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Playing with fire: Israel’s sweeping disregard for the wellbeing and security of East Jerusalem residents has led to four fatalities and dozens of injuries, and disrupted the lives of tens of thousands of residents | | B`Tselem - Press release - Testimonies gathered by B’Tselem as well as
video footage published in the media indicate that the police used
excessive and unjustified force against the worshippers. B’Tselem’s
investigation shows that in at least one instance during Friday noon
prayers in the Ras al-‘Amud area of East Jerusalem police began firing
crowd control means as soon as the prayers ended. According to the Red
Cross, between Friday, 14 July 2017 and Sunday, 23 July 2017,
approximately 120 persons were taken to Jerusalem hospitals to be
treated for various injuries: tear-gas inhalation, gunshot wounds from
rubber-coated metal bullets, other physical trauma. At least two
people were injured by direct hits from stun grenades and teargas
canisters, one was hit in the eye by a rubber-coated metal bullet, and
one was injured by shrapnel from a stun grenade.-rh | 26/7/2017 |
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When Gaza has no power, we all swim in sewage | | Hagai El-Ad - +972 - As Netanyahu drinks water from a new Israeli mobile
desalination technology with the visiting Indian prime minister,
Israel’s actual desalination plant, planted firmly next to Gaza, stares
down the consequences of Israel’s disastrous policies: raw sewage
flowing its way.-rh | 19/7/2017 |
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The History of Anti-Arab Sentiment Is Too Deep, the Pain Too Real | | James J. Zogby - LobeLog - A week ago, a pro-Israel media monitoring
group accused me of making “an unsubstantiated charge that Israel
supporters are responsible” for discrimination, hate crimes, and the
political exclusion of Arab Americans. Because this issue is so
important to Arab Americans and because some hardline pro-Israel
groups refuse to acknowledge their role in harming my community, I am
obliged to respond with a few examples representing just the tip of
the iceberg of painful acts of defamation, discrimination, exclusion,
threats, and violence.-rh | 19/7/2017 |
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Israeli-Palestinian water deal could chart course for further talks | | Shlomi Eldar - Al Monitor - An agreement between Israel and the
Palestinian Authority on the Red Sea-Dead Sea canal project could
build some trust between the sides, but the Palestinians are leery of
any impact from it going into negotiations.-rh
| 19/7/2017 |
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Gaza on Verge of Collapse as Israel Sends 2.2M People "Back to Middle Ages" in Electricity Crisis | | Democracy Now - Israeli-imposed restrictions have limited electricity
in Gaza to barely four hours a day, creating a humanitarian
catastrophe for its 2 million residents. In 2012, the World Health
Organization warned that Gaza would be uninhabitable by 2020. The U.N.
now says the area has already become unlivable, with living conditions
in Gaza deteriorating faster than expected. We go directly to Gaza to
speak with Raji Sourani, an award-winning human rights lawyer and
director of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights in Gaza. We also
speak with Tareq Baconi, author of the forthcoming book, "Hamas
Contained: The Rise & Pacification of Palestinian Resistance." He is a
policy fellow at Al-Shabaka, The Palestinian Policy Network.-rh | 19/7/2017 |
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Palestinian succession gets more complicated | | Daoud Kuttab - Al-Monitor - Hopes that Saeb Erekat, the head of the
Palestinian negotiating team, would succeed President Mahmoud Abbas
have been dashed by news that Erekat has to undergo an urgent lung
transplant, thus further complicating the Palestinian political
scene.-rh
| 19/7/2017 |
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The children of Nabi Saleh in Israeli prisons: a conversation with Bassem Tamimi | | Richard Hardigan - Mondoweiss - The demonstrations in the West Bank
village of Nabi Saleh began in December of 2009. The villagers have
been protesting against the theft of a local spring by the nearby
illegal Israeli settlement of Halamish, but it has also been a battle
against the Occupation in general. The Israeli authorities have
responded to the protests in brutal fashion. In addition to three
deaths and countless injuries over the years, the treatment of
children has been particularly horrifying.-rh | 19/7/2017 |
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U.S. Lawmakers Seek to Criminally Outlaw Support for Boycott Campaign Against Israel | | Glenn Greenwald - The Intercept - THE CRIMINALIZATION OF political
speech and activism against Israel has become one of the gravest
threats to free speech in the west. In France, activists have been
arrested and prosecuted for wearing t-shirts advocating a boycott of
Israel. The U.K. has enacted a series of measures designed to outlaw
such activism. In the U.S., governors compete with one another over
who can implement the most extreme regulations to bar businesses from
participating in any boycotts aimed even at Israeli settlements, which
the world regards as illegal. On U.S. campuses, punishment of pro-
Palestinian students for expressing criticisms of Israel is so
commonplace that the Center for Constitutional Rights refers to it as
“the Palestine Exception” to free speech. But now, a group of 43
Senators – 29 Republicans and 14 Democrats – want to implement a law
that would make it a felony for Americans to support the international
boycott against Israel, which was launched in protest of that
country’s decades-old occupation of Palestine. The two primary
sponsors of the bill are Democrat Ben Cardin of Maryland and
Republican Rob Portman of Ohio. Perhaps the most shocking aspect is
the punishment: anyone guilty of violating its prohibitions will face
a minimum civil penalty of $250,000, and a maximum criminal penalty of
$1 million and 20 years in prison.-rh | 19/7/2017 |
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UNESCO Hebron motion important to all faiths | | Daoud Kuttab - Al-Monitor - Declaring Hebron as an endangered World
Heritage site should not be seen as being anti-Jewish or anti-Semitic
or pro-Palestinian. Instead, it should be seen as the governor of the
city saw it, that the heritage of the city is much bigger than
Palestinians and Jews. It should be preserved for generations to
come.-rh
| 12/7/2017 |
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Will Mohammed Dahlan return to lead Gaza? | | Dylans Collins - Aljazeera - The document provides details of an
alleged agreement between Hamas` second-in-command, Yahya Sinwar, and
Dahlan. Under the deal, allegedly made during Egyptian-led talks last
month, Dahlan would return to Gaza to lead the government and Hamas
would run the territory`s interior ministry. Many believe that Dahlan
brokered talks in Cairo between Hamas and senior Egyptian officials in
an attempt to strengthen relations between Hamas and Cairo and pave
the way for his return.-rh | 12/7/2017 |
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When Israel Becomes an Anti-Semitic State | | Richard Silverstein - Tikun Olam - When you’ve blogged as long as I
have (since 2003), you think you’ve seen everything. Until tonight, I
never in my wildest dreams imagined that Israel as a state could
become anti-Semitic. Of course, this notion violates just about every
sacred principle of Zionism, which purports to be a haven for Jews
around the world from persecution and anti-Semitism. No longer. With
today’s “piling on” by the Israeli foreign ministry onto Hungary’s
right-wing government’s anti-Semitic campaign against George Soros,
Israel has sunk to the dregs.-rh | 12/7/2017 |
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Old town of Hebron al-Khalil & its environs | | UNESCO - Hebron/al-Khalil is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, sacred to Muslims, Christians and Jews, as the burial place of prophets Abraham/Ibrahim, Isaac, Jacob and their wives. [To the taste of Israeli representatives this is not enough emphasizing the Jewish attachment to the place-bz] | 8/7/2017 |
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A defiant remembrance of Kafr Qasem’s dead | | Sarah Irving -
Electronic Intifada
"on 29 October 1956, 49 people were killed and dozens more wounded
at Kafr Qasem. Many were women and children; most were agricultural
laborers coming home from the fields. They were either not told of
the curfew, or did not have sufficient time to reach safety.
Hundreds more Palestinians were also massacred by Israeli troops in
the towns and refugee camps of Khan Younis and Rafah in the Gaza
Strip in the following days.Halaby’s encounters with survivors of
the Kafr Qasem massacre and their descendants inspired her to create
a huge body of written, drawn and painted work." ca
| 7/7/2017 |
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Why is Netanyahu trying to disband the UNRWA? | | Hanin Abou Salem - Aljazeera - Netanyahu wants to dismantle the UNRWA
because the agency allows Palestinian refugee men to transmit their
refugee status from one generation to another. This transmission of
refugee status keeps the right of return for Palestinian refugees
alive - it ensures that their hopes for returning to their ancestral
homeland do not perish with the death of the original 1948 refugees.-
rh | 5/7/2017 |
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327 Palestinians Killed during Jerusalem Intifada | | The Palestine Chronicle - Israeli occupation forces have killed 327
Palestinians since the start of the ongoing Jerusalem Intifada in
October 2015, according to figures released by Al-Quds Centre for
Palestinian and Israel Studies yesterday.
According to the statistic, Israeli occupation forces have killed 48
Palestinians since the start of this year.The largest number of deaths
were of Palestinians from the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, where
81 Palestinians were killed, followed by Jerusalem with 65, Ramallah
with 33, Jenin with 25, Nablus with 23, Bethlehem 20, Tulkarm 8,
Salfit 5, Qalqilia 4 and Tubas 1.-rh | 5/7/2017 |
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