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04/02/2012
| | Key settlement outpost slated for evacuation Ma`an News Agency -
"There are 18 cases regarding outposts, including Migron, before the high court, according to Peace Now, an Israeli pressure group which campaigns for a politically negotiated two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Several have been going on for years.
Peace Now began petitioning the high court to pressure the Israeli government to take action against the "illegal" outposts, which occupy about 1,620 hectares of West Bank land. About 16 of the outposts are on nearly 100 percent Palestinian land and an estimated 22 are on at least 50 percent Palestinian land, according to Peace Now." ca
| | | Why is the BBC so afraid of the word "Palestine"? Amena Saleem -
Electronic Intifada
"Appearing on the popular Charlie Sloth Hip Hop M1X last February, the artist Mic Righteous performed a rap which included the lyrics: “I can scream Free Palestine for my pride/still pray for peace.”
BBC producers replaced the word ‘Palestine’ with the sound of breaking glass and this is the version that was aired and which can be seen on a video on the BBC website (the censorship occurs at 2:59)." ca | | | Jerusalem`s Armenians outraged as city approves Jews-only parking lot in Old City Nir Hasson -
Haaretz
"For decades, the parking lot was open to all, though Jewish Quarter residents paid far less for a parking sticker than their Armenian neighbors. But around two years ago, Armenians were forbidden to park there." ca | | | A bad smell is rising from Hebron, and it`s here to stay Yossi Sarid -
Haaretz
"We learned more there in one day than we did here in eight years. Until now, we`d been told in civics class that the state is sovereign; its write runs everywhere. But they made a mockery of us: They never showed us the whole picture. That`s what happens when there`s not enough time for heritage studies. It`s only now I understand that there are whole areas controlled by "vigilantes," as the teacher calls them, and they cleanse the surroundings as needed, like in the Book of Joshua." ca | | | Video: Bedouin community near settlement faces expulsion, 2012 B`Tselem -
Monthly Newsletter
"Israel`s Civil Administration is planning to relocate some 27,000 Bedouins living in Area C in the West Bank. At first, some 2,300 people will be expelled from their homes near the Ma`ale Adummim settlement and relocated to a site next to the Abu Dis garbage dump, east of Jerusalem. Members of the Khan al-Ahmar community explain how the move will affect them." ca | | | IDF, Palestinians clash in East Jerusalem; one critically wounded Aziz Abu Sarah-
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"The clashes between the soldiers and the residents concentrated in Hai Abeid, which is downtown Issawiya, and continued until the early hours of the morning. According to witnesses, over a dozen Palestinians were injured. One of the wounded residents was hit with a rubber-coated bullet in his head and is currently in critical situation." ca | | | 25 Jan. `12: State won’t prosecute officer responsible for shooting of Firas Qasqas B`Tselem -
Monthly Newsletter
"Had B`Tselem not been involved, including filing the petition, it is safe to assume that a decision would not have been made, and the incident may not even have been investigated. Many cases documented by B`Tselem in which Palestinians were killed were never investigated by the Military Police Investigation Unit. B`Tselem has also documented other cases in which soldiers killed Palestinians, which were investigated by MPIU, but the Judge Advocate General’s Office did not decide on the action to be taken. Some cases are still pending a decision, years after completion of the investigation." ca
| | | Administrative detention B`Tselem -
Monthly Newsletter
"In 2011, there was a sharp increase in the number of Palestinian administrative detainees held by Israel, from 219 in January to 307 in December, according to figures B`Tselem received from the Israel Prison Service. Twenty-nine percent of the detainees had been held for six months to one year; another 24 percent from one to two years. Seventeen Palestinians had been in administrative detention continuously for two to four and a half years, and one man has been held for over five years. At the end of 2011, Israel was holding one minor in administrative detention. This year marks the first time since 2008 that there was an increase in the number of administrative detainees, after the number had fallen from 813, in January 2008, to 204 in December 2010." ca
| | | The Praver Plan is now a new bill: Confiscation of Bedouin Lands Bill Dr. Yeela Raanan -
NegevBedouin
"On January 3rd the Government of Israel published the memorandum of a bill named "*Regulation of the Bedouin settlement in the Negev*", in which in states the steps to be implemented in order to relocate the overwhelming majority of the residents of the unrecognized villages and confiscate about 2/3s of the land remaining in their possession. As can be expected, the Government of Israel is anticipating resistance to this new bill, so within the bill are violent measures to ensure its implementation. This bill is currently going through the legislative process in the Knesset, and soon will become law." ca
| | | Cairo Book Fair breezes in Nevine El-Aref -
Al-Ahram Weekly
"For the first time the London-based leading human rights organisation Amnesty International is to have a table at the CIBF so as to deliver its message to the Egyptian people and the region." ca
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