Siege, Wall, Checkpoints
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| Title | | Description | Date |
| Cracks in the Wall: Beyond Apartheid in Palestine/Israel | | Shir Hever -
IMEMC -
"Ben White discusses his new book, “Cracks in the Wall”, which examines narratives that challenge the Israeli colonization of Palestine and their recent successes." - id | 17/1/2019 |
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| Israel opens `apartheid road` in occupied West Bank | | Megan Giovannetti - Aljazeera - Route 4370 has a high wall in the
middle, topped with fencing that segregates the road into two separate
two-way lanes. The western side is for Palestinians in the West Bank
to use to go around Jerusalem, which they cannot enter without an
Israeli military-issued permit, while the eastern side serves Israeli
settlers going to and from Jerusalem. Palestinians from the village
of Anata, which lies on the outskirts of Jerusalem but is separated
from the city by Israel`s barrier wall, say part of the highway is
built on Anata`s land.-rh
| 16/1/2019 |
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| The many battles of Gadi Eisenkot | | Yossi Yehoshua - Y-net - Eisenkot inherited a greatly deterred Gaza,
but his replacement Aviv Kochavi will have to contend with the
significant erosion of that deterrence. In addition, the IDF`s
performance and results in recent rounds of fighting against the
strip have not been good. But the main problem during Eisenkot`s
term is the issue of motivation. The motivation to serve in
combat units reached an unprecedented low during his tenure. Even
the motivation for enlisted service is constantly in decline; with
no other tasks but keeping order in the Territories and skirmishing
of Gaza fence, young officers feel less inclined to continue with a
military career. [ak] | 15/1/2019 |
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| Gaza: 39 straight Fridays of protests | | Podcasts: Gaza -
"Demonstrators, who launched the protests on March 30, are calling
for the right of return for Palestinian refugees, under the United
Nations Resolution 194, and demanding an end to the 12-year Israeli
blockade.Since the rallies first began, more than 215 Palestinians
have been killed and at least 18,000 others injured by Israeli
forces." ca
| 11/1/2019 |
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| Republicans push recognition of Israeli annexation of Golan | | Maureen Clare Murphy -
Electronic Intifada
"As the Senate considers a bipartisan defense of the Israeli
government from boycotts, senior Republicans are urging the Trump
administration to recognize Israel’s claims of sovereignty over the
occupied Golan Heights." ca
| 11/1/2019 |
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| `Israel`s permit regime isn`t about security, it`s about segregation` | | Edo Konrad -
+972 -
"The permit system for Palestinians allows Israel to recruit informants, suppress political activity, and create an opaque system of segregation and control." - id | 10/1/2019 |
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| Hamas warns of escalation after Egypt border closure, Qatari funds stalled | | i24NEWS/AFP - As Egypt’s border crossing with the Gaza Strip remains closed and Israel is said to have frozen incoming Qatari aid to the blockaded enclave, extremist groups in Gaza have warned that worsening circumstances for residents could lead to a violent escalation with Israel.
Though Qatari funds are supposed to reach Gaza within two days according to Hebrew media reports, the Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt remains closed for Palestinians seeking to leave Gaza (...) [bz]
| 8/1/2019 |
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| Ten years after the first war on Gaza, Israel still plans endless brute force | | Avi Shlaim - The Guardian - Israel’s conduct during the first Gaza war
was placed under an uncompromising lens by the UN Human Rights
Council’s independent fact-finding mission headed by Richard
Goldstone, the distinguished South African judge who happened to be
both a Jew and a Zionist. Goldstone and his team found that both Hamas
and the Israel Defence Forces had committed violations of the laws of
war by deliberately harming civilians. The IDF received more severe
strictures than Hamas on account of the bigger scale and seriousness
of its violations.-rh | 8/1/2019 |
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| Gaza’s Opioid Problem : For people living under Israeli siege, with high unemployment, tramadol is a means of escape. | | Miriam Berger - The Nation - The anti-drug classes, however, are
something relatively new for conservative Gaza, where drug use is
highly stigmatized, but widespread abuse of the synthetic opiate
painkiller tramadol is now part of the coastal enclave’s many
interconnected crises. Khael started giving lessons in schools (for
boys only) last year to combat addiction in a police program that’s
part of the Hamas-run government’s own “War on Drugs”—despite
criticism that Hamas has long profited from the drug trade along the
way.-rh | 8/1/2019 |
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| The benevolent bureaucrats of military occupation | | Maureen Clare Murphy - EI - "Israeli occupation bureaucrats shamelessly
exploit Palestinian patients from Gaza to present their military rule over a
besieged people as benign or even benevolent" [ry] | 31/12/2018 |
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| Gaza Christians Obstructed from Travelling to Bethlehem | | IMEMC News - "According to local sources, the Christians, who form a minority
in Gaza, annually apply for `holiday permits` to the West Bank, however, most of
the time Israeli authorities purposely file permits for the parents and not the
children, or, in other cases, for the mother and not the father" [ry] | 24/12/2018 |
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| Chasing dreams outside Gaza’s walls | | Hamza Abu Eltarabesh - EI - “Traveling is a distant dream for most people in
Gaza. Gaza’s economy is in freefall: there is widespread poverty, little hope, no
prospects and the regular bouts of violence affects everyone. The sheer
enormity of people’s situation here means thoughts of leaving are uppermost in
the minds of many, especially the young and ambitious” [ry] | 24/12/2018 |
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| What an Israeli army closure on Ramallah looks like | | Zena Tahhan - +972 - The Israeli army imposed a military closure on
the city of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, and closed
major checkpoints between cities. The closure, raids, and restrictions
on movement followed two drive-by shootings carried out by
Palestinians this week near illegal settlements. Two Israeli soldiers
were killed in one of the shootings, and in the other, several Israeli
settlers were wounded, including a pregnant woman whose baby was
delivered prematurely and later died.-rh | 18/12/2018 |
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| The left-right debate in Israel is over the speed of colonization, not how to end it | | Jonathan Ofir -
Mondoweiss
"In a recent interview with TV host Avri Gilad one of the
organization’s leaders, Uzi Arad, former head of the Institute for
National Security Studies, laid out the group’s vision and said they
hope the campaign is “hitting the awareness” of people. The vision
is the notion that the ‘Jewish and democratic’ state is under threat
– a demographic threat. The whole discussion is framed against the
notion of a possible annexation of Area C of the West Bank, which
comprises more than 60% of the area, surrounding some 165
Palestinian enclaves in a Bantustanized archipelago. This area C
under full Israeli control is a design of the Oslo Accords of the
mid 1990’s. Prominent proponents of its immediate annexation are
people such as Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked and Education Minister
Naftali Bennett (both Jewish Home party), who are to the right of
Netanyahu. These areas have contained an estimated 300,000
Palestinians in a UN count of 2014, and it is likely close to
350,000 by today. Shaked says that Israel can afford ‘absorbing’
this population." ca | 15/12/2018 |
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| No Dramatic Makeover Can Turn Abu Dis Into the Capital of Palestine | | JONATHAN COOK - Washington Report on Middle East Affairs - Any visitor
venturing to this small West Bank town is confronted by a vast expanse
of 26-feet-high concrete slabs—Israel’s so-called separation wall.
Sections are charred black by fires residents set years ago in the
hope of weakening the structure and bringing it down. Before the wall
was erected more than a decade ago, Abu Dis had a spectacular view
across the valley to Jerusalem’s Old City and the iconic golden-topped
Dome of the Rock, little more than half a mile away. It was a few
minutes’ drive—or an hour’s hike—to al-Aqsa, the third holiest mosque
in Islam, or the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the reputed site of
Jesus’ crucifixion. Now for many of the 13,000 inhabitants, Jerusalem
might as well be on another planet. They can no longer reach its holy
places, shops, schools or hospitals.-rh | 11/12/2018 |
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| For Palestinian children in Gaza, an education in conflict | | Todd Pitman, AP - Yahoo! - “Of the 175 Palestinians killed so far, at least 34
were 18 or under, according to an Associated Press count. Gaza`s Health
Ministry says 2,295 minors have been hospitalized, 17 of whom have had a
limb amputated; at least 5,124 have been injured in all” [ry] | 10/12/2018 |
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| Israel’s new war of attrition on Jerusalem’s Palestinians | | Jonathan Cook - Mondoweiss - Last week dozens of Palestinians were
arrested in Jerusalem, accused of working for the PA to stop house
sales to the settlers. It is a quiet campaign of attrition, designed
to wear down Jerusalem’s Palestinian residents. The hope is that they
will eventually despair and relocate to the city’s distant suburbs
outside the wall or into the West Bank. What Palestinians in Jerusalem
urgently need is a reason for hope – and a clear signal that other
countries will not join the US in abandoning them.-rh | 4/12/2018 |
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