Siege, Wall, Checkpoints
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| Title | | Description | Date |
| Statusless in Gaza | | Ghada Majadle - Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) - PHRI has
recently been handling cases of female cancer patients from the Gaza
Strip who are stateless. Some have no personal identification
documents at all. These are women whose family unification
applications were never processed or ultimately not approved, or
whose families were absent from the Gaza Strip during the 1967
census and therefore never included in the population registry.
Gaza residents who need medical treatment that is unavailable in the
Strip face many hurdles and barriers put up by Israel even when they
do have status, but for stateless individuals, obtaining a permit is
a much tougher battle. Many who apply via this process know that
their chances of obtaining a permit are particularly low.
Fortunately, following our intervention, one of the women did get a
permit, and we are currently handling several similar applications
in the hopes that the women involved will be able to enter in the
coming days.[ak] | 10/9/2019 |
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| Hague court to deliberate war crimes proceedings charges against Benny Gantz, ex-Israeli Army Chief and leading opposition candidate | | Amira Hass - Ha`aretz/IMEMC - While Israelis go to the polls next
Tuesday, The Dutch Central Court in The Hague will deliberate on a
civil lawsuit filed against Benny Gantz - former Israeli Army Chief
of Staff and at present an opposition politician, the main contender
against Netnayahu. The suit concerns alleged war crimes committed
during the 2014 Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip, when Ganz was
in command. It was filed by Dutch citizen Ismail Ziada, a resident
of Gaza’s al-Bureij refugee camp and whose home was bombed by
Israeli forces on July 20th, 2014. In the bombing, Ziada lost his
mother, three of his brothers, his sister-in-law, a nephew, and a
friend who was visiting the family. Gantz`s lawyers asserted that an
official in Israel he could claim immunity unless proven to have
acted with intent to cause harm or disregard the possibility of
harm. In the ongoing Israeli elections campaign, Ganz was less
restrained - actually boasting of his responsibility for the killing
of thousands in bombing Gaza, in the hope that this would win
right-wing voters. [ak]
| 10/9/2019 |
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| 22-year old Palestinian escapes Gaza, found dead in Bosnia | | Imemc - 22 years Saleh Hamad, from Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza
Strip, was one of the Gazans driven by terrible conditions to leave
thg Strip and seek refuge in Europe. Three weeks after all contact
with him was lost, his family got the bitter news: his body was
found by the authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The family was
told that he had drowned, but the precise circumstances are not
known (and might never be discovered). [ak] | 10/9/2019 |
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| Israeli army shut down entrance to Hebron town | | WAFA -
"Israeli occupation forces sealed today the main entrance to the
town of Beit Ummar, to the north of Hebron in the occupied West
Bank, according to witnesses.Army shut down with a metal gate the
entrance to the town, forcing Palestinians to use longer routes to
enter or exit the village.Human rights group have long condemned
Israel for imposing restrictions on the movement of Palestinians in
the West Bank, describing the restrictions as a main tool which
Israel uses to enforce its regime of occupation and control over the
Palestinian population." ca
| 30/8/2019 |
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| Israel cuts supply of fuel to Gaza’s power plant by half “until further notice” | | Gisha - Gaza suffers from an acute, chronic shortage of electricity,
impacting homes, hospitals, factories, and basic civilian
infrastructure. Since October 2018, fuel funded through a donation
by Qatar is used to operate three of the power plant’s four
turbines. Prior to Israel`s decision to cut the supply by half,
the power plant was producing about 65 megawatts, providing
residents with electricity in cycles of 6-8 consecutive hours
followed by at least 8-hour-long outages. Unless Israel reverses
its decision, one of the plant’s turbines will stop operating and
the power plant will only produce about 40 megawatts. Electricity
supply to residents will drop to only four consecutive hours
at a time. Deliberate or indiscriminate rocket fire on civilian
population centers are a breach of international law. However, the
imposition of punitive measures against the civilian population in
the Strip also constitutes a serious violation of international law
based on the same principle of protection of civilians. Israel’s
decision to deliberately reduce the supply of a basic humanitarian
commodity, knowingly harming the civilian population in Gaza,
constitutes illegal collective punishment.[ak] | 27/8/2019 |
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| Israeli warplanes hit Gaza after Palestinian rocket fire | | Al Jazeera - Israeli authorities also announced a punitive reduction in the flow of
fuel to the strip`s main power station [ry] | 26/8/2019 |
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| In one East Jerusalem neighborhood, summer vacation has become a war zone | | Yuval Abraham -
+972
"Issawiya is home to 22,000 people, 6,420 of whom are children now
on summer vacation, says Omar Atia, who heads an NGO that supports
the children of the neighborhood. I call him as he is on his way to
Jaffa with his family, to celebrate Eid al-Adha.“I am fleeing
Issawiya, Yuval,” he tells me. “One cannot be there during the
holiday. It’s too sad. The holiday has always been my favorite day
of the year ever ever since I was a child — wearing new clothes,
laying them out on the bed the night before, decorating the
neighborhood, cooking pasta in the street, feeling happy. But this
year, anyone who can is going elsewhere to celebrate. The parents do
not want their children to be in the streets. People are mourning.
Over the last two month I haven’t seen most of the kids. Everyone
stays inside. A child doesn’t forget difficult experiences, do you
understand? This situation makes hatred grow in their hearts.” ca
| 23/8/2019 |
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| Israel actively pushing Palestinian emigration from Gaza, official says | | Raphael Ahren - Times of Israel - Israel is actively promoting the emigration of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, and is working to find other countries who may be willing to absorb them, a senior Israeli official said Monday. Israel is ready to carry the costs of helping Gazans emigrate, and would even be willing to consider allowing them to use an Israeli air field [by way of extreme favor-bz] close to Gaza to allow them to leave for their new host countries, the official said, apparently referring to air force bases deep inside Israel. [bz] | 20/8/2019 |
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| Israel kills three Palestinians in besieged Gaza Strip | | Al Jazeera - Officials say three Palestinians killed, one wounded, after overnight
Israeli attacks in northern Gaza [ry] | 19/8/2019 |
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| Rashida Tlaib gets OK to visit her grandmother, then decides against it | | Gabe Friedman -
JTA
"Israel still allows humanitarian requests as exceptions to the law.
In her request submitted Thursday, Tlaib had asked to visit the West
Bank to see her grandmother, who is in her 90s, saying it could be
her “last opportunity to see her.” She promised not to promote the
boycott movement against Israel while there. “I will respect any
restrictions and will not promote any boycotts against Israel during
my visit,” she wrote.Tlaib tweeted her change of heart just before 9
a.m. Eastern time Friday." ca
| 16/8/2019 |
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| Daily life under occupation: Israeli military blocks access roads to two Palestinian villages in June and July 2019 | | B’Tselem - "Blocking the entrances to villages has long become one of the routine
methods of oppression used by Israel against Palestinian residents of the West
Bank. Usually, the military justifies such closures with allegations that village
youths threw stones or Molotov cocktails at Israeli vehicles" [ry] | 12/8/2019 |
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| Palestinian app helps drivers avoid Israeli checkpoint bottlenecks | | Rami Ayyub - Reuters - “We need applications like this that help us move within Palestine,” said Nicolas Harami, 31, who uses the app while driving from his home in East Jerusalem to Ramallah. The West Bank is scattered with Israeli settlements and military bases, and an Israeli barrier snakes through the territory.
Around 3 million Palestinians live in the territory along with some 450,000 settlers, who can generally drive in the area without major restriction using so-called “bypass roads” built to avoid Palestinian towns.
[bz] | 6/8/2019 |
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| Security forces make deadly use of crowd control weapons in Gaza | | B`tselem - At least seven of the Palestinians killed died as a result of a teargas canister hitting their head or face directly. Four of them were minors. According to the OCHA Protection of Civilians Database, as of 28 June 2019, more than 1,600 Gaza protestors arrived in hospital with injuries resulting from direct teargas canister hits, more than a third of them in the first three months of 2019.
Teargas canisters are a crowd control weapon with a firing range spanning 100 meters to several hundred meters, in the case of extended range canisters. They are designed to be non-lethal and the open-fire regulations, at least officially, as well as use instructions, forbid firing them directly at people due to the grave danger involved.
[ak] | 6/8/2019 |
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