Life under occupation
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| `My dream was destroyed` - home demolitions soar in East Jerusalem | | Judith Sudilovsky - +972 Magazine - “For five years we lived
together in our house, nobody bothered us and we didn’t bother
anybody. We were in our house and our children ran outside and the
only thing we heard was their laughter,” says Muatasem Abbasi of
Silwan. “Now, all day my son remembers how the police destroyed our
home.” It happened on the morning of November 5, while he was at
work. His wife Bara’a Obaid, was home alone with their two
toddlers when the police arrived. His parents were in their home on
the second floor of the building. “They knocked on the door and told
me to open up. I asked them to wait a moment so I could cover my
hair but they didn’t let me close the door and they came inside.
They gave me five minutes to get dressed and dress my children. They
didn’t let me take anything. They threw our things from the window.
I asked from them a number of times for a little bit of mercy but
they didn’t give me any.” With the help of family and
friends, the couple was able to gather a few pieces of clothing and
rescue a white living room set from the rubble of their home. [ak]
| 3/12/2019 |
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| Mother of Two remains in detention despite deteriorating health condition | | IMEMC - On June 15, 2019, Israeli forces broke into the al-Badan
family home in Bethlehem and detained Shorouq al-Badan, 25 years
old, a mother of two. She was taken to Hasharon prison and placed
for five days in a solitary cell, lacking ventilation and light, and
with constant bad smells due to a toilet
inside. Later she was given six months of Administrative Detention
without trial, no explanation given beyond the statement that "In
the military commander`s opinion she constitutes a danger to
security". In recent weeks her health is deteriorating. Her lawyer
reported that she is suffering from severe stomach pain, is vomiting
blood, and that she receives no medical attention and the
authorities still refuse to consider releasing her. [ak] | 3/12/2019 |
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| Israel’s Next Move: The Real Danger in US Decision to Normalize Illegal Jewish Settlements | | RAMZY BAROUD - Counterpunch - Let us not have any illusion regarding
the American approach to the so-called ‘Israeli-Palestinian conflict’
prior to Trump’s Presidency. The US has never, not even once, stood
up for Palestinians or Arabs since the establishment of the State of
Israel over the ruins of historic Palestine in 1948. Moreover,
Washington has bankrolled the Israeli occupation of Palestine in
every possible way, including the subsidizing of the illegal Jewish
settlements. However, Pompeo’s statement at a State Department press
conference on November 18 that, “the establishment of Israeli
civilian settlements is not, per se, inconsistent with international
law,” is still very dangerous and it does, in fact, constitute a
political departure from previous US policies. (rh) | 3/12/2019 |
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| For Hebron Settlers, New Neighborhood Announced by Bennet Is Only the Beginning | | Amira Hass - Ha`aretz - With Defense Minister Bennett’s backing, the
Hebron settlers aim to Judaize the city’s historic old wholesale
market. The market had been closed for the past two
decades, the shops standing empty, but until now the Israeli
authorities have respected the Hebron municipality`s status as "a
protected tenant". Now, that is being overturned. Bennet has granted
the settlers` long standing demand for "an urban renewal plan" under
which the structure would be demolished and new housing units for
Jewish Israeli settlers be erected in its place. The center of
Hebron has long since been taken over by the settlers, severe
restrictions placed on the Palestinians living there with the
conscious intention to make their lives into hell and make them go
away - which was successful in many of the cases. The settlers also
changed the names of the streets in their enclave, replacing the
Arabic names with Hebrew names expressing blatant Israeli Jewish
nationalism. But for them, that is only the beginning - a map spread
by the settlers gives similar Hebrew names also to streets in the
other parts of Hebron, which were not (yet?) taken over by the
settlers. [ak] | 3/12/2019 |
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| Olive harvest season: expected record yield compromised due to access restrictions and settler violence | | OCHA - The annual olive harvest between October and November, is a
key economic, social and cultural event for Palestinians. More than
10 million olive trees are cultivated on approximately 86,000
hectares,representing 47 per cent of the total cultivated
agricultural area. Between 80,000 and 100,000 families are said to
rely on olives and olive oil for primary or secondary income, and
the sector employs large numbers of unskilled laborers and more than
15 per cent of working women. The olive oil yield for the West Bank
in 2019 is estimated to reach a record 27,000 tons, an 84 per cent
increase over the previous year. This is due to the alternate fruit-
bearing “on and off seasons” and to less infestation by the olive
fruit fly during the current season. But the realization of a
potential record yield is compromised due to access restrictions and
attacks and intimidation by Israeli settlers. Palestinians with
olive groves located in the closed area between the Barrier and the
‘Green Line’ (also known as the ‘Seam Zone’), and in the vicinity of
Israeli settlements, face year-round access restrictions and threats
that prevent them from safely maintaining their olive-based
livelihoods.[ak] | 3/12/2019 |
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| Activists in the Jordan Valley | | Video - Social TV - A short day`s escort with the shepherds in the
Jordan Valley reveals the distress and humiliation they experience
from the settlers in the nearby outposts, backed by IDF soldiers. The
number of Palestinians in the 1.6 million-acre valley is getting
smaller by the year as part of the Zionist enterprise. In 85% of the
land in the valley it is prohibited to live there, build, lay
infrastructure, graze or cultivate. Those who come to the aid of the
Palestinians and provide them with some security are human rights
activists, the Valley Coalition. They accompany the shepherds to
pasture and provide human protection for them. (rh) | 3/12/2019 |
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| PALESTINE PULSE Why the West Bank went silent when Israel attacked Gaza | | Adnan Abu Amer - Al-Monitor - Amid the recent military flare-up in
Gaza, there were no protests, sit-ins or strikes on the West Bank to
express support for the Palestinians trapped in the besieged enclave.
The lack of public displays of solidarity has reportedly left
Palestinians in Gaza angry and bewildered. The military escalation
kicked off by Israel`s assassination of Islamic Jihad military
commander Baha Abu al-Ata on Nov. 12 left 34 Palestinians dead and
111 injured along with 65 Israelis wounded.(rh)
| 3/12/2019 |
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| The Systematic Torture of Palestinians in Israeli Detention | | Yara Hawari - Al-Shabaka - The recent case of Samer Arbeed
highlighted once again the systematic use of torture against
Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons. Israeli soldiers arrested
Arbeed at his home in Ramallah on September 25, 2019. They beat him
severely before taking him to Al Moscobiyye detention center in
Jerusalem for interrogation. Two days later, according to his lawyer,
he was hospitalized as a result of severe torture, and lay in
critical condition for several weeks. A judicial body had authorized
the Israeli Secret Service, the Shin Bet, to use "exceptional
methods" to extract information in this case without going through
the courts. This led Amnesty International to condemn what happened
to Arbeed as "legally-sanctioned torture." (rh) | 3/12/2019 |
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| Criticism Of Israel Is Not Antisemiticism | | John Scales Avery - Countercurrents - Criticism of the state of
Israel is by no means the same as antisemitism. We can acknowledge
the great contrubutions of Jewish culture and brilliant Jewish
individuals, and at the same time criticize the state of Israel.
There is much to criticize. The international community was unanimous
in condemning apartheid in South Africa, but the state of Israel has
pursued a policy of apartheid as cruel as that of South Africa – or
perhaps even worse. Furthermore, Israel has repeatedly launched
aggressive military attacks and wars against its neighbours, Lebanon
and Syria, and is threatening to attack Iran.(rh) | 3/12/2019 |
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| Bennett plans building Jewish neighborhood in Hebron | | Elisha Ben Kimon,Yoav Zitun,Elior Levy - Ynet News - Bennet
instructed the military to begin the official process by advising the
Palestinian municipality of the plan to construct housing for Jewish
settlers in what had been the produce market which was closed in
1994. According to the proposed plan, the now-empty shops on the
street level will remain in Palestinian hands while housing units
will be built on the top floors to house settlers.The disputed
territory was home for both Jews and Arabs before Arab riots broke
out in 1929, in which dozens of local Jews were killed. The riots of
August 1929 began when a long-running dispute over access to
Jerusalem holy sites escalated into violence. Members of the local
Arab community launched savage attacks on Jewish neighbors and their
institutions, killing at least 67 Jews.(rh) | 3/12/2019 |
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| For Hebron Settlers, New Neighborhood Announced by Israel Is Only the Beginning | | Amira Hass - Ha`aretz - With Defense Minister Bennett’s backing, the
Hebron settlers aim to Judaize the city’s historic old wholesale
market. The market had been closed for closed for the past two
decades, the shops standing empty, but until now the Israeli
authorities have respected the Hebron municipality`s status as "a
protected tenant". Now, that is being overturned. Bennet has granted
the settlers` long standing demand for "an urban renewal plan" under
which the structure would be demolished and new housing units for
Jewish Israeli settlers be erected in its place. The center of
Hebron has long since been taken over by the settlers, severe
restrictions placed on the Palestinians living there with the
conscious intention to make their lives into hell and make them go
away - which was successful in many of the cases. The settlers also
changed the names of the streets in their enclave, replacing the
Arabic names with Hebrew names expressing blatant Israeli Jewish
nationalism. But for them, that is only the beginning - a map spread
by the settlers gives similar Hebrew names also to streets in the
other parts of Hebron, which were not (yet?) taken over by the
settlers. [ak] | 3/12/2019 |
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| Gaza`s surviving al-Sawarka children struggle after Israel raid | | Ali Younes - Aljazeera - Mohamad Awad, a member of the al-Sawarka
Bedouin tribe and a neighbour of the family, told Al Jazeera the
Israeli bombing was a "war crime" because Rasmi and his brother
Mohamed were civilians and had nothing to do with any armed
group."They raised sheep and were barely making ends meet before they
were killed," he said. Awad denied the Israel army`s claim that Rasmi
was a member of Islamic Jihad, and said he was an employee of the
Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority (PA) government. (rh) | 3/12/2019 |
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| Israel Approves Extra Funding for West Bank Settlements | | Noa Landau - Palestine Chronicle - Israel approved an extra 40
million shekels ($11.5 million) for settlements in the occupied West
Bank yesterday, reported Haaretz. The majority of the funding
allocation approved by the cabinet – 34.5 million shekels ($9.9
million) – is reportedly a one-time grant for “security needs” of
Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory.The
remaining 5.5 million shekels ($1.6 million) is “for the construction
of first aid stations”, reported Haaretz. (rh) | 3/12/2019 |
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| ISRAEL PULSE Withholding Palestinians’ remains not befitting Israel | | Yossi Beilin - Al-Monitor - Israel’s political right is convinced it
has the solution to terrorism and that implementing it will wipe out,
once and for all, the security threats the country faces without
making peace with the Palestinians. Their would-be solutions have
encompassed a variety of ideas, including instituting the death
penalty for convicted terrorists, demolishing the family homes of
assailants captured or killed while committing terrorist acts,
sealing off attackers` homes, and to top it off, threatening to
withhold the bodies of perpetrators from their families.(rh)
| 3/12/2019 |
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| Palestinian shot in back amid laughter in shocking video comes forward | | Yumna Patel - Mondoweiss - "The grainy video was made in 2018 by Israeli
soldiers and films Karam Qawasmi in a tunnel as a sponge-tipped bullet strikes
him in the back, he then falls to the ground. The clip picks up Qawasmi’s screams
of pain as well as laughter" [ry] | 2/12/2019 |
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| Israeli Forces Shoot and Kill Palestinain Teen in Hebron | | IMEMC & Agencies - "Badawi Khaled al-Masalma, 18, was shot dead, on
Saturday night, by Israeli soldiers in the town of Beit Awwa, west of Hebron" [ry] | 2/12/2019 |
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| Shooting the messenger | | Jaclynn Ashly -
Electronic Intifada
"Moath Amarneh lost his eye to a 0.22 caliber Ruger rifle bullet.
Colloquially, the bullet is known as the “two-two.” It is a sniper
bullet whose use by the Israeli military to control and suppress
Palestinian crowds has been increasing for years.The particular
bullet that took Amerneh’s vision was fired at some point on 15
November. According to his own testimony, the bullet hit a nearby
object, exploded, and fragments flew into his left eye.His injury
sparked a solidarity campaign involving thousands of media
professionals and supporters, hoping to raise awareness of the very
real and present dangers that beset Palestinian journalists.Dozens
of journalists have been injured and two have been killed covering
demonstrations in the West Bank and Gaza since last year." ca | 29/11/2019 |
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| Israel Limits West Bank Farmers` Access to Lands Near Green Line | | Hagar Shezaf - Haaretz - Israel has tightened its restrictions on
Palestinian farmers entering the area between the separation fence
and Israeli territory. Until now, Palestinians who own land in this
area have been able to acquire agricultural entry permits for the
broad purpose of “maintaining their connection to the land.” But
under new regulations issued by Israel’s Civil Administration in the
West Bank, the purpose of these permits has been narrowed, and they
will also only be good for a certain number of entries. (rh) | 26/11/2019 |
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| Israel Expels Human Rights Watch Director for Opposition to Illegal Settlements | | Julia Conley - Truthout - Omar Shakir was forced out of the country
three weeks after the Israeli Supreme Court upheld the government’s
decision to revoke his work visa on the grounds that he supports a
boycott of Israel. Neither Shakir nor Human Rights Watch (HRW)
endorses a boycott of the country; they do oppose businesses which
operate in Israeli settlements in the West Bank, as the settlements
violate the 1949 Geneva Conventions. (rh) | 26/11/2019 |
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| Dog bites Palestinian | | Amos Gvirtz - Don`t say we didn`t know 673 - On Friday, November 15, 2019, Palestinians of the village A-Tawane (in the South Hebron Hills) were harvesting their olives. Jewish settler-colonists from Havat Maon assaulted the harvesters, in an area in which they are forbidden to enter by the regional commander`s order. Palestinians who came there were attacked by the settler-colonists, and a settler-colonist`s dog bit a Palestinian. The dog`s owner escaped from the policemen who arrived on the spot to take the settler-colonists` details... None of the assailants were arrested.
[bz] | 26/11/2019 |
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| A spike in both home demolitions and settlement building in East Jerusalem is forcing Palestinians out of their houses — and jobs. | | Judith Sudilovsky - +972 - His home in Silwan, which he shared with his parents, joined the ranks of the 155 Palestinian houses in East Jerusalem the Jerusalem municipality has demolished so far this year. The reason: it had been built without a permit.
Abbasi, whose home was built in 2011, said they had been trying to get a building permit for years. [bz] | 26/11/2019 |
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| Palestinians accuse Israel of negligence after prisoner dies of cancer | | Times of Israel - 35 Sami Abu Diak, a Palestinian detainee from the
Fateh Movement serving three life sentences for for involvement in
the killing of three alleged Palestinian collaborators, died of
cancer in an Israeli hospital. The Palestinian Prisoner Society
tweeted "The last wish of political prisoner Sami Abu Diak was to
die in his mother`s arms. Israel denied this wish, even when it was
clear he was on the verge of death. This morning Sami took his last
breath alone, handcuffed until the last moment to his hospital
bed." Palestinians also assert that over the past years, the Israeli
Prison Authority failed to provide Abu Diak with the medical
attention needed for a cancer patient, which could have saved - or
at least significantly prolonged - his life. The issue of Abu Diak`s
death in detention was added to the Day of Rage, already called to
protest the US declaring Israeli settlements legal. [ak] | 26/11/2019 |
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| Israel begins destroying Palestinian homes in West Bank | | BBC/Al Jazeera - (...) in spite of this area being supposed to be administered by the Palestinian Authority! [bz] | 25/11/2019 |
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| As rockets paralyze half the country, was eliminating Abu al-Ata worth it? | | JUDAH ARI GROSS - The Times of Israel - The assassination of
Palestinian Islamic Jihad top commander Baha Abu al-Ata in the
predawn hours of Tuesday morning prompted a massive retaliation by
the Iran-backed terror group, which immobilized large parts of the
country for two days, raising serious questions about the utility of
such a targeted killing. The conspicuous timing of the strike also
prompted harsh criticism in some opposition quarters of Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was accused of ordering the
assassination in order to force his political opponent, Benny Gantz,
to scuttle plans to form a coalition without Netanyahu’s Likud party,
though Gantz firmly backed the operation. (rh)
| 19/11/2019 |
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| How Western Media Bias Allows Israel to Getaway with Murder in Gaza | | Ramzy Baroud - Palestine Chronicle - An Israeli attack on Gaza was
imminent, and not because of any provocations by Palestinian groups
in the besieged, impoverished Gaza Strip. The Israeli military
escalation was foreseeable because it factors neatly in Israel’s
contentious political scene. The war was not a question of “if”, but
“when”. The answer came on November 12, when the Israeli military
launched a major strike against Gaza, killing an Islamic Jihad
Commander, Bahaa Abu al-Ata, along with his wife Asma. (rh) | 19/11/2019 |
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| Israel’s relentless violence on Gaza met by global silence | | The Gray Zone - Information Clearing House - A ceasefire has been
reached in Gaza after Israel launched a wave of airstrikes that
killed 34 Palestinians, including eight members of one family. Ali
Abunimah of The Electronic Intifada discusses Israel’s latest
bombings, which come after more than one year of weekly, deadly
Israeli attacks on non-violent Palestinian demonstrators.(rh) | 19/11/2019 |
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| News Alert: Trump administration says Israel`s West Bank settlements don`t violate international law | | The Washington Post - Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the
Trump administration, as it did with recognition of Jerusalem as the
Israeli capital and Israel`s sovereignty over the disputed Golan
Heights, had simply “recognized the reality on the ground.” (rh) | 19/11/2019 |
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| Looking beyond ‘women and children’ in Gaza’s casualties | | Nada Elia - Mondoweiss - Once again, I am reading the statistics
about the casualties from Israel’s latest raids on the Gaza Strip,
and one again, I am deeply disturbed by the emphasis on the number of
women and children. In Israel’s November 11-13 raids on the Gaza
Strip, one third of the killed, and close to sixty percent of the
injured, are women and children.(rh) | 19/11/2019 |
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| Gaza attacks widen gap between Israel`s Arab parties, Gantz in coalition talks | | Daoud Kuttab - Al-Monitor - The possibility that the Arab Joint list
will play some role in helping Benny Gantz, head of the Blue and
White party, create a minority government has all but ended with the
latest strikes on the Gaza Strip and Gantz’s public support for the
attacks. Johnny Mansour, a Haifa-based historian and political
science lecturer at Beit Berl College in Israel, told Al-Monitor
talks between the Joint List and Gantz are over. “It is clear that
these talks are over — while the discussion was never about joining
the coalition but supporting it from outside with the aim of pushing
[Benjamin] Netanyahu out [of coalition talks]. However, Netanyahu
superseded this possibility by his attack on Gaza and forced Gantz’s
hand by having the former chief of staff support the attacks on
Gaza.” (rh)
| 19/11/2019 |
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| Gaza: Eight family members killed, 12 critical in Israeli raids Three adults and 5 children were killed in attacks while 12 other Palestinian family members in critical condition. | | Aljazeera - Gaza Strip - Hundreds of Palestinians carrying black
Islamic Jihad flags gathered at Al-Mujahideen Mosque in central Gaza
on Thursday to attend funeral prayers for eight members of the Abu
Malhous family. The eight family members were killed by Israeli air
raids in the early hours of Thursday in Deir al-Balah. They were
among 34 Palestinians killed by Israeli air raids over the Gaza Strip
during two days of cross-border fighting between Israel and the
Islamic Jihad. At least 63 Israelis also received treatment for
injuries from rocket fire from Gaza.-rh | 19/11/2019 |
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| Gaza tensions threaten chances for minority Israeli government Read more: https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2019/11/israel-arabs-avigdor-liberman-joint-list-party-minority.html#ixzz65650atOb | | Afif Abu Much - Al-Monitor - Tensions between Israel and Gaza
escalated the morning of Nov. 12 with the assassination of senior
Islamic Jihad member Baha Abu al-Atta and a retaliatory barrage of
rocket fire on Israeli towns in the south, the lowlands and
metropolitan Tel Aviv. As it happened, the escalation comes in the
midst of coalition talks and while members of the Joint List are
considering supporting a Gantz-led minority government. One might
wonder whether the Joint List’s Knesset members remain free to
reconsider their interests as Israeli Arabs who want to integrate
into Israeli society by offering outside support to the minority
government headed by Blue and White’s Benny Gantz. Or does it mean
that they have shifted their focus to their brothers and sisters in
Gaza, leaving the possibility of a minority government to collapse?
(rh)
| 19/11/2019 |
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| Attacking Palestine’s future | | Greg Shupak -
Electronic Intifada
"Traveling across Palestine, as I did to give lectures earlier this
year, means following a perpetually fresh trail of
repression.Omnipresent are the prison guard towers, the barbed wire,
the Israeli soldiers with their massive guns and the separation
wall.The day before an event at which I was speaking in Beit Sahour,
a small town adjacent to Bethlehem, residents held a funeral for
Sajid Mizher, a 17-year-old volunteer medic Israeli soldiers had
just shot dead in Dheisheh refugee camp despite his wearing an
identifying vest..." ca
| 16/11/2019 |
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| Israeli Extrajudicial Execution Policy Resumed: IOF Airstrike Kills Senior Leader of Islamic Jihad, and his Wife, in Gaza | | Palestinian Center for Human Rights - According to PCHR
investigation, at approximately 04:00 on Tuesday, IOF warplanes fired
a missile at Bahaa’ Salim Hassan Abulatta’s house (42), member of the
al-Quds Brigades’ military bureau which is the armed wing of the
Islamic Jihad movement, and he was in charge of its northern Gaza
Strip activity. Abulatta and his wife, Israa’ Mohammed Hassan
Abulatta (38), were killed during the targeted airstrike on their
apartment, on the second floor of a residential building, resulting
in complete destruction. The victims’ bodies were extracted from the
rubble at the UNRWA school across the street from their apartment due
to the extreme intensity of the explosion: his body was found near
the gates, while his wife’s was found within the school.
Furthermore, 7 others sustained shrapnel wounds in the airstrike,
including 4 of the victims’ children (including two little girls):
Salim (19); Mohammed (18); Fatima al-Zahra’ (13); Layan (11); two
women from the neighborhood: Hanan Shehda Mohyaldeen Helles (26);
Shereen Fouad Khalil Helles (21); and Mahmoud Fouad Abdulrahman
Abulatta, victim’s bodyguard. The injuries were reported to be minor
and moderate. - rh
| 12/11/2019 |
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| `Israel’s return to the policy of extrajudicial assassination is reckless and criminal. | | WAFA - Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, PLO Dept. of Public Diplomacy - "Israel’s return
to the illegal and criminal policy of extrajudicial assassination
and its wilful disregard for the lives of the Palestinian civilian
population is reckless and criminal. Netanyahu is exploiting the
culture of impunity to commit unchecked crimes and provoke a grave
escalation for petty political and personal gain.
On orders from the highest political echelons, the Israeli army is
launching an assault on the Palestinian people, providing cover for
the cold-blooded extrajudicial killing of a civilian in Hebron on
Monday then ordering the assassination of two senior figures in Gaza
City and Damascus by bombing their homes and targeting their
families. [ak]
| 12/11/2019 |
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| Army Kills Four Palestinians, Injures 25, In Gaza | | IMEMC - Zaki Ghannam, 25, was killed when the army fired missiles
targeting several militants in Beit Lahia, in the northern part of
the Gaza Strip, also leading to the injury of three Palestinians.
Earlier, Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian teen, identified as
Mohammad Atiyya Hammouda, 18, and seriously injured two others, in
Jabalia, in northern Gaza. These killings are added to original
Israeli attack which set off the present fighting - the
extrajudicial assassination of Baha’ Abu al-‘Ata, 42, a senior
leader of the Islamic Jihad, by firing missiles at a residential
building in Gaza city, also killing his wife Asma’, and wounding
their children Salim, Mohammad, Lian, and Fatima az-Zahra’, in
addition to their neighbor Hanan Hallas. It is worth mentioning that
the Israeli army also attempted to assassinate a senior leader of
the Islamic Jihad in the Syrian capital, Damascus, killing two,
including his son, and injuring nine others, among them the grandson
of the leader.[ak] | 12/11/2019 |
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| What would Israelis do if Palestinians disappeared overnight? | | Natasha Roth - +972 - Azem’s novel is a work of magical realism: she
uses the impossible scenario of millions of Palestinians vanishing in
the blink of an eye in order to pull at the loose threads of Zionist
mythology about Israel’s establishment. Accordingly, several eerie
scenes in the novel have a ring of familiarity to them for anyone who
has read about the Nakba: homes with plates of food uneaten on the
table; televisions still switched on; house keys still hanging by the
front door — empty rooms that are innately disturbing for how
undisturbed they looked, as if the residents had been suddenly
spirited away in silence.-rh | 12/11/2019 |
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| Survey: Health care gaps between Jews & Arabs | | Physicians for Human Rights - Without proper investment in primary
care, conditions that could have been diagnosed and prevented or
treated early, are discovered only at a stage where treatment and
rehabilitation are more expensive - with the cost borne by the health
care system and taxpayers. The “savings” on preventative medicine are
swallowed by the high cost of emergency care, long hospital stays,
medication and everything these involve. This state of affairs is
enabled by the capitation system, which mostly hurts disempowered
groups that require multiple services, particularly preventative
care. Under this system, Israeli health funds have little incentive
to improve the quality of the services they provide and prefer not to
invest too much in these population groups. The Ministry of Health
and the Ministry of Finance bear a responsibility to find a solution
for this situation and ensure a fair and equal distribution of
resources within health funds, while strengthening the geographic
and social periphery.-rh
| 12/11/2019 |
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| Jerusalem: Israel approves controversial Old City cable car plan | | bbc.com - A controversial plan to build a cable car network in
Jerusalem`s Old City to transport visitors to one of Judaism`s
holiest sites has been approved by Israel`s housing cabinet. The
cable cars will ferry up to 3,000 people an hour about 1.4km (0.9
miles) from West Jerusalem to the Western Wall in occupied East
Jerusalem. Israel`s government says the project will reduce traffic
congestion. But opponents say it will damage the area`s historic
landscape. They intend to petition Israel`s High Court of Justice to
stop it.-rh | 12/11/2019 |
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| The unbearable heaviness of finding freedom outside Gaza | | Salsabeel H. Hamdan -
+972
"For a Palestinian, Gaza is a place from which escape is nearly
impossible. Israel has, for the past 13 years, denied all but a tiny
number of applicants the right to travel outside the congested,
blockaded strip of land that is often described as the world’s
largest open-air prison. For those fortunate few who manage to
attain a permit to depart, the extreme shock of life outside Gaza is
almost unbearable. Freedom is painful: it triggers the release of
long-suppressed emotions, and the realization that a lifetime of
unending psychological trauma has rendered them unable to normalize
the understanding that their lives can be free of fear, scarcity,
and helplessness." ca | 8/11/2019 |
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| On Jared Kushner’s Palestinophobia | | Haidar Eid - Mondoweiss - Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s Middle East
adviser and son-in-law is at it again. In June, he cast doubt about the
ability of the Palestinian people to govern themselves. And, as if that
was not enough, he made it absolutely clear this week that Israel is
not responsible for Palestinian hardship.- rh | 5/11/2019 |
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| If Not Now, then When? And if Not 2020 Presidential Candidates, then Who? | | Benay Blend -Palestine Chronicle - According to Kane, for example,
Mayer says that IfNotNow plans to publicly question presidential
candidates about such issues as Israel’s “52-year” (not 71?)
occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza, as well as
issues surrounding “Arabs” (not Palestinians?) living in the ’48.
Their questions skirt, however, such topics as Palestinian refugees’
legal right of return as well as military aid to Israel. These
omissions, Kane explains, are in line with the group’s broader
mission of targeting the American Jewish establishment’s support for
Israel’s occupation. This stance also seems to fall within IfNotNow’s
concern with the future of Judaism which they understand will be in
jeopardy if the Occupation continues. As Max Zahn explains, their
position derives, too, from “the contradictory demands of allyship
and movement building.”-rh | 5/11/2019 |
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| Israeli Soldiers Attack School, Abduct A Child And Injure Many, In Jerusalem | | Imemc News - Israeli soldiers invaded, on Saturday morning, a
Palestinian school in the al-‘Isawiya town, in occupied East
Jerusalem, and abducted one child, in addition to causing many others
to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation after throwing gas bombs
into their school. Media sources said the soldiers abducted Saleh
Tawil, in the al-‘Isawiya Secondary School for Boys, and took him to
an unknown destination. They added that the soldiers fired gas bombs,
in addition to hurling gas grenades into the campus, causing many
children to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation, the Wadi Hilweh
Information Center in Silwan (Silwanic) has reported.-rh | 5/11/2019 |
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| Palestinian home destroyed in Silwan, six targeted in Yatta | | IMEMC - In Silwan, an area of Palestinian East Jerusalem especially
targeted by settlers, the Israeli municipal officials - accompanied
by Israeli police and special forces - demolished the two-story
home of Mu’tasim al-Abbasi and his family. As usual, the reason
given was that the house had been ‘built without a permit’. (Israeli
authorities have not granted building permits to Palestinian
homeowners since they began occupying the city in 1967.) In another
part of the West Bank, the Yatta District of the South Hebron Hills,
Israeli forces arrived at the hamlets of Maghayir al-Abeed and
Khallet ed-Dabaa, bearing written notices of their intention to
destroy six homes made of bricks and insulated panels, which local
residents built with the help of international organizations. In
this case, not only are the individual homes "illegal" but the
entire two tiny villages are "illegal" as a whole and "just should
not be there" as far as the Israeli authorities are concerned. [ak] | 5/11/2019 |
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| Israel to establish waste-to-energy plant in settlement of Ma’ale Adumim | | B’Tselem - "While this may seem an ecologically positive development, the plant
is set to be built within the West Bank, despite the prohibition in international law
on exploiting resources in an occupied territory for the benefit of the occupying
power" [ry] | 4/11/2019 |
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| `Punitive`: Palestinian rights activist slams Israel`s travel ban | | Linah Alsaafin - Al Jazeera - Laith Abu Zeyad`s travel ban by Israel is a `sinister
move` designed to silence critics of the government, Amnesty says [ry] | 4/11/2019 |
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| Israeli army arrests Palestinian feminist lawmaker, months after her release | | Jaclynn Ashly -
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"Dozens of Israeli soldiers arrested Khalida Jarrar, a prominent
Palestinian left-wing lawmaker and activist, after raiding her home
in central Ramallah city in the occupied West Bank overnight on
Thursday...Suha Ghassan, Jarrar’s 29-year-old daughter, was the only
other person at home with her mother during the raid. " ca | 1/11/2019 |
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