Life under occupation
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Title | | Description | Date |
15-year-old Palestinian boy succumbs to wounds in Gaza | | Ma’an News Agency - "Medical sources at the European Hospital in the
southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis confirmed that Azzam Hilal Uweida,
15,
succumbed to his wounds on Saturday morning. Sources added that Uweida
was shot in the head by Israeli forces" [ry]
| 30/4/2018 |
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Israel defence minister gives ‘absolute support’ to snipers shooting Palestinian protesters | | Middle East Monitor - Israel’s Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman
yesterday expressed his “absolute support” for the Israeli soldiers
who have been shooting Palestinian protesters in the occupied Gaza
Strip in recent weeks. On Friday, Israeli snipers shot and killed four
Palestinians (with a fifth succumbing to his wounds on Sunday night),
including a 14-year-old child, Mohammad Ayoub. Lieberman said that
Israeli soldiers had done nothing wrong. “I was there myself and saw
how the soldiers were operating. The way our soldiers function
inspires respect,” the defence minister stated, adding that “there is
absolute support for IDF soldiers and every incident is
investigated."-rh | 25/4/2018 |
... |
The Guardian view on the Gaza protests: a new challenge to Israel’s blockade | | The Guardian - Editorial - This weekend the United Nations Middle East
peace envoy asked: “How does the killing of a child in #Gaza today
help #peace? It doesn’t! It fuels anger and breeds more killing.”
Nickolay Mladenov was right to be outraged. He tweeted after a
Palestinian teenager was shot in the head apparently by Israeli army
snipers while peacefully protesting near a border fence. The Israeli
government at first dismissed calls for an investigation, only to
concede to one after the international community called on the
military to “stop killing children”. The soldiers’ use of live
ammunition against unarmed demonstrators is an affront; but it is in
line with the brutal attitudes towards Palestinians that have become
normalised by Israeli politicians. | 25/4/2018 |
... |
In Photos: While the world watches Gaza, Israeli forces invade Nabi Saleh | | Anne Paq and Heidi Motola - Mondoweiss - Nabi Saleh, a small village
of 600 inhabitants, has been recently in the headlines, following the
arrest of the young activist, Ahed Tamimi (17), who slapped an Israeli
soldier in front of her home last December. However, there is little
attention to the fact that the village is regularly invaded by the
Israeli army, days and nights, triggering clashes with the youth, who
confront the soldiers with stones. The arrests takes place mostly
during the nights and currently, acording to Belal Tamimi, 19
residents of Nabi Saleh are imprisoned by the Israeli authorities.-rh | 25/4/2018 |
... |
Deaf teenager is latest Palestinian to die of wounds sustained during Gaza protests | | Ma`ans News Agency - Two Palestinians, including a deaf teenager,
succumbed to wounds sustained during the ongoing “Great March of
Return” protests in the besieged Gaza Strip. The Palestinian Ministry
of Health reported that 18-year-old Tahrir Mahmoud Wahba, who was
deaf, died on Monday morning. The teenager was shot with live
ammunition by Israeli forces during protests on Friday April 13th in
the southern Gaza Strip district of Khan Younis, near the al-Awdeh
refugee camp.
Late Sunday night, the ministry reported that a Palestinian “youth,”
identified as Abdullah Muhammad al-Shamali, succumbed to wounds he
sustained last Friday. Al-Shamali was a resident of the southern Gaza
Strip city of Rafah. According to the Ministry of Health, the deaths
of Wahba and al-Shamali brought the total death toll in Gaza since the
“Great March of Return” began on March 30, to 41 Palestinians
including at least three minors and a journalist.-rh | 25/4/2018 |
... |
A village in danger of erasure | | Anne Paq -
The Electronic Intifada -
"Israel continues to encroach on al-Walaja’s remaining land. The construction of Gilo and Har Gilo settlements, and Israel’s West Bank wall, currently underway, has left residents unable to access their land. When completed, the wall will totally surround al-Walaja, and will likely force many residents to leave so that they can access their workplaces and services like healthcare and education outside the village." - id
| 25/4/2018 |
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Blaming a child for the sniper`s bullet that killed him | | Orly Noy -
+972 -
"The first thing that came to mind when I heard Bennett’s horrifying response was that a less ignorant, and perhaps less racist, government minister would know that there is no class on Fridays in the Palestinian school system.
Then I pictured the tens of thousands of students that Bennett’s political allies – and Bennett himself – bring to hate-filled protests in the alleys and streets of the Muslim Quarter on Jerusalem Day. Mohammed Ayoub, unlike those children, was protesting on his land: the battered, besieged, and starved Gaza Strip that was his home." - id
| 25/4/2018 |
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Student Dean, 14-year old boy among tonight`s detainees | | Ma`an - The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) reported that
Israeli army forces detained the Dean of Student Affairs at
Bethlehem University, Mahmoud Hammad. As usual, the army gave no
information on the reasons for the detentions and what charges will
be presented against him, if any. (Many Palestinians end up in
Administrative Detention without even the semblance of a trial).
Also the 14-years old Muhammad Samer Sirhan, of East Jerusalem was
among those detained. In his case, likewise, no reason for the
detention was given. [ak].
| 24/4/2018 |
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Israeli soldiers cheer after shooting a Palestinian protester in the village of Madama (including video) | | B`Tselem press release - Joyfully cheering about shooting a person trying to clear the access road to his home and calmly discussing other ways to hit him and the other people with him are part of the discordant soundtrack accompanying 51 years of occupation. [bz] | 24/4/2018 |
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Army said to find slain Gaza teen was trying to damage border fence when shot | | The Times of Israel and agencies - EU joins US, UN in urging Israel to
investigate Friday`s killing of Mohammed Ayoub, 15; IDF says he apparently
crossed barbed wire barrier and was heading to main border fence [ry] | 23/4/2018 |
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Snipers ordered to shoot children, Israeli general confirms | | Ali Abunimah - EI - "In a radio interview, Brigadier-General (Reserve) Zvika
Fogel describes how a sniper identifies the `small body` of a child and is given
authorization to shoot" [ry] | 23/4/2018 |
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Palestinian children live life of hardship in Israeli lockup | | Shatha Hammad -
Aljazeera
"Ayed Abu Eqtaish, the accountability programme director at Defence
for Children International - Palestine (DCI-P), argues that Israeli
courts fail to respect established rules for detaining and trying
children in court.Although Israel is a signatory to the United
Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, it ignores that
agreement`s restrictions when dealing with Palestinian children, Abu
Eqtaish tells Al Jazeera.Rather than seeking alternatives to prison,
Israeli courts regularly impose lengthy sentences on the children
and impose costly fines on their families, Abu Eqtaish adds." ca
| 20/4/2018 |
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Israel kills child and crushes bones in Gaza | | Maureen Clare Murphy -
Electronic Intifada
"Muhammad Ibrahim Ayyoub, 14, shot in the head east of Jabaliya in
northern Gaza on Friday, is the fourth child among the more than 30
Palestinians killed during protests since the rallies began on 30
March." ca
| 20/4/2018 |
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Gaza Deserves Our Support | | James J. Zogby -
Lobelog
"I traveled to Gaza many times during the 1990’s, in my capacity as
co-Chair of Builders for Peace, which was a project launched by Vice
President Al Gore to help grow the Palestinian economy. My
colleagues and I were unprepared for what we found. Secretary of
Commerce Ron Brown, who led one of these delegations, described what
he saw as “worse than Soweto.”...In the weeks ahead, I hope to see
Palestinians in the West Bank and Jerusalem, and Palestinians in
Lebanon and Jordan join this “Great March”." ca
| 20/4/2018 |
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Some Israeli soldiers on Gaza border have reached out to ‘Breaking the Silence’ | | Philip Weiss - Mondoweiss - When you look at what is happening in
Israeli society you would expect after these two years of attacks,
that soldiers would stop coming to Breaking the Silence. I was
actually fearful of that,” he said. But that has not been the case,
and he thanked many organizations for blunting these attacks,
including the Meretz Party, Yesh Din, Peace Now, B’Tselem and “our
mother and father,” the New Israel Fund.-rh | 18/4/2018 |
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Bernie Sanders: Ending Israel`s Occupation of Palestine Is in American`s Interests | | Amir Tibon - readersupportednews - "The presence of Hamas members
among a crowd of tens of thousands does not justify the level of
violence we saw, and frankly it’s amazing to me that anyone would find
that point controversial," Sanders said. "I have condemned Hamas’ use
of terrorist violence and will continue to do so. But that violence
cannot excuse shooting at unarmed protesters, and it cannot excuse
trapping almost 2 million people inside Gaza.".-rh | 18/4/2018 |
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4 Palestinians, 2 teenagers, killed after Israeli artillery fire targets auto rickshaw | | Ma’an News Agency - "Four Palestinians were killed and others injured after
Israeli artillery shelling targeted an auto rickshaw in the city of Rafah, in
southern
Gaza Strip, on Saturday afternoon. [...] Israeli news website Haaretz reported
that
the Israeli army is `investigating the possibility that the shooting incident was a
work accident`” [ry] | 16/4/2018 |
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From Gaza border to Ahed’s prison cell, Palestinian youth united by pain and resistance | | Ramzy Baroud - Al-Arabiya - The current generation of Palestinians is
embarking on the task of discovering and fulfilling their mission.
This mission of Palestinian youth under siege in Gaza is the same as
that of Palestinian youth under military occupation in the West Bank.
Indeed, the arrest and prolonged detention of Palestinian teen, Ahed
Tamimi, starting December 19, highlight the nature of the challenge
facing Palestine’s budding generation. They are faced with a brutal
Israeli military regime and a self-serving Palestinian leadership.-rh | 11/4/2018 |
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The Blockade on Israel`s Heart | | Gideon Levy -Information Clearing House - It’s hard to understand how
one can look at tens of thousands of people in their cage and not see
them. How is it possible to look at these protesters and not see the
disaster wrought first and foremost by Israel?-rh
| 11/4/2018 |
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Israel and Annexation by Lawfare | | Michael Sfard - The New York Review of Books - I always thought that
if Israel were to unilaterally annex the occupied Palestinian
territories, it would come under an international spotlight, with
denunciations and protests around the world. I was wrong. Annexation
is underway, but out of the spotlight, away from international
attention. In the dismal offices of the fortified Justice Ministry in
East Jerusalem, in the cramped meeting rooms of the Knesset, and in
the august chambers of the Supreme Court, Israel’s finest lawyers are
working around the clock to shape the biggest paradigm shift since the
West Bank was conquered in 1967.-rh | 11/4/2018 |
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Palestinian ‘return’ touches Israel’s deepest anxieties | | Zvi Schuldiner - Il Manifesto global edition - The 343-square-
kilometer Gaza Strip, in which two million Palestinians live in
poverty and on the threshold of an enormous humanitarian crisis, is
surrounded by a closed-off military zone, which is not, however,
airtight, and some Palestinians often manage to cross it. But in
recent weeks, the nervousness of the Israelis had grown to a fever
pitch, as everyone feared what would happen when a mass of
Palestinians would engage in a peaceful march to try to create a
visual representation of what the “return” would mean.-rh | 11/4/2018 |
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Israeli Forces & Settlers Drive Palestinian Farmers Off Their Land | | IMEMC -
"Hassan Brejieh, member of the anti-wall and anti-settlement committee in Bethlehem, told WAFA that Israeli forces and settlers broke into the land of Ibrahim Sbeih and forced him and his brothers, who were working on their land located near the illegal settlement of Sidi Boez, to leave it, at gunpoint." - id
| 11/4/2018 |
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US blocks UNSC statement on Israel`s use of force on Land Day | | Al Jazeera -
"The statement, which was proposed by Kuwait, demanded an
"independent and transparent investigation" under international law
into the bloody events on Friday`s Land Day protests.The statement
also expressed "grave concern at the situation at the border" and
stressed "the right to peaceful protest"." ca
| 1/4/2018 |
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Christians in Gaza Denied Access to Holy Week in Jerusalem | | IMEMC News & Agencies -
"Christian pilgrims from across the globe visit the Church of the
Holy Sepulcher at Easter. However, Palestinian Christians from Gaza
are yet to receive any travel permits from Israel, church leaders
have complained." ca | 1/4/2018 |
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IDF probing video showing soldier cheering as sniper hits Palestinian | | Yoav Zitun - Ynet - A video making the rounds on WhatsApp appears to
show an IDF sniper shooting a Palestinian near the Gaza border
fence, while another soldier exclaims "YES! Son of a b****". The
film was apparently made by a soldier standing at the sniper`s side
and posted on the net without the army authorities` knowledge. One
soldier is heard whispering to the cameraman "Film it, film it,"
with the filming soldier commenting "what a legendary video." Not
only are such comments on killing a person ugly and vulgar, but the
video casts strong on whether the Palestinian - shown being hit and
falling to the ground - posed any kind of threat. [ak] | 10/4/2018 |
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A state-sponsored mass shooting | | Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man - +972 - On a day when military snipers shot
hundreds of unarmed demonstrators, the army declares that ‘the circumstances
in which journalists were wounded are unknown.’ The circumstances couldn’t
be clearer[ry] | 9/4/2018 |
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