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Israeli forces shot and injured 13 Palestinians in the Shufat refugee camp on Wednesday during clashes which broke out after the demolition of the home of camp resident Ibrahim al-Akkari, who carried out a deadly attack in Jerusalem last year.

The Palestinian Red Crescent in Jerusalem told Ma’an that a total of 43 Palestinians were given medical treatment following the clashes that erupted in the occupied East Jerusalem camp.

Thirteen were hit by rubber-coated steel bullets, while 30 others suffered from severe tear gas inhalation, the Red Crescent said.

An Israeli police spokesperson did not immediately respond for comment on the clashes.

Earlier in the day, locals told Ma’an that more than 1,200 Israeli soldiers accompanied by Israeli police raided the camp, preventing the movement of residents inside while sealing roads leading out of Shufat
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Over 1,200 Israeli police officers and soldiers, accompanied by bulldozers and helicopters raided the camp from four different directions.

The police said in a statement “the forces were instructed to show zero tolerance for any attempt to harm security forces or disrupt the public order.”
http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/news/1175-israel-invades-jerusalem-refugee-camp

Israel continues punitive demolitions for suspected Nablus attackers

Israeli forces early Thursday demolished the Nablus home of a Palestinian man suspected of organizing an attack in October that left two Israeli settlers dead, Palestinian security sources said.

Palestinian security sources told Ma’an that Israeli forces raided the al-Dahya neighborhood in the southern area of the occupied West Bank city in preparation to demolish the home of Ragheb Ahmad Muhammed Alawi.

Israeli soldiers forced Alawi’s family to evacuate the home hours before the demolition, a relative of the family, Ahmad Alawi, told Ma’an.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769142

Hebron municipality freezes Israeli demolition order

The municipality of Hebron on Thursday announced that it had managed to freeze an Israeli demolition order for a house in the city after taking legal action through the Israeli Supreme Court.

Iyad Ubeido had received an order for the demolition of his home on Nov. 30, with all family members ordered to evacuate the property within three days.

A lawyer from the municipality launched an appeal against the demolition in cooperation with the Society of St. Yves, a human rights organization, with the Israeli Supreme Court putting the demolition on hold until further notice.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769146

19 detained in overnight arrest raids
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769141

Israeli forces shoot, critically injure elderly woman in Gaza

Israeli forces shot and critically injured an elderly Palestinian woman in the neck on Wednesday near al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, a spokesperson for the Gaza-based Ministry of Health said.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769136

Video: “I killed for you, with these hands,” Israeli soldier tells lawmakers
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/video-i-killed-you-these-hands-israeli-soldier-tells-lawmakers

A video has emerged apparently showing an Israeli soldier dropping a knife on the ground and forcing a terrified Palestinian girl to pick it up before she is arrested.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/video-israeli-soldier-forces-knife-palestinian-girl

Israel fans flames as Palestinian death toll soars

While Israel’s military leaders say there is no end in sight to the current wave of violence, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is fanning the flames as the army moves to destroy more homes belonging to families of Palestinians slain during alleged attacks on Israelis.

Palestinians called for a “day of rage” after Israeli forces shot dead 17-year-old Ayman Samih al-Abbasi in the Silwan neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem on Sunday.

Israel claimed that the youth was hit after protesters threw firebombs at Israeli soldiers, but Palestinians said that the area was quiet before the boy was slain, and that confrontations only erupted afterwards.

More than 100 Palestinians have been killed since 1 October, many of them in what human rights organizations and international monitors have condemned as summary executions.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israel-fans-flames-palestinian-death-toll-soars

Arab intellectuals must act now!

Appeal to the Arab intellectuals, to writers, journalists, poets, novelists, artists, academics, filmmakers, and others, whether secular or nationalist or progressive or left-wing or religious, to all of those who believe in freedom, Arabism, the homeland, humanity, dignity:

Now, it is your duty to protect your principles and values, your dreams and humanity.

Now, is the moment to confront the culture of blinding, backward opportunism and alienation. Now is the time, since Arab culture and people face blasphemy, darkness, murder, alienation, partition, dismemberment, regional sectarianism and racism.

Now, Arab intellectuals must rise up – each, according to his or her place, role, and specialisation – to protect the spirit of our communities.
http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/aicoment/1177-arab-intellectuals-must-act-now

Upheaval in Palestine and Israel: Occupation and beyond

It can be argued that the rising escalation in tensions and confrontations between the Israelis and Palestinians over the past two months demonstrates that the Israeli policy of conflict management in order to maintain the status quo in the occupied Palestinian territory has become unsustainable. The results of these policies and practices have marginalized the Palestinians further, resulting in new waves of violence and increased levels of despair.

According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), there were 96 Palestinian fatalities between Oct. 1 and Nov. 26, with an estimated 10,346 injuries occurring in clashes with the Israeli army and police forces. In the same time period, there were 17 Israeli fatalities and 160 injuries, in addition to 70 stabbing attempts, ten shootings and ten car ramming incidents, according to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Some, particularly among Israelis, look at the current escalation within the sequence of the last two months of events through a particular prism in which the escalation is reduced to merely a series of unwarranted and inexplicable Palestinian attacks against Israeli soldiers and civilians that spurred a reaction by the Israeli army and police forces. In direct contrast to this perspective, Professor Alon Ben-Meir of New York University argued in a recent article from the Huffington Post that “the most troubling issue is that successive Israeli governments remained blind and refused to connect much of the Palestinian violence to the occupation." It is through this latter, long-term narrative that the latest upsurge in violence must be viewed.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769133