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At least 156 Palestinians were shot and injured by Israeli forces during clashes in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip on Friday, the Palestinian ministry of health said.

The ministry of health said 69 Palestinians were injured with live fire in the West Bank, with 29 shot in the Ramallah area, two in Bethlehem, and three in Qalqiliya.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768920

Thousands attend funeral of Palestinian who died from gunshot wounds
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768922

Hundreds attend funeral of Palestinian killed in Gush Etzion
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768919

Israeli settlers raided the Palestinian village of al-Mazraa al-Qabalia northwest of Ramallah overnight Thursday and threw rocks at a home in the village before spraying racist graffiti on the walls.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768926

Nearly 400 Palestinian children held in Israeli jails

A prisoners' rights group said Friday that nearly 400 Palestinian children between the ages of 11 and 17 are currently being held in Israeli jails.

The Palestinian Prisoners' Society said in a statement that 11 of those detained were being held without charge or trial under administration detention orders.

The group added that several children detained since the start of last month were hit with live Israeli fire while being detained.

Some 700 children have been detained since the beginning of October -- mainly in the Hebron and Jerusalem districts -- many of whom were released under specific conditions including bail or house arrest, the society said.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768923

Israeli army acts close Hebron schools

Soldiers shot copious amounts of tear gas near the Ibrahimiya School in the al Sahla area of downtown Hebron. Dozens of students were overcome by the tear gas.

Israeli troops further closed the checkpoints in the area, prohibiting students and Palestinian residents of the area from passing through.

Dr. Ramzi Abu Yousef, Director of the Health Work Committees in the Hebron district, reports that soldiers prevented ambulances from taking the students to be treated in the downtown clinic. Soldiers essentially shut down the clinic by blocking Tareq Ben Ziyad street, where it is situated.

Some 2,000 Palestinian students missed school today because of the Israeli military actions.

http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/news/1151-israeli-army-acts-close-hebron-schools

Israeli forces raid home of Tel Aviv attacker, issue demolition order

Israeli forces on Thursday evening raided the home of a Palestinian who reportedly carried out a stabbing attack in Tel Aviv earlier that day which killed two Israelis, witnesses said.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768911

Israeli revenge demolitions leave 2 dead, dozens homeless

Israeli occupation forces wrought death, injury and destruction this week as they carried out revenge demolitions of Palestinian homes and fired on protesters.

More than 85 Palestinians have been killed in escalated violence since 1 October, dozens in what human rights organizations and international monitors have condemned as summary executions.

Sixteen Israelis were slain in the same period.

More than 9,000 Palestinians and 133 Israelis were injured, according to the United Nations monitoring group OCHA.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israeli-revenge-demolitions-leave-2-dead-dozens-homeless

America’s papers brush aside Israeli brutality

Editorial statements allow newspapers to articulate their collective position on the issues of the day and, in the case of major publications, they carry particular authority. Such articles play an important role in shaping public opinion and therefore need to be subject to special scrutiny.

Severely flawed editorials on the current uprising throughout Palestine have appeared in The Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times and the The Washington Post.

One shortcoming is that they foreground Israeli concerns and sideline those of Palestinians.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/americas-papers-brush-aside-israeli-brutality/15006

How Israel pressures BBC into changing headlines

In the early hours of 12 November, approximately two dozen Israeli gunmen, one disguised as a pregnant Palestinian woman, others wearing fake beards, invaded a hospital in Hebron and gunned down a 28-year-old man.

In a rare burst of reporting on an Israeli atrocity, the BBC ran an article on its website headlined: “Israelis shoot dead Palestinian in Hebron hospital raid.”

It was a straightforward headline which summed up the story. But later in the day, a different headline appeared above the report, reading: “Israelis in disguise raid Hebron hospital, seizing suspect.”

As is standard practice for the BBC, the amendment was not noted at the bottom of the page, so newcomers to the story would not have known the headline had been altered.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/amena-saleem/how-israel-pressures-bbc-changing-headlines

Another crack in Israeli democracy

The decision by Israel’s defence minister and the current government to revoke the legal status of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel opens another crack in the democratic regime that rules half of Israel.

Israel’s democracy is a very feeble one, in any case – lacking appropriate protections, without the required checks and balances, a democracy mainly directed at the country’s Jewish citizens. Not coincidentally, this scandalous decision relies on existing “emergency regulations,” a colonialist remnant of draconian legislation left to Israel by the departing British Mandate government – laws that Israel has never bothered to revoke. Under this rubric, the Israeli administration in power can do just about anything – which is why these laws, so useful at times, are still on the books.

This decision, moreover, was taken under cover of the recent terror attacks in Paris. There was nothing coincidental about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s choice to exploit the global fury at Islam to move ahead with this action, which it had been contemplating, together with Israel’s security services, for a long time.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/another-crack-israeli-democracy-741081490

Bild : The Israeli border police officer found responsible for brutally assaulting 15-year-old Tariq Abu Khdeir was sentenced on Wednesday to 45 days of community service.
http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/news/1153-45-days-community-service-for-brutal-assault