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Go ahead, annex the West BankMeron 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 escalationAnna 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 IssawiyaMichal 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
Sealed Off and Forgotten: What You Should Know about Israel’s ‘Firing Zones’ in the West BankRamzy 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 againIMEMC - 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
Hard Evidence on Torture and Ill-Treatment of Palestinian Detainees at Israeli Interrogation CentersAddameer - 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 payJaclynn 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
Israeli house demolitions spiked in 2019 compared to previous yearsB`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
Soldiers Bulldoze Large Areas Of Palestinian Lands Near QalqiliaIMEMC 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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