Life under occupation
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| Prison authorities delaying medical treatment of ailing Palestinian detainee | | IMEMC/Commission of Detainee Affairs - Sharhabeel Abu Threa’, 49,
from al-‘Ezariya near Jerusalem, is held under arbitrary
Administrative Detention orders, without charges or trial. He
suffers from several chronic conditions, including Cardiomyopathy,
and is in urgent need of a pacemaker. In addition his meidcal
problems include high blood pressure, Pulmonary edema, Gout
(a common and complex form of inflammatory arthritis), Renal
indolence, disc issues in the back and neck, and high cholesterol
levels. The Palestinian Authority`s Commission of Detainee and Ex-
Detainee Affairs warned that the Israeli authorities are constantly
delaying his urgently needed medical treatment, and in the absence
of urgent specialized medical care, he could suffer further
complications that could turn fatal. [ak] | 15/4/2021 |
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| Israeli Authorities continue arresting candidates in the Palestinian elections | | PCHR (Pal. Center for Human Rights - At approximately 23:00, on
Monday, 12 April 2021, Israeli military forces arrived at the al-
Balu’ neighborhood of al-Bireh, and detained the 47-year old Najeh
Abdullah Dar ‘Assi’s, a candidate in the Palestinian Legislative
Council elections scheduled for 22 May 2021. As described by Alia
Abdul Samad, Najeh ‘Assi’s wife: Four military vehicles stopped
near our building, where we live in the second floor. We heard
knocks on our door, so my husband went to open the door. 17 Israeli
soldiers came in, shouting. They held my husband and handcuffed him.
They ordered my husband to give them his cell phone and confiscated
it. I tried to give my husband a jacket and shoes to wear due to the
cold weather, but the soldiers refused to let me do it and
threatened me at gunpoint when I insisted. One of them ordered me to
go with my children into the living room and stay there until they
went away with my husband. Our lawyer later informed us then that
Najeh was taken to the “Ofer” detention center.” A few days earlier,
another candidate - the 62-years old Hasan Mohammed Wardian (62) -
was detained under similar circumstances. The two detained
candidates belong to the “Jerusalem is Our Destiny” list, which is
said to be linked to Hamas, though this connection is not offical.
[ak] | 15/4/2021 |
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| A story of hot violence, cold violence and Palestinian Radicals | | Rozina Ali - The New Yorker - Tucked in the Nablus Hills is a small
spring that has been fashioned into a swimming pool. The late-
afternoon heat had driven many children into the water, their
parents looking on. On the side, a hulking man carried a
semiautomatic rifle. For decades, the spring had provided water to
a nearby Palestinian village, but settlers had cut the pipe and made
it a recreational site, exclusively for themselves and their
children. Palestinians are banned. This is an example of what writer
Teju Cole described as “cold violence.” - in contrast to "hot
violence" which is louder and deadlier, like using airpower on Gaza
civilians, or soldiers killing innocent bystanders in the West Bank.
It’s the cold violence that one daily confronts — evictions,
harassment by settlers, redirected water supply, hours lost at
checkpoints. Susan Abulhawa’s recent novel, “Against the Loveless
World” is narrated by Nahr, a middle-aged Palestinian woman
held in solitary confinement in an Israeli prison. Via
flashbacks we learn about the violence, hot and cold, that
shaped her. [ak]
| 15/4/2021 |
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| Child loses eye from army bullet in Hebron - the worst of this week`s violations | | Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) - Five Palestinians were
injured due to excessive use of force against civilians. A child
lost his eye in clashes with IOF in Hebron. Four civilians including
a photojournalist, were all injured during suppression of a protest
in al-Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem. Also,
dozens suffocated due to tear gas inhalation, and others wounded
during house raids across the West Bank. 13 dunums were confiscated
this week and construction of hundreds of housing units was approved
in two settlements in East Jerusalem. Even more, IOF continued its
demolition operations and delivery of cease-construction and
demolition notices. [ak] | 15/4/2021 |
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| Threatened by cultural defiance, Israel throws dancer in prison | | Ciaran Tierney - EI - "The arrest, in February, and continued detention without
charge of acclaimed dance choreographer Ata Khattab underlines just how
threatening Palestinian culture and identity is considered by Israel’s occupation
forces" [ry] | 12/4/2021 |
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| Smotrich threatens to expel Arab MK, other Muslims who don’t accept Jewish rule | | STUART WINER - Times od Israel - MK Bezalel Smotrich, who leads the
far-right Religious Zionism party, on Wednesday warned he would “make
sure” a prominent Arab lawmaker and other Muslims would not remain in
Israel if they did not recognize that the land belongs to the Jews.
MK Ahmad Tibi, a senior member of the Joint List, a predominantly
Arab Israeli party, responded by calling Smotrich a racist in German.
(rh)
| 11/4/2021 |
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| Israeli soldiers kill Palestinian motorist and injure his wife | | Tamara Nassar - Electronic Intifada - Witnesses told Palestinian news agency WAFA that Israeli soldiers fired a stun grenade at the couple’s car after it stopped at a flying checkpoint near Bir Nabala.
They said that led to Osama driving away, after which Israeli forces opened fire at the car.
An Israeli army spokesperson said forces opened fire after the car sped towards them “in a manner that risked their lives,” according to Tel Aviv daily Haaretz. Osama Mansour, 42, and his wife Sumaya Mansour, 35, were on their way home, where 5 children awaited them. [bz] | 8/4/2021 |
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| Severely injured Palestinian teen serving 10 Years in Israeli jail | | Zahran Maali - WAFA/IMEMC - On on August 15, 2019, Israeli police
near the gate of the the Al-Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem shot at
Muhammad Khader Al-Sheikh, 17 year old boy from Al-Eizariya, who
allegedly tried to carry out an attack. Nine bullets penetrated his
body, and his 15-year old friend Naseem Abu Roomi who stood at his
side was killed on the spot by the police bullets. He was left
bleeding on the ground for a long while before being finally taken
to the Israeli Shaarey Tzedek Hospital, where he was treated. Most
of the bullets were extracted from his body by surgery, but one
bullets remains lodged near an artery in his heart - impossible tp
remove and a constant potential threat to his life. When partially
recovered he was tried by an Israeli court and sentenced to ten
years in prison. Held in the ‘Ofer’ prison, he continues to suffer
from severe abdominal pain and constant vomiting as a result of his
extensive injuries, for which the prison authorities continue to
deny adequate medical care. In spite of this health condition, he is
diligently studying, seeking not only to complete in prison his
secondary school education but also to go on to gain a bachelor`s
degree. His mother says that he had been among the best pupils
at orphanage school in Al-Eizariya. On April 5, the Palestinian
Children’s Day, his case was taken up by Palestinian organizations,
among those of some 140 Palestinian minors held in Israeli prisons.
[ak]
| 8/4/2021 |
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| Israel Threatens to ‘Stop Everything’ if Hamas Wins Parliamentary Elections | | Palestine Chronicle - "On Wednesday, Kan reported Shin Bet security agency
Head Nadav Argaman urging Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud
Abbas to scrap the Palestinian parliament’s upcoming elections if Hamas takes
part. Replying to Argaman, Abbas responded: ‘I do not work for you. I will decide if
there will be an election and with whom. You built Hamas, not me’” [ry] | 5/4/2021 |
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| We are living through a time of fear – not just of the virus, but of each other | | Jonathan Cook - InformationClearingHouse - We are now firmly in a
time of fear – not only of the virus, but of each other. Fear
destroys solidarity. Fear forces us to turn inwards to protect
ourselves and our loved ones. Fear refuses to understand or identify
with the concerns of others. In fear societies, basic rights become a
luxury. They are viewed as a threat, as recklessness, as a
distraction that cannot be afforded in this moment of crisis. Once
fear takes hold, populations risk agreeing to hand back rights, won
over decades or centuries, that were the sole, meagre limit on the
power of elites to ransack the common wealth. In calculations based
on fear, freedoms must make way for other priorities: being
responsible, keeping safe, averting danger.(rh) | 4/4/2021 |
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| Why we should critically welcome the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism | | TONY GREENSTEIN - Mondoweiss - Unlike the IHRA which labelled
opposition to Zionism and Israeli racism as antisemitism, the JDA
makes a clear distinction between antisemitism and anti-Zionism. The
JDA states that the following are not antisemitic: Criticizing or
opposing Zionism as a form of nationalism, or arguing for a variety
of constitutional arrangements for Jews and Palestinians in the area
between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean. It is not antisemitic
to support arrangements that accord full equality to all inhabitants
“between the river and the sea,” whether in two states, a binational
state, unitary democratic state, federal state, or in whatever form.
Evidence-based criticism of Israel as a state. (rh) | 4/4/2021 |
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| Real Challenge in Palestinian Elections: Convince Jerusalem Voters to Cast Their Ballots | | Amira Hass - Haaretz - The unique name of one of the 36 parties
aiming to compete in the May 22 Palestinian parliamentary election
might be translated as We’ve Had Enough. This slate defines itself as
young people from protest movements active mainly in Gaza in recent
years against the internal Palestinian rift and its economic
repercussions.//The multiplicity of party tickets expresses people’s
great thirst to make their voices heard and take part in the
decision-making process in a society split between two authoritarian
regimes and lacking authority and power in the face of Israel’s
control and policies.(rh) | 4/4/2021 |
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| President Abbas defies Israeli security chief on elections and Hague proceedings | | Richard Silverstein - Haaretz/Tikkun Olam - During a `patronizing`
visit in Ramallah, Nadav Argaman - head of Israel`s Shabak Security
Service - demanded that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas cancel
the upcoming Palestinian parliamentary elections, reportedly telling
Abbas, “You can’t hold elections with Hamas.” To that, Abbas
retorted, “I don’t work for you.” Argaman then warned that the
election could bring Hamas to power in the West Bank. Abbas
responded, “You’re telling me this? Who built Hamas? Who transfers
$30 million to Hamas every month? You [Israelis] built Hamas.” After
their sharp disagreement on the Palestinian elections, the two
discussed the International Criminal Court’s investigation into
alleged war crimes by Israel and Hamas. Argaman threatened that “if
you cooperate with the investigation in The Hague, we’ll stop
transferring the taxes” that Israel collects on the Palestinian
Authority’s behalf. Abbas answered, “I have a complaint about your
actions, and I have nowhere else [but the Hague] to turn to.” In
response, Argaman threatened that Israel would file its own
complaint to the ICC against the PA. Abbas responded, “As far as I’m
concerned, you and I can sit together in the same prison cell.” [ak]
| 1/4/2021 |
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| Euro-Med Monitor: “The Gaza Strip: Undocumented Citizens” | | IMEMC News - "More than 5,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip do not have
identity cards because they, or their parents, were not in the occupied Palestinian
territories (oPt) when the Israeli military authorities conducted the population
census after Israel occupied Gaza in 1967" [ry] | 29/3/2021 |
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| War crimes for votes | | Maureen Clare Murphy - EI - “On the eve of Israel’s elections on Tuesday, several
candidates were interviewed during a live broadcast at Khan al-Ahmar, pledging to
destroy the Palestinian village. It wasn’t the first time that an Israeli politician made
a campaign promise to raze Khan al-Ahmar and forcibly transfer its residents” [ry] | 29/3/2021 |
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| Kahanism doesn’t need a seat in the Knesset | | Orly Noy - +972mag - More than 30 years have passed since Meir
Kahane’s party was barred from participating in Israeli elections.
Six years later, it was declared a terrorist organization and banned
by the Israeli government. But after next week’s election, Itamar
Ben-Gvir, a student and ideological heir to the rabbi who founded the
Jewish Defense League and supported expelling all Palestinians from
their historical land, may very well become a member of Knesset. And
he won’t be walking into the parliament as a marginal figure in
Israeli politics, but rather with all the glory and support of Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. According to Israel’s election laws,
parties can sign a “vote-sharing agreement,” under which parties that
pass the election threshold can pool their surplus votes — which
otherwise would not add up to win an extra seat — in order to gain
another spot for another party. Thus, parties that are ideologically
aligned can ensure that their supporters’ votes do not go to waste.
(rh)
| 28/3/2021 |
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| The Jerusalem Declaration | | The Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism is a tool to identify,
confront and raise awareness about antisemitism as it manifests in
countries around the world today. It includes a preamble, definition,
and a set of 15 guidelines that provide detailed guidance for those
seeking to recognize antisemitism in order to craft responses. It was
developed by a group of scholars in the fields of Holocaust history,
Jewish studies, and Middle East studies to meet what has become a
growing challenge: providing clear guidance to identify and fight
antisemitism while protecting free expression. It has over 200
signatories.(rh) | 28/3/2021 |
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| This is what ‘Jewish democracy’ looks like | | Philip Weiss - Mondoweiss - A lot of Israel’s friends in the U.S.
describe the country as both Jewish and democratic. That description
is fair inasmuch as the Israeli elections revolve around one
question, Which Jews will run the country? It is true that the 20
percent or so of the Israeli population that is not Jewish can vote,
but Palestinians are never allowed anywhere near the executive
branch. And all the leading Jewish parties campaign by saying they
will have nothing to do with the Palestinians parties. And all the
coalition-action in the next few weeks will involve Jewish leaders
(with an occasional sideshow that amounts to nothing). Discussion of
the settlements was completely absent in this election. “The
Palestinian issue is literally and figuratively over the hills and
far away,” Neri Zilber said on a J Street zoom. (rh) | 28/3/2021 |
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| Symbiosis between state and settler attacks | | Sarit Michaeli - Ynetnews - In attempt to drive them out of their homes,
Israel is hounding underprivileged Palestinian farmers who have given up
filing complaints, having learned from experience that they get no
protection from Israeli police.(rh) | 28/3/2021 |
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| Israeli forces kill Palestinian man during West Bank protest : The Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed that the man, 45-year-old Atef Hanaysheh, was shot with live ammunition in the head during a protest against settlement expansion and the confiscat | | YUMNA PATEL- Mondoweiss - A Palestinian man was shot and killed by
Israeli forces on Friday during a protest in the northern occupied
West Bank district of Nablus.The Palestinian Ministry of Health
confirmed that the man, 45-year-old Atef Hanaysheh, was shot with
live ammunition in the head during a protest against settlement
expansion and the confiscation of Palestinian-owned land in the
village of Beit Dajan.The MOH said that Hanaysheh was taken by
Palestinian medics to a hospital in Nablus, where he was pronounced
dead shortly after. Eyewitnesses told Israeli and Palestinian media
outlets that Hanaysheh, the local imam at one of Beit Dajan’s
mosques, was shot at “point blank range” by forces who were
suppressing the Friday protest — a weekly occurrence in the village.
(rh) | 21/3/2021 |
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| For Gaza’s most vulnerable, home is no safe place for COVID-19 recovery | | Fidaa Shurrab - +972 - With a fragile health system in the blockaded strip, infected
Palestinians were sent to home quarantine — putting poor families, women, and
children at risk [ry] | 15/3/2021 |
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| Is Israel’s Orthodox Monopoly Ending? : The Supreme Court decision recognizing Reform and Conservative conversions performed in Israel has reignited attention to the issue. A podcast from the Shalom Hartman Institute. | | The Times of Israel - The decision by Israel’s Supreme Court
recognizing Reform and Conservative conversions performed in Israel
has reignited attention around issues of state and religion,
especially in the eve of what has become a bi-annual national
election. In this episode of For Heaven’s Sake, a podcast from the
Shalom Hartman Institute, Donniel Hartman, Yossi Klein Halevi, and
Elana Stein Hain analyze this landmark decision – discussed in the
Supreme court for over a decade – which recognizes that perpetuating
Orthodox authority over issues of personal status violates Israel’s
legal commitment to human freedom and dignity for all of its
citizens, regardless of nationality, religion, ethnic, or sexual
identities. (rh)
In this episode of For Heaven’s Sake, a podcast from the Shalom
Hartman Institute, Donniel Hartman, Yossi Klein Halevi, and Elana
Stein Hain analyze this landmark decision – discussed in the Supreme
court for over a decade – which recognizes that perpetuating Orthodox
authority over issues of personal status violates Israel’s legal
commitment to human freedom and dignity for all of its citizens,
regardless of nationality, religion, ethnic, or sexual identities.
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| Israel-Palestine: Two elections, under the burning sun of Apartheid | | JONATHAN OFIR - Mondoweiss - Many people think there will be an
election round in Israel this spring (March 23rd). But that’s only
half the story, because there will actually be two election rounds:
one in so-called ‘Israel proper’, and one in the Palestinian
territories which it has occupied for the past 53 years (May 22
Palestinian general elections). The question is, which are the real
elections? The answer is, none – they are both make-believe.Just two
months ago, the prominent Israeli human rights NGO B’tselem came out
with a report titled: “A regime of Jewish supremacy from the Jordan
River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid”.This was
considered a watershed moment in Israeli terms, but those who have
been following this theme have seen a similar assessment in the much
longer report commissioned by a UN agency in 2017, authored by
professors Richard Falk and Virginia Tilley, about how Israel has
been practicing Apartheid from its inception, and veiling it as a
“Jewish democracy”.(rh) | 14/3/2021 |
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| At behest of settlers, Israeli forces arrest Palestinian children picking wild flowers : “This was obviously an attempt by the settlers to intimidate the boys by using the soldiers,” eyewitness Basel Adrah tells Mondoweiss. “They didn’t steal or damage an | | YUMNA PATEL - Mondoweiss - Israeli forces arrested five Palestinian
children, ranging between the ages of eight and 13, in the South
Hebron Hills of the southern occupied West Bank on Wednesday,
sparking outrage among local and international human rights
advocates.Videos of the arrest went viral on social media, showing a
large group of masked and armed Israeli soldiers forcibly arresting
the children, who were visibly alarmed and frightened as they were
dragged into an Israeli military jeep. | 14/3/2021 |
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| Masked settlers beat, throw rocks at Palestinian family in West Bank : Rights group B’Tselem says parents and 8 children were attacked near Mitzpe Yair outpost; parents taken to hospital for treatment | | TOI STAFF - A group of around 10 masked alleged Israeli settlers beat
and threw rocks at a Palestinian family in the West Bank on Saturday
in an attack the family captured on video. According to the B’Tselem
organization, the Alyan family — two parents and their eight children
— were working on their agricultural land near the illegal settler
outpost of Mitzpe Yair, south of the West Bank city of Hebron, when
the attack took place. The family filmed part of the incident, which
was released by the rights group.In the footage, the assailants can
be seen throwing rocks and brandishing batons as the children scream
and cry in the background.(rh)
| 14/3/2021 |
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| Occupation forces detain four Palestinians, injure one with gunfire near Jerusalem | | WAFAS News Agency - JERUSALEM, Sunday, March 14, 2021 (WAFA) –
Israeli occupation forces last night detained four Palestinians and
injured another one with gunfire during raids in occupied Jerusalem
and neighboring villages, according to local sources and witnesses.
Heavily armed Israeli police officers stormed the neighborhoods of
al-Isawiya and al-Tour in the occupied capital, where they detained
four Palestinians after raiding and searching their homes. Among the
detainees was a 17-year-old minor identified as Ibrahim Huneti.
Meanwhile, an Israeli occupation army force raided the village of
Hizma, northeast of Jerusalem on the West Bank side of the Israeli
segregation barrier, and clashed with local residents. A protester
was reportedly shot and injured by a live gunshot in his thigh bone
fired at home by Israeli soldiers.
In the meantime, Israeli occupation soldiers physically assaulted and
briefly detained a Palestinian from the village of Kifl Haris, north
of the occupied West Bank city of Salfit. Witnesses told WAFA that
Israeli soldiers assaulted Mr. Nabil Ebeid near the Kifl Haris
square, just outside the illegal Israeli settlement of Ariel The
soldiers reportedly attempted to falsely accuse Ebeid of attempting
to carry out a stabbing attack against them in order to justify the
assault, before letting him go.(rh)
| 14/3/2021 |
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| Israel`s next election is not just about Netanyahu : Regardless of the outcome when polls are counted after March 23, politicians will have to not only decide whether to join another Likud coalition, but also how to handle issues such as the Palestinian c | | Sever Plocker - Ynetnews - It has become customary to divide the
parties running in the March 23 election into the pro- and anti-
Netanyahu camps, or more accurately, the probability of them joining
a coalition headed by the incumbent prime minister. It is a
reasonable method of categorization, but not the only one. Going
deeper and looking over the various parties` manifestos and
ideologies, especially on the Palestinian conflict, creates new
divisions not seen at a first glance. One bloc is the diplomatic
center, a collection of parties that do not support (or have stopped
supporting) the idea of Greater Israel and have instead adopted the
two-state solution, however the final borders may look.
In this category sit centrist parties Yesh Atid led by Yair Lapid and
Benny Gantz`s Blue & White - and even the right-wing Likud. Yes, even
the Likud has made a political shift on the matter, especially under
the leadership of Netanyahu, who decided to forgo annexation of West
Bank land in favor of normalization agreements with far-flung Arab
states that have do not have a side in the Palestinian issue.(rh) | 14/3/2021 |
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| Elections under Fire: Palestine’s Impossible Democracy Dilemma | | Ramzy Baroud - The Palestine Chronicle - Many Palestinian
intellectuals and political analysts find themselves in the
unenviable position of having to declare a stance on whether they
support or reject upcoming Palestinian elections which are scheduled
for May 22 and July 30. But there are no easy answers.The long-
awaited decree by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas last
January to hold legislative and presidential elections in the coming
months was widely welcomed, not as a triumph for democracy but as
the first tangible positive outcome of dialogue between rival
Palestinian factions, mainly Abbas’ Fatah party and Hamas. As far as
inner Palestinian dialogue is concerned, the elections, if held
unobstructed, could present a ray of hope that, finally, Palestinians
in the Occupied Territories will enjoy a degree of democratic
representation, a first step towards a more comprehensive
representation that could include millions of Palestinians outside
the Occupied Territories. But even such humble expectations are
conditioned on many “ifs”: only if Palestinian factions honor their
commitments to the Istanbul Agreement of September 24; only if Israel
allows Palestinians, including Jerusalemites, to vote unhindered and
refrains from arresting Palestinian candidates; only if the US-led
international community accepts the outcome of the democratic
elections without punishing victorious parties and candidates; only
if the legislative and presidential elections are followed by the
more consequential and substantive elections in the Palestinian
National Council (PNC) – the Palestinian Parliament in exile – and so
on. (rh) | 14/3/2021 |
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| If you are a settler, you can run your car over sheep with impunity | | Taayush - A settler from ‘Maskiyot’ rode his car into a flock from
En Hilwa, running over 4 sheep and wounding another 15 – but was not
arrested; violent attacks against Palestinians by Jewish Purim
celebrants in Jerusalem; house demolitions and confiscations on a
large scale continue throughout the Occupied Territories; gangs of
settler s with the active help of Israeli army and police were busy
this week too with incursions into tended Palestinian fields,
blocking roads, chasing away Palestinian shepherds from their own
grazing grounds, cutting down olive trees and attacking Palestinians
and their property; the Jerusalem District Court rejected an appeal
by Palestinian inhabitants of Sheikh Jarrah to repeal their eviction
from their homes by Jewish settlers.[ak] | 11/3/2021 |
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| Mourid Barghouti, a giant of plain words | | Ahmed Masoud - Electronic Intifada - Thirty years after his exile began, Barghouti went back to Ramallah for the first time in 1996.
It was the era of the Oslo accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization. Numerous commentators were talking about peace in the Middle East yet Barghouti was under no illusions.
In `I Saw Ramallah`, he writes: “The others are still masters of the place. They give you a permit. They check your papers. They start files on you. They make you wait.” [bz] | 11/3/2021 |
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| `All I can do is film, and it breaks my heart’ | | Basil al-Adraa - +972 - Entire communities in south Hebron are under threat of
expulsion, while Israeli soldiers try to prevent activists like me from filming the
demolitions [ry] | 8/3/2021 |
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| Three fishermen die in a mysterious explosion off Khan Younis | | Wafa News Agency - GAZA, Sunday, March 07, 2021 (WAFA) – Three
Palestinian fishermen were killed in a mysterious explosion today
while they were sailing off the city of Khan Younis in the south of
the Gaza Strip, according to medical sources and witnesses. WAFA
correspondent quoted the sources as saying that a mysterious
explosion took place in a fishing boat killing the three fishermen at
once. The three were identified as Yahya Lahham, Hamdi Lahham, and
Zakaria Lahham.The nature of the explosion or the source is not known
yet. Early today morning, the Israeli occupation navy opened fire at
Palestinian fishermen sailing off Gaza City, forcing them to return
to the shore.(rh)
| 7/3/2021 |
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| Israel postpones roll-out of COVID vaccine to Palestinian workers | | Aljazeera - Israel says it is postponing until further notice plans
to administer COVID vaccinations to Palestinians who work inside the
country and in its settlements in the occupied West Bank.//The
announcement was confirmed by the Palestinian Authority who said it
had reached an agreement with Israel that would see the country
vaccinate 100,000 Palestinian workers.
But COGAT on Friday announced a postponement which it attributed to
“administrative delays,” saying that a new start for the campaign
would be determined at a later time. The inoculation drive was
supposed to begin on Sunday at West Bank crossings into Israel and at
Israeli industrial zones. Such inoculations could have assuaged
criticism of Israel for not sharing significant amounts of its COVID
vaccine stockpiles with Palestinians living under Israeli control in
the West Bank and those in the Gaza Strip – even as Israel succeeded
in launching one of the fastest vaccine roll-outs in the world Israel
had also announced plans to share surplus vaccines with far-flung
allies in Africa, Europe and Latin America, but the decision was
frozen by legal questions. (rh)
| 7/3/2021 |
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| Israel`s military courts for Palestinians are a stain on international justice | | Sahar Francis - The Guardian - The overwhelming majority of
Palestinians in the West Bank were born into, and have spent their
entire lives under, an Israeli military occupation that violates
their right to self-determination. A new report by the UK charity War
on Want exposes how a core part of what sustains that occupation is a
military judicial system characterised by violations of international
law.The report – Judge, Jury and Occupier – is a deep dive into the
diverse ways in which Palestinians’ rights are being violated – from
arrest, through interrogation, conviction and jail time. It reflects
the experiences of Palestinian lawyers and human rights groups. The
prisoners’ rights organisation I lead, Addameer, was proud to
contribute evidence. One of the report’s important contributions is
to make clear that, despite the Oslo accords and establishment of the
Palestinian Authority (PA) for Palestinians in the West Bank, there
has been, and remains, no escape from Israel’s military judicial
system. (rh) | 7/3/2021 |
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| Rights group: Israeli human rights violations escalated in 2020 | | YUMNA PATEL - Mondoweiss - 2020 was a dismal year for human rights in
Palestine, as Israel tightened its grip on the occupied Palestinian
territory (oPt) through escalated attacks on Palestinians and their
property and the introduction of new laws to further limit
Palestinian rights, all in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. A new
field report from Palestinian human rights group Al-Haq released this
week details the numerous human rights violations that occurred
throughout Palestine, particularly in the occupied West Bank, during
2020 — violations that the group said were exacerbated by, and
spurred on, by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. In the report, Al-
Haq states that while Palestinians focused their efforts into
combating the spread of the coronavirus in 2020, Israel “seized the
opportunity to advance its settler project and intensify repressive
measures against Palestinians in all their places of residence.”
Those repressive measures, the group says, included massive home
demolitions, land confiscation, settlement expansion, and the
violation of freedom of movement and the right to health, among other
things.(rh) | 7/3/2021 |
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| Yes, The Hague is right to investigate Israel for war crimes | | LARRY DERFNER - Mondoweiss - There’s a natural resistance to saying
that your country deserves to be investigated for war crimes by the
International Criminal Court in The Hague. But if you believe that
Israel’s open-ended occupation and the settlements and lethal
onslaughts in Gaza that go with it are morally untenable, how do you
avoid that conclusion? The arguments against an investigation, whose
formal initiation was announced Wednesday by ICC Chief Prosecutor
Fatou Bensouda, don’t stand up. For instance, the argument that such
an investigation would be unfair because there are so many countries
doing worse things than Israel does. “[T]he ICC refuses to
investigate brutal dictatorships like Iran and Syria,” Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu said in response to the court’s decision last
month clearing the way for the probe, calling that ruling “pure
antisemitism.” He used the same term to characterize Wednesday’s
decision to launch the investigation. I suspect Netanyahu knows the
real reason why the ICC doesn’t investigate Iran or Syria – or China,
or North Korea, or Zimbabwe, or Eritrea, or Saudi Arabia, or Yemen,
or a number of other regimes whose criminality exceeds or dwarfs
Israel’s. It’s because the wrongs these regimes commit don’t affect a
state that has granted the ICC jurisdiction over it by signing the
Rome Statute.(rh) | 7/3/2021 |
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| Israel will start vaccinating Palestinian workers on Sunday | | Aaron Boxerman - The Coordinator of Government Activities in the
Territories (COGAT), which is in charge of Palestinian civilian
affairs, said it will roll out the immunization campaign at
checkpoints and industrial zones across the West Bank. The
government approved the plan on Sunday. Around 87,000 Palestinians
hold work permits in Israel, and an additional 35,000 work in
Israeli settlements, according to Defense Ministry figures.
cated vaccination complexes will be initially set up for the
campaign, COGAT said — eight for those employed in Israel and four
for those employed in the West Bank — with Israeli healthcare
workers administering the shots. More centers may be opened later.
The change op policy, after weeks of Israel declaining any
responsibility for vaccinating Palestinian, seems derived from
health experts warning that new dangerous mutations of Covid-19
might eneter Israel from the West Bank. [ak]
| 3/3/2021 |
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| No drinking water left - the army confiscated all water tanks | | Taayush - The Humsa community in the northern Palestinian Jordan
Valley was left without drinking water as the Israeli army
confiscated all water tanks, as well as 18 structures donated after
previous demolitions – at the very same time, the Regional Commander
passed the time of day meeting settlers in ‘Ma’oz Esther’, an
illegal outpost; activists are urgently needed for preventing
settlers’ daily incursions with their flocks into tended Palestinian
fields near Tayibe Junction; the army violently dispersed protest
demonstrations in Salfit and Hebron; settlers celebrated Purim with
curses and death threats at Palestinians in Susya; during a house
demolition in ‘Issawiya, a policeman shot a Palestinian activist and
wounded his belly. [ak] | 3/3/2021 |
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| Military Court in Israel sentences Palestinian politician Khalida Jarrar to two years in prison | | Middle East Eye - Jarrar is a prominent political activist in the Popular Front for Liberation of Palestine and a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC).She has been arrested numerous times and done several stints in Israeli administrative detention. Her latest sentence comes as Palestinians are gearing up to vote in long-overdue legislative elections in May. [bz]
| 3/3/2021 |
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| Oxfam Director: Israel’s Vaccine Export Deal “Shameful” as nearly 5 Million Palestinians Wait | | Palestine Chronicle - "In reaction to Israel’s announcement on sending surplus
vaccines to the Czech Republic, Hungary, Honduras, and Guatemala, Oxfam
Acting Country Director in the Occupied Palestinian Territory Dina Jibril has
described the deal as `shameful`, as millions of Palestinians are left to wait" [ry] | 1/3/2021 |
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| Israeli Forces Attack Peaceful Protest in Jordan Valley | | IMEMC News - "Two activists were detained, on Saturday, and dozens of
Palestinian demonstrators suffocated on teargas in Ein al-Sakut, in northern
Jordan Valley, the Palestinian Information Center reported" [ry] | 1/3/2021 |
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| Israel’s foul play against football in Gaza | | Abdallah al-Naami - EI - “Israel presented its 26 December airstrikes as a
response to rockets fired from Gaza. Its military claimed that it had hit ‘Hamas
terror targets.’ The military did not mention that three Palestinian civilians – one of
them a girl aged six – were injured in the offensive. Nor did it refer to the damage
of the football stadium and to other civilian infrastructure” [ry] | 1/3/2021 |
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