Life under occupation
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| Title | | Description | Date |
| An angel for Razan’s mother | | Jennifer Bing -
The Electronic Intifada -
"Ahmed talks about Razan when he speaks to audiences in the US. He often refers to her as an angel. “I want to give this angel to Ahmed to take back to Gaza to give to Razan’s mother. Just so she knows that people in the US have heard her daughter’s story,” I said." - id | 21/3/2019 |
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| `Endless Trip to Hell`: Israel Jails Hundreds of Palestinian Boys a Year. These Are Their Testimonies They’re seized in the dead of night, blindfolded and cuffed, abused and manipulated to confess to crimes they didn`t commit. Every year Israel arrests al | | Netta Ahituv - Haaretz - It was a gloomy, typically chilly late-
February afternoon in the West Bank village of Beit Ummar, between
Bethlehem and Hebron. The weather didn’t deter the children of the
Abu-Ayyash family from playing and frolicking outside. One of them,
in a Spiderman costume, acted the part by jumping lithely from place
to place. Suddenly they noticed a group of Israeli soldiers trudging
along the dirt trail across the way. Instantly their expressions
turned from joy to dread, and they rushed into the house. It’s not
the first time they reacted like that, says their father. In fact,
it’s become a pattern ever since 10-year-old Omar was arrested by
troops this past December.-rh | 19/3/2019 |
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| Israel demolishes school building in Shufat refugee camp | | Ma`an - Muhammad Alqam, owner of the school building, told Ma’an that the Israeli authorities had issued a demolition order against the building last November, pointing out that he had headed to the Israeli Jerusalem Municipality before the construction of the building to issue necessary permits, however, he was told that the area belongs to the United Nations Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA.)
Principal of the school, Saleh Alqam, pointed out that the demolition was carried out without a prior notice. [bz] | 19/3/2019 |
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| High Court bans racist from running for Knesset, while Israeli politics remain racist to the core | | Jonathan Ofir - Mondoweiss - Michael Ben Ari, the leader of Jewish
Power, is now banned from running. He would have been 5th on the
slate of the Union of Right-wing Parties. The ruling means that 2nd
on the Jewish Power list, Itamar Ben Gvir, who has not been barred,
will move up from 8th place to 7th. Ben Gvir is renowned for his
adoration of Baruch Goldstein who perpetrated the Al-Ibrahimi mosque
massacre in 1994, killing 29 – Ben Gvir has a poster of Goldstein in
his living-room. And this leads us to the question, of whether this
barring of Ben Ari is really meaningful, or whether it is cosmetic?
Ben Ari is being barred for his racism – but what about the racism of
the whole merged party which he would have been part of?-rh | 19/3/2019 |
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| Interview with Khalida Jarrar, released from Israeli prison after 20 months without charge | | Michele Giorgio - Il Manifesto - Khalida Jarrar is one of the leaders
in the West Bank of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
(PFLP), a party with a Marxist orientation and the main force on the
Palestinian left. Just a few days ago, she was released from 20
months’ imprisonment without charge or trial in Israel. In a central
neighborhood of Ramallah, Ghassan, her husband, opens the door for
us.-rh | 19/3/2019 |
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| Gantz vows to resume targeted killings of Hamas leaders ‘if necessary’ | | TOI STAFF - The Times of Israel - Blue and White leader Benny Gantz
said Wednesday he would consider reintroducing the policy of
assassinating Hamas leaders in the Gaza Strip if his centrist party
forms the next Israeli government. In a campaign speech, Gantz
criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over his handling of the
recent uptick in violence in and around the Palestinian enclave. “In
the 3.5 years after [Operation] Protective Edge there was complete
calm. No rockets, balloons or kites,” Gantz said, referring to the
Gaza war he commanded as chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces
in 2014.-rh
| 19/3/2019 |
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| J Street launches Birthright-style trip to Israel that will include Palestinians | | CATHRYN J. PRINCE - The Times of Israel - Come July, 40 American
college students will participate on a 10-day trip courtesy of the
progressive group. Billed as an alternative to Birthright, the trip,
which will be funded by J Street donors, is part of its “Let Our
People Know” campaign. Group leaders hope the trip will give American
Jewish youth a more complete and nuanced picture of life in Israel.
“We hope this trip will provide a model for the kind of Israel
education young Jews want and need — one that engages fully with
Israel’s reality, including perspectives from Palestinians living
under its 52-year military occupation,” said Eva Borgwardt, president
of the J Street U National Board and Stanford University senior.-rh | 19/3/2019 |
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| The Truth Is Out About Israel’s Lethal Actions In Gaza. Will The World Listen? | | Saeb Erekat - Information Clearing House - A UN investigation into
the 2018 Gaza protests has concluded that Israeli officers and their
leaders may have committed war crimes or crimes against humanity. The
human rights council’s commission of inquiry found that soldiers
intentionally used live ammunition against civilians, who included
children, women, journalists, health workers and people with
disabilities. The figures are telling: more than 6,000 people injured
by Israeli bullets, with 183 killed. Renowned human rights
organisations such as Human Rights Watch, B’Tselem and Al-Haq had
already denounced this policy, with B’Tselem calling on Israeli
soldiers not to follow orders to shoot civilians. The people of
Palestine still wonder whether such findings will be used by the
international community to implement policy aimed at ending the
Israeli occupation, or whether it will be business as usual.-rh | 19/3/2019 |
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| Palestinians will suffer the impacts of climate change more severely than Israelis due to the occupation | | Zena Agha - Mondoweiss - The single greatest non-environmental risk
facing Palestinians in the West Bank remains the ongoing Israeli
occupation, an occupation so pervasive that the United Nations
Development Program considers it an environmental “risk” in its own
right. Now in its 52nd year, the occupation prevents Palestinians
from accessing and managing their land and resources, particularly
water. Significantly, it prevents them from pursuing measures to
support climate change adaptation, which is the adjustment of human
or natural systems in response to the effects of climate change. In
the West Bank, the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) inability to pursue
adaptation policies is a direct consequence of the occupation and
will have acute human and environmental repercussions for Palestinian
inhabitants.-rh | 19/3/2019 |
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| US calls Golan ‘Israeli-controlled,’ drops all mention of West Bank ‘occupation’ | | ERIC CORTELLESSA - The Times of Israel - For the first time, the
Trump administration referred to the Golan Heights on Wednesday as
“Israeli-controlled” and ceased to refer to the West Bank as
“occupied” in the State Department’s annual report on human rights
around the world. While last year’s report marked a departure from
years of American foreign policy by no longer calling the West Bank,
Gaza, and the Golan Heights “occupied” in the section title, this
year’s report went two small steps further.-rh | 19/3/2019 |
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| March 17, 2019 Al-Hadidiya, Halat Makhul, Umm Zuqa. | | David Shulman, Margaret Olin - Touching Photographs - I say to Yusuf,
both of us staring downhill through the grasses and flowers toward
the distant blue hills, “If there were no soldiers here and no
settlers, we’d be in Paradise.” It sounds a bit weird in Arabic. He
turns the sentence over in his mind before he agrees. He was born
into the world of the Occupation, he has never known any other
world.-rh
| 19/3/2019 |
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| Israeli court rules against demolition of Bethlehem school | | Ma`an News Agency -
" An Israeli court rejected an appeal by Israeli settlement
organization "Regavim" to demolish of a Palestinian school in the
southern West Bank district of Bethlehem, upon efforts by
Palestinian activists from the Anti Wall and Settlement Committee in
Bethlehem." ca | 16/3/2019 |
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| The truth is out about Israel’s lethal actions in Gaza. Will the worldlisten? | | Saeb Erekat -
Information Clearing House
"The UN’s damning verdict on the2018 Gaza protests should prompt the
international community into ending Israeli occupation." ca | 16/3/2019 |
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| Israeli soldiers kill Palestinian delivering legal documents at Rajabi House | | Al-Khalil team -
International Solidarity Movement -
"The army further prevented Palestinian Red Crescent Society’s medics from entering the scene to treat Shweiki. Human rights workers were attacked by Israeli Police and arrested immediately after arriving on the scene." - id | 14/3/2019 |
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| Netanyahu Now Endorses Jewish Fascism. U.S. Jews, Cut Your Ties With Him Now | | Etan Nechin - Information Clearing House - Netanyahu has been
working hard in the last few weeks to help create a coalition
between Jewish Home, the latest incarnation of the Mafdal, a
venerable religious Zionist party, and a party called Otzma Yehudit,
which could be called the Jewish National Front, a radical far right
party whose members, like its former leader, Baruch Marzel, were
followers of Meir Kahane’s Kach Party. Baruch Goldstein, who
massacred 24 Palestinians at prayer in Hebron in 1994, was a Kach
member at that time.-rh | 12/3/2019 |
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| How the Israeli Army Takes Palestinian Land and Hands It to Settlers | | Amira Hass - Haaretz - Dror Etkes, a researcher of Israel’s settlement
policy, wants, as usual, to put things in order. In a new study he
will be publishing this week, he focuses on the history of orders to
seize Palestinian land, issued by generations of army commanders in
the West Bank (not including the part that was annexed to Jerusalem).
More than 1,150 seizure orders have been issued from 1969 to the
present. After subtracting those that were revoked or that overlap, it
turns out that this particular trick enabled Israel to take over more
than 100,000 dunams (25,000 acres) of Palestinian land. More millions
of dunams of Palestinian land have been stolen in other ways, which
Etkes has been researching too.-rh | 12/3/2019 |
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| What’s COGAT’s excuse this time? | | Gisha-Gaza Gateway - An olive oil producer from the Gaza Strip wants to sell his olive oil in the West Bank. It probably sounds like a pretty straightforward request, but all goods entering the West Bank require Israel’s approval and Israel rejected the olive oil producer’s request. Why? (...) The feigned innocence in COGAT’s reply is especially aggravating given that its own social media is plastered with posts, proudly announcing its role in facilitating economic activity in the Palestinian territory [bz] | 12/3/2019 |
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| Defending nation-state law, PM says Israeli Arabs have 22 other countries | | RAOUL WOOTLIFF - The Times of Israel - The claim that there are 22 other
Arab states is often used by right-wing Israelis as an argument against
Palestinian statehood, but is not generally used as an argument
regarding the country’s Arab citizens, who make up almost a quarter of
the population.-rh | 12/3/2019 |
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| Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East? Netanyahu’s comments have shattered that illusion | | Ben White - The Independent - Israeli prime minister Benjamin
Netanyahu was back in the headlines on Sunday, after declaring on
social media that “Israel is not a state of all its citizens”. The
Likud leader later doubled down, telling his cabinet that Israel is
“the nation state not of all its citizens, but only of the Jewish
people”.
Netanyahu’s comments are the latest grim episode in an election
season that will see Israelis going to the polls on 9 April. Just
last month, the prime minister helped engineer an election merger
that could see far-right party Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) enter
the Knesset.-rh | 12/3/2019 |
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| The UN fails to name and shame firms aiding Israel’s illegal settlements | | Jonathan Cook - Countercurrents - The United Nations postponed last
week for the third time the publication of a blacklist of Israeli
and international firms that profit directly from Israel’s illegal
settlements in the occupied territories. The international body had
come under enormous pressure to keep the database under wraps after
lobbying behind the scenes from Israel, the United States and many
of the 200-plus companies that were about to be named. UN officials
have suggested they may go public with the list in a few months.-rh | 12/3/2019 |
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| Gaza aid cannot wait while Israel holds elections | | Shlomi Eldar - Al-Monitor - As it usually does, Hamas decided to fix
its mistake by heating things up with Israel. The group went back to
launching incendiary balloons and escalated violent demonstrations on
the border fence. The number of Palestinian casualties has climbed
after weeks of Egypt urging it to avoid escalation and wait until
after Israel’s April 9 elections to complete the long-term cease-fire
deal that has been months in the making. However, growing shortages
have increased pressure on the Hamas leadership. How can one ask
thousands of civil servants to wait for their pay until after Israel
deals with its domestic political affairs?-rh
| 12/3/2019 |
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| Israeli forces detain 4 shepherds, 2 activists in Jordan Valley | | Ma’an News Agency - "The two activists were with the shepherds when Israeli
settlers chased them out of the fields where they were herding their sheep; Israeli
forces then arrived the detained all four shepherds and two activists" [ry] | 11/3/2019 |
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| Israeli forces injure Palestinians in clashes near Ramallah | | Ma`an News Agency -
"A number of Palestinians were shot and injured, while dozens
suffered from tear-gas suffocation, on Friday morning, during
violent clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinian youths in the
Beit Sira village, west of the central occupied West Bank district
of Ramallah.Locals told Ma`an that violent clashes broke out after
Israeli forces raided the home of Youssef Raed Mahmoud Anqawi, 20,
who was shot and killed after a vehicle he was riding in, slipped on
the wet road, hitting the soldiers’ military vehicle." ca | 9/3/2019 |
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| Water Supply Cut for 2,600 Palestinians in Jordan Valley | | IMEMC -
"Bisharat called upon international and humanitarian institutions to immediately intervene, to stop Israeli violations of human rights. The Jordan Valley forms a third of the occupied West Bank, with 88 percent of its land classified as Area C — under full Israeli military control." - id | 7/3/2019 |
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| No Justification for Israel to Shoot Protesters with Live Ammunition: Report | | United Nations Human Rights Council - Information Clearing House - The
Commission investigated every killing at the designated demonstration
sites by the Gaza separation fence on official protest days. The
investigation covered the period from the start of the protests until
31 December 2018. 189 Palestinians were killed during the
demonstrations inside this period. The Commission found that Israeli
Security Forces killed 183 of these protesters with live ammunition.
Thirty-five of these fatalities were children, while three were
clearly marked paramedics, and two were clearly marked journalists.
According to the Commission’s data analysis, the Israeli Security
Forces injured 6,106 Palestinians with live ammunition at the protest
sites during this period. Another 3,098 Palestinians were injured by
bullet fragmentation, rubber-coated metal bullets or by hits from tear
gas canisters. Four Israeli soldiers were injured at the
demonstrations. Four Israeli soldiers were injured at the
demonstrations. One Israeli soldier was killed on a protest day but
outside the protest sites.-rh | 5/3/2019 |
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| In photos - Israeli settlers seize Palestinian home in East Jerusalem | | Ma`an - Israeli settlers raided the al-Halabi family home, where an elderly Palestinian couple lives and who were out shopping for groceries at the time; the couple was thrown out by settlers upon arrival.
Palestinian youths attempted to defend the home from seizure, however, Israeli police forces assaulted them and fired tear-gas bombs towards them. [bz] | 5/3/2019 |
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| Palestinians, Jordanians challenge Israel at Al-Aqsa over banned prayer space | | Daoud Kuttab - Al-Monitor - Al-Aqsa Mosque is again causing a major
rift in the once friendly relationship between Jordan and Israel.
Relations turned sour in the past week when Israeli security officials
conducted a humiliating arrest of Jordan’s most senior official in
Jerusalem. Heavily armed Israeli security forces arrived at the East
Jerusalem home of Sheikh Abdul Azim Salhab at 5:30 a.m. on Feb. 24.
Salhab’s deputy and a score of other employees of the Jordanian
Ministry of Awqaf were also taken away, as were leading Palestinian
activists. The Israeli police said the arrests were made because
Salhab, 75, and hundreds of Muslims broke an Israeli imposed ban
forbidding Palestinians from entering or praying at the Bab al-Rahmeh
prayer room in the mosque. They called the protest act a “change in
the status quo.”-rh
| 5/3/2019 |
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| Top prosecutor rejects Netanyahu’s claim graft charges are politically motivated | | TOI STAFF - The Times of Israel - Following Attorney General Avichai
Mandelblit’s announcement Thursday that he would charge the prime
minister with fraud and breach of trust in three cases, and with
bribery in one case, pending a hearing, Netanyahu alleged that Nitzan
and senior prosecutor Liat Ben-Ari pushed for his indictment out of
political motives. “There is no basis for these claims,” Nitzan said
at a conference in Haifa.-rh | 5/3/2019 |
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| `Change doesn’t come from the courthouses alone` | | Henriette Chacar - +972 - Addameer director Sahar Francis talks about
the pervasiveness of incarceration in Palestinian society, how she and
her organization have been targeted by Israeli forces for their work,
and what it means if the international community can’t hold Israel
accountable for the occupation.-rh | 5/3/2019 |
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| Can we imagine a just peace for Palestine? | | Richard Falk - Mondoweiss - In such a binational (one state, two
nations) situation, the newly created single state could offer
national homelands to Jews and Palestinians, while finding a name for
the new state that is congenial to both peoples. Maybe this will never
happen, but it is the most just and sustainable vision of a peaceful
future that responds to decades of diplomatic failure, massive
Palestinian suffering and abuse. Above all, such a solution recognizes
that is people that possess the moral authority and fulfill political
promise of national resistance and global solidarity. Such an
understanding would be tantamount to a legislative victory by that
still unacknowledged, yet powerful, Parliament of Humanity.-rh | 5/3/2019 |
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| OCHA: Israel destroyed water connections denying thousands drinking water | | OCHA -
"The Israeli authorities destroyed in the last two weeks of February
parts of three water connections in the occupied West Bank, two of
them were funded by international donors and provided as
humanitarian assistance, that supplied or intended to supply tens of
thousands of Palestinians with drinking water, according the United
Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
in the occupied Palestinian territory...All the demolitions were on
grounds of the lack of Israeli-issued building permits, which is
impossible to get, particularly in Area C." ca | 2/3/2019 |
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| Israel stops parents joining seriously ill children during treatment | | Sarah Algherbawi -
The Electronic Intifada -
"Ola was soon informed that she may not accompany her daughter through Erez, the military checkpoint separating Gaza and Israel. Mais would have to travel without her parents for treatment.The family then had to give the Israeli military various names, requesting that someone on the list should accompany Mais. Israel rejected most of the suggestions, before deciding that Balqis al-Waheidi, a 72-year-old distant relative with diabetes and rheumatism, may travel with the child." | 28/2/2019 |
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| Israel trying to deport stateless Palestinian journalist from Jerusalem | | Oren Ziv -
+972 -
"Mustafa al-Haruf has spent the last 20 years living in East Jerusalem, where he has a wife, daughter, and works as a photographer. Now Israel wants to deport him to Jordan, where he has no family or legal status." - id
| 28/2/2019 |
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| Qalandiya | | Tamar Fleishman - Machsom Watch - Slowly and warily those who were
released from hospital that morning emerged from the checkpoint
compound, most of them women, and continued towards the transport
platform from where their designated vehicle would drive them home to
Gaza. Last was a woman, pale, dragging her feet. A few days ago she
underwent surgery in a Nablus hospital, replacing her knee, and she
yet to recover. The doctors had recommended/ordered total rest for ten
days, but the instructions of the Occupation’s experts take precedence
over medical ones. The woman reached the van leaning on her walker and
could not tackle the two steps in the front of the vehicle, letting
three men take her very gently up and inside. Like others, she also
came there at 9 a.m., and like others, all very unhealthy, waited for
six hours to get going. Until a few months ago, the DCO had a
wheelchair for sparing cases like hers extra suffering. No longer.-rh | 26/2/2019 |
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| Israel releases two Palestinian teens to house arrest | | Ma`an - Abed and Muhammad, both 14-year old, were detained on late Friday from in front of their homes in the Silwan neighborhood, in occupied East Jerusalem. The two teens were released on Saturday, to house arrest for one week and fines of 5,000 shekels ($1,385) each. Such payments cause financial hardships on the families, and prison time is extended if the fines are not paid... [bz] | 26/2/2019 |
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| Doomed is the house which settlers set their eyes upon | | Amos Gvirtz - Don`t Say We Didn`t Know - Settlers trying to force Abu Imad Eknaibi and his family to leave their home in Tel Rumeida, Hebron, threatening that they will slaughter his children if he doesn`t. [bz] | 26/2/2019 |
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| “We were unable to locate the perpetrator”: The failure of Israel’s law enforcement system to investigate and prosecute military and police personnel who committed criminal offenses against Palestinians in the West Bank | | Yesh Din - Israeli law enforcement responses to offenses perpetrated
against Palestinians by Israeli military and police personnel are
deeply flawed. Some of the issues are individual, while others are
systemic and fundamental. Yesh Din has documented incidents of harm
perpetrated by Israeli security forces against Palestinians and their
property in the OPT for over a decade. Every year, Yesh Din publishes
detailed data and a thorough analysis regarding the failure of
Israel’s law enforcement establishment to investigate and prosecute
members of the security forces suspected of offenses against
Palestinians.This information sheet focuses on one pattern of the
plethora of issues flagged over the years in Yesh Din’s publications.
It presents five examples of investigations in which the Military
Police Criminal Investigation Division (MPCID) or the Department of
Police Investigations (DPI) had reasonable grounds to believe members
of Israeli security forces had committed a criminal offense, and yet
the investigation files were closed because the investigators failed,
or were not compelled, to find the perpetrators.-rh
| 26/2/2019 |
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| Hebron massacre: Palestinians mark anniversary of settler attack | | Harry Fawcett - Al Jazeera - Palestinians at the West Bank are commemorating
the 25th anniversary of the Ibrahimi Mosque massacre in Hebron [ry] | 25/2/2019 |
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| The Palestinian activists protecting Hebron from settler violence | | Steven Davidson - +972 - A group of Palestinian volunteers is trying to fill the monitoring gap left behind by the recent departures of the two international observer organizations. The new group, Kifah, or “struggle,” is the brainchild of Tel Rumeida community leader Issa Amro. This week, Palestinian volunteers in blue vests, identifying themselves as “human rights observers" made their way toward the Israeli army’s Checkpoint 56 on Shuhada Street in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron early last week. They were escorting children on their way to the Qurtuba school 100 meters away, enduring harassment and kicking by settlers as they let the schoolchildren pass. [bz] | 19/2/2019 |
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| `Israel’s heist of Palestinian revenues is illegal economic aggression; Palestine will not submit to political and financial extortion` | | Dr. Hanan Ashrawi - PLO Executive Committee - The Israeli government
once again committed an act of piracy, illegally withholding
Palestinian tax revenues as a form of shameless
political extortion. The Israeli government is taking this malicious
measure against the Palestinian leadership, and by extension against
hundreds of thousands of families, to score cheap political points
in a nasty election season. Israeli politics are characterized by e
racism and hatred, and candidates compete who will exhibit the worst
cruelty against Palestinians. Leading up to this
heist, Israel has led a venomous incitement campaign, demonizing and
dehumanizing thousands of Palestinian political prisoners who are
illegally held inside Israel. Today, Israel is punishing
the Palestinian government for exercising its responsibilities to
provide social assistance to thousands of families permanently
scarred by its illegal policy of mass incarceration and unchecked
violence against Palestinians. Palestine will not submit to
political and financial extortion and will continue to seek
accountability for Israeli crimes. [ak]
| 19/2/2019 |
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| Why residents of Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah face eviction | | Ahmad Melhem -Al-Monitor - The Execution Office, which is the
competent authority to implement court decisions, notified Jan. 3 five
families of the Sabbagh family that they had until Jan. 23 to vacate
their homes. The family’s lawyer, Husni Abu Hussein, however, managed
Jan. 14 to obtain a freeze order until Feb. 16, since the Central
Court and Supreme Court have yet to rule on the land ownership in the
neighborhood. The case goes back to 2012 when the family’s lawyers
resorted to the Israeli Central Court to file a lawsuit against
Nahalat Shimon, an organization that represents settlers, claiming
that the neighborhood’s lands, including the houses of the Sabbagh
families, belong to settlers.-rh
| 19/2/2019 |
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| Will Israeli Jews support Arab Knesset candidate? | | Shlomi Eldar - Al- Monitor - Will Knesset member Ahmad Tibi, chairman
of Taal, succeed in breaking the longstanding taboo of “anyone but
Arabs in the coalition”? While it is still too early to tell, the
possibility is already keeping Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu awake
at night. On the evening of the 2015 elections, Netanyahu had warned,
“Arab voters are heading to the polling stations in droves,” managing
to drum up more votes for himself. On Feb. 9, he posted a video on his
Facebook page attacking Benny Gantz, head of Israel Resilience, and
insinuating that Arab votes are illegitimate. The target of his
intimidation campaign was Tibi: “You vote for Gantz; you get Tibi,” is
the title of the clip, which claims, among other things, “The Oslo
Accords passed because of the Arabs’ votes. … Former Chief of Staff
Gantz will do it again.-rh
| 19/2/2019 |
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| What Netanyahu actually said on Poles’ collaboration with Nazis | | TAMAR SHARON and RAPHAEL AHREN - The Times of Israel - A brief
diplomatic crisis between Israel and Poland has served as a sharp
reminder of the power that a single word — even if that word is simply
“the” — can sometimes carry in international relations. Top Polish
politicians were thrown into a frenzy Thursday after reports emerged
that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in Warsaw for an international
conference on the Middle East, had said that “the Poles cooperated
with the Nazis” during the Holocaust.-rh | 19/2/2019 |
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| Can a Light Rail Train Link a Divided City? | | KESHIA NAURANA BADALGE - City Lab - If there’s a neutral zone for the
residents of Jerusalem, it’s on rails. In a city where real estate is
highly contested, where walls divide neighborhoods based on faith, and
the clothes you wear are code for where you should be seen, the city’s
modern light rail system––whether by virtue of peace or necessity––
glides above the divide. That’s why a team of Palestinians and
Israelis from Mekudeshet, an arts and cultural initiative, are using
the city’s public transit as a platform for documentary and
observation. Every summer, the group stages a program of original
light-rail-based tours called Dissolving Boundaries—“docu-theatrical
journeys” designed to distance you a little from your personal
paradigms.-rh | 19/2/2019 |
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| Israel trims funds to Palestinians over militant stipends | | MEMO - "Israel will cut around 5 per cent of the tax handovers to the
Palestinian Authority over its financial support for jailed Palestinian militants, the
Israeli security cabinet said on Sunday, following similar US legislation last year,
Reuters reports" [ry] | 18/2/2019 |
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| Released prisoner embraced by strangers in Gaza | | Ola Mousa -
The Electronic Intifada -
"“I was thinking of my pregnant wife, my son Yasser who is now 17
years old, and the future of my sons if they were harmed. However, I
was steadfast when I remembered our right to defend our land and
dignity,” Ahmed said." - id
| 17/2/2019 |
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| On 47th Friday of Great March of Return and Breaking Siege, Israeli Forces Wound 67 Civilians, including 14 Children, 2 Women, 2 Paramedics, and Journalist | | IMEMC -
"According to observations by PCHR’s fieldworkers, the Israeli forces
who stationed in prone positions and in military jeeps along the
fence with Israel continued to use excessive force against the
demonstrators by opening fire and firing teargas canisters at them.
As a result, dozens of the demonstrators were hit with bullets and
teargas canisters without posing any imminent threat or danger to the
life of soldiers." - id
| 17/2/2019 |
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| Israeli forces raze Palestinian agricultural lands in Urif | | Ma`an News Agency -
"Israeli forces razed and leveled lands in the Urif village, in the
northern occupied West Bank district of Nablus, on Friday morning.
Israeli forces also sealed a road with dirt mounds to prevent
villagers from reaching their agricultural lands.Ghassan Daghlas, an
official who monitors settlement activity in the northern West Bank,
told Ma’an that Israeli forces and settlers are attempting to
“impose a reality” on Palestinian lands classified as Area B by
razing and leveling large area of lands and preventing farmers from
reaching their lands by placing dirt mounds to block the road." ca | 16/2/2019 |
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| In Palestine, even visiting a father’s grave can be a decades-long battle | | Ben White - Middle East Eye - Copty, born in July 1948, never knew her
father, who was killed a few months earlier. The family lived in
Ma’alul village outside Nazareth, but became internally displaced when
the village was occupied and destroyed by Israeli forces. The cemetery
where her father is buried is now inside a military base. Since 2000,
Copty has made repeated formal requests to Israeli authorities to be
able to visit the cemetery. While none of the relevant bodies have
explicitly rejected her requests, neither have they explained the
rationale for the endless delays. In 2015, Copty was allowed to
briefly enter the military base, but was not allowed to access the
cemetery. Disturbingly, during the visit, Copty saw “excavation work
on one side of the cemetery and that excavations had apparently
desecrated some graves,” with exposed skeletons visible.-rh | 12/2/2019 |
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| Palestinian battling cancer is denied exit from Gaza for treatment | | Amjad Yaghi - +972 - 20 year old Ahlam says the pain has gotten so intense, she can’t sleep at night." (...) “All I want is to have the surgery so that the pain can go away." But already half a year she is refused by Israel to travel to the only Palestinian hospital equipped to do it - in East Jerusalem. [bz] | 12/2/2019 |
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| Israel orders 300 Palestinians to evacuate homes in Tubas | | Ma`an - About 300 Palestinians will be homeless in the cold weather as a result of the Israeli military training, which poses danger to residents’ lives.
According to Mutaz Bisharat, a Palestinian official who monitors settlement activity in the Jordan Valley/Tubas district, military trainings resulted in the destruction of 600 dunams (148 acres) of agricultural land and the leveling of another 140 (34.5 acres) other dunams.
Palestinian residents of the Jordan Valley regularly face evacuations and interruption due to Israeli military exercises on or near their land. The district of Tubas, meanwhile, is one of the occupied West Bank`s most important agricultural centers. [bz] | 12/2/2019 |
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| Israeli settlers attack, injure Palestinian shepherd in Jordan Valley | | Ma`an - Locals told Ma`an that Israeli forces prevented ambulances, which belong to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS), from reaching Barakat for an entire hour. [NB: This happens on the same day as the evacuation orders mentioned right underneath-bz] | 12/2/2019 |
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| Chef`s detention prevents a vital operation and endangers his life | | Rasha Hirzallah - WAFA/IMEMC - On 9 December, 2017, Laith Kanaan
Barghouti was hit by a tear gas grenade fired by Israeli soldiers
during clashes at the northern entrance of Ramallah. Not only did he
lose the use of his right eye, but the tear gas grenade has opened a
large cavity between the eye and the nose in a way that tears would
flow into his nose and into his breathing system - which might cause
suffocation, particularly when he is asleep. After an intensive
search he found a surgeon able to perform the delicate operation
needed - Dr. Ghassan Abu Sitta, a Palestinian resident in the
Lebanese capital Beirut. Dr. Abu Sitta was due to visit Palestine as
part of a medical delegation, and agreed to operate Barghouti on
January 19 at the Istishari Hospital in Ramallah. On the previous
evening Barghouti was preparing a bag of the things he would need in
hospital - when Israeli soldiers suddenly arrived at his home and
took him off to interrogation on unspecified charges. The family
pleadings were of no avail. The operation did not take place and
Dr. Abu Sitta had to depart at the end of his visa. Instead of
proceeding towards implementing his dream - to start a business of
his own, a mobile restaurant - his family worries that Barghouti`s
untreated injury might end with his suffocating to death in his
prison cell. [ak] | 12/2/2019 |
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| Jenin raid - army shoots and wounds one Palestinian, abducts seven | | IMEMC - At dawn, a large Israeli military force entered the city of
Jenin with the aim of carrying out detentions. Encountering the
protest of local youths, soldiers fired many live rounds, rubber-
coated steel bullets and gas bombs at the protesters. One young man
was shot with a live round in his knee. The soldiers then proceeded
to break into and ransack numerous homes in the Jenin refugee camp,
and take five local men into detention - abduction as Palestinians
see it. At the same time, undercover Israeli soldiers dressed as
Arabs invaded the home of Khaled Mansour, in Wadi Burqin area near
Jenong, and searched the property before abducting him along with
his son, Abdullah. [ak] | 12/2/2019 |
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| Launch of Palestinian civilian monitor group angers settlers in Hebron | | JACOB MAGID - The Times of Israel - Members of a new civilian monitor
group launched by Palestinians in Hebron faced verbal and physical
harassment from settlers Sunday as they walked a group of children to
school in the flashpoint West Bank city. Footage from the skirmish
showed an Israeli woman slapping Issa Amro, a local activist who is
among the leaders of the group inaugurated less than two weeks after a
pair of international monitor groups left Hebron.-rh | 12/2/2019 |
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| Photo Essay: Caves bring depopulated villages in the south Hebron Hills back to life | | Ahmad Al-Bazz - Mondoweiss - For weeks under the cloak of night
Palestinians secretly renovated four caves and built a tin-roofed
house in the West Bank hamlet of Ar-Rakeez where only a handful of
residents live. Last week they opened the homes in a “bringing life
back” ceremony. The event was not announced in advance as to avoid any
potential disruption by the Israeli army, locals said.-rh | 12/2/2019 |
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| Settlers to Palestinian laborers: `Work with human rights groups and lose your job` | | Edo Konrad - +972 - Settlers in the southern West Bank posted flyers
warning Palestinian labourers not to cooperate with Israeli human
rights activists or organizations if they want to keep their jobs.
Tazpit News Agency, a settler-aligned English-language news outlet,
reported earlier this week that Israeli settlers in the Gush Etzion
settlement bloc have been posting these intimidating flyers around
Palestinian villages nearby. The flyers threaten to ban Palestinians
who cooperate with human rights groups from working in settlements
there.-rh | 12/2/2019 |
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| Israeli court `enables, validates` Palestinian home demolitions | | Aljazeera - Israel`s top court enables and validates the disposition
of Palestinians and the demolition of their homes in the occupied West
Bank, a new report has found. According to the report, which was
released on Wednesday by Israeli rights group B`tselem, Israel`s
Supreme Court has been enabling the state to continue implementing
illegal policies while ignoring the defects in Israel`s "planning
policy" in the West Bank. The report, "Fake Justice", details how the
state`s policy minimises Palestinian construction and aims to expand
the building of illegal Jewish settlements.-rh | 12/2/2019 |
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| Islamic Jihad, the new lord of Gaza? | | Shlomi Eldar - Al-Monitor - Who’s leading whom in the Gaza Strip? Does
Hamas lord over the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), a militant
movement supported by Iran, or is it the other way around? Over the
past few months, Israeli security forces have noted the growing
influence of the Islamic Jihad on Hamas. Seeking to avoid problems
with Iran, the Hamas leadership feels it has little choice but to
follow the Islamic Jihad’s dictates in their actions when dealing with
Israel and Egypt.-rh
| 12/2/2019 |
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| With U.S. aid cuts, Palestinian women pay biggest price | | Henriette Chacar -
+972
"|According to Bassem Abu Libdeh, the director of Al Makassed
Hospital, U.S. funding used to cover 40 percent of costs for the six
hospitals. Coupled with last September’s slash in aid to UNRWA,
which amounted to a 30-percent budget cut to the United Nations
agency tasked with providing services to millions of Palestinian
refugees in the Middle East, many Palestinians can no longer afford
the care they need. For women, this means limited access to breast
cancer treatment or care for high-risk pregnancies available
predominantly at these East Jerusalem hospitals." ca | 9/2/2019 |
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| I survived the Gaza violence that Benny Gantz brags about | | Hanine Hassan -
+972 -
"‘As a Palestinian expelled from Jaffa to Gaza, as someone whose family and friends have repeatedly been on the receiving end of Israel’s brute force, like all Palestinians, I know that the more violence Israel uses, the more it destroys the very legitimacy it seeks.’" - id | 7/2/2019 |
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| “Hundred Million Dollar Home” Hebron Shop Keeper Punished for Resistance to Occupation | | Al-Khalil team -
International Solidarity Movement -
"Today, our good friend Abdulraouf Al-Mohtaseb’s, the famous owner of the 100 Million Dollar home , had his shop enclosed by steel barricades. We condemn this blatant act of aggression by the IDF against shop owners in the Old City of Al-Khalil." - id | 7/2/2019 |
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| Assassins: Israeli Soldiers Just "Neutralized" A "Female Terrorist," aka A 16-Year-Old Palestinian Schoolgirl Going Home | | Abby Zimet - Common Dreams - In their latest atrocity among too many
to count or evidently acknowledge in the media, Israeli forces shot
and killed Samah Zuhair Mubarak, 16, at al-Zaayim checkpoint in the
occupied West Bank as she walked home from school Wednesday. Israel
claims Mubarak tried to stab a security officer, after which “a rapid
response by additional security forces brought about her
neutralization with no injuries to the security personnel.” To bolster
their narrative of a "female terrorist," officials posted a random
picture of a small, pretty kitchen knife they said they found at the
scene - they uncovered only schoolbooks in her back pack - and
helpfully noted many knife attacks, especially by women, stem from
personal issues and essentially constitute "suicide by cop."-rh | 5/2/2019 |
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| After expulsion of West Bank observer force, Israel’s commitment to Oslo under fire | | Mary McAuliffe - i24NEWS - For 22 years, Palestinians have welcomed the presence of the Temporary International Presence in Hebron (TIPH) as a necessary force for safeguarding their well-being in a city gripped by tension and whose adversaries are protected by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Jewish settlers in Hebron, however, spent years lobbying for their removal having long reviled the international force which they see as a nuisance. (...) Both Jews and Arabs in Hebron say they expect a significant shift in the lives of residents following TIPH’s exit. [bz] | 5/2/2019 |
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| 21-year-old Palestinian shot, killed by Israeli forces | | Ma`an - The Israeli army claimed that one of the Palestinians passing by on the motorcycle threw a suspicious object at the soldiers situated near the al-Jalama checkpoint. However, locals pointed out that no suspicious object was seen being thrown. [bz] | 5/2/2019 |
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| Presidency: Israel`s refusal to renew TIPH`s mandate unacceptable | | Ma`an News Agency -
" Palestinian presidential spokesperson Nabil Abu Rdeineh said that
Israeli Prime Minister`s decision not to renew the mandate of the
Temporary International Presence in Hebron (TIPH) means that "it has
abandoned the implementation of agreements signed under
international auspices and its obligations under these agreements,
which is rejected and is unacceptable." Abu Rdeineh said in a
statement "We call on the countries sponsoring this agreement to
take a clear stance from this grave Israeli position and to
immediately act to pressure the Israeli government to continue
implementation of the agreement as agreed and not to treat Israel as
a state above the law." ca | 4/2/2019 |
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| Contrary to Shin Bet (ISA) and IDF statements: Saleh Barghouti was shot point-blank in apparent extrajudicial killing | | B`Tselem - B’Tselem’s investigation found that, contrary to official Israeli
statements, Saleh Barghouti did not try to flee or run anyone over, nor could
he have tried: two security vehicles were blocking the taxi he was driving at
either end, and he was surrounded by some 10 security personnel who shot
him point-blank – an operation resembling an extrajudicial killing. Official
attempts to sanction the killing in retrospect ensure no one will be held
accountable [ry] | 4/2/2019 |
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