Siege, Wall, Checkpoints
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| Title | | Description | Date |
| Israelis & Palestinians Negotiate Solutions to the Gaza Crisis | | | 14/11/2019 |
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| Army Kills Four Palestinians, Injures 25, In Gaza | | IMEMC - Zaki Ghannam, 25, was killed when the army fired missiles
targeting several militants in Beit Lahia, in the northern part of
the Gaza Strip, also leading to the injury of three Palestinians.
Earlier, Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian teen, identified as
Mohammad Atiyya Hammouda, 18, and seriously injured two others, in
Jabalia, in northern Gaza. These killings are added to original
Israeli attack which set off the present fighting - the
extrajudicial assassination of Baha’ Abu al-‘Ata, 42, a senior
leader of the Islamic Jihad, by firing missiles at a residential
building in Gaza city, also killing his wife Asma’, and wounding
their children Salim, Mohammad, Lian, and Fatima az-Zahra’, in
addition to their neighbor Hanan Hallas. It is worth mentioning that
the Israeli army also attempted to assassinate a senior leader of
the Islamic Jihad in the Syrian capital, Damascus, killing two,
including his son, and injuring nine others, among them the grandson
of the leader.[ak] | 12/11/2019 |
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| Israel closes Gaza crossings and reduces fishing zone | | Gisha - This morning, the Coordinator of Government Activities in
the Territories announced that “following the situation” Israel has
closed the crossings between Israel and Gaza to movement in both
directions until further notice – Erez Crossing to movement of
people and Kerem Shalom to movement of goods – and reduced the
“fishing zone” it enforces in the Strip’s territorial waters to a
distance of only 6 nautical miles off Gaza’s coast.
Gisha emphasizes that Israel has an obligation to allow the
continued provision of necessities to residents of Gaza and to
enable travel. At a minimum, humanitarian access must be allowed.
Gisha is following with great concern the impact of these
developments on the lives of civilians. The civilian population must
be kept out of the line of fire. [ak]
| 12/11/2019 |
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| A war to keep Netanyahu on his throne | | Raluca Ganea - Zazim - Hundreds of thousands of us woke up this
morning to the air raid alarms, but yet we are expected to shut up.
Outside, missiles fly, and we`re told it`s not the time for
politics, because there`s a war. But this war is political. And
those who pay the price are us - the ordinary people. Women,
children and men on both sides of the border and everywhere. [ak]
| 12/11/2019 |
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| HAMAS THREATENS TO SHOWER ISRAEL WITH ROCKETS FOR 6 MONTHS | | YASSER OKBI/MAARIV, KHALED ABU TOAMEH - Jerusalem Post -
"Our stance has led to the uprooting of the Israeli government and Liberman, and we brought about a crisis that not even two elections could solve. Maybe they`ll have a third one."
Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar mentioned the threats made by Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz: "We have heard the threats (...). We are waiting to see if you can form a government – so we can see what it does."
"Had it not been for Iran`s financial support, weapons and the transfer of expertise to the resistance in Gaza and Palestine, we would not have reached where we are."
He said the injuries and siege were only to build a force to humiliate the occupation army. "We have built this power and will continue to build it – not to protect the Strip, not to protect ourselves, but to achieve our people`s dream of freedom and return," he concluded. [bz] | 5/11/2019 |
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| Sanders runs to left of J Street and 2020 opponents on aid to Israel | | Bryant Harris - Al Monitor - Four Democratic presidential candidates
now support conditions on Washington’s annual $3.8 billion military
aid package for Israel, but Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., wants to go
further than both his opponents and the liberal lobbying group J
Street. J Street and at least three Democratic candidates have set a
formal Israeli annexation of certain West Bank settlements as their
red line for conditioning the annual military aid package. Sanders,
however, issued a broader call to condition the aid on human rights
and living conditions in the Gaza Strip — a line that received
booming applause from the conference’s rank and file attendees.
“If you want military aid, you’re going to have to fundamentally
change our relationship with the people of Gaza,” Sanders said at
the conference today. “In fact, I think it is fair to say that some
of that $3.8 billion should go right now to humanitarian aid in
Gaza.” [ak] | 29/10/2019 |
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| What the Dismantling of the Berlin Wall Means 30 Years Later | | James Carroll - Truthout - For almost half a century, only readily
dismissed peaceniks insisted that, in the nuclear age, war and endless
preparations for more of it were not the answer. When the Berlin Wall
came down, such idealists were proven right, even if their triumph was
still ignored.-rh | 29/10/2019 |
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| BEHIND CLOSED DOORS: INSIDE OCCUPIED PALESTINE | | DEBBIE SHAMIR - Studentnewspaper - This summer, I together with a
group of British Jews spent five days exploring the complicated
situation between Israel and Palestine. Despite the common
misconception that all of Israel-Palestine is characterised by
unsolvable conflict and violence, we spoke to several people and
organisations who longed for peace. They don’t deny the complications
but believe that with a suitable government in power, a peaceful
resolution is possible.-rh | 29/10/2019 |
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| After 18 months of conflict, some Gazans dare to question Hamas border protests | | Fares Akram -
Times of Israel
"... a growing number of Gazans who believe the protests have lost
their way. With little to show from 18 months of demonstrations and
border riots beyond the hundreds of people killed or wounded by
Israeli fire, many Gazans are beginning to question and even
criticize the Hamas-led protests, a rarity in a territory where
dissent is barely tolerated by the Gaza rulers." ca | 11/10/2019 |
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| Returning to Yaffa, but only as a ‘tourist’ | | Mariam Barghouti -
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"I watch the beach waves undulate back and forth in Yaffa. I hear
Hebrew all around me, mixed with the laughter of youth. Men, women
and children lounge under umbrellas whipping in the sea breeze.
Occasionally, Arabic escapes from the mouths of Palestinians who are
of the city.In 1948, after Zionist militias occupied Yaffa, a
quarter of Palestinians were forced to flee. Israel’s Absentees
Property Law allowed for the official confiscation of the emptied
Palestinian homes and lands. Yaffa’s Old City has been turned into
an Israeli artist colony. I walk feeling so foreign, yet the city is
so loud with its Palestinianisms." ca
| 11/10/2019 |
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| Female Hunger Striker Reveals Details of Torture in Israeli Prison System | | IMEMC News -
" Al-Labadi also explained that she was interrogated for 20
consecutive hours during the first 16 days of her detention, and
said that she was given only two breaks for meals, each day. She was
then moved to rooms full of collaborators, who started to
interrogate her; this lasted for up to 35 days, during which she was
subjected to verbal, physical and psychological abuse. The Israeli
interrogators, she insisted, got close to her body intentionally and
used the dirtiest of words to insult her.“They also insulted Islam
and Christianity,” she said, “and said that I am an extremist, and
told me that they had arrested my mother and sister, and they would
put me under renewable administrative detention for seven and a half
years, and then release me to the West Bank, and put me under 24-
hour surveillance.” ca
| 11/10/2019 |
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