Jerusalem
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| Israel Police deny Arab reports that they questioned Palestinian 4-year-old | | Tzvi Joffre - Jerusalem Post - The Palestinian WAFA news agency reported on Tuesday that Israel Police summoned Muhammad Rabi` Elayyan, a 4 year old resident of the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya, for questioning on Monday at the police station on Salah Eddin Street in Jerusalem on suspicion of throwing stones at a police vehicle.
When they arrived at the station, the police officers said that he wasn`t summoned and that there was no questioning. Elayyan showed the officers a paper confirming his name and Muhammad`s name.
"They threatened that next time they would take Muhammad and my answer was that Muhammad did not know what `army` meant and he didn`t know about the stones!" [ak]
| 30/7/2019 |
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| Bahrain, Jordan, France among those condemning Jerusalem area demolitions | | Times of Israel - Bahrain, which recently made headlines by hosting
the US-led economic summit that is part of the Trump
administration’s peace plan, slammed the demolition, citing its
“rejection of these illegal acts which constitute a flagrant
violation of the rights of the brotherly Palestinian people.”
Jordan, which has a peace treaty with Israel, also slammed the
demolitions, saying they and other Israeli policies in the West Bank
“blatantly contradict the agreements signed between Israel and the
Palestinians, and international laws.” France condemned the
“dangerous precedent” on Monday, saying it violated international
law.
“These demolitions have taken place for the first time in an area
controlled by the Palestinian Authority under the Oslo Accords. They
represent a dangerous precedent, which poses a direct threat to the
two-state solution,” the French foreign ministry said in a
statement. “In line with the EU’s longstanding position, we expect
the Israeli authorities to immediately halt the ongoing
demolitions,” said a spokesman for the EU’s foreign policy arm,
which represents the bloc’s 28 member states. Conspicuously missing
from the list of condemnations was, of course, Trumps` United States
- which has yet to issue even a single condemnation of any Israeli
act against the Palestinians. [ak] | 23/7/2019 |
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| Demolitions in Sur Baher set dangerous precedent for Palestinian communities | | Kate O’Rourke - Norwegian Refugee Council - The majority of the
structures are located in Areas A and B, which fall under
Palestinian civil control, including for planning and building
matters, as designated by the Oslo Accords.
“Israel’s security arguments to justify these demolitions sets a
dangerous precedent that leaves thousands at heightened risk,” said
NRC’s Palestine Country Director, Kate O’Rourke. “The commission of
grave breaches of international humanitarian law must be challenged
by the international community.”
An Israeli military order issued in 2011 designated a buffer zone of
100 to 300 meters on both sides of the separation barrier in Sur
Baher and prohibited construction in the Wadi al-Hummus area of the
neighborhood as a security measure. While the number of structures
facing similar risk is difficult to estimate, local residents say
that roughly 100 additional buildings could be at heightened risk of
demolition in Sur Baher alone.[ak] | 23/7/2019 |
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| Hundreds Lose Shelter as Israeli Forces Destroy Dozens of Housing Units in Sur Baher | | Palestinian Center for Human Rights - The destroyed houses include:
1. Isma`il `Ebeidiyah: a 2-sotry house built on 250 square
meters and sheltering a 7-member family, including 5 children;
2. Ghaleb Hawan and his son Monther: a 2-story house built on
210 square meters and sheltering a 10-member family, including 6
children;
3. Belal al-Kiswani: a 1-story house sheltering a 5-member
family, including 3 children;
4. `Alaa` `Amirah: a 2-story house built on 400 square meters
(uninhabited)
5. Mohammed Idris Abu Teir: a 7-story building comprised of 40
residential apartments (under-construction)
6. Ja`afar Abu Hamed: a 1-story house (under-construction);
7. Mohammed Salem al-Atrash: a 4-sotry building (under-
construction); and
8. `Ali Khalil Hamadah: a 4-sotry building (under-construction)
It should be mentioned that on 13 June 2019, the Israeli High Court
approved the Israeli military’s decision to demolish 16 residential
buildings comprised of 100 apartments in Wadi al-Humus neighborhood
under the pretext of being near the annexation wall which was
established on the village`s lands. [ak] | 23/7/2019 |
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| The demolitions in Wadi al-Humos: The excuse – security, The strategy – a Jewish demographic majority | | Roy Yellin - B`Tselem - This morning, Monday, July 22, 2019, the
Israeli authorities began demolishing buildings in the neighborhood
of Wadi al-Humos, the eastern extension of Sur Baher in East
Jerusalem. The move came after the Israeli Supreme Court rejected
the residents’ appeal and ruled there was no legal barrier to the
demolitions. Israel intends to demolish a total of 13 buildings,
including at least 14 apartments, the vast majority of which are in
various stages of construction. Until this morning, the buildings
were home to two families including 17 people, of which 11 are
minors. Some of them were built in Area A, with building permits
issued by the Palestinian Authority, which holds planning powers in
those areas. Wadi al-Humos is outside of Jerusalem’s municipal
boundary and constitutes the main land reserve for the development
of Sur Baher.[ak] | 23/7/2019 |
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| By the Jaffa Gate, final showdown looms in battle over Jerusalem’s historic hotel | | Sarah Helm - The Guardian - Palestinian tenant of New Imperial Hotel makes
plea after supreme court backs Jewish settlers’ bid to buy property [ry] | 22/7/2019 |
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| Israeli forces prepare to demolish about 100 Palestinian homes | | Al Jazeera - Bulldozers accompanied by hundreds of Israeli soldiers and police
move in to Sur Baher ahead of the planned demolition [ry] | 22/7/2019 |
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| Israeli demolition order on Jerusalem outskirts stokes Palestinian fears | | Ynetnews -
"The deadline for residents of Sur Baher to remove the buildings
expired on Friday after the Supreme Court ruled in June that the
structures in question violated a construction ban.Sur Baher is a
Palestinian community that lies southeast of Jerusalem`s city
centre. A sprawling village, it straddles the line between East
Jerusalem and the West Bank. "I don`t have any other place to live.
I don`t have an alternative," said Ismail Obeideh, a father of six.
He said he had spent 1.2 million shekels ($338.8 million) building
the family house that is now under threat. Obeideh and other Sur
Baher residents said they did not need Israel`s permission to build
their homes because they had received it from the Palestinian
Authority, which since the Oslo interim peace deals of the 1990s
exercises limited self-rule over parts of the West Bank. "Everyone
here is panicking - they put all of their savings into buying an
apartment or building a house," said Idris Abu Tair, 62." ca | 20/7/2019 |
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| UN Officials Call On Israel To Halt Sur Baher Demolitions | | IMEMC News & Agencies -
"UN officials, on Wednesday, called on Israel to halt plans for mass
demolitions in the neighborhood of Sur Baher, East Jerusalem.This
came in a statement by Jamie McGoldrick (Humanitarian Coordinator),
Gwyn Lewis (Director of West Bank Operations for UNRWA), and James
Heenan (Head of OHCHR in the occupied Palestinian territory),
according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian
Affairs (OCHA).“We are following very closely developments in the
Sur Baher area of the Jerusalem governorate. Seventeen Palestinians,
including nine Palestine refugees, face the risk of displacement,
and over 350 others risk massive property loss, due to the Israeli
authorities’ intention to demolish 10 buildings, including around 70
apartments, due to their proximity to the West Bank barrier. One
month ago, following the exhaustion of almost all domestic legal
remedies, Israeli forces sent the residents, a “Notice of Intent to
Demolish” which will expire tomorrow, 18 July,” the UN officials
said in their statement." ca
| 20/7/2019 |
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| Army Abducts Fifteen Palestinians Celebrating High-School Graduation In Jerusalem | | IMEMC -
"Palestinian sources said dozens of Palestinians, including the graduating students, were celebrating the graduations, and using fireworks.
They added that illegal Israeli colonialist settlers, living on Palestinian lands in and around the area, complained to the army and the police, and alleged that the Palestinians were also firing rounds of live ammunition." - id | 18/7/2019 |
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| Mondoweiss: Israel is planning on demolishing dozens of East Jerusalem homes under PA control | | Yumna Patel -
ISM -
"The Obeidiyas’ home is one of 10 buildings slated for an unprecedented mass demolition by Israeli authorities in the occupied East Jerusalem town of Sur Bahir." - id | 18/7/2019 |
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| 237 Homes to be Demolished in Jerusalem | | IMEMC -
"The head of Wadi al-Hummus Committee, Hamada Hamada, told the Palestinian Information Centre that the planned demolition campaign will include 237 apartments that are homes for about 500 people. He added that the Jerusalem municipality asked the residents to demolish their own homes, or it would do the demolition and force them to pay steep fines." - id | 11/7/2019 |
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| Deadly police harassment continues in Issawiya (East Jerusalem) | | Michal Peleg / Amos Gvirtz - Taayush / Don`t Say We Didn`t Know -
For over two weeks now, Israeli police has been provoking violent
clashes in Issawiya (East Jerusalem). Police invade the village,
beat up people and arrest them, as well as handing out traffic
tickets; in this context, traffic tickets are a means of
harassment and intimidation, rather than motivated by genuine
concern for traffic violations. On Thursday, June 28, a solidarity
demonstration took place, joined by Israeli activists, demanding to
cease this harrassment. The policemen did not intervene during this
demonstration, but a police officer promised the residents that
after "the Americans" leave, the police would enter and "teach them
a lesson". An hour after the demonstration ended and dispersed,
large police and Border Police forces entered Issawiya. In the
mayhem that followed, and as a result of it, an Israeli police
officer fired live bullets and killed a 20-year old Palestinian.
Others were wounded and arrested. Police violence persisted at the
Hadassah Hospital emergency ward, where the wounded were taken. [ak] | 9/7/2019 |
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| East Jerusalem neighborhood bucks Israeli restrictions with mass funeral | | Daoud Kuttab -
Al-Monitor
" Mohammad Obeid was shot and killed at the age of 20 by Israeli
security personnel on June 27 in Issawiya during protests against a
park being planned to occupy land where some Palestinian homes are
scheduled for demolition. Israel admitted to killing Obeid, but said
the officers only fired at him after he threw fireworks at anti-riot
personnel. After Israeli troops seized the body, they had tried to
negotiate how he should be buried.The daily protests in Issawiya
have since escalated and spread. Eighty Palestinians suffered
varying degrees of injuries on June 28 in what the Palestinian media
are calling the “Issawiya intifada.” Arab News reported that Ahmad
Budeiri, a former BBC reporter who has been following events in
Issawiya, informed it that “the court ordered the body be given back
on condition the family agreed that only four people would attend
the funeral or they would be fined 20,000 shekels ($5,617).” Obeid’s
family rejected the Israeli diktats. They have not been fined." ca
| 6/7/2019 |
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| Using archeology in the service of nationalism | | Chemi Shiff&Yonathan Mizrachi -
+972
"The inauguration of a supposed ancient Jewish ‘Pilgrimage Road’ by
Ambassador David Friedman and White House envoy Jason Greenblatt is
a reminder that archeology is never as neutral as some would like to
believe...For Palestinians, the tunnel lies directly below the
neighborhood of Silwan, long coveted by Israeli settlers who are
actively working to Judaize the area." ca | 6/7/2019 |
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| Volunteers needed for protective presence in Isaawiya | | Guy Avni- Taayush - Following the large police operation in Issawiya
last night during the funeral procession and the arrest of three
residents, residents of Issawiya have requested international and
Israeli activist presence within Issawiya for the evenings of the
rest of the week, starting tonight. Our presence last night was
noted by residents and police, and we would like to continue
monitoring police interactions with residents. This is also a great
way to build relationships with the community of Issawiya,
especially the young people there! If we succeed in getting five
volunteers, we will go into Issawiya and stand in a central area,
together with residents who will escort us from the beginning to the
end of the shift and will also have two experienced Israeli
activists with us who have strong ties with the community.[ak] | 2/7/2019 |
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| Palestinians: 95 wounded in East Jerusalem clashes over weekend | | Yishai Porat - Ynet - Palestinian rioters hurl rocks and launch explosives at Israeli
security forces for third day in a row in protest over the fatal shooting of 20-year-
old man from the neighborhood of Issawiya [ry] | 1/7/2019 |
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| Under Palestinian homes, US envoys hammer open an ancient East Jerusalem road | | Jacob Magid - The Times of Israel - Angering PA and anti-settlement groups,
David Friedman and Jason Greenblatt attend inauguration of ancient Jewish
pilgrimage road excavated in Silwan neighborhood [ry] | 1/7/2019 |
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| Israel releases Palestinian minister of Jerusalem affairs | | Al Jazeera - Hours-long detention came after Fadi al-Hadami joined Chilean
President Sebastian Pinera on tour of Al-Aqsa compound [ry] | 1/7/2019 |
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