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Lehava (flame) is a racist group that objects to all relationships between Jews and Arabs. Most of the group's activists are minors.

On Thursdays Lehava activists roam the streets of West Jerusalem to intimidate Arab residents and workers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGF7eT4wg8k

Saying you are an Arab Jew is the most subversive statement possible against Zionism.

Professor Zvi Ben Dor Benite speaks with the Alternative Information Center (AIC) about the history and identity of Jews from Arab countries.

Touching upon issues such as the place of Arab Jews in Arab politics, the impact of Jews on Arab culture and the concept of Arab Jews as refugees, Professor Ben Dor Benite notes that the tragedy of Jewish communities throughout the Arab world, members of whom could not imagine leaving their countries, is that Zionism was imposed upon them.

http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/aicoment/965-video-arab-jews

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At least four Palestinians were killed on Thursday and over 30 injured when an unexploded ordnance from last summer's Israeli military offensive went off while clearing rubble from a destroyed house in the southern Gaza Strip, medics said.

http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=766893

Israel conducted demolitions in three Palestinian villages in the South Hebron Hills.

While international attention is focused on the southern West Bank village of Susiya, thus facilitating resistance of Susiya residents against forced eviction, the Israeli policy of destroying Palestinian villages continues, far from the mainstream media coverage.

http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/special-reports/hebron/967-photos-demolitions-in-hebron-hills

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The infant mortality rate in Gaza has risen for the first time in more than half a century, a new study by the UN aid agency for Palestinian refugees says.

"The number of babies dying before the age of one has consistently gone down over the last decades in Gaza, from 127 per 1,000 live births in 1960 to 20.2 in 2008. At the last count, in 2013, it had risen to 22.4 per 1,000 live births," a statement from the UNRWA relief agency released at the weekend said.

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2015/Aug-09/310383-gaza-infant-mortality-rises-for-first-time-in-53-years-un.ashx

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Palestinian prisoners affiliated to Islamic Jihad, Hamas, and PFLP in Israel's Rimon and Nafha prisons on Monday declared a campaign of "complete disobedience" against the Israeli Prison Service.

The prisoners said in an open letter that the campaign began at 4 p.m. on Monday afternoon, and would continue until their demands were met.

The letter did not specify the demands, although it said the Israeli Prison Service had prohibited movement in sections 4 and 7 in Rimon prison and sections 10,11, and 13 in Nafha prison.

http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=766963

Israel medical center may force feed hunger striker to 'save life'

The Israeli medical center to which a Palestinian hunger striker was transferred on Monday has said that although force-feeding is "unacceptable," they may go through with the procedure if it is necessary to save his life.

Barzilai Medical Center said in a press release that the position of the center's director, Dr. Chezy Levy, was that force-feeding was an "unacceptable step" that contravened medical ethics.

However, it added that if the hunger striker's condition deteriorates seriously and he needs urgent treatment "to save his life," then the center may turn to medical treatment "without the consent of the patient."

Palestinian prisoner Muhammad Allan, who has been on hunger strike for 57 days, was transferred to Barzilai in Ashkelon on Monday morning after doctors at Soroka hospital in Beersheba reportedly refused to force feed him.

http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=766962

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Israel is struggling with how to deal with groups some of which are underground that are linked to a banned nationalist political party that has emerged at the core of recent racist, anti-Palestinian incidents and include a militant soccer fan group that was responsible for last month's violent clashes during a Europa League qualifier in Belgium between Israeli club Beitar Jerusalem and Charleloi SC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr0GMxm847s .

http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=766985

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Israeli water company Mekorot on Wednesday cut off supplies to areas of the northern West Bank, the Palestinian Water Authority said.

The PA-body said water supplies north of Nablus were disconnected, with PA crews working to reconnect residents.

The PWA has contacted the Israeli company but is yet to receive a response. It is unclear how many people have been affected by the move.

Last week, dozens of Palestinian residents of the West Bank village of Kafr Qaddum staged a sit-in to protest the Israeli national water company cutting off its supply to the village.

Hamzeh Jumaa, the head of the village council, told Ma'an that the Israeli water company Mekorot cut off its supply on Aug. 2.

He said that the water supplies some 4,000 people living in Kafr Qaddum in Qalqiliya, which he highlighted was an agricultural village.

...Israelis, including settlers, have access to 300 liters of water per day, according to EWASH, while the West Bank average is around 70 liters, below the World Health Organization's recommended minimum of 100 liters per day for basic sanitation, hygiene and drinking.

http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=767007

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Not long ago, I had a conversation with an official I know from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). The official told me about a conversation he had with a senior Israel Defense Forces officer. In that conversation, my UN colleague asked the IDF official to describe Israel’s policy toward Gaza. The answer was just seven words long: “No development, no prosperity, no humanitarian crisis,” by now a common refrain within Israel’s military and political establishment.

http://www.thenation.com/article/the-gaza-strips-last-safety-net-is-in-danger/

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In a four-day standoff pitting human rights groups and organized labor against Israeli shipping giant Zim, the giant was defeated Tuesday in Vancouver, Canada.

http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/news/25-bds/3-photos-bds-victory-as-vancouver-blocks-israeli-ship

Prisoner's society: Israel keeping hunger striker alive 'unethically'

The head of the Palestinian Prisoner's Society said Sunday that Israeli medical procedures to keep Palestinian hunger striker Mohammad Allan alive were "unethical" and the society would ask for them to be halted.

Qadura Fares told Ma'an that doctors at Barzilai Medical Center in southern Israel had decided to prolong the hunger striker's life "on his behalf," although he said that he did not believe it amounted to force-feeding.

"They're deciding on his behalf," he said. "It's unethical."

Allan, who has been on hunger strike 62 days, slipped into a coma on Friday.

http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=767078

Gaza woman dies of wounds from Israeli ordinance explosion

A Palestinian woman from the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday morning succumbed to wounds sustained earlier this month when an unexploded ordnance last summer's Israeli military offensive went off.

Palestinian medical sources at Abu Yousif al-Najjar hospital in Rafah said that 77-year-old Amina Abu Naqira on Sunday morning died after fighting for her life for more than a week.

Four other Palestinians were killed and more than 30 injured when the unexploded ordnance went off while a family was clearing rubble from a destroyed house in the Shabora neighborhood of Rafah on Aug. 6.

http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=767068

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Amnesty International is among the premier human rights organizations in the world. Its pronouncements shape public opinion, while councils of state feel obliged if not to heed them at any rate to respond. A movement for justice aspiring to reach a broad public and inflect state policy can ill afford to ignore Amnesty if and when it goes astray. It is the contention of this monograph that Amnesty has indeed lost its way, and it is the intention of this monograph to document this proposition, in the hope that Amnesty will perform—or its grassroots membership will compel it to perform—a midcourse correction.

In recent years, Amnesty International has issued meticulously documented, legally unflinching human rights reports on the Israel-Palestine conflict, for example, Operation “Cast Lead”: 22 days of death and destruction[1], a searing indictment of Israel’s 2008-9 assault on Gaza. But this has not always been the case. For many decades, this venerable human rights organization effectively gave Israel a free pass on its pervasive torture practices in the occupied Palestinian territories[2]. Judging by the reports it issued after Israel’s summer 2014 assault on Gaza, Operation Protective Edge, Amnesty is regressing to its earlier apologetics. For those who have come to rely on and cite Amnesty as a source of accurate human rights reportage, this development is troubling and deeply frustrating. The primary purpose of this monograph is not to account for Amnesty’s apparent backpedaling, although some speculations on this score will be ventured in the conclusion, but to thoroughly document it, focusing in particular on Amnesty’s comprehensive indictment of Hamas[3], Unlawful and Deadly: Rocket and mortar attacks by Palestinian armed groups during the 2014 Gaza/Israel conflict[4].

https://www.byline.com/project/13/article/149

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The Israeli Supreme Court has ruled that hunger striking Palestinian prisoner, 31 year-old Mohammed Allan, will be released from administrative detention…but only if medical tests show that he’s suffered “irreversible” damage as a result of his 65-day hunger strike. Apparently, a healthy Allan was a grave national security threat. While a near-dead Allan poses no such threat. While the Court has done the decent, humane thing, it erased any good will it might’ve generated by compelling Allan had to prove that his ordeal had caused damage to his body and mind so severe that it supported freeing him.

http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2015/08/19/breaking-israeli-supreme-court-releases-hunger-striking-prisoner/#comments

Hunger striker Muhammad Allan has suffered brain damage

Palestinian hunger striker Muhammad Allan has suffered brain damage due to a lack of nutrients following two months of protest action against his detention without trial, Israel's Barzilai hospital said Wednesday.

http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=767141