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Life under occupation

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Occupation Captured: Photos of Palestinian Life and Israeli Occupation in the West Bank City of HebronChristian 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." - id23/5/2018
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Hamas and Fatah: Why the two groups are failingJonathan 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 UsPeter 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 resistanceSamer 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." - id16/5/2018
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PHROC on Nakba: 8.26 of 12.7 mln Palestinians forcibly displaced by IsraelPNN - 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 policeRay 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 mountAl 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 HebronIMEMC - 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 failingJonathan 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 sanctuarySarah 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.” ca11/5/2018
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Football dreams battle Israeli bulletsAmjad 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 hurtNidal 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”. ca5/5/2018
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Life in the shadow of the settlement of Beit El: Going to school in a state of constant perilB`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." ca4/5/2018
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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." ca4/5/2018
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Young Jews won’t cry over the end of the Zionist dream, Beinart saysPhilip 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.-rh2/5/2018
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Cops and Robbers : Distribution of Israel Police stations throughout the West Bank/ April 2018Kerem 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.-rh2/5/2018
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Killer of Palestinian teen praised as “excellent” by Israeli judgeAli 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 SoldiersIMEMC - 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 1Ma`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." - id30/5/2018
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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 woundedElior 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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