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You’ve probably read the posts I wrote earlier this week about the Mossad assassination of Mohammed al-Zoari in Tunisia. Israeli politicians and journalists have strongly hinted at Mossad’s culpability. Tunisian authorities have been more forceful in blaming an Israeli assassination squad for the murder. This is at least the second such murder under Yossi Cohen’s watch as agency chief.

The first hit was last year in Bulgaria. There Cohen engineered the killing of Omar Nayef Zayed, who had murdered an Israeli settler in 1986 and later escaped Israel and found refuge in the eastern European nation. There he ran a grocery store, married and had children. As I reported earlier at Mint Press News, Yossi Cohen is reported to have been chief of European operations for Mossad during the period of Zayed’s escape. I suggested that the murder was Cohen’s form of payback, warning both Palestinians and his own personnel that he is a tough son of a bitch who “always gets his man.”
https://www.richardsilverstein.com/2016/12/25/yossi-cohen-gets-away-murder/

Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (08 – 14 December 2016)
http://pchrgaza.org/en/?p=8639

Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (15 – 21 December 2016)
http://pchrgaza.org/en/?p=8653

British Citizen Tortured by Israel’s Secret Police: Report

Asa Winstanley, a London-based investigative journalist reported in Middle East Monitor today that a British citizen is being tortured in Israel to confess to apparently false charges.

“Although Haaretz claimed last month that he had been released,” Winstanley wrote, “it appears that Faiz Sherari remains in the custody of a ‘military court’ run by Israel’s illegal occupation regime that rules the fate of all Palestinians in the West Bank.”
http://www.palestinechronicle.com/british-citizen-tortured-by-israels-secret-police-report/

Closure, isolation and suffering for a second week

Israeli occupation forces have blocked civilians from entering and exiting their own villages and towns in the Ramallah district of the West Bank for two weeks.

Entryways to Deir Nzam village, northwest of Ramallah, were closed with military barriers. Locals must walk on foot to get into the village. Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint along the main road routinely stop passersby and check ID cards.

The Israeli occupation also closed Nabi Saleh village, north of Ramallah. Two weeks ago, a military checkpoint was erected at its main entrance.
http://alternativenews.org/index.php/headlines/304-closure-isolation-and-suffering-for-a-second-week

Israeli officer threatens to kill Palestinian youth and his family

On 18 December, Israeli forces raided the homes of Ahmad al-Seifi and Khalil al-Banna, two youths in Dheisheh refugee camp, near Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, and detained them.

According to a local source, al-Seifi and al-Banna are still in detention. The source, who is not being named for safety reasons, told The Electronic Intifada that al-Banna was shot in the knee and arrested earlier this year.

Residents of Dheisheh say they continue to be targeted with raids and arrests by an Israeli army unit under the command of a notoriously aggressive officer with Israel’s domestic intelligence agency Shin Bet.

The officer, who goes by the alias “Captain Nidal,” has previously threatened to make “all youth in the camp disabled.”

In several testimonies gathered by The Electronic Intifada earlier this year, youth in the camp say Captain Nidal has been provoking them during confrontations and threatening them or causing severe physical harm, especially to their lower limbs.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/israeli-officer-threatens-kill-palestinian-youth-and-his-family

Ein trostloses Weihnachten ruft die Katastrophe wach, die Bethlehem heimsuchte

Als 2016 seinem Ende zuneigt, ist Bethlehem eine traurige Stadt. Die Melancholie ist allgegenwärtig: in den verschlossenen Souvenirläden, in den noch offenen aber leeren Läden, in den gästelosen Hotels, in den niedergeschlagenen Gesichtern der Einheimischen. Es stimmt, dass am Nachmittag der Obst- und Gemüsemarkt voller Leben ist und der Verkehr sich staut. Die Stadt ist für Weihnachten auch festlich geschmückt worden: seine bunten Lichter leuchten in der Nacht. Sonst ist hier nicht viel los.

Die örtliche Polizei, die den Verkehr in der Nähe des Marktes leitet gibt eine Illusion von Normalität und einen Anschein von Souveränität. Aber jede Illusion zerbricht beim Anblick der Mauer, die die Stadt am Ende der Hauptstraße erdrosselt und der Siedlung Har Homa, ein jüdischer Vorort, der der Stadt aufgezwungen wurde, rittlings auf dem naheliegenden Hügel.

Bethlehem ist besetzt und erstickt. Dies macht sich besonders in der Weihnachtszeit bemerkbar, wo man den Kontrast zwischen was diese schöne Stadt, Jesu Geburtsort, sein könnte und zu was sie reduziert wurde. Nächstes Jahr wird das Jubeljahr der Katastrophe sein, die sie heimsuchte.
http://www.tlaxcala-int.org/article.asp?reference=19526

Video: Israeli soldiers tear gas Santa Claus

Israeli soldiers fired tear gas, pepper spray and stun grenades at Palestinians calling for free movement between Bethlehem and Jerusalem on Friday.

The Christmas-themed protest was held in front of Checkpoint 300, where Israeli soldiers control Palestinian movement between the occupied West Bank cities.

Approximately 100 protesters, some of them dressed in Santa Claus suits, chanted against Israel’s military occupation and for Palestinian freedom.

“Jesus came with a message of peace, his city suffers oppression,” one demonstrator’s sign read.

“Santa Claus stands with the Palestinian people,” stated another.

Half a dozen people were injured, including journalists, during the protest.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/video-israeli-soldiers-tear-gas-santa/18991

Israeli forces injure 3 Palestinians, detain child during Kafr Qaddum protests(23-12)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774580

Thousands attend funeral for Palestinian killed by Israeli soldiers(22-12)

Thousands of Palestinians in the city of al-Bireh in the central occupied West Bank took part in the funeral of 19-year-old Ahmad Nashat Othman al-Kharroubi, who was shot and killed by Israeli forces earlier on Thursday during clashes in Kafr Aqab north of Jerusalem. http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774552

Teen slain during home demolition raid

An Israeli army spokesperson told media that soldiers had opened fire on al-Kharroubi after he and others threw “improvised explosive devices” at them.

The incident occurred after Israeli forces raided Kufr Aqab to partially demolish a house belonging to Misbah Abu Sbeih, who was slain by Israeli forces after carrying out a shooting attack in Jerusalem, killing an Israeli woman and a police officer, in October.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/teen-slain-during-home-demolition-raid

Palestinian injured after Israeli forces shoot live ammunition during clashes in Gaza(23-13)

Israeli forces Friday injured a Palestinian youth when clashes erupted in the east of the besieged Gaza Strip.

Medical sources told Ma’an that the Palestinian youth was injured with live fire after Israeli forces opened live ammunition at protesters near the Nahel Oz crossing in Gaza city.

A Ma’an reporter witnessed Israeli forces stationed inside the crossing open fire on a Palestinian protester who had approached the security barrier between the besieged enclave and Israel.

Medical sources added that the Palestinian youth’s injury was “medium.” The identity of the youth was has not yet been released.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774589

Israel besieges Bethlehem villages in search of stabbing suspect(24-12)

Israeli forces continued to crackdown on Palestinian villages in the southern occupied West Bank town of Bethlehem on Saturday, in search for a man who allegedly stabbed and lightly injured a settler in the illegal Israeli settlement of Efrat southwest of Bethlehem Friday night.

According to the Israeli army, a Palestinian infiltrated a settler home in Efrat, stabbed an Israeli man, and fled from the scene.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774592

Israeli forces suppress Palestinian funeral with live ammunition, tear gas(24-12)

Palestinians in the southern occupied West Bank district of Hebron laid five Palestinians to rest on Saturday after their bodies were released by Israeli authorities the previous night, with mourners being met with live ammunition, tear gas, and rubber-coated steel bullets fired by Israeli forces.

After Israeli authorities returned the bodies of nine Palestinians who were killed while committing or allegedly committing attacks, a number of funerals were held Friday evening across the occupied West Bank.

In Hebron, preparations for the funerals of five Palestinians were still ongoing as of Saturday morning, and were held later in the afternoon.

In Beit Ummar, local activist Muhammad Ayyad Awad said Israeli soldiers stationed at the northern entrance to the town fired tear gas canisters at the crowds of mourners during the funeral for Khalid Ikhlayyil.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774594

Dozens of Palestinians injured on day of mourning in Hebron (25-12)

Saturday was a sad day in Hebron, a day of mourning and general strike. Five martyrs whose bodies the occupation authorities withheld for several months in Israeli morgues were finally laid to rest.

A funeral procession for the martyrs set off from Ahli Hospital in Hebron city. The deceased were then taken to their respective hometowns for burial.
http://www.alternativenews.org/index.php/features-02/302-dozens-of-palestinians-injured-on-day-of-mourning-in-hebron

Israeli forces install road blocks on West Bank commuter road(25-12)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774608

Palestinian youth injured with live fire during clashes near Joseph's Tomb(25-12)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774614

Israeli bulldozers level lands in southern Gaza Strip(27-12)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774625

Israeli forces demolish agricultural water tank, structure in Hebron area(27-12)

Israeli authorities on Tuesday demolished an agricultural water tank and structure in the southern occupied West Bank Hebron-area town of Idhna, for building without a license in ‘Area C’ -- the more than 60 percent of the West Bank under full Israeli civilian and security control.

The Idhna municipality said in a statement that Israeli bulldozers escorted by several military jeeps demolished a 500 square-meter space water tank used for agricultural purposes and an “agricultural room” belonging to Moussa Ahmad Muhammad Farajallah in the Uyoun al-Bass area of the town.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774627

Israeli soldiers raid Bethlehem-area village(28-12)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774650

Israeli forces raid Salfit-area village in response to alleged rock throwing(29-12)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774654

Umm Al-Hiran: Zionismus pur

Die Videos, die von der Hiran-Siedlergruppe produziert wurden, zeigen viele fröhliche Juden, wie sie singen und musizieren, Witze erzählen und Spaß haben. Sie werden bald noch fröhlicher sein, wenn sie an den Ort kommen, wo sie einen ständigen Wohnsitz im nordöstlichen Negev haben werden.

Das Land, das der Staat für sie bestimmt hat, heißt Atir/ Um al-Hiran und ist 60 Jahre lang der Wohnort für die Beduinen vom Al-Qian-Stamm gewesen. Mit andern Worten der Wohnort und Spielplatz für jüdische Kinder, der dort gebaut wird und die Gärten, die dort angepflanzt werden, werden über den Ruinen der Wohnsitze von etwa 1000 anderen Bewohnern, die auch Israelische Bürger sind, errichtet ( Einige von ihnen haben sogar beim Militär gedient, wenn sich jemand darum kümmert).

Jetzt können aber jeden Tag die Bulldozer der israelischen Landverwaltung kommen und die Häuser dieser Beduinen zerstören, um Platz für eine blühende Gemeinde fröhlicher jüdischer Bürger zu machen . Das ist Zionismus in einer Nussschale.
http://www.tlaxcala-int.org/article.asp?reference=19477

Dispossession by the law: How the Israeli judicial system utilises Ottoman land law to expel and dispossess the Palestinian Bedouin

Much has been said about the role that the Israeli Supreme Court and the judiciary generally have played in Judaising the Palestinian space, by confirming Israeli governmental practices of dispossessing Palestinians of their land, major house demolitions and frequent displacement. This role was apparent in the first years of Israeli statehood when approving mass expropriation of Palestinian refugees’ property and the confiscation of lands that belonged to the remaining Palestinians who became Israeli citizens after 1948. Land dispossession continues until the present, and so does the role and position of the Israeli Supreme Court. This role probably has not been as clear as it was during the first two weeks of May 2015. The specific target this time were the Palestinian Bedouin communities in Israel and in the West Bank. In the West Bank the court approved the expulsion and house demolitions of a Palestinian village to allow for the expansion of an existing Jewish settlement; in the Negev the court approved the expulsion and house demolition of the Palestinian Bedouin village of Um Al-Hiran in order to make room for a new Jewish settlement; and finally the court approved the state position that the Bedouin have no land rights and in most cases they were trespassers on state land.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20161201-dispossession-by-the-law-how-the-israeli-judicial-system-utilises-ottoman-land-law-to-expel-and-dispossess-the-palestinian-bedouin/

Israel continues demolition campaign on Palestinian homes in Negev(27-12)

Israeli forces Tuesday demolished a Palestinian-owned home in the Bedouin village of Qasr al-Ser in the Negev of southern Israel in the continuation of what locals have said is retaliation for the impending demolition of the illegal Israeli Amona outpost in the occupied West Bank.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774629

Palestinians protest Israeli demolition campaign in the Negev(25-12)

Two marches organized by the Supreme Steering Committee of Negev Arabs set off Sunday in Israel's southern Negev region to protest the ongoing demolition campaign targettng Palestinian homes in the area.

Protesters held signs that condemned the Israeli policy of home demolitions in the Negev, especially during winter when families are left homeless in the cold weather.

On Thursday, Israeli forces demolished the "unrecognized" al-Araqib Bedouin village in the Negev for the 107th time.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774606

Israel confiscates land in Palestinian cemetery (20-12)

On Sunday, employees of Israel’s Nature and Parks Authority and armed Israeli forces raided al-Rahmah Cemetery and put up signs saying it is prohibited to bury bodies in certain areas.

The Islamic cemetery sits outside the eastern walls of the Old City in Jerusalem, abutting al-Aqsa Mosque. It is over 1,000 years old.
http://www.alternativenews.org/index.php/headlines/298-israel-confiscates-land-in-palestinian-cemetery

Israel’s rule of annexation in West Bank

Israel is due to evacuate more than 300 settlers from the Amona outpost, a colony built on land belonging to Palestinians in three nearby villages near Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank.

The evacuation was ordered by Israel’s high court.

But legislators, backed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, are pushing the so-called Regulation Bill through Israel’s parliament, the Knesset. If passed, it would retroactively legalize all of the approximately 100 unauthorized outposts built on privately owned Palestinian land throughout the West Bank.

The Israeli government meanwhile intends to relocate Amona’s settlers to private Palestinian land – “replacing one land theft by another,” as the anti-settlement group Peace Now has said.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/watch-israels-rule-annexation-west-bank/18966

Israel approves settlement in heart of East Jerusalem (28-12)

The Israeli Jerusalem Local Planning Committee approved a plan on Wednesday to build a three-story building for Jewish settlers in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, Haaretz reports.

Alaa Mahajneh, an attorney representing the locals who stand to be affected by the colony, said that the settlers have still not proven that they own the land. Families in the area will continue to appeal the takeover.

Ateret Cohanim, an organization that combines religious study with confiscating Palestinian land in Jerusalem, spearheaded the plan. The Israeli General Custodian sold the property, without a tender, to Ateret Cohanim.

The settlement is planned to be in the heart of Silwan, a densely populated Palestinian neighborhood where there are already multiple settlements.
http://alternativenews.org/index.php/headlines/306-israel-approves-settlement-in-heart-of-east-jerusalem

Israeli settlers raid village to visit shrine amid restrictions for Palestinian locals(29-12)

Israeli settlers escorted by Israeli forces raided the town of Kifl Haris in the central occupied West Bank district of Salfit to pray at shrines late Wednesday night, locals said.

Eyewitnesses told Ma’an that hundreds of Israeli settlers raided the town shouting slogans and singing songs after midnight and performed prayers at the shrines.

Israeli forces obstructed the movement of Palestinian residents in the town and installed flying checkpoints at roads to secure the settlers’ visit.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774653

Families of Palestinian prisoners protest against Israeli prison conditions

Several families of Palestinian prisoners organized on Monday a protest in front of the office of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in the Gaza Strip, protesting against the treatment of their family members by Israeli authorities in prison.

Among the policies the families protested, was the Israel Prison Service’s (IPS) procedures in winter time, during which time the families said IPS does not provide prisoners with adequate heating to shield prisoners from the cold.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774620

Israeli court sets deadline for administrative detention of Palestinian prisoner

The Israeli Supreme Court on Monday decided that Palestinian prisoner Ammar Ibrahim Hamour, 28, should not remain in administrative detention -- Israel’s widely condemned policy of detention without charge or trial -- after mid June 2017.

In a statement on Monday, The Palestinian Prisoner's Society (PPS) quoted one of its lawyers Ahmad Safiyya as saying that the court decided that it will keep Hamour in administrative detention for four more months after he completes his current six-month administrative detention order, which will end in February 2017.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774623

Israeli court extends detention of Palestinian member of Israeli parliament

An Israeli court Friday ordered the extension of Palestinian Member of the Knesset (Israel's parliament) Basal Ghattas’ detention until Tuesday for further interrogations, after the Joint List-affiliated politician was arrested on Thursday following the stripping of his parliamentary immunity.

According to Israeli media, Ghattas, a member of Joint List which represents parties led by Palestinian citizens of Israel in the Knesset, was arrested on suspicions of smuggling cellphones to “Palestinian terrorists” serving time in Israeli prisons, and is being charged with “conspiring to commit a crime, fraud, breach of trust, and violations of Israel Prisons Service orders.”
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774582

Hell just froze over: the New York Times runs an article saying Zionism is racist

Trump’s election is having fascinating consequences. Today the New York Times ran a long piece titled, “Liberal Zionism in the Age of Trump,” by Omri Boehm of the New School saying that liberal Zionism is a contradiction: liberal American Jews have “identified themselves with Zionism, a political agenda rooted in the denial of liberal politics.”

Boehm’s most startling point is that Zionism has anti-Semitic strains, witness its collaboration with Nazis. Hannah Arendt is happy today.

The piece will greatly increase the pressure on liberal Zionists to choose one idea or the other, and to stop denying the existence of apartheid.

Boehm says white nationalist Richard Spencer helped to blow up the liberal Zionist hypocrisy in his famous encounter with a Texas rabbi when he said he admires Israel for its ethnic purity and the rabbi had nothing to say. Some of Boehm’s hammer blows:
http://mondoweiss.net/2016/12/article-saying-zionism/

When is anti-Semitism not anti-Semitism? When it's from a Trump-loving 'friend' of Israel

The only message of congratulations that Steve Bannon has received from abroad, apparently, since being named the senior strategic adviser in Donald Trump's White House, is one that arrived on official Israel government stationery and was signed by Israeli Minister of Agriculture Uri Ariel.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/when-anti-semitism-not-anti-semitism-when-it-s-trump-loving-friend-israeli-509907827

Stephen Bannon and disarming Israel

What is the deadliest weapon at the disposal of the Israeli settler colony? No, it is not the 200-plus nuclear weapons that are all, according to former US Secretary of State Colin Powell, aimed at Iran - nor is it whatever other weapons of mass destruction it can continue to procure over the next 10 years and beyond with the $38bn US taxpayers' dollars that Barack Obama took away from hungry children in the US and sent with a lovely Hallmark greetings card to Benjamin Netanyahu.

The deadliest weapon at the disposal of Israel is not a weapon of mass destruction, of which it has plenty. It is in fact a weapon of mass deception that has long been at its disposal: the charge of "anti-Semitism" that its legion of propaganda officers readily level against anyone daring to question the armed robbery of Palestine.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/12/stephen-bannon-disarming-israel-161221121415851.html

Two Israelis Beat Sudanese Refugee to Death

The Israeli police has arrested two Israelis who attacked and beat to death a Sudanese migrant who arrived in the country a few years ago.

The Israeli daily newspaper, Haaretz, has revealed that the two Israelis attacked the Sudanese man and beat him to death at Bitah Tikva Square in Tel Aviv a week ago.
http://www.palestinechronicle.com/two-israelis-beat-sudanese-refugee-to-death/

Avigdor Liberman: Israel’s National Security in a Turbulent Middle East

The dramatic turmoil that has seized the Middle East in recent years holds a number of important lessons for the international community, as policy options are considered regarding the ongoing regional crises. These lessons are particularly salient for Israel and for those concerned with ensuring its national security.
http://www.defensenews.com/articles/avigdor-leiberman-israels-national-security-in-a-turbulent-middle-east

Israeli report alleges cover-up in 2015 death of Netanyahu employee in Mexico

Two bodyguards of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are suspected of being involved in a “suspicious” car accident in Mexico in 2015 that led to the death of an Israeli woman who also worked for Netanyahu, according to an investigative report broadcast by Israel’s Channel 2 on Monday.

According to the report, 21-year-old Tal Nahum, who worked for the security department of the prime minister’s office, was on vacation in Mexico with a coworker in May 2015, when they encountered Israeli intelligence officers whom Nahum recognized as being elite members of Netanyahu’s security staff .
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774287

How social media is changing Israel’s approach to sexual harassment

There was a certain lack of sensitivity in the way that the family and friends of former president and convicted rapist Moshe Katsav celebrated his release from prison on Dec. 21. When he returned to his hometown of Kiryat Malachi, he was received with bouquets of flowers. Candy was thrown at him and there was singing and dancing. It was a display of joy completely out of sync with the enormous shift in Israeli attitudes toward sexual assault that has taken place over the last two years. Katsav's supporters seemed to ignor the fact that though his prison term was shortened from seven to five years, his release has several humiliating conditions. For instance, he is forbidden from taking any job that involves hierarchical relations with women.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/12/israel-president-moshe-katsav-yinon-magal-sexual-harassment.html

What’s behind Egypt’s ‘New Political Position’ Towards Gaza?

After three years of open hostility, Egypt appears to be resetting its policy towards the Gaza Strip. Whereas in the recent past the Cairo administration has only opened the Rafah border crossing to deliver Palestinian corpses, the authorities have, in recent weeks, opened it more frequently to allow the passage of people to and from the besieged enclave. But this is not all.

Last month witnessed an unprecedented spate of official invitations from Egyptian state agencies to Palestinian businessmen, journalists and even jihadists. The first was extended to more than 30 businessmen and economists from Gaza to attend the second economic conference at the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Ain Sokhna.
http://www.palestinechronicle.com/whats-behind-egypts-new-political-position-towards-gaza/

VIDEO: Palestinian forces stop IDF entering West Bank city in rare stand-off
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/video-palestinian-forces-stop-idf-entering-jenin-rare-stand-1545646159

Oh du schreckliche illegale jüdische Besatzungszeit!

Allerdings würde ich heute meinen Satz über den Palästinenser Jesus anders formulieren, nämlich dass er heutzutage als besetzter Palästinenser sicher im Widerstand gegen die illegalen jüdischen Besatzer wäre, und seine Jünger wahrscheinlich keine neue Religion begründen würden, sondern eine palästinensische Widerstandsbewegung, angesichts der Folgen illegaler jüdischen Besatzung Palästinas.
http://www.tlaxcala-int.org/article.asp?reference=19527

The cruel experiments of Israel’s arms industry

Round the back of Ramallah’s main hospital lies the house of Iyad Haddad, a 52-year-old human rights investigator. His home office is the shopfront of a decrepit building and at first glance it looks like a bric-a-brac shop. But the objects placed out on the tables are not household trinkets. The surfaces are, in fact, cluttered with spent ammunition, tear gas canisters, sponge bullets and shell casings.

Haddad has spent the past three decades documenting the violence of the Israeli forces occupying his people’s land. These ugly little pieces of memorabilia are his testament to that process.

Many of these weapons have been fired on peaceful demonstrators protesting against Israel’s wall and settlements in the occupied West Bank. The villages of Nilin, Bilin and Nabi Saleh have been organizing regular protests for years. To my surprise, Haddad does not approve of those demonstrations.

“Sometimes they are using us so they can know how to use each kind of weapon,” he said. “For me, these kinds of activities by the Palestinians become helpful to the Israelis because it makes this area into a laboratory to test their weapons, to develop them and make it a commercial industry in order to sell them to other countries.”

The idea that the Israeli arms industry benefits from the occupation through having a captive population it can test new weaponry on is now widely accepted.

Israel tries out weapons in the West Bank and Gaza and then presents them as “battle proven” to the international market.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/cruel-experiments-israels-arms-industry/19011