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Siege, Wall, Checkpoints

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Electricity crisis expected in Gaza as Qatar-donated fuel runs dryMa`an - The last shipment of Qatar-donated diesel - used to fuel the Gaza Strip`s sole power plant - is expected to run out within four or five days. Over the past two months the Qatari donation had helped operate two generators and made electricity available in the Gaza Strip on the basis of eight hours on, eight hours off - which Gazans consider an advantegeous situation. As the last of the fuel runs out, power availability will be reduced to six hours on, twelve hours off. ak10/3/2014
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Gaza man uses remains of Israeli shells to produce works of artMa`an - Muhammad al-Zumar, a young Gazan, is regularly searching the ruins of buildings destroyed during Israeli military offensives, collecting the remains of missiles and other spent ammunition to use as raw material for handicrafts which he has assembled into an exhibition in his home. He started the project in the aftermath of the Israeli military assault on Gaza in 2008-9. Al-Zumar, like many Gazans, is unemployed, but this artistic project project is not very exapnsive. "The metal fragments I get free, I only need to find money for the paint" ak10/3/2014
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Jordan Valley essential for a viable Palestinian stateDr. Ibrahim Sharqieh and Dr. Ghassan Shabaneh - Al-Monitor "This past December, again using security justifications, Israel for the first time revealed a plan for permanently keeping the territory when the Ministerial Committee for Legislation passed “a bill to annex the Jewish settlements in the Jordan Valley to Israel and apply Israeli law to them.” ca 7/3/2014
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Photos of the week: Climbing the wall in Bil`inActive Stills - Photos "This week: Climbing the wall, filling the streets, remembering the Nakba, resisting displacement and saving the chickens." ca7/3/2014
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Creative Gazans develop new crafts to cope with siegeAsmaa al-Ghoul - Al-Monitor - The intensification of the siege has spawned creativity in the most unlikely of places, as citizens seek outlets in an attempt to adapt to the crisis. In addition to these projects, there are people extracting gas from water, unemployed doctors who provide delivery medical services and other unsung heroes whom the media have yet to report on.-rh 5/3/2014
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A city of devastation: Hebron 20 years after the massacreEinat Fishbain - +972 "Streets for Jews only, shuttered stores, spitting, throwing stones and daily harassment by soldiers and settlers alike. Since terrorist Baruch Goldstein committed a massacre at the Cave of the Patriarchs 20 years ago today, the situation of Palestinians in Hebron has only deteriorated." ca28/2/2014
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Checkpoints between worlds in GazaRamzy Baroud - Asia Times - Omar`s family had managed to obtain the necessary permits that allowed him to cross the Erez checkpoint to Jerusalem, through the West Bank, in order to undergo an eye operation. However, on the way back, the boy and his father were stopped for hours at the Qalanidya checkpoint in East Jerusalem.-rh 26/2/2014
WATCH: Separation wall engulfs village of Al-WalajaSocial TV - +972 - Between Jerusalem and Bethlehem, Israel is building the separation wall on land confiscated from residents and village of Al Walaja. The village’s farmers are not willing to give up on the little land they have left but the state is planning to build a national park on the site. Social TV joins a group of activists who went to work the land in solidarity with Al Walaja’s residents. bz25/2/2014
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Israeli forces use tear gas against schoolchildren in HebronHebron Team - International Solidarity Movement - "When they did not catch any children the two border police and the soldier stood in front of the school blocking the entrance and started firing teargas at those who had fled." - id 19/2/2014
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This is No Oversight, This is a PolicyTamar Fleishman - The Palestine Chronicle - Yes, oversights happen, oversights may happen, but the fact that a seven year old child has to be granted a permit after undergoing surgery in order to get home- is no oversight, it is a policy.-rh19/2/2014
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Gaza: Two Palestinian killed, 17 injured in protests against Gaza blockade AIC - "On Friday Israeli soldiers deployed on the fence along the northern Gaza Strip shot at a crowd of more than 500 Palestinians protesting the blockade on Gaza. One Palestinian was killed and 17 were injured as consequence of the shooting. 11 Palestinians were shot in their feet with live ammunition and one in the abdomen, while another was injured with a rubber-coated steel bullet in his foot. Two demonstrators were treated for breathing problems due to the Israeli army`s extensive use of teargas while two were hit with teargas canisters, one in the shoulder and the other in the foot" [ry]18/2/2014
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Palestinians motion UNESCO to grant World Heritage status for West Bank villageElior Levy--Sources say if plans to build security fence across village of Batir are carried out, it may cause irreparable damage to local ancient terraces. Palestinians` petition to UN hopes to preserve site, but also violates peace talks` preconditions, suggesting negotiations may fail.dn15/2/2014
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Hamas rejects UN textbooks in Gaza schoolsThe Associated Press - Haaretz "Motesem al-Minawi, spokesman for the Hamas-run Education Ministry, said Thursday that the government believes the curriculum does not match the "ideology and philosophy" of the local population.He said the textbooks, used in grades 7 through 9, did not sufficiently address Palestinian suffering and did not acknowledge the right to battle Israel. "There is a tremendous focus on the peaceful resistance as the only tool to achieve freedom and independence," he said." ca 14/2/2014
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“This is apartheid”: rapper Jasiri X on visit to PalestineAmira Asad - The Electronic Intifada - "...recently participated in a delegation of black American activists, academics and artists to Palestine. The weeklong trip inspired his track “Checkpoint.”" - id 12/2/2014
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Israeli authorities forcibly evacuate Palestinian demonstratorsKareem Khadder and Hamdi Alkhshali - CNN "Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, an independent Palestinian lawmaker who heads a medical relief group, said he saw bulldozers and other vehicles accompany the Israeli authorities into the camp using stun grenades and physically manhandling those inside, including women and children. At least 24 people -- including at least one with broken ribs -- needed medical treatment for their injuries." ca 7/2/2014
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UNRWA struggles to deliver as poverty rises in GazaAsmaa al-Ghoul - Al-Monitor ""Please note that starting in April 2014, your status will change from `absolute poverty` to `not poor.`" If you received this message, you might think that you had struck it rich and won the lottery. After, however, identifying the sender — the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) — and then heading to the nearest UNRWA office, you would find that it really means that the food aid UNWRA had been providing you is about to stop, because in its eyes, you are now "not poor." ca 7/2/2014
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Gaza Cancer Patients On The RiseChris Carlson - IMEMC "Gaza’s Health Ministry said that the Israeli occupation’s use of internationally-banned weapons has sharply increased the number of cancer cases." "They are testing their weapons on us and on our children,” said a Gazan cancer patient." ca 7/2/2014
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Israeli Supreme Court Demands Explanation of Cremisan Case DecisionsPNN - Palestine News Network - "It is worth noting that last month on January 29th, The Council of Peace and Security - which is an association of high ranking Israeli security personnel - presented in an expert`s opinion that an alternative route below the illegal settlement of Gilo would cause much less harm for the community. At the same time it would serve the Israeli security needs in a more beneficial way." - id5/2/2014
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Court temporarily halts Separation Fence damaging to Beit Jala and Cremisan Monastery Nir Hasson - Haaretz - The present route would would cut off the predominantly Christian Beit Jala from the educational services provided by the Cremisan Monastery and Convent, which is run by the order of the Salesians of Don Bosco. The fence will separate the women`s convent from the nearby men’s monastery, leaving the monastery on the Israeli side of the barrier and the convent on the Palestinian side.It would also separate Beit Jala residents from thousands of dunams of agricultural land. “Why were no alternative paths for the fence in the area considered?” asked Supreme Court President Asher Grunis in the ruling. ak4/2/2014
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