Life under occupation
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| Title | | Description | Date |
| Israel kills child and crushes bones in Gaza | | Maureen Clare Murphy -
Electronic Intifada
"Muhammad Ibrahim Ayyoub, 14, shot in the head east of Jabaliya in
northern Gaza on Friday, is the fourth child among the more than 30
Palestinians killed during protests since the rallies began on 30
March." ca
| 20/4/2018 |
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| Gaza Deserves Our Support | | James J. Zogby -
Lobelog
"I traveled to Gaza many times during the 1990’s, in my capacity as
co-Chair of Builders for Peace, which was a project launched by Vice
President Al Gore to help grow the Palestinian economy. My
colleagues and I were unprepared for what we found. Secretary of
Commerce Ron Brown, who led one of these delegations, described what
he saw as “worse than Soweto.”...In the weeks ahead, I hope to see
Palestinians in the West Bank and Jerusalem, and Palestinians in
Lebanon and Jordan join this “Great March”." ca
| 20/4/2018 |
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| Palestinian children live life of hardship in Israeli lockup | | Shatha Hammad -
Aljazeera
"Ayed Abu Eqtaish, the accountability programme director at Defence
for Children International - Palestine (DCI-P), argues that Israeli
courts fail to respect established rules for detaining and trying
children in court.Although Israel is a signatory to the United
Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, it ignores that
agreement`s restrictions when dealing with Palestinian children, Abu
Eqtaish tells Al Jazeera.Rather than seeking alternatives to prison,
Israeli courts regularly impose lengthy sentences on the children
and impose costly fines on their families, Abu Eqtaish adds." ca
| 20/4/2018 |
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| Gaza: Palestinians Continue "Great March of Return" Protests for Third Straight Week | | Amy Goodman - Truthout - Palestinians gathered at the Israeli-Gaza
border for a third Friday in a row as part of the ongoing "Great March
of Return" protests. Paramedics say at least 30 Palestinians were
injured by Israeli soldiers during Friday`s protest. Israeli soldiers
have killed at least 34 Palestinians since the wave of protests
against Israel`s occupation began on March 30. We get response from
Ramah Kudaimi, director of grassroots organizing at US Campaign for
Palestinian Rights. She is also a member of the Syrian Solidarity
Collective and on the National Committee of the War Resisters League.
She calls for the US to end its military support for Israel, and
argues that Palestinian rights cannot be separated from US actions in
the region.-rh | 18/4/2018 |
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| Some Israeli soldiers on Gaza border have reached out to ‘Breaking the Silence’ | | Philip Weiss - Mondoweiss - When you look at what is happening in
Israeli society you would expect after these two years of attacks,
that soldiers would stop coming to Breaking the Silence. I was
actually fearful of that,” he said. But that has not been the case,
and he thanked many organizations for blunting these attacks,
including the Meretz Party, Yesh Din, Peace Now, B’Tselem and “our
mother and father,” the New Israel Fund.-rh | 18/4/2018 |
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| Bernie Sanders: Ending Israel`s Occupation of Palestine Is in American`s Interests | | Amir Tibon - readersupportednews - "The presence of Hamas members
among a crowd of tens of thousands does not justify the level of
violence we saw, and frankly it’s amazing to me that anyone would find
that point controversial," Sanders said. "I have condemned Hamas’ use
of terrorist violence and will continue to do so. But that violence
cannot excuse shooting at unarmed protesters, and it cannot excuse
trapping almost 2 million people inside Gaza.".-rh | 18/4/2018 |
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| PHRI Emergency Delegation to the Gaza Strip | | REPORT from Physicians for Human Rights - ReliefWeb - Physicians for Human Rights Israel’s delegation returned from the Gaza Strip after providing medical treatment to 380 patients and operating on 15 of them: “In the most advanced hospital in Gaza it felt like the 1970s. If things remain this way, most gunshot casualties will have to undergo amputation. (...) We’re talking about the lack in the most basic instruments. (...) We’re talking about the lack in the most basic instruments.” [bz] | 17/4/2018 |
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| Tensions rise due to settlers claiming major archaeological site | | IMEMC - Repeatedly, relgious-nationalist settlers try to stake a
claim to the archaeological site of Sebastia, near the Palestinian
village of the same name. As depicted in settler communiques,
Sebastia or Samaria was "The Ancient Capital of Israel". This
version glosses over the fact that the Bible refers to the place as
a sinful, idolatrous city, eventually destroyed by God. Moreover,
the impressive ruins to be seen there are much later - from a Roman
city inaugurated by King Herod, whose own historical reputation is
shady, to say the least. This week, the settlers demanded - and got
- intensive military escort for a visit by a group of religious
schoolgirls. The girls were conducted around the ruins by settler
guides and told that they were seeing "a major site of Jewish
historical heritage", while soldiers established an armed perimeter
all around and shot heavy barrages of tear gas at Palestinian
protesters. Mohammed Azem, Mayor of Sebastia, expressed protest and
outrage at the settler incursion and announced that a Palestinian
national festival, organized by the municipality, will be held on
the same archaeological site next Friday. [ak]
| 17/4/2018 |
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| 4 Palestinians, 2 teenagers, killed after Israeli artillery fire targets auto rickshaw | | Ma’an News Agency - "Four Palestinians were killed and others injured after
Israeli artillery shelling targeted an auto rickshaw in the city of Rafah, in
southern
Gaza Strip, on Saturday afternoon. [...] Israeli news website Haaretz reported
that
the Israeli army is `investigating the possibility that the shooting incident was a
work accident`” [ry] | 16/4/2018 |
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| The Blockade on Israel`s Heart | | Gideon Levy -Information Clearing House - It’s hard to understand how
one can look at tens of thousands of people in their cage and not see
them. How is it possible to look at these protesters and not see the
disaster wrought first and foremost by Israel?-rh
| 11/4/2018 |
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| Israel and Annexation by Lawfare | | Michael Sfard - The New York Review of Books - I always thought that
if Israel were to unilaterally annex the occupied Palestinian
territories, it would come under an international spotlight, with
denunciations and protests around the world. I was wrong. Annexation
is underway, but out of the spotlight, away from international
attention. In the dismal offices of the fortified Justice Ministry in
East Jerusalem, in the cramped meeting rooms of the Knesset, and in
the august chambers of the Supreme Court, Israel’s finest lawyers are
working around the clock to shape the biggest paradigm shift since the
West Bank was conquered in 1967.-rh | 11/4/2018 |
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| Palestinian ‘return’ touches Israel’s deepest anxieties | | Zvi Schuldiner - Il Manifesto global edition - The 343-square-
kilometer Gaza Strip, in which two million Palestinians live in
poverty and on the threshold of an enormous humanitarian crisis, is
surrounded by a closed-off military zone, which is not, however,
airtight, and some Palestinians often manage to cross it. But in
recent weeks, the nervousness of the Israelis had grown to a fever
pitch, as everyone feared what would happen when a mass of
Palestinians would engage in a peaceful march to try to create a
visual representation of what the “return” would mean.-rh | 11/4/2018 |
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| Israeli Forces & Settlers Drive Palestinian Farmers Off Their Land | | IMEMC -
"Hassan Brejieh, member of the anti-wall and anti-settlement committee in Bethlehem, told WAFA that Israeli forces and settlers broke into the land of Ibrahim Sbeih and forced him and his brothers, who were working on their land located near the illegal settlement of Sidi Boez, to leave it, at gunpoint." - id
| 11/4/2018 |
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| From Gaza border to Ahed’s prison cell, Palestinian youth united by pain and resistance | | Ramzy Baroud - Al-Arabiya - The current generation of Palestinians is
embarking on the task of discovering and fulfilling their mission.
This mission of Palestinian youth under siege in Gaza is the same as
that of Palestinian youth under military occupation in the West Bank.
Indeed, the arrest and prolonged detention of Palestinian teen, Ahed
Tamimi, starting December 19, highlight the nature of the challenge
facing Palestine’s budding generation. They are faced with a brutal
Israeli military regime and a self-serving Palestinian leadership.-rh | 11/4/2018 |
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| IDF probing video showing soldier cheering as sniper hits Palestinian | | Yoav Zitun - Ynet - A video making the rounds on WhatsApp appears to
show an IDF sniper shooting a Palestinian near the Gaza border
fence, while another soldier exclaims "YES! Son of a b****". The
film was apparently made by a soldier standing at the sniper`s side
and posted on the net without the army authorities` knowledge. One
soldier is heard whispering to the cameraman "Film it, film it,"
with the filming soldier commenting "what a legendary video." Not
only are such comments on killing a person ugly and vulgar, but the
video casts strong on whether the Palestinian - shown being hit and
falling to the ground - posed any kind of threat. [ak] | 10/4/2018 |
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| A state-sponsored mass shooting | | Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man - +972 - On a day when military snipers shot
hundreds of unarmed demonstrators, the army declares that ‘the circumstances
in which journalists were wounded are unknown.’ The circumstances couldn’t
be clearer[ry] | 9/4/2018 |
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| IDF denies deliberately targeting journalist killed in Gaza protest | | Times Of Israel - Murtaja was over 100 meters from the border, wearing a flak jacket marked “press” when he was shot, news agency reports said. "The IDF does not deliberately target journalists. The circumstances in which the journalist was supposedly hit by IDF fire are not known and they are being investigated,” the army reacted. Haniyeh, the head of Hamas, attended the funeral. He said journalists were attacked by Israel while trying to show a “true picture of a blockaded, downtrodden people.” [bz] | 7/4/2018 |
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| Christians in Gaza Denied Access to Holy Week in Jerusalem | | IMEMC News & Agencies -
"Christian pilgrims from across the globe visit the Church of the
Holy Sepulcher at Easter. However, Palestinian Christians from Gaza
are yet to receive any travel permits from Israel, church leaders
have complained." ca | 1/4/2018 |
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| US blocks UNSC statement on Israel`s use of force on Land Day | | Al Jazeera -
"The statement, which was proposed by Kuwait, demanded an
"independent and transparent investigation" under international law
into the bloody events on Friday`s Land Day protests.The statement
also expressed "grave concern at the situation at the border" and
stressed "the right to peaceful protest"." ca
| 1/4/2018 |
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| Gaza Mass Protests Force Israeli Military to Maneuver Between Two Contradictory Goals | | Amos Harel -
Haaretz
"Some 15,000 Palestinians expected to march on border ■ Commanders
will need to stop Palestinians from crossing border while making
sure not to fan the flames." ca | 30/3/2018 |
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| UN rights expert decries desperate state of right to health in Occupied Palestinian Territory | | UN Human Rights -
"Israel has failed to uphold its obligations under international law
to ensure the health and welfare of the Palestinian population under
its control, said an independent expert mandated by the United
Nations to monitor human rights in the Occupied Palestinian
Territory.Michael Lynk, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of
human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967,
stated in a report delivered to the Human Rights Council in Geneva
that the healthcare system for Palestinians living in Gaza was on
the edge of collapse." ca
| 24/3/2018 |
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| British official says Israel’s detention of Palestinian children a human rights issue | | WAFA-
"Commenting on Israel’s sentencing of Ahed Tamimi, 17, to eight
months in prison for slapping an armed Israeli soldier who invaded
her home, British Minister for the Middle East, Alistair Burt, said
on Friday that Israel’s detention of Palestinian children remains a
human rights priority for the United Kingdom...Hundreds of
Palestinian children are prosecuted every year through Israeli
juvenile military courts. Those arrested are systematically denied
their rights and subjected to ill-treatment including in some cases
physical violence, said AI. There are currently approximately 350
Palestinian children in Israeli detention." ca | 24/3/2018 |
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| Restoring U.S. Aid Crucial to Avoid a Water Catastrophe in Gaza | | Matthias Schmale -
Inter Press Service
"World Water Day (March 22) could not come at a more critical time
for the people of Gaza who are facing a humanitarian catastrophe The
recent decision by the United States to reduce funding for the
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the
Near East (UNRWA), jeopardizes its role as a critical source of
clean drinking water when Gaza’s supplies slow to a drip.An
estimated 1.2 million Gaza residents have no access to running
water. For those who do, up to 97 percent of the water they receive
is too polluted with salt and sewage to drink. The salt comes from
seawater, which penetrates Gaza’s only aquifer when the water table
drops too low. Palestinians in Gaza consume on average fewer liters
per person per day than the World Health Organization recommends,
and less than a quarter of the average per capita consumption in
Israel." ca
| 24/3/2018 |
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| Detainees minister warns of deteriorating health of veteran prisoners | | WAFA - Minister of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, Issa Qaraqe,
warned on Saturday about the deteriorating health and physiological
being of veteran Palestinian political detainees who spent more than
20 years in Israeli jails. Speaking during an event for the prisoners’
families in Ramallah city in the West Bank, Qaraqe said most of these
prisoners have been suffering various diseases as a result of their
prolonged detention and the absence of any prospects for their
release.-rh | 21/3/2018 |
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| Israeli army courts violate Palestinian minors’ rights, says NGO | | AFP -
Arab News -
"At least 32 Palestinians and five Israelis have been killed since
Trump’s Dec. 6 announcement." - id | 21/3/2018 |
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| A recollection of Dima al-Wawi’s imprisonment and a remembrance of Hamza Zamara | | al Khalil team -
International Solidarity Movement -
"His weeping mother, dressed in black, described his personality
after incarceration as withdrawn and psychologically damaged. Hamza’s
health was in steady decline and he was severely underweight. His
experience and trauma brought him to seek revenge against the Israeli
occupation by way of bringing a knife to the checkpoint." - id | 21/3/2018 |
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| Ahed Tamimi to spend 8 months in prison in plea deal | | +972 Magazine Staff - Ahed Tamimi, the teenager from Nabi Saleh
arrested after a video of her attempting to push two armed Israeli
soldiers off of her family’s porch went viral, signed a plea deal in
Israeli military court on Wednesday, and will serve eight months in
prison including three months time served. Her mother, Nariman, and
cousin, Nur, also signed plea deals. Nariman will serve eight months,
and Nur was sentenced to time served.-rh | 21/3/2018 |
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| Netanyahu’s AIPAC speech – interrupted | | Jonathan Ofir - Mondoweiss - You were so happy about Israel’s
ambassador to the US – oops, I mean US ambassador to Israel, the
settlement-builder David Friedman. “The first ambassador to have the
honor of working from that embassy in Jerusalem is a great American
ambassador, David Friedman”. It’s all a one big family: “David, thank
you for that terrific job that you’re doing”, you said. Of course,
he’s doing a terrific job. He’s promoting the notion that the Israeli
occupation is just make-believe – by him it’s just an “alleged”
occupation, and he’s recently asked State Department officials to stop
using the word “occupation”. What a great job. Before we know it,
there will simply be no occupation, and it’s all thanks to David
Friedman. In this great man all our wishes converge – even the
leftists who want to stop the occupation, can get it from Friedman. A
great man. Believe me.-rh
| 21/3/2018 |
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| Jerusalem electricity company crippled by Israel, Palestinian Authority | | Daoud Kuttab - Al-Monitor - Ever since the occupation and the Israeli
unilateral annexation, JDECO has been seen as an important Palestinian
institution. But in recent years, it has been hobbled by debt and its
effectiveness has been greatly reduced. JDECO is one of the biggest
employers in Jerusalem, with more than 1,000 Palestinians working for
the company, according to Omari. As the struggle for Jerusalem and its
identity intensifies, the role of a company this large becomes crucial
in defending Palestinian national identity and the rights of
Palestinians in and around Jerusalem.-rh
| 21/3/2018 |
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| Apartheid Israel | | Jonathan Cook - AMEU - More than a decade ago, former U.S. president
Jimmy Carter incurred the wrath of Israel’s partisans in America by
suggesting that Israeli rule over Palestinians in the occupied
territories was comparable to apartheid. While his bestseller book
“Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid” broke a taboo, in many ways it added
to the confusion surrounding discussions of Israel. Since then,
others, including John Kerry, when U.S. secretary of state, and former
Israeli prime ministers Ehud Olmert and Ehud Barak, have warned that
Israeli rule in the occupied territories is in danger of
metamorphosing into “apartheid” – though the moment of transformation,
in their eyes, never quite seems to arrive.-rh | 21/3/2018 |
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| World Bank: Gaza economy cannot survive without being connected to outside world | | WAFA - Gaza has seen conditions steadily deteriorate over the last
two decades, leading to collapsing of the economy and basic social
services, the World Bank said in a report published on Thursday. While
additional cash inflows are urgently needed to bring relief to the
difficult living conditions, a lasting recovery depends on a concerted
strategy to revive the Gaza economy through access to external markets
and expansion of commercial activities.-rh | 21/3/2018 |
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| Commentary: At 31, my first glimpse of life outside Gaza | | Abier Almasri - Reuters - I was born and grew up in Gaza. My father
was a soccer coach for many years and his stories about his travels to
other countries always made me want to travel too. But Israel imposed
a land, air and sea blockade on Gaza in 2007 and has kept Gaza mostly
closed ever since. So I never made it out until now, at age 31, I was
allowed to leave – for just a little while.-rh
| 21/3/2018 |
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| Second Arrest in 3 Days, PCHR Denounces Arrest of Patient’s Companion by the Israeli Forces at Beit Hanoun Crossing | | PCHR press release - Eyad ‘Omer Ibrahim Ba’loushah (42) was arrested after being summoned for a security interview upon his application for a permit to accompany his father, a cancer patient referred for treatment in Hadasa ‘Ein Karem Hospital in Israel.
Previously, Na’im Mohammed Hussein Kotkot (44) was arrested after applying for a permit to accompany his son, who suffers from blood disorders and was referred for treatment in Augusta Victoria Hospital “al-Motale’a” in occupied Jerusalem. [bz] | 20/3/2018 |
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| Palestinian assailant shot dead after stabbing and killing Israeli settler in Old City | | Ma`an - During the attack, 28-year-old Abd al-Rahman Bani Fadel, from the northern occupied West Bank village of Aqraba was shot by an Israeli police officer, with witnesses telling Ma’an that he was shot more than 10 times.
The Israeli narrative of “lone wolf” Palestinian assailants under the influence of incitement, which has been perpetuated by the current right-wing Israeli government, has been dismissed by analysts as overly simplistic.
Palestinians have instead pointed chiefly to the frustration and despair brought on by Israel`s 50-year military occupation of the Palestinian territory and the absence of a political horizon. [bz] | 20/3/2018 |
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| Israeli forces arrest 19 Palestinians in overnight raids | | Ma’an News Agency - "According to a report last week, Israeli forces arrested
1,319 Palestinians from the occupied Palestinian territory. Among the
detainees were 274 children, 23 women and four journalists. The number of
Palestinian prisoners and detainees in Israeli jails, as of February 28, 2018,
was 6,500, prisoners rights group Addameer reported. Of the 6,500
prisoners, 63 were women, including six girls, and 350 were children" [ry] | 19/3/2018 |
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| Israel passes law to strip residency of Jerusalem`s Palestinians | | Aljazeera - Despite Israel`s claims that occupied East Jerusalem is
part of its "eternal, undivided" capital, the Palestinians who are
born and live there do not hold Israeli citizenship, unlike their
Jewish counterparts. Palestinians in the city are given "permanent
residency" ID cards and temporary Jordanian passports that are only
used for travel purposes. They are essentially stateless, stuck in
legal limbo - they are not citizens of Israel, nor are they citizens
of Jordan or Palestine. The new bill will only worsen the difficult
conditions for the 420,000 Palestinians living in occupied East
Jerusalem, who are treated as foreign immigrants by the state.-rh | 15/3/2018 |
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| Azaria seeks early release: `I shot a murderous terrorist, release me today | | Yoav Zitun - YNETnews - The Military Advocate General`s Office opposes
cutting Azaria`s sentence by half, but its representatives said they
will not oppose to cutting it by a third, which means he would be
released on May 10.-rh | 14/3/2018 |
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| Israeli armed forces fire live ammunition at protesters in Kafr Qaddum | | al Khalil team -
International Solidarity Movement -
"Today local Palestinian citizens gathered in their village of Kafr
Qaddum, protesting against the illegal Israeli settlement of Kadumim
and the road blockage that inhibits access to their village." - id | 14/3/2018 |
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| The Right doesn`t want you to know about the violence of occupation | | Frima (Merphie) Bubis -
+972 -
"What disturbs the Right is not the occupation, but those who attempt
to expose the violence that maintaining military rule over a civilian
population requires." - id
| 14/3/2018 |
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| Administrative Detainees Continue Boycott Of Military Courts | | IMEMC news - Approximately 450 Palestinian detainees, held by Israel
under arbitrary Administrative Detention orders without charges or
trial, continued their boycott of Israeli military courts for the 28th
consecutive day. The detainees declared their boycott of the Israeli
military courts on February 15th and are demanding Israel to end the
illegal policies of holding them indefinitely, without charges or
trial.They are also calling on all legal and human rights groups to
submit their cases, and the ongoing violations, to the International
Criminal Court.-rh | 14/3/2018 |
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| From an Israeli prison, Khalida Jarrar salutes feminists struggling for justice the world over | | Yafa Jarrar - Mondoweiss - “Salute to all Palestinian women and women
of the world. On this International Women’s Day, I affirm the
importance of solidarity among women in their national and social
struggles against colonization, discrimination, and social & economic
exploitation. March 8th is an opportunity for us to unite in the fight
for justice.”- Affidavit to Addameer Attorney at HaSharon Prison on 6
March 2018 with Palestinian Legislative Council member Khalida
Jarrar.-rh | 14/3/2018 |
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| Israel`s military checkpoints: `We live a life of injustice` A photo essay by Activestills | | Activestills - Al Jazeera - Every morning, before dawn, tens of
thousands of Palestinian workers cross Israeli military checkpoints on
their way to their workplaces, in Israeli and Palestinian cities
beyond the Green Line.Hailing from across the occupied West Bank,
labourers queue before the checkpoints open, in order to reach their
workplaces on time. For many, this means getting up and leaving home
at the dead of night. About 70,000 Palestinians with Israeli work
permits make this daily commute. They work beyond the Green Line due
to the high unemployment rate in the Palestinian territories – a
byproduct of the 50-year Israeli occupation.-rh | 14/3/2018 |
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| Gideon Levy on Israeli denial: ‘Anyone who raises a question is demolished’ | | Philip Weiss - Mondoweiss - Outside pressure is all that will change
Israel. BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) is the only game in
town. The Jewish lobby in the U.S. is the most important force in
supporting Israel. The shameful Israeli propaganda over the attacks on
the Tamimi family, the protesters in Nabi Saleh, shows how desperate
Israel is, and maybe that offers hope.-rh | 14/3/2018 |
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| Hundreds mark 13 years of protests against the wall in Bil’in | | Oren Ziv - +972 - The village that managed to unite the world behind
the spirit of nonviolent Palestinian protest marks more than a decade
of not only tear gas, night raids and tragedy, but also co-resistance
and victories in the struggle against settlements, the separation
barrier and the occupation.-rh
| 14/3/2018 |
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| Will Israeli Policies Change If Netanyahu Leaves Office? | | Ramzy Baroud - Countercurrents - Israeli politics can be complicated,
as often displayed in their intricate government coalitions. However,
when it comes to Israel’s military Occupation of Palestine, leading
Israeli politicians are, more or less, the same. Regardless of
Netanyahu’s political future, Israeli policies towards Palestinians
will remain unchanged, leaving Palestinians with the urgent
responsibility of developing their own unified political strategy to
counter the Israeli Occupation, human rights violations and illegal
Jewish settlements.-rh | 14/3/2018 |
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| An explosion has struck the convoy of PM Rami Hamdallah upon his entrance into the Gaza Strip | | Al Jazeera - There are "several sides who are benefitting from this explosion", according to Mustafa Ibrahim, a Gaza-based political analyst.
"We will hear Fatah saying that some members of Hamas do not want reconciliation, and likewise, we will hear Hamas saying this could have been a fabricated attack by Fatah`s security services," Ibrahim told Al Jazeera.
"The ones who will pay the price are the people of Gaza." [bz] | 13/3/2018 |
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| Palestinian Prisoners suffering from Extreme Cold in Israeli Prisons | | Adalah - Wafa News Agency - Israeli prison authorities have refused
to provide heat, blankets, warm clothing to Palestinian prisoners
who are held without charges in Israeli prisons. Adalah attorney Muna
Haddad requested on March 4 that the Israeli Prison Service refrain from limiting the number of blankets
an individual may use, and allow heaters in cells. Adalah also
demanded the IPS allow families to bring blankets
and that it cancel orders that allow the confiscation of blankets as
a punitive measure. So far, there was no answer. [ak] | 13/3/2018 |
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| In first, army uses drones to drop tear gas on Gaza protesters | | Judah Ari Gross - Times of Israel - Al-Mayadeen, a Lebanese TV
station considered to be sympathetic to Hezbollah, screened footage
from the Gaza Strip border showing an Israeli UAV (drone) apparently
dropping canisters of tear gas on Palestinian protesters, who could
then be seen running from the scene. This is the first known such
use of a drone, though drones were previously used to monitor
Palestinian demonstrators. A spokesperson for the IDForces said the
UAV was not operated by the army but by the Border Police. For its part, the Border Police
declined to comment on the report. Gazans have been staging weekly
demonstrations at the border fence ever since US President Trump
announced his recognition of Jerusalem as Israel`s capital. Maj.
Gen. Yoav Mordechai, who has the official title of "Israel’s
military liaison to the Palestinians", recently released an Arabic-
language video stating that “We know that the violent clashes on the
border are used as cover for terrorist activity" and warned that
Israel "will not let that happen". [ak]
| 13/3/2018 |
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| Israeli forces raid East Jerusalem cemetery, destroy tombstones of slain Palestinians | | Maan - At 3 a.m. Husni al-Kilani, supervisor of the al-Mujahideen
cemetery in East Jerusalem, was woken up by an urgent call: in an unprecedented move Israeli
forces were raiding the cemetery and smashing
tombstones. The seven destroyed tombstones were of the Palestinians
killed by same Israeli forces during a wave of violence across East
Jerusalem and the West Bank that erupted in October 2015. The
tombstones were engraved about a year-and-a-half ago with a verse
from the Quran and the sentence "graves of martyrs of the Intifada
of Jerusalem”. Al-Kilani recounted that Israeli forces had
previously demanded that he remove the words "heroic martyr" that
were engraved before the name of each of the deceased Palestinians,
and threatened to destroy all the tombstones if he did not. Now, evidently, the threat was carried out. [ak] | 13/3/2018 |
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| In daylight campus raid, undercover commandos nab West Bank student leader | | Alexander Fulbright -
Times of Israel
"The daylight raid by Border Police officers dressed as Palestinian
civilians on the campus of Birzeit University, near Ramallah, was
caught on camera and shared widely on social media. The student,
Omar al-Kiswani, is a member of the Hamas terror group’s student
faction at Birzeit, according to reports." ca | 11/3/2018 |
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| Israeli forces kill deaf Palestinian man during clashes in Hebron | | Ma`an News Agency -
"The man was identified as 24-year-old Muhammad Zain al-Jaabari, a
father of two from the city of Hebron. Al-Jaabari was critically
injured during clashes between Israeli forces and local Palestinian
youth in the city. He was rushed to the hospital but succumbed to
his wounds shortly after. Witnesses claimed that al-Jaabari was not
actively engaged in the confrontations when he was shot." ca | 10/3/2018 |
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| Videos expose shocking IDF cruelty | | Shlomi Eldar -
Al Monitor -
"More videos have emerged documenting cruel and abusive behavior by IDF
soldiers against the civilian Palestinian population." - id
| 7/3/2018 |
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| Israeli soldiers lock down checkpoints for Jewish settler parade, Purim in Hebron | | Reports -
ISM -
"Israeli settlers were celebrating the jewish holiday Purim as they
paraded down Al Shuhada street and gathered outside Al Ibrahimi mosque
playing loud music and drinking alcohol. Shop owners had to close due
to the fear of violence from the settlers." - id | 7/3/2018 |
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| Israelis, Palestinians consider alternatives to two-state solution | | Akiva Eldar - Al-Monitor - Given the current state of affairs, with
Israel ruled by a right-wing, pro-settlement government and the
Palestinian areas governed by chaos, any attempt to promote
territorial compromise is doomed to fail. With every failure comes
more disappointment. More disappointment generates further
radicalization. According to a common saying, insanity is doing the
same thing repeatedly and expecting different results. In this case,
one can assume that repetition of the same activity would result in a
worse outcome.-rh
| 7/3/2018 |
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| Ahed’s Generation: Why the Youth in Palestine Must Break Free from Dual Oppression | | RAMZY BAROUD - Counterpunch - While Palestinian officials continue to
pay lip service to Ahed Tamimi and thousands of young Palestinians who
continue to endure imprisonment and ill treatment by Israel, in truth,
Ahed epitomizes the antithesis of everything that the Palestinian
leadership in Ramallah stands for. She is strong, morally-driven and
defiant; the PA is subservient, morally bankrupt and quisling.
Palestinian youth already understand this, and it is mostly up to them
to free themselves from the confines of military occupation and
corruption. | 7/3/2018 |
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| Israeli Army’s Lies Can No Longer Salvage Its Image | | JONATHAN COOK - Counterpunch - A half-century of occupation has not
only corrupted generations of teenage Israeli soldiers who have been
allowed to lord it over Palestinians. It has also needed an industry
of lies and self-deceptions to make sure the consciences of Israelis
are never clouded by a moment of doubt – that maybe their army is not
so moral after all.-rh | 7/3/2018 |
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| Who profits from keeping Gaza on the brink of humanitarian catastrophe? | | Shir Hever - +972 - As long as Gaza remains on the brink of collapse,
international donors keep the flow of humanitarian aid money going. If
the crisis were ended and the siege lifted, it is safe to assume that
that the international donors would change the type of aid they
provide and return to focus on the development of the Gazan economy
(as they did from 1994—2000, until the outbreak of the Second
Intifada). This type of aid would likely compete with certain branches
of Israeli companies and therefore threaten the Israeli economy.
Keeping Gaza on the verge of collapse keeps international humanitarian
aid money flowing exactly to where it benefits Israeli interests.-rh | 7/3/2018 |
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| An intimate portrait of Palestine: Ramzy Baroud’s ‘The Last Earth: A People’s Story of Palestine’ | | Vacy Vlazna - Mondoweiss - With alchemical brilliance, he has, in the
crucible of his art, purified hours of recorded interviews on love
stories, generations of births, childhoods, disappearances, adversity,
torment, deaths into the essence of Love and Truth and the magic is –
we too are purified and illumined by a powerful knowing that can never
be un-known.-rh | 7/3/2018 |
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| Soldiers invade family home, taking female student off to interrogation and detention | | IMEMC - The Jenin office of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS)
said dozens of soldiers invaded the Jarrar family home, after
breaking through its front door, and abducted the 20-year old
Fatima Jarrar, a female student at a Jenin university. The soldiers
detained the entire family for more than two hours, while female
officers strip-searched the women in one room. The soldiers
handcuffed and blindfolded Fatima, taking her off to interrogation
and detention of undetermined duration. As usual in such cases, the
soldiers did not make any specific charge, beyond "She is wanted for
interrogation on security grounds". The same is true for the other
16 Palestinians detained on the same night at various locations in
the West Bank. [ak] | 6/3/2018 |
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| New settlement outpost installed near Hebron, Palestinian inhabitants terrorized. | | AIC - The Aida family of Beit ‘Einun, northeast of the city of
Hebron city, became the target of settlers wanting to build a new
outpost on their land, with the active support of the army. On
February 7, 2018, Israeli forces leveled about seven dunams of the
family’s land - in preparation for the outpost. On February 7, 2018,
Israeli forces leveled about seven dunams of the family’s land in
preparation for the outpost. About two weeks later, on February 18,
settlers attacked family members while they were planting olive
trees on their land. Though the settlers were attackers, it was 12
members of the Aida family who were subsequently arrested by the
arriving Israeli soldiers. After these preliminaries, on March 5
settlers arrived with a crane and trucks, to install four mobile
homes on the land, plant a sign with the new settlement outpost`s
Hebrew name - “Havat Mevasere” - and festoon everything with
numerous Israeli national flags. Incidentally, the settlers
destroyed all that were left of the Aida Family`s olive saplings.
Dozens of fully armed Israeli soldiers and private security guards
made sure that family members would not be able to intervene.[ak] | 6/3/2018 |
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| Israeli soldiers commandeer Palestinian car for protection, Hebron, 16 Feb. 2018 | | B’Tselem - "The soldiers shouted at my father to drive the car onto a-Shalala
Street. My youngest brother, Suheib, who is four, started crying. He was so
scared. I was scared, too, that the stones would hit the car. I was also afraid the
soldiers would hurt my dad [...] I was worried sick that something would happen
to my dad" [ry] | 5/3/2018 |
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| Video: Israeli soldiers throw tear gas at Palestinian couple running with baby | | Ma’an News Agency - "Israeli NGO Yesh Din posted a video on Friday
showing an Israeli soldier throwing a tear gas grenade at a Palestinian couple
holding their baby in the northern occupied West Bank village of Burin in
Nablus. According to Yesh Din, a Palestinian couple with a young baby were
attempting to escape from a house in the village that had come under tear
gas fire from Israeli forces raiding the village" [ry] | 5/3/2018 |
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| Israeli troops force woman with Down syndrome to strip | | Maureen Clare Murphy - EI - "Israel waged a weeks-long campaign of `brutal
reprisals` following the 9 January killing of Raziel Shevach in the northern
occupied West Bank" [ry] | 5/3/2018 |
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| Palestinians plan their own event to mark US Embassy move | | Shlomi Eldar -
Al Monitor
"Whether the Palestinians declare “days of rage” or not, the PLO
Executive Committee is drawing up plans to invite to Ramallah, the
seat of the PA in the West Bank, representatives of countries that
have recognized a Palestinian state and those that have yet to
declare their recognition." ca
| 3/3/2018 |
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| Gazan mother arrives in Ramallah to reunite with daughter in need of kidney transplant | | Ma`an News Agency -
"Following a public outcry and intervention from Palestinian
officials, Israel agreed to grant Attar a permit to leave Gaza to
the West Bank to be with her daughter in preparation for the kidney
transplant.Wafa added that Inaam has been in and out of hospitals in
Gaza since birth receiving medical treatment for kidney issues." ca | 3/3/2018 |
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| PCHR Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (22 – 27 February 2018) | | IMEMC News & Agencies -
"During the reporting period, Israeli forces killed 2 Palestinian
civilians, including a fisherman, in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
They also wounded 41 other civilians, including 9 children and 2
fishermen. In the Gaza Strip as well, the Israeli forces continued
to chase Palestinian fishermen in the Gaza Sea and target the border
areas." ca | 2/3/2018 |
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