Siege, Wall, Checkpoints
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| Title | | Description | Date |
| Israel discretely increases number of entry permits for Gaza workers | | Shlomi Eldar -
Al-Monitor
" Under cover of political and other events, without any fanfare or
official announcements, Israel has coordinated with Hamas to
increase the number of entry permits granted to Palestinians in
Gaza. The additional 2,000 permits appear to be meant for
Palestinian laborers, under the guise of “traders.” This is the
first time since Hamas mounted a military coup in June 2007 and took
control of Gaza that Israel has taken such a significant step in
terms of improving the Gaza economy. While the numbers are still
relatively small and will not make a drastic economic change to the
enclave’s 2 million residents, it’s a start." ca
| 13/7/2019 |
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| “From Here, From There” - exhibition in the one remaining house of the 1948 destroyed village al-Ma`in | | Eitan Bronstein Aparicio - De-Coloniser - "The White House Gallery”
in kibbutz Nir Oz is located in the only house still standing of the
village al-Ma`in, destroyed in 1948. A new exhibit by Eitan
Bronstein Aparicio will present there the story of that Palestinian
village. The historical and geographical surrounding of the gallery
will be shown with the involvement of the refugees from al-Ma`in who
most of them are living in Khan Yunis, 8 km away in the Gaza Strip.
Ahmad Salman Saqer Abu Sitta is the grandson of the man who built
the house of the gallery. In the invitation photo he`s pointing at
the lands of his village from his current home in Khan Yunis. He can
only say "I`m from there" but can`t return, nor even visit his
hometown. This exhibit is an attempt to overcome the fragmentation
of the space by violent military power and control. [ak] | 9/7/2019 |
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| IDF: Officer killed in failed Gaza raid was felled by friendly fire | | Judah Ari Gross - Times of Israel - The IDF Special Operations
Division is undergoing upheaval in the wake of last
November`s fiasco, when an undercover unit failed in a long-planned
penetration into the Gazan city of Khan Younis, with the intention
to install a listening device in order to intercept Hamas
communications. The soldiers, pretending to be
Palestinians, acted suspiciously and were stopped and
questioned by Hamas operatives. Having been unmasked, they engaged
in an intense firefight and were finally extracted by the risky
landing of an IDF helicopter inside the Strip. The now
released report of an IDF investigation reveals that the force`s
commanding officer, of his name was in fact killed by Israeli
"friendly fire". Recriminations over responsibility for the fiasco
led to the forced resignation of the head of Special Operations and
of several lower ranking officers. [ak] | 9/7/2019 |
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| This five year old is a very complicated security problem! | | Gisha - Israeli Knesset Members of ask the Coordinator of Government
Activities in the Territories (COGAT) to allow a five-year-old born
in the Gaza Strip to move to the West Bank along with his mother and
four siblings. Kawthar Hemo moved from the West Bank to Gaza in 2000
following her marriage to a resident of the Strip. Since February
2017, Hemo has been trying to obtain a permit from Israel that would
allow her to move back to the West Bank with her children. Hemo’s
registered address, as recognized by Israel, is in the West Bank. In
2012, she updated the addresses of her four older children in the
population registry to West Bank addresses, in keeping with her own.
When she tried to do the same for her youngest son, now five years
old, Israel wouldn’t allow her to. For this reason, Israel is
refusing to let him travel to the West Bank with his mother and
siblings.[ak]
| 2/7/2019 |
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| High Court Orders Israel to return seized boats to Gazan fisherman | | Jerusalem Post Staff - Israel returned a boat to fisherman Abad Al-Moati Al-Habil from the Gaza Strip following long legal proceedings that human rights organization Gisha--the center for freedom of movement of Palestinans, "Adalah"--the legal center for the rights of Arab minorities in Israel and the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights in Gaza administered. This comes after Israel held it over the course of three years. Similarly, at the request of the organizations, the state told the High Court of Justice that in the course of the 4 upcoming months, it will return another approximately 65 boats that were captured from the hands of the fishers in the Strip. [ak]
Israel returned a boat to fisherman Abad Al-Moati Al-Habil from the Gaza Strip following long legal proceedings that human rights organization Gisha--the center for freedom of movement of Palestinans, "Adalah"--the legal center for the rights of Arab minorities in Israel and the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights in Gaza administered.
This comes after Israel held it over the course of three years. Similarly, at the request of the organizations, the state told the High Court of Justice that in the course of the 4 upcoming months, it will return another approximately 65 boats that were captured from the hands of the fishers in the Strip.
[ak] | 2/7/2019 |
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| REVEALED: Israel’s Illegal Rules of Engagement in Gaza Lets Snipers Shoot ‘Key Instigators’ Even When They Move Away from Protest (VIDEO) | | IMEMC News & Agencies - “Adalah Attorney Suhad Bishara […]: ‘The Israeli
military – which has up until now kept secret its vague definition of the invented
category of ‘key instigator’ – now openly reveals that this category was created
retroactively in order to justify the shootings of people who posed no real and
immediate danger to Israeli soldiers or civilians” [ry] | 24/6/2019 |
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| PCR testimony to UN: 207 Palestinians killed, 12707 wounded in 15 months of border shootings | | Palestinian Center for Human Rights (Gaza) - At the UN Special
Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices, meeting in Amman, the
The PCHR presented a detailed testimony concerning such issues as
the continuing Israel army`s willful shooting, wounding and killing
of participating in the peaceful demonstrations, which broke out
along the borders between Israeli and the Gaza Strip. Since the
beginning of the "Great March of Return" on March 30 last year,
Israeli forces killed 207 Palestinians, including 44 children and
one woman, and wounded 12707 others, including 2532 children and 385
women. The injuries of some of those wounded was reported very
serious, and dozens had to have either their lower or upper limbs
amputated. [ak] | 18/6/2019 |
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| A high-tech facelift takes the sting out of an Israeli checkpoint — but not out of the occupation | | Ruth Eglash - The Washington Post - It’s Qalandia — the notorious
Israeli military checkpoint known for its reviled metal turnstiles
and caged tunnels. For nearly two decades, thousands of Palestinian
civilians were forced to wait here, sometimes for hours, as they
tried to enter Israel for work, school, medical appointments or
family visits. As the main crossing into Jerusalem from Ramallah, the
de facto Palestinian capital, Qalandia has become a stark symbol of
Israel’s military occupation of the West Bank and a constant source
of humiliation for ordinary Palestinians. It also serves as a daily
reminder of how deeply Israel controls their lives.-rh | 18/6/2019 |
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| Civilians deliberately targeted in Gaza attacks, reports find | | Oren Ziv - +972 - Two separate investigations by B’Tselem and Human Rights
Watch determine that the Israeli army and Palestinian armed groups unlawfully
targeted civilian populations during the most recent Gaza escalation [ry] | 17/6/2019 |
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| Addressing the needs of Gaza patients on the waitlist - a success story | | OCHA (UN office for Coordination of Humanitarian Help) - 39-year-old
Najwa Hamad, a resident of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip -
suffers from throat pain, severe coughing, difficult swallowing and
insomnia, among other symptoms. Najwa was diagnosed as suffering
from an inflammation of her tonsils that required their urgent
removal. However, since government hospitals were overcrowded as a
result of emergency surgeries associated with the “Great March of
Return”, she had trouble scheduling her surgery. Since she and her
husband are unemployed, she had no option of paying for treatment in
a private hospital. But with funding from the Humanitarian Fund for
the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt HF), the Union of Health
Work Committees referred Najwa to a private hospital, Al Awda.
There, a specialist changed the diagnosis after finding a tumor on
her right tonsil, as well as other medical conditions that were to
be treated after the surgery. Having gone through the surgery,
Najwa’s physical and mental health improved.[ak]
| 4/6/2019 |
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