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Siege, Wall, Checkpoints

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The Permit Regime: Human Rights Violations in the `Seam Zone`HaMoked - Since 2003, parts the West Bank became trapped between the separation wall and the Green Line. To live or visit there, a Palestinian must first obtain a military-issued permit (Israelis or tourists do not require any such permit). ak 18/6/2013
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Palestine drops bid to register new UNESCO heritage siteAmmar Owaineh and George Hale - Ma`an News Agency - "The decision to put off the nomination angered Palestinian experts and local officials [] The Battir municipality is locked in a court battle with the Israeli army to re-route the barrier, and they hoped the global attention from a successful vote might even the playing field. `Palestine is missing a great chance by not submitting the file,` according to Battir mayor Akram Bader. [] Bader said the Palestinian leadership neglected an opportunity to offer `protection against Israeli violations` as well as boost the economic, cultural and historical value of the village`"17/6/2013
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The most humane little checkpointAmira Hass - Haaretz "According to the Defense Ministry, it takes about seven minutes for the average person to cross from the start of the roadblock to the plaza where Palestinians catch their rides to work.Yet independent observers calculate that on a good day − like last Sunday, for example − it takes at least 28 minutes. And according to calculations from May 26 it took as long as 71 minutes per person." ca 14/6/2013
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Work started on Gaza`s ArkGaza`s Ark Steering Committee - Thanks to worldwide donations, work has started on Gaza`s Ark - the boat which is to challenge the Israeli siege of Gaza from the opposite direction to what had been earlier attempted. When completed, Gaza`s Ark would sail outwards from the shore of Gaza, carrying Palestinian and international activists as well as a sample of the export goods which Gazans could have exported to sustain their economy, but for the Israeli navy gunboats blockading their shore. 11/6/2013
With Golan fence, Israel closer to surrounding itself with barriersWilliam Booth--The Israelis build the worlds most sophisticated fences, drawing international delegations that want to see the latest in barrier technology. But some Israelis worry that the fences are a metaphor for weakness as much as they are for strength and that the barriers have increased a sense of isolation. dn9/6/2013
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Palestinian Minister Released After Two Years In CaptivitySaed Bannoura - IMEMC "Israeli released, on Thursday evening, former Palestinian Minister of Detainees, Wasfy Qabha, 50, after holding him under Administrative Detention for two years without charges or trial." ca7/6/2013
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WATCH: Al Jazeera takes on the segregated bus debateVIDEO - +972 "Al Jazeeras Mike Hanna is joined by Ben White, Mustafa Barghouti and Gregg Roman in what turns out to be probably the biggest shellacking of an Israeli spokesperson I have ever seen on a mainstream news network." ca7/6/2013
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WATCH: Israeli ban on family reunification, a `temporary measure?`VIDEO - Israel Social TV "The amendment to Israels Citizenship Law, enacted by the government in 2002 in the midst of the second intifada, prohibits Palestinians from the Occupied Territories and citizens of enemy states from entering into Israel for family reunification. Meanwhile the attacks of the Intifada have stopped and a decade had passed. Separated families, however, continue to pay the price." ca7/6/2013
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Israel building West Bank interchange to facilitate E-1 constructionNir Hasson - Haaretz "The plans opponents say that the new interchange, to be called the Hazeitim (Olives) interchange, will help to connect West Bank settlements in the Mateh Binyamin and Samaria regions with Jerusalem, and will also enable Israel to build sometime in the future a new neighborhood in the disputed E-1 area. " ca7/6/2013
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Palestinian workers say daily journey to Israel `torturous`Ma`an News Agency - The luckiest workers can make it through the airport-like security inspection in a few hours, while some return home after hours of waiting, and others decide to spend the night in the open air near the checkpoint so they can be first to cross over.-rh6/6/2013
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At this Laborers Checkpoint a Person is Just a NumberTamar Fleishman - The Palestine Chronicle - This checkpoint is only for the settlements, replied the person answering the phone at the civil administration hot line, when asked why a resident of Al Jib returning from treatment in East Jerusalem or laborers coming back from a job which isnt located in one of the mentioned settlements, is ordered by the soldiers to head back, drive to Qalandiya checkpoint which many kilometers away, pass through it and pay a substantial sum for their long ride on the constantly jammed and winding road leading to their village.-rh 5/6/2013
AL-KHALIL (HEBRON) REFLECTION: Trapping childrenCPT Palestine - The power imbalance between the children trying to get through the checkpoint and the Border Police stopping them is huge. The Border Policeman has the whole weight of the occupation behind him. Border Police officers do not make mistakes. If they shoot a youth they are praised, such as when the female Border Police officer shot 17-year-oldMohammed Salayme in Hebron in December 2012. If they arrest children and break international law, no one will penalize them.-rh 4/6/2013
Gaza 2013: SnapshotGisha - Discourse about Gaza tends toward the extremes. If on one end of the spectrum you hear that Gaza is nothing but an open-air prison, others will claim that there is no closure and that all Israeli-imposed restrictions stem from security considerations. It will soon be six years since Hamas took over the Gaza Strip and Israel tightened access restrictions on the Strip a good opportunity to provide up-to-date information on the state of affairs.-rh 4/6/2013
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Middlebury Students Stage Israeli Checkpoint to Push DivestmentJay Saper - Portside - On May 15, students at Middlebury College in Vermont staged a checkpoint outside their dining hall during the busiest meal of the year to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, which led to the establishment of the state of Israel.-rh 30/5/2013
The vehicle owner stopped it because he felt unwellYossi Gurvitz - Yesh Din - A needless handcuffing is a sort of torture. A needless detainment is abuse of power. Think how much noise would be made if an Israeli citizen would be detained by soldiers and cops, and without any reason or explanation would be handcuffed, put into a hot vehicle, and there loses consciousness. This happens to people who are Israeli residents, by Israeli armed men, without so much of a squeak.-rh30/5/2013
Soldiers beat family members, damage home while arresting Palestinian teenNoam Sheizaf - +972 "Israeli soldiers beat and dragged Abed Al-Rahem Awad down the stairs of his home, pepper sprayed his sisters and threw several stun grenades through the familys windows. Earlier this year, the family lost Abed al-Rahems younger brother, who was shot in the back at close range after trying to cross the separation barrier near his home." (ca for id)29/5/2013
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Protection of CiviliansOCHA - Weekly Report 1-20 May 2013 At least 270 Palestinian civilians were injured in the West Bank in clashes with Israeli forces, mostly during demonstrations commemorating what Palestinians refer to as the gAn Nakba Dayh. Some 5,000 people, including medical cases, were stranded in Gaza and Egypt following the unofficial closure of the Rafah crossing by Egyptian security officials, following a kidnapping incident affecting Egyptian forces in the Sinai. The crossing was re-opened on 22 May." (ca for id) 29/5/2013
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Palestinian workers say daily journey to Israel `torturous`Ma`an News Agency - "Around 4,000 Palestinian workers from the Hebron district face an arduous journey everyday as they try to cross into Israel via the Tarqumiya checkpoint."This is an Israeli policy aimed at creating chaos and confusion amongst the workers, who sometimes end up going to hospital to treat bruises and fractures or asphyxia resulting from the incredibly heavy jam and pell-mell at the crossing every morning," one worker told Ma`an reporters." (ca for id) 29/5/2013
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Slain Bedouin girls` mother, a victim of Israeli-Palestinian bureaucracyAmira Hass - Haaretz "The Palestinian police is not allowed to arrest Israeli civilians. It must hand suspects over to the Israel Police...In addition, the town of Al-Azaria, where Dandis lives, is in Area B, under Palestinian civilian authority and Israeli security authority. According to the testimony of Palestinian residents, neither the IDF nor the Israel Police has any interest in internal Palestinian crime even though they have both the authority and the obligation to act in Area B. " (ca for id)29/5/2013
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Gaza exports have plummeted under Israeli blockadeChrista Case Bryant, Christian Science Monitor - Yahoo!News - Gaza`s exports have dropped by 97 percent since 2007, limiting the chances that Gazans can wean themselves off of international aid27/5/2013
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Video: Israel prohibits Gazan children from visiting imprisoned fathersB`Tselem - "In July 2012, Israel reinstated authorization for relatives to visit Palestinian prisoners and detainees from the Gaza Strip being held in Israel (hereafter: inmates). Such visits were prohibited as of September 2007, shortly after Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip.The Israeli decision to permit visits was made after some 2,000 Palestinian inmates went on a nearly six-week-long hunger strike. BTselem has gathered testimonies from Gazan children over the age of eight who have not seen their imprisoned fathers since 2007. In their testimonies, the children describe their longing to be reunited with their fathers as well as the difficulties they face because of the separation. The childrens only mode of communication with their fathers is written correspondence and sending pictures." ca 24/5/2013
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Dutch probe sends warning to firms abetting Israels crimesSalma Karmi-Ayyoub - EI "This week sees the conclusion of a three-year criminal investigation into the Dutch crane company, Riwal, accused of complicity in war crimes and crimes against humanity in the occupied West Bank. The case is unprecedented as it is the first time a company has been criminally investigated for involvement in the Israeli occupation.The case started with a complaint submitted to the Dutch prosecutor by the Palestinian human rights organization Al-Haq in March 2010." ca17/5/2013
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Palestinians Protest Confiscation Of Cremisan Monastery Lands In Beit JalaSaed Bannoura - IMEMC "A week ago, Father Ibrahim Shomaly, told the BBC that the issue here is not about politics, but about human rights. The Church must hear the people when they suffer, this is not about politics, Father Shomaly told the BBC, There are 57 Palestinian Christians families that will lose their lands, losing their lands means losing their hope.In 2004, the International Court issued an advisory ruling considering the Annexation Wall illegal." ca10/5/2013
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Uprooted Livelihoods : Palestinian Villages and Herding Communities in the Jordan ValleyMa`an Development Center - The area compromises 28.5% of the West Bank and is naturally rich in water, fertile land, and other resources. Currently, there are 11,679 Israeli settlers and over 58,000 Palestinians in this vital region, but due to Israeli occupation policies that severely limit Palestinians access to their land and resources, the living standards between the two communities are blatantly separate and unequal.-rh 9/5/2013
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Gaza: We Will Keep Coming Back Special Report Dr. Bill Dienst - The Palestine Chronicle - "So now it is April 2013 and I enter Gaza again. We enter through Erez and we are forced this time to sit through a one hour PowerPoint presentation by the Israeli military outlining how benevolent Israel tries to help, and how these ungrateful Palestinians respond with rockets and are their own worst enemy"6/5/2013
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Decision postponed for Separation Wall in Battir Lea Frehse - AIC - "On May 1, an Israeli Supreme Court hearing was held in the case of the Separation Wall through the West Bank village of Battir. Israels Defence Ministry proposed a fence instead of the planned concrete wall, and Israels Park Authority suggested `less visible` means of surveillance and control. Battirs residents wish to change the Walls route altogether to protect village lands"6/5/2013
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Soldiers Invade Kufur Qaddoum, Clash With Local YouthsSaed Bannoura - IMEMC - Friday, May 3 2013, Israeli soldiers, supported by an armored military bulldozer and armored vehicles, invaded the village of Kufur Qaddoum, near the northern West Bank city of Qilqilia, after violently dispersing the weekly protest, and clashed with dozens of local youth; several injuries have been reported. bz4/5/2013
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International Workers Day: On the right to earn a living with dignityB`Tselem - "International Workers Day, marked on 1 May, commemorates the historic struggle for the basic right to an eight-hour limit to the workday. More than a century after that goal was achieved, Palestinian workers must still strive for the very right to earn a living without risking their lives, for the opportunity to support their families and for those self-same basic workers rights of minimum wage and a limit to the number of hours in a workday. Under occupation, Palestinians are unable to realize these basic labor rights." ca3/5/2013
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Israel evicts Palestinian villagers for army exerciseNoah Browning - Reuters - The residents of Wadi al-Maleh, a village mostly inhabited by shepherds in the arid area bordering Jordan, had almost all left their homes by an evening curfew and retreated to neighboring villages, Aref Daraghmeh, a local leader, told Reuters.-rh 2/5/2013
Palestinian Christians urge pope to oppose wallThe Daily Star - The letter came as Israel`s President Shimon Peres was due to arrive in Italy on a three-day visit during which he would meet Pope Francis. "We respectfully ask you to make use of this meeting to pass a strong message regarding the people of Palestine, and particularly the case of Beit Jala`s Cremisan land," it said.-rh 2/5/2013
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