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Life under occupation
Title		Description	Date
Prisoners who starved for art honored by Gaza show		Joe Catron - EI - "“The greatest achievements of the prisoners’ movement were in 1985,” Abu Jahil said. “We went on hunger strike to force the Israelis to allow us to make art, among other things. I myself went on hunger strike for 79 days.”" - id	22/5/2013
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13 year-old boy shot at by settlers, tortured by soldiers, denied medical attention		Update - ISM - "He said that the soldiers and settlement security official (DCI) threatened to kill him. No one from the village could come to the boy’s aid for risk of being shot at by the soldiers." - id	22/5/2013
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Delivering KFC by Tunnel, Not Too Fast but Satisfying		FARES AKRAM - NYT - "The French fries arrive soggy, the chicken having long since lost its crunch. A 12-piece bucket goes for about $27 here — more than twice the $11.50 it costs just across the border in Egypt." - id	22/5/2013
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Palestinians in West Bank`s Area C suffer in limbo		Edmund Sanders - Los Angeles Times - "Residents largely cut off from the Palestinian Authority say Israel is trying to drive them off the land by demolishing homes and withholding services." - id	22/5/2013
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Army raids: detentions, demolition of buildings, destruction of farmlands and irrigation systems		Saed Bannoura - IMEMC - In the past 24 hours, army raides in various parts of the west Bank resulted in: The detention of three residents, aged 22, 25 and 38 at Kufur Qalil village, south of Nablus; the uprooting of more than four Dunams (0.98 Acres) of agricultural lands in Al-Baq’a village, east of Hebron, planted with tomatos, beans, and zucchinis, as well as the destruction of irrigation systems; and the demolition of five commercial buildings at Barta’a Ash-Sharqiyya near Jenin.	21/5/2013
`Naturally and in and by themselves` (including 1968 occupation guidelines)		Shay Fogelman/Haaretz - Translation: Sol Salbe/Middle East News Service - 2) We must not undertake actions to develop and consolidate the West Bank and Gaza - we must not encourage private or public construction. 3) As long as they don`t permanently relocate to Israel, there is nothing wrong with regulated employment of Arabs in Israel. It`s better that Palestinian construction workers build Israel and not their own towns. bz	19/5/2013
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The Israeli army`s default position: Supporting the outlaws		Yossi Gurvitz /Yesh Din - +972 - The following day, everything went back to normal: the farmers went to their lands after coordinating it with the army; hoodlums who were seen coming from Kfar Tapuach or Tapuach Ma’arav prevented them from accessing the land with the use of violence and firearms; and IDF troops ordered the Palestinians to return home. So it goes. The IDF’s default action in the West Bank is collaboration with criminals. It is not the IDF’s fault alone; its policy is the result the entire government’s policy, and all of its branches. bz	19/5/2013
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17 Palestinians Injured In The Al-Arroub Refugee Camp,		Saed Bannoura - IMEMC - Palestinian medical sources reported that Friday 17 Palestinians have been injured by rubber-coated metal bullets and gas bombs fired by Israeli soldiers invading the Al-Arroub refugee camp, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron. [Just an example of what happened on the Friday following Nakba day (15.5) on the West Bank; more at http://www.imemc.org bz]	19/5/2013
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Settlers attack West Bank farmer twice a week		Jillian Kestler-D`Amours - The Electronic Intifada - Makhlouf’s home sits on the outskirts of the West Bank village of Asira al-Qibliya, only 500 meters from the illegal Israeli settlement outpost of Shalhevet Farm, an offshoot of the equally illegal settlement of Yitzhar. Makhlouf said that his house has been vandalized by Israeli settlers more than 100 times. The windows on Makhlouf’s two-story home all have bars on the outside to prevent them from shattering when settlers throw stones. Since the Shalhevet Farm outpost was established in 1999, Makhlouf has been barred from accessing some 16 dunums of his family’s land which was traditionally used to plant figs, grapes, olives and other trees, and from using a freshwater spring. bz	18/5/2013
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The meaning of solidarity in the Palestine movement		Sandra Tamari - Mondoweiss "There is no one Palestinian leadership. Oppression and exile have created divisions in the Palestinian polity and Palestinians have never had truly representative governance. This division serves Israel well and is a major source of concern for many Palestinians, some of whom have called for direct elections to a Palestinian National Council representative of Palestinians across the globe. The division between the PA and Hamas, fomented by the U.S., also serves Israeli interests. Criticizing the lack of Palestinian leadership without this context is disingenuous. The results of Zionist policies of fragmentation are often misunderstood by U.S. allies as political backwardness. It is important for non-Palestinians allies to examine all the ways in which this mostly unspoken and unconscious understanding of Palestinian capabilities shapes our organizing." ca	17/5/2013
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Solidarity shifts in Sheikh Jarrah: 17 to 20 May		Sheikh Jarrah Protest - "The Shamashne family has decided to erect a protest tent outside of their house, and the police is likely to try and take down such a tent, and even potentially threaten the family. As such, the family has asked us, Israeli and international activists, to come be present with them in the tent, starting immediately after the demonstration this Friday (at 4 PM in the neighbourhood) and continuing until the Supreme Court discussion on Monday.Access full text for schedule." ca	17/5/2013
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Gaza gastronomy		Harriet Sherwood - Guardian - "Islam, whose six children include a 13-year-old disabled son, is part of a small collective of women, nearly all mothers of disabled children, who offer cookery classes and homestays in the Aida camp." - id (for rh)	16/5/2013
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Israel freezes decision to transfer Jordan Valley lands to PA		Ma`an - Ma`an News Agency - "Israeli minister of defense Moshe Yaalon has given orders to suspend construction of a new Palestinian city"..."The land was supposed to be used for rebuilding the Palestinian village of Nuwiema in the Jordan Valley." - id (for rh)	16/5/2013
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Four Detained Legislators Receive Renewed Administrative Detention		Saed Bannoura - IMEMC - "The center said that the new orders were handed to detained legislator, Dr. Mahmoud Ar-Ramahi, legislator Yasser Masour, legislator Ahmad Attoun, and legislator Basem Za’areer." - ID	15/5/2013
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In photos: revisiting the survivors of Israel’s November assault on Gaza		Anne Paq - The Electronic Intifada - "I was already in Gaza prior to Israel’s deadly eight days of attacks launched in November 2012. Once I left, the people I had photographed and interviewed during that terrible week remained at the forefront of my thoughts." - id	15/5/2013
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PA to stop paying Israeli prisoner fines in June		Ma`an - Issa Qaraqe, Minister of Prisoners` Affairs, said that on June 1 The Palestinian Authority will stop paying fines imposed by Israel on Palestinian detainees, since "Paying the fines is theft and illegal economic plunder, which funds the Israeli occupation". However, relatives of prisoners criticized the move. "This decision is disastrous," said the wife of prisoner Ahmad al-Mughrabi, from Duheisha refugee camp in Bethlehem. ak	14/5/2013
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Settlers set wheat fields on fire		WAFA - In the latest of numerous such incidents, a group of settlers set fire to wheat fields in the town of Beit Furik, east of Nablus, and prevented Palestinians from putting down the fire. Earlier, settlers set fire to another wheat field in the same area - in this case in the village of Qaryut. ak	14/5/2013
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Marwan Barghouthi from prison: any talk of modifications on the 1967 borders must be rejected		Saed Bannoura - IMEMC - While calling on the Palestinian people to unite, Barghouti said that the Palestinians must reject all attempts that aim at forcing them to abandon their legitimate rights, to insist on a full and comprehensive Israeli withdrawal from all of the Palestinian territories Israel occupied in 1967, including Jerusalem, to ensure the full implementation of resolution 194, and the liberation of all detainees. bz	14/5/2013
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Army Kidnaps Several Palestinians In The West Bank		Saed Bannoura - IMEMC News - "Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Monday at dawn, several Palestinians, including an imam of a local mosque, in different parts of the occupied West Bank, after violently breaking into their homes and searching them. Armed clashes and injuries have been reported in the Jenin refugee camp"	13/5/2013
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UN decries rising poverty in east Jerusalem		Al-Jazeera - Source:Agencies "Israeli "segregation policies" have caused deep economic isolation and left more than 80 percent of Palestian children in east Jerusalem wallowing in poverty, the UN said in a report."Palestinian poverty in Jerusalem has risen steadily over the last decade," the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said in a statement on Thursday. UNCTAD chastised Israel for not doing enough to meet its obligations as an occupying power, urging the country to act "with vigour to improve economic conditions in east Jerusalem and the well-being of Palestinian residents." ca	10/5/2013
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Erekat: New settler homes `sabotage peace moves`		Ma`an News - "Chief PLO negotiator Saeb Erekat said the move sent a clear message to Washington that Israel was not interested in resuming the direct talks, frozen in 2010."We condemn this new decision which is proof that the Israeli government wants to sabotage and ruin the US administration`s efforts to revive the peace process," he told AFP."This is a message to the American administration and a blow to the peace process," he said, suggesting it would drag the region towards violence rather than peace." ca	10/5/2013
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Palestinians Protest Confiscation Of Cremisan Monastery Lands In Beit Jala		Saed Bannoura - IMEMC "A week ago, Father Ibrahim Shomaly, told the BBC that the issue here is not about politics, but about human rights. “The Church must hear the people when they suffer, this is not about politics”, Father Shomaly told the BBC, “There are 57 Palestinian Christians families that will lose their lands, losing their lands means losing their hope”.In 2004, the International Court issued an advisory ruling considering the Annexation Wall illegal." ca	10/5/2013
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Israel okays new settler homes near Ramallah		Al-Jazeera - AFP "Israel has given the go-ahead to build nearly 300 houses in a settlement near the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, an army spokesman has said, in a move likely to spark tensions as Washington seeks to restart peace talks.The announcement comes just two days after a report said Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel`s prime minister, had quietly ordered a freeze on tenders for new settler homes in a bid to give a chance to US-led efforts to revive stalled peace talks with the Palestinians." ca	10/5/2013
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Ofer`s stains		Aya Kaniuk and Tamar Goldschmidt - Mahsanmilim - Indeed he confessed all that was attributed to him, be it as it may. And who knows what the truth is, did he really put together those rifles, and what does that mean, and did they hand out three bullets or five or any at all, after all this is a plea bargain. Meaning that if he admits guilt, he will be doing less prison time than if he does not.-rh	9/5/2013
Uprooted Livelihoods : Palestinian Villages and Herding Communities in the Jordan Valley		Ma`an Development Center - The area compromises 28.5% of the West Bank and is naturally rich in water, fertile land, and other resources. Currently, there are 11,679 Israeli settlers and over 58,000 Palestinians in this vital region, but due to Israeli occupation policies that severely limit Palestinians’ access to their land and resources, the living standards between the two communities are blatantly separate and unequal.-rh	9/5/2013
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REPORT ON HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN THE SOUTHERN HEBRON HILLS		The Alternative Information Center - Intense, coordinated activity of Israeli army, police and settlers prevented local Palestinians from accessing their grazing and farm land situated near the settlements and outposts of the area. Nineteen such cases were recorded this month.-rh	9/5/2013
Leading Palestinian religious leader Grand Mufti of Jerusalem arrested for `encouraging religious disturbances`		ALISTAIR DAWBER - The Independent - Mr Ahmad Hussein, who was appointed by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in 2006, was arrested at his house and was taken for questioning at a nearby police station, “on suspicion of involvement in a disturbance that took place yesterday on Temple Mount,” according to Micky Rosenfeld an Israeli police spokesman. He was later released.-rh	9/5/2013
Palestinians March In Jerusalem To Counter Provocative Settler Procession		IMEMC & Agencies - Hundreds of Palestinians marched Wednesday in occupied Jerusalem, carrying Palestinians flags and chanting slogans for the liberation of Palestine and Jerusalem, to counter a provocative procession by extremist settlers who marched in the city chanting “Death to Arabs”. The Police attacked protesters and reporters, and kidnapped 21 Palestinians.-rh	9/5/2013
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Israel Wants Detainees To Pay For Their Medical Expenses		Saed Bannoura - IMEMC - "... this Israeli policy is a policy of extortion and blackmail, and is depriving the detainees from the urgently needed medical attention and treatment." - id	8/5/2013
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Army Kidnaps 13 Palestinians In Bethlehem, 2 In Jenin		Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies - "Monday at dawn, May 6 2013, Israeli soldiers invaded Beit Fajjar, Al-Khader and Beit Sahour, in the West Bank district of Bethlehem, and kidnapped 13 Palestinians. Army also invaded Jenin and kidnapped two residents"	6/5/2013
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Twelve Palestinians Injured Near Ramallah		Saed Bannoura - IMEMC - Ramallah, Saturday May 4 2013; Palestinian medical sources reported that eight Palestinians have been injured by Israeli army rubber-coated metal bullets, while four others suffered fractures and bruises after being attacked by Israeli settlers who invaded Ras Karkar village, west of the central West Bank city of Ramallah. [bz]	5/5/2013
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Soldiers Invade Kufur Qaddoum, Clash With Local Youths		Saed Bannoura - IMEMC - Friday, May 3 2013, Israeli soldiers, supported by an armored military bulldozer and armored vehicles, invaded the village of Kufur Qaddoum, near the northern West Bank city of Qilqilia, after violently dispersing the weekly protest, and clashed with dozens of local youth; several injuries have been reported. bz	4/5/2013
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International Workers’ Day: On the right to earn a living with dignity		B`Tselem - "International Workers’ Day, marked on 1 May, commemorates the historic struggle for the basic right to an eight-hour limit to the workday. More than a century after that goal was achieved, Palestinian workers must still strive for the very right to earn a living without risking their lives, for the opportunity to support their families and for those self-same basic workers’ rights of minimum wage and a limit to the number of hours in a workday. Under occupation, Palestinians are unable to realize these basic labor rights." ca	3/5/2013
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3 injured as Israeli forces fire at funeral in Beit Ummar		Ma`an News Agency - "Israeli forces fired tear gas and plastic-coated bullets at a funeral procession in Beit Ummar on Thursday afternoon, injuring three Palestinians, a local committee said. " ca	3/5/2013
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The solution is the problem		Saleh Al-Naami - Al Ahram Weekly "Despite the fierce debate and war of words between Fatah and Hamas, one cannot ignore the role of foreign factors that negatively impacting the chances of reaching and implementing a conciliation agreement. In fact, Israeli Minister Yuval Steinitz has already threatened the PA that Israel will once again withhold taxes it collects on behalf of the PA if conciliation is achieved.The aim of forming a “national consensus” government was to prepare for conciliation, but if this government is formed without consensus it will become yet another stumbling block for conciliation rather than a solution." ca	3/5/2013
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WATCH: IDF detains Palestinian children and foreign citizen in Hebron		Mairav Zonszein - +972 "According to sources from Youth Against Settlements and B’Tselem that I spoke with, the children were detained because settlers from the extremist Beit Hadassah settlement inside Hebron complained to the IDF that they had thrown stones. One of the children is only 10, the others 11 and 12 (the age of criminal responsibility is 12).(Footage of the arrest is below, and highly disturbing to watch)." ca	3/5/2013
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Hebron Governor Meets EU Representative In Palestine		Saed Bannoura - IMEMC "The governor told the EU official that the Israeli army is not only ongoing with its harassment and assaults against the residents, but also continued and expanded its military drills in inhabited Palestinian villages and areas, and continued to destroy Palestinian farmlands, grazing areas, and the forcible removal and relocation of the Bedouins and the residents." ca	3/5/2013
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Lift Travel Ban on Human Rights Defender		B`Tselem - "The ban preventing Shawan Jabarin from traveling abroad to receive an award is emblematic of the arbitrary restrictions placed on Palestinian human rights defenders and civil society activists,” said Philip Luther, Amnesty International’s interim MENA Programme Director. “It must be lifted, and the Israeli authorities must stop using unspecified security concerns to obstruct the work of Palestinian human rights activists.” ca	3/5/2013
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Israel evicts Palestinian villagers for army exercise		Noah Browning - Reuters - The residents of Wadi al-Maleh, a village mostly inhabited by shepherds in the arid area bordering Jordan, had almost all left their homes by an evening curfew and retreated to neighboring villages, Aref Daraghmeh, a local leader, told Reuters.-rh	2/5/2013
To Throw or Not to Throw a Stone		William A. Cook - The Corner Report - A debate rages in Israel today on the truth of Amira Hass¡¯s words ¡°Throwing a stone is the birthright and duty of anyone subject to foreign rule. Throwing stones is an action as well as a metaphor of resistance¡± (Amira Hass, Haaretz, 4/3/13).-rh	2/5/2013
Syrian refugees flee to relative safety of Gaza		Harriet Sherwood - Guardian - ""In Syria I had a house, I had a business, I was respected in the community. Now I have nothing. I used to help others, now I have to ask for help. We are refugees again. We thought we were coming back to our homeland, but we have no homeland. We are in a trap."" - id	1/5/2013
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Bedouins await Israel’s forcible relocation plan		Jillian Kestler-D`Amours - The Electronic Intifada - "“I want to live in a Bedouin village,” Jahalin said. “It’s like being a sardine in a tin, one next to another. Take that [relocation] plan and show it to Israelis and see if they would want to live there. Nobody would live there.”" - id	1/5/2013
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The face of Israel`s discriminatory home demolition policy		Activestills - +972 - "Under Israeli zoning policy, Palestinians can build in just 13 percent of East Jerusalem and in just 1 percent of Area C. In both cases these areas are already heavily built up." - id	1/5/2013
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Report: "Four Killed, 259 Kidnapped In April"		Saed Bannoura - IMEMC - "Head of the Ahrar Center, Fuad Al-Khoffash, stated that the army also kidnapped in April several Palestinian political leaders, social figures and university professors." - id	1/5/2013
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Israel Breaks Signed Agreement to End Prisoner Hunger Strikes		Gavan Kelly, Shir Hever - The Real News - (video) - In any military occupation, imprisonment is a tool used heavily by militaries in order to control the occupied population. Israel is no exception, and the arrest and long-term imprisonment of Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territory has become one of the symbols of the Israeli occupation.-rh	1/5/2013
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An interview with Ben Ehrenreich, author of ‘extraordinary’ Nabi Saleh piece in ‘NYT Magazine’		Philip Weiss - Mondoweiss - On March 15, The New York Times Magazine broke important ground in the mainstream by publishing Ben Ehrenreich`s long and often-thrilling account of resistance in occupied Nabi Saleh, based on his visits to the Palestinian village last summer and earlier this year.-rh	1/5/2013
The Gaza Doctor’s Story		Michal Aharoni - Al-Monitor - The play is based on the autobiography of Dr. Ezzeldeen Abu al-Aish, the Gaza doctor whose three daughters were killed by a stray shell fired by the IDF during Operation Cast Lead [2009]. Abu al-Aish, known as “the doctor from Gaza,” worked for years as a gynecologist in Israel. Seconds after the shell hit his house he called journalist Shlomi Eldar at Israel’s Channel 10 news studio. Eldar hit the speaker button on his cell phone and broadcast live the agony of the man whose three daughters lay dead on the floor in front of his eyes.-rh	1/5/2013
Israeli security forces deployed in West Bank after settler is stabbed to death : Fatal attack on settler near Nablus occurs at around same time that Israeli air strike kills alleged terrorist in Gaza		Harriet Sherwood - The Guardian - Confrontations between militant settlers and Israeli security forces in the West Bank were reported following the attack. Two Palestinian school buses were stoned by settlers, while others set fire to tyres and olive groves, the Palestinian official Ghassan Daghlas told the news agency Ma`an.-rh	1/5/2013
IDF evicts Palestinian village		Reuters - Ynet - The displacement coincided with several demolitions of Arab properties in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, which come as the United States is trying to revive stalled peace. bz	30/4/2013
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The army visited several Palestinian villages in the northern Jordan Valley...		Amos Gvirtz - Don’t say we did not know - The IDF ordered some 100 families to vacate their homes for two days because of army exercises, and found that this was also the right time to demolish here and there all in all 14 homes and huts.	30/4/2013
Army Assassinates A Palestinian In Gaza		IMEMC - The army fired one missile at a motorcycle driven by Haitham Al- Mis-hal, 29, leading to instant death. Two residents were injured and taken to Shifa Hospital - where the dead man had been working as a security guard. An Israeli military official asserted that Al-Mis-hal had been a prominent fighter, responsible among other things for the recent shooting of missiles from Sinai into Eilat. No proof was given to these assertions, based on "classified intelligence sources"; the Israeli public mostly tends to accept uncritically such military statements. ak	30/4/2013
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Six Palestinians arrested in this night`s Israeli raiding		WAFA - Israeli security forces raided and searched a house in Deheisheh Refugee Camp, south of Bethlehem, and arrested two brothers aged 20 and 22. In a dawn raid on Nablus, two Najah University lecturers were arrested and their hoimes searched, A third series of raids was in Hebron, where Israeli soldiers arrested a 26-year-old former prisoner and an 18-year-old student. In the raids at Yatta, south of Hebron, several houses were searched and residents ordered to come on their own to interrogation at military headquarters. ak	30/4/2013
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Settler Stabbed To Death Near Nablus		Saed Bannoura - IMEMC - Eviatar Borovzky, 30, inhbitant of the Yitzhar settlement near Nablus, was stabbed to death by a Palestinian man near the Za’tara roadblock - the first fatal attack carried out by the Palestinians since September of 2011. The stabber was identified as Salam Za’al, who managed to escape despite being shot and injured by Israeli soldiers, and was later arrested after the army invaded the Shweika neighborhood in Tulkarem and surrounded his home. As could have been expected, the other Yitzhar settlers embarked on indiscriminate retaliations, assaulting female school students on a field trip and setting on fire olive trees that belong to villagers of Huwwara, Aseera Al-Qibliyya, Madama and Orif. ak	30/4/2013
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The Pauper’s Lamb		Yossi Gurvitz - Yesh Din - The existence of the illegal Adei Ad settlement outpost harms Palestinians not just physically but also financially, and leads to the abandonment of Palestinian villages	29/4/2013
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Israeli army breaks up Palestinian march		Al Jazeera - "This was a peaceful area. We`re gathered today to say we refuse to be attacked and driven off our own land," said Sami Issa, a resident. "We want their army to pull the settlers out." bz	28/4/2013
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Israel Uproots Trees To Prepare For New Settlement In Bethlehem		Saed Bannoura - IMEMC "Thursday April 25, 2013, Israeli bulldozers uprooted dozens of trees on a hill close to the Jabal Abu Ghneim (Har Homa) illegal settlement, east of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, in order to pave a new road that leads to a planned settlement neighborhood of 3000 homes for Jewish settlers.Bethlehem Governor, Abdul-Fattah Hamayil, stated that the new violation is part of a decision made by the Jerusalem City Council to build more illegal settlement units on Palestinian lands in the area." ca	26/4/2013
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This American Life’ shines some light on that Palestinian life		Henry Norr - Mondoweiss "Last week’s episode of “This American Life,” ...by Nancy Updike,... gets a different answer when she starts asking former Israeli soldiers who have taken part is such nighttime operations, ... about their purpose. Yehuda Shaul, the heroic co-founder of Breaking the Silence, explain(s) to her that their superiors actually had no interest in the notes and photos they collected during such exercises - in fact, they routinely directed the soldiers simply to discard everything."The real goal of these operations, the former soldiers explain, is to “make your presence felt,” to convince every Palestinian that “We`re breathing behind you." ca	26/4/2013
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PCHR Weekly Report: 8 wounded, 52 abducted by Israeli forces this week		PCHR Gaza - IMEMC "During the reporting period, Israeli forces wounded 8 Palestinian civilians, including 4 children and a 70-year-old elderly woman, in the West Bank. Three of whom, including the elderly woman, were wounded during peaceful protests in Selwad village, northeast of Ramallah, protesting against the confiscation of lands for the interest of settlement activities. Moreover, three children were wounded; one of whom was abducted, during a protest organized by dozens of children at the southern entrance of al-Jalazoun refugee camp, north of Ramallah to support the Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli jails." ca	26/4/2013
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Army Invades Hebron, Kidnaps Three Palestinians		Saed Bannoura - IMEMC "Thursday evening, April 25, 2013, Israeli soldiers invaded the Bab Az-Zawiya area, in the center of Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, and kidnapped three Palestinians.The sources added that the army also broke into a local bakery in the city, and kidnapped one Palestinian ...Furthermore, the soldiers broke into two car parts shops, in the As-Salaam neighborhood, and searched them causing excessive damage." ca	26/4/2013
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Demolition across the West Bank today		DWG oPt (Displacement Working Group)- We are still following up to obtain further information, but according to initial reports this included the destruction of at least 15 Palestinian structures in 6 separate locations in the northern and southern West Bank. As a result, at least 26 people, including 18 children, have been displaced and another 41 people, including 22 children, otherwise affected. The number is likely to increase as we receive further information about the incident in Khirbet Yarza. Many of the demolitions took place in the northern Jordan Valley, in areas that are located close to Israeli settlements.-rh	25/4/2013
Israel`s justice system fails to protect the Palestinians it rules		Yossi Gurvitz - +972 - As the good civilians left their vehicle, some of them hooded, they started attacking the Palestinians. The assault, which included use of clubs and tear gas, went on for several long minutes, as the soldiers in the jeep did nothing. During history lessons, we used to call an attack by a group of civilians on others as the agents of the government did nothing “pogroms”; the Israeli media prefers the term “clashes.”-rh	24/4/2013
Israeli Racism Codified by Law		Daoud Kuttab - Al Monitor -One of the best ways to accomplish the goal of quiet transfer of Palestinians is to deny couples the right to live in Israel. The notoriety of the Israeli Interior Ministry’s harassment of Palestinians in east Jerusalem has been widely documented. East Jerusalemites are considered residents and not citizens, and can lose their residency if they can’t regularly prove that Jerusalem is the center of their lives. However, what is unique about this law is that it applies to Israeli citizens and not just residents.-rh	24/4/2013
Urgent concerns over death threats issued to UN Human Rights defender, Issa Amro		Team Khalil - Occupied Palestine - Amro has been violently attacked by this same community of Israeli settlers many times in the past – his nose and wrist have been broken and he received five stitches to his head. He and his family regularly receive death threats from the settlers of Hebron over the phone, continuing their campaign of threats and violence against him.-rh	24/4/2013
Haaretz Columnist Confirms Two Unarmed Palestinian Teenagers Executed by IDF		RICHARD SILVERSTEIN - Tikun Olam - The soldiers essentially waited in ambush for the teenagers. They killed one boy immediately. Then, after the others fled unarmed, the assassins pursued one boy who ran into a leather factory. There they shot him in the back at close range, execution-style.-rh	24/4/2013
US State Department: Israel practices "institutional discrimination"		Ben White - The Electronic Intifada - The annual country report on Israel contains uncomfortable reading for pro-Israel advocacy groups, particularly given who is publishing it. With regards to problems faced by Palestinians with Israeli citizenship, the State Department notes the following.-rh	24/4/2013
Israel Demolishes Structures in Jordan Valley		PNN - Palestine News Network - "Israel does not want any Palestinian in this area and regularly tries to force them to move elsewhere by demolishing their homes and shelters." - id	24/4/2013
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New Knesset member visits a friend in Ramallah: `This is not normal`		Noam Sheizaf - +972 - And there is no picture and no film that could explain the absurdity, according to which Qalandia, which is part of the Jerusalem Municipality (and its residents pay municipal taxes) does not receive basic services from Israel because it lies beyond the checkpoint, nor from the Palestinian Authority, because it’s outside their jurisdiction-rh	24/4/2013
Israeli forces destroy over 1,300 olive trees in the South Hebron Hills		Ma`an - Israeli soldiers, accompanied by officials from the military government`s Civil Administration and demolition crews, uprooted some 1300 olive trees in the village of Susiya at the South Hebron Hills. Susya and other villages in the area are the target of long-standing harassment and repeated demolitions and destruction, aimed at removing Palestinian presence from the area and leaving it completely to Israeli settlers. According to B`Tselem, there are 26 outstanding Israeli demolition orders in Susiya, any or all of which might be implemented at any moment without prior notice. Still, the Susiya villagers persist in rebuilding and replanting after each militay raid, aided by Israeli activists of the Jerusalem-based Ta`ayush movement. ak	23/4/2013
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Why an eight year old boy of Hebron spent one hour as a detainee		CPT Khalil Team - On April 21 soldiers in Hebron detained an eight year old boy for one hour, for setting foot on Shuhada street, a street in the center of Hebron closed to Palestinian residents and available only to settlers.	23/4/2013
New Knesset member visits a friend in Ramallah: `This is not normal`		Noam Sheizaf citing MK Adi Koll - +972 - Adi Koll, a relatively unknown Knesset member from Yair Lapid’s centrist Yesh Atid party, posted this picture along with an uncharacteristically long and emotional status on Facebook, the day after she paid a visit to the home of a Palestinian friend in Ramallah. (Translated in full below)	22/4/2013
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Jahalin Bedouins face new eviction		Sergio Yahni - AIC - "Israel is planning on evicting the Jahalin Bedouins from their settlements in the Jerusalem periphery to the Jericho area of the Jordan Valley. Israel`s Civil Administration suggests this plan is being conducted in cooperation with the Palestinian Authority, and that a Palestinian construction company has already been awarded a project to build 800 housing units in the Jericho area."	22/4/2013
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Video: Israeli soldiers use handcuffed Palestinian teen as human shield as they fire at protestors		Ali Abunimah - Electronic Intifada - As the soldiers force the teenager down the street, three of them raise their weapons and aim them, apparently at protestors who are outside the frame. The soldiers then stop, and while deliberately exposing the youth, fire two shots toward the protestors. bz	21/4/2013
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Detained: Testimonies from Palestinian children imprisoned by Israel (photos + text)		Samar Hazboun - +972 - 12 year-old M.O. has been detained seven times so far. The first time, he was arrested at the age of only nine years for allegedly throwing stones at settlers. M.O.’s family is constantly targeted by settler attacks as they live in Hay al Bustan in Silwan. Their house is slated for demolition as a part of an Israeli plan targeting the homes Arab citizens in Jerusalem. bz	20/4/2013
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After Fayyad		No mention - The Economist "One of the biggest obstacles to peace is the division between Fatah and Hamas, which thrives by painting the more moderate Mr Abbas and his PA as stooges of Israel and America. A truce between them is overdue. As the overseer of the cities of the hilly West Bank since 2007, Mr Fayyad waged, to Israel’s delight, a fractious contest with the Islamists of Hamas who rule Gaza on the coast. Without Mr Fayyad, President Mahmoud Abbas could yet implement a deal, long in abeyance, to form a unity government with Khaled Meshal." ca	19/4/2013
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Activists remove section of Israeli Wall in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners		International Solidarity Movement, Ramallah - IMEMC "This Palestinian Prisoners Day, April 17th 2013, Palestinian and international activists cut down a fenced section of the Israeli apartheid wall in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli occupation jails.Protesters wore shirts with the image of Bassem Abu Rahma of Bil’in, who was also protesting the cause of prisoners on the 17th of April four years ago, when he was killed by Israeli forces." ca	19/4/2013
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Prisoners’ Day: Palestine remembers loved ones in the Israeli gulag		Center for Political and Development Studies, Palestine - Mondoweiss "According to the statistics published by the director of Statistics Department at the Ministry of Detainees and Ex-Detainees and former prisoner Abdulnasser Frawna:4750 Palestinians are detained in the Israeli jails including children, women, sick, handicapped, elders, MPs and former ministers etc. They are held under very tough conditions where they are deprived of their basic rights and they are exposed to various forms of torture and treated inhumanely, all of which constitutes a grievous violation of international conventions and norms." ca	19/4/2013
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Army Opens Fire At Palestinian Ambulance In Bethlehem		Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies - Abdul-Halim Jaafra, head of the Emergency Unit at the Bethlehem Branch of the Red Crescent, told the Radio Bethlehem 2000 that five Palestinian family members, including an infant, suffocated after inhaling gas fired by the army at their home. He added that as the medics rushed to rescue the family, the army fired rubber-coated metal bullets at the ambulance shattering its front shield; no injuries were reported among the medics.-rh	18/4/2013
Torture in Israeli Jails : The Legacy of Totalitarian Regimes		UFree Network - UFree Network, established to defend the rights of Palestinian prisoners and detainees, mentioned in previous reports that there are no juvenile prisons for Palestinians. As a result, children often serve their sentences in the same cells as adults. More than 6,000 Palestinian children have been detained since 2000. In February 2013 there were 219 Palestinian prisoners and detainees under 18, more than 10% of them being under the age of 16.-rh	18/4/2013
He sings in the prison		Nicola Perugini - London Review of Books - He is accused of throwing stones at the Israeli army (they’d killed one of his friends a week earlier). But his family insist he wasn’t involved in the incident that led to his arrest. His trial has been postponed twice: it’s now due on 17 April. ‘He sings in the prison, and everyone listens to him,’ his mother says.-rh	18/4/2013
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Israeli firms shed crocodile tears for Palestinian workers		Stephanie Westbrook - The Electronic Intifada - The Israeli organization Machsom Watch has documented how the Shin Bet uses blacklisting of Palestinians as an instrument of oppression against Palestinians, as well as a way of creating a pool of potential collaborators (“Invisible prisoners,” April 2012 [PDF]).-rh	18/4/2013
Gaza farmers burn tonnes of basil, mint after Israel border shut		Nidal al-Mughrabi - Reuters -Israel shut its sole commercial crossing into the isolated Palestinian territory last Monday in response to a rocket salvo fired out of Gaza, allowing only a brief reopening on Friday to enable the import of certain goods.-rh	18/4/2013
A Camera’s View Finder Confronts a Gun Sight		Amahl Bishara - Yadalliya - on 8 April, Mohammad was injured while photographing an Israeli raid into his community of Aida Refugee Camp—located on the outskirts of Bethlehem in the West Bank. The separation wall circles around two sides of the camp, and a military base is embedded in the wall at Rachel’s Tomb.-rh	17/4/2013
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The Quiet Terror		Yesh Din - The settlers, it seems, are very fond of attacks during harvest time: What better way to make it clear there’s no point for a Palestinian to work his land? Thou shalt build a house, and thou shalt not dwell there; thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof. Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue them.-rh	17/4/2013
Water restrictions in Area C threaten to displace villages		Ma`an News Agency - Despite winter rainfall which has painted green patches on the rolling south Hebron hills, the 145 residents of Tuba face a daily struggle to access the most basic levels of water needed to survive.-rh	17/4/2013
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Report on Human Rights Abuses Documents the Loss of Childhood in Occupied Hebron		Christian Peacemaker Teams Palestine - Occupied Childhoods, a newly released report compiled by internationals working in the West Bank city of Hebron, documents an alarming rate of abuse of the rights of children. Human rights workers in H2, the portion of the city under Israeli military control, have witnessed more than 47 detentions or arrests of children age 15 and under by soldiers since the start of February.-rh	17/4/2013
Israeli Women Visit Palestinian Hunger Striker		Shlomi Eldar - Al-Monitor - So you just decided to buy flowers and visit him? “Yes. I read in the newspaper that he was hospitalized at Kaplan, and I couldn’t just let that go by. I went with a friend. They didn’t expect us, and when the guards saw us, they jumped up and blocked our way. Still, we were able to relay the message that there are people here who are concerned about his well-being.`-rh	17/4/2013
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The Children`s Judge		Aya Kaniuk and Tamar Goldschmidt - Mahsan Milim - "And if he did throw stones, how would you know? Is this the way to find out? Can one find out at all? And if he did, your honor, is this what he deserves? Would this happen, your honor, were this a Jewish child who threw stones? No need to answer, your honor, the answer is obvious." - id	17/4/2013
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IDF prevents Gaza runners from taking part in West Bank marathon		Noam Sheizaf - +972 - "Ironically, when the Gaza Marathon was cancelled, the IDF blog reported on it at length, (rightly) highlighting the lack of many personal freedoms under Hamas rule. Now it’s the IDF that is denying those freedoms to the same runners." - id	17/4/2013
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Israel rules out charges over Gaza Dalou family deaths		BBC News - Israel`s military has said it will not order a criminal investigation into the bombing of a house in Gaza in the 2012 conflict which left 12 civilians dead	15/4/2013
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Village of Sabastiya celebrates successful campaign against sewage dumping on their land		International Solidarity Movement - "The residents of Sabastiya have been demonstrating against the dumping since March this year and are now celebrating the success of their campaign. On the three occasions that the villagers demonstrated against the sewage since March they have been joined by both Israeli and international activists. Sabastiya is an ancient village located just 10 km north of Nablus. For over a decade, residents of the village have been suffering harassment from Israeli forces and settlers. In 2001 settlers uprooted and destroyed around 1000 olive trees." ca	12/4/2013
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After 27 years in captivity, freedom arrives for Ibrahim Baroud		No mention - The Prisoners` Diaries "Ibrahim Baroud reunited with his mother today after 27 long years in prison, 7 of which was in solitary confinement." ca	12/4/2013
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Palestinian-American boy, 14, locked up in Israeli military jail		Alex Kane - Mondoweiss "Ill-treatment of Palestinian children in the Israeli military detention system appears to be widespread, systematic and institutionalized...The pattern of ill-treatment includes the arrests of children at their homes between midnight and 5:00 am by heavily armed soldiers; the practice of blindfolding children and tying their hands with plastic ties; physical and verbal abuse during transfer to an interrogation site, including the use of painful restraints; lack of access to water, food, toilet facilities and medical care; interrogation using physical violence and threats; coerced confessions; and lack of access to lawyers or family members during interrogation." ca	12/4/2013
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Youth Against Settlements Co-ordinator Issa Amro arrested		By Team Khalil - ISM "Issa is a prominent activist and organiser of non violent demonstrations in actions in Hebron. He was also arrested several weeks ago along with three internationals and two Palestinians for taking part in a demonstration on Shuhada street where activists walked down the road wearing Martin Luther King and Barack Obama masks to mark the visit of the US president to the West Bank. After his release he was banned from walking in the area of Tel Rumeida for two weeks." CA	12/4/2013
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Army Kidnaps 23 Palestinians In the West Bank		Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies - Also, the army kidnapped Imad Hasan Zaytoun, 35, from Zabbouba village near the northern West Bank city of Jenin, as he was heading to visit his detained brother in Megiddo Israeli prison. His brother was kidnapped a year ago and was never sentenced by any Israeli court.-rh	11/4/2013
Medical watchdog says Palestinian hunger strikers mistreated		Stuart Winer - Times of Israel - Physicians for Human Rights Israel, a non-government organization, charged that Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike were not given proper medical attention, Israel Radio reported on Thursday.-rh	11/4/2013
Letter from Human Rights Organisati​ons to the UN Special Coordinato​r for the Middle East Peace Process		Palestinian Centre for Human Rights - We, Al Dameer Association for Human Rights (Al Dameer), Al Mezan Center for Human Rights (Al Mezan), the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme (GCMHP), the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), and the Palestinian NGO Network (PNGO), hereby raise our serious concerns regarding the brief you delivered to the United Nations Security Council on 25 March 2013, in which you discussed, inter alia, the recent decision by Israel to again reduce the fishing zone available to Gaza fishermen to 3 nautical miles.-rh	10/4/2013
Urgent action requested - my dear friend Hiba imprisoned		Trisha Issahra - On April 2, the family of my friend Khaled had such a visit. Imagine my horror and surprise when Khaled called to tell me the news! I was even more horrified when Khaled told me that the soldiers had arrested his lovely wife Hiba who is very ill with undiagnosed stomach problems. Hiba is a sweet, very shy young woman. She lives for her family, for taking her daughters Malak and Yara to play in the park, to bake cakes for family and friends.-rh	10/4/2013
Amira Hass receives hate mail for claiming Palestinian schools should teach children how to `resist occupation` `		Harriet Sherwood - The Observer - Hass said her critics had either not read or had not understood her article. "I`m surprised that they don`t read the whole text – and then I`m surprised at myself for being surprised," she told the Observer, pointing out that she had drawn "a clear distinction between a citizen [as a target] and a soldier or someone who carries arms".-rh	10/4/2013
Rock Throwing On Palestinian Children`s Day		Anna Lekas Miller - The Daily Beast - According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), children under the age of 18 make up almost half of the population ofthe West Bank and Gaza. Statistically, 20 percent of them—and 40 percent of the males—will be arrested, detained and likely imprisoned. For some, this process has already begun: as of January 1, 2013 there were 193 Palestinian children in prison with 26 under the age of 16. “They will arrest them for anything, even just standing there,” Ahmad Qareen of the Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan told me.-rh	10/4/2013
John Kerry and the 65th Anniversary of Deir Yassin		Rami G. Khouri - Middle East Online - is appropriate that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is in Jerusalem this week, exactly 65 years to the day (April 9,1948) when pre-state Zionist troops massacred some 100 unarmed Palestinian men, women and children in the Palestinian Arab village of Deir Yassin, west of Jerusalem.-rh	10/4/2013
Palestinian Cameraman Shot In The Face In Bethlehem		Saed Bannoura - IMEMC - "Al-Azza, who works at the Refugee Media Center in addition to freelancing for PNN and other agencies, was deliberately shot in the face by the soldiers who tried to stop him from documenting the invasion." - id	10/4/2013
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Tear gas canister explodes in Bethlehem school		Ma`an - "Eleven students and two teachers were injured and three students and a teacher passed out after inhaling gas." - id	10/4/2013
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Free Ticket to ‘Apartheid’		Mel Frykberg - IPS - “`At least we are not treated like dogs and made to feel so uncomfortable,` Amjad Samara, 30, a labourer from Nablus in the northern West Bank told IPS as he and a group of Palestinians waited at the checkpoint near Qalqilia to cross into Israel for their day job. Samara was referring to the new Palestinians-only bus service that the Israeli authorities have introduced in the West Bank to `spare` Israeli settlers travelling on buses from the occupied West Bank to Israel the `discomfort` of having to share their transportation with Palestinians"	9/4/2013
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Armed group in Hebron threatens to avenge Abu Hamdiyeh		Ma`an News Agency - " A representative of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in Hebron said during Abu Hamdiyeh`s funeral that “the group will not wait until a third prisoner falls a martyr, after Arafat Jaradat and Abu Hamdiyeh.” The blood of the founder of al-Aqsa Brigades in Hebron Abu Hamdiyeh will not go in vain and we will bring double retaliation,” the official added." ca	5/4/2013
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PCHR Weekly Report: 2 civilians killed, 6 wounded, 41 abducted by Israeli troops this week		PCHR Gaza - "the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) found that Israeli forces killed 2 Palestinian civilians and wounded a third one in Anabta village, east of Tulkarem. Two youth were wounded during an incursion into Hebron.An Irish journalist was wounded in al-Nabi Saleh protest while a Palestinian civilian was wounded in Kofur Qaddoum protest. A Palestinian boy was wounded during a peaceful protest in the center of Hebron, in protest of the death of the Palestinian prisoner Abu Hamdiya." ca	5/4/2013
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Celebrated Palestinian singer arrested, accused of throwing stones; could face long prison term Serious doubts raised over accusations		Sandy Tolan - Ramallah Cafe "An internationally-acclaimed Palestinian singer has been arrested by Israeli military forces and accused of throwing stones, a charge that could send him to prison for up to ten years or more..Oday al-Khatib, 22 years old, born and raised in Al Fawwar refugee camp near Hebron, was arrested on March 19 by Israeli soldiers who were chasing stone-throwing youths in the area. He is a star singer of Al Kamandjati, the acclaimed Ramallah-based music school founded in 2005 by Ramzi Aburedwan, and has recorded and toured with various Arabic music ensembles." ca	5/4/2013
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Minister: Autopsy shows Israel neglected prisoner		Ma`an News Agency - "Qaraqe pointed out that Abu Hamdiyeh had been suffering from pain in his body since 2003, but Israeli prison authorities only gave him antibiotics and painkillers." ca	5/4/2013
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East Jerusalem Doc `My Neighborhood` Wins Peabody Award		Emily Hauser - The Daily Beast "My Neighborhood, a short documentary about settler expansion in East Jerusalem that this week received the prestigious Peabody Award. Directed by Rebekah Wingert-Jabi and Julia Bacha, My Neighborhood chronicles the story of Sheikh Jarrah, a Palestinian area in what is today Municipal Jerusalem, where settlers were able to obtain court-backed approval to evict Palestinian residents from their homes—or, in the case of the film’s central story line, part of their home, a home in which the affected family has lived since 1956—but to which other Jewish Israelis soon came in solidarity and support. That story of Palestinian-Israeli cooperation and nonviolent protest is the heart of what the Peabodys describe as an “honest, hopeful documentary.” ca	5/4/2013
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Violence flares in Middle East as Israel and Gaza exchange attacks amid West Bank protests		Alistair Dawber - The Independent - Speaking after the raid on Gaza, Israel’s new defence minister, Moshe Yaalon, said: “Last night the IDF launched a strike on Gaza [in response to a series of mortars fired against Israel]. We hold the Hamas responsible for all firing from Gaza. We will not allow shooting of any sort towards our citizens and our forces"-rh	4/4/2013
Look at the World from Behind the Wall		William A. Cook - Dissident Voice - Let’s report on a peaceful protest that has gone unnoticed by the American press with the exception of Tim King’s Salem-News: “Israeli forces have sprayed Palestinian homes in the village of Nabi Saleh with “skunk “* as a punishment for organizing weekly protests against the Apartheid Wall built on occupied West Bank land (March 26, 2013).-rh	4/4/2013
Palestinians Jailed in Israel Protest After Inmate Dies		ISABEL KERSHNER - The New York Times - The office of Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, said in a statement that it held the Israeli government “fully responsible” for Mr. Hamdiya’s death, which it said stemmed from a policy of “deliberate medical negligence.”-rh	4/4/2013
Two Palestinians Killed, Three Injured Near Tulkarem		IMEMC & Agencies - Dozens of Palestinians have been injured, and kidnapped, over the past two days during clashes that took place in different parts of the West Bank following the death detainee Maisara Abu Hamdiyya, 64, on Tuesday.-rh	4/4/2013
West Bank cities shut down to mourn Abu Hamdiyeh		Ma`an News Agency - Maysara Abu Hamdiyeh, from Hebron, died in Israel`s Soroka Hospital aged 63. Palestinian officials say his cancer spread because he was denied treatment by Israeli authorities, who refused to release him. The Fatah movement in Hebron called for a general strike to mourn the death and urged all residents to respect the period of mourning.-rh	4/4/2013
Israel set to jail teenage conscientious objector for eighth time: Nathan Blanc has spent more than 100 days in prison over the past 19 weeks due to his refusal to enlist in Israeli army		Harriet Sherwood - The Guardian - It is a routine Nathan Blanc knows well. At 9am on Tuesday morning, the 19-year-old will report, as instructed in his draft papers, to a military base near Tel Aviv. There he will state his objection to serving in the Israeli army. Following his refusal to enlist, Blanc expects to be arrested and sentenced to between 10 and 20 days in jail. He will then be taken to Military Prison Number 6 to serve his time. And then, following his release, the cycle will begin over again.-rh	2/4/2013
Hamas Adds Restrictions on Schools and Israelis		FARES AKRAM - The New York Times - In reality, given the conservative nature of Gaza society, boys and girls over the age of 9 are already separated in most government schools and schools run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which assists Palestinian refugees and their descendants. The new separation rules are mostly expected to affect about a dozen private and Christian schools.-rh	2/4/2013
Easter Resurrection Of Palestine		Mazin Qumsiyeh - Countercurrents - Jesus was a Palestinian martyr; he was born in Palestine and spoke the language of my ancestors Aramaic, the precursor of the Arabic language. He believed in resistance like turning tables of profiteers at the temple, challenging the “leaders” etc. And he worked to help the poor and disenfranchised.-rh	1/4/2013
Occupied Childhoods: Mass arrest of 27 children shows the increasing impact of occupation on Hebron`s children.		Christian Peacemakers Teams Palestine - On the morning of March 20 soldiers arrested 27 Palestinian children, age seven to 15 in the West Bank city of Hebron. The children were on their way to five schools near the Old City when 22 soldiers moved into a group of students outside the Hebron Public elementary school.-rh	1/4/2013
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Detention Bulletin February 2013		Defence for Children International/Palestine Section - February registered the highest number of Palestinian children imprisoned and prosecuted in the Israeli military court system since October 2010, reaching a total of 236, an increase of 5.8 percent from January.-rh	1/4/2013
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Reading Palestinian Prison Diaries		Richard Falk - Wordpress - We should not forget that there is a callous and manifest unlawfulness about this network of Israeli prisons, all but one of the 19 being located in Israel, in direct violation of Article 76 of the Fourth Geneva Convention governing belligerent occupation.-rh	1/4/2013
Israeli cruelty reached a point of no return in the 2008-09 Gaza war		Gideon Levy - MIFTAH - conceived at the same time was a new strategy of the IDF: “zero casualties” among our forces, and at practically any cost. It is this strategy that led to the slaughter during Cast Lead of 23 members of the Samouni family; the killing of five members of the Abu-Halima family by white phosphorus shells; the killing of six passersby, including two children and a woman, by a flechette shell at Izbet Beit Hanoun; and the killing of dozens of asylum-seekers at an UNRWA school in Gaza.-rh	1/4/2013
Palestinian prisoners and detainees denied medical care		UFree Network media centre - Prisoners with different diseases either chronic or normal complications are denied medicines and also not being seen by doctors. Many of the prisoners are given painkillers, antibiotics meanwhile they are in bad need for some special medications as they suffer chronic diseases. Israeli prison authorities prevent specialised doctors from providing health services to prisoners.-rh	1/4/2013
Palestinians demonstrate against sewage settlers spill onto their land		Haggai Matar - About 100 Palestinians from the ancient village of Sebastia and their supporters held a demonstration today to protest against settlers spilling their sewage onto the village’s agricultural lands. This was the third demonstration in two months; villagers are starting weekly demonstrations, much like the ones against the wall and settlements that take place every Friday in Bil’in, Ni’ilin, Ma’asara, Nabi Saleh and Qaddum. Demonstrations took place in all of those villages as well on Friday, some of them with violent confrontations with army forces. In addition, activists in the newly formed popular committee say they are planning to take the matter to the Supreme Court.-rh	1/4/2013
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Obama Releases Aid To Palestinian Authority		Anna Lekas Miller - The Daily Beast - Like Israel, the U.S. Congress froze $200 million in aid to the PA in 2011 as punishment for seeking statehood at the U.N. When Palestine was admitted as a non-member state last November, Congress once again froze the request for funds.-rh	1/4/2013
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