--- title: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Inside the Cauldron of Hebron description: In a perfect world, Hebron would be a showcase of co-existence. In reality, it's a city living on a hair trigger. canonical: https://time.com/4280260/inside-the-cauldron-of-hebron/ author: Karl Vick article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-04-05T08:00:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:39:54.328Z article:section: World og:title: Inside the Cauldron of Hebron og:description: In a perfect world, Hebron would be a showcase of co-existence. 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Palestinian youths among tear gas canisters at a demonstration in central Hebron, November 2015.Lorenzo Tugnoli  by [Karl Vick](https://time.com/author/karl-vick/)  ## Karl Vick Editor at Large Apr 5, 2016 8:00 AM UTC In a perfect world, Hebron would be a showcase of co-existence. The city in the southern section of the Palestinian West Bank is built around the burial plot of Abraham, the patriarch from which Judaism, Christianity and Islam all descend. But even on its best days, Hebron is a cauldron. And Lorenzo Tugnoli showed up during the worst time in years. When the Italian photojournalist arrived on Nov. 1, what some are calling the “third Intifadeh,” or uprising, was well underway, especially in Hebron and in East Jerusalem, 18 miles to the north. Tugnoli would spend time with a Palestinian family in the historic heart of the city, a warren of stone buildings where the most combustible elements of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict come together: Ordinary Palestinians, intensely ideological Israeli Jews, who have settled in a handful of houses, and, finally, Israeli soldiers, on hand to guard the settlers. Friction is a way of life, perhaps best appreciated by the hurricane fence atop the neighborhood’s main pedestrian route: the mesh ceiling was installed to protect Palestinians from the garbage that settlers throw toward them from their windows, [along with epithets](http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/05/31/among-the-settlers). “I’m trying to tell the story of that part of town, the neighborhood that’s closed for the settlements,” Tugnoli says. He’s familiar with conflict areas. Tugnoli moved to the Middle East after years in Afghanistan. Between assignments, mostly for the Washington _Post_, he gathered enough intimate moments to fill [_The Little Book of Kabul_](http://time.com/3812570/kabul-afghanistan-photobook/). But he wanted to go deeper. “Basically, what’s happened is after spending lots of time in Afghanistan, I want to try to develop some kind of photographic voice that is more personal,” he says. In Hebron, that meant embedding with the Quneibi family. “The hand of the little boy holding this metal fence, that’s the place where I was living. I had a room there and you can hear the Israeli soldiers speaking between them all night, because they have like guard posts on that roof. They are bored at night so they talk to each other.” Tugnoli got to know some of the soldiers, but his photographs of necessity capture the reality of the Palestinians—the tear gas canisters cascading toward you; the rangy teenagers hefting the rocks they throw in turn. Those exchanges, though hardly Kabuki, have a familiar feel. The terrifying new element—in the absence of any meaningful political outlet—is scores of sudden, apparently random attacks, often with knives, by young Palestinians against Israeli civilians and soldiers. “Basically what’s happening now is the young guys, something snaps, and they just get out there and stab somebody,” Tugnoli says. “They don’t tell their family, they don’t have party affiliation. They’re just angry. It’s a kind of a suicidal mission, with a knife.” In a city living on a hair trigger in the best of times, the consequences are not easily controlled. The photo of the dead man, wrapped in khafiyas (slide 11), was a driver caught in the crossfire at a checkpoint where a Palestinian tried to run down an Israeli soldier. “This guy, who was a bystander really, becomes a martyr,” Tugnoli said. “He got the full martyr treatment. He’s not a militant, but he’s made into an actor of war. Because everybody is—just because you are there.” **_Lorenzo Tugnoli_** _is a photographer based in Beirut. Follow him on Instagram_ [_@lorenzotug_](https://www.instagram.com/lorenzotug/)_._ **_Andrew Katz_**_, who edited this photo essay, is an international multimedia editor at TIME. Follow him on Twitter_ [_@katz_](http://twitter.com/katz)_._ **_Karl Vick_** _is an Editor-at-Large at TIME. He previously served as Jerusalem Bureau Chief. Follow him on Twitter_ [_@karl\_vick_](https://twitter.com/karl%5Fvick)_._  Muhannad Qafesha smokes shisha outside the headquarters of Youth Against Settlements, a Palestinian activist organization located in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood of Hebron, November 2015. Lorenzo Tugnoli  Youth burn tires during a demonstration in central Hebron, November 2015. Lorenzo Tugnoli  Palestinian youths among tear gas canisters at a demonstration in central Hebron, November 2015. Lorenzo Tugnoli  Residents of Tel Rumeida walk home at night, Hebron, November 2015. Lorenzo Tugnoli  Amer Quneibi plays in the courtyard of his house, where his family has lived for generations. The metal cover was installed to protect the family from stones and garbage that is regularly dumped by Jewish settlers who live nearby. Hebron, November 2015. Lorenzo Tugnoli  Young Palestinian stone-throwers gather near a checkpoint that leads into the Tel Rumeida neighborhood of Hebron, November 2015. Lorenzo Tugnoli  The homes of Jewish Israeli settlers can be seen on the left side of the road just over the closed shops in this area of Hebron's Old City, once a thriving market, November 2015. Lorenzo Tugnoli  An Israeli soldier stands at a checkpoint in the H2 area of Hebron, November 2015\. In late October a Palestinian man was fatally shot here while. Amnesty International said he was retrieving an ID card at the request of a soldier. The rights organization said Israeli authorities labeled the incident an "attempted stabbing." Lorenzo Tugnoli  A demonstration for the release of the bodies of Palestinians killed following attacks on Israelis civilian and military personnel, Hebron, November 2015. Lorenzo Tugnoli  Palestinian stone-throwers gather near a main checkpoint in Hebron, November 2015. Lorenzo Tugnoli  Shadi Arafa, a Palestinian mobile phone salesman who was killed during an attack in Gush Etzion, south of Jerusalem, is mourned in Hebron, November 2015\. Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated Arafa was killed by Palestinian gunfire, but noted that official Palestinian sources said he was killed by Israeli forces. Lorenzo Tugnoli  Family members attend the funeral of Shadi Arafa in Hebron, November 2015\. Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated Arafa, a Palestinian mobile phone salesman, was killed by Palestinian gunfire during an attack in Gush Etzion, between Hebron and Jerusalem, but noted that official Palestinian sources said he was killed by Israeli forces. Lorenzo Tugnoli  Fatima Quneibi and her son Yaseen take a break from olive picking in their field in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood of Hebron, November 2015\. Reaching their olive trees became increasingly difficult and dangerous, requiring passage through a main checkpoint to reach the field from their home. Lorenzo Tugnoli  Palestinian bystanders peak through the checkpoint fence outside the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, November 2015. Lorenzo Tugnoli  Imad Abu Shamsiyeh closes the metal fence that he placed around and above his house in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood to protect him and his family from more settler attacks, Hebron, November 2015. 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