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Israel stops parents joining seriously ill children during treatment Sarah Algherbawi - The Electronic Intifada - "Ola was soon informed that she may not accompany her daughter through Erez, the military checkpoint separating Gaza and Israel. Mais would have to travel without her parents for treatment.The family then had to give the Israeli military various names, requesting that someone on the list should accompany Mais. Israel rejected most of the suggestions, before deciding that Balqis al-Waheidi, a 72-year-old distant relative with diabetes and rheumatism, may travel with the child."28/2/2019
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Israel trying to deport stateless Palestinian journalist from JerusalemOren Ziv - +972 - "Mustafa al-Haruf has spent the last 20 years living in East Jerusalem, where he has a wife, daughter, and works as a photographer. Now Israel wants to deport him to Jordan, where he has no family or legal status." - id 28/2/2019
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Israel releases two Palestinian teens to house arrestMa`an - Abed and Muhammad, both 14-year old, were detained on late Friday from in front of their homes in the Silwan neighborhood, in occupied East Jerusalem. The two teens were released on Saturday, to house arrest for one week and fines of 5,000 shekels ($1,385) each. Such payments cause financial hardships on the families, and prison time is extended if the fines are not paid... [bz]26/2/2019
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Doomed is the house which settlers set their eyes uponAmos Gvirtz - Don`t Say We Didn`t Know - Settlers trying to force Abu Imad Eknaibi and his family to leave their home in Tel Rumeida, Hebron, threatening that they will slaughter his children if he doesn`t. [bz]26/2/2019
Hebron massacre: Palestinians mark anniversary of settler attackHarry Fawcett - Al Jazeera - Palestinians at the West Bank are commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Ibrahimi Mosque massacre in Hebron [ry] 25/2/2019
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Will Israeli Jews support Arab Knesset candidate? Shlomi Eldar - Al- Monitor - Will Knesset member Ahmad Tibi, chairman of Taal, succeed in breaking the longstanding taboo of “anyone but Arabs in the coalition”? While it is still too early to tell, the possibility is already keeping Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu awake at night. On the evening of the 2015 elections, Netanyahu had warned, “Arab voters are heading to the polling stations in droves,” managing to drum up more votes for himself. On Feb. 9, he posted a video on his Facebook page attacking Benny Gantz, head of Israel Resilience, and insinuating that Arab votes are illegitimate. The target of his intimidation campaign was Tibi: “You vote for Gantz; you get Tibi,” is the title of the clip, which claims, among other things, “The Oslo Accords passed because of the Arabs’ votes. … Former Chief of Staff Gantz will do it again.-rh 19/2/2019
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Why residents of Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah face eviction Ahmad Melhem -Al-Monitor - The Execution Office, which is the competent authority to implement court decisions, notified Jan. 3 five families of the Sabbagh family that they had until Jan. 23 to vacate their homes. The family’s lawyer, Husni Abu Hussein, however, managed Jan. 14 to obtain a freeze order until Feb. 16, since the Central Court and Supreme Court have yet to rule on the land ownership in the neighborhood. The case goes back to 2012 when the family’s lawyers resorted to the Israeli Central Court to file a lawsuit against Nahalat Shimon, an organization that represents settlers, claiming that the neighborhood’s lands, including the houses of the Sabbagh families, belong to settlers.-rh 19/2/2019
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`Israel’s heist of Palestinian revenues is illegal economic aggression; Palestine will not submit to political and financial extortion`Dr. Hanan Ashrawi - PLO Executive Committee - The Israeli government once again committed an act of piracy, illegally withholding Palestinian tax revenues as a form of shameless political extortion. The Israeli government is taking this malicious measure against the Palestinian leadership, and by extension against hundreds of thousands of families, to score cheap political points in a nasty election season. Israeli politics are characterized by e racism and hatred, and candidates compete who will exhibit the worst cruelty against Palestinians. Leading up to this heist, Israel has led a venomous incitement campaign, demonizing and dehumanizing thousands of Palestinian political prisoners who are illegally held inside Israel. Today, Israel is punishing the Palestinian government for exercising its responsibilities to provide social assistance to thousands of families permanently scarred by its illegal policy of mass incarceration and unchecked violence against Palestinians. Palestine will not submit to political and financial extortion and will continue to seek accountability for Israeli crimes. [ak] 19/2/2019
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Israel trims funds to Palestinians over militant stipendsMEMO - "Israel will cut around 5 per cent of the tax handovers to the Palestinian Authority over its financial support for jailed Palestinian militants, the Israeli security cabinet said on Sunday, following similar US legislation last year, Reuters reports" [ry] 18/2/2019
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Released prisoner embraced by strangers in GazaOla Mousa - The Electronic Intifada - "“I was thinking of my pregnant wife, my son Yasser who is now 17 years old, and the future of my sons if they were harmed. However, I was steadfast when I remembered our right to defend our land and dignity,” Ahmed said." - id 17/2/2019
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On 47th Friday of Great March of Return and Breaking Siege, Israeli Forces Wound 67 Civilians, including 14 Children, 2 Women, 2 Paramedics, and JournalistIMEMC - "According to observations by PCHR’s fieldworkers, the Israeli forces who stationed in prone positions and in military jeeps along the fence with Israel continued to use excessive force against the demonstrators by opening fire and firing teargas canisters at them. As a result, dozens of the demonstrators were hit with bullets and teargas canisters without posing any imminent threat or danger to the life of soldiers." - id 17/2/2019
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Israeli forces raze Palestinian agricultural lands in UrifMa`an News Agency - "Israeli forces razed and leveled lands in the Urif village, in the northern occupied West Bank district of Nablus, on Friday morning. Israeli forces also sealed a road with dirt mounds to prevent villagers from reaching their agricultural lands.Ghassan Daghlas, an official who monitors settlement activity in the northern West Bank, told Ma’an that Israeli forces and settlers are attempting to “impose a reality” on Palestinian lands classified as Area B by razing and leveling large area of lands and preventing farmers from reaching their lands by placing dirt mounds to block the road." ca16/2/2019
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Photo Essay: Caves bring depopulated villages in the south Hebron Hills back to life Ahmad Al-Bazz - Mondoweiss - For weeks under the cloak of night Palestinians secretly renovated four caves and built a tin-roofed house in the West Bank hamlet of Ar-Rakeez where only a handful of residents live. Last week they opened the homes in a “bringing life back” ceremony. The event was not announced in advance as to avoid any potential disruption by the Israeli army, locals said.-rh12/2/2019
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Jenin raid - army shoots and wounds one Palestinian, abducts sevenIMEMC - At dawn, a large Israeli military force entered the city of Jenin with the aim of carrying out detentions. Encountering the protest of local youths, soldiers fired many live rounds, rubber- coated steel bullets and gas bombs at the protesters. One young man was shot with a live round in his knee. The soldiers then proceeded to break into and ransack numerous homes in the Jenin refugee camp, and take five local men into detention - abduction as Palestinians see it. At the same time, undercover Israeli soldiers dressed as Arabs invaded the home of Khaled Mansour, in Wadi Burqin area near Jenong, and searched the property before abducting him along with his son, Abdullah. [ak] 12/2/2019
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Chef`s detention prevents a vital operation and endangers his life Rasha Hirzallah - WAFA/IMEMC - On 9 December, 2017, Laith Kanaan Barghouti was hit by a tear gas grenade fired by Israeli soldiers during clashes at the northern entrance of Ramallah. Not only did he lose the use of his right eye, but the tear gas grenade has opened a large cavity between the eye and the nose in a way that tears would flow into his nose and into his breathing system - which might cause suffocation, particularly when he is asleep. After an intensive search he found a surgeon able to perform the delicate operation needed - Dr. Ghassan Abu Sitta, a Palestinian resident in the Lebanese capital Beirut. Dr. Abu Sitta was due to visit Palestine as part of a medical delegation, and agreed to operate Barghouti on January 19 at the Istishari Hospital in Ramallah. On the previous evening Barghouti was preparing a bag of the things he would need in hospital - when Israeli soldiers suddenly arrived at his home and took him off to interrogation on unspecified charges. The family pleadings were of no avail. The operation did not take place and Dr. Abu Sitta had to depart at the end of his visa. Instead of proceeding towards implementing his dream - to start a business of his own, a mobile restaurant - his family worries that Barghouti`s untreated injury might end with his suffocating to death in his prison cell. [ak] 12/2/2019
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Israel orders 300 Palestinians to evacuate homes in TubasMa`an - About 300 Palestinians will be homeless in the cold weather as a result of the Israeli military training, which poses danger to residents’ lives. According to Mutaz Bisharat, a Palestinian official who monitors settlement activity in the Jordan Valley/Tubas district, military trainings resulted in the destruction of 600 dunams (148 acres) of agricultural land and the leveling of another 140 (34.5 acres) other dunams. Palestinian residents of the Jordan Valley regularly face evacuations and interruption due to Israeli military exercises on or near their land. The district of Tubas, meanwhile, is one of the occupied West Bank`s most important agricultural centers. [bz]12/2/2019
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With U.S. aid cuts, Palestinian women pay biggest priceHenriette Chacar - +972 "|According to Bassem Abu Libdeh, the director of Al Makassed Hospital, U.S. funding used to cover 40 percent of costs for the six hospitals. Coupled with last September’s slash in aid to UNRWA, which amounted to a 30-percent budget cut to the United Nations agency tasked with providing services to millions of Palestinian refugees in the Middle East, many Palestinians can no longer afford the care they need. For women, this means limited access to breast cancer treatment or care for high-risk pregnancies available predominantly at these East Jerusalem hospitals." ca9/2/2019
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I survived the Gaza violence that Benny Gantz brags aboutHanine Hassan - +972 - "‘As a Palestinian expelled from Jaffa to Gaza, as someone whose family and friends have repeatedly been on the receiving end of Israel’s brute force, like all Palestinians, I know that the more violence Israel uses, the more it destroys the very legitimacy it seeks.’" - id7/2/2019
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“Hundred Million Dollar Home” Hebron Shop Keeper Punished for Resistance to OccupationAl-Khalil team - International Solidarity Movement - "Today, our good friend Abdulraouf Al-Mohtaseb’s, the famous owner of the 100 Million Dollar home , had his shop enclosed by steel barricades. We condemn this blatant act of aggression by the IDF against shop owners in the Old City of Al-Khalil." - id7/2/2019
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21-year-old Palestinian shot, killed by Israeli forcesMa`an - The Israeli army claimed that one of the Palestinians passing by on the motorcycle threw a suspicious object at the soldiers situated near the al-Jalama checkpoint. However, locals pointed out that no suspicious object was seen being thrown. [bz]5/2/2019
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Contrary to Shin Bet (ISA) and IDF statements: Saleh Barghouti was shot point-blank in apparent extrajudicial killingB`Tselem - B’Tselem’s investigation found that, contrary to official Israeli statements, Saleh Barghouti did not try to flee or run anyone over, nor could he have tried: two security vehicles were blocking the taxi he was driving at either end, and he was surrounded by some 10 security personnel who shot him point-blank – an operation resembling an extrajudicial killing. Official attempts to sanction the killing in retrospect ensure no one will be held accountable [ry] 4/2/2019
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Presidency: Israel`s refusal to renew TIPH`s mandate unacceptableMa`an News Agency - " Palestinian presidential spokesperson Nabil Abu Rdeineh said that Israeli Prime Minister`s decision not to renew the mandate of the Temporary International Presence in Hebron (TIPH) means that "it has abandoned the implementation of agreements signed under international auspices and its obligations under these agreements, which is rejected and is unacceptable." Abu Rdeineh said in a statement "We call on the countries sponsoring this agreement to take a clear stance from this grave Israeli position and to immediately act to pressure the Israeli government to continue implementation of the agreement as agreed and not to treat Israel as a state above the law." ca4/2/2019
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