Life under occupation
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Title | | Description | Date |
Palestinian woman shot, injured by Israeli forces at Qalandiya checkpoint | | Ma`an - According to Israeli police spokeswoman Luba al-Samri a “suspicious” Palestinian woman entered the vehicle lane of the checkpoint “seemingly carrying an object. The security guards noticed her and instructed her to stop but she ignored the instructions. The guards then started arrest procedures and neutralized the woman,” al-Samri using an Israeli forces term to indicate that a Palestinian was shot without specifying whether they were injured or killed.
Al-Samri later clarified that the woman had been `lightly injured,` and that she had been `carrying a bag` in a way that raised the security guards` suspicions.
The Qalandiya checkpoint is notorious for being confusing to navigate. [bz]
| 28/2/2017 |
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Settlers building race track inside IDF live-fire training zone | | Edo Konrad - +972 - The Israeli army uses `live-fire zones` as an excuse to displace Palestinian villages. Now Israeli settlers are illegally building a race track inside one. The decision whether to demolish it or not “will be carried out in accordance with political directives and the necessary legal approval." [bz]
| 28/2/2017 |
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Palestinian children requiring military escorts subject to retaliatory collective punishment | | AIC - Systemic human rights violations challenge Palestinian life in South Hebron
Hills, Operation Dove reports [ry] | 27/2/2017 |
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Watch: Israel cuts water lines going to several Palestinian villages in the Occupied Jordan Valley | | Days of Palestine [ry] | 27/2/2017 |
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Gaza police destroys 1 ton of unexploded ordnance | | Ma`an News Agency -
"According to Salim Madi, the head of the police’s explosives
engineering department in the city of Rafah, an operation carried
out north of the city destroyed a large number of unexploded Israeli
rocket shells and grenades.Madi added that the explosive devices
were dismantled and destroyed in accordance with international
standards." ca | 24/2/2017 |
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Israeli forces deliver 30 demolition orders in Hebron-area village | | Ma`an News Agency -
"Israeli forces delivered 30 demolition orders to several structures
in the village of Yatta in the southern occupied West Bank district
of Hebron on Thursday.Popular and national committee coordinator in
the southern West Bank Ratib al-Jbour told Ma’an that Israeli forces
had placed the demolition orders on lands near the structures, which
included a school, tents, water wells, barracks, homes, and
stockyards. He said Israeli forces also took pictures of the
structures. Al-Jbour added that Israeli forces gave the owners of
the structures three days to challenge the demolition orders, but
said that three days was not enough for the residents to prevent the
demolitions." ca | 24/2/2017 |
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Israel releases Palestinian journalist after 10 months with no trial | | Haggai Matar -
+972
"After 10 months of administrative detention, it appears the army no
longer views Omar Nazzal as a dangerous threat — just like countless
other administrative detainees who sit in prison for months, if not
years...The Israeli army and Shin Bet Security Service claim Nazzal
is affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of
Palestine, which Israel views as a terrorist organization. Nazzal
repeatedly denied the charge and demanded to either sentenced or
released. According to his lawyer, Nazzal was jailed by Israel for
his repeated criticism of the Palestinian Authority." ca | 24/2/2017 |
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Palestinians set delayed local elections for May 13 | | Agence France Presse -
"Hamas rejected the announcement. Spokesman Fawzy Barhoum said in a
statement it "strengthens divisions and serves Fatah politically." ca | 24/2/2017 |
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Hanan Ashrawi: “We Are Seriously Worried” | | Hanan Ashrawi - The Cairo Review of Global Affairs - The problem is not negotiations. We’ve been negotiating since 1991. The problem is the commitment and the political will to respect international law and to have genuine negotiations that would really lead to ending the occupation and a peaceful solution. And [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu would like nothing better than an endless process of negotiations in order to buy more time to create more facts to destroy the two-state solution. So what we need would be a positive engagement and an involvement that would, on the one hand, curb Israeli violations, lead Israel to compliance with international law and create a system of accountability for Israel, but, at the same time, create a system of protections for the Palestinians and ensure that whatever negotiations that will emerge will be based on international law and will have clear objectives and a clear timeline.-rh | 23/2/2017 |
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Guy Hirschfeld’s post on the Palestinian Jordan Valley: | | Guy Hirschfeld - Machsomwatch reports - While on our way we were already informed by phone that the bulldozer was seen on the road, escorted by the Civil Administration. Through our local contacts we located the forces. We will probably never quite understand the panic that seizes the locals when they feel that they’re next – some of them simply begin to evacuate their homes, knowing that the evil agents will not even let them get their meager possessions out in time.-rh
| 22/2/2017 |
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The Trump-Netanyahu summit may have actually made things worse | | Zvi Schuldiner - Global Il Manifesto - For Israel, the meeting makes the situation worse. The Israeli right now believes it can sell citizens on the annexation so dear to the nationalist and fundamentalist coalition that dominates the country. But polls surprisingly indicate that a majority of Israelis support the two-state solution. In this context, the ultra-right wants to use the apparent sympathy of racist Trump to continue with the advance of the settlements in the occupied territories. The settlements are not only a way to gain control of Palestinian lands, they are also a source of new obstacles to a possible or theoretical peace. They also increase the possibility of bloodshed.-rh
| 22/2/2017 |
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Palestinian Child With Epilepsy And Leukemia Sentenced To 90 Days In Israeli Prison | | Samidoun -
IMEMC -
"He is one of over 300 Palestinian children held in Israeli prisons,
and his case has highlighted both the imprisonment of Palestinian
children and the medical neglect of Palestinian political prisoners.
Nearly all imprisoned Palestinian children are subject to torture and
ill-treatment, including beating, hitting, kicking, psychological
abuse, threats, solitary confinement and interrogation without a
parent or lawyer present." - id
| 22/2/2017 |
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Israeli authorities move to demolish entire Bedouin community | | Ma`an - Rights groups and Bedouin community members have sharply criticized Israel`s relocation plans for the Bedouin residing near the illegal Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim, claiming that the removal would displace indigenous Palestinians for the sake of expanding Israeli settlements across the occupied West Bank in violation of international law.
Meanwhile, discussion of an Israeli bill seeking to annex Maale Adumim was postponed last month, reportedly until after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump held their first meeting after Trump`s inauguration.
The meeting took place Wednesday... [bz] | 21/2/2017 |
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B’Tselem: 2016 a record year in Israeli demolitions of Palestinian homes | | Elior Levy - Ynet - But although Ayoub and his family are required to evacuate the land, which the authorities say can only be used for agriculture, an outpost named Givat Salit has been established just 200 meters away. [bz for dn] | 19/2/2017 |
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Police opened fire on Umm al-Hiran driver before he started driving, video shows | | Meir Turgeman - Ynet News - New video aired on Channel 10 shows that Yaqoub Abu al-Qiyan, the driver who ran over and killed Sgt. Erez Levi during a violent protest against home demolitions in the Bedouin village, only started speeding into the group of officers after they opened fire on him.-rh | 16/2/2017 |
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Using art to heal: Battling cancer in Gaza : One Palestinian female artist`s battle with cancer in Gaza. | | Aljazeera - Aya Abdulrahman was informed by her doctors that she would be dead by the end of 2014. At 21, she had seven malignant tumours. "Your daughter has two months left to live. You cannot do anything. Go home," the doctor told Abdulrahman`s mother. The painful news, however, did not stop her from pursuing her dreams. Since childhood, all Abdulrahman wanted to do was become an artist and leave her mark on the world through art. Abdulrahman seized every opportunity that came her way to display her paintings and drawings across the Gaza Strip and abroad, from Los Angeles to Morocco. She participated in art competitions, worked with sick and disabled children in Gaza to have them express themselves through art, and trained youth in drama and acting. After undergoing a series of surgeries over a three-year span, the locally renowned artist recovered in 2015.-rh
| 16/2/2017 |
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Since Trump Won, All Israel Is Talking About Annexation. Why? | | Naomi Zeveloff - Forward - In general terms, annexation means the political transfer of land. In the current Israeli context, it refers to the application of Israeli sovereignty to parts of the West Bank, which Israel captured and has occupied since 1967, and where Palestinians hope to build a state. Naftali Bennett, chief of the hard-line Jewish Home party, has a plan to annex Area C, for example, where hundreds of thousands of Israeli settlers live, and then offer citizenship to the less than 50,000 Palestinians living in that area.-rh | 16/2/2017 |
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Palestinian Jordan Valley February 7, 2017 AM and PM | | Nurit Popper, Daphne Banai, translated by Tal Haran - Machsomwatch report - Ali lives in Ras Al Ahmar with his wife Dalal and their five children. The place is highly fertile, its ground containing plenty of water. Ali, however, may not pump a single drop. Since the region has been declared a firing zone, many generations after Ali’s family began living there, he may not even introduce a tractor to carry water and feed for his flock. For three months Ali’s tractor as well as the tractors of 6 other residents have been held by the Civil Administration. These people call me on a daily basis, desperate – these tractors are as vital to them as hands and feet. Two weeks ago they were notified of the fine they must pay. They ran to the postal bank and paid. All of them. But then the Civil Administration got clever – now they must also sign a commitment not to re-introduce tractors into the area. What can they do with the tractor if it cannot bring them water? Without water, this is no less than expulsion. It has no other name!-rh
| 16/2/2017 |
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‘The way they arrested him was savage’: Israeli forces violently detain 14-year-old disabled Palestinian boy - | | Sheren Khalel - Mondoweiss - Mutaz Baraka, also 14 and one of Ali’s friends, told Mondoweiss that he, Ali and around a dozen other children their age had just gotten out of school and were playing in the street next to the refugee camp’s community center when Israeli forces opened the gate in the nearby separation wall. Through the gate, an Israeli military jeep came driving quickly towards them. “Everyone ran but Ali was the slowest, so he didn’t get away, they caught up to him,” he said. - rh | 15/2/2017 |
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Israeli Soldiers Abduct Twenty Palestinians In The West Bank | | IMEMC -
"Israeli soldiers abducted, on Wednesday at dawn, at least twenty Palestinians from their homes, after invading and violently searching them, in different parts of the West Bank, and confiscated fifteen Palestinian cars." - id
| 15/2/2017 |
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Love under siege in Gaza | | Tania Hary -
+972 -
"In honor of Valentine’s Day, three tales from Gaza of the impossible conditions for families and couples created by Israel’s closure of the Strip." - id
| 15/2/2017 |
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This isn`t Israel`s first `land theft law,` it won`t be the last | | Orly Noy - +972 - Congrats to the Israeli Knesset for passing the settlement “regulation law” (also known as the “normalization law” and the “formalization law”) earlier this week. The law retroactively legalizes the theft by Israeli settlers of land privately owned by Palestinians, largely land on which those settlements Israel calls “illegal outposts” were constructed — because their existence is illegal even under Israeli law.-rh | 9/2/2017 |
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Netanyahu wants to repress my group, Breaking the Silence. May, don’t help him | | Yehuda Shaul - The Guardian - n Monday the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, met with his British counterpart, Theresa May. Among other things, he asked her to stop the UK government’s funding of the group I co-founded, Breaking the Silence, as well as other human rights organisations in Israel and Palestine. This is regardless of the fact that Breaking the Silence has not received funding from the British government since 2011. As an Israeli, it’s not my place to tell Netanyahu to stop interfering in decisions made by the British government. That’s something British citizens can do. What I can do is shed some light on the reason Netanyahu is so intent on stopping us, an organisation of soldiers who encourage public debate on the reality of occupation and the moral price it exacts from Israelis.-rh
| 8/2/2017 |
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Israeli torture of Palestinian children `institutional` | | Ben White -
Al-Jazeera -
"Methods of torture reportedly include slapping the head and forcing a handcuffed individual to squat against a wall for long periods of time." - id
| 8/2/2017 |
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From the expansion of Leshem settlement to a Bedouin resident forced to demolish his own home | | Amos Gvirtz - Don`t say we didn`t know 538 - ... But then I was informed of the confiscation of 326 dunams belonging to the villages of Jalud and Turmus Aya. Then came the news of home demolitions in Ras Al Ahmar and Kardala in the northern Palestinian Jordan Valley ... | 14/2/2017 |
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The cops at the checkpoint always remind me which side I`m on | | Suleiman Maswadeh - +972 - “Suleiman, you don’t look Arab,” I would hear over and over, not to mention remarks like, “I didn’t know you were Arab,” “You are different from all the other Arabs I know,” “Are you half-half?” and of course the classic: “You’re Christian, right?” Very quickly, I understood that Jews have no idea what an Arab actually is. In their view, an Arab is a Bedouin who rides a donkey and lives in a shack, wears a galabiya and uses a cane. [bz] | 14/2/2017 |
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Israeli forces deliver land confiscation notices in Ramallah-area village | | Ma`an - According to the Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem (ARIJ), at least 60 percent of the village is under threat of confiscation and isolation owing to the construction of Israel’s separation wall. The land confiscated by Israeli authorities has been repurposed for the construction of illegal Israeli settlements, ARIJ said. [bz for dn] | 12/2/2017 |
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Some 1,000 olive trees uprooted to build bypass road on ‘Azzun village land | | B`tselem - [background] On 21 December 2015, the head of the Civil Administration issued an expropriation order for 10.4 hectares of land earmarked for the bypass road. The order noted that the new road will “serve the public good” and improve mobility between Nablus and Qalqilya. In March 2016, the Palestinian village councils and landowners petitioned Israel’s High Court of Justice (HCJ) against the expropriation, on the grounds that the road will not serve all residents of the area but only settlers. On 16 November 2016, the HCJ denied the petition after accepting the state’s claim that the road is intended to serve the entire population of the area.
The seizure of the land and uprooting of olive trees have severely harmed the landowners, who have lost a source of income and a major financial asset, as well as an open space that served all local residents for leisure and recreational activities. [bz for dn]
| 12/2/2017 |
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“If your students want an education…” – Right to education violable under occupation? | | Features -
International Solidarity Movement -
"Israeli forces have again denied students their right to education by preventing students as well as teachers from reaching their classes." - id
| 8/2/2017 |
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Palestinians in Nablus-area village say settlers cut down hundreds of olive, almond trees | | Ma`an - The trees were planted two years after the eviction of the nearby Homesh settlement which was located in northwest Nablus. After the eviction, the Palestinian landowners obtained decisions from Israeli courts, including the Supreme Court, that neither settlers, nor Israeli forces would harass the landowners.
However, in 2016 settlers started to "camp" in the area under protection of Israeli troops, making it very difficult for farmers to tend their fields and water their trees. [bz] | 7/2/2017 |
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Israeli court in Jerusalem sentences 16-year-old Palestinian girl to 6 years in prison | | Ma’an News Agency - "Since a wave of political unrest spread across the
occupied Palestinian territory in October 2015, leading to Israeli forces carrying
out mass detention campaigns, the number of Palestinian women and girls
detained by Israeli forces has risen sharply. According to Addameer, among
those detained between October 2015 and August 2016 were 13 underage
girls, some of whom were wounded when Israeli forces detained them" [ry] | 6/2/2017 |
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Committee: Israel agrees to stop `escalations` against Palestinian prisoners amid protests | | Ma`an - the agreement stated that “escalations” in Israeli prisons “will be immediately halted,” all prisoners who were transferred during raids will be moved back to their original sections during next week, all prisoners held in solitary confinement will be returned to their communal cells, and that Messada officers, the “takeover” unit of the IPS, will not be allowed to enter prisoners’ cells. [bz] | 4/2/2017 |
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Undercover Israeli Soldiers Abduct Two Birzeit University Students | | IMEMC News -
"Undercover Israeli soldiers infiltrated, Thursday, into the western
entrance of Birzeit University, north of the central West Bank city
of Ramallah, and abducted two students...the undercover officers
also fired several live rounds into the air before withdrawing from
the area, and handed the two to a regular army unit." ca | 3/2/2017 |
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Family of boy paralyzed by Israel sues for damages | | Charlotte Silver -
The Electronic Intifada -
"“If this case is dismissed, it will not be surprising,” he said. “It will just be consistent with a pattern where the Israeli judicial system has become another arm of the occupation, approving the worst policies of the Israeli military since 1967.”" - id
| 1/2/2017 |
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12-year-old Circus Student Abducted by Israeli Forces | | IMEMC -
"“A UNICEF report of 2013 concludes that the ill-treatment of children who come in contact with the (Israeli) military detention system appears to be widespread, systematic and institutionalized throughout the process, from the moment of arrest until the child’s prosecution and eventual conviction and sentencing."" - id
| 1/2/2017 |
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West Bank demolitions: Building up and tearing down on the way to annexation | | Natasha Roth -
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"In January alone, Israeli forces have demolished 121 structures in the West Bank and 16 structures in East Jerusalem. The razing of these buildings displaced 211 people in the West Bank, including 123 children, and 26 people in East Jerusalem, including 11 children." - id
| 1/2/2017 |
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Israeli settlers hold 2 Palestinian teens returning home from school at gunpoint | | Ma`an News - Israeli forces and settlers detained two Palestinians teens at gunpoint on Sunday near an illegal Israeli settlement east of Qalqiliya in the northern occupied West Bank, according to reports from Israeli media, which alleged that the two Palestinians approached the settlement intending to carry out an attack.-rh | 2/2/2017 |
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Why I, as a Proud Israeli, Want the World to Boycott Us | | Ilana Hammerman - Haaretz -As an Israeli citizen and a woman engaged in public life, I declare that the state does not respect my basic right to live according to my conscience. The Judaism it is forcing upon me is not my Judaism. Furthermore, the nationalist and racist fanaticism of the government (led by its interior, culture and education ministers) is becoming more and more extreme, and contrary to the values I hold most dear. These iniquities are an internal concern of Israeli society and I have the right – and for now, at least, also the possibility – to fight for their correction from within society.-rh | 1/2/2017 |
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Israeli forces detain 25 Palestinians during overnight raids | | Ma`an - Israeli forces carry out detention raids across the occupied territory on a near-daily basis. [bz] | 14/2/2017 |
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