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http://madisonrafah.org/life-of-a-child-in-occupied-palestine/

Israeli Border Police Executed Bedouin at Um al Hiran, Doctored Video Footage

I wrote a post about the killing of Musa Abu Qilyan in which I presented both the claim of the Border Police that he killed a policeman in a deliberate terror attack; and also presented video which, as I wrote, failed to support the police claims (though it didn’t refute them). Now, Ronnie Barkan has provided a close video analysis of two separate versions of the video, one distributed by the police and another slightly longer one which surfaced on Facebook. Ronnie shows (be patient in watching the various iterations of the video clips he presents) incontrovertibly that the Police video was subtly and slightly edited, both removing the first shot a Border Policeman fired at the car, and also speeding up the video to make the vehicle appear to be going faster than it was. You may read an alternate version, which essentially agrees with Ronnie’s work, at 972.
https://www.richardsilverstein.com/2017/01/20/israeli-border-police-executed-bedouin-um-al-hiran-doctored-video-footage/

Video: “They came to conquer”
https://electronicintifada.net/content/video-they-came-conquer/19291

Despite media leak, Israeli forensic center hasn't given autopsy report to widow of Bedouin man killed by police
https://www.adalah.org/en/content/view/9009

Palestinian home demolitions: Calls for general strike amid protest

Protests come after Israeli police killed Palestinian teacher during demonstrations over home demolitions in Umm al-Hiran village
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinians-protest-over-home-demolitions-amid-calls-general-strike-468578247

Violent clashes in Israel as Palestinians protest against house demolitions

Israeli police on Saturday used tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannon to disperse thousands of Palestinian citizens of Israel who had gathered to protest against a spate of recent house demolitions and the killing of a Palestinian teacher.

The clashes broke out close to the second city of Haifa in Wadi Ara, a district inside Israel that is mostly home to Palestinian citizens of Israel.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/violent-clashes-erupt-israel-palestinians-protest-house-demolitions-506357112

https://www.rt.com/news/374692-israel-protest-arab-demolitions/

Palestinians protest Israeli house demolitions; the High Follow-Up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel says more are to come.
http://www.alternativenews.org/index.php/headlines/324-palestinian-popular-struggle-confronts-spike-in-israeli-house-demolitions

Committee to fund reconstruction of Palestinian homes demolished in Israel
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775042

Thousands attend funeral of Palestinian teacher after Israel returns his body
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/thousands-attend-qiyans-funeral-after-israel-returned-body-755378303

In Umm al-Hiran, it is 'a continuing Nakba'

Israel has advanced plans to raze the village of 150 homes and replace it with a town for Israeli Jews.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/01/umm-al-hiran-continuing-nakba-170122085822718.html

Half a million Palestinian citizens in Israel and East Jerusalem face displacement as a result of Israeli demolitions.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/01/palestinians-israel-strike-home-demolitions-170111093205406.html

Israeli forces kill Palestinian teen in southern West Bank village of Tuqu

Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian teenager during clashes in the Bethlehem-area village of Tuqu‘ in the southern occupied West Bank on Monday evening, the Palestinian Red Crescent (PRC) ambulance service said. A PRC spokesperson told Ma‘an that 17-year-old Qusay Hasan al-Umour was shot with live ammunition in the chest at least three times, and that Israeli forces had detained him for an unspecified period of time before handing over his body to the health organization. - http://mondoweiss.net/2017/01/israeli-palestinian-southern/

Video: Soldiers shot and killed teen as he ran away

Israeli soldiers shot and killed an unarmed Palestinian boy when he was running away from them last month, newly released video shows.

The security camera footage, published on Tuesday by the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem, shows Israeli forces firing on a group of youths during a night raid on Beit Rima, a village near the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah.

Ahmad Zeidani, 17, was killed and a 25-year-old resident of the village was also shot and injured during the raid.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/video-soldiers-shot-and-killed-teen-he-ran-away

Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (12 – 18 January 2017)
http://pchrgaza.org/en/?p=8722

Joint report estimates that 6440 Palestinians arrested in 2016

Palestinian prisoners’ affairs institutions – the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society, Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association and Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights – issued the following report on 1 January 2017, summarizing the statistics related to Palestinian prisoners over the year 2016.
http://www.addameer.org/news/joint-report-estimates-6440-palestinians-arrested-2016

Israeli forces fire on Gaza fishermen, 1 injured with rubber bullet 20-01
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775016

Israeli forces detain 5 Palestinians in West Bank, clash with youth in Salfit 20-01
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775014

Israeli forces suppress weekly marches in Bilin, Kafr Qaddum 20-01
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775023

Palestinian child injured by Israeli bullet in northern Gaza 20-01

A Palestinian child was reportedly injured on Friday evening after being struck by an Israeli bullet in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip after Israeli forces opened live fire at homes in the area.

According to medical sources, the six-year-old girl was injured in her stomach, and described her injury as moderate.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775025

Israeli forces open fire on Palestinian lands in eastern Khan Yunis 21-01
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775032

Israeli forces raid Beit Ummar, deliver summonses to appear for questioning 21-01
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775033

Israeli forces shoot, injure 12-year-old boy in Kafr Qaddum clashes 21-01

Israeli forces shot a 12-year-old Palestinian boy with a rubber-coated steel bullet during clashes in the village of Kafr Qaddum west of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank on Saturday afternoon.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775037

Israeli forces fire at Gaza fishermen, force them to sail back to shore 22-01

Israeli gunboats opened heavy machine gun fire at Palestinian fishing boats off the coast of Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip in the early predawn hours Sunday morning, forcing fishermen to sail back to shore, with no injuries or damages reported, fishermen told Ma'an.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775041

Israeli naval forces open fire at Palestinian fishermen, leaving 1 injured 23-01

Israeli naval forces opened fire at Palestinian fishermen off the coast of Beit Lahiya in the northern besieged Gaza Strip in the early hours of Monday morning, with one fisherman being shot in the head with a rubber-coated steel bullet, a week after he was detained by Israeli forces while fishing.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775061

Israeli forces fire towards Gaza fishermen, farmers, bird hunters 24-01

Israeli forces fired towards Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip on at least three separate instances on Tuesday morning, witnesses said, without causing any injuries.

Witnesses told Ma'an that Israeli troops stationed at the border fence between Gaza and Israel opened fire towards farmlands in the area of al-Umour on the outskirts of the town of al-Fukhari, in the southern Gaza Strip district of Khan Yunis. No casualties were reported.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775082

Israeli army carries out drills in Jordan Valley after expelling Palestinian residents 24-01

he Israeli army forced out dozens of Palestinians from their homes in the village of Khirbet al-Kurzaliya in the northern Jordan Valley on Tuesday morning to carry out military training exercises, a day after dozens of structures were demolished in the area.

Bilal Abd al-Hadi, the deputy mayor of Aqraba, a town located west of Khirbet al-Kurzaliya, told Ma'an that Israeli troops started military drills with live ammunition in the village early on Tuesday morning after evacuating residents.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775084

Israeli forces spray weed killers near Gaza border, burn Palestinian crops

Israeli aircrafts on Tuesday flew over the border area between Israel and the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, spraying Palestinian farmlands with weed killers, according to local and official Palestinian sources.

One Gazan farmer called Abu Ahmad told Ma’an that Israeli aircrafts sprayed fields on the Palestinian side of the “buffer zone” in southern Gaza on the outskirts of the Khan Younis district.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775086

Israeli forces level lands, fire at fishermen in Gaza 25-01

Several Israeli military vehicles on Wednesday morning crossed the border fence with the Gaza Strip into Palestinian lands east of Rafah in the southern Gaza.

Witnesses told Ma'an that four Israeli bulldozers leveled lands near the border fence east of Rafah as military aircrafts hovered overhead during the incident.

Separately, Israeli naval forces fired gunshots at Palestinian fishing boats off the coast of Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip. No injuries have been reported.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775096

Israel continues 'policy of reprisal' against Palestinians in Jabal al-Mukabbir 23-01

Israeli authorities have reportedly continued a “policy of reprisal” in the Palestinian neighborhood of Jabal al-Mukabbir in occupied East Jerusalem, in response to a deadly truck attack carried out by Fadi al-Qunbar, one of the neighborhood’s residents, earlier this month that left four Israeli soldiers dead.

Palestinian state-run news agency Wafa reported on Monday that Israeli authorities, particularly from the Jerusalem municipality, have continued “reprisal measures” against Palestinian residents of Jabal al-Mukabbir in the form of intensified raids of homes and businesses, imposing taxes and giving orders for home demolitions under the pretext of building without a difficult-to-obtain permit issued by the municipality.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775070

'New tactics, same policy of forcible displacement' underway in Umm al-Hiran

In the wake of the demolition of dozens of homes belonging to Palestinian citizens of Israel in Umm al-Hiran and Qalansawe over the past two weeks, a Palestinian rights group has argued that the “oppressive measures” were part of the same Israeli policy of forcible displacement also carried out against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775038

Committee to fund reconstruction of Palestinian homes demolished in Israel

Leaders from the Palestinian citizens of Israel community have reportedly vowed to raise funds in order to rebuild dozens of homes which were demolished by Israeli authorities this month in the central Israeli city of Qalansawe and in Umm al-Hiran in the southern Negev region.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775042

Israel demolishes 9 Palestinian structures in Jordan Valley 23-01

Israeli forces demolished at least nine Palestinian structures in the occupied West Bank district of Jericho on Monday morning.

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported that the demolitions took place in the village of Khirbet al-Kurzaliya in the Jordan Valley, near the town of Jiftlik Abu al-Aajaj.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775069

Israeli army carries out drills in Jordan Valley after expelling Palestinian residents 24-01

The Israeli army forced out dozens of Palestinians from their homes in the village of Khirbet al-Kurzaliya in the northern Jordan Valley on Tuesday morning to carry out military training exercises, a day after dozens of structures were demolished in the area.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775084

Druze join protests against Israeli home demolition campaign 24-01

Druze villages in Israel launched a one-day general strike on Tuesday in protest of Israel’s policy of home demolitions, joining protest efforts by other Palestinian citizens of Israel in recent days.

State-run Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that that marches were planned for Tuesday afternoon in the northern Israel region of Galilee, under the slogans “No to the policy of demolitions,” “No to the policy of humiliation,” and “No to the policy of discrimination.”
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775083

Israeli forces spray weed killers near Gaza border, burn Palestinian crops 24-01

Israeli aircrafts on Tuesday flew over the border area between Israel and the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, spraying Palestinian farmlands with weed killers, according to local and official Palestinian sources.

One Gazan farmer called Abu Ahmad told Ma’an that Israeli aircrafts sprayed fields on the Palestinian side of the “buffer zone” in southern Gaza on the outskirts of the Khan Younis district.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775086

Israeli forces open fire on Palestinian lands in eastern Khan Yunis 21-01

On Friday, a six-year-old girl in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip was injured in the stomach by a bullet fired by Israeli forces deployed at watchtowers on the border area. While her injuries were initially reported as moderate, she was transferred to the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City after her condition became critical.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775032

Israeli forces deliver demolition notice for Palestinian-owned structure in Hizma 24-01

Israeli forces Tuesday delivered a demolition notice for an agricultural structure in the village of Hizma in the West Bank’s Jerusalem district.

The demolition notice was delivered just days following the demolition of structures used for selling crops and stores in the area after Israeli authorities accused Palestinian owners of lacking Israeli-issued permits.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775093

Israel approves construction of 2,500 houses in illegal West Bank settlements 24-01

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman approved plans for the construction of 2,500 housing units in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, Israeli media reported.

According to The Times of Israel, the vast majority of the new housing will be built in the settlement blocs of Ariel, Etzion, and Maale Adumim -- the latter being the focus of a Knesset bill seeking to annex it to Israel.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775089

„Die wirklichen Grundherren Israels sind die Raubsiedler “

Gideon Levy diskutiert, wie die Sorgen der Regierung mit einer kleinen Kolonie im besetzten Westjordanland die politische Macht der Siedlerlobby in Israel veranschaulicht.
http://www.tlaxcala-int.org/article.asp?reference=19723

Dozens of Palestinians confront armed Israeli settlers in Nablus-area village 20-01

Dozens of Palestinians confronted four armed Israeli settlers in a village in the southern part of Nablus city in the northern occupied West Bank early Friday, allegedly preventing them from assaulting local Palestinian residents.

Abd al-Athim al-Wadi, the mayor of the village of Qusra where the incident took place, told Ma’an that four armed Israeli settlers had “raided” the village, prompting dozens of Palestinians to surround them and prevent them from hurting residents or damaging property.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775018

Masked settlers attack activists in South Hebron Hills

Settlers from Havat Ma’on outpost near At-Tuwani assault and throw rocks at activists monitoring Israeli violence in the occupied West Bank.
http://www.alternativenews.org/index.php/headlines/320-israeli-soldiers-throw-stones-with-slingshot-during-school-patrol

Settler leaders find warm welcome in Trump’s Washington

US President Donald Trump made clear at his poorly attended inauguration that despite his tough law-and-order message some forms of law-breaking will be rewarded during his administration.

Among those invited to watch the reality TV star take the oath of office in Washington on Friday were Oded Revivi, chair of the Yesha Council – the body that represents Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank – and Benny Kasriel, mayor of the mega-settlement Maaleh Adumim.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/michael-f-brown/settler-leaders-find-warm-welcome-trumps-washington

Activists set up tents at Maale Adumim settlement in protest of annexation bill 20-01

Dozens of supporters and activists on Friday set up tents in a park at the illegal Maale Adumim settlement in the occupied West Bank, establishing the Bab al-Shams village on lands surrounding the settlement near the controversial E-1 corridor.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775019

7,000 Palestinians held in Israeli jails

The vast majority of Israelis are not interested in Palestinian prisoner statistics. After all, for them, Palestinians are not human beings but “terrorists,” and as such it’s perhaps preferable that as many as possible sit behind bars. But for the thousands of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails at any given moment, they are subject to a system of occupation and oppression that pursues, threatens and jails as a matter of daily routine. Journalists, scientists, human rights activists and even a clown are among the prisoners.
https://972mag.com/report-7000-palestinians-held-in-israeli-jails/124317/

Statistics
http://www.addameer.org/statistics

Israeli forces raid Ashkelon prison, transfer 56 Palestinian prisoners 23-01

sraeli forces from the Israel prison service (IPS) raided the "security section" in Ashkelon prison in central Israel on Sunday evening and transferred out all 56 Palestinian prisoners being held in the section.

According to a statement from the Palestinian Prisoner's Society, 12 of the prisoners were transferred to Ramla prison while the others were transferred to unknown destinations.

According to prisoners’ rights group Addameer, Askelon prison contains a special wing for the Israeli security services, the Shin Bet, to interrogate Palestinian political prisoners.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775056

Israeli court sentences Palestinian youth to 18 years in prison for stone-throwing

A Palestinian youth on Tuesday was sentenced to 18 years in an Israeli prison for manslaughter after allegedly throwing a rock at an Israeli vehicle that caused the death of an Israeli in 2015, representing the harshest sentence ever handed down for stone-throwing.

According to Israeli media outlet Ynet, the attorney’s office stated that Abed Mahmoud Abed Rabbo Dawiya, from the neighborhood of Sur Baher in occupied East Jerusalem, was convicted of manslaughter for throwing stones at 64-year-old Alexander Levlovich’s car, causing his death after he lost control of his vehicle.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775087

Israel’s shadowy role in Guatemala’s dirty war

Last year was a busy one for Guatemala’s criminal justice system.

January 2016 saw the arrests of 18 former military officers for their alleged part in the country’s dirty war of the 1980s. In February last year, two ex-soldiers were convicted in an unprecedented wartime sexual slavery case from the same era.

Such legal proceedings represent further openings in the judicial system following the 2013 trial and conviction of former head of state General Efraín Ríos Montt for genocide and crimes against humanity. Although the Guatemalan Constitutional Court very quickly annulled the trial (finally restarted in March after fitful stops and starts, but currently stalled again), a global precedent has been set for holding national leaders accountable in the country where their crimes took place.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/israels-shadowy-role-guatemalas-dirty-war/19286

Gulf activists reject Saudi-Israeli “flirtation” at Davos

Activists in the Gulf states are strongly condemning a meeting between former Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni and a high-ranking representative of Saudi Arabia’s royal family last week.

Livni tweeted a photo of herself with former Saudi intelligence chief Prince Turki al-Faisal at the World Economic Forum, the annual gathering of global elites at the Swiss resort of Davos.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/gulf-activists-reject-saudi-israeli-flirtation-davos

IDF May Fire Senior Officer After Encrypted Cell Phone Stolen

Ynet reports (Hebrew and English here) that a senior IDF commander was suspended for a week after his encrypted cell phone and other top-secret documents were stolen from his vehicle. The military censor prohibits reporting the name and position of the suspect. But I will do so: he is the chief engineering officer of the Northern Command, Col. Zecharia (Zaky) Yeffet. His photo also has been censored in Israel. But I display it here for all the Israelis who want to read and see what they should be entitled to, but can’t.
https://www.richardsilverstein.com/2017/01/24/senior-idf-officer-relieved-command-encrypted-cell-phone-stolen/

Israeli far-right's new target: Arab bus drivers

The extremist right-wing organization Lehava has launched yet another racist hate campaign, this time against drivers from the Egged bus company, which operates in the West Bank settlements of Ma’ale Adumim and Kiryat Arba, among other places. “Putting the Steering Wheel in Mohammad’s Hands Is Not Good,” a flyer distributed by Lehava activists, claims that more than 90% of employees of the Egged Transport Co-Operative are residents of Jabal Mukaber, the East Jerusalem neighborhood of the Palestinian who drove a truck into a group of Israel Defense Forces soldiers in Jerusalem on Jan. 8, killing four of them.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/01/israel-arab-bus-drivers-lehava-far-right-incitement-racism.html

Israel's education minister takes on role of political censor

The Israeli press revealed this week that the police suspect Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of cutting a deal with Yedioth Ahronoth publisher Arnon Mozes for favorable media treatment. But even as the storm was raging over the illicit contacts that would have made Netanyahu the censor of the nation’s most powerful media outlet, a small news item reported that Education Minister Naftali Bennett was on his way to becoming the chief censor of the school system. Under a unanimous Jan. 8 decision by the Ministerial Committee on Legislation, “The minister of education will set out rules to prevent any activity in schools by any external person or organization whose activity severely and significantly contradicts the aims of the national education system.”
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/01/israel-naftali-bennett-education-occupation-human-rights-idf.html

Why FIFA paid close attention to UN anti-settlement resolution

When the global community was discussing an anti-settlement resolution in New York, officials at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich were watching the deliberation closely. When United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334 was approved without a single opposition in the 15-member Security Council Dec. 23, the international governing body of soccer was provided a strong document to resolve the status of the areas in which six Israeli soccer clubs are playing. The clubs are located in West Bank settlements and FIFA bylaws clearly state that soccer associations need permission to play in the territories of another soccer association.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/01/fifa-unsc-resolution-2334-israel-settlement-clubs.html

A Racist Campaign Removed from Reality

Commanders for Israel’s Security (CIS) a group of retired ranking officers and members of the security establishment recently launched a well funded public campaign to convince Israeli citizens that the time to separate from the Palestinians is now or else, there will be a tangible threat of a Palestinian majority in an Israel that incorporates the West Bank. Other than the racist overtones of the campaign which are insulting to the 20% of citizens that constitute Israel’s Arab minority, the campaign is not based on facts on the ground – excluding the Gaza strip, population growth among Jews and Palestinians is identical as just published by the Central Bureau of Statistics in Jerusalem so the likelihood of a Palestinian majority in the forseeable future is extremely remote.
http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-racist-campaign-removed-from-reality/

Netanyahu’s media scandal: Who bribed whom?

The smell of scandal has swirled around the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, for years. But only now is the smell starting to turn to a stench, say analysts.

Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, have long been known for cultivating close relations with Israel’s leading business families. Those ties, many Israelis assumed, explained why the famously parsimonious couple managed to indulge such expensive tastes.

Past investigations have looked into first-class transatlantic flights and stays at top hotels, but foundered on a lack of evidence that the Netanyahus had traded the high life for favours.

Until recently, most of the Israeli public had been amused, rather than outraged, by stories of astronomical bills at the prime minister’s residence for wine, ice-cream and hairstyling.
http://www.jonathan-cook.net/2017-01-15/netanyahus-media-scandal-who-bribed-whom/

Opposition to a Jewish state is a legitimate position

Jewish Labour activist who was suspended after being accused of anti-Semitism for criticising Israel tells her story.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2017/01/opposition-jewish-state-legitimate-position-170114091600833.html

Umm Al-Hiran, Freud, and the Zionists’ Original Sin

Very few had seen the massacring of Palestinians, the destruction of Palestine, and the expulsion of Palestinians en masse in 1948. One may have seen a documentary on or read about the tragedy, but it is never the same as seeing and bearing witness to it firsthand.
http://www.palestinechronicle.com/umm-al-hiran-freud-and-the-zionists-original-sin/

How did Gaza’s economic elite become day laborers in Israel?

Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman is currently considering allowing Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to once again work in Israel, particularly in agriculture. This was once a common practice, but it stopped about a decade ago after Hamas seized control of Gaza in 2007. What makes today's situation unusual is that the economic crisis that Gazans face is not what will influence Liberman’s final decision. Rather, it is pressure from the leaders of the southern Israeli regional councils of Shaar HaNegev and Eshkol, where there is a severe shortage of laborers to work in agriculture, the primary source of income for the communities bordering the Gaza Strip. The heads of the regional councils met with Liberman in September to ask him to consider granting entry to workers from Gaza to save agricultural production in the area.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/01/israel-gaza-elite-entry-permits-odd-jobs-bli.html

Palestinian teen in Gaza dies after refusing to serve as a collaborator for Israel in exchange for medical care

A 17-year-old Palestinian died last week after Israeli authorities refused to allow him to leave the besieged Gaza Strip to undergo treatment for a congenital heart defect, the Gaza-based al-Mezan Center for Human Rights said in a report on Sunday.

Israeli authorities had denied Ahmad Hassan Shubeir from Gaza City, permission to cross into Israel to receive life-saving medical treatment from a hospital after the teen “refused to serve as a collaborator for the Israeli authorities, a coercive measure regularly employed on Palestinian patients in need of permits,” according to the center.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775049

Israelis haben vor, eine neue Mauer entlang der Grenze mit Gaza zu bauen

Der israelische Verteidigungsminister Avigdor Lieberman hat ein Budget von 812 Millionen € gebilligt, um eine Mauer entlang der Grenze mit Gaza zu bauen, berichtete Ynet News am 9. Januar. Von dem Projekt wird gesagt, es sei eines der größten und teuersten, das jemals unternommen wurde. Es ist gedacht, sie mit einer Reihe anderer Sicherheitsmaßnahmen auf der 64 km langen De-facto-Grenze zu kombinieren.
http://www.tlaxcala-int.org/article.asp?reference=19725

Palestinian protest sends message to Trump over US embassy move

Hundreds of Palestinians protested on Thursday in different city centres of the West Bank against Donald Trump’s support for moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and in condemnation of the demolition of several Palestinian homes in the village of Umm al-Hieran in Negev.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinians-protest-sends-message-trump-over-us-embassy-transfer-952308478

Al-Quds: ‘the key to peace, the key to war’

Under the slogan “al-Quds is the key to peace and the key to war,” thousands of Palestinians demonstrated on Thursday in the West Bank cities of Hebron, Nablus and Ramallah.

The Palestinian national parties organized the demonstrations in response to the pledge of recently inaugurated US President Donald Trump to transfer the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Establishing al-Quds, also known as Jerusalem, as the capitol of a Palestinian state is a goal shared by all Palestinian political parties.
http://alternativenews.org/index.php/features-02/325-al-quds-the-key-to-peace-the-key-to-war

Enough Fearmongering: Only One Democratic State Is Possible in Palestine and Israel

Long before December 28, when Secretary of State, John Kerry took the podium at the Dean Acheson Auditorium in Washington DC to pontificate on the uncertain future of the two-state solution and the need to save Israel from itself, the subject of a Palestinian state has been paramount.
http://original.antiwar.com/ramzy-baroud/2017/01/11/enough-fearmongering-only-one-democratic-state-is-possible-in-palestine-and-israel/

Palestinians need more than grudging unity to save them

Without fanfare, Palestinian arch-rivals Fatah and Hamas announced last week that they intended to set aside years of power struggles to begin in earnest the process of forming a unity government.

Palestinian officials said a disastrous international arena had underlined to both factions the pressing need to end divisions between the West Bank and Gaza. The statement was issued as a peace summit in Paris fizzled out ineffectually and Donald Trump prepared to enter the White House. Unity – if it finally comes – will reflect not a shared vision nor strategy, but a reluctant admission of the dire conditions facing Palestinian struggle over the next four years.

The warning signs for Hamas intensified this month, as winter deepened, with mass protests in Gaza over electricity shortages. Donations from Turkey and Qatar, combined with a crackdown from local security services, bought a little quiet. But the enclave is simmering and in desperate need of relief from the decade-long throttling of Israel’s siege.
http://www.jonathan-cook.net/2017-01-22/palestinians-need-more-than-grudging-unity-to-save-them/