Life under occupation
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Title | | Description | Date |
Go ahead, annex the West Bank | | Meron Rapoport - +972 - It turns out that Benny Gantz, Prime Minister
Netanyahu’s centrist rival, also has a vision of Israel annexing the
Jordan Valley. During a visit to the area in the occupied West Bank,
Gantz announced on Tuesday that the Jordan Valley is “Israel’s
eastern defensive shield in any future conflict. We view this land as
an inseparable part of the State of Israel.” Following the elections,
Gantz continued, he would extend sovereignty over the valley in a
“nationally-agreed upon move” and in coordination with the
international community.(rh) | 28/1/2020 |
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Defence Minister Bennett instructs IDF to prepare for immediate escalation | | Anna Ahronheim - Jerusalem Post - The IDF will reinforce troops in
the Jordan Valley with an additional infantry brigade, following a
situational assessment ahead of the revealing of US President Donald
Trump`s "Deal of the Century" plan. "The State of Israel is facing
crucial days of establishing its permanent borders and applying
sovereignty to Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria,” Bennett
said, adding that he’s heard threats from the Palestinian side
against the plan. “The IDF and the forces in the field are prepared
for every scenario. We are facing crucial days of setting boundaries
and applying sovereignty,” Bennett said. Bennett has instructed
troops to prepare for an immediate escalation of violence following
release of the plan, as well as for riots in the absence of security
cooperation with the Palestinian Authority.
PA officials have hinted that the Palestinian leadership might stop
security coordination with Israel in the West Bank, and specifically
that Palestinian security forces will not stop demonstrators from
moving forward to clash with Israeli troops[ak]. | 28/1/2020 |
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A week on the West Bank: Settlers spray pepper, general personally participates in expelling shepherds, European Union diplomats tour Issawiya | | Michal Hai - Taayush - A week on the West Bank: A delegation of
heads of European
Union missions toured Issawiya and publicized an official demand
that Israel keep its obligations to the occupied Palestinian
population; protest and support vigil for Issawiya residents in
custody and for Jonathan Pollak took place opposite the Jerusalem
Magistrate Court; the Israeli army’s Central Command general came in
person to expel a Palestinian flock of sheep out of Al Auja grazing
grounds near the illegal settler-colonist outpost Havat Omer; Jewish
settler-colonists pepper-sprayed an activist at Rashash. [ak] | 21/1/2020 |
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Sealed Off and Forgotten: What You Should Know about Israel’s ‘Firing Zones’ in the West Bank | | Ramzy Baroud - CounterPunch - “Expectedly, many illegal Jewish settlements
sprang up in these ‘firing zones’ over the years, a clear indication that these areas
have no military purpose whatsoever, but were meant to provide an Israeli legal
justification to confiscate nearly a fifth of the West Bank for future colonial
expansion” [ry] | 20/1/2020 |
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Three minutes of freedom: released after 18 years in prison - and immediately detained again | | IMEMC - Ismael Affana, from occupied East Jerusalem, was released
from the Negev Detention Camp, after spending 18 years in several
prisons - but after spending three minutes as a free man the
soldiers pounced and re-detained him directly outside the prion
gate. He was then transferred to the al-Maskobiyya Detention and
Interrogation facility in Jerusalem. This is far from the first
such case. The occupation authorities commonly re-detain Palestinian
prisoners who have completed their term and subject them to
arbitrary Administrative Detention orders, without charges or trial.
In other cases, such are released hours after their abduction, but
face severe restrictions. Some of them are forbidden to return to
their home towns and told they must find a place to live somewhere
else; others are graciously allowed to go home but forbidden to
leave the town and travel elsewhere. It is as yet unknown which of
these the military government intends for Ismael Affana.[ak]
| 14/1/2020 |
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Hard Evidence on Torture and Ill-Treatment of Palestinian Detainees at Israeli Interrogation Centers | | Addameer - Since its creation, the occupying state developed and
enforced laws and practices that led to both the systematic use of
torture and to absolute impunity for the perpetrator of this crime.
There has never been any individual or agency held accountable for
the well-documented crimes of torture and ill-treatment at Israeli
prisons and interrogation centers. The occupation authorities, in
particular, the Israeli intelligence agency “Shabak” resorts to
torture and ill-treatment as standard operating procedure in a
systematic and wide-scale approach against Palestinian detainees.
Over the past three months, the intelligence agency subjected a
number of detainees at Israeli interrogation centers to severe
physical and psychological torture without any form of monitoring
and protection.
Addameer has hard evidence on the crimes of torture and ill-
treatment committed against a number of detainees held at
interrogation centers since late August 2019. Addameer was banned
from publishing any of the details of torture prior to this date,
due to a gag order issued by the Israeli Court of First Instance in
Jerusalem. [ak]
| 14/1/2020 |
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Graduates scramble for better pay | | Jaclynn Ashly&Alaa Daraghmeh -
Elecronic Intifada
"Even a college degree couldn’t help Fathi Taradi.
Taradi, 34, tried for a decade to find work as a journalist in the
occupied West Bank. He eventually had to settle on construction work
in Jerusalem.
“The first few days working in Israel, it felt like my heart was
breaking because I gave up all of my dreams of being a journalist,”
Taradi told The Electronic Intifada at his home in Taffuh, just west
of Hebron.
Taradi is one of many Palestinian university graduates forced to
seek menial work in Israel or its settlements in the West Bank and
East Jerusalem after abandoning hope of finding employment in their
field.He spent several years interning or working for low pay at
local radio stations in the West Bank until, five years ago, he
received an Israeli work permit." ca
| 11/1/2020 |
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First demolishing their dwellings, then confiscatig their tents | | Amos Gvirtz - Don`t Say We Didn`t Know - As I reported last week, the Israeli army demolished dwellings and sheep pens of Palestinian shepherd communities of Ras Al Ahmar in the northern Palestinian Jordan Valley, following which the International Red Cross provided them with tents. The Israeli army was back on Wednesday, January 1, 2020, confiscating the newly supplied tents. In addition, it confiscated two tractors. [bz]
| 7/1/2020 |
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Israeli house demolitions spiked in 2019 compared to previous years | | B`Tselem - Palestinians in East Jerusalem are effectively left with no choice but to build without permits as a direct result of Israeli policy which makes it practically impossible for them to obtain building permits. Israel uses this policy to further its goal of perpetuating a Jewish majority in Jerusalem. One of the way in which it pursues this goal is by making life in the city unbearable for Palestinian residents, in a bid to push them to leave their homes, ostensibly of their own free will. In the West Bank the situation isn`t much better. In 2019, at least 6,660 people were left homeless as a result
[bz] | 7/1/2020 |
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Soldiers Bulldoze Large Areas Of Palestinian Lands Near Qalqilia | | IMEMC News -
"Israeli soldiers, accompanied by bulldozers, invaded and bulldozed
large areas of Palestinian lands, on Thursday morning, in ‘Asla
village, east of Qalqilia, in northern West Bank.
Mohammad Sheikh, a Palestinian official who monitors Israel’s
illegal colonialist activities in Qalqilia governorate, said the
invasion was carried out by many army jeeps, and bulldozers, after
the soldiers closed the area and prevented the Palestinians from
entering it." ca
| 3/1/2020 |
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