, and he’s arrested now, and then he came and hit me really strong in my lung. Nothing, we were just standing there, and he started hitting people. He was telling us to go back, and he just jumped on us, and he hit me with the barrel of the gun.”