Life under occupation
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Title | | Description | Date |
BEHIND CLOSED DOORS: INSIDE OCCUPIED PALESTINE | | DEBBIE SHAMIR - Studentnewspaper - This summer, I together with a
group of British Jews spent five days exploring the complicated
situation between Israel and Palestine. Despite the common
misconception that all of Israel-Palestine is characterised by
unsolvable conflict and violence, we spoke to several people and
organisations who longed for peace. They don’t deny the complications
but believe that with a suitable government in power, a peaceful
resolution is possible.-rh | 29/10/2019 |
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Soldiers and settlers assaulting the olive harvest / Al Arakib again | | Amos Gvirtz - Don`t Say We Didn`t Know - At the end of the day`s work, armed settler-colonists arrived, chased the family from its own olive grove and trashed the olives.
[bz] | 29/10/2019 |
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Military authorities close 3 more cases of Palestinian fatalities - without holding anyone to account | | Amit Gilutz - B’Tselem - In all these three cases of Palestinians
who were killed
by soldiers, B’Tselem investigated the incidents soon after they
occurred in early 2018, and found that all three killings were
unjustified, and that there should not have had fatal consequences –
not even by the standards of military regulations, to which soldiers
are supposed to abide. But in fact, the army launched
investigations, once again created an illusion of a functioning
apparatus for seeking accountability, but at the end of the day,
these belated so-called investigations ended in whitewashing. [ak]
| 29/10/2019 |
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95 Civilians Shot and Injured, Including 43 Children, a Woman, 2 Paramedics and a Journalist at 80th weekly Gaza protest | | Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) - The protests lasted from 15:00 to 18:30 and involved activities such as speeches and theatrical performances. Hundreds of civilians protested at varied distances from the border fence across the Gaza Strip, where some protestors set tires on fire and a few of them attempted to throw stones, Molotov Cocktails and firecrackers at the Israeli forces, who responded with excessive force. [bz] | 29/10/2019 |
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`Want to know what I`m accused of? Me too` | | Oren Ziv - +972 - Hiba al-Labadi has been on hunger strike for 35 days after
being imprisoned by Israel since August without trial. Now Palestinian and Israeli
activists are trying to raise awareness about the case [ry]
| 28/10/2019 |
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PM said to have nixed IDF request to clear hilltop youth from outpost 5 times | | Jacob Magid -
Times of Israel
"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government ignored
recommendations received five times over the past year from the
Israel Defense Forces to demolish a caravan belonging to some of the
most extremist young settlers in an illegal outpost near the
flashpoint Yitzhar settlement, Haaretz reported Thursday...Without
the defense minister — since last November Netanyahu has held that
position — signing off on the demolition, the IDF cannot carry it
out." ca | 25/10/2019 |
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Palestinian Center for Human Rights: Blocking Websites Violates International Standards | | Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) - Tthe Magistrate Court
in Ramallah responded to the Attorney General`s request and issued a
decision to block 59 news and political websites, some of which are
affiliated with Hamas and the Islamic Jihad Movements and others are
affiliated with the Democratic Reform Trend in Fatah Movement, as
well as other independent and anonymous websites. PCHR stresses that
the freedoms of expression and the press are protected by the
Palestinian Basic Law and should not be restricted unless a
legitimate national interest exists, as defined by law. PCHR affirms
that the power to restrict some forms of expression should not be
exploited against the opposition, emphasizing that restrictions
should be kept at a minimum in accordance with the values of a
democratic society where the freedom of criticism in all its forms
is respected. [ak] | 22/10/2019 |
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Physicians for Human Rights meet with Palestinian Prime Minister | | Ran Goldstein - Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) - During
the meeting, volunteer physicians, including those who visit Gaza
monthly as part of our medical delegations, discussed ways to
mitigate the difficulties Gaza residents have accessing medical
treatment outside the Strip, the continuing health care crisis in
Gaza and the West Bank and the shortage of drugs and medical
equipment. Another topic discussed in the meeting was the decision
made a few months ago by the Palestinian Authority to stop referring
Palestinian patients to Israeli hospitals.[ak] | 22/10/2019 |
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Vital medicines run out in Gaza | | Yousef M. Aljamal -
Electronic Intifada
"Shaaban is a 10-year-old child with autism.
He requires assistance with his education, as well as medical
treatment that costs up to $900 per month. Without his medicine, he
can begin to scream, has difficulty sleeping at night and sometimes
even loses consciousness.Shaaban’s father Ibrahim works as a janitor
at a local school. Amid a general economic slowdown caused by
Israel’s siege of Gaza, Ibrahim has seen his monthly wages fall from
approximately $450 to $350 in recent years.He has four children to
care for, including Shaaban. And almost half of Ibrahim’s wages go
toward paying a bank loan that was issued to build the family’s
home.An additional problem is that most of the medicines Shaaban has
been prescribed are not available in Gaza." ca
| 18/10/2019 |
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Jordan demands Israel release of its two administratively detained citizens | | IMEMC - The Jordanian Ambassador in Tel Aviv officially demanded of
the Israeli government to immediately release two imprisoned
Jordanian citizens: "The Hashemite Kingdom rejects holding the two
detainees under arbitrary Administrative Detention orders, without
charges or trial". Hiba al-Lubbadi is still continuing the hunger
strike she started on September 24th, in spite of facing health
complications - an issue that makes securing her immediate release
more urgent. The second Jordanian detainee is Abdul-Rahman Mer’ey
was abducted on September 2nd, while heading to the West Bank to
attend the wedding of one of his relatives. He also suffers from
various health issues and undergone several surgeries in the last
few years.[ak]
| 15/10/2019 |
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Israeli High Court facilitates interrogation of Palestinian under torture | | B’Tselem - "On Monday, 7 October 2019, a three justices of Israel’s High Court
of Justice (HCJ) ruled to uphold an injunction denying Samer ‘Arbid, a
Palestinian from the West Bank, the right to meet with legal counsel. ‘Arbid had
been interrogated by the ISA (Shin Bet) with `special means` and admitted to
hospital unconscious. The Court justified the decision by `a certain
improvement in his medical status`, of which ‘Arbid’s family and lawyers were
not informed" [ry] | 14/10/2019 |
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Israel releases Hamas senior could mean deal en route | | Shlomi Eldar -
Al-Monitor
"Abu Tir, 67, has spent 37 years of his life in Israeli jails. Upon
his release, he told Al-Monitor, “I don’t know why I was detained
and no one told me what I am accused of.” ... A Palestinian security
source told Al-Monitor that Abu Tir’s release was yet another sign
of progress in contacts between Israel and Hamas over a long-term
deal in the Gaza Strip. According to the source, the movement’s
leadership understands it has been playing with fire ever since
Israel threatened a widespread offensive against Gaza in the wake of
the rocket fired Sept. 11 from the enclave at the town of Ashdod
during Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s election rally. Under
Egyptian mediation and following warnings to Hamas leaders, the
sides renewed talks on the understandings they had reached in the
past, resulting in an easing of Israeli restrictions and restoration
of a measure of calm. A relative lull ensued on the Israel-Gaza
border in recent weeks." ca
| 11/10/2019 |
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Soldiers Invade Headquarters In Work Health Committees In Ramallah | | IMEMC News-
"The Work Health Committee issued a statement condemning the Israeli
violation and called on various legal and human right groups in the
region and around the world, to denounce these escalating
violations, and act on stopping them.It added that the invasion is a
serious violation to various international laws and treaties,
especially those regarding the protection of medical and relief
facilities." ca
| 11/10/2019 |
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10 year-old shot in the head by Israeli forces, family awaits answers | | Mondoweiss/IMEMC - July
12, a typical day of Friday protests at the village of Kafr Qaddum,
turned bloody when the 10-year old boy was shot while standing at the entrance
of his friend’s house. Since that day, Shteiwi has
remained in the Tel Hashomer Hospital in Tel Aviv. “He can’t move
his hands or legs, he can’t speak. He’s awake, but he can’t do
anything,” said Murad Shteiwi, a relative of the family and local
activist, adding that much of the nearly 100 pieces of shrapnel
initially found in the boy’s head are still lodged in his brain
today. Despite accounts from eyewitnesses, activists, and the
doctors who treated him all saying that Shteiwi was shot with live
ammunition, the last reported statement from the Israeli military on Shteiwi’s case was
in the Times of Israel that quoted an anonymous
source, saying “the army was investigating, but insisted no live fire was
used that day and the boy was not targeted.”[ak]
| 8/10/2019 |
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Israeli Soldiers Injure Several Palestinians, abduct One, In Beit Ummar | | IMEMC News -
"Local nonviolent activist, Mohammad Ayyad Awad, said several army
jeeps invaded ‘Aseeda area in Beit Ummar, and attacked Palestinians
protesting the invasion.Awad added that the soldiers fired a barrage
of gas bombs and concussion grenades, and chased the protesters to
abduct them." ca
| 4/10/2019 |
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Seven Detainees, Including One Woman, Continue Hunger Strike | | IMEMC - The hunger strike is protesting their being held under the arbitrary Administrative Detention orders, without charges or trial. One of the detainees, identified as Ahmad Abdul-Karim Ghannam, 42, from Doura town, southwest of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, started the hunger strike 79 days ago, and is facing serious complications, especially since he also has cancer. [bz] | 1/10/2019 |
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Democratic countries shouldn`t use torture as punishment | | Amos Harel - Ha`aretz - The man is far from being a village saint.
From the details released so far, it seems he prepared the bomb and
flipped the switch himself when the Shnerb (settler) family was
hiking to a spring in the West Bank.But democratic countries may not
use interrogation and torture as punishment. The High Court of
Justice, in a 1999 ruling on torture during interrogations and a
2017 ruling on the use of “special means,” outlined what the Shin
Bet may and may not do. These rulings seem to say that it’s
acceptable to use "special means" when an urgent need can be shown;
that is, when the interrogator knows about a “ticking bomb” and
force is necessary to extract information to prevent a loss of life.
[ak]
| 1/10/2019 |
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What happened to tortured prisoner Samer Arbid? | | Quds News Network - Palestinian human rights groups called on
Israeli authorities to immediately release Palestinian prisoner
Samer Arbid (44 years old), who was subjected to brutal torture that
endangered his life. The Israeli army immediately tried to escape
responsibility stressing that it handed Arbid over to the Shein Bet
unharmed. A claim, which was proven false later on. When brought to
hospital, Arbid was unconscious and he suffered from rib fractures
in addition to bruises and traces of beatings in all parts of his
body. He also suffers from severe kidney failure. [ak] | 1/10/2019 |
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