Life under occupation
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| Title | | Description | Date |
| A village under occupation | | Seth Herald -
Electronic Intifada
"Twenty years ago we worked with the Jerusalem municipality to
organize building permits for sewer systems, streets and houses. Now
there is almost no infrastructure and the occupation is the reason.
The village infrastructure fits the population from 20 years ago but
today it doesn’t.” Despite constant promises from the municipality
to alleviate the economic deprivation, Abu al-Hummus said,
redevelopment has been stagnant.“We pay taxes but we get no
services.” ca
| 19/1/2019 |
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| Second longest-serving Palestinian prisoner in Israel completes 36 years behind bars | | M.K. -
WAFA -
"Maher and Karim Younis were supposed to have been freed in 2014 as part of a larger US-sponsored Palestinian-Israeli peace deal that included release of Palestinian resistance prisoners in four batches with 26 prisoners in each one. The Younis cousins, along with others from inside Israel and occupied Jerusalem, were included in the fourth and last batch, before Israel reneged on the agreement and refused to release them, which eventually torpedoed the peace deal and created the stalemate that continues until today." - id
| 17/1/2019 |
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| Video: Israel kills dreams of Gaza boxing champion | | Amjad Ayman and Yousef Mashharawi -
The Electronic Intifada -
"Ahmad Abu Marahil, 20, is one of the best boxers in Gaza. Israeli occupation forces injured Abu Marahil three times during the Great March of Return protests, leading him to use a wheelchair." - id | 17/1/2019 |
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| Israel opens `apartheid road` in occupied West Bank | | Megan Giovannetti - Aljazeera - Route 4370 has a high wall in the
middle, topped with fencing that segregates the road into two separate
two-way lanes. The western side is for Palestinians in the West Bank
to use to go around Jerusalem, which they cannot enter without an
Israeli military-issued permit, while the eastern side serves Israeli
settlers going to and from Jerusalem. Palestinians from the village
of Anata, which lies on the outskirts of Jerusalem but is separated
from the city by Israel`s barrier wall, say part of the highway is
built on Anata`s land.-rh
| 16/1/2019 |
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| Will 2019 see an end to the Hamas-Fatah divide? | | Yousef Alhelou - The Arab Weekly - Israeli soldiers storm houses and
media offices — including the Palestinians’ Wafa news agency — and
such acts cannot be prevented by Palestinian security forces due to
signed agreements. House demolitions and confiscations of land have
become almost daily occurrences. Palestinian national unity is
Israel’s greatest threat and most challenging issue. Palestinians must
protect their internal and external fronts and realise that the
Israeli policy of divide and rule must end.-rh
| 16/1/2019 |
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| Don`t say we didn`t know. The book | | Amos Gvirtz - Why don`t people want to know about their own country`s crimes? Why do Human Rights and Peace movements` activities evoke such strong opposition? [You can buy the book from Amazon. Also available to read it for free--bz] | 15/1/2019 |
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| In Three Years, Israeli Military Courts Have Fined Palestinians $16 Million | | Amira Hass - Haaretz - In 2016 the fines came to 21.97 million shekels, and in 2017 to 20.59 million shekels. It’s hard to find a system and uniformity in the scales of the fines, as reports by the Machsom Watch rights group reveal. Despite the meticulous breakdown in the military courts’ reports, in July 2018 the Israel Defense Forces spokesman said in response to a question by the group Combatants for Peace – based on the Freedom of Information Law – that he could not provide figures on the fines and guarantees paid in military court. [ak] | 15/1/2019 |
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| Defying Racism: A Palestinian musician’s ordeal at Ben Gurion Airport | | Nai Barghouti - Mondoweiss - As furious as I am at the Israeli
security officer’s ugly racism and vengefulness, I felt slightly bad
for her. Despite her best efforts to humiliate me, I shall go on
resisting her state’s racism and apartheid with my music, and one day
I may actually make a difference in my people’s struggle for
liberation. She, however, will continue to search Palestinians’
underwear, to lie about our laptops not passing security checks, and
to be an insignificant tool of a system of racist oppression.-rh | 15/1/2019 |
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| Israeli minister calls for annexation of the West Bank | | Middle East Eye Staff - A newly appointed Israeli minister on Sunday
dismissed the possibility of establishing a Palestinian state in the
West Bank and called for the occupied territory to be annexed.
"Settlements are the new Zionism of the 21st century,” Immigration and
Absorption Minister Yoav Galant said. During an election campaign stop
in an illegal Israeli settlement in the West Bank, Galant said: "I am
clearly saying no to a Palestinian state. It is not possible to have
more than one state west of the Jordan River.”-rh | 15/1/2019 |
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| Israeli forces raid Beituniya, confiscate camera recordings | | Ma`an - According to local sources, Israeli forces raided Beituniya village and confiscated camera recordings from several commercial buildings. [bz] | 15/1/2019 |
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| B’Tselem: Israel Demolishes Palestinian Homes, Makes Palestinians Homeless | | IMEMC News & Agencies -
"The Israeli occupation has demolished at least 1,401 Palestinian
residential units in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, between
2006 and 2018, an Israeli rights group has revealed.According to the
rights group B’Tselem, Israeli demolitions caused have caused some
6,207 people, including at least 3,134 minors, to lose their homes."
ca
| 11/1/2019 |
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| As USAID shutters operations in Palestine, local organizations will suffer the most | | Yumna Patel -
Mondoweiss
"In late December, dozens of humanitarian organizations, businesses,
educational institutions, and local municipalities across the West
Bank and Gaza were faced with a harsh reality: they would only have
a few weeks, one month maximum, to come up with thousands of dollars
if they wanted to keep running their respective programs." ca | 11/1/2019 |
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| Israel spraying herbicides inside Gaza violates int`l law, rights groups say | | Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man -
+972
"The farmers have sustained massive losses in the past as a result
of spraying, and been exposed to the health risks associated with
the chemical agents used in the spraying,” Al Mezan, Gisha, and
Adalah wrote in their letter to Israeli Defense Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu, along with the country’s attorney general and military
advocate general." ca | 11/1/2019 |
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| The gifts of freedom | | Amjad Ayman Yaghi -
The Electronic Intifada -
"Imad al-Din al-Saftawi waited 18 years before he could give a doll to his daughter. In 2000, Imad traveled from Gaza to the United Arab Emirates as part of his work. “My daughter Sarah was the most precious thing I had at that time as she was the first daughter after three boys,” he said. “I was thinking of bringing her a gift from a big store in Dubai. When I saw a doll that looked like a beautiful girl, I decided to buy it.”
Yet Imad did not make it home from his trip. When he arrived at the Rafah crossing which separates Egypt from Gaza, he was arrested by Israel’s occupation forces." - id
| 10/1/2019 |
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| Palestinian Detainees Suffer Severe Cold in Etzion Detention Center | | IMEMC -
"The Commission quoted its lawyer Jacqueline Fararja, following her visit to the detainees, on Tuesday, as saying that conditions of the detainees are catastrophic, adding that she met with the prisoners, and they are shivering hysterically, of intense cold. It added that the lawyer pointed out that the prisoners were wearing thin clothing that was given to them by prison administration, at a time when the administration is also depriving them of blankets, winter clothes and heating facilities." - id | 10/1/2019 |
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| Gaza’s public servants outraged at Hamas’ recent spending | | Huda Baroud - Al-Monitor - On Dec. 17, media sites circulated a leaked
document from Hamas’ Popular Action Department detailing the
movements’ expenses for the celebrations of its 31st anniversary in
mid-December in Gaza City. The expenditures included travel and
accommodation costs to bring Al-Waad band from Beirut to Gaza to
participate in the festivities, buses to transport citizens to the
event location, monitors at the festival site, Hamas flags and
banners, promotion on social media and personal visits by Hamas
members to Gaza. The movement also paid to install a stage in Katiba
Square, west of Gaza City, and rented seating and generators. The
leaked document said total expenditures up to Dec. 13 were some
$534,350 — a bill that has angered many Hamas government employees in
Gaza who have not been paid their full salary since 2013.-rh
| 8/1/2019 |
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| Ten years after the first war on Gaza, Israel still plans endless brute force | | Avi Shlaim - The Guardian - Israel’s conduct during the first Gaza war
was placed under an uncompromising lens by the UN Human Rights
Council’s independent fact-finding mission headed by Richard
Goldstone, the distinguished South African judge who happened to be
both a Jew and a Zionist. Goldstone and his team found that both Hamas
and the Israel Defence Forces had committed violations of the laws of
war by deliberately harming civilians. The IDF received more severe
strictures than Hamas on account of the bigger scale and seriousness
of its violations.-rh | 8/1/2019 |
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| Israel denies Palestinians, PA officials access to Khan al-Ahmar | | Ma`an - Following the Israeli High Court`s approval for the demolition of Khan al-Ahmar, the village has been in danger of being demolished by Israeli forces at any moment, which would displace 181 people, half of whom are children.[bz] | 8/1/2019 |
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| Unseen enemy: Doctors in Gaza battling superbug epidemic | | The Bureau of Investigative Journalism - Doctors in Gaza and the West
Bank warn they are battling an epidemic of antibiotic-resistant
superbugs, a growing problem in the world’s conflict zones and one
that risks spilling over borders and diminishing the global medical
arsenal against serious illness. The rise and spread of these virulent
infections adds to the devastation of war, increasing medical costs,
blocking hospital beds because patients need longer care and leaving
people whose injuries might once have been healed with life-changing
disabilities.-rh | 8/1/2019 |
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| Gaza’s Opioid Problem : For people living under Israeli siege, with high unemployment, tramadol is a means of escape. | | Miriam Berger - The Nation - The anti-drug classes, however, are
something relatively new for conservative Gaza, where drug use is
highly stigmatized, but widespread abuse of the synthetic opiate
painkiller tramadol is now part of the coastal enclave’s many
interconnected crises. Khael started giving lessons in schools (for
boys only) last year to combat addiction in a police program that’s
part of the Hamas-run government’s own “War on Drugs”—despite
criticism that Hamas has long profited from the drug trade along the
way.-rh | 8/1/2019 |
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| Israeli Naval Forces Arrest 2 Fishermen and Detain Fishing Boat Off Beit Lahia | | IMEMC -
"The Israeli naval soldiers then ordered the fishermen to take off their clothes, jump into the water and swim towards the gunboat. They were arrested and taken to Ashdod Seaport in addition to detaining the fishing boat. At approximately 22:00 on the same day, the Israeli authorities released the two fishermen via Beit Hanoun “Erez” Crossing after interrogating them while the boat is so far under custody." - id
| 3/1/2019 |
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| 2018: Year in Review | | Mohan Chen -
IMEMC -
"From a series of border protests in the Gaza Strip to thousands of new settlement units in the West Bank, 2018 has indeed been an eventful year in Palestine. As the year draws to a close, we have taken a moment to look back and compiled a list of ten most important news stories in the past twelve months, and many of them are certainly set to reverberate in 2019." - id | 3/1/2019 |
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| ‘NYT’ report on killing of Gaza paramedic Rouzan al-Najjar is a big step forward, though flawed | | James North - Mondoweiss - The New York Times surprised us yesterday
by running a long, front-page investigation into the Israeli army’s
killing last June 1 of a 20-year-old Gazan health worker, Rouzan al-
Najjar. Before we criticize, let’s state clearly that this article was
inconceivable in the Times up until a year, or even 6 months ago. By
contrast, when Israel killed four small boys who who playing soccer on
the beach during its 2014 assault on Gaza, the paper swallowed the
army’s dishonest explanation, without challenge, even though one of
its own photographers had been an eyewitness to the killings. This
time, the Times came right out and said its inquiry showed that “. . .
the shooting [of Rouzan al-Najjar] appears to have been reckless at
best, and possibly a war crime, for which no one has yet been
punished.” The paper waited until the 9th paragraph to say this, but
better late than never.-rh | 1/1/2019 |
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| Israel seizes 1,200 dunams of Palestinian land for new settlement | | Ma`an - According to settlement watchdog Peace Now, in the two years since United States President Trump took office some 14,454 unites in the West Bank has been approved, which is more then three times the amount that was approved in the year and a half before his inauguration (4,476 units). [bz] | 1/1/2019 |
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| The events that shook the Palestinian territories in 2018 | | Al Jazeera - Over the past year, Palestinians have experienced no
respite from the Israeli occupation, let alone a breakthrough of
ending it. Although no full-scale war broke out in 2018, as some had
expected, it did bring a grim year of deadly violence, illegal
settlement expansion and home demolitions. At least 289 Palestinians -
men, women and children - were killed throughout 2018, while thousands
of others were wounded, including many who were maimed for life by
Israeli gunfire. According to the Defense for Children organisation,
the death toll includes 56 Palestinian children - an average of more
than one child every week. At least 538 housing units and facilities
were demolished in the occupied West Bank, resulting in 1,300
Palestinians losing their homes, a report by the Palestinian
Liberation Organisation`s Centre for Studies and Documentation said.-
rh | 1/1/2019 |
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| Seven hospitalized in settler attack on Hebron activists | | Edo Konrad - +972 Magazine - Israeli settlers attacked a group of
Palestinians who were attempting to rebuild part of a local youth
center in the occupied city of Hebron over the weekend, sending seven
of them to the hospital with minor injuries. On Saturday, according to
eye witnesses, the settlers had demolished parts of a storage room
being constructed at the home of local Palestinian activist Issa Amro,
which also serves as a community center run by Youth Against
Settlements. Amro filed a complaint with Israeli police against the
settlers, who he says also tore off a metal gate from his neighbor’s
house.-rh
| 1/1/2019 |
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| IDF in West Bank refrains from arresting Jews | | Shlomi Eldar - Al-Monitor - This December was particularly dramatic.
At least one price tag attack was recorded about every three days.
These included the slashing of tires of cars belonging to
Palestinians, anti-Arab graffiti in Palestinian villages, the throwing
of stones, the cutting down of olive trees and more. After the
terrorist attack at the Givat Asaf intersection on Dec. 13, dozens of
price tag attacks were recorded in Palestinian neighborhoods in
Jerusalem. In Beit Hanina, for example, assailants slashed tires and
sprayed slogans like “Death to the Arabs” and “We will not sleep when
blood is spilled here.” The graffiti included the Star of David, which
has been adopted by price Tag activists as a symbol of their
nationalist crimes. Despite the steep rise in incidents, almost no
suspects have been arrested.-rh
| 1/1/2019 |
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| After damning report, IDF says it is probing killing of Gazan medic in June | | The Times of Israel - New York Times investigation says Israeli snipers fired into
crowd that did not pose a threat; bullet hit ground, fragmented, and fatally
pierced chest of Razan al-Najjar, 21 [ry] | 31/12/2018 |
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| Hebron Schools Gassed | | Al-Khalil Team -
International Solidarity Movement -
"At 1pm, 4 Israeli occupation soldiers entered Salaymeh neighbourhood, Hebron.
Activists were present from 12:30 pm and did not witness any stones thrown or other provocation. The soldiers fired 21 tear gas rounds in under 5 minutes into the street outside the 3 schools and into two schoolyards." - id | 27/12/2018 |
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| Christmas message from Bethlehem’s mayor: "We are staying in the Holy Land and resisting the occupation". | | IMEMC - As thousands gathered on at the Nativity Church in the
Manger Square of Bethlehem City, and Palestinian Boy Scouts marched
to welcome the Latin Patriarch, Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa,
Bethlehem’s mayor, Anton Salman read out the Palestinian Christmas
Message: "Let the world know that we are staying in the Holy Land,
and will maintain it, and resist the occupation until our national
goals are achieved, specifically independence and establishing a
Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.” Meanwhile, the
Palestinian Minister of Tourism Rula Maayeh had a more mundane
message: "Three million tourists had arrived into Palestine in
2018". [ak] | 25/12/2018 |
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| Christmas in Bethlehem: Controlling the narrative through tourism | | Megan Giovannetti - Aljazeera - "Israel`s idea about tourism is just
marketing the state of Israel," Hilu explained. "It`s a political
tool." And Bethlehem is not marketed as a part of Palestine, says
Hilu. To the state of Israel and its visitors, Bethlehem is just
another destination in Israel. Hilu confirmed that as a tour guide, he
avoids referring to himself as Palestinians - or use "The P-Word", as
he jokingly referred to it. There have been countless instances, the
tour guides remembered, in which Palestinians were fired or avoided by
companies if they slipped up and use "The P-Word". "We can`t say
anything," says Hisman Khemayes, another general tour guide from
Bethlehem. "Bethlehem is under their [Israeli] control."-rh
| 25/12/2018 |
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| Israeli Soldiers Briefly Detain Three Schoolgirls Near Ramallah | | IMEMCnews - Israeli soldiers detained, on Sunday morning, three
schoolgirls from Betunia Basic School, west of Ramallah, in central West
Bank, and threatened to attack any person who approached them after
placing them in their jeep, and released them shortly afterwards.-rh | 25/12/2018 |
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| Israel displaces, locks up and kills Palestinian children | | Mohammad Balawi - The Palestinian Information Center - Consider a 16-
year-old who has lived all his life under occupation, has never a
chance to travel abroad, and has watched his family members to be
killed, imprisoned or forced to leave the country. Given how he has
grown up, would it make sense for him to attack a fully grown man
armed to his teeth with a screwdriver or a kitchen knife, or throw a
stone at his tormentors?-rh | 25/12/2018 |
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| A ‘stubborn’ Gaza photographer narrowly escapes killing but vows to return to fence next week | | Ahmad Kabariti - Mondoweiss - Gaza photographer Mohammed Asad tells
the story of how he miraculously survived gunfire yesterday, just a
few feet away from Mohammed al Jahjuh, 16, who was shot dead in the
neck by a bullet fired by Israeli soldiers during the ongoing
demonstrations near Israel’s fence. “Unlike the past 38 protests,
everything was almost quiet except for seven to eight stone throwers,
and no burning tires. I had just decided to go home with dozens of
photos I took. But I felt someone thought it was time for me to leave,
and he sent a bullet to my camera. He was an Israeli military
sniper.”-rh | 25/12/2018 |
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| Israeli occupation: More of the same in 2019 | | Ben White - Middle East Eye - Israeli politicians and "security"
officials tell us that Palestinian youth are fed a diet of hatred and
incitement – at schools, in mosques, and online. But Palestinian
children do not need to be taught to hate when settlers attack them on
their way to school, or when Israeli soldiers shoot their classmates,
or when military judges jail their parents. Living under occupation is
its own education – and it lasts a lifetime.-rh | 25/12/2018 |
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| In video - Israeli forces detain 3 Palestinian teens after school | | Ma`an - Israeli forces shortly transferred the girls to the Ofer detention center after forcing them into a military jeep amid cries by their friends. The reason for their detention remained unknown. [bz] | 25/12/2018 |
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| Palestinian Authority losing millions annually due to Israeli restrictions | | Sam Bahour - +972 - The Palestinian Authority loses $350 million every year
due to Israel’s violations of various agreements. It’s time to pay up [ry] | 24/12/2018 |
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| Al-Haq sends urgent appeal to UN on enforced disappearance of Palestinian | | Ma`an News Agency -
" Palestinian human rights organization Al-Haq sent a joint urgent
appeal to the United Nations (UN) Special Procedures regarding the
enforced disappearance of Palestinian citizen Saleh Omar Barghouthi,
29, following his detention by Israeli forces near the town of
Surda, north of Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank, on 12
December 2018." ca | 22/12/2018 |
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| Israeli forces suppress weekly Bilin march | | Ma`an News Agency -
"Israeli forces fired tear-gas bombs and stun grenades to suppress
protesters, took footage of and chased protesters inside the
village.The march was called for by the local popular resistance
committee, and set off following Friday prayers at the village`s
mosque; locals, international and Israeli peace activists took part
in the march." ca | 22/12/2018 |
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| Israel: The occupation has issued a decision restricting vaccine imports to Palestine | | RAMALLAH/PNN -
"According to UNICEF, the Israeli government is bringing into force
laws that have existed since 1986. Ramlawi condemned the decision,
pointing out that since the PNA took office in 1994, there have been
no problems with the issue of vaccinations, and that much has
changed since the establishment of those laws 32 years ago." ca | 22/12/2018 |
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| MOH: Israel to allow entry of children vaccines to Palestine | | Ma`an News agency -
"The Palestinian Ministry of Health succeeded in cooperation with
the World Health Organization (WHO) and the children’s fund, UNICEF,
in pressuring the Israeli authorities to allow entry of children
vaccines for 2019 into the occupied Palestinian territories." ca | 22/12/2018 |
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| Khan al-Ahmar: Setting the record straight | | Angela Godfrey-Goldstein -
+972
"The story of Khan al-Ahmar has been told countless times in the
media in recent months. The way it is being told, however, is chock
full of misconceptions. Here’s the real story behind the embattled
village." ca | 22/12/2018 |
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| No Vaccination for Palestinian Children, Decides the Occupying Power, Israel | | Ihab Rimawi -
IMEMC -
"Lara Hamdan had no idea, when she went to the health services center in Ramallah, to vaccinate her one-year-old daughter, that the vaccination was not available and that she had to wait until Israeli authorities allow the vaccines to enter Palestine before her daughter can be vaccinated." - id | 20/12/2018 |
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| Child Abductions by Israeli Forces in Hebron, 4-11 Dec 2018 | | Al-Khalil Team -
International Solidarity Movement -
"7 children were abducted on 3 different days in the Qeitun and Salaymeh neighbourhoods of al Khalil (Hebron) so far in December. ISM activists were present on these 3 occasions and this report contains video footage from all 3 incidents." - id
| 20/12/2018 |
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| Israel doctored video to hide killing of Gaza boys | | Ali Abunimah -
The Electronic Intifada -
"The Israeli military claims that its warning missiles are a “loud but non-lethal” means to give civilians time to escape before a much bigger and more lethal strike. But a joint investigation by University of London-based multidisciplinary research group Forensic Architecture and the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem found that the munition that killed the boys was “likely an anti-personnel missile armed with lethal fragments.”" - id | 20/12/2018 |
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| As West Bank violence continues, Netanyahu calls for settlement expansion, punitive demolition of Palestinian homes | | Yumna Patel - Mondoweiss - Between Wednesday night and Thursday
afternoon, Israeli forces had shot and killed four Palestinians in
separate incidents, while two Israeli soldiers were killed by a still
unidentified Palestinian shooter, all in and around the central West
Bank district of Ramallah. By Thursday afternoon, Israeli forces had
enforced vast closures across the central and northern West Bank,
heavily deploying troops at checkpoints, major highways, and inside
Palestinian towns and cities. The intensified presence of soldiers
across the occupied territory sparked clashes with Palestinian youth
in several cities that lasted well into Friday.-rh
| 18/12/2018 |
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| 18-year-old Palestinian sentenced to 35 years for killing a soldier | | Ma`an - The Israeli military court of Ofer sentenced the 18-year old
Bassem Sabbah, from the Qalandiya Refugee Camp, to 35 years of
prison, as well as imposing a fine of one and a quarter million
(1,250,000) Shekels which he and his family have no means of paying.
Sabbah had been charged with carrying out a February 2016 stabbing
attack on Israeli soldiers shopping in a supermarket at the Shaarey
Binyamin settlement northwest of Jerusalem. One soldier was killed
in the attack, while another sustained injuries. [Israeli citizens
found guilty of murder are often set free after about twenty years
in prison, but for Palestinian prisoners like Sabbah, the only hope
of early release is a prisoner exchange in the coming decades. ak] | 18/12/2018 |
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| Violence escalates amid Israeli raid of Ramallah | | Daoud Kuttab - Al-Monitor - Many Palestinians believe that the heavy-
handed Israeli army incursion into the center of Ramallah on Dec. 10
is the most important reason behind this escalation. While the Oslo
Accord forbids Israeli soldiers from unilaterally entering areas that
are under full Palestinian security and administrative control — known
as “Area A” — Israeli security forces have repeatedly breached that
agreement. Two factors make this particular Israeli army incursion
into Area A different — namely, its strength and location.
Eyewitnesses told Al-Monitor that a very large army convoy entered
Ramallah Dec. 10 and headed for the offices of the Palestinian News
Agency WAFA, which is located a few hundred yards from the home of
President Mahmoud Abbas and across the street from the official
Palestinian presidential headquarters, Al-Muqata. The Israelis barged
into the state-run news agency and confiscated copies of the security
camera footage.-rh
| 18/12/2018 |
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| Can The Occupation’s Cheerleader Win Over American Jews? Q&A With Naftali Bennett | | Batya Ungar-Sargon - The Forward - It’s no secret that American Jews
and their Israeli counterparts have less in common with every passing
day. But where you locate the source of that chasm depends on which
side of the Atlantic you’re standing on. For American Jews, Israel’s
dispossession of Palestinian civil rights, the monopoly of the ultra-
Orthodox over religious matters, and the increasing commitment to
ethno-nationalism over civil rights have chipped away at erstwhile
unconditional support for the Jewish State. Not so for Diaspora
Affairs Minister Naftali Bennett. “Israel-Diaspora relations are in an
unprecedented crisis,” he said recently. “We’re often told this is
because of the Western Wall and because of the Palestinian issue and
because of other ideological disagreements. That’s not true. There’s a
dire assimilation crisis and growing apathy among Jews in the Diaspora
toward their Judaism and toward Israel.”-rh
| 18/12/2018 |
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| Israeli Government ‘Puzzled’ Over Australia’s Recognition Of ‘West’ Jerusalem As Capital | | Charles Bybelezer - The Medialine - The Israeli government welcomed
with minimal enthusiasm Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s
decision over the weekend to recognize “West” Jerusalem as the Jewish
state’s capital. Notably, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu failed to
release a statement on the matter, whereas the Foreign Ministry
described the prospective opening of a trade and defense office in
Jerusalem as a “step in the right direction.” For his part, Parliament
Speaker Yuli Edelstein called the ordeal “puzzling.” Observers are
attributing the modest response to Canberra’s decision to not formally
relocate its embassy to the holy city and, perhaps more significantly,
due to Morrison’s stated commitment to recognizing the eastern part of
Jerusalem as the capital of a Palestinian state in the eventuality of
a peace agreement.-rh | 18/12/2018 |
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| What an Israeli army closure on Ramallah looks like | | Zena Tahhan - +972 - The Israeli army imposed a military closure on
the city of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, and closed
major checkpoints between cities. The closure, raids, and restrictions
on movement followed two drive-by shootings carried out by
Palestinians this week near illegal settlements. Two Israeli soldiers
were killed in one of the shootings, and in the other, several Israeli
settlers were wounded, including a pregnant woman whose baby was
delivered prematurely and later died.-rh | 18/12/2018 |
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| As one Palestinian family’s history shows, home demolitions won’t stop attacks | | AVI ISSACHAROFF - The Times of Israel - The family’s history shows
that home demolitions are, unfortunately, highly unlikely to deter
would-be attackers. Although some seem to believe destroying
assailants’ homes is a comprehensive solution to preventing terrorism,
the case of the Abu Hamid family shows that not only do they not
prevent attacks — they can sometimes even fuel motivation for revenge
The Abu Hamid home will be rebuilt within a few years, likely with
Palestinian Authority funding, as one Fatah leader has said. Even if
the Fatah money is not forthcoming, someone else — perhaps Hamas —
will provide the funds.-rh | 18/12/2018 |
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| Hebron Schools Gassed (VIDEO) | | International Solidarity Movement, Al-Khalil Team - IMEMC News & Agencies -
"Activists were present from 12:30 pm and did not witness any stones thrown or
other provocation. The soldiers fired 21 tear gas rounds in under 5 minutes into
the street outside the 3 schools and into two schoolyards" [ry] | 17/12/2018 |
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| Palestine: Two schools evacuated as Israeli gunman open fires outside | | MEMO - "An Israeli settler opened fire on Sunday outside two schools in the
West Bank, as other settlers rampaged through the street under the protection
of Israeli forces, reports Wafa News Agency" [ry] | 17/12/2018 |
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| Israeli army shatters the illusion of normalcy in Ramallah | | Dalal Erekat - +972 - Leading a normal, safe life is a juggling act for any
Palestinian family. Even the prospect of enjoying a Christmas dinner with your
loved ones and neighbors must take into account the risk of an Israeli army
raid, invasion, or closure [ry] | 17/12/2018 |
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| Palestinian patients at Ramallah hospital suffocate by tear-gas | | Ma`an News Agency -
"...the Palestinian Minister of Health Jawad Awwad said that he sent
urgent letters to international health organizations, the World
Health Organization, the International Committee of the Red Crescent
and other human rights organizations to immediately intervene to
provide safety to Palestinians, medical teams, ambulances and health
centers." ca | 16/12/2018 |
| ... |
| Four-year-old Palestinian boy dies of wounds from Israeli fire | | Al-Jazeera -
""It all happened so fast. From the moment we arrived until the moment we were shot at, only less than two minutes had passed," he said. "All we ever wanted was to see the blockade on Gaza come to an end"." - id | 13/12/2018 |
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| Ahmad Sa’adat: Palestine Will Be Freed By The People, Not The Elites | | Interview - Via the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network-
IMEMC -
"The following interview with imprisoned Palestinian leftist leader, Ahmad Sa’adat, the General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, was published first in the Italian newspaper Il Manifesto on November 9, 2018. Sa’adat has been imprisoned in Israeli prison since 2006, when he was seized along with several comrades in a violent Israeli attack on the Palestinian Authority’s Jericho prison." - id
| 13/12/2018 |
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| This ice cream shop is so good that Israelis sneak into Palestine to eat there | | Justin Fornal - Munchies - At the bustling heart of Ramallah is
the famous Rukab’s Ice Cream Parlor, in business since 1941. Rukab’s
is renowned for its homemade dondurma, a Turkish-style ice cream
based on a recipe created by the present owner`s great-grandmother.
Jimmy Rukab, the current owner, points to where the Norman Rockwell
style neon sign was recently hit by Israeli rubber and live bullets.
“The Israeli Army came to Ramallah to confiscate some chemicals from
a bookstore that sells supplies to schools for chemistry classes.
The Palestinians threw rocks, and the army shot rubber bullets and a
few live rounds. Four people got hit. I came into work and there
were a few big pools of blood on the sidewalk. Then the next day, it
was as if it never happened. This is the cycle here.(...) An
Israeli woman whom I met on the plane to Tel Aviv had recalled with
longing having eaten the Rukab ice cream as a child. Although
Israeli military forces regularly enter Ramallah to conduct raids
and arrests, the Israeli government made it illegal for Israeli
civilians to enter the city. "Every once in a while, a group of
Israelis will sneak into Ramallah with foreign passports, and they
come to eat my ice cream" says Rukab. "Even though they try to blend
in, I can always pick them out from their accents. We just created a
new banana caramel ice cream based on my sister’s toffee recipe."
[ak]
| 11/12/2018 |
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| Israeli troops raid Palestinian news agency looking for footage, fire tear gas | | RT - Unlike their usual custom of late night raids, Israeli forces
entered Ramallah in broad daylight and raided the official
Palestinian news agency, WAFA. Soldiers fired tear gas inside the
building and locked journalists in a single room as they were
looking for CCTV footage. They withdrew after around an hour, taking
copies of videos. Meanwhile, clashes erupted outside the WAFA
headquarters and at other Ramallah locations, Palestinian civilians
throwing stones at the soldiers, who employed teargas and stun
grenades against the crowds. Two Palestinians were also injured with
live bullets. The raid was supposedly part of the investigation into
the shooting of Israeli settlers standing at q West Bank bus stop,
seven of whom were injured. [ak]
| 11/12/2018 |
| ... |
| Israeli army kills a Palestinian near Hebron | | IMEMC News - Israeli soldiers killed a young Palestinian driving his
car in the town of Ethna, west of Hebron. Identified as Omar Hasan
al-‘Awawda, 27, he was hit by live rounds in his back. The Red
Crescent medics rushed the young man was rushed to the hospital in a
critical condition, but he succumbed to his serious wounds. The army
asserted that the soldiers The Israeli army claimed that the
soldiers opened fire at the car, after its driver “failed to stop
for inspection,” and “endangered the lives of the soldiers.” No
impartial investigation is ever likely to take place. [ak] | 11/12/2018 |
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| New footage proves: Israeli soldiers’ fatal shooting of Muhammad Habali unjustified and illegal | | Amit Gilutz - B’Tselem - On Tuesday, 4 December 2018, at 2:25 A.M.,
Israeli soldiers fatally shot Muhammad Habali, a mentally challenged
22-year-old Palestinian from Tulkarm Refugee Camp.
B’Tselem has obtained additional video footage from security cameras
located at two other spots on the street. These clips, together with
footage already broadcast by
the media, allow for a full analysis of the scene. It clearly shows
that there was no disturbance whatsoever in Habali’s immediate
vicinity at the time he was shot.
Contrary to the military’s claims, the soldiers who fired at Habali
were not responding to a “violent disturbance of the peace” and were
in no danger: the shooting was unjustified and illegal. Yet even in
such clear-cut circumstances, the Military Police investigated
ordered by the MAG, Maj. Gen. Sharon Afek, is merely the first
stage in the process of whitewashing this killing - as has been the
case in thousands of other instances in which soldiers harmed
Palestinians. [ak] | 11/12/2018 |
|
| Israel’s War on Protesting Children and Other Civilians | | TODD PITMAN - Truthdig - Israeli forces deployed along the volatile
border with the Gaza Strip have fired live rounds at rock-throwing
Palestinian protesters ever since demonstrations against Israel’s
long-running blockade of Gaza began in March. And for eight months,
Israeli snipers have targeted one part of the body more than any other
— the legs. The Israeli army says it is responding to weekly assaults
on its frontier by Palestinians armed with stones, grenades and
firebombs. The military says it opens fire only as a last resort, and
considers firing at the lower limbs an act of restraint.-rh | 11/12/2018 |
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| US, Israeli, Palestinian leaders more hawkish than their peoples | | Yossi Beilin - Al-Monitor - A survey conducted a few weeks ago by the
Palestinian Center for Public Opinion at Beit Sahour, among
Palestinians from the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip,
which has been since quoted in a publication of the Washington
Institute, shows that the positions of the Palestinian public are
significantly more moderate than those of its leaders; this is the
case in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, the Fatah-led West Bank and
East Jerusalem.-rh
| 11/12/2018 |
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| When will the mainstream Jewish community call us to ‘light a candle’ for the Palestinian people? | | Howard Horowitz - Mondoweiss - Chanukah calls us to stand up against
religious persecution. As Jews and global citizens, we are all too
familiar with the horrors of violence against religious and ethnic
minorities—and we cannot stand idly by as the senseless brutality of
the Occupation of Palestine continues for more 50 years, a
continuation of the crisis (the Nakba) that forced more than 700,000
Palestinian people to flee to refugee camps in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan
and Egypt, leaving everything behind in 1947 and 1948. Join us by
dedicating the 8th candle on the 8th night of Chanukah to the
Palestinian people. Together, Jews will illuminate our support for the
Palestinian people and share their stories for our communities to
hear.-rh | 11/12/2018 |
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| We Shouldn’t Lie to Ourselves: Nonviolent Resistance Is Alive and Powerful in Gaza : It’s time for the international community to recognize and support it. | | Muhammad Shehada - The Nation - The international community justifies
its idleness during these periods by maintaining a strict no-contact
policy towards the authorities in Gaza. “We can’t talk to Hamas,” the
Europeans and Americans insist. But reality reveals the opposite: They
obviously can and do talk to Hamas, but only when a war or an armed
escalation is taking place, or when Hamas captures Israeli soldiers.
Then the international community hastens to Gaza, one after the other,
to restore stability.-rh | 11/12/2018 |
| ... |
| IDF probes shooting of Palestinian in the back | | Associated Press - Ynet - Military Police opens investigation into the death of
22 year-old Palestinian man after a video surfaced appearing to show him being
shot in the back; his brother says he suffered from mental and physical
disabilities, and used a stick to help him walk [ry] | 10/12/2018 |
| ... |
| After School in Hebron, A Journal – 6 boys detained by Israeli forces in 2 Days | | Features -
ISM -
"For two days running, Israeli occupation soldiers and Border Police ambushed young children aged 10-14 years after school in Hebron.
Tuesday, 24thDec. 2 boys were detained at Salaymeh checkpoint after being ambushed by a group of soldiers sneaking around in gardens and through a garage before bursting out behind the boys who were standing in a driveway. The boys were not throwing any the stones but were just randomly grabbed by the soldiers as they ambushed them." - id | 6/12/2018 |
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| Political vacuum in Palestine leaves fertile ground for radical groups Read more: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2018/11/palestine-israel-occupation-radical-hizb-ut-tahrir.html#ixzz5Ykvz5fgz | | Daoud Kuttab - Al-Monitor - The failure of the major Palestinian
movements to produce any concrete results in ending the occupation has
given an international Islamic movement a chance to shine. Hizb ut-
Tahrir (Party of Liberation) is a unique organization that seeks the
establishment of an Islamic state. They hope to recreate the caliphate
system that initially ruled Islam after the death of the Prophet
Muhammad. The party does not partake in or support violent or military
resistance activities.-rh
| 5/12/2018 |
| ... |
| Settlers v. Airbnb | | Nicola Perugini and Neve Gordon - London Review of Books - The timing
of Airbnb’s announcement probably wasn’t coincidental. The next day,
Human Rights Watch released a report, Bed and Breakfast on Stolen
Land, in which Palestinians testify that dozens of properties listed
on Airbnb and Booking.com were built on their expropriated land. The
human rights group concludes that by making settlements profitable and
thus facilitating the unlawful transfer of Israel’s citizens to
colonised land, the companies are complicit in war crimes.-rh | 5/12/2018 |
| ... |
| The Netanyahu paradox: Guarding Israel from enemies without, causing harm within | | DAVID HOROVITZ - The Times of Israel - Attention in Israel swiftly
shifted on Tuesday from the allegations of corruption against Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and his attack on the police who
recommend he be put on trial — the big, big news of the past two days
— to the launch on the northern border of a major IDF operation
neutralizing tunnels dug by Hezbollah into Israeli territory.-rh | 4/12/2018 |
| ... |
| Anti-tunnel operation in north kicks up coalition’s political dirt | | Marissa Newman - The Times of Israel - Israeli action in the north
fleshes out Liberman’s ostensibly straightforward reason for quitting
the post and the coalition on November 14. The former defense minister
had cited the ceasefire agreement with Hamas, calling it a
“capitulation to terror” and accusing Israel of sacrificing long-term
security in favor of short-term quiet. But according to leaks from the
high-level security cabinet on Tuesday, Liberman had clashed with the
Israel Defense Forces chief on whether the tunnel threat in the north
was deemed serious enough to hold off on a Gaza reprisal — and may
have been overruled. Hamas or Hezbollah? According to the leaks, the
upcoming plan to dismantle the Hezbollah tunnels was a consideration —
though not the primary one — in Israel’s decision to exercise
restraint in Gaza last month. “The IDF chief of staff’s position and
that of officers at the meeting was unequivocally that we must
immediately act against the tunnels in Lebanon for operational
reasons,” an unnamed security cabinet minister told Channel 10 on
Tuesday.-rh | 4/12/2018 |
| ... |
| Palestinian demolishes own structures in Jerusalem | | Ma`an -
The Wadi Hilweh Information Center said that Ahmad Siyam was forced to demolish his property of a storehouse, a garage and stairs, in the Ein al-Luza area, upon order by the Israeli municipality under the pretext that the structures were built without the difficult-to-obtain Israeli permit. (...) For Jewish Israelis in occupied East Jerusalem`s illegal settlements, the planning, marketing, development, and infrastructure are funded and executed by the Israeli government. By contrast, in Palestinian neighborhoods, all the burden falls on individual families to contend with a lengthy permit application that can last several years and cost tens of thousands of dollars. [bz] | 4/12/2018 |
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| Israeli Soldiers Kill A Mentally Disabled Palestinian In Tulkarem | | IMEMC - At dawn, dozens of soldiers, many of them in jeeps and others on foot, invaded several neighborhoods in the refugee camp, and Tulkarem city, especially in the Western Neighborhood, and fired dozens of live rounds and gas bombs, during ensuing protests. The soldiers were said to have shot Mohammad, who was mentally disabled, from a very close range, and that he died almost instantly, from gunshot wounds to his head and limbs. [bz] | 4/12/2018 |
| ... |
| Army Carries Out A Limited Invasion Into Central Gaza | | IMEMC News - "Media sources have reported that the vehicles, accompanied
by four armored military bulldozers, carried out a limited invasion into the
Palestinian farmlands in the area east of the al-Maghazi refugee camp" [ry] | 3/12/2018 |
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