Siege, Wall, Checkpoints
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Title | | Description | Date |
Palestinian woman, teen shot dead after alleged stab attempt at Qalandiya | | Ma`an News Agency - Israeli forces on Wednesday shot and killed a pregnant Palestinian woman and her 16-year-old brother after they allegedly attempted to carry out a stab attack on border police at Qalandiya military checkpoint near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, police and witnesses said. Israeli police spokesperson Luba al-Samri said two suspects -- a woman and a youth -- approached the vehicular path leading through the military checkpoint and walked towards border police officers, the woman with her hand in her bag and the youth with hands behind his back. Officers ordered them to halt several times and they began to turn back before police said the woman threw a knife at an officer. Police opened fire, killing the woman immediately. The youth`s death was confirmed shortly after.-rh | 27/4/2016 |
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Palestinians face severe restrictions in Hebron`s Old City for Passover | | Ma`an News Agency - "Hebron resident and prominent activist Issa Amro said
Palestinian locals were preparing for a total lockdown by the Israeli military as
thousands of Israelis plan to visit the holy site during Passover.Over the past few
days, Palestinians living in the Old City were forced to register with the Israeli
authorities once again in order to gain passage through the matrix of military
checkpoints in the area, Amro told Ma’an" [ry] | 25/4/2016 |
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Hebron soldier welcomed home to celebrations | | Itay Blumenthal -
Ynetnews
"Sgt. Elor Azaria, who shot dead a neutralized terrorist in Hebron,
allowed home for Seder dinner; right-wing activists waited outside
his home with support signs as his mother told him: `Welcome home,
my child." ca | 22/4/2016 |
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Finally, Israel and Palestine is a US election issue. The ‘last taboo’ is not broken, but it’s splintering | | Robert Fisk -
The Independent
"Yet the shift in emphasis is clearly there. Sanders is Jewish – his
father was an immigrant from eastern Europe – and most of his family
died in the Nazi Holocaust. You might expect he would try to outgun
Hillary in her support for Israel. Yet he accused her of devoting
“only one sentence... that even mentioned the Palestinian people” in
her Aipac hug-in, only “one line on the Palestinian people”. ca | 22/4/2016 |
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EU ‘deeply concerned’ by new phase of West Bank barrier | | AFP - Times of Israel - “Once built, the barrier will severely restrict access of almost 60 Palestinian families to their agricultural land and profoundly affect their livelihoods.” [bz] | 19/4/2016 |
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One Palestinian village`s death by a thousand cuts | | Joseph Dana - The National - “Over the past decade, the Israeli military has
aggressively pushed for the creation of its separation barrier on Al Walaja`s
border as part of a larger plan to remove Palestinian villages from the Jerusalem
municipality. The pattern is simple: put the village on the West Bank side of the
wall, declare a new city boundary, and get rid of hundreds of thousands of
Palestinian Jerusalemites” [ry] | 18/4/2016 |
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United in opposition to the separation barrier | | Oded Shalom -
Ynet -
"Two settlers, a Palestinian and two leftist activists are opposed to
the resumed construction of the security fence around Efrat
| 15/4/2016 |
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Israel cuts cement supply to Gaza: Palestinian official | | MEMO - "Raed Fattouh, head of the Palestinian Commission to Coordinate the
Entry of Goods into the Gaza Strip, said the Israeli authorities had `officially and
completely` halted all cement consignments to Gaza’s private sector. `The Israeli
authorities informed us of their decision to stop all cement deliveries to Gaza as of
Sunday, without providing any reason for the move`" [ry] | 4/4/2016 |
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Palestinian sister, brother shot dead at checkpoint in suspected stabbing attempt | | William Booth and Ruth Eglash - Washington Post - Although the area is monitored by multiple security cameras, no official footage was released.
Palestinian vendors in the area said they noticed the woman walking the wrong way, against traffic in a car lane, toward the soldiers.
“I heard shouting and curses,” said a young man selling plums. He said the siblings were beside each other when they were shot. The fruit vendor said he counted a dozen or more shots fired.
[bz] | 30/4/2016 |
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The Woman, Who was Killed By Israeli Soldiers Along With Her Brother, Was Pregnant | | Saed Bannoura -
IMEMC
"Palestinian medical sources confirmed that the Palestinian woman,
who was killed by Israeli army fire, on Wednesday, did not carry an
explosive belt as the army claimed, but was instead five months
pregnant, and “her only fault was walking the wrong route and not
understanding Hebrew.” ca | 29/4/2016 |
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Israel reopens Hebron road after 5 months of closure | | Ma`an News Agency -
"The head of the Palestinian military liaison, Col. Muhammad Eteiwi,
said in a statement that after pressuring the Israeli authorities,
his team had been able to secure the opening of the road leading to
the Shuhada al-Haram School in the Jabal Jawhar area of Hebron`s H2
zone.The road was sealed with dirt mounds more than five months ago
amid severe Israeli security measures, the statement said. It noted
that it had been previously reopened for a month before being sealed
again." ca
| 8/4/2016 |
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