Life under occupation
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| West Bank Palestinians` olive trees burn as U.N. urges protection for harvest | | Reuters/Ynet - In normal years peace monitors accompany the farmers to protect the harvest. But the coronavirus pandemic has made this harder.
Some Israeli activists are still deploying. "With COVID-19 it is impossible for foreigners to come, harder for Israelis," said one activist, Guy Butavia.
Olive farmers in areas near some Israeli settlements say they face problems each year.
"When we try to reach our fields, the army protects the settlers and prevents us from accessing our olives," said Adnan Barakat, council head of Burqa village, near Ramallah.
In Burqa, Israeli settlers "stoned and physically assaulted Palestinian olive pickers on three occasions, triggering clashes." [bz]
| 30/10/2020 |
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| October 18-24, 2020 - in the Occupied Palestinian Territories | | Taayush - Also this week settler attacks against Palestinian olive harvesters, with the robbing of olive crops and heavy damages to olive trees, and the ongoing harassment and chasing away of shepherds from their grazing grounds. The army demolished structures in the South Hebron Hills and in the northern Palestinian Jordan Valley, in the Bethlehem district, in Qalqiliya and Beit Iqsa. A new settler outpost was established on "antenna hill", on the lands of Birin village. Activists accompanied shepherds on Saturday at Umm Al Amad, and helped with the olive harvest at Susya. To join Ta`ayush this Saturday call 055-2770168 [bz] | 27/10/2020 |
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| The enduring power of Rachel Corrie | | PHILIP WEISS - Mondoweiss - Two Saturdays ago, a theater company near
me presented a reading of the play, “My Name Is Rachel Corrie,” with
four young women speaking Rachel’s words on a simple stage 50 feet
from commuter rails. About 60 people were in the audience, and there
was none of the political drama that accompanied the play’s New York
premiere in 2006. Israel’s friends did not succeed in shutting down a
progressive theater company‘s production of the show… When the show
did get staged, no one handed out flyers outside the theater with
pictures of Israeli girls killed in suicide bombings. Yet in a way
the play had more raw power last Saturday night than it did when I
first saw it 14 years ago. Director Christine Bokhour chose the work
because she was looking for a piece that would tie into Black Lives
Matter and other protests. “[Rachel Corrie’s] passion for social
activism, and willingness to put her own life on the line for it, is
what is inspiring to me,” Bokhour wrote in the program. “I cannot
imagine a time when I would have had the courage to do what she did.
(rh) | 25/10/2020 |
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| Palestinian teen dies after being ‘beaten by Israeli soldiers’ | | Al Jazeera - Director of medical centre says Snobar died of neck injuries
sustained while being beaten by Israeli forces [ry] | 26/10/2020 |
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| Palestinian Volunteers Help Olive Harvesters in Ways the Palestinian Authority Can’t | | Amira Hass - Haaretz - In dozens of villages, the harvest has become
life-threatening, and Israel prevents Palestinian security forces from
protecting farmers. Volunteers have fill the vacuum – but settler
violence isn’t limited to three weeks a year.(rh) | 25/10/2020 |
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| Gaza Eases COVID Restrictions: Tawjihi Students Back in School (PHOTOS) | | Wafa Aludaini - Palestine Chronicle - Gaza authorities began easing
up COVID-19 restrictions Saturday, allowing Tawjihi students (final
year of high school) to resume their studies, although under strict
safety measures. Gaza’s Ministry of Education issued a statement
stating that they will evaluate the decision one week from now, to
assess whether other students are allowed to return to school under
similarly strict measures. Tawjihi is a critical year for Palestinian
students, for the results of the final exams alone determine future
college placement. Failure to obtain high grades can make a great
difference for students, who can either join good universities or
have to repeat the final year of high school (rh) | 20/10/2020 |
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| Diplomatic Bullying: Israel Won`t Renew Visas to UN Workers in West Bank and Gaza | | Amira Hass - Haaretz - Back in February, then-Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz promised to carry out an act of reprisal against OHCHR in the guise of freezing ties with it – because it dared to publish an (incomplete) list of mainly Israeli businesses and corporations (and a few from abroad) that are mired up to their ears in the Israeli settlement enterprise. Katz made a promise, and the Foreign Ministry headed by Kahol Lavan member Gabi Ashkenazi is keeping that promise.
Do other countries who are annoyed by your criticism act the way Israel does, I asked OHCHR spokesperson Rupert Colville. He replied that on occasion, the work visas of one of the employees is not extended, but "I am not aware of any truly comparable situation anywhere else, where every single visa coming up for renewal has not been renewed." He added: “And this is a unique situation in that the office and staff are not functioning in Israel itself, but they need Israeli visas in order to enter and exit the occupied Palestinian territory.”
[bz]
| 20/10/2020 |
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| Woman Dies After Police Arrested Her Son for Violating Curfew Rules in Nuseirat Refugee Camp | | Palestinian Centre for Human Rights - On Sunday, 20 September 2020,
medical sources at Shuhada’ al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah
announced the death of a woman from Nuseirat refugee camp, Central
Gaza Strip, 30 minutes after she arrived to the hospital unconscious;
the cause of death was a severe heart attack that she suffered in a
police assault on her sons and attempt to arrest one of them. The
police arrived at her son’s shop because he had opened his shop after
curfew hours (20:00).(rh)
| 13/10/2020 |
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| Palestinian Prisoner Continues Hunger Strike as Israeli Court Rejects Petition Calling for Immediate Release | | Palestine Chronicle - Palestinian hunger striker, Maher al-Akhras,
who has been on a 78-day long fast protesting his administrative
detention, today rejected a deal from the Israeli High Court that
recommends his release from prison in return for ending his
hungerstrike. Al-Akhras rejected the Israeli High Court deal after
only recommending his release by November 26 instead of ruling in
favor of his release as requested by his lawyer in the petition
submitted to the Court and rejected today. As a result, according to
his lawyer, al-Akhras decided to continue with his hunger strike
until there is a definite and clear position from the High Court or
the Israeli occupation authorities setting a specific date for his
release and not only a recommendation.(rh) | 13/10/2020 |
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| Government to High Court: Dying Palestinian Still a Security Risk | | Amit Gilutz - btselem - Maher al-Akhras, a 49-year-old father of
six, has been on hunger strike for nearly 80 days to protest his
administrative detention. The state offers to "suspend" his
detention order, which means that it would not be renewed when
ending on 26 November 2020, but that al-Akhra will remain
imprisoned without trial until then, sice he is "still dangerous"
(but this danger from him will cease on November 26?). al-Akhras
rejected this compromise, annoncing he will only end his hunger
strike on complete and immediate release from prison. [ak] | 13/10/2020 |
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| People in Gaza sifting through rubbish for food, UN head says | | Oliver Holmes - The Guardian - Palestinians across Middle East suffering
unprecedented poverty, says Philippe Lazzarini [ry] | 12/10/2020 |
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| Palestinians face constant COVID-19 testing shortage | | YUMNA PATEL - Mondoweiss - As the coronavirus continues to spread
across the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), local news this week
was inundated with warnings of testing kit shortages in the West Bank
and Gaza, the latter of which has seen a worrying spike in cases
recently. The Palestinian Minister of Health Mai al-Kalia told the
Voice of Palestine radio on Tuesday that Israel “obstructed” the
entry of 100,000 COVID-19 testing swabs that were destined for the
West Bank in coordination with the United Nations (UN). As a result,
she said, the MOH will only have enough swabs to last them for three
days, after which time the West Bank would run out of the testing
kits. (rh) | 6/10/2020 |
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| Palestinian Shot Dead by Israeli Soldiers near Tulkarem | | IMEMC / the Jerusalem Press - Three Palestinians were shot by
Israeli forces east of Tulkarem. Two of them managed to flee the
scene, but the third died shortly after being shot. The dead man was
identified as Samir Ahmad Hmeidi, 28, a university student and
former political prisoner, from Beit Lid, who had spent three years
in Israeli prisons.
According to the Israeli army communique, the three "terrorists"
were shot while throwing Molotov cocktails at an army post,
established to protect the nearby Israeli settlement of Einav. The
communique noted with relief that no Israeli soldiers were hurt.
[ak]
| 6/10/2020 |
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| Al-Akhras Continues Hunger Strike For 70th Day | | IMEMC News - "The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported, Sunday,
that Maher al-Akhras, a political prisoner held by Israel without charges or trial, is
ongoing with the hunger strike for the seventieth consecutive day despite his
seriously deteriorating health condition" [ry] | 5/10/2020 |
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