Life under occupation
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Title | | Description | Date |
Occupation Captured: Photos of Palestinian Life and Israeli Occupation in the West Bank City of Hebron | | Christian Peacemaker Teams -
Alternative Information Center -
"A distraught Palestinian mother is comforted after she sees her son arrested and taken to the military base in the Old City. Earlier, Israeli forces dragged the young man out of his family’s car while they were on their way to the hospital. The soldiers immediately tied his hands, but cut the cable after his mother protested vehemently." - id | 23/5/2018 |
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Hamas and Fatah: Why the two groups are failing | | Jonathan Cook -
Al-Jazeera
"The Palestinian national movement has moved beyond crisis to the point of bankruptcy," said Ghassan Khatib, a former cabinet minister in the Palestinian Authority (PA), and now a lecturer at Bir Zeit University, near Ramallah."Neither the armed resistance of Hamas nor the diplomacy of Fatah has made any gains," he told Al Jazeera. "They are failed governments, and the public is deeply dissatisfied." ca
| 18/5/2018 |
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Israel’s Choice To Shoot Palestinians Should Horrify — But Not Surprise Us | | Peter Beinart - Forward - Long before Israeli soldiers decided whether
to shoot at protesters, Israeli leaders decided to bar farmers in Gaza
from exporting spinach, potatoes and beans. They decided to bar
fisherman in Gaza from fishing beyond six nautical miles. They decided
to bar students in Gaza from leaving the Strip to study, to bar
spouses from leaving to legally join their husbands or wives in the
West Bank, to bar grandchildren from leaving to attend their
grandparents’ funerals. They decided to bar people in Gaza from
importing the spare parts necessary to rebuild the Strip’s electricity
grid. These were not split-second decisions made by young, frightened
soldiers. They were policies formulated by politicians in air-
conditioned offices. Those politicians responded to Hamas’ victory in
the 2006 legislative elections by helping to torpedo a Palestinian
coalition government that would have left Mahmoud Abbas as the
Palestinian Authority’s President. They rejected negotiations with
Hamas until the group met conditions—among them the acceptance of past
agreements and support for the two state solution—that Israel’s own
current government does not meet. Instead, they chose a policy of
collective punishment: a policy that punished the people of Gaza for
being ruled by Hamas. More than a decade later, Hamas remains in
charge. But Gaza—which has barely any electricity or drinkable water—
is on the verge, according to the United Nations, of becoming
“unlivable.”-rh
| 16/5/2018 |
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Lessons from my Palestinian mother about Jerusalem — and resistance | | Samer Badawi -
+972 -
"Deprived of the land, we sift instead through the memories of our kin, our living history held in the mesh of imagery and idiom." - id | 16/5/2018 |
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PHROC on Nakba: 8.26 of 12.7 mln Palestinians forcibly displaced by Israel | | PNN -
Palestine News Network -
"For the Palestinian people, 70 years of Nakba means seven decades of subjugation by Israel, characterized by occupation, apartheid and colonial policies and practices. It also attests to the chronic inaction and failure of the international community to fulfill its obligations and responsibilities under international law, to a lack of accountability and protection, and to the continued support of a shallow and biased peace process incapable of bringing about peace or justice." - id
| 16/5/2018 |
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US Embassy protestors attacked by Israeli police | | Ray Hanania -
The Arab Daily News -
"Ahmad Tibi, the Deputy Speaker of the Israeli Knesset who was at the protests, said he was physically attacked by Israeli police as were many other Israeli citizens. The Israeli police riot began when protestors started to wave the green, red, white and black Palestinian flag. “We Palestinian citizens of Israel demonstrated against the relocation of the American Embassy,” Tibi told me Monday afternoon." - id
| 16/5/2018 |
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Gaza`s Al-Shifa Hospital `on brink of collapse` as injuries mount | | Al Jazeera - Ayman al-Sahabani, head of the emergency department: At least 18 people died while waiting to receive medical attention on Monday evening. At one point, we had 500 cases arrive at once. This is way more than what the hospital`s capacity can take. (...)
Medical staff have responded to injuries to the best of their ability, considering the lack of medical supplies. [bz]
| 15/5/2018 |
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Army Injures Many Palestinians Marking the Nakba Day In Hebron | | IMEMC - Soldiers fired dozens of gas bombs, and rubber-coated steel bullets. In addition, the army invaded and ransacked many homes in the southern part of Hebron city. [bz]
| 15/5/2018 |
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Hamas and Fatah: Why the two groups are failing | | Jonathan Cook -
Al-Jazeera
"The Palestinian national movement has moved beyond crisis to the
point of bankruptcy," said Ghassan Khatib, a former cabinet minister
in the Palestinian Authority (PA), and now a lecturer at Bir Zeit
University, near Ramallah."Neither the armed resistance of Hamas nor
the diplomacy of Fatah has made any gains," he told Al Jazeera.
"They are failed governments, and the public is deeply
dissatisfied." ca
| 12/5/2018 |
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Sewage destroys a Gaza sanctuary | | Sarah Algherbawi -
Electronic Intifada
"Wadi Gaza has been recognized by the United Nations as one of the
most important coastal wetlands in the Eastern Mediterranean Basin.
The valley and its surrounding area have hosted a rich variety of
ducks, herons, storks, raptors and flamingos.More recently, it has
become one of the few areas in Gaza where people with modest incomes
can afford to buy property...In the past, Wadi Gaza was a natural
open body of water coming from Hebron in the occupied West Bank and
the Naqab region of historic Palestine. Israel has mostly blocked
that water, however, by constructing diversion dams that redirect
the water before it reaches Gaza. The result has been that
Palestinians have been deprived of water that is instead diverted to
Israel.Under international law, states are forbidden from acting
unilaterally to change the flow of water crossing a national border
or boundary." ca
| 11/5/2018 |
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Ahed Tamimi’s brother detained in overnight raid on Nabi Saleh | | Jaclynn Ashly -
Mondoweiss
"Waed is now being held at Israel’s Ofer detention center near
Ramallah in the occupied West Bank and is undergoing interrogations
with Israeli authorities, Bassem said. Waed was previously
imprisoned in 2015 for almost a year when he was 19-years-old...
“Waed’s arrest is just another attempt by Israel to break Nabi
Saleh,” Bassem said. “This is the point of all of this. Israel wants
to break the example of Nabi Saleh’s resistance to occupation.” ca | 11/5/2018 |
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Football dreams battle Israeli bullets | | Amjad Ayman Yaghi -
The Electronic Intifada -
"Alaa al-Dali, a 21-year-old cyclist, had qualified to represent Palestine at the Asian Games being held in Indonesia this summer.
Going there will not be possible. On 30 March, he was shot in his right leg by an Israeli sniper. The damage caused was so severe that the leg later had to be amputated." - id
| 9/5/2018 |
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Israeli troops fire shots, tear gas at Gaza protesters, 1,100 Palestinians hurt | | Nidal al-Mughrabi -
Reuters
"Medics said around 82 people were shot and wounded with live fire,
another 800 treated for gas inhalation and the rest for other
injuries along the Gaza side of the 25-mile (40-km) border fence,
where Palestinians set up tent encampments on March 30 for what they
call “The Great March of Return”. ca | 5/5/2018 |
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Life in the shadow of the settlement of Beit El: Going to school in a state of constant peril | | B`Tselem -
"The proximity between the settlement and the camp led to a
permanent military presence in the area, observation towers, patrols
along Route 466 and the area between the road and the settlement,
and also roadblocks. Frequent clashes between Israeli security
forces and the Palestinian residents have long since become part of
daily life in the area. When clashes take place, the security forces
use teargas, rubber-coated metal bullets and, in some cases, live
fire. Al-Jalazun residents, including minors, have been killed and
injured. On top of resulting in casualties, the teargas and gunfire
also disrupt life in the camp in general, and school life in
particular." ca | 4/5/2018 |
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PCHR Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (26 April – 02 May 2018) | | IMEMC News & Agencies -
"Israeli forces continued to directly target peaceful protests that
did not pose any threat to the Israeli soldiers’ life. 4 Palestinian
civilians, including a child, were killed on the fifth Friday of the
March of Return and Breaking Siege." ca | 4/5/2018 |
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Young Jews won’t cry over the end of the Zionist dream, Beinart says | | Philip Weiss - Mondoweiss - Peter Beinart has been doing great work
lately. Last Friday he had a long piece in the Forward on Gaza that
step by step took apart every rationalization for the brutal
collective punishment of 2 million people and said American Jews are
responsible. “Our community’s complicity in the human nightmare in
Gaza should fill every American Jew with shame.” And two weeks ago at
J Street, Beinart ran down the American Jewish establishment for its
support for the settlement project that has destroyed the two-state
solution, for its Islamophobia, for its destruction of American
political dissent on Israel. And he called for Democrats to demand
that the next presidential nominee state, Not a penny for your illegal
settlements.-rh | 2/5/2018 |
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Cops and Robbers : Distribution of Israel Police stations throughout the West Bank/ April 2018 | | Kerem Navot - On June 14, 1967, a week after the onset of the
occupation of the West Bank, Uzi Narkiss, former IDF commander of the
Central Command, signed an order allowing the Israel Police to operate
in the West Bank, despite the fact that it was not part of the
sovereign territory of the State of Israel. As such, the Israel Police
were not authorized to operate there to begin with.This report we’re
releasing today is devoted to surveying the geographical distribution
of dozens of police stations, all of which are located within
settlements or areas subject to full Israeli control in Area C.-rh | 2/5/2018 |
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Killer of Palestinian teen praised as “excellent” by Israeli judge | | Ali Abunimah -
EI - Rights and Accountability -
"“The lenient sentence announced today is not surprising and illustrates how pervasive and entrenched denial perpetuates impunity even where video evidence shows Israeli forces intentionally killing children.”" - id
| 2/5/2018 |
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IDF arrests top Palestinian nonviolent activist in overnight raid (also his son) | | +972 - Morrar was a key figure in the nonviolent protests against the separation wall, which swept Budrus during the early 2000’s, after the state announced that it would confiscate 300 acres of land in order to build the separation wall. Those protests would serve as inspiration for other popular protests across the West Bank, in villages such as Bil’in and Nabi Saleh, against the wall and settlements. [bz] | 1/5/2018 |
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Detainee ‘Oweisat Dies From His Serious Wounds Inflicted by Israeli Soldiers | | IMEMC - Detainee Aziz ‘Oweisat, 53, died at an Israeli hospital from serious complications after he was assaulted by several Israeli soldiers in the prison, who claimed he attacked an officer with a sharp object. The Detainees’ Committee filed an urgent appeal with an Israeli court asking for his release so that he could receive steady medical attention, and the court scheduled the hearing for May 25th. He did not make it to the hearing, however. [bz] | 22/5/2018 |
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54 administrative detention orders issued against Palestinian prisoners since May 1 | | Ma`an - Israel uses administrative detention almost exclusively against Palestinians. The widely condemned Israeli policy allows for a detainee to be sentenced for up to six-month renewable intervals based on undisclosed evidence. [bz] | 22/5/2018 |
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Palestine: An overview of the month of May | | PNN -
Palestine News Network -
"For the Palestinian people, the embassy move is yet another expression of the US active part in the Zionist colonization, and yet another phase in the ongoing confrontation with this colonization." - id | 30/5/2018 |
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Israeli forces detain 11 Palestinians, 2 women, in overnight raids | | Ma`an - According to Palestinian prisoners rights group Addameer, as of April, there were 6,036 Palestinians being held in Israeli prisons, including 63 women and an estimate of 304 children. [bz] | 29/5/2018 |
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IDF raids camp where Duvdevan soldier was fatally wounded | | Elior Levy and Yoav Zitun - Ynet - Violence erupts as IDF sends forces to al-Am`ari refugee camp near Ramallah in attempt to smoke out [sic!] Ronen Lubarsky’s killer, who dropped a heavy marble slab on his head last week. The army refrained from doing so after Lubarsky was wounded because the attack did not seem deliberate... [bz] | 29/5/2018 |
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