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palestina libera · Beiträge: 1665

A prominent British far-right activist and anti-Muslim campaigner has posted photos of himself posing with a gun on an Israeli tank in the occupied Golan Heights.

Tommy Robinson, who leads Pegida UK, the British branch of the German-founded Pegida movement, posted the photo on Wednesday and wrote: "All those people telling me to be careful in Israel, I think I'll be ok."
The founder and former leader of the anti-Muslim English Defence League (EDL), whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, arrived in Israel on Monday, posting the message "The Eagle has landed" on Twitter.

On Tuesday he posted a photo of himself posing by a road sign in the illegally occupied West Bank.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/armed-british-far-right-activist-poses-israeli-tank-golan-heights-1097631243

So , "Linksunten???" hat mich dieses Artikel zensiert ! und ist klar warum..... nur weil die name Israel stehet.Ich bin 150% Sicher wo stehe Israel , es wäre zum Beispiel Rusland sie wurden nicht gelöst....
ich bin die Meinung das man oft bekomt von ihren felher die in der Vergangenheit , gemacht hat , und dieses Pseudo "deutschen radikalen Linken" , haben gut verdienen was heute sind , sie sind Nichts und ich finde das gut !

palestina libera · Beiträge: 1665

Von Gideon Levi

Peace Is Justice, and Justice Doesn’t Need a Partner

One of the main claims of Israeli propaganda is also one of the worst — that there is no partner for peace. In fact there was, is and will be a partner. But we can leave that aside. No partner is necessary.

They so dearly want two states and are so against the occupation, say many self-righteous Israelis — and then comes the heartrending sigh, carrying all the sorrow of the Jewish fate — but there’s no partner. If only there were. If only. He is desperate for peace, but there’s no one to make it with. And so he must, he is forced against his will, miserable victim that he is, to continue the occupation. In recent years this shtick has become a central trick of the propaganda of Zion. With the exception of the extreme right, which says openly that it wants apartheid forever because the Jewish nation is superior, everybody uses it. ......
http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.747655?&ts=_1476728244552

Women, children are not spared from the violence of occupation

On Wednesday, October 19th, Israeli forces shot and killed 23-year-old Rahiq Shaji Birawi near Za’atara checkpoint, south of the West Bank city of Nablus.

A video claiming to show the killing circulated later that day. In the first few seconds of the clip, four Israeli soldiers, filmed from behind, take coordinated steps backwards as they shoot a dozen or so shots towards a motionless figure lying on the ground in the distance.
http://www.alternativenews.org/index.php/headlines/231-women-children-are-not-spared-from-the-violence-of-occupation

Israeli forces arrest Palestinian schoolchildren, education officials

On Monday, October 17th, Israeli forces arrested 10 students from the Dar al-Aytam School in the Old City in Jerusalem.

According to the Wadi Hilweh Information Center, Israeli forces pursued and arrested the students soon after they left the school grounds.

Three of the detained children are 15 years old, three others are 16, and four are 17.

The Palestinian News and Info Agency reports that the 10 children were released the following day under the condition of 20-days of house arrest.
http://www.alternativenews.org/index.php/headlines/228-israeli-forces-arrest-palestinian-schoolchildren-education-officials

Israeli forces detain 3 youths during raid in Ramallah-area village(27-10)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773758

Israeli forces detain 17 Palestinians, including two young children, in overnight raids(27-10)http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773749

Israeli forces detain 13 Palestinians in overnight West Bank raids(26-10)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773728

Israeli forces detain Palestinian merchant at Gaza border crossing(26-10)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773725

Israeli forces detain well-known Palestinian activist Salah al-Khawaja(26-10)

Al-Khawaja is a leader of the Palestinian National Initiative (PNI), a Palestinian political party aiming to provide an alternative to Fatah and Hamas, as well as an activist for the Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements.

PNI Secretary-General Mustafa al-Barghouthi condemned the detention of al-Khawaja, adding that Israeli detention raids and its suppression of Palestinian activists would not break the will and determination of the movement to continue its fight for the freedom of Palestinians.http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773723

Israeli forces detain 2 children, teenager in East Jerusalem raids(25-10)

Israeli police Tuesday evening released two Palestinian children from the neighborhood of Shufat in occupied East Jerusalem after hours of interrogations with Israeli forces for alleged stone throwing, while Israeli forces detained another teenager from the village of al-Issawiya during detention raids.

Sources told Ma’an that Israeli forces summoned 12-year-old Palestinian twins Muhammad and Sair Abu Khdeir after raiding their home in Shufat. http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773720

2 Palestinian youths detained in Kafr Qaddum en route to pick olives(25-10)

Israeli forces Tuesday detained two Palestinians, ages 17 and 20, as the youths were en route to pick olives near a gate east of the village of Kafr Qaddum in the occupied West Bank district of Qalqiliya.

Murad Shtewei, coordinator of a local popular resistance committee, told Ma’an that the two youths, identified as Rafe Muhammad Hussein, 17, and Muhammad Nidal, 20, were stopped by Israeli forces on their way to go olive picking and were held for several hours before being transferred to an unknown location.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773717

Israeli force detain 15 Palestinians, including Al-Aqsa security guard in raids(25-10)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773707

Video: Israeli soldiers throw stones at Palestinian children
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/video-israeli-soldiers-throw-stones-palestinian-children

Israeli forces shoot, injure Palestinian near Ramallah in alleged attack on Israeli soldiers(29-10)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773768

3 Palestinians injured in clashes with Israeli forces along Gaza border(28-10)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773767

12 Palestinians injured by Israeli forces during Shufat clashes(27-10)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773759

Gaza agriculture on brink of collapse

Unlike other manufacturing sectors, the farmers’ economic downfall will have immediate and dire consequences for residents of the Gaza Strip. Even now, the UN’s Relief and Works Agency regularly supplies more than half the residents with sacks of flour, rice, sugar and oil. Fruits and vegetables grown locally make up an important part of their meager diets.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/10/farmers-agriculture-gaza-strip-collapse-unemployment.html

Israeli army levels lands in Gaza 'buffer zone'
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773751

Palestinian Bedouins defy Israel’s bulldozers

The area around Bir Hadaj provides a stark illustration of how Israel runs an apartheid system.

Located in the Naqab (Negev in Hebrew) region of present-day Israel, Bir Hadaj hosts an agricultural community of around 7,000 Palestinian Bedouins. They are crammed into 6,500 dunams (a dunam is the equivalent of 1,000 square meters).

By contrast, approximately 1,000 Jews live in the neighboring kibbutz of Revivim. It covers an area of 30,000 dunams, one-sixth of which is reserved for olive trees.

Unlike the residents of Revivim, the Bedouins of Bir Hadaj have been repeatedly attacked by the Israeli authorities.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/palestinian-bedouins-defy-israels-bulldozers/18351

Clashes break out in Bedouin village after Israeli police deliver demolition orders(26-10)

Clashes broke out on Wednesday between Israeli police and local youth in the Bedouin village of Bir Hadaj in Israel’s Negev desert, after Israeli police affixed demolition orders on some villagers’ homes.

Locals told Ma’an that Israeli forces detained a number of people during the clashes, and that some Bir Hadaj residents were injured in the process.

They added that Israeli police issued demolition notices for homes belonging to the Abu Murayhil family ordering that the houses be demolished within 24 hours.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773739

Israeli forces raid Palestinian home, use it as temporary military post
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773750

Israel displaces 45 Palestinians in Jerusalem (27-10)

On Wednesday morning, Israeli forces demolished a building in Silwan, a Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem. Thirty Palestinians were consequently displaced, most of them children.

The site was demolished under the pretext that it was built without a construction permit. The multi-unit building stood two stories tall and included four apartments, each spanning 125 square meters.

Issa Jaafreh, the owner of the apartment, told reporters that an official from the municipality of Jerusalem visited the building on Tuesday and informed him that the demolition would commence the following day.

The building was constructed 17 years ago and Israeli authorities issued a demolition order against it nine years ago. Since then, the family has tried to secure a permit for the building, but the Jerusalem municipality repeatedly rejected their efforts.
http://alternativenews.org/index.php/headlines/236-israel-displaces-45-palestinians-in-jerusalem

Israeli settlers cut down 18 trees on private Palestinian land near Bethlehem(29-10)

Israeli settlers on Saturday morning cut down 18 olive trees belonging to a Palestinian family in the village of Nahalin, west of Bethlehem in the southern occupied West Bank.

Journalist Hani Fanun, whose family owns the trees, said his family went to harvest olives on their land in the Wadi al-Hariq area of Nahalin, and found that settlers from the nearby illegal Gush Etzion settlement bloc had cut down over 18 large olive trees.

Fanun told Ma’an that the family’s land is closest to the Bat Ayin settlement -- which is part of the cluster of Israeli settlements that make up the Gush Etzion bloc -- and was reclaimed by the family after an order by the Israeli Supreme Court proved that it belonged to them.http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773769

Palestinian succumbs to wounds after a vehicular accident with Israeli settler(26-10)

A Palestinian man succumbed on Wednesday to wounds sustained when an Israeli settler’s vehicle hit his horse-drawn cart a day earlier in the northwestern occupied West Bank district of Qalqiliya.

Muhammad Daoud, 61, was pronounced dead on Wednesday evening, while his wife Naela Hassan Ali Daoud remained in the Darwish Nazzal hospital in Qalqiliya for treatment of her moderate injuries.

The incident took place on the main road near the village of al-Nabi Elyas while the Palestinian couple was on their way to their farm east of Qalqiliya, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

The illegal Israeli settlement of Alfei Menashem is located in the area.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773746

Israeli court accuses slain Palestinian's twin brother of social media 'incitement'

The public prosecution of Israel’s Jerusalem magistrate court presented on Thursday a list of indictments against the brother of a slain Palestinian youth, accusing him of incitement on social media.

The prosecution accused 20-year-old Muhammad Shuyukhi of inciting “terrorism” on social media following the killing of his twin brother Ali by Israeli forces during clashes in the occupied East Jerusalem town of Silwan on Oct. 11.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773762

Liberal Democrats Expel British Peer for Supporting Palestinian Rights

For decades I’ve joked about an institution I “founded” called the Spinoza Society. It’s a group of distinguished Jews who, over the ages, have been ostracized or excommunicated from their respective Jewish communities for holding views outside the mainstream. They were dissenters who chose a different path. One that took them outside the mainstream, but resulted in ultimate vindication. Of course the first, and charter member was Baruch Spinoza. He was excommunicated from the Amsterdam Jewish Community in the 17th century for speaking heresies in which he denied the Afterlife and that God acted outside the natural order. His co-religionists deemed such views as dangerous and sent him packing.
https://www.richardsilverstein.com/2016/10/28/british-peer-latest-member-spinoza-society/

Die Pseudo-Zionisten und ihr schmutziger Krieg gegen die Wahrheit

Es geht um das politische Totschlagargument des Antisemitismusvorwurfs, was natürlich gerade in Deutschland auf fruchtbaren Boden fällt, erreicht mit schmutzigen Unwahrheiten und Diffamierungen gegen aufrechte Menschen, die sich nicht einschüchtern lassen wollen. Das Resultat ist immer das gleiche: Die Pseudo-Zionisten erreichen sofort Gehör und die Medienhoheit, während die Kritiker der israelischen Politik an den Pranger gestellt, ja nicht einmal „öffentlich-rechtlich“ gehört werden.
http://www.tlaxcala-int.org/article.asp?reference=19138

Auswanderung aus Israel als politische Tat

Die Einwanderung junger Israelis nach Berlin ist beunruhigend „denn es sind genau diese jungen Frauen und Männer die in Israel gebraucht werden“, erklärte der Linksaktivist Uri Avnery neulich in einer Gastkolumne in der Zeitung Haaretz (Young Israelis in Berlin, Return Home!). „Es sind genau diejenigen, die voller Energie, Unternehmergeist und Freiheitssuche sind, die benötigt werden um den Staat aus den Händen Netanjahus und seiner Kollegen zu befreien“.
http://www.tlaxcala-int.org/article.asp?reference=19209

Why I left the cult

Dear Israel and Israeli Jews,

Maybe it’s pointless writing to you, and I guess I am not expecting a response. I am writing because I feel a certain sense of duty. After all I come from you, so maybe, maybe some of you might listen to me, might get curious, take a risk and entertain what is currently unthinkable to you.

I left what seems like a very long time ago, twenty-five years. I don’t think you’ve changed much since, except for the worse maybe. Psychologies like yours have the nasty habit of getting worse if left untreated. I always remember you as harsh, defensive, hot around the collar and ready to explode at every opportunity, loud and unforgiving. You had pockets of calm and maybe even kindness, but they were reserved for those who lived in the nicer greener places, and they had more money than we did.http://mondoweiss.net/2016/10/why-i-left-the-cult/

Palestinians join Standing Rock Sioux to protest Dakota Access Pipeline
http://mondoweiss.net/2016/10/palestinians-standing-pipeline/

Aboriginal artist’s message resonates in Palestine

“Survival is a very strong instinct.”

Such words resonate with Palestinians, even when spoken in a different language by a man who embraces a different struggle and lives halfway around the world.

Indeed, much of what Richard Bell, the indigenous Australian artist, had to say in Jerusalem on 14 October could have come from any Palestinian in the city, Gaza or in the diaspora.

And in the sense of showing there is a shared language among the oppressed of this world, Qalandiya International, the biennial contemporary art event, which this year is entitled This Sea is Mine, was a success.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/aboriginal-artists-message-resonates-palestine/18291

Israel breaching Palestinians’ right to development amid ‘epic’ unemployment and poverty, UN report says

“Israel’s occupation is denying Palestine’s right to development and severely hampering its ability to attain even the minimum targets of the Sustainable Development Goals.
“Poverty is rising. Unemployment is rising to epic levels. Food insecurity is becoming more acute. The Palestinian economy is becoming more stifled and less viable under the occupation.

“Israel’s deliberate fragmentation of the OPT and lack of development has negatively impacted human rights.”

Unemployment in the Palestinian territories – the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza Strip – stands at 27 per cent, more than double the rate in 1999.

In Hamas-controlled Gaza, the figure is 42 per cent, rising to 58 per cent among the youth population.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israel-un-report-palestians-right-to-development-epic-unemployment-poverty-food-west-bank-gaza-a7385186.html

U.N. voted to partition Palestine 68 years ago, in an unfair plan made even worse by Israel’s ethnic cleansing
Palestinians were 2/3rds of the population but offered 43% of land. Then, Israel ethnically cleansed it & took more

The front page of the November 29, 1947 edition of the New York Times read “[General] Assembly Votes Palestine Partition; Margin Is 33 to 13; Arabs Walk Out; Aranha Hails Work as Session Ends.”
Why were the Arabs angry? Because, for the indigenous Palestinians, the deal was a thoroughly bad one. Palestinians comprised approximately two-thirds of the population, yet were offered just 43 percent of their land in the deal.

“Aranha” refers to Osvaldo Aranha, a Brazilian diplomat. As president of the U.N. General Assembly, Aranha lobbied strongly on behalf of the Zionist movement (a settler colonialist Jewish nationalist political movement that called for the creation of the state of Israel). He delayed the vote on resolution 181 by two days in order to give the U.S. and other pro-Israel countries more time to pressure U.N. member states to vote for the plan. Scholar Fred Khouri writes that, in these two days:
http://www.salon.com/2015/11/30/u_n_voted_to_partition_palestine_68_years_ago_in_an_unfair_plan_made_even_worse_by_israels_ethnic_cleansing/

palestina libera · Beiträge: 1665

Am 30. September starb der Antisemitismus, oder zumindest die Möglichkeit Israels, ihn als Ausrede zu benutzen. Am Vorabend des jüdischen Neujahrfest hat die Welt bewiesen, dass der Antisemitismus nur noch das Erbe bestimmter Kreise geblieben ist, begrenzte Kreise, aber man kann ihn nicht mehr den meisten Regierungen der Welt anhaften. Auch der Hass auf Israel ist nicht mehr wie das Geschrei – das Geschrei Israels.
http://www.tlaxcala-int.org/article.asp?reference=19035

Gute Reise, Hollande und Sarkozy, in das Land der Kinderfolter!

Mehr als tausend minderjährige Palästinenser (zwischen 11 und 18 Jahren) wurden 2016 von Israel verhaftet. Einer von ihnen ist Ramzi Abu Ajamiyeh, 13 Jahre. Er wurde während eines Angriffs der israelischen Armee im Flüchtlingslager Deisheh in Betlehem verletzt und verhaftet. Seine Verletzung wurde nicht behandelt und er leidet seitdem darunter. Zählen Sie somit nicht auf unser Beileid für den Kriegsverbrecher Peres, der sich nie gegen die Folter der palästinensischen Kinder aufgelehnt hat!
http://www.tlaxcala-int.org/article.asp?reference=19005

Palestinian child killed by bullet in Gaza, Israel denies responsibility

- A Palestinian child was allegedly killed by Israeli forces on Wednesday evening in the southern Gaza Strip, while Israeli authorities denied responsibility in his death.

Gaza Ministry of Health spokesperson Ashraf al-Qidra told Ma’an that 10-year-old Abdullah Nasser Atwa Abu Mdeif was shot in the back by a bullet on Wednesday evening in the al-Qarrara area east of Khan Yunis.

Abdullah was later pronounced dead at the Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis

Al-Qidra said that the child was killed by a bullet fired by Israeli forces deployed in the area.http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773540

20-year-old Palestinian shot dead by Israeli forces during clashes in Silwan(12-10)

A 20-year-old Palestinian was shot and killed by Israeli forces on Tuesday night during clashes that erupted in the town of Silwan in occupied East Jerusalem just south of the Old City, amid ongoing violent police raids in the Jerusalem area.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773528

Teen killed by Israel troops on Gaza border: Palestinian ministry(9-10)

Israeli troops shot and killed a teenager in Gaza during clashes on Friday near the border fence, the health ministry and witnesses in the beseiged Palestinian enclave said.

Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qodra identified the teenager as 16-year-old Abdel Rahman al-Dabbagh, and said he was killed east of Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza.

Witnesses said soldiers opened fire at a group of young Palestinians who had gathered near the security barrier between Israel and the Gaza Strip and threw stones at Israeli lookout towers.http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gazan-killed-israel-troops-border-palestinian-ministry-1051346552

Undercover Israeli forces detain 8 Palestinian children from Aida refugee camp(10-10)

Undercover Israeli forces detained eight Palestinian children from Aida refugee camp in the southern occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem Monday afternoon, as residents of the camp -- particularly minors -- have recently been subject to an intensification of violent military raids.

Locals told Ma’an that after clashes broke out between local youth and Israeli forces in the camp, a unit of undercover Israeli forces disguised as Palestinians infiltrated the crowd to “kidnap” the young Palestinians, who were all under 15 years old.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773512

Israeli forces detain mother of slain Palestinian Muhannad al-Halabi(13-10)

Israeli forces Thursday detained the mother of slain Palestinian Muhannad al-Halabi after summoning her for an interrogation with Israeli intelligence on Wednesday, the family told Ma’an.

The al-Halabi family said that Israeli forces reportedly detained al-Halabi’s mother due to a Facebook post, adding that a court session is expected to be held on her case on Sunday. While the family did not provide details on the content of the Facebook post, scores of Palestinians have been detained across the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel for social media posts that Israeli authorities have claimed "incite" against Israel. http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773558

Palestinian citizen of Israel detained in Nazareth over Facebook post(13-10)

Israeli police detained a Palestinian citizen of Israel on Wednesday for publishing “inciting” posts on social media.

Israeli police spokeswoman Luba al-Samri said that during the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Israeli forces detained a resident of Nazareth who reportedly posted pictures of “terrorists” on Facebook with messages of support, along with a picture of himself holding a gun.

An Israeli magistrate court in Nazareth extended the detention of the 25-year-old suspect to Oct. 16.

Israeli authorities have increasingly cracked down on Palestinian activists, intellectuals, and citizens for “incitement” over social media.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773544

Israeli forces detain 26 Palestinians overnight, ban 14 from Al-Aqsa(13-10)

Israeli forces detained at least 26 Palestinians from the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, including 14 whowere released shortly afterwards and banned from entering the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, during overnight raids between Wednesday and Thursday.http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773541

Israeli forces detain 9 Palestinians in West Bank raids, including woman and minors(12-10)http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773532

Israeli forces detain 56 Palestinians in massive detention campaign(11-10)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773504

Israeli forces detain 39 Palestinians, including 9 minors, in extensive Jerusalem raids(10-10)http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773497

Israeli forces detain slain Palestinian gunman's 17-year-old daughter(10-10)

Israeli forces detained on Monday the teenage daughter of a Palestinian gunman who was killed by Israeli forces in occupied East Jerusalem while carrying out a deadly shooting a day earlier.

Misbah Abu Sbeih, 39, killed an Israeli police officer and an Israeli woman, and injured at least five other people during a drive-by shooting attack in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. He was then shot and killed by Israeli police on the scene.

The shooting attack came a day after Abu Sbeih told Ma'an that he intended to turn himself in to serve a prison sentence over charges that he assaulted an Israeli police officer in 2013.http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773493

Israeli navy opens fire at Palestinian fishing boats in northern Gaza Strip(13-10)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773545

Israeli forces close entrances of Issawiya neighborhood in East Jerusalem(13-10)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773543

Israeli forces implement closures on Hebron-area village(13-10)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773537

Israeli forces shoot, injure dozens on 4th day of violent raids into al-Ram(13-10)

Dozens of Palestinians were shot and injured by live ammunition or rubber-coated steel bullets in the town of al-Ram in the Jerusalem district of the occupied West Bank Wednesday morning -- on the fourth consecutive day of violent raids into al-Ram since a resident of the town carried out a deadly shooting attack in East Jerusalem on Sunday and was shot dead on the scene.

State-run news agency Wafa reported that a large number of Israeli army vehicles raided the the town, provoking clashes with local Palestinian youth who then threw stones at Israeli soldiers' vehicles.

The Israeli army responded by firing live ammunition, rubber-coated steel bullets, and tear gas canisters to disperse the protesters, causing multiple cases of gunshot injures and severe tear gas inhalation, according to Wafa.http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773533

4 Palestinian youths in al-Ram injured with live fire as clashes erupt with Israeli soldiers(11-10)http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773526

Israeli forces shoot, injure 3 Palestinian youth in overnight Bethlehem clashes(11-10)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773513

Israeli forces raid Jerusalem high school, accuse students of throwing glass(11-10)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773502

Israeli forces shoot, injure AP photographer during al-Ram clashes
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773506

Israeli forces shoot, injure 2 Palestinian workers east of Bethlehem
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773501

Israeli forces raid homes belonging to family of Jerusalem gunman, take measurements
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773496

Israeli minister: We must 'give our lives' to annex West Bank

Israeli Education Minister Naftali Bennett called on supporters on Thursday to give up their lives to ensure the annexation of the West Bank.

Speaking at a conference honouring a late right-wing Israeli legislator, Bennett voiced opposition to the eviction of Amona, an Israeli settlement outpost in the West Bank built on privately owned Palestinian land in 1995 and considered illegal under international and Israeli law.

"We have to mark the dream, and the dream is that Judea and Samaria will be part of the sovereign state of Israel,” Bennett said, using an Israeli name for the West Bank.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-government-minister-bennett-calls-action-annex-west-bank-2046182985

Israeli settlers attack Palestinian family picking olives in Nablus area
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773500

Israel demolishes eight homes in Jerusalem-area Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773489

Israel demolishes homes, water pipes, and agricultural structures in Jordan Valley
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773479

Israeli forces demolish Nablus home of shooting attack 'mastermind'
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773514

Israeli forces measure 2 slain Palestinians' homes for punitive demolitions in Nablus
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773546

2 Palestinians held in Israeli prison without charge or trial enter 10th day of hunger strike

Two Palestinians being held in Israeli prisons entered the 10th day of a hunger strike in protest of being sentenced to administrative detention -- Israel’s widely condemned policy of internment without charge or trial, according to a lawyer from the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS).

Majd Abu Shamla, 25, and Hassan Rabayaa, 31, both from the northern occupied West Bank district of Jenin, reportedly entered the 10th day of their hunger strike after being placed in administrative detention, PPS said in a statement.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773553

Israel renews administrative detention of Palestinian prisoner for 5th time, releases another

Israeli authorities renewed the administrative detention -- internment without charge or trial -- of Palestinian prisoner Omar al-Bargouthi, 60, for the fifth time on the same day he was set to be released, while confirming the release of another prisoner who has been held under administrative detention since 2014, according to a statement released Thursday by the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS).
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773557

Israel releases 7 Jerusalemites from detention, extends the sentence of another
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773527

Palestinian Prisoner's Society director released from jail, banned from Al-Aqsa

An Israeli court ordered to release Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) Jerusalem chapter director Nasser Qaws from Israeli custody on Tuesday after he was detained two days earlier, but ruled to ban him from the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound for 45 days.

PPS lawyer Mufid al-Hajj said in a statement that Qaws was also ordered to pay a bail of 500 shekels ($131) by the Jerusalem magistrate court. He was originally charged with obstructing Israeli police work.

Qaws, 45, has been detained tens of times by Israeli forces according to PPS, most recently in June when he was assaulted and taken in for interrogation.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773520

Colombia's Israel connection: Peacemaking and the Peace Prize

....Indeed, when Peres was Israel’s president, Santos, speaking to the Israeli press, said he was proud that his country had been called “the Israel of Latin America.” In a report filed at the time, Ilana Dayan of Israel’s Channel 2 drew an even more troubling parallel:

“It’s hard to miss the Israeli fingerprints [in the military operations in Colombia]… suddenly there are targeted assassinations, eliminating the number two guy in FARC, within Ecuador. The methods of operations that were proven successful in the casbahs of Nablus and Hebron now speak Spanish.
http://972mag.com/colombias-israel-connection-peacemaking-and-the-peace-prize/122511/

Israeli minister urges pardon for soldier who 'executed' Palestinian

Israel's Education Minister Naftali Bennett demanded an amnesty on Sunday for a soldier accused of killing a Palestinian who was lying wounded after stabbing another soldier in the occupied West Bank.

The case has stirred controversy and rocked Israeli politics, with the far right defending the soldier, French-Israeli national Elor Azaria, and the military putting him on trial for manslaughter.

"This soldier should not spend a single day in prison. If he is found guilty, he should immediately be pardoned," Bennett told military radio on Sunday.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-minister-urges-pardon-soldier-who-executed-palestinian-460899221

'Journalism is a dangerous job for Palestinians'

Israel is currently imprisoning more than two dozen Palestinian journalists, most without charges or trial.http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/10/dangerous-job-palestinians-161004101453391.html

'Home of Jews' video sparks outrage over Palestinian 'invasion' claim

The Israeli foreign ministry has sparked mass criticism on social media after releasing a satirical video that implied Palestinians invaded the Middle East and came after the Jews.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-home-jewish-people-video-sparks-outrage-over-palestinian-invasion-claim-1355520247

The Empire Files: Inside Palestine’s Refugee Camps

In her first on-the-ground report from Palestine, Abby Martin gives a first-hand look into two of the most attacked refugee camps in the West Bank: Balata and Aida camps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxvNZisaB8E

How both Israel and Turkey exploit Gaza's suffering

For the first time since the signing of the reconciliation agreement between Israel and Turkey June 27, and a day after its ratification by the parliament in Ankara Aug. 20, Israel once again struck in the Gaza Strip. In response to a rocket fired Aug. 21 from Gaza into the Israeli southern town of Sderot, the Israeli air force hit some 50 targets in the Palestinian territory over a two-hour period. Ankara announced that the Israeli attack was “not acceptable,” constitutes a breach of international law, disrupts the peace process with the Palestinians (it’s not clear to what process it was referring) and violates the relative calm in the region.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/09/turkey-gaza-strip-reconciliation-erdogan-netanyahu-war.html

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Israelis Can't Recognize Terrorism Staring Back at Them From the Mirror

While experts are again explaining why the ‘calm’ has ended, what really needs explanation is the Palestinian restraint in light of Israel’s violence.
The rampage of stabbing attacks is back? The terror wave is in full swing again? You’re wrong, ladies and gentlemen. The wave is an ocean, terror has never ceased and its impudence is only increasing. It’s not called by its right name – it’s labeled “security,” and its perpetrators are walking around freely, obeying the command to intimidate four million human beings.

Do you need this translated? Our imposed military rule, now in place for decades, is terror as far as the Palestinians are concerned.

I, too, believe it is terror because people are intimidated to the point where their lives are taken and their health, wellbeing and property are damaged, for the benefit of our masters’ rights, for the sake of achieving political, economic and territorial gains such as Sussia or Kfar Adumim, the irrigation of lucrative seasoning herbs in the Jordan Valley or exporting arms. Terrorizing is the meaning of the tens of thousands of armed men scattered across Judea and Samaria, as well as in united Jerusalem. They are frightening because they were sent there in order to preserve an evil order of dispossession.

A person armed with a rifle looks into a mirror and is frightened by an image of someone pointing a gun at him. This is not an optical illusion but a cognitive one. It appears that we cannot see ourselves as the cause, as the aggressors and, yes, as terrorists in the eyes of those who since birth have lived under military decrees, with our guns, tanks, planes, helicopters and drones hurling deadly fire at them.

We cannot see it ourselves? Correction. We refuse to see ourselves as the cause. In a well-worn and tiresome Pavlovian reflex, our media calls the stabbings a “wave,” and with learned analyses repeatedly explaining why the “calm” has come to an end. It can be pathetic, too: “A 13-year-old female terrorist tried to carry out a stabbing at the Eliyahu checkpoint. She was shot and lightly wounded,” reported Channel 7, the channel for the thinking settler. The report remained unchanged even after it turned out that the “suspicious” bag that the girl carried contained nothing that could endanger our soldiers (i.e. a knife, screwdriver, sharpened pencil). An Israel Radio newscaster also continued to define her movements at the checkpoint as an attempted attack. Editors and commentators come and go, but the headline remains: “The Palestinians have returned to attacking us, the poor nebechs from the ghetto.”

The headline “concerns over outbreak of [security] incidents” is displayed at the head of the Haaretz website’s home page. It isn’t there in order to collect reports about the incapacitating of dozens of young Palestinians by shooting IDF Ruger bullets at their knees. There is no similar headline for the rampage of travel denials from the Gaza Strip, or for yet another wave of soldiers killing Palestinians who posed no danger to their lives: in al-Fawar (Mohammed Hashash), Silwad (Iyad Hamed), Shoafat (Mustafa Nimer). You will not find there a summarizing headline for the daily bacchanalia of military raids (at least 116 between September 9 and 21). For example, in Bil’in last Wednesday morning: The nebechs from the ghetto burst into the houses of activists from the Popular Resistance Committees, scaring children and confiscating (i.e. stealing) computers and cellular phones. There were no reports of casualties among our forces. Only reality is an unreported casualty.
The rampage of stabbing attacks is back? The terror wave is in full swing again? You’re wrong, ladies and gentlemen. The wave is an ocean, terror has never ceased and its impudence is only increasing. It’s not called by its right name – it’s labeled “security,” and its perpetrators are walking around freely, obeying the command to intimidate four million human beings.

Do you need this translated? Our imposed military rule, now in place for decades, is terror as far as the Palestinians are concerned.

I, too, believe it is terror because people are intimidated to the point where their lives are taken and their health, wellbeing and property are damaged, for the benefit of our masters’ rights, for the sake of achieving political, economic and territorial gains such as Sussia or Kfar Adumim, the irrigation of lucrative seasoning herbs in the Jordan Valley or exporting arms. Terrorizing is the meaning of the tens of thousands of armed men scattered across Judea and Samaria, as well as in united Jerusalem. They are frightening because they were sent there in order to preserve an evil order of dispossession.

A person armed with a rifle looks into a mirror and is frightened by an image of someone pointing a gun at him. This is not an optical illusion but a cognitive one. It appears that we cannot see ourselves as the cause, as the aggressors and, yes, as terrorists in the eyes of those who since birth have lived under military decrees, with our guns, tanks, planes, helicopters and drones hurling deadly fire at them.

We cannot see it ourselves? Correction. We refuse to see ourselves as the cause. In a well-worn and tiresome Pavlovian reflex, our media calls the stabbings a “wave,” and with learned analyses repeatedly explaining why the “calm” has come to an end. It can be pathetic, too: “A 13-year-old female terrorist tried to carry out a stabbing at the Eliyahu checkpoint. She was shot and lightly wounded,” reported Channel 7, the channel for the thinking settler. The report remained unchanged even after it turned out that the “suspicious” bag that the girl carried contained nothing that could endanger our soldiers (i.e. a knife, screwdriver, sharpened pencil). An Israel Radio newscaster also continued to define her movements at the checkpoint as an attempted attack. Editors and commentators come and go, but the headline remains: “The Palestinians have returned to attacking us, the poor nebechs from the ghetto.”

The headline “concerns over outbreak of [security] incidents” is displayed at the head of the Haaretz website’s home page. It isn’t there in order to collect reports about the incapacitating of dozens of young Palestinians by shooting IDF Ruger bullets at their knees. There is no similar headline for the rampage of travel denials from the Gaza Strip, or for yet another wave of soldiers killing Palestinians who posed no danger to their lives: in al-Fawar (Mohammed Hashash), Silwad (Iyad Hamed), Shoafat (Mustafa Nimer). You will not find there a summarizing headline for the daily bacchanalia of military raids (at least 116 between September 9 and 21). For example, in Bil’in last Wednesday morning: The nebechs from the ghetto burst into the houses of activists from the Popular Resistance Committees, scaring children and confiscating (i.e. stealing) computers and cellular phones. There were no reports of casualties among our forces. Only reality is an unreported casualty.
The reporting of a renewed wave of terror occurs when Jews, soldiers and Border Policemen are hurt or feel threatened. Tens of thousands of stories and reports, mainly in Haaretz, dealing with ongoing military and bureaucratic Israeli violence dissipate as if they were random accidents. The intolerable and continuous stream of deliberate harassment of Palestinians, which derives from our being a foreign military occupier, is not perceived by journalistic sensors as a continuum.

Journalism likes dramas and tragedies. When the disaster is permanent, it’s no longer an item, especially when the cause of this disaster is us. The routine of calamities we bring upon Palestinians does not exist in Israel’s reality. This is why it does not receive regular headlines, and the absence of such headlines, in turn, shapes in our minds a reality in which all is well. And then comes a different reality, with people asking “what is it with these Palestinians who are attacking us again?”

One Jordanian citizen and six Palestinians, including four minors, were killed by Israeli gunfire in less than a week, during attempted attacks or suspected attempts. On September 9, an Israel Defense Forces flare bomb killed 16-year-old Abdel Rahman al-Dabbagh while he was demonstrating against the siege of Gaza, near the fence. The question whether there was no other way but than to kill all these people will probably be answered with the claim that the shooting followed the rules of engagement.

The cognitive denial prevents Israelis from realizing how restrained the Palestinians really are. Among four million victims of constant terror, only a handful express their despair by actions which almost certainly lead to their deaths. It is this collective restraint, not the small number of stabbing or car-ramming attempts, which deserves an explanation. There is wisdom in this restraint, since this is not the time for a struggle of the masses. This restraint expresses despair because those who listen around the world aren’t the deciders and those who decide aren’t listening.

There is also hope in Palestinian restraint: Justice and the future are on their side, since they are fighting for their liberty.

Amira Hass

http://desktop3.google.com/news/url?sr=1&sa=t&ct2=uk%2F0_0_s_1_0_t&usg=AFQjCNHuNX_wqVz-IweqC4ODF4QjnNwxiA&did=e15c6d306dfa1912&cid=52779220940834&ei=Cvz7V4iJCsyyzAaFu5CoBA&rt=STORY&vm=STANDARD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.haaretz.com%2Fopinion%2F.premium-1.744264

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The Israeli navy on Wednesday reportedly intercepted an all-women flotilla heading to Gaza in an attempt to break the decade long-siege on the strip.

Vyara Gylsen, a spokesman for the flotilla, told Middle East Eye that she had lost contact with the Zaytouna at 4pm CEST.

In a statement the group said: "At 1558 (CEST) on 5 October, we lost contact again with the Zaytouna-Oliva and presume that the Israeli Occupation Navy has now begun to attack it and that it has been surrounded in International Waters."

On board the flotilla are 13 women, including Mairead Maguire, the nobel pece laureate from Northern Ireland, Fauziah Hasan, a doctor from Malaysia, and retired US army colonel Ann Wright.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-navy-intercepts-female-flotilla-break-gaza-siege-1322085061

SOS video messages were released by the Freedom Flotilla group
https://wbg.freedomflotilla.org/sos-video-messages-from-zaytouna

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The obituaries for Shimon Peres have already appeared, no doubt prepared in advance as the news of his hospitalization reached the media.

The verdict on his life is very clear and was already pronounced by US President Barack Obama: Peres was a man who changed the course of human history in his relentless search for peace in the Middle East.

My guess is that very few of the obituaries will examine Peres’ life and activities from the perspective of the victims of Zionism and Israel.

He occupied many positions in politics that had immense impact on the Palestinians wherever they are. He was director general of the Israeli defense ministry, minister of defense, minister for development of the Galilee and the Negev (Naqab), prime minister and president.

In all these roles, the decisions he took and the policies he pursued contributed to the destruction of the Palestinian people and did nothing to advance the cause of peace and reconciliation between Palestinians and Israelis.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/shimon-peres-perspective-his-victims/18096

Shimon Peres, as he was

“After death, [they were] holy persons, we will say,” goes a Jewish motto on the outpouring of praise people enjoy only after death.

I will not join those who are transforming former Israeli president Shimon Peres into a great man, almost a saint, upon news of his passing today.

Peres was described as “a tireless subversive” by Yitzhak Rabin, to which we can easily add “serial traitor.” Peres even betrayed his patron David Ben Gurion, with whom he established the Rafi political party only to abandon it once he realized that it would not successfully displace the Mapai party from government. Peres also abandoned the Kadima party when he understood it was the wrong horse to bet on. A great statesman Peres was not. Instead, he was a crafty politician with a nose for political wheeling and dealing.http://alternativenews.org/index.php/features-02/214-shimon-peres-as-he-was

Shimon Peres: Founder of Israel, architect of the occupation

Shimon Peres, the last of Israel’s founding fathers, died on Wednesday at the age of 93 after his condition swiftly deteriorated following a major stroke two weeks ago.

World leaders have lavished praise on Peres, including former American President Bill Clinton, who described him as a “dove of peace” for his role in the 1993 Oslo accords - the first agreements between Israeli and Palestinian leaders which led to him jointly winning a Nobel Peace Prize a year later.

However, the praise has not been universal, with critics drawing attention to his role in the development of Israel's early settlements and as prime minister in 1996 when Israeli troops massacred 154 Lebanese civilians in the so-called Operation Grapes of Wrath.

Palestinian prime minister Mahmoud Abbas, of the West Bank Fatah party, hailed Peres as "brave," while his Gaza-based rivals in Hamas called him a "criminal".
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/shimon-peres-founder-israel-architect-occupation-1588285118

How Shimon Peres Stole the Bomb with a Bluff, and Why Military Censor Doesn’t Want Israelis to Know About It

I published this appraisal of a key moment in the political career of Shimon Peres just after he suffered a major stroke. I have updated it now that he has died.

You will read much hagiography in the Peres obituaries published in Israeli and world media. Here is a perfect example in the NY Times of the half-truths and undeserved admiration that is being heaped upon his memory:

He was consistent in his search for an accommodation with the Arab world, a search that in recent years left him orphaned as Israeli society lost interest, especially after the upheavals of the 2011 Arab Spring led to tumult on its borders.
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2016/09/28/shimon-peres-stole-bomb-bluff-military-censor-doesnt-want-israelis-know/

Abbas to attend Peres’ funeral

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will attend the funeral of Israeli ex-president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres, Palestinian officials said Thursday, in what will be a rare visit to occupied Jerusalem. Several Palestinian officials confirmed his participation at Friday’s funeral, speaking to AFP on condition of anonymity.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2016/Sep-30/374478-abbas-to-attend-peres-funeral.ashx

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Four Palestinian children killed in five days(23-09)

Two more Palestinian teenagers have been shot following a five-day period in which Israeli forces killed four children.

Israeli soldiers shot and injured a teenage boy near a settlement in the occupied West Bank district of Hebron on Friday.

Usama Murad Jamil Marie Zeidat, whose age was given by the Palestinian Authority health ministry as 15, was shot after attempting to stab soldiers, a military spokesperson told media.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/four-palestinian-children-killed-five-days

More than 1,000 Palestinian minors detained by Israel in 2016 so far

More than 1,000 Palestinian minors have been detained by Israeli forces since the beginning of the year, the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners' Affairs said on Saturday, in a reported increase from 2015.

The Committee said that at least 1,000 Palestinian minors between the ages of 11 and 18 had been detained by Israel since January, including around 70 children from occupied East Jerusalem who were placed under house arrest.

A lawyer for the Committee, Hiba Masalha, cited a number of cases in which Palestinian minors were abused and tortured while in detention.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773281

23 Palestinians detained, dozens of houses ordered to be demolished in Jerusalem raids(22-09)

Israeli forces carried out massive detention raids into Palestinian communities in Jerusalem before dawn on Thursday for the second day in a row, detaining at least 23 Palestinians and assaulting locals, including a minor, while demolition orders were delivered to dozens of Palestinian homes during raids on Wednesday.

Israeli forces raided the Shufat refugee camp in the Jerusalem district of the occupied West Bank as well as the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya, located just south of Shufat beyond Israel’s separation wall.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773257

Israeli politics on Jerusalem
http://www.alternativenews.org/index.php?option=com_yendifvideoshare&view=video&id=16&title=Israeli

Israeli Troops Kill 2 Palestinians for 'Looking Suspicious'(19-09)
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Israeli-Troops-Kill-2-Palestinians-for-Looking-Suspicious-20160919-0022.html

Israel shoots Palestinian girl who 'did not stop at crossing'(21-09)

Israeli guards shot and wounded an unarmed 13-year-old Palestinian girl on Wednesday after she did not stop at a checkpoint, officials said, the latest incident in an upsurge of violence.

The Israeli defence ministry said the girl was not carrying a weapon but told officers afterwards that she had wanted to die.

The incident happened at a checkpoint near the Israeli settlement of Alfei Menashe and the Palestinian town of Qalqilya in the occupied West Bank.

The Palestinian health ministry described the girl's wounds as moderate.

The Israeli defence ministry said the girl arrived "on foot with a suspicious bag at the vehicle-only lane of the Eliyahu crossing which is not open to foot traffic."
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-shoots-palestinian-who-did-not-stop-crossing-1943395207

Israel prevents Palestinian woman from leaving Gaza for cancer treatment
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773308

Israeli authorities carry out spate of demolitions across occupied territory
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773314

Israeli forces demolish water cisterns in Hebron-area village
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773311

Israeli forces demolish room in house of alleged accomplice in Tel Aviv shooting
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773296

Israeli forces demolish agricultural structure in Nablus district
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773298

Israeli forces demolish trees in Palestinian nature reserve
http://www.alternativenews.org/index.php/headlines/211-israeli-forces-demolish-trees-in-palestinian-nature-reserve

Israeli forces expand Beit Ummar military watchtower, narrowing main street
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773264

Israeli settler opens fire at Palestinian youth east of Qalqiliya

An Israeli settler reportedly opened fire at a group of Palestinian youth east of the city of Qalqiliya on Monday, with no injuries reported.

According to Israeli media, the Israeli settler responsible for the shooting had claimed that Palestinian youth were throwing rocks at him near the illegal Israeli settlement of Karnei Shomron located just south of the Palestinian village of Kafr Laqif, which he responded to by firing shots into the air.

Israeli military forces reportedly responded to the incident by launching a search for the Palestinians responsible for the rock throwing.

An Israeli army spokesperson told Ma’an they were looking into reports to confirm the incident.

Israel detains hundreds of Palestinians for alleged stone throwing every year, and Israeli rights group B'Tselem reported that from 2005 to 2010, "93 percent of the minors convicted of stone throwing were given a prison sentence, its length ranging from a few days to 20 months."

Palestinian stone throwers face harsh penalties by Israeli authorities, with Israel passing a law last year mandating up to 20 years in prison if charged with throwing stones at vehicles and a minimum prison sentence of three years for throwing a stone at an Israeli.http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773304

Autopsy reveals Palestinian prisoner died of heart condition after years of medical neglect

An autopsy has confirmed the cause of death of 41-year-old Palestinian prisoner Yasser Thiyab Hamduna, who died in Israeli custody Sunday morning, was cardiomegaly, a condition in which the heart is enlarged and can lead to sudden cardiac death.

A statement from the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners' Affairs released on Monday announced the cause of death following the autopsy. Initial reports indicated the prisoner had died of either a stroke or a heart attack.

The Committee said that the autopsy of Hamduna’s body was carried out in the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute in Tel Aviv with the participation of two Palestinian doctors -- Ashraf al-Qadi and Rayan Ali -- as was ordered by the Israeli central court the day prior.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773303

Israel accused of neglect after death of ill prisoner

Palestinians are accusing Israel of years of medical neglect after a prisoner died from a heart condition on Sunday.

An autopsy found that Yasir Thiab Hamduna, 41, died from cardiomegaly, also known as an enlarged heart, a condition which can cause cardiac arrest.

Hamduna, from Yabad village near the northern occupied West Bank city of Jenin, had been imprisoned since 2003. He reportedly had recurrent health problems while in detention but received inadequate treatment.

He was severely beaten by guards the year he was imprisoned and suffered significant injuries to his head. In January 2015, he underwent cardiac surgery but was denied necessary follow-up care, the Ma’an News Agency reported.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/charlotte-silver/israel-accused-neglect-after-death-ill-prisoner

4 Palestinian prisoners start hunger strikes to protest Israeli detention policies

Four Palestinian prisoners have launched hunger strikes on Sunday to protest their administrative detentions, the use of torture in Israeli prison facilities, and the tactical transfer of prisoners from one facility to another, prisoners rights groups said on Tuesday.

Three Palestinian prisoners from Hebron were on their third day without food on Tuesday to protest being held in administrative detention -- Israel’s controversial policy of internment without charges used overwhelmingly against Palestinians.

Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) lawyer Jawad Boulos, visited the three prisoners at the Ofer prison on Tuesday, and identified them as Anas Ibrahim Shadid, 20, and Ahmad Abu Farah, 29, both detained on Aug. 1st, and Omar al-Hih, 22, detained on Sept. 15th.http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773313

Israel plots massive land confiscation in the occupied Syrian Golan

On September 27th, 2016, Al-Marsad, the only human rights organization in the occupied Syrian Golan, announced in a press release its legal effort to halt Israeli authorities’ plan to build a park in the area.

The press statement explains, “the ‘Hermon National Park’ plan confiscates approximately 82,000 dunams [20,300 acres] of land… that [have] been used by the native Syrian residents of Majdal Shams and Ein Qynia since Ottoman rule for grazing, agriculture and urbanization.”

Should Hermon National Park come to fruition, the 11,000 residents of Majd al-Shams, a village located on the slopes of Mount Hermon, would be particularly devastated.
http://alternativenews.org/index.php/headlines/212-israeli-park-plan-steals-land-isolates-villages-in-occupied-syrian-golan

How Israel is turning one Arab party into a security threat

There are two possible ways to describe the dramatic, highly-publicized arrest of dozens of activists and senior members of the Balad party earlier this week:

“The police opened a wide spreads investigation against Balad over suspicions of fraudulently transferring millions of shekels to the party’s coffers during the 2013 elections.”
Or: “In an overnight operation security focus raided the homes of dozens of Palestinians, arresting them for pro-Palestinian activism.”

Most Hebrew-language media outlets that reported on the story chose a variation on the first headline. In my eyes, however, the second headline is far more accurate for a number of reasons.
http://972mag.com/how-israel-is-turning-one-arab-party-into-a-security-threat/122047/

The dolls that defend Palestinian culture

In the dead of a cold December night, Israeli soldiers came for Yasser.

They rummaged through the shelves and behind the looms of a darkened factory, searching for the little man, only half a metre tall. They knew he would be easy to spot, wearing his signature black-and-white keffiyeh and olive-coloured military fatigues. Finally, they found him, expressionless and hiding in plain sight, along with a dozen other plush clones.

The brainchild of Hilana Abu Sharifeh, a 32-year-old mother of four, Yasser is among the dozens of toys she designs and manufactures at her small, Tulkarem-based business. His confiscation, along with about 1,700 other toys, baffles Abu Sharifeh to this day.

"The soldiers ransacked the whole place, seized fabric and damaged some of the products in the process," she said of the toy factory that her husband first opened in their garage more than two decades ago.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/06/dolls-defend-palestinian-culture-160626101353550.html

Facebook Is Collaborating With the Israeli Government to Determine What Should Be Censored

Last week, a major censorship controversy erupted when Facebook began deleting all posts containing the iconic photograph of the Vietnamese “Napalm Girl” on the ground that it violated the company’s ban on “child nudity.” Facebook even deleted a post from the prime minister of Norway, who posted the photograph in protest of the censorship. As outrage spread, Facebook ultimately reversed itself — acknowledging “the history and global importance of this image in documenting a particular moment in time” — but this episode illustrated many of the dangers I’ve previously highlighted in having private tech companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Google become the arbiters of what we can and cannot see.

Having just resolved that censorship effort, Facebook seems to be vigorously courting another. The Associated Press reports today from Jerusalem that “the Israeli government and Facebook have agreed to work together to determine how to tackle incitement on the social media network.”
https://theintercept.com/2016/09/12/facebook-is-collaborating-with-the-israeli-government-to-determine-what-should-be-censored/

Facebook apologizes for disabling Palestinian journalists’ accounts

Facebook says it made a mistake in disabling the accounts of journalists who administer the pages of two of the most widely read Palestinian publications on the Internet.

“The pages were removed in error and restored as soon as we were able to investigate,” a Facebook spokesperson has told The Electronic Intifada. “Our team processes millions of reports each week, and we sometimes get things wrong. We’re very sorry about this mistake.”
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/facebook-apologizes-disabling-palestinian-journalists-accounts

Is Israel Pushing for a Palestinian Civil War?

Division within Palestinian society has reached unprecedented levels, becoming a major hurdle on the path of any unified strategy to end Israel’s violent occupation or to rally Palestinians behind a single objective.

Newly-appointed Israeli ultra-nationalist, Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman, understands this too well. His tactic since his ascension to office last May is centered on investing more in these divisions as a way to break down Palestinian society even further.

Lieberman is an "extremist," even if compared with the low standards of the Israeli military. His past legacy was rife with violent and racist declarations. His more recent exploits include taking on the late Mahmoud Darwish, Palestine’s most celebrated poet. He went as far as comparing Darwish’s poetry -- which advocates the freedom of his people -- to Adolph Hitler’s autobiography, Mein Kampf.

But, of course, this is not Lieberman’s most outrageous statement.
https://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773018

Group denounces UN envoy statement equating Israeli and Palestinian violence

Gaza-based NGO the Council On International Relations in Palestine (COIR) slammed on Monday statements by the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nikolay Mladenov regarding a recent wave of deadly violence in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank, accusing him of not “making any difference between the executioner and the victim.”

On Monday, Mladenov issued a statement condemning “recent violence” in the occupied Palestinian territory, during which time five Palestinians and one Jordanian were killed by Israeli forces, most of them after Israel claimed they were carrying out or attempting to carry out stabbing attacks.

Two more Palestinians have been killed by Israel forces since Mladenov issued his statement.

Despite the absence of Israeli deaths, Mladenov emphasized injuries sustained by Israelis before detailing the death toll.

“During this latest upsurge in attacks in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, at least six Israelis were injured. Five Palestinians and one Jordanian national were killed while carrying out or allegedly carrying out attacks,” the UN envoy’s statement read.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773231

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Israeli forces shot and killed at least six Palestinians in occupied Jerusalem and the West Bank district of Hebron.
http://alternativenews.org/index.php/headlines/202-a-long-bloody-weekend-in-palestine

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Israel detained 30 Palestinian teens in August, majority report being tortured

Israeli forces imprisoned 30 teenage Palestinians over the month of August and collected 65,000 shekels ($17,270) from their families as fines, the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs said Monday, with the majority of the detainees saying they were beaten and tortured during their detention, interrogation, and transport from one detention center to another.

A statement released Monday quoted the committee’s lawyer Luay Akka as saying that among the detainees were minors as young as 13 years old.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772999

Palestinian minor briefly detained, assaulted in custody in East Jerusalem(04-09)

Israeli forces briefly detained and assaulted a Palestinian minor Saturday evening in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of al-Tur, local sources told Ma’an.

Locals said 16-year-old Jamal al-Zaatari was released Saturday evening after he was detained by Jerusalem police for several hours. During his detention, Israeli forces pepper sprayed and beat Jamal, resulting in injuries to his face, back, and feet, in addition to several bruises.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772986

Israeli forces ransack home of slain Palestinian, threaten to detain 10-month-old girl

Israeli troops stormed the town of Sair in the Hebron district of the southern occupied West Bank early Sunday morning, where they ransacked the home of a slain Palestinian and reportedly threatened to detain the deceased man’s 10-month-old daughter.

According to witnesses, Israeli troops raided the home of the family of Fadi Faroukh, who was shot and killed on Nov. 1, 2015 in the eastern Hebron village of Beit Einun after he allegedly attempted to stab an Israeli soldier.

Fadi’s brother Saed told Ma’an that Israeli soldiers “destroyed the interior of the house” before they “threatened to detain Fadi’s 10-month-old daughter.”
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772975

August: Israeli forces shoot, kill three Palestinians
http://www.alternativenews.org/index.php/headlines/186-august-israeli-forces-kill-three-palestinians-including-one-teen

Palestinian shot dead by israel army while bringing home food, baby clothes, grieving mother recounts

Eyewitnesses to the killing of 27-year-old Mustafa Nimir -- shot dead early Monday morning when Israeli forces showered the vehicle he was travelling in with live fire -- have denied the Israeli police’s narrative that claimed Mustafa and the driver of the vehicle were attempting a car ramming attack.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773009

Israeli soldiers routinely shoot heads of injured Palestinians, court told

Shooting at the heads of incapacitated alleged Palestinian attackers is a common practice by Israeli occupation forces, a settler security chief told a military court hearing on Sunday.

Eliyahu Liebman testified as a witness for the defense in the trial of Elor Azarya, an Israeli soldier indicted for manslaughter after he was caught on video shooting the head of a wounded and incapacitated Palestinian lying in the street, killing him.

Abd al-Fattah al-Sharif and Ramzi al-Qasrawi were fatally wounded after they allegedly attempted to stab soldiers in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron in late March. Multiple videos of the scene show al-Sharif and al-Qasrawi in the street, badly injured. But video released thus far only shows the fatal shooting of al-Sharif.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israeli-soldiers-routinely-shoot-heads-injured-palestinians-court-told

Israeli forces shoot, injure 2 Palestinians during clashes in Sabastiya(06-09)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773003

Israeli forces seal off Tulkarem area village, claim youth threw stones at settler cars(05-09)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772998

Israeli forces open fire at Gaza fishermen several times between Saturday and Sunday 04-09
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772987

Israeli forces close main entrance, side streets in Nablus-area village(04-09)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772977

Palestinian photojournalist injured in Kafr Qaddum protest, forces raid East Jerusalem neighborhoods(02-09)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772963

Palestinian Jerusalemites lay to rest relatives killed months ago

Israeli authorities withheld the bodies of Mohammad Abu Khalaf, Thaer Abu Ghazala and Baha’ Alayan for months. The bodies of 12 deceased Palestinians remain in Israeli custody.
http://www.alternativenews.org/index.php/headlines/190-palestinian-jerusalemites-lay-to-rest-relatives-killed-months-ago

Israel returns body of Palestinian teenager 200 days after his death
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773014

Israeli authorities issue stop-work order to Palestinian in Hebron's Old City

Israeli authorities renewed a military order on Monday preventing a Palestinian resident of the al-Salayma quarter in Hebron’s Old City near the Ibrahimi mosque from continuing construction work on his home, amid years of harassment by Israeli settlers living nearby pressuring Jaber to abandon the house.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773002

Israeli forces raid Silwan amid mounting threats to demolish Palestinian homes

erusalem municipality workers raided the al-Bustan area of Silwan in occupied East Jerusalem on Saturday, where they closed one of the town’s streets with cement blocks for the purpose of “repairs and infrastructure lines," amid mounting threats to demolish Palestinian homes in al-Bustan in a decades-long legal battle between residents and the city. http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772969

Extremist Israeli settler indicted for minor charges after opening fire on Palestinian vehicle

A right-wing extremist Israeli settler who chased and opened fire on a Palestinian taxi last month has been arrested over minor charges with no accusations being made in the indictment of "nationalistic motives" for his actions.

According to a statement from Israeli police spokesperson Luba al-Samri, 18-year-old Moshe Yanon Orin from the illegal Israeli settlement outpost of Givat Aroussi was detained on Aug. 28.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772988

Nine Palestinian political prisoners hunger strike for freedom

Three Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli prison and six in a Palestinian Authority jail http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772972 resist de facto indefinite incarceration.
http://www.alternativenews.org/index.php/headlines/184-nine-palestinian-political-prisoners-hunger-strike-for-freedom

Relatives of hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners held by Israel march in Bethlehem

The families of hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners participated in a march on Monday in the southern occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem in solidarity with their relatives incarcerated by Israel.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773011

Israeli court extends detention of veteran Palestinian prisoner held without charge

An Israeli military court at the Ofer detention center west of Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank on Sunday decided to extend the administrative detention of 63-year-old Palestinian prisoner Omar Barghouthi, most recently held without trial or charge since November after more than two decades of periodic detentions by Israel.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772980

Palestinian forces stop vehicle of undercover Israeli forces, get arrested at gunpoint

Undercover Israeli special forces reportedly arrested four Palestinian customs forces before dawn on Tuesday morning near the Nur Shams refugee camp in the northern occupied West Bank district of Tulkarem.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773027

Israeli army accused of West Bank 'shoot to cripple' campaign

Mahmoud limps into his family living room, bandages wrapped around his left leg from knee to ankle. He sits, puts aside his crutches and lays out his phone, a pack of cigarettes, two rolls of bandages and some painkillers on the table.

Although Mahmoud was shot in December, doctors in the occupied West Bank have not been able to properly treat the open wound beneath the bandages.

“The pain has never stopped,” Mahmoud said from his home in Dheisha refugee camp. “For the past nine months I have barely left the house, just for doctors appointments. But now the doctors here say they can’t help me.”
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/campaign-crutches-palestinian-youth-say-israeli-forces-are-targeting-their-knees-1844468281

Ex Mossad chief: Israel's biggest threat is potential civil war, not Iran

The most pressing threat to Israel is not Iran, but rather the increased polarization within Israeli society, former Mossad
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/Ex-Mossad-chief-Israels-biggest-threat-is-potential-civil-war-not-Iran-466415

Carrot and stick carve-up will not work for Israel

Launched this month, as much of the world was on holiday, Avigdor Lieberman’s plan for the Palestinians – retooling Israel’s occupation – received less attention than it should.

Defence minister since May, Mr Lieberman has been itching to accelerate Israel’s annexation by stealth of the West Bank.

His “carrot and stick” plan has three components. First, he intends to sideline the Palestinian Authority in favour of a new local leadership of “notables” hand-picked by Israel.
http://www.jonathan-cook.net/2016-08-29/carrot-and-stick-carve-up-will-not-work-for-israel/

Ben Gurion’s Plan for Regional Conquest and Israeli Empire

Odeh Bisharat, one of Haaretz’s few Israeli-Palestinian columnists (Sayeh Kashua is another), published an incisive article on what he calls “the end of the road” for Zionism. But the first paragraph, which comprised a quotation from David Ben Gurion (the full archival passage in Hebrew is here), really opened my eyes. At the first meeting of the Haganah military command after statehood was declared on May 15, 1948, he told the assembled leadership his strategic goals for the coming war. This grandiose vision dispels a long-standing claim by proponents of the Israel-as-victim view, who argue that Israel’s enemies have commenced all the wars against it and that the “Jewish state” has only acted in self-defense:

“We must immediately destroy Ramle and Lod. … We must organize Eliyahu’s brigade to direct it against Jenin in preparation for [conquering] the Jordan Valley. … Maklef needs to receive reinforcements and his role is the conquest of southern Lebanon, through bombing-support against Tyre, Sidon and Beirut. … Yigal Allon must strike Syria from the east and from the north. … We must establish a Christian state whose southern border will be the Litani [River]. We will forge an alliance with it. When we break the strength of the [Jordanian] Legion and bomb Amman we will eliminate Transjordan too, and then Syria falls. And if Egypt still dares to fight, we will bomb Port Said, Alexandria and Cairo.

…That is how we will end the war – and make a reckoning on our forefathers behalf with Egypt, Assyria and Aramea.”

Pro-Israel advocates will chalk this up to the braggadocio of a national leader preparing the troops for battle. He offers them a vision full of victories and maximalist territorial gain. It cheers them for the difficult battle ahead. Defenders may argue that Ben Gurion had to have been realistic enough to know that the new state had little chance of achieving such objectives.

But in my reading of Ben Gurion, there are two separate personalities: one of the pragmatist who accepts half a loaf instead of the whole; the other the ambitious politico-military strategist harboring imperial visions of Israel’s future (including the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian inhabitants of the new state). But even the pragmatist is only pragmatic in the moment. Ben Gurion makes clear that his pragmatism is only temporary until Israel is in a position to realize its maximalist goals.
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2016/09/01/ben-gurions-plan-regional-conquest/

Why is Mahmoud Abbas boasting of jailing Palestine’s youth?

Six men have launched a hunger strike after being arrested by secret police working for the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank.

On Sunday, Basil al-Araj, Muhammad Harb, Haitham Siyaj, Muhammad al-Salameen, Ali Dar al-Sheikh and Seif al-Idrisi started refusing food to protest how they are being detained without charge or trial for indefinite periods.

They will consume nothing but water until they are released, their lawyer says.

According to Samidoun, a group supporting Palestinian prisoners, their detention has been repeatedly extended since they were first arrested at the end of March and the beginning of April. Samidoun has been in contact with the families of the six men.

Muhannad Karajah, a lawyer who is representing the prisoners, told The Electronic Intifada that the PA has not presented any charges against the six men. But a PA official has verbally made allegations against them. The allegations relate to their political activities.

Samidoun believes their arrest took place as part of Israel’s “security coordination” with the PA.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/charlotte-silver/why-mahmoud-abbas-boasting-jailing-palestines-youth

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Two Palestinian minors have been tortured, abused, and medically neglected in Israeli custody, one of which after being shot at point-blank range when Israeli forces detained them for rock throwing earlier this month, a lawyer from the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs said Monday.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772899

Australian film ‘Stone Cold Justice’ on Israel’s torture of Palestinian children

Imagine a military prison where the inmates include children as young as 12, in shackles.

A film which has been produced by a group of Australian journalists has sparked an international outcry against Israel after it explicitly detailed Tel Aviv's use of torture against Palestinian children.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmkQ8w8MF4g

An Israeli army commander has made shocking threats to Palestinian youth held in the Al-Duheisha, saying he will “make all the youth of the camp disabled,” according to a Palestinian rights group, the Middle East Monitor reported on Friday.
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Israeli-Commander-Violently-Threatens-Palestinian-Youth-20160827-0002.html

Israeli soldiers kill Palestinian father(26-08)

Israeli forces killed a reportedly unarmed Palestinian man at a military post outside the village of Silwad, near the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, midday Friday.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israeli-soldiers-kill-palestinian-father

Israeli forces kill youth two months before his wedding(24-08)

The army told media that soldiers pursued a car from which rocks were being thrown at passing vehicles, hitting the windshield of a military jeep....
..Photos from the scene apparently showing Abu Ghurab’s body still seated in the car which he was driving, and soldiers evacuating his body from the vehicle, appear to contradict the army’s account that Abu Ghurab exited the car before he was shot dead:
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israeli-forces-kill-youth-two-months-his-wedding

Israeli forces shoot, kill Palestinian teenager, injure 45 (17-08)

Mohammed Yousef Abu Hashhash, 17 years old from al-Fawwar refugee camp, located 15 km south of Hebron city, was killed on Tuesday by Israeli forces. Israeli soldiers shot him in the chest with live fire.

According to locals in the camp, Israeli soldiers invaded the camp yesterday via its western entrance and raided locals’ homes, going door to door. The Hebron Defense Committee reported that during the raid, Israeli soldiers occupied nearly 20 houses and used their rooftops as lookouts.
http://www.alternativenews.org/index.php/headlines/168-israeli-forces-shoot-kill-palestinian-teenager-injure-45

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/teenager-killed-during-massive-raid-refugee-camp

Israeli forces shoot, injure Palestinian man at Gaza border crossing(24-08)

A Palestinian man was reportedly shot and injured by Israeli forces near a border crossing in the northern Gaza Strip, medics told Ma’an.

The medical sources said that the 30-year-old Palestinian was injured after being shot in the foot at the Erez crossing between the besieged Palestinian enclave and Israel, giving no further information on the incident.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772842

Israeli forces wound Palestinian fisherman after opening fire on boats in the northern Gaza Strip(25-08)

Israeli naval forces detained a Palestinian fisherman early Thursday after heavily opening fire at his boat off the coast of the northern Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian sources, while Israeli sources told Ma’an a Palestinian fisherman was taken for medical treatment after being wounded by Israeli live fire.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772848

Israeli forces injure Palestinian with live fire during clashes in Gaza(26-08)

Israeli forces Friday shot and injured a Palestinian with live fire during clashes at the security barrier near Nahal Oz east of Gaza City, according to Palestinian sources.
More than 1,500 Gazans have been injured by Israeli forces since the start of 2015, the vast majority during clashes that broke out with the Israeli military during protests since October, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772870

Israeli forces detain fisherman, open fire at farmers in the Gaza Strip(27-08)

Israeli naval forces Saturday morning detained a Palestinian fisherman off the coast of Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip, while Israeli forces opened live fire at Palestinian farmers working near the separation barrier east of the neighborhoods of al-Zaytun and Shujayya.

Head of the fishermen union Nizar Ayyash told Ma'an that Israeli military vessels chased several fishing boats off the coast of Gaza, detaining Al-Abid Zaki Tarush, while the other boats fled.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772874

Israeli forces detain 2 Gaza fishermen, confiscate boat(29-08)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772895

PA Education Ministry: Israel impeding entry of 300,000 textbooks into Gaza

The Palestinian Ministry of Education said in a statement on Saturday that Israeli authorities have been impeding entry of 300,000 textbooks from the occupied West Bank into the blockaded Gaza Strip, jeopardizing the new school year in the coastal enclave, which is set to begin on Sunday.

The ministry approved a new curriculum for grades 1 through 4 and distributed the new textbooks to all schools in the occupied West Bank, while most textbooks for Gaza were printed in presses located in the Gaza Strip itself.

However, 30,000 math and science textbooks bound for Gaza were printed in the West Bank, “which Israel has so far denied entry to the Gaza Strip,” Basri Salih, undersecretary for planning and development, said.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772880

Israeli forces fire tear gas at crowds attending football match, dozens suffer tear gas inhalation(28-08)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772872

Israeli forces suppress weekly protest in Bilin(28-08)

Israeli forces Friday dispersed weekly protests in the village of Bilin in the occupied West Bank district of Ramallah, according to Bilin’s popular resistance committee.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772871

Israeli violations against journalists in occupied territory increase by 17% in first half of 2016

A Palestinian press freedoms watchdog on Saturday said Israeli violations against media freedoms in the occupied Palestinian territory had continued to rise at a rapid pace over the first half of 2016.

The increase came even after the group reported an “unprecedented” increase in violations throughout 2015 -- “the highest ever to be monitored in Palestine” since the group started monitoring violations against media freedoms more than a decade ago.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772889

WATCH: Israeli soldiers throw stun grenade at Palestinians having coffee
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/watch-israeli-soldiers-throw-stun-grenade-palestinians-outside-coffee-shop-1764755157

Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (18– 24 August 2016)
http://pchrgaza.org/en/?p=8323

UN report: West Bank house demolitions up 25%

A recent report by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the Occupied Palestinian Territories was jarring. In addition to the usual listing of casualties and injuries among Palestinians, it reported a huge spike this year in the demolitions of Palestinian-owned structures by Israel.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/08/israel-destroys-palestinian-houses-west-bank-annexation.html

Israeli forces demolish Umm al-Khair, again (16-08)

Israeli forces demolish aid structures and homes in Umm al-Khair, displacing 27 people. All 27 victims had lost their homes to Israeli demolitions before.
http://www.alternativenews.org/index.php/headlines/166-israeli-forces-demolish-umm-al-khair-again

Israeli forces demolish 3 homes, cultural center in village of Umm al-Kheir(24-08)

Israeli bulldozers Wednesday demolished three Palestinian homes and a cultural center in the village of Umm al-Kheir in the southern occupied West Bank district of Hebron, detaining an elderly disabled man in the process.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772828

Israeli demolitions leave 28 homeless in Jerusalem-area Bedouin village(29-08)

Israeli forces demolished eight Palestinian structures in the Bedouin community of Maazi Jaba in the controversial E1 zone in the occupied West Bank district of Jerusalem on Monday morning, while residents were also forced to carry out demolitions themselves for three other structures after being ordered to do so by Israeli authorities.

Residents said that bulldozers from the Israeli Jerusalem municipality escorted by soldiers arrived in Maazi Jaba, east of the village of Jaba, at 7:30 a.m. and demolished six improvised shacks serving as homes, as well as two other structures used to house sheep.

The demolitions reportedly left 28 people, including 18 minors under the age of 16, homeless.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772902

Israeli forces demolish home of Palestinian prisoner accused in drive-by shooting(30-08)

Israeli forces on Tuesday morning demolished the home of Palestinian prisoner Muhammad Abd al-Majid Amayreh, accused of being an accomplice in a deadly drive-by shooting attack last month, after an Israeli court rejected an appeal by his family, who argued they had not been aware of or involved in the attack.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772907

The military demolish a home in Bani Naim The military demolish a home in Bani Naim http://www.alternativenews.org/index.php?option=com_yendifvideoshare&view=video&id=12&title=The

2016 Spike in home demolitions
http://www.alternativenews.org/index.php?option=com_yendifvideoshare&view=video&id=10&title=2016

Committee: 7 Palestinian prisoners suffering from poor health in Ashkelon prison

Seven Palestinian prisoners held in Israel’s Ashkelon prison were said to be suffering from deteriorating health conditions due to lack of treatment and medicine, the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs said in a statement on Sunday.

Muhammad Abrash, 38, who was detained on Feb. 17, 2013, has had his leg amputated and suffers from hearing and vision impairment after being injured during the Second Intifada, according to the statement.

He has lost 70 percent of his eyesight in the left eye and is in need of a cornea transplant -- a treatment the committee said the Israel Prison Service continued to delay.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772885

Palestinian released, placed under house arrest after serving 14 year sentence in Israeli prisons

An Israeli judge Tuesday ordered the release of a Palestinian from the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabal al-Mukabbir who was redetained four days after being released from a 14-year sentence in Israeli prisons, according to local sources.

Israeli Magistrate Court’s judge ordered the release of Jerusalemite prisoner Sufyan Fakhri Abdo from Israeli prison and imposed 14 days of house detention and a 10,000 shekel ($2,653) fine on him.

Abdo’s father told Ma’an that his son was detained on August 19, four days after being released following a 14-year sentence in Israeli prison after Israeli authorities accused him of inciting violence during a march in Jabal al-Mukabbir.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772816

Prisoners on hunger strike unify a divided Palestine

Bilal Kayed’s hunger strike has unified and reinvigorated Palestinian and Arab demands for radical justice in Palestine.
http://www.alternativenews.org/index.php/headlines/152-prisoners-on-hunger-strike-unify-a-divided-palestine

Bilal Kayed suspends hunger strike as prison struggles continue(24-08)

After refusing food for 71 days, Bilal Kayed has announced that he is suspending his hunger strike.

At a press conference on Thursday, Kayed’s lawyers with Addameer revealed details of the agreement with Israeli authorities that led to the suspension of his strike. Kayed will be released from administrative detention in December, after completing six months.

Addameer director Sahar Francis said that Israeli military prosecutors had wanted Kayed be exiled from Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories for four years as part of the agreement, before backing down. Kayed will remain in an Israeli hospital until his health improves.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/charlotte-silver/bilal-kayed-suspends-hunger-strike-prison-struggles-continue

Der religiöse Zionismus hat Israel nichts als Unruhe beschert

Das Kommentar meines Kollegen Ari Shavit , dass die Siedlerbewegung aufregend ist, zeigt, dass auch der "radikale Zentrist" des Landes unaufgeklärt ist.

Man muss sich ungläubig die Augen reiben. Ein israelischer Journalist, der sich selbst als weder religiös noch nationalistisch definiert, schrieb: „Die Leute von Mercaz Harav und Gush Emunin haben von niemandem etwas gestohlen. Was sie während der letzten 49 Jahre getan haben, war erziehen - was eindrucksvoll ist - und mobilisieren und anwerben, was aufregend ist.“( Ari Shavit 11. August)

Es ist das Jahr 2016 und das Verbrechen ist schöngeredet worden; es ist sogar zum pädagogischen Vorbild geworden. Der Sieg ist erklärt worden.
http://www.tlaxcala-int.org/article.asp?reference=18710

Israel's desalination miracle, Santa Claus and other fairy tales

Scientific American recently ran a feature on Israel’s desalination industry, hailing it as a miraculous feat of ingenuity of a small nation in the midst of burning, backward nations.

To quote the article’s romanticised language, the author refers to Israel as “a galvanised civilisation that created water from nothingness” where just a few miles away, alluding to Syria and Iraq specifically, but also Arab nations in general, “water disappeared and civilisations crumbled”.

It is surprising to see such blatant promotion of Israeli exceptionalism and the mendacious resurrection of “making the desert bloom” mythology on the pages of Scientific American. It is important to inject facts, history and reality into this water fairytale.

The author brazenly claims 900 years of Palestinian history is Israeli. In fact, Israel is a 68-year-old country established by European Jewish immigrants who conquered Palestine, expelled most of the indigenous population and laid claim to all their land, farms, homes, businesses, libraries and resources.

Beyond that gratuitous appropriation of Palestinian history, the article provides no historic context to climate, rainfall and natural water resources, giving the impression of a naturally inhospitable arid land.

In fact, throughout history, northern Palestine boasted a Mediterranean climate, having hot and dry summers with abundant rainfall in winter. And in fact, Ramallah’s rainfall exceeds that of London, as does Jerusalem’s rainfall.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/israeli-desalinisation-fairy-tale-palestinian-natural-resources-zionism-colonialism-pollution-dead-sea-water-833420376

Sustainable development as resistance

By supporting sustainable development in Palestine, the Applied Research Institute of Jerusalem fights Israeli environmental degradation. In mainstream media, Israel is widely credited with being at the cutting edge of thrifty water use techniques and “making the desert bloom.” But, while settlers have uninterrupted access to water in the Jordan Valley thanks to Israel’s water drilling in the area, Palestinian wells and springs have dried up. Approximately 80% of Israel's water extraction in the Jordan Valley is diverted to Israeli settlements.
http://www.alternativenews.org/index.php/features-02/133-sustainable-development-as-resistance

Gaza headed for 'environmental catastrophe'

Water crisis in the besieged Palestinian territory is putting Palestinian lives at risk,
analysts say.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/07/gaza-headed-environmental-catastrophe-160712091948662.html

Indifferent to boycott pressure, RE/MAX helps Israel remodel Palestine

No ‘Open House’ on Stolen Land!” proclaims Code Pink in its campaign to pressure real estate giant RE/MAX to stop selling properties in illegal Israeli settlements built on occupied Palestinian land.

Code Pink is a women-led organization that promotes peace and human rights in the U.S. and abroad. Their campaign, entitled Remodel RE/MAX, is a part of the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

Ariel Gold, the coordinator of Remodel RE/MAX, explained to the Alternative Information Center that Code Pink opted to challenge RE/MAX’s business in Israeli settlements because it is “a blatant slap in the face to Palestinian human rights” as well as “indisputably illegal under international law.”

Indeed, a report published in January by Human Rights Watch arrived at similar conclusions:

By advertising, selling and renting homes in settlements, both the Israeli franchise of RE/MAX and RE/MAX LLC, the owner of the global franchise network, facilitate and benefit from the transfer of Israeli civilians into occupied territory and the associated human rights abuses, contravening their rights responsibilities.
http://www.alternativenews.org/index.php/features-02/153-indifferent-to-boycott-pressure-re-max-helps-israel-remodel-palestine

Israel's defense minister sets out on his own path in battle against Hamas

...Later on the night of Aug. 21, however, something unusual happened. The Israeli air force launched a wide-scale attack against some 50 Hamas targets throughout Gaza. The explosions resonated for several hours in Gaza and on the Israeli side of the border. The attack, based on high-quality intelligence, was focused and enduring. Intended to deliver a significant blow to Hamas’ capacity to gather intelligence, it came as a real surprise to the Hamas leadership in Gaza, which had grown used to the long-standing situation in which Israel responded by returning symbolic fire. The question is, what lay behind Israel’s unusual response to this particular attack?
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/08/defense-minister-avigdor-liberman-gaza-rocket-fire-west-bank.html

‘Do not despair:’ on the persistence of resistance

We have quickly gotten used to going to the Alternative Information Center’s (AIC) website to know what’s really happening regarding Israel and the Palestinians — not only that, but to understand what is happening and situate it in an overall context and framework. We have never disagreed on essential issues. From Europe and from the Arab world, we sometimes viewed our comrades at the AIC as more pessimistic than necessary, but we were understanding because they carried double the weight. They face persecution as a result of birth and “identity” and fight this persecution, even if only at the level of the media and analysis. Doing so, in any case is highly significant considering the occupying and oppressive entity’s intensive dedication to media since Israel's founding and even the crystallization of the Zionist idea itself.
http://www.alternativenews.org/index.php/comment/141-do-not-despair-the-persistence-of-resistance

‘Doomed to fail’

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke, yet again, of improving ties between Israel and several Arab countries. His recent statements reveal the Israeli government’s vision for future political settlements with the Palestinian people.

Netanyahu asserts that the political process for peace in Palestine should be conducted in reverse – i.e. since Arab states understand that the world is changing and that Israel is not their enemy, relations with the Arab world should be normalized prior to and as a positive catalyst for Israeli-Palestinian peace.

Gregory Gause, an expert on the Gulf States of the Middle East, told the Times of Israel that Netanyahu's vision of Arab states normalizing ties with Israel first and pressuring Ramallah secondarily is doomed to fail and is little more than a bid to buy time.
http://www.alternativenews.org/index.php/comment/148-doomed-to-fail

Deadly gas projectiles return to West Bank protests

An old weapon appears to have re-emerged in Palestine.

Over the past six months, say activists in the occupied West Bank, the Israeli military has resumed the use of Indoor Barricade Penetrators, a form of high velocity tear gas 40mm projectile designed to deliver its payload inside buildings or homes and used during raids, demonstrations and clashes.

The use of such heavy duty tear gas projectiles fell by the wayside in 2013 after a number of high-profile court cases demonstrated how easily this particular form of delivery could kill or maim. However, a modified version is now employed across the West Bank, say protestors, and no matter what claims the military and manufacturers may make, these barrier piercing projectiles remain potentially lethal.

Israel has used them to deadly effect before.

In 2009, Bassem Abu Rahmeh was killed during the weekly protest in the West Bank of Bilin, after he was struck in the chest with an Indoor Barricade Penetrator.

Just a few weeks earlier, Tristan Anderson, an American volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement, was hit with a high velocity tear gas canister in the nearby town of Nilin. He didn’t die, but was permanently paralyzed on his left side and suffered massive brain damage.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/deadly-gas-projectiles-return-west-bank-protests/17616