Life under occupation
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| Title | | Description | Date |
| Resource: Israel`s refusal to compensate Palestinians | | B`Tselem -
"Over the past 20 years, Israel has taken measures to guarantee a
nearly blanket exemption from its obligation under international law
to pay compensation to Palestinians harmed by its security forces.
In this report, B’Tselem traces the development of this practice and
illustrates how it has led to a major drop in the number of claims
for damages Palestinians filed in recent years. Israel’s policy
reflects how little value it places on the lives, bodies and
property of Palestinians living under its control." ca | 20/7/2019 |
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| The friends I lost to Israel’s bombs and bullets | | Hamza Abu Eltarabesh -
The Electronic Intifada -
"Yousif had been killed. An Israeli soldier had shot him in the head. Yousif was two weeks shy of his 11th birthday. His death was not the last time that I would lose a football buddy." - id | 18/7/2019 |
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| `They don’t want a Palestinian woman to defeat the state` | | Oren Ziv -
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"Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour sat in prison for a poem she published on Facebook. After an Israeli court ruled that the poem does not constitute incitement to violence, the prosecution is now appealing the partial reversal of her conviction." - id
" | 18/7/2019 |
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| Soldiers fire live ammunition at anti-occupation protesters in Kufr Qaddum, critically wounding a 10-year-old child | | +972 staff - Dozens of protesters — mainly residents of the village joined by some international and Israeli activists — were demonstrating against the Israeli army’s closure of their main access road to Nablus, the nearest West Bank city.
“In eight years [of weekly anti-occupation protests], the army has never responded in such a crazy way as it did today.” [bz]
| 16/7/2019 |
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| 31-year-old Nassar Majed Taqatqa died while in solitary confinement in an Israeli prison | | Dr. Hanan Ashrawi - Nassar Taqata was detained on 19 June 2019 in an
overnight Israeli raid on his home in Beit Fajjar. He was kept
detention, barred from meeting his lawyer and moved to solitary
confinement at Nitzan Prison in Ramleh - where he died a week later.
The Palestinian leadership holds Israel legally and morally
responsible for his untimely death. This crime reflects the
prevalent culture of impunity in Israel, which has been reinforced
by decades of lack of accountability for systematic abuses of
Palestinian rights and crimes against Palestinians under occupation,
including Palestinian detainees and prisoners.[ak]
| 16/7/2019 |
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| ‘They shot to kill’: residents of West Bank village in shock after Israeli snipers shoot 10-year-old boy in the head | | Yumna Patel - Mondoweiss - It wasn’t long, Shteiwi said, before the
demonstration divulged into more violent confrontations, with Israeli
forces firing tear gas, rubber bullets, and sound bombs into the
crowd. “But this Friday, they were using live ammunition, and they
weren’t just firing it in the air. They were firing it at the
people,” he told Mondoweiss, adding that there were Israeli snipers
targeting people. All of a sudden, the villagers saw Abdul Rahman
fall to the ground, blood spilling from his head. “He wasn’t even at
the front of the clashes, there were tons of other young men in front
of him. But they aimed at the child on purpose and shot him,” Shteiwi
recounted.-rh | 16/7/2019 |
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| How Israeli influence is squashing free speech in Germany | | Shir Hever - Middle East Eye - It appears that Israel is now
pressuring the German government, the Bank for Social Economy, German
newspapers and religious institutions to move to an even more extreme
stage of support for Israel and Zionism - although the bank
spokeswoman said allegations that it has come under pressure from
Israel are “completely unfounded”. In this new Germany, Jews who do
not demonstrate pro-Israeli points of view no longer deserve to
express their opinions. They may not give public talks. They may not
have a museum that represents their culture, and they may not have
bank accounts. Only pro-Israeli Jews are accepted in such a society.-
rh | 16/7/2019 |
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| UN investigator: Israel “moving rapidly” towards West Bank annexation | | James Reinl - Mondoweiss - Israel is “moving rapidly” towards
annexing parts of the Palestinian West Bank and tough rhetoric from
Israeli politicians could presage a “dramatic” step in the coming
months, United Nations investigator Michael Lynk told Mondoweiss.
Speaking by phone from Amman, the capital of Jordan, during a week-
long fact-finding visit to the region, Lynk said that Israel’s
settlement-building on Palestinian land was at its “highest level in
recent years”. “It’s moving much more rapidly and on the horizon is
something much more dramatic,” said Lynk, the UN’s special rapporteur
for the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory.-rh | 16/7/2019 |
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| Illegal Israeli Colonists Occupy Palestinian Irrigation Wells | | IMEMC News - Several illegal Israeli colonialist settlers invaded,
Friday, Khirbat Samra Palestinian village, in the West Bank’s
Northern Plains, and occupied irrigation wells. Palestinian human
rights activist, Aref Daraghma, said the colonists, occupied all the
Palestinian wells, and prevented the farmers from using them, before
using the water for their cows. Daraghma added that the colonists
prevented the Palestinians from using the well to feed their sheep,
and planted trees in Khallet Hamad area, near the tents of local
shepherds, in preparation to occupy the lands.-rh | 16/7/2019 |
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| Jordan, Palestine moving closer | | Daoud Kuttab - Arab Media Internet Network - The morning radio
programme exchange is just one of many signs about the Jordanian-
Palestinian re rapprochement that has been going on for some time as
Palestinians seek a trusted neighbour outside the Israeli occupation.
Jordanian and Palestinian politics have been totally in sync with
each other as illustrated this week with the high-level official
visit to Jordan by Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh and a
number of Cabinet ministers. The visit has already ushered agreements
on the increase in Jordanian electricity distribution from the
current 26 megawatts to 80 megawatts. This will mean that
Palestinians, not only in Jericho, but also nearby Al Eizariya, Abu
Dis and East Jerusalem, will be lit by electricity coming from
Jordan.-rh | 16/7/2019 |
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| Palestinian universities fight back against Israel forcing international academics out of the country | | Yumna Patel - Mondoweiss - It’s been two years since Haneen Adi, an
English literature and writing teacher at Ramallah’s Birzeit
University, has left the occupied West Bank. During the past two
years she has missed her sister’s wedding, another sister’s
graduation, and the death of a relative. When her father attempted to
visit her, he was denied entry by Israeli authorities.
Israel has refused to renew Adi’s visa to stay and teach in the West
Bank since November 2017, the middle of her first semester at
Birzeit. Since then, she has been faced with an impossible decision:
overstay her previous visa in order to continue teaching, or leave
the country and risk losing her job, in addition to the possibility
of never being able to come back to Palestine.-rh | 16/7/2019 |
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| Israeli Soldiers Shoot A Palestinian In Northern Gaza | | IMEMC News -
"Israeli soldiers shot, Friday, a young Palestinian man near Beit
Lahia town, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, and fired many
live rounds at fishermen, and at an observation post near Gaza city
and Khan Younis." CA | 13/7/2019 |
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| Israel isolates Palestinian universities | | Maureen Clare Murphy -
EI -
"Two Palestinian human rights groups, as well as Birzeit University, are calling on Israel to lift restrictions preventing international academics from working in the West Bank and to publish “a clear and lawful procedure for issuing entry visas and work permits.” Israel’s policy of denying internationals entry to the West Bank, as well as refusing and failing to process visa extension applications in a timely manner, has affected dozens of scholars working at Palestinian universities." - id | 12/7/2019 |
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| Livelihoods destroyed in two days of demolitions in South Hebron Hills | | Features -
ISM -
"Five JCB bulldozers accompanied by Israeli Civil Administration vans began uprooting trees – some of which were over 14 years old – and demolishing water wells in a public park between the villages of Hashem Daraj and Um al-Khair at around 9am yesterday morning. A 70-year-old man Hajj Suleiman, was aggressively dragged out of the road, where he had tried to stand in the way of the bulldozers, by soldiers and pushed to the ground." - id | 11/7/2019 |
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| Maybe, When It Comes to anti-Semitism, No `Different Germany` Exists? | | Daniel Blatman - Haaretz - The desire to prove that the so-called
different Germany had indeed arisen and was being built, stemmed from
a desire by German immigrants living in Israel to reconnect with
their homeland, which they had been forced to leave in the 1930s.
Later, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer
would adopt this term, which suited their shared political goals.
Ever since, this term has been used to describe the great revolution
Germany underwent after the defeat of the Nazis when, on their ruins,
a stable, economically thriving democracy arose – one that accepts
responsibility for the crimes of its past, is tolerant and sensitive
toward minorities, compensates the survivors of the genocide and
consistently supports Israel. But this “different Germany” has
recently been facing a difficult test. Suddenly, almost 75 years
after the collapse of the Third Reich, anti-Semitism has resurfaced
as an issue around which virtually the entire German political system
has united. Almost all the members of the Bundestag – Social
Democrats, Free Democrats and the Greens – voted recently in favor of
a resolution that defines the BDS movement as anti-Semitic. Following
that sweeping decision, Germany has become a leading member of the
coalition of “distorters of anti-Semitism.” Fellow members are
leaders like Viktor Orban of Hungary, Matteo Salvini of Italy and
Heinz-Christian Strache of Austria. All are lovers of Israel, serious
racists and also, if necessary, anti-Semites.-rh | 9/7/2019 |
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| Burying the Nakba : How Israel Systematically Hides Evidence of 1948 Expulsion of Arabs. Since early last decade, Defense Ministry teams have scoured local archives and removed troves of historic documents to conceal proof of the Nakba. | | Hagar Shezaf - Portside - The document, which seemed to describe
events that took place during the 1948 war, began: “Safsaf [former
Palestinian village near Safed] – 52 men were caught, tied them to
one another, dug a pit and shot them. 10 were still twitching. Women
came, begged for mercy. Found bodies of 6 elderly men. There were 61
bodies. 3 cases of rape, one east of from Safed, girl of 14, 4 men
shot and killed. From one they cut off his fingers with a knife to
take the ring.” The writer goes on to describe additional massacres,
looting and abuse perpetrated by Israeli forces in Israel’s War of
Independence.-rh | 9/7/2019 |
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| Can Israel’s religious right rid itself of racists? | | Shlomi Eldar - Al-Monitor - It seems that the last thing Peretz wants
now is Ben Gvir, Marzel and Gupstein on his list, but soon he might
discover that the weeds have grown wild. They still might thrive,
since Netanyahu watered them in the garden, and manage to draw enough
votes to enter the Knesset — with or without Michael Ben Ari, but
with much hatred, provocation and pure racism.-rh
| 9/7/2019 |
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| Detained leukemia patient on hunger strike moved to solitary confinement | | IMEMC - Israeli Prison Services in Negev prison moved to solitary
confinement three Palestinian detainees, currently on hunger strike:
Nedal Abu A’kar, Mustafaal-Hasanat, and Huthyfa Halabia, who
launched a hunger strike against their administrative detention.
During a previous detention Halabia was suffering from leukemia. He
had been treated and his condition improved, but his most recent
detention prevented a follow-up treatment. [ak] | 9/7/2019 |
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| Israel`s `environmental crisis` is of its own making | | Ramzy Baroud & Romana Rubeo - Al Jazeera - Israel`s destruction of the
environment in Palestinian territories is now threatening Israeli lives [ry] | 8/7/2019 |
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| How much lower can one get? | | Amos Gvirtz - Don`t Say We Didn`t Know - The names of 43 Palestinians and the dates of their killing, not yet buried as Israel refuses to hand the bodies over to their families. [bz] | 2/7/2019 |
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| Sixty fishing boats | | Gush Shalom statement, spread on Facebook, re the Gaza fishing boats Israel promised to give back as part of the agreement with Hamas. [bz] | 2/7/2019 |
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| This five year old is a very complicated security problem! | | Gisha - Israeli Knesset Members of ask the Coordinator of Government
Activities in the Territories (COGAT) to allow a five-year-old born
in the Gaza Strip to move to the West Bank along with his mother and
four siblings. Kawthar Hemo moved from the West Bank to Gaza in 2000
following her marriage to a resident of the Strip. Since February
2017, Hemo has been trying to obtain a permit from Israel that would
allow her to move back to the West Bank with her children. Hemo’s
registered address, as recognized by Israel, is in the West Bank. In
2012, she updated the addresses of her four older children in the
population registry to West Bank addresses, in keeping with her own.
When she tried to do the same for her youngest son, now five years
old, Israel wouldn’t allow her to. For this reason, Israel is
refusing to let him travel to the West Bank with his mother and
siblings.[ak]
| 2/7/2019 |
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| Daily life under occupation: Israeli soldiers, Border Police and settlers harass a Palestinian family in the neighborhood of Tel Rumeidah, Hebron | | B’Tselem - "The settlement of Admot Yishai was established just a few meters
away from Tel Rumeidah in 1984. Ever since, Israeli settlers and security forces
have turned the lives of the local Palestinian residents into a living hell of
draconian travel restrictions and constant harassment and violence" [ry] | 1/7/2019 |
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| Israeli High Court Rules Against Palestinian Families; Will Allow Their Homes to be Demolished | | IMEMC News - "The Palestinian owners of the buildings have until July 18th to
demolish the buildings themselves, or Israeli officials will send the army to
demolish them, and send the Palestinian owners the bill, along with massive
fines" [ry] | 1/7/2019 |
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| Should Palestinian children be able to call parents from prison? Israeli court will decide | | Edo Konrad - +972 - Palestinian children in Israeli jails classified as ‘security
prisoners’ are denied the right to speak to or see their families, sometimes for
months on end [ry] | 1/7/2019 |
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| Prosecutors drop charges against Palestinian suspect in rape case of 7-year-old Israeli girl | | Eli Senyor - Y-net - The Military Prosecution announced Tuesday it
was withdrawing its indictment of Mahmoud Katusa for the rape of a
seven-year old girl. Last week`s publication of a Palestinian being
arrested on such charges stated a wave of incendiary and racist
comments by numerous right-wing politicians and commentators. This
calmed down when it became clear that there were gaping holes in the
prosecution`s case. As it turned out, police completely botched the
investigation and failed to make even the most elementary steps,
such as trying to collect samples of the rapist`s DNA from the
victim`s clothing. For their part, the police asserted that the
girl`s family - from a conservative, ulta-Orthodox community -
failed to cooperate with them. Katusa`s lawyer told Israeli lawyer
told Israeli radio that, had the police done their job properly, his
client would have been exonerated months ago and would been spared
having his photo appear prominently in Israeli mass circulation
papers as "a terrorist and paedophilic rapist". [ak]
| 25/6/2019 |
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| A Jerusalem hospital where Palestinian babies die alone | | Oliver Holmes and Hazem Balousha - The Guardian - Israeli blockade on Gaza
means parents are separated from critically ill children [ry] | 24/6/2019 |
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| Masked Men: The Ugly and the Beautiful | | Amira Hass -Haaretz - When the masked men are Jews, like those who
invaded the village of Jalud on June 5, they are ugly and despicable.
When the masked men are Palestinians who demonstrate against the
separation barrier in Gaza, in Kafr Kadum or in Nabi Saleh, they’re
beautiful and moving. There’s no symmetry between the groups, despite
the momentary external similarity that comes from concealing their
faces.-rh | 18/6/2019 |
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| Maintaining a Jewish majority: Jerusalem Municipality to demolish entire Palestinian neighborhood, leaving 550 people without a roof over their heads | | B`tselem - "In the 1990s, there weren’t any other houses nearby, and people made fun of us for choosing to live in an isolated area that had no running water or electricity. But my father, who worked for the city as a street cleaner, managed to hook up the house to water and electricity, thanks to his contacts there. City officials told him he shouldn’t be concerned because the homes there were not causing any damage or compromising city projects.
After 1997, more people started moving into the neighborhood." [bz]
| 18/6/2019 |
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| Israeli occupation is like US occupation of Germany and Japan that people grew to like — Ambassador Dermer | | James North and Philip Weiss - Mondoweiss - Dermer was making the
Netanyahu government’s argument against the two-state solution, which
he said would give “unlimited sovereignty” to Palestinians. “When
people say two states, you’re flying into unlimited sovereignty,”
Dermer told the American Jewish Committee earlier this week.
Netanyahu’s position is: “I want the Palestinians to have all the
powers to govern themselves but none of the powers that can threaten
Israel.” That would include a “flag” and “self-determination,” Dermer
said, but Israel will not walk out of “Judea and Samaria” in a few
years. “It’s not going to happen.” Israel left Lebanon and pulled
settlers from Gaza and in each case got a “forward terror base” on
its border.-rh | 11/6/2019 |
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| Misunderstanding? Israeli soldiers shoot at Palestinian Security HQ in Nablus | | Yoav Zitun, Elior Levy - Y-net - Under the routine established since
the end of the Second Intifada, Israeli soldiers enter virtually
every night into the A Area, theoretically under Palestinian
control, taking care to notify in advance the Palestinian Security
Forces who obligingly move away. Something went wrong in the past
night, when Israeli soldiers who entered the city of Nablus
surrounded the Palestinian Palestinian Security HQ, opened fire and
wounded at least one of the Palestinians inside. The reasons for the
"misunderstanding" are being investigated. The information given by
the Israeli side gives the impression that Israeli soldiers
habitually identify armed Palestinians as "terrorists" and that
someone neglected to let the soldiers make an exception for these
specific Palestinians. [ak] | 11/6/2019 |
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| WATCH: What occupation looks like in the occupied Jordan Valley | | Social TV/+972 - Palestinian residents of the Jordan Valley are forced on a daily basis to cope with Israel’s arbitrary military policies, from imposing restrictions on movement to home demolitions to a lack of access to water — all while Israeli settlers living on the same land face none of the same issues. [bz] | 11/6/2019 |
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| Bernie Sanders and Palestine : Bernie Sanders links Hitler’s murder of his family to his fight against occupation of Palestinians | | Philip Weiss - Portside - We`ve closely followed the statements of
Democratic presidential hopefuls to the American Jewish Committee.
Almost every candidate so far has been careful to skirt the Israel
question, hinting at some mild criticism of Israel but not actually
voicing it. Joe Biden went after the Palestinians. Kamala Harris
embraced Israel. No one has mentioned the occupation or Palestinian
human rights with any specificity. Till now, that is. Bernie Sanders
weighed in yesterday with a forceful message that connects the murder
of his own family by the Nazis to his fight against the crushing,
humiliating military occupation by Israel of Palestine. Sanders said
that Gaza is also occupied, that Netanyahu is a reactionary who is
planning to annex the West Bank, and that a two-state solution must
produce a viable Palestinian state based on the ’67 lines, with
Jerusalem as a capital. Just what Netanyahu rejected and shoved in
Barack Obama’s face eight years ago in the White House, without any
consequences.-rh | 11/6/2019 |
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| How Israeli police manipulated evidence to hide the targeting of Ayman Odeh | | Jonathan Ofir - Mondoweiss - Despite evidence that clearly countered
the “terror” narrative, it took a month and a half until Minister of
Agriculture Uri Ariel issued a qualified apology, “if there really
was a failure at Umm al-Hiran”, yet no policeman was charged and the
investigations were closed. But there was yet another direct victim
at Umm al-Hiran, one with a high profile – Palestinian-Israeli
lawmaker Ayman Odeh. Odeh was first pepper-sprayed at point-blank
range, and shortly after, shot with sponge-tip bullets – one to the
forehead, and then when he crouched and turned around in response,
one to the back. He fell shortly after.-rh | 11/6/2019 |
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| Settlers target McDonald’s over what they call boycott of West Bank Read more: https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2019/06/israel-west-bank-mcdonalds-airbnb-boycott-settlements.html#ixzz5qZY5Yage | | Ksenia Svetlova - Al-Monitor - An organization comprising hundreds of
disabled Israeli army veterans on June 4 placed large signs in front
of McDonald’s restaurants in Tel Aviv similar in look to the warning
signs posted at the crossings from Israel into the West Bank and
Gaza. “Attention, Israelis! The area in front of you is Area M [a
reference to Areas A and B of the West Bank] — an area under the
control of a company that boycotts parts of the State of Israel.
Anyone entering this area supports this boycott.” Many Israelis posed
for photos next to the signs. The campaign against the world’s
largest fast food chain follows a demand by Yossi Dagan, chair of the
Samaria Regional Council in the West Bank, to the ministers of
finance and transportation, to prevent McDonald’s from competing in a
tender to run a franchise at Ben Gurion International Airport because
the company refuses to open restaurants in West Bank settlements.-rh
| 11/6/2019 |
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| Hunger Striking Detainee Hassan al-‘Oweiwi to be Released | | IMEMC - After 69 days of an open-ended hunger strike, Palestinian
detainee Hassan al-‘Oweiwi his negotiations with the Israeli
authorities ended with an agreement. As announced by the Palestinian
Commission of Detainee Affairs, in return for al-‘Oweiwi ending his
hunger strike,the Israeli Prison Authority and Security Services
undertook that his administrative detention will not be renewed
after the end of the first six months, and that he would then be set
free. The agreement was reached after a serious deterioration in the
health of the 35-year old al-‘Oweiwi, who suffers from weight loss,
severe pain in the joints, waist and head, a constant feeling of
cold, stomach aches, and inability to stand up and move.
PPalestinian hunger strikers have some leverage towards the Israeli
authorities, since a prolonged hunger strike by a detainee -
especially one which harms his health and threatens his life -is
likely to cause unrest and rioting in the Palestinian territories, a
result which the military authorities are anxious to prevent. [ak] | 11/6/2019 |
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| IOF arrested 37 Palestinians during Eid Al-Fitr Holiday | | PNN - The arrests, which were carried out during raids on the West Bank and
Jerusalem, included three girls [ry] | 10/6/2019 |
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| Hundreds of Palestinians riot as Jews allowed on Temple Mount for Jerusalem Day | | MICHAEL BACHNER and TOI STAFF - The Times of Israel - Clashes erupted
between Palestinian rioters and police on Sunday morning at the
Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem’s Old City, as hundreds of Jews
were allowed into the holy site to celebrate Jerusalem Day — the 52nd
anniversary of the unification of the capital in the Six Day War.
Later in the morning, hundreds of Palestinians rioters threw rocks
and chairs at Israeli security personnel. There were no immediate
reports of injuries. By mid-afternoon, police reported that the
situation was again calm.-rh | 4/6/2019 |
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| Palestinians prove fraud, regain land after decades | | Ahmad Melhem - Al-Monitor - Youssef Abu Safya, a member of the
National Land Defense Commission in Salfit, told Al-Monitor the case
dates back to 1982 when Yakir Investments, with the help of some
Palestinian brokers and tribal leaders, forged the title deeds of
hundreds of dunams in the town in Area C. The landowners — who reside
in the West Bank — started to pursue the case with Palestinian
lawyers and rights’ groups, appearing before Israeli committees. When
the Palestinian Authority (PA) was established in 1994, it took over
the case and offered the complainants legal aid through the
Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission, with which it is
affiliated.-rh
| 4/6/2019 |
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| Addressing the needs of Gaza patients on the waitlist - a success story | | OCHA (UN office for Coordination of Humanitarian Help) - 39-year-old
Najwa Hamad, a resident of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip -
suffers from throat pain, severe coughing, difficult swallowing and
insomnia, among other symptoms. Najwa was diagnosed as suffering
from an inflammation of her tonsils that required their urgent
removal. However, since government hospitals were overcrowded as a
result of emergency surgeries associated with the “Great March of
Return”, she had trouble scheduling her surgery. Since she and her
husband are unemployed, she had no option of paying for treatment in
a private hospital. But with funding from the Humanitarian Fund for
the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt HF), the Union of Health
Work Committees referred Najwa to a private hospital, Al Awda.
There, a specialist changed the diagnosis after finding a tumor on
her right tonsil, as well as other medical conditions that were to
be treated after the surgery. Having gone through the surgery,
Najwa’s physical and mental health improved.[ak]
| 4/6/2019 |
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| Palestinian photographer imprisoned, threatened with deportation | | IMEMC - For the past five months, Mustafa al-Kharouf has been
languishing inside Israel’s Givon prison, away from his wife Tamam
and their one-and-a-half-year-old daughter Asia. But, now, he faces
deportation to Jordan. The 32-year-old photojournalist, son to an
Algerian mother and a Palestinian father, has been living in
Jerusalem since 1999, when he was 12 years old. Despite repeated
attempts, over the past decade, he has been denied permanent
residency status, which he is entitled to, thus rendering him
stateless - officially because he "does not fit" some very unclear
criteria for residency, actually because the authorities dislike his
making photos of Human Rights violations and accuse his (without
proof) of membership in Hamas. Over the past five months he is under
Administrative Detention without trial, his fate to be decided by
the Supreme Court, to which an appeal was lodged via HaMoked, an
Israeli Human Rights group. If rejected by the Supreme Court, he is
likely to be deported to Jordan - a country with which he has no
ties, where he is unlikely to be granted citizenship or residency,
and whose own security services might detain him on arrival in their
territory. [ak] | 4/6/2019 |
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| EU slams Israeli seizing and auctioning West Bank humanitarian aid | | IMEMC - The European Union has lambasted Israeli plans to auction
off humanitarian aid given to inhabitants of West Bank
Bedouin villages. COGAT ("Coordinator of Government Activities in
the Territories") has placed ads offering for sale EU-donated aid
which was confiscated by the army last October and November, on
raids against "illegal" Beduin communities - including two school
structures that had been consigned to Ibziq community, and two tents
and three metal sheds from the al-Hadidiya community, altogether
worth 15,320 euros ($17,100). The military authorities officially
stated that “In the case where the owners of these seized assets
have not proceeded to request the return of their property within 30
days of the publication of this notice, the assets will be sold”.
However, according to Shadi Othman, EU spokesperson in
Jerusalem, the EU did make an official request for the return of the
structures, well within the stipulated time, but the Israeli
authorities ignored this and proceed with the auction plan. The EU
missions in Jerusalem and Ramallah had repeatedly called on Israeli
authorities to return the confiscated items to their intended
beneficiaries without precondition as soon as possible, or provide
compensation. [ak]
| 4/6/2019 |
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| EU angered by Israeli theft, resell of aid for Palestinian schoolchildren | | TheNewArab - The EU has called on Israel to return aid meant for Palestinian
schoolchildren in Bedouin villages, after authorities confiscated the aid using a
loophole [ry] | 3/6/2019 |
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