Siege, Wall, Checkpoints
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| Title | | Description | Date |
| Dutch probe sends warning to firms abetting Israel’s crimes | | Salma Karmi-Ayyoub -
EI
"This week sees the conclusion of a three-year criminal investigation into the Dutch crane company, Riwal, accused of complicity in war crimes and crimes against humanity in the occupied West Bank. The case is unprecedented as it is the first time a company has been criminally investigated for involvement in the Israeli occupation.The case started with a complaint submitted to the Dutch prosecutor by the Palestinian human rights organization Al-Haq in March 2010." ca | 17/5/2013 |
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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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| 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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| Gaza: We Will Keep Coming Back – Special Report | | Dr. Bill Dienst - The Palestine Chronicle - "So now it is April 2013 and I enter Gaza again. We enter through Erez and we are forced this time to sit through a one hour PowerPoint presentation by the Israeli military outlining how benevolent Israel tries to help, and how these ungrateful Palestinians respond with rockets and are their own worst enemy" | 6/5/2013 |
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| Decision postponed for Separation Wall in Battir | | Lea Frehse - AIC - "On May 1, an Israeli Supreme Court hearing was held in the case of the Separation Wall through the West Bank village of Battir. Israel’s Defence Ministry proposed a fence instead of the planned concrete wall, and Israel’s Park Authority suggested `less visible` means of surveillance and control. Battir’s residents wish to change the Wall’s route altogether to protect village lands" | 6/5/2013 |
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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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| 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 |
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| Palestinian Christians urge pope to oppose wall | | The Daily Star - The letter came as Israel`s President Shimon Peres was due to arrive in Italy on a three-day visit during which he would meet Pope Francis. "We respectfully ask you to make use of this meeting to pass a strong message regarding the people of Palestine, and particularly the case of Beit Jala`s Cremisan land," it said.-rh
| 2/5/2013 |
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| Monastery to be severed from convent by West Bank barrier | | Nir Hasson - Haaretz - The Tel-AQviv Magistrate`s Court rejected an
alternative route that was suggested, below Nahal Gilo, which would have
allowed the farmland, the monastery and the convent to remain on the
Palestinian side, on the grounds that the route would not be secure as
it would run along the low ground.
The petitioners claimed that the route was designed for Israel to annex
the settlement of Har Gilo to the Israeli side of the barrier and, in
the future, to connect it with the Gilo neighborhood of Jerusalem. bz | 28/4/2013 |
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| Israel attacks Hamas base in Gaza | | Reuters, dpa, AP - The strike came in response to a rocket fired from
Gaza the night before that landed in an open field within Israel,
injuring no one, according to the military. No group took immediate
responsibility for the rocket.
Though a Salafist extremist group has owned up to other recent attacks,
Israel holds Hamas, Gaza`s ruling party, responsible for all fire from
the territory. bz | 28/4/2013 |
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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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| 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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| 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 |
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| An Nabi Saleh, Kufr Qaddum, Al Ma`asara, Ni`lin, Bil`in | | Register for transportation Friday May 10 to weekly demonstrations against the wall and the settlements | 23/4/2013 |
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| 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 |
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| Palestinian village in UNESCO bid | | Nicole Johnston -
Al Jazeera -
"Battir residents hope world heritage status will help preserve farming traditions dating back to Roman times." - id
| 17/4/2013 |
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| Rightists say bring down the Wall, leftists say let`s keep it | | Dimi Reider -
+972
"Former Defense Minister Moshe Arens yesterday told Ma’ariv he thinks the separation wall – which snakes its way around the West Bank and has been responsible for cutting tens of thousands of people from their livelihoods and from each other – should be torn down. “The wall is no longer of any use and it’s only doing Israel harm,” he told the website." 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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| The money`s in the occupied territories, Lapid | | Zvi Bar`el -
Haaretz -
"It is almost impossible to determine the true cost of the occupation from data in the national budget – as if it were a top state secret." - id | 10/4/2013 |
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| NGO: Closing Gaza crossings strengthens Hamas | | Yonah Jeremy Bob - The Jerusalem Post - Gisha, the Legal Center for the Freedom of Movement questions effectiveness, legality of border closing policy in response to rocket fire | 9/4/2013 |
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| 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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