Life under occupation
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| Ahed Tamimi Has Become the Symbol of a New Generation of Palestinian Resistance It would be far better, however, if she could just be a child. | | Ben Ehrenreich - The Nation - If you’ve seen the video that led to her
arrest, you might have wondered why Ahed was so angry at the soldiers
who entered her yard, why she yelled at them to leave, why she slapped
them. That’s why. That and a thousand other reasons. Her uncle and her
cousin killed. Her mother shot in the leg and on crutches for most of
a year. Her parents and her brother taken from her for months at a
time. And never a night’s rest without the possibility that she might
wake, as she did early Tuesday morning, as she had so many times
before, to soldiers at the door, in her house, in her room, there to
take someone away.-rh
| 27/12/2017 |
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| AHED TAMIMI`S FATHER: WE WILL CONTINUE TO RESIST ISRAEL`S OCCUPATION AS A FAMILY | | BASSEM TAMIMI - Newsweek -Last week, a video of my 16-year-old
daughter Ahed resisting an Israeli soldier who was trespassing on our
land in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh went viral. The contrast
could not have been clearer and was on display for the entire world to
see: a
heavily armed soldier from Israel’s army of occupation and a young
Palestinian woman armed with nothing but her courage and a righteous
desire for justice and freedom. And for that reason, she had to be
punished by Israel. Less than half an hour earlier, a soldier shot
Ahed’s 14-year-old cousin in the face at close distance with a rubber
coated steel bullet, causing severe injuries and leaving him in a
coma. Then, two soldiers had jumped the wall of our backyard and
forced their way on to our property when Ahed confronted them in an
effort to make them leave.-rh | 27/12/2017 |
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| A White Christmas in Palestine : Each year the land that gave birth to Christianity is covered in tear gas instead of snow | | Yara Hawari - Middle East Eye - Snow came early to many parts of
western Europe this year, with many hoping for it to hold until
Christmas. A white Christmas is what many wish for, as families come
together in a tradition rooted in the celebration of the birth of
Jesus Christ. But in the "Holy Land", a white Christmas of another
kind is being inflicted on the Palestinian people. For decades now the
skies of Palestine are routinely filled with white toxic tear gas that
the Israeli authorities use to enforce their occupation.-rh | 27/12/2017 |
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| Israeli forces violently disperse peaceful Christmas march in Bethlehem | | Al-Akhbar Management - Al-Akhbar - Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF)
Tuesday violently dispersed a peaceful march calling for "Christmas
without occupation" in Bethlehem. Demonstrators marched to the
Israeli military checkpoint in northern Bethlehem to celebrate
Christmas and hand out gifts to children in the area. IOF prevented
the demonstrators, some of whom were dressed as Santa Claus, from
reaching the checkpoint and fired tear gas at the crowd.-rh | 27/12/2017 |
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| In the Occupied Territory, Two Kinds of Justice | | STANLEY L. COHEN - COUNTER PUNCH - Israel has two systems of justice…
one for Jews and the other for Palestinians be they Muslim, Christian or
atheist. Nowhere is that more apparent or destructive than it is in the
Occupied Territory.-rh | 27/12/2017 |
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| `Devastating`: Israeli tear gas` effect on Palestinians | | Ibrahim Husseini & Liam O`Hare -
Al-Jazeera -
""We found that the constant and unpredictable use of tear gas in Palestine refugee camps has a devastating effect on the mental and physical health of residents," said the report`s co-author, Dr Rohini Haar, a researcher at the UC Berkeley centre and a doctor with Physicians for Human Rights. The effects are especially harmful on "the most vulnerable, including pregnant women, children, the elderly, and people already in ill health"." - id
| 27/12/2017 |
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| The IDF’s No Good, Terrible, Very Bad Week | | Richard Silverstein -
Tikun Olam -
"It hasn’t been a good week for the IDF.First, an IDF sniper executed a Gaza double-amputee protester...Next, Israeli soldiers were met with the angry protests of a 16-year-old Palestinian girl. This video went viral and the idea of such humiliation angered the Israeli public, which could not sit still and take this insult to the army’s manhood...Images of these two outrages will not be forgotten." - id
| 27/12/2017 |
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| Video: Right-wing Israeli Knesset Member harasses Palestinians visiting imprisoned relatives | | Ma`an - MK Oren Hazan of the right-wing governing Likud party intercepted and boarded a bus of Palestinian families traveling to Nafha prison on Monday.
He turned to the mother of an imprisoned Palestinian and asked, "Who did you come to visit? What did your son do?" to which she replied "He did not do anything."
Hazan responded to the mother by saying "Your son is a dog. He`s a dog. You come to visit the scum who are sitting here in prison, whom you see as your family members (...) I will make sure you can not visit here any more and we`ll do everything so you will not get in. You are not welcome here, you have raised your son to murder." [bz] | 26/12/2017 |
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| Jerusalem violence, rain put damper on Bethlehem Christmas | | Associated Press - Ynet - Renewed Israeli-Palestinian clashes over
Jerusalem`s status and heavy rainfall turn the festive Christmas Eve celebration
in Jesus` historic birthplace into a much more solemn occasion [ry] | 25/12/2017 |
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| Death toll rises to 12 in violence after Trump`s Jerusalem recognition | | Associated Press in Gaza - The Guardian - Palestinian health ministry in Gaza
reports two deaths over the weekend from wounds sustained in clashes with
Israeli troops [ry] | 25/12/2017 |
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| Abbas` diplomatic offensive | | Shlomi Eldar -
Al-Monitor
"Senior members of the Palestinian leadership received a direct
message from Abbas that they were to treat the Trump administration
as hostile and challenge its decisions in any and every
international forum, whatever the cost. A senior Palestinian
official told Al-Monitor that Abbas was deeply offended by the
American administration, which said one thing to him but did
another. Abbas feels that Trump`s envoys, Jason Greenblatt and Jared
Kushner, intentionally deceived him. According to the official,
Abbas may be acting on his gut response, but he still has no choice
but to fight the decision with every diplomatic means at his
disposal, instead of “turning the other cheek.” He added that the
support of the other 14 members of the Security Council encouraged
the Palestinians and offered them a sense of hope in their
struggle." ca
| 22/12/2017 |
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| PPS: 490 Palestinians detained by Israeli forces since Trump decision on Jerusalem | | Ma`an News Agency -
"Prisoners rights group Addameer recorded 6,198 Palestinians were
detained by Israel as of October. The group has estimated that some
40 percent of Palestinian men will be detained by Israel at some
point in their lives." ca | 22/12/2017 |
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| THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY IS USING A NEW CYBER-CRIMES LAW TO CRACK DOWN ON DISSENT | | Jesse Rosenfeld - The Intercept - SURROUNDED BY ISRAELI SETTLERS,
checkpoints, and empty streets closed by the military, human rights
activist Issa Amro spent his first day out of jail at home, in
campaign mode and planning his next moves to resist Israel’s
occupation of his city. Amro’s nonviolent activism with his group,
Youth Against Settlements, or YAS, has won him international
recognition — he recently traveled to Capitol Hill in Washington and
met with members of Congress — and drawn the ire of Israeli security
forces. His latest detention and interrogation in early September,
however, wasn’t in an Israeli military prison. Instead, Amro was being
held in a Palestinian Authority jail.-rh | 20/12/2017 |
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| Gazan authors start new chapter | | Mohammed Othman - Al-Monitor - One of the sectors hit hard by Hamas’
rule over the Gaza Strip and the Israeli siege was book publishing,
but both publishers and authors see signs of a literary awakening this
year. The political-economic conditions of the Strip in the last
decade have led to a cultural stagnation, and few books are being
published and fewer still are bought. But since the beginning of the
year, publishers, authors and members of the Ministry of Culture have
grown hopeful as more books have been published, more cultural events
launched and more young people seem eager to read.-rh
| 20/12/2017 |
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| Attack on the Tamimi family: Ahed’s detention extended in military court, Bassem Tamimi detained and released | | Samidoun - Bassem Tamimi, Palestinian human rights defender and the
father of detained Palestinian teen Ahed Tamimi, was released late at
night on 20 December after being seized by Israeli occupation forces
himself in the morning as he attended his daughter’s hearing at the
Ofer military court, according to his Facebook post. Ahed was seized
in the pre-dawn hours of 19 December from her family home and the
Tamimis’ computers, phones and other electronics were confiscated by
occupation soldiers. Ahed’s mother, Nariman Tamimi, was detained later
in the morning on 19 December after she was called to the “Benjamin”
police station near Jaba village. Both Ahed and Nariman remain jailed;
Nariman will be brought for a hearing in military court tomorrow, 21
December, and Ahed’s detention was extended until Monday, 25 December
at the earliest. Bassem has previously been detained 11 times and
spent 3 years in administrative detention, imprisonment without charge
or trial; he was recognized by Amnesty International as a prisoner of
conscience.-rh | 20/12/2017 |
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| UN rights chief denounces Israeli forces’ shooting of man in wheelchair | | PNN -
Palestine News Network -
"The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said Tuesday he was “truly shocked” at the killing of a wheelchair-bound amputee by Israeli Security Forces close to the fence between Gaza and Israel last Friday." - id
| 19/12/2017 |
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| Israeli soldiers arrest 16-year old girl and her mother in Nabi Saleh | | Nablus team -
International Solidarity Movement -
"16-year old Ahed has often appeared in videos where she is seen facing Israeli military during protests. On the 18th of december, when soldiers shot 14-year old Mohammed Tamimi, in the face with a rubber coated steel bullet (still treated in a medically-induced coma in the hospital), she stood in front of the entrance pushing the Israeli soldiers back trying to keep them out." - id | 19/12/2017 |
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| IDF investigating shooting of double amputee in Gaza clashes | | Judah Ari Gross and AFP - Times of Israel - The death of Ibrahim Abu Thurayeh, a double amputee who reportedly lost both his legs in a 2008 Israeli airstrike, has sparked angry denunciations from Palestinians and others, who say he could not have been seen as a threat during protests Friday. Thousands attended his funeral on Saturday.[bz] | 18/12/2017 |
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| Ibrahim ‘the half bodied,’ an icon of Gaza skirmishes, loses his other half for Jerusalem | | Ahmad Kabariti -
Mondoweiss
"Ibrahim had lost his legs in an Israeli attack on Al-Bureij refugee
camp in central Gaza. He was injured in 2008 by an Israeli
helicopter that targeted him after he took down an Israeli flag
along the border and raised a Palestinian one...Since Trump has
turned his back on decades of US and international diplomacy by
saying Jerusalem is the Israeli capital, the international community
warned of uncontrollable reactions, and Hamas vowed to open “doors
of hell” and called for a “new intifada.” ca | 16/12/2017 |
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| Israeli violence fails to suppress Palestinian protests for Jerusalem | | Maureen Clare Murphy -
Electronic Intifada
"Oren Ziv, a photographer with the Activestills collective, who was
at Beit El on Friday, reported that Aqel “was standing alongside the
journalists while filming the demonstration on his phone, ran over
to the officers and stabbed one of them with a small knife, wounding
him lightly, upon which the officers opened fire and seriously
wounded the man.”Ziv said that soldiers prevented Aqel from being
evacuated in an ambulance, and so paramedics “carried the man on a
stretcher to a nearby private vehicle, which drove him toward
Ramallah.” Aqel later died of his wounds. The stabbed Israeli
soldier was reported to have been moderately injured." ca
| 16/12/2017 |
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| An Arab Nightmare | | Robert Fisk - Information Clearing House - Amid three catastrophic
Middle East wars, it would be difficult to imagine anything more
provocative, dangerous – or just plain insane – than for the Americans
to move their embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Yet that is just
what Donald Trump is this week thinking of doing. In a way, we should
have expected this: mad presidents do mad things. For it’s not that
the embassy itself is just a symbolic move. It means that the United
States would acknowledge that the city of Jerusalem, sacred to
Muslims, Jews and Christians, is the capital of the Israeli state, and
that the Palestinians can never share it-rh | 13/12/2017 |
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| How corporate media tacitly justify the murder of Palestinian children | | Steven Salaita - Mondoweiss - On Friday, Israel commenced yet another
bombing campaign in the Gaza Strip. The Independent (London) began
its report with a note from the IDF that it had “bombed militant
targets.” The story then explained that six children were injured.
The third paragraph completed the picture: “The Israeli military said
it had carried out the strikes on a Hamas training camp and on a
weapons depot in response to rockets fired earlier from Gaza at
Israeli towns. Witnesses told Reuters that most of the wounded were
residents of a building near the camp.” What first looks like
standard reportage—a delivery of apparent facts, complete with views
from both sides—is actually stock dissimulation that (intentionally or
not) confers responsibility for harming children not on the Israeli
bombers, but on the people who endured their detonation. A more
pessimistic reading can make a reasonable case that the Independent
actually blames the children for their own injuries.-rh | 13/12/2017 |
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| Arab leaders plan major response to Trump`s Jerusalem move | | Daoud Kuttab - Al-Monitor - Arabs and Muslims are responding with both
actions and reactions to the decision of the Donald Trump
administration to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. While
public protests have engulfed countries as close as Jordan and as far
away as Morocco and Indonesia, political leaders are searching for
actions they can take to respond to the unexpected large public
protests and demands for action.-rh
| 13/12/2017 |
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| Artists boost Gaza’s morale with music, comedy | | Huda Baroud - Al-Monitor - “The main goal of the festival was to give
artists in Gaza the chance to show off their work to the Palestinian
public, which is keen to hear music,” Ismail Daoud, a well-known
Palestinian musician and professor at the conservatory, told Al-
Monitor. “The Edward Said Conservatory is the only institution
organizing regular music festivals in the Gaza Strip.”-rh
| 13/12/2017 |
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| Health Ministry: Two Palestinians killed in Israeli shelling on Gaza | | PNN -
Palestine News Network -
"The Palestinian ministry of Health announced that two youths were killed after an Israeli scouting plane in Beit Lahia town, northern Gaza strip.
The ministry said that the two bodies of martyrs were moved to the Indonesian Hospital in the strip, while another youth is still suffering injuries. By Saturday, four other Gazans were killed in the clashes that broke out in Khan Younis city in the strip." - id
| 13/12/2017 |
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| Israeli Violence Against Civilians, Press Continues Through Weekend in Hebron | | al-Khalil team -
International Solidarity Movement -
"On Friday alone, between 15 and 20 Palestinian minors were arrested, including at least five that weren’t involved in the clashes, one of which was taken straight from his home. Of the five boys that ISM activists witnessed being arrested, four of them were brutally beaten by large groups of soldiers after they were subdued and handcuffed and posed no threat to the soldiers." - id | 13/12/2017 |
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| December 2, 2017 Umm al-Amad, Ma‘in | | David Shulman - Touching Photographs - On the way to Umm al-Khair we
stop at Ma‘in and climb the hill to where the owners were digging
shallow pits for planting baby olive trees, a few days back. The
settlers of Avigail, across the highway, must have summoned the
soldiers. This time they arrested ten Palestinians, accusing them of
digging in an “archaeological site.” There is no square meter in
Palestine-Israel that is not an archaeological site. A new and ominous
pretext, potentially useful for stealing land. They kept their
prisoners all day and released them in the evening. This story, like
Umm al-Amad’s, isn’t over yet. One thing I can say. Things are getting
worse.-rh | 6/12/2017 |
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| Resource: Exploiting Palestinian land to treat Israeli waste | | B`Tselem - +972 Resources - A new B’Tselem report reveals that a
significant portion of Israel’s waste treatment system is located
outside its sovereign borders, in the West Bank. Because Israel has
set out less stringent environmental regulations for industrial zones
in settlements and even offers financial incentives such as tax breaks
and government subsidies, it is now more profitable to build and
operate waste treatment facilities in the West Bank than inside
Israel. The lax regulatory standards there increase potential
environmental and health hazards for West Bank residents. B’Tselem
research has found that there are at least fifteen Israeli waste
treatment facilities in the West Bank.-rh | 6/12/2017 |
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| Imprisoned Human Rights Defender in Military Court | | International Solidarity Movement - Abdullah, a leading non violent
activist and human rights defender has has been held in military
prison since the occupation forces raided his village, Bil’in, and
took him from his home in the middle of the night on the 19th of
November, 2017. Abdullah was handcuffed, gagged and his hand were tied
to the roof of the jeep. Since then, two military judges have conceded
that Abdullah is not dangerous and should be released on certain
conditions, but the military prosecution is intent on making sure he
remains in detention, and has continued to hold him without regard to
due process. Tomorrow’s hearing will be to determine if Abdullah has
broken conditions set for his release by a military judge after his
arrest from the Alwada Cycling Marathon on Nakba Day, the 13th of
May, 2016.-rh | 6/12/2017 |
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| Navy Abducts 5 Fishermen and Seizes Boats in Gaza | | IMEMC -
"The captain, fisherman Amjad al-Shrafi, said that the boat was owned by fisherman Khamis Abu al-Sadiq, and that occupation forces took the five fishermen working on the boat to an unknown destination." - id
| 6/12/2017 |
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| Settlement Pollutes Palestinian Olive Groves With Sewage Water | | Nablus team -
International Solidarity Movement -
"The farmers in South Bruqin have had to face the difficulties living next to, and having land stolen by, the illegal settlement of Bruchin since 2000. The last eastern expansion of the settlement led not only to a new settler road cutting through the Palestinians olive grove, but also a river of sewage water running through the hills." - id | 6/12/2017 |
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| Made in Israel: Exploiting Palestinian Land for Treatment of Israeli Waste | | B’Tselem - Abusing its status as an occupying power, Israel has set
out less stringent environmental regulations in industrial zones in
settlements than in Israel`s own territory, and even offers the
polluters financial incentives such as tax breaks and government
subsidies. There are at least fifteen Israeli waste treatment
facilities in the West Bank. Most of the waste they process is
produced in Israel. Six of the facilities handle hazardous waste,
including infectious medical waste, used oils and solvents, metals,
batteries and electronic industry byproducts – and one which
processes sewage sludge. International standards in this field
address the transfer of waste from the territory of one sovereign
state to another. However, transferring waste into an occupied
territory is a far graver issue, as residents of an occupied
territory cannot oppose the decisions of the occupying power, and
are entirely at its mercy. [ak] | 5/12/2017 |
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| `It took them 10 minutes to destroy what I built in a lifetime` | | Orly Noy - +972 - “I have been submitting requests to delay the demolition since 2010,” says Issam, father of eight. “The demolition order applied to the 30 meters around the house. I told them several times that I would demolish those 30 meters by myself. They told me ‘don’t do anything.’ Last Wednesday they came unannounced and began demolishing. I told their work manager that the order only applied to the 30 meters. He responded, ‘don’t even talk to me, I know what to do,’ and destroyed the entire house. (...) My wife stood by and cried, she begged them to at least let us remove a few things from the house, but they did not allow it.” The olive, apple, and lemon trees that stood in the yard were also destroyed in the melee. (...) Later, as we stand at the gate outside the home, six-year-old Nour walks up to me and says in a near-whisper: “The bicycle, too."[bz] | 5/12/2017 |
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| Israeli forces detain Palestinian lawyer from his home | | Ma`an - Israeli authorities on Monday detained the Head of the Legal Department at the Palestinian Committee for Prisoners’ Affairs, Iyad Misk, from his home in the town of Kafr Aqab, central occupied West Bank.
Rights groups have long criticized Israel for arbitrary detentions of Palestinian activists in an attempt to stifle Palestinian political life. [bz] | 5/12/2017 |
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