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Leaks show Chelsea owner Abramovich funded Israeli settler groupOliver Holmes - The Guardian - The billionaire Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, owner of the Chelsea football club, was granted Israeli citizenship in 2018. He has been an avid philanthropist in Israel, openly donating huge sums to research and development projects and investing in local firms. However, four companies he either owns or controls in the British Virgin Islands have contributed more than $100m (£74m) to Elad, a group that supports settlements in the Palestinian neighbourhood of occupied East Jerusalem called Silawn. Those figures would mean the British football club owner was the biggest single donor over the past 15 years to Elad, a Hebrew word which means “God’s eternal faith”. Elad, similar to other settler organisations, has expanded by buying Palestinian houses and using controversial Israeli laws that allow the state to take over Palestinian property. Elad also runs an archaeological site in Silwan called the City of David , which was n criticised by European Union diplomats as seeking to ignore the ancient city’s diverse history in favour of “an exclusively Jewish narrative, while detaching the place from its Palestinian surroundings”. [ak]22/9/2020
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It never ends: another week of settler assaults Ta`ayush - Another attempt by settlers to raise a new outpost near Birin (Hebron District) was thwarted; the Israeli army violently quenched a protest vigil by farmers of the Palestinian village of Shufa (Tul Karm District) against their land being taken over for the sake of paving an access road to the illegal outpost Avnei Hefetz, built on their land – an army officer was documented wildly beating a 60-year old Palestinian; settlers have been assaulting Palestinian shepherds from Deir Jarir in the West Bank hill range for some time now, and harassing their flocks – Israeli activists are needed for daily accompaniement there, as well as in Hamra and Auja in the Palesitnian Jordan Valley; a Palestinian woman, 9-months pregnant, was wounded by stones thrown by dozens of settlers at Palestinian vehicles on road 60; confiscation of equipment, damage and structure demolitions by Israeli army forces at Zif and Jinba in the South Hebron Hills, as well as near Taqu’a (Bethlehem District), Wadi Al Siq in the West Bank hill range, and in East Jerusalem neighborhoods. [ak] 8/9/2020
Despite COVID-19 Travel Ban, Israel Lets in 70 Evangelicals to Volunteer in SettlementsJudy Maltz - Haaretz - Hayovel appears to be the first case of a special exception being made for agricultural field hands, who were not already living in the country. A spokesman for the kibbutz movement confirmed that none of Israel’s approximately 230 kibbutzim had obtained permission to bring in volunteers from abroad to help out in the fields since the coronavirus outbreak. As a matter of principle, Hayovel brings volunteers only to West Bank settlements and is not active at all within the so-called Green Line – Israel’s internationally recognized borders. [bz]8/9/2020
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Cartwheeling Palestinian children and `educational` soldiersTaayush weekly report: - As in previous weeks, the army blocked the Hares village exit, and demonstrators had to make do with short speeches and a prayer opposite the barrier. As the prayer was over, the demonstrators began to disperse. A group trying to exit the village was blocked by soldiers who jumped an Israeli activist, tried to arrest him, but were forced to make do with spraying pepper gas at the faces of demonstrators who freed him from them. About five small children from the village had fun jumping and cartwheeling in front of the soldiers who continued to block the village exit. When the soldiers finally opened the road to enable vehicles to leave, their commander decided to hold an educational session and directed them to block the cars again “until the children go home”. A few minutes later the soldiers tired of their mission, opened the barrier and left the village. [ak]1/9/2020
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