Life under occupation
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| With nine coronavirus cases confirmed, Gaza medics switching focus from border protests to coronavirus | | Al Jazeera - "All of the tents and medical supplies that had been used during the marches of return have been employed in the ministry`s measures to protect our people against coronavirus," Gaza health ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra said. | 26/3/2020 |
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| Four Palestinians arrested for,,, Disinfecting Public Facilities In Jerusalem | | IMEMC - Four Palestinians who were disinfecting public facilities in
the Old City of Jerusalem, as a precaution amidst the spread of
Coronavirus, were suddenly arrested by the Israeli Border Guard
(semi-military police). Eyewitnesses said the Border Guards abducted
the four at the al-Ghazali Square, in Bab Al-Asbat (Lion’s Gate),
and took them to a police station. Israeli Police failed to explain
what illegal activity they were suspected of having committed.[ak] | 24/3/2020 |
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| How a Palestinian shoemaker started the West Bank’s only mask factory overnight | | Suha Arraf - +972 - It was not simply profit that motivated him. “This is about helping my people, and a way of providing work opportunities,” he said. “There’s a crisis in Hebron, and many are unemployed.” [bz] | 24/3/2020 |
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| Arab League: Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails threatened by Coronavirus - should be released | | IMEMC - In view of the Coronavirus spreading in both Israel and the
Palestinian territories, The League of Arab States voiced an alarm
about the special threat posed to Palestinians held in Israeli
prisons. "The International Community must intervene and pressure
Israeli authorities for the release of 5,000 Palestinian prisoners,
including hundreds of elderly with poor immunity, 180 juveniles and
43 women. "An immediate release is absolutely imperative, to prevent
the prison population from contracting and spreading the contagious
disease" stated Said Abu Ali, Arab League Deputy-Secretary General
who is specifically charged with overseeing the situation of the
Palestinians. [ak] | 24/3/2020 |
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| Fear, anxiety as besieged Gaza confirms first 2 coronavirus cases | | Farah Najjar & Maram Humaid - Aljazeera - Palestinian officials have
announced the first two cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the
new coronavirus, in the besieged Gaza Strip. Deputy Health Minister
Youssef Abulreesh said late on Saturday the two Palestinian patients
had returned from Pakistan via Gaza`s Rafah border with neighbouring
Egypt on Thursday. (rh
| 24/3/2020 |
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| Congress seeks to hold Israel accountable for demolishing Palestinian homes | | Josh Ruebner - Mondoweiss - A “Dear Colleague” letter was sent by more
than 60 Democratic Representatives to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
earlier this week seeking to hold Israel accountable for its massive
demolition of Palestinian homes last July in the Wadi al-Hummus
neighborhood in East Jerusalem.(rh) | 24/3/2020 |
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| Coronavirus: Palestinian workers face difficult choice between livelihood and isolation | | Akram Al-Waara - Middle East Eye - When the first case of the novel
coronavirus, or COVID-19, was confirmed in the occupied West Bank
city of Bethlehem, an immediate sense of panic overwhelmed the small
city. As schools, universities, and businesses began to shut down,
thousands of the city’s residents retreated to their homes in
anticipation of what would happen next. (rh)
Bethlehem responds to coronavirus ‘the Palestinian way’ - with sweets
and song.But as the city limits were shut off and nearby checkpoints
with Israel started to close, a new sense of anxiety began to set in
- this time, for the city’s thousands of labourers who work inside
Israel. | 24/3/2020 |
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| Israeli Secret Police Remove Gag Order, Claim Palestinian Mother, Humanitarian Aid Worker is Terror Financier | | Richard Silverstein - Tikun Olam - In my many years of reporting on
and exposing the depredation of the Israeli Secret Police aka Shabak
or Shin Bet, I’ve only rarely come across an arrest as ludicrous as
the one they made last month. I reported yesterday that they
arrested a Palestinian humanitarian aid worker, Aya Khatib. As of
yesterday, she had appeared in court but no charges had been made
publicly against her. Her job as a social welfare activist was to
raise funds among Israeli Palestinians for the needy and homeless in
Gaza. As such, she collected funds among Israeli Palestinians and
used them on humanitarian projects in Israel and Gaza. (rh) | 24/3/2020 |
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| Israel Joins Totalitarian States Using Coronavirus To Spy On Citizens | | Barbara Boland - The American Conservative - At 1:30 a.m. Tuesday
morning, Israel joined Iran and China in focusing the powerful
intelligence gathering tools of the state on its own citizens—all in
the name of containing the coronavirus outbreak. In the dead of the
night, the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu authorized
advanced digital surveillance and monitoring tools to be deployed on
Israeli citizens, without court order, in an effort to track
coronavirus carriers. Israel’s internal security service, the Shin
Bet, will be allowed to use personal cell phone data and information
such as which cell tower a device pings to, to retroactively track
the movements of carriers of the “coronavirus in order to see with
whom they interacted in the days and weeks before they were tested in
order to place those people in quarantine,” reportsThe Times of
Israel. This means that “any person in Israel could come under
surveillance” of the Shin Bet, “an organization with no public
transparency requirements” that reports directly to the Prime
Minister.(rh) | 24/3/2020 |
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| ‘The situation is horrific’: Palestinians face coronavirus crisis at West Bank checkpoints | | Ahmad Al-Bazz - Mondoweiss - On March 21, Israeli authorities
announced a military closure of the West Bank and shut down all Green
Line checkpoints used by West Bank Palestinians as a precaution
against the spread of the novel coronavirus. Due to that Israeli
decision, Palestinian workers in the West Bank had two choices: 1)
stay in the West Bank, or 2) cross and sleep in their workplaces
inside the Green Line until further notice. Many workers were
surprised by the Israeli decision and are deciding to climb the wall
and cross the fence illegally to reach their workplaces. (rh) | 24/3/2020 |
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| Where did Israel’s Mossad get 100,000 coronavirus testing kits from? | | Asa Winstanley - Middle East Monitor - there was much wailing and
gnashing of teeth by Western liberals on Thursday, as Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu moved to tighten his grip on the state,
sidelining calls for him to step down to make way for former general
Benny Gantz. With Netanyahu’s approval, Israel’s secret police, the
Shin Bet, imposed “emergency” measures to track people’s movements
via their mobile phone data. Such all-pervasive violations of privacy
have long been used against the Palestinian population by Israel’s
racism regime, with not a peep of objection from any Israelis apart
from a minority of marginalised dissidents. Now, though, it seems
that the “oppressive policies and practices developed and used in
contexts of occupation, also end up being used by the occupying power
against its own citizens,” to quote the Palestinian digital rights
group 7amleh. Yuval Noah Harari, a relatively apolitical Israeli
author, decided for once to tweet about the prime minister: “The
first coronavirus dictatorship,” is how he described Netanyahu’s
power play. (rh) | 24/3/2020 |
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| Israeli MP presents bills to annex Jordan Valley, impose death penalty on Palestinians | | MEE staff - Middle East Eye - A right-wing Israeli parliamentarian
submitted two bills to the Knesset on Wednesday seeking to
permanently annex the Jordan Valley, the northern Dead Sea and the
Hebron desert in the occupied West Bank to Israel, as well as impose
the death penalty on Palestinian political prisoners. Miki Zohar, the
head of the Likud faction in the Knesset, said that the two bills he
submitted would “embarrass” former army general Benny Gantz of the
Blue and White party and Avigdor Lieberman of Yisrael Beitenu. Gantz
is currently speaking with Israeli parties to form a coalition
government after receiving a thin majority last week from Israeli
Knesset members. (rh) | 24/3/2020 |
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| Israeli Soldiers Kill A Young Palestinian Man In Ramallah | | IMEMC News - "Instead of allowing the Palestinian medics to render the urgently
needed aid to the critically wounded young man, the soldiers called for an Israeli
ambulance while al-Khawaja continued to bleed" [ry] | 23/3/2020 |
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| Human rights org calls on Israel to release all Palestinian child detainees in response to COVID-19 crisis | | News Michael Arria - Mondoweiss - “According to DCIP, approximately 10,000
Palestinian children have been detained by Israeli forces since 2000. From the
testimonies of 739 Palestinian children detained by Israel over a five-year period,
DCIP found that 73% of them experienced physical violence after their arrest” [ry] | 23/3/2020 |
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| Israeli MP presents bills to annex Jordan Valley, impose death penalty on Palestinians | | Middle East Eye - Miki Zohar, the head of the Likud faction in the Knesset, who submitted the two bills, said that the two bills would “embarrass” former army general Benny Gantz of the Blue and White party and Avigdor Lieberman of Yisrael Beitenu. [bz] | 19/3/2020 |
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| No change in prison routine - four Palestinian detainees placed In solitary confinement | | Rami Almeghari - IMEMC - In the past ten days, the administration of
Israel`s Ramon Detention Center has been confining to solitary
confinement the detainees Hatem Alqawasma, Osama Es’ied, Ibrahim
Abdul-Hai, and Omar Khurwat. Reportedly, Khurwat - a 49 yers old
resident of Hebron - passively resisted and was dragged by force and
thrown into the solitary cell. The four are members of the Fateh
Movement of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, whom Netnayhau
regards - at least in theory - as a partner for negotiations and an
eventual peace agreement. [ak]
| 17/3/2020 |
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| Due to Coronavirus, Israel to let Palestinian workers stay in workplaces | | IMEMC - Israeli Minister of Defense Bennett decided to let tens of
thousands of Palestinian workers stay the night in Israel during the
coming month at least. "Palestinians involved in vital sectors,
such as health, agriculture and building construction, can reside in
Israel, provided that their contractors provide a statement of
guarantee to the concerned Israeli authorities” Bennet was quoted as
saying. Bennet`s decision constitutes a departure from a fifty year-
old policy, which has been set by then Defense Minister Moshe Dayan
in the direct aftermath of the 1967 war; until now, Palestinians
who got a permit to work in Israel were not allowed to stay the
night but had to go every evening back to their homes and come back
to Israel the next morning. However, the radical nationalist Bennet
was forced to modify this long-established policy by the
consideration that in such daily peregrinations Palestinian workers
are far more likely to catch and spread the Coronavirus then if they
stay in one place. [ak] | 17/3/2020 |
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| Settler violence: An unofficial state tool for taking over Palestinian land | | Suhair `Abdi - Data Department Director, B`Tselem - Blocking roads,
throwing stones and Molotov cocktails at cars and homes, raiding
villages by night, torching houses and fields, uprooting trees,
damaging property, physically assaulting and shooting: settler
violence against Palestinians has long since become routine. This
daily, severe violence is meant to drive Palestinians out of their
land and make it clear who is in charge – fully backed by Israel’s
official policy in the West Bank.
I’ve worked in B’Tselem’s data coordination department since 2003
and run it since 2016. Over the years, we’ve documented and
investigated thousands of attacks by settlers. Unfortunately, there
are too many attacks to publish every single one and some of the
cases we documented remain archived. To more fully convey the
frequency and severity of these incidents, we decided to start a new
blog on B’Tselem’s website, giving voice to the people exposed to
these acts of violence. [ak] | 10/3/2020 |
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| Prisoners denied timely treatment dying in Israeli custody | | Jaclynn Ashly - EI - "The Israeli Prison Service (IPS) has adopted a `policy of
deliberate medical neglect against prisoners and detainees,` since Israel’s
occupation of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip in
1967, Ehteram Ghazawneh of Addameer, a Palestinian prisoner rights group,
said" [ry] | 9/3/2020 |
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| What Netanyahu learned from Orwell | | Tzur Shezaf -
Ynetnews
"Armored vehicles violently dispersing protesters; a nine-year-old
Palestinian losing his eye to an IDF rubber bullet; a military
bulldozer fighting with young Gazans over the body of a terrorist as
the whole world watches and cringes; and Defense Minister Naftali
Bennett blockading impoverished Palestinian farmers.Each one of
these chapters could stand alone as a short horror story, but when
put together they create a disturbingly dark novel whose epilogue
will be witnessed by the whole country on the morning of March 3."
ca
| 28/2/2020 |
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| Settlers attack Palestinian houses, stores south of Nablus | | K.F. -
WAFA
"Israeli settlers Thursday late night attacked Palestinian houses
and stores in Huwwara town, south of Nablus, said local sources.
Sources confirmed that scores of settlers were provided by heavy
military protection as they opened fire towards a number of
Palestinian houses and stores in the town, smashing their windows.
Israeli forces opened fire on the villagers who attempted to fend
off the settlers’ attack. No injuries were reported though.Settler
violence against Palestinians and their property is routine in the
West Bank and is rarely prosecuted by Israeli authorities... It
includes property and mosque arsons, stone-throwing, uprooting of
crops and olive trees, attacks on vulnerable homes, among others."
ca | 28/2/2020 |
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| Israel’s Dark Times Are Already With Us, Mr. President | | Ilana Hammerman - Haaretz - Open your eyes and see them, Mr.
President – you, Reuven Rivlin, who said the publication of the list
of businesses with ties to West Bank settlements was “reminiscent of
dark periods in our history.” Those dark periods are here, right
here, right now. They’re here in Jerusalem, your city and mine. Go to
the Shoafat refugee camp and see the crowded ghetto that has arisen
behind the barriers walling in Arab residents of Jerusalem. (rh) | 25/2/2020 |
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| Profiting from loss: how business in illegal Israeli settlements continues unchecked | | Jonathan Cook - Information Clearing House - The UN High
Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, announced that 112
major companies had been identified as operating in Israeli
settlements in ways that violate human rights. Aside from major
Israeli banks, transport services, cafes, supermarkets, and energy,
building and telecoms firms, prominent international businesses
include Airbnb, booking.com, Motorola, Trip Advisor, JCB, Expedia and
General Mills. Human Rights Watch, a global watchdog, noted in
response to the list’s publication that the settlements violate the
Fourth Geneva Convention. It argued that the firms’ activities mean
they have aided “in the commission of war crimes”. (rh) | 25/2/2020 |
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| Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian, Drag His Body with a Bulldozer in Gaza (VIDEO) | | Shehab Agency - Israeli occupation forces use a bulldozer to pull the
body of Palestinian young man after killing him near the barbed fence
in the south of Gaza (rh)
| 25/2/2020 |
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| I was meant to talk about Palestinian kids at the UN. Israel forced me out :: Belgium caved into Israeli pressure to disinvite me from the Security Council. In doing so, they helped undermine human rights work for Palestinian children. | | Brad Parker - +972 - The fact that Belgium was willing to invite a
local Palestinian human rights organization like DCIP to brief the
Council was commendable, as civil society space at the UN has been
shrinking for years. While they urged me to be “balanced” in my
statement (which I had shared with them for feedback), they
understood that Palestinian children overwhelmingly and
disproportionately bear the brunt of the kinds of violations they
sought to highlight. (rh)
| 25/2/2020 |
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| Ashrawi: Israel`s new settlement plans leave no room for doubt about Israel`s agenda for permanent occupation | | Wafa - RAMALLAH, Tuesday, February 25, 2020 (WAFA) - Hanan Ashrawi,
member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation
Organization (PLO) slammed Israel’s new settlement plans as
premeditated and clear steps that deal a final and decisive blow to
the practicability of the two-state formula and leave no room for
doubt about Israel`s agenda for permanent occupation. Since the
announcement of the Trump-Netanyahu `plan`, the Israeli government
has announced plans to construct nearly fifteen thousand new illegal
settlement units and other buildings in Beit Safafa (Givat Hamatos),
Jabal Abu Ghuneim (Har Homa), and the Qalandia airport area (Atarot),
said Ashrawi in a statement. (rh) | 25/2/2020 |
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| Dignity denied: Life in the settlement area of Hebron city | | Monthly Humanitarian Bulletin - OCHA (UN Humanitarian Office) - The
living conditions of Palestinians in the settler area of Hebron
deteriorated during 2019, following an increase in settler attacks
and harassment, as well as in friction and clashes with Israeli
forces, affecting primarily school-children. This largely coincided
with the departure of the 65 international monitors of the Temporary
International Presence in Hebron (TIPH) on 31 January 2019,
following Israel’s unilateral termination of its mandate after 22
years. TIPH was the only organization documenting incidents and
providing a protective presence that was authorized to access any
part of the city on foot and by vehicle, and it had direct channels
to address urgent incidents and concerns with the relevant
authorities. The departure of TIPH has placed increasing pressure on
the other organizations providing a protective presence, which
forced them to withdraw or to scale back. In response, humanitarian
and human rights partners have put together an action plan aimed at
mitigating the continuing deterioration in the situation. Its
implementation is contingent on the mobilization of the necessary
resources, estimated at some US$ 7 million.[ak] | 25/2/2020 |
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| Netanyahu announces plan to build 3,000 houses in Jerusalem settlements | | Ynet - Netanyahu said there are plans for at least 4,000 houses to be
build, with 3,000 of the units set to be constructed in the
settlement of Givat HaMatos in south Jerusalem and another 1,000 in
Beit Safafa, a Palestinian town in East Jerusalem, and is meant to
benefit the local residents. We are going to build the Givat Hamatos
neighborhood, we have removed all of the impediments, " said the
prime minister from the nearby Har Homa settlement, which overlooks
Givat HaMatos. (rh ) | 25/2/2020 |
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| Israel, Palestinian Authority appear to reach arrangement to end trade war | | Adam Rasgon -
Times of Israel - Israel and the Palestinian Authority on Thursday appeared to have
come to an agreement to end a major trade dispute in which both
sides placed sweeping restrictions on some of each other’s
goods.Defense Minister Naftali Bennett said that Israel would be
lifting a ban on Palestinian exports, while a Palestinian official
said the PA would remove limitations on Israeli imports to
Palestinian markets." ca
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| East Jerusalem child hit by police "sponge bullet" would lose one or both eyes | | Times of Israel - A 9-year old boy, identified by his first name,
Malek, is in serious condition in Jerusalem’s Hadassah Hospital. “He
has a fractured skull, bleeding in the brain, his left eye has not
yet been treated and he will probably lose it,” his father told
Channel 13 TV news. “We don’t have much hope, they gave him a one
percent chance of saving the eye.” Malek had been hit by what the
Israeli Police insists on terming "a sponge bullet", actually a
metal bullet tipped with some sponge. Following increased media
attention, police said that its Internal Investigations Unit is
probing the case. [By coincidence, PM Netanyahu this week ordered a
probe of the Police Internal Investigations Unit itself, and
efficacy of its interrogations - motivated not by concern for the
Palestinian victims of police brutality, but by a desperate effort
to gain the votes of the Israeli Ethiopian community in the March
elections. AK] | 18/2/2020 |
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| Dozens of Armed Settlers Attack, Injure 5 Palestinian Shephards | | IMEMC - Armed Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian shepherds while
grazing their livestock near the town of al-Mughayyir, in the
central West Bank, stated the town`s mayor.
Marzouq Abu Naim, told WAFA that dozens of armed settlers chased and
brutally assaulted several Palestinian civilians, forcing them out
of their fields, injuring five, three of whom were transferred to
hospital, suffering various fractures and bruises.[ak]
| 18/2/2020 |
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| How do settlers take over Palestinian land? One road gives the answer | | Dror Etkes - +972 - To connect the enclaves that make up Kedumim,
settlers seized control of a central road serving Palestinians and
blocked their access to it. (rh) | 18/2/2020 |
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| Why does Blue-White run away from Palestinians in government? Israeli-Jewish xenophobia | | Yossi Gurvitz - Mondoweiss - Blue-White, the largest Jewish party in
Israel, announced last week it renounces the idea of creating a
stable government: It declared there is no scenario in which it will
accept the Joint List, which represents Israeli Palestinians. Blue
White’s leader, Benny Gantz, made it clear (Hebrew) that the Joint
List won’t be part of his coalition. Spokespersons for Blue White
said they will rely on Avigdor Liberman’s party (polling at seven or
eight seats of 120) in order to create a government. The numbers,
alas, do not add up. Even assuming, generously, that Blue White gets
35 seats; that Labour (which united with Meretz) gets eight seats
(again, I’m being generous); and that Liberman will keep his eight
seats, this only adds up to 51 (35 + 8 + 8). The magic number is 61.
That’s ten seats short. So either Blue White believes it can crack
the right-wing block, getting ten seats from those parties, and have
already mail-ordered a flying pig. Or they’ll need the Joint List for
support. (rh) | 18/2/2020 |
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| What the Trump peace plan doesn`t tell us | | Gideon Biger,Gilead Sher - Ynet News - The plan as it stands will
cause irreparable harm to Israel`s relations with both Jordan and
Egypt. It will cause violence and terror – destroying the security
cooperation with the Palestinian Authority and putting our friends
and allies in opposition to Israel. A future agreement will not be
based on this or any other proposed plan. It will be a political
agreement between both sides. (rh) | 18/2/2020 |
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| The Sacred Task of Preventing Palestinians From Reaching Work | | Amira Hass - Haaretz - Since 2016 Israel has been revoking entry
permits of people whose surnames are identical to those of Palestinian
assailants. It’s called deterrence.(rh) | 18/2/2020 |
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| The IDF Spokesman Announces: Continue to Shoot Palestinian Children | | Gideon Levy - Information Clearing House - The spokespeople publish
their bloodcurdling statements from a new office tower in Ramat Aviv
near Tel Aviv, where the office recently moved. They refer to a 10-
year-old boy as a “Palestinian minor” and remark that “the
Palestinian claim is known” about a boy fighting for his life because
soldiers shot him in the head. The dehumanization of Palestinians has
reached the IDF spokespeople. Even children no longer rouse human
sentiment such as sorrow or mercy, certainly not in the IDF. The IDF
spokesman’s office does its job well. Its statements reflect the
spirit of the time and place. There’s no room to express any regret
for shooting children in the head, there’s no room for mercy, an
apology, an investigation or punishment, and certainly not for any
compensation. Shooting a Palestinian child is considered less severe
than shooting a stray dog, for which there’s still a chance someone
will do some investigating.(rh) | 18/2/2020 |
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| Backing Abbas, Arab League unanimously rejects Trump’s Middle East peace plan | | AGENCIES and TOI STAFF - The Times of Israel - The Arab League on
Saturday unanimously rejected US President Donald Trump’s
controversial Middle East plan, calling it “unfair” to Palestinians.
The pan-Arab bloc said in a statement that it “rejects the US-Israeli
‘deal of the century’ considering that it does not meet the minimum
rights and aspirations of Palestinian people.” (rh) | 11/2/2020 |
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| Settler leaders say Netanyahu still pushing for annexation before election | | JACOB MAGID - The Times of Israel - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
told settler leaders he is still seeking to annex parts of the West
Bank before elections early next month, despite US opposition to the
move, participants in the meeting said Thursday. The head of an
umbrella group of settler mayors and council heads said the sides had
a productive meeting, but they were unable to pin down the premier on
a timeline. (rh)
| 11/2/2020 |
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| Is West Bank, Gaza unrest a prelude of things to come? | | Shlomi Eldar - Al-Monitor - Israel experienced two shootings and a
car-ramming incident against its security forces on the West Bank and
in Jerusalem on Feb. 6. With officials viewing the attacks as
spontaneous reactions by Palestinians to the unveiling of President
Donald Trump’s peace plan, the military began to take more seriously
a recent gradual escalation on the Gaza border that had until now
generated little attention in Israel. In fact, for the past two
weeks, several explosive devices attached to balloons have been
launched from Gaza into Israel, as have rockets and artillery shells.
Israel treated the latest escalation with a certain equanimity,
regarding it as no different from the daily routine that residents of
Israel’s southern communities and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF)
have had to contend with for years. Accordingly, the IDF’s response
had been relatively minor. Air strikes on what the military described
as “Hamas targets” were carried out with precision to avoid hitting
armed militants or civilians in Gaza. The attacks were meant to avert
further escalation at a time of unprecedented political chaos in
Israel and the run-up to the March 2 elections. Defense Minister
Naftali Bennett, who prior to his appointment in September had been a
vocal proponent of harsh measures against Gaza, had been making do
with tweets advocating the annexation of the West Bank, for which the
Trump plan provides, as a sop to his right-wing voters. As for the
IDF, he let it continue with its ineffective and non-deterrent
responses of the past years. On Feb. 6, however, Bennett suddenly
equated the attacks on soldiers in the West Bank and Jerusalem with
the escalation in Gaza, suggesting that both stemmed from Trump`s
“deal of the century” unveiled on Jan. 28. (rh)
| 11/2/2020 |
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| Jared Kushner does not see the brutal occupation I helped carry out : As a former soldier, I enforced two separate legal systems for Israelis and Palestinians. The Trump plan wants to make this reality permanent. | | Yehuda Shaul - +972 - In an interview on CNN last week, Jared
Kushner, one of the architects of President Donald Trump’s newly-
released “Deal of the Century,” stated: “The reality is that Israel’s
there [in the West Bank], and they’re not leaving… I’m not looking at
the world as it existed in 1967. I’m looking at the world as it
exists in 2020.”
These remarks echoed Kushner’s repeated calls for Palestinians to
abandon their history and accept today’s facts on the ground. Only
this, he says, would make it possible for Palestinians to move
forward to a prosperous future. I would urge Kushner to follow his
own guidance and take a closer look at the “reality” he claims to
see.(rh) | 11/2/2020 |
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| Why Putin needs to be part of Trump-Netanyahu peace plan | | Akiva Eldar - Al-Monitor - Much has been said and written about the
absence of “the bride” (why not "the groom"?) from the Jan. 28 White
House launch ceremony of the “deal of the century” for Israeli-
Palestinian peace. However, in addition to the absence of Palestinian
President Mahmoud Abbas, all the sponsors of the peace process in the
past decades — the states that gave the Israeli-Palestinian
agreements international validation and funding — also stayed away
from the “historic” event. The absence of Russian President Vladimir
Putin — the most important foreign player in the Middle East arena —
was particularly glaring. Russia’s UN Ambassador Vasily Nebenzya told
reporters several hours prior to the event that the United States had
not consulted with Russia on the plan and had not even briefed it on
its content. (rh)
| 11/2/2020 |
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| `Slow death`: Israeli dams flood Gaza crops ahead of harvest | | Maha Hussaini - MEE - Palestinian farmers accuse Israel of deliberately waging a
war on Gaza`s agricultural sector [ry] | 10/2/2020 |
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| ‘The occupation broke her once. Now Israel is trying to break her again.’ | | Jaclynn Ashly -
+972
"Mais was detained on Aug. 29, 2019. According to the prisoners’
rights group Addameer, heavily armed Israeli forces escorted by
security dogs raided the family’s home. The forces, members of the
Border Police counterterrorism unit, ransacked the place, damaged
the family’s belongings, and confiscated laptops and cellphones
before dragging the 23-year-old student from her home into an army
jeep.According to a Addameer report published earlier this month,
soldiers “cursed Mais, humiliated her, and threatened her with rape”
while they transferred her through the Qalandiya military
checkpoint. During interrogations by the Shin Bet, Israel’s internal
security agency, at Jerusalem’s Russian Compound, Mais was subjected
to “severe physical and psychological torture and ill-treatment” for
about a month, Addameer also stated. She was banned from accessing
legal counsel for more than two weeks, said Sahar Francis, the
general director of Addameer who is also Mais’ lawyer." ca | 8/2/2020 |
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| It is time for a Palestinian spring | | Marwan Bishara - Al Jazeera - There is a demand for a change of
vision based on ethical not religious awakening, one that transcends
fetishist archaeology and sacred sites to honour sacred human rights
for all.It is time for David to face up to Goliath, for liberty to
overcome occupation, for democracy to beat fanaticism, and for
justice to defeat and uproot racism. Thirty years after apartheid was
dismantled in South Africa, it is time it is done away with in
Palestine as well. It is time for a Palestinian and Jewish spring.
(rh) | 4/2/2020 |
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| In first person: a body of testimonies | | Yesh Din - Settler violence impacts the daily routine of Palestinians
in the occupied Palestinian territory. In first person brings the
testimonies of Palestinians in their own words as documented by Yesh
Din since 2005, describing the violence and ongoing harm to their
person, property and land by Israeli settlers in the West Bank.
Yesh Din collects testimonies close to the time of the incident, at
the site of the incident or at the victim’s home. The testimonies are
given in Arabic and translated by Yesh Din’s field researchers into
Hebrew. Yesh Din volunteers, who accompany the field workers,
document the testimonies in Hebrew. As a rule, testimonies are taken
from individuals who were either present at the incident or harmed
directly, and not from second-hand witnesses. (rh) | 4/2/2020 |
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| Thousands of Palestinian citizens protest Trump’s ‘transfer plan’ | | Meron Rapoport and Oren Ziv - +972 - Over 2,000 Palestinian citizens
of Israel demonstrated Saturday in the city of Baqa al-Gharbiyye
against U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Deal of the Century,” which
could see the population transfer of hundreds of thousands of
Palestinians from the “Triangle” region in central Israel to a future
Palestinian state. The protest, organized by the High Follow-Up
Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel and the Baqa al-Gharbiyye
municipality, came days after the release of Trump’s plan, which
included a clause that proposes redrawing Israel’s borders so that
cities, towns, and villages in the Triangle — home to over 200,000
Palestinian citizens of Israel — would no longer be part of Israel.
(rh) | 4/2/2020 |
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| Qalandiya - West Bank doctors are not coordinated with the Civil Administration and the patients suffer | | Tamar Fleishman - Machsomwatch - Lamar is an ill girl of 4, released
not long ago from a West Bank hospital. Lamar and her mother Nadiya,
and her grandmother whose name I do not know, came to the DCO at the
checkpoint to receive their permits to continue on home to Gaza. But
their designated transport, delivering patients and their
accompaniers to Gaza, left already half an hour ago - since the
hospital staff in the West Bank are not coordinated with the Israeli
Civil Administration and not exactly subject to the army’s orders and
perhaps do not know what the woman-soldier behind the armored window
pane said: everyone knows they should be here by 3 p.m., repeating
the phrase: there’s nothing to be done now. Come back tomorrow.
Neither Lamar nor her mother Nadiya nor her grandmother whose name I
don’t know knew what that soldier was so sure “everyone knows”. (rh) | 4/2/2020 |
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