Two members of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) were detained by Israeli soldiers on Thursday near an elementary school students in the southern occupied West Bank city of al-Khalil.
Member of Human Rights Defenders Imad Abu Shamsieh said Israeli forces detained two international activists one American and the other Italian while they were near Qurtoba Elementary School located near the illegal Beit Hadasa Jewish settlement.
The activists were arrested while overseeing the Palestinian students as they leave their school to make sure no harm will be done to them from the Israeli army or settlers.
The two ISM members were doing the work that was done in the past by members of the international civilian monitoring force the Temporary International Presence in Hebron (TIPH) which was forced out of the city last week by the Israeli occupation authorities.
