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Jahre lang hat das israelische Establishment versucht, das zu verbergen, was in den Verhörräumen geschieht. Wenn Verhörende Folter verwenden – oder „spezielle Mittel“, um den Terminus des Establishments zu verwenden-, werden Verschleierungsanstrengungen verdoppelt. Selbst wenn Folterzeugnisse öffentlich werden, tut das System alles, was es kann, um die Rolle der Vernehmer im Dunklen zu lassen, einschließlich des Unterzeichnens nachsichtiger Verständigungen mit Verdächtigen, die gefoltert wurden, um abzusichern, dass das Komplott des Schweigens unversehrt bleibt.

Leute, die schon ein Verhör durchgemacht haben, haben verschiedene Methoden beschrieben: dass der Verhörende ins Ohr schreit, Schläge, gezwungen werden in schmerzhaften Positionen lange Zeit durchzuhalten. Bis jetzt aber kamen diese Beschreibungen von den Klägern.
http://www.tlaxcala-int.org/article.asp?reference=19828

Israeli torture of Palestinian children 'institutional'

A recent article published by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz has confirmed the extent to which Shin Bet interrogators subject their prisoners to torture.

Methods include slapping the head "to hurt sensitive organs like the nose, ears, brow and lips", forcing a handcuffed individual to squat against a wall for long periods of time, and placing the suspect bent backwards over a chair with his arms and legs cuffed.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/01/coercion-violence-threats-torture-israeli-style-170129092739964.html

Torture, Israeli-style - as described by the interrogators themselves

Slaps were the first method that N. listed. He said the force used is moderate, but the goal is to hurt sensitive organs like the nose, ears, brow and lips.
http://www.haaretz.com/misc/article-print-page//.premium-1.767095

If Israeli Jews want change, they must refuse to be masters

A few hours before Saturday evening’s Arab-Jewish protest in Tel Aviv, the town of Qalansuwa held a conference to mark the international day of solidarity with Palestinians in Israel. Yes, there is such a thing. This is the second year in a row that we mark this day, with events taking place in Gaza, Ramallah, and Beirut.
I had the honor of speaking at the conference on Saturday, and as far as I could tell I was the only Jewish person in the room. The event ended early enough for me to head to the march in Tel Aviv. Yet somehow at the end of the event, the protest seemed less relevant. Qalansuwa is less than an hour from Tel Aviv, yet it exists in what feels like a parallel universe. It seems to me that we needed to invest a bit more energy in learning about this universe before we celebrate on the streets of Tel Aviv.
https://972mag.com/if-israeli-jews-want-change-they-must-refuse-to-be-masters/125048/

Palestinian Israelis and Jews protest against house demolitions
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinian-israelis-and-jews-protest-house-demolitions-1660178739

The Israeli right's 'flattery fest' for Amona

During the late afternoon of Feb. 2, as harsh images of the violent evictions from the Amona outpost and reports of wounded police officers flooded the media, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a speech in the West Bank settlement of Ariel, at a memorial for Ron Nahman, the town’s former mayor. Having avoided the Amona eviction for a few weeks, Netanyahu took advantage of the forum to talk about it. During the eviction, activists threw cleaning liquids, acid, oil and glass bottles at the police, but anyone expecting to hear Netanyahu disavow their shameful actions, never mind condemn them, was soon disappointed.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/02/israel-west-bank-benjamin-netanyahu-amona-settlement.html

Joint Report Estimates that 590 Palestinians Arrested in January 2017

Occupation authorities arrested 590 Palestinians from the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem in January 2017, including 128 children, 14 women, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council and a journalist.
http://www.addameer.org/news/joint-report-estimates-590-palestinians-arrested-january-2017

Palestinian teenager shot dead last month was fleeing scene

Israeli rights group B’Tselem released a report and video on Tuesday revealing that 17-year-old Ahmad Hazem Ata Zidani (al-Rimawi) was shot dead in December 2016 while fleeing from the scene of clashes with Israeli forces in the Ramallah-area village of Beit Rima in the central occupied West Bank.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775094

Palestinian killed near Ramallah-area settlement after alleged vehicular attack 25-01

...Witnesses told Ma'an that Israeli soldiers left the Palestinian bleeding on the ground until he died, before putting him in a black body bag and putting him into a military vehicle headed towards Jerusalem.

According to Ma'an documentation, this is the seventh Palestinian to have been killed by Israeli forces since the beginning of the year.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775111

Israeli forces spray weed killers near Gaza border, burn Palestinian crops 24-01
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775086

Israeli forces level lands, fire at fishermen in Gaza 25-01
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775096

Israeli forces raid Palestinian village after resident injured in altercation with soldiers 26-01 http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775117

Israeli army vehicles make limited incursions in Gaza border areas 26-01
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775118

Israeli forces uproot 500 olive trees northwest of Hebron 26-01

Israeli bulldozers escorted by Israeli forces uprooted 500 olive trees in an area west of the village of Kharas in the southern occupied West Bank district of Hebron on Thursday, locals said.

The mayor of Kharas, Abed al-Fattah, told Ma’an that three Israeli bulldozers escorted by Israeli forces uprooted the olive trees, all more than 14 years old, planted on 25 dunams (six acres) of land. http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775129

Clashes erupt as Israeli forces raid Ramallah-area village twice in one day 26-01
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775139

Israeli forces seal Nablus-area village in response to alleged stone-throwing 26-01
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775138

Clashes erupt as Israeli forces raid Ramallah-area village twice in one day
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775139

4 Palestinians injured by Israeli forces during clashes in Jenin refugee camp 27-01
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775143

Israeli forces chase Palestinian car following car accident with Israeli police vehicle 27-01
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775146

Israeli forces suppress weekly Bilin march, dozens suffer tear gas inhalation 27-01
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775147

Israeli planes disperse possibly toxic products in Jenin district 06-02

Israeli planes reportedly dispersed toxic products on lands in the northern occupied West Bank district of Jenin, locals told Ma’an.

Residents of the Palestinian villages of Fandaqumiya, Ajja, Zababida, Raba, and Jabaa said that products resembling candy had been dispersed in the area.

Palestinian medical sources who tested the products said that the materials were poisonous and had negatively affected wild animals and livestock in the area.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775326

Israeli forces continue airstrikes in Gaza, 2 Palestinians injured 06-02

Israeli forces resumed attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip on Monday evening, injuring two Palestinians, after injuring a Palestinian earlier Monday in a series of Israeli army airstrikes in northern Gaza, in response to a rocket that landed in an open area in the Ashkelon region of southern Israel on Monday morning.

Witnesses told Ma'an that at least eight Israeli missiles were fired at several locations across the besieged coastal enclave.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775335

Israeli forces fire at fishermen, farmers in northern Gaza 07-02

Israeli naval forces opened fire towards Palestinian fishing boats sailing off the coast of Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip early on Tuesday morning.

Fishermen told Ma'an that Israeli military ships fired heavily from machine guns towards them, forcing them to head back to shore.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775336

Palestinian family 'violently assaulted' by masked Israeli police in Jerusalem raid 07-02

In the wake of a large-scale raid Sunday night in occupied East Jerusalem that targeted the families of Palestinians who were either slain or incarcerated after carrying out or allegedly carrying out attacks, one of the families reported to a local monitoring group that masked Israeli police violently assaulted them while breaking into their homes during the predawn raid.

At least 14 Palestinians were detained and tens of thousands of dollars' worth of cash and property were confiscated in a number of East Jerusalem neighborhoods during Monday's predawn hours, with police alleging the families were receiving support and financing from the Hamas movement, based on intelligence gathered by the Israeli general security service and police.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775345

Israeli forces raid Palestinian refugee camp, seize security footage and computers 07-02

Israeli forces raided a community center in Aida refugee camp in the southern occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem early Tuesday evening, when they seized computers and security camera footage, according to locals and a Palestinian news outlet.

Palestinian News Network (PNN) captured footage of Israeli forces thoroughly searching the Lajee Center, a community organization for refugee youth that stands at the entrance to the camp.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775353

Israeli forces take over Palestinian home in Bethlehem-area town

Israeli forces raided the village of Tuqu southeast of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank early Wednesday morning, took over a Palestinian home, and turned it into a military post.

Coordinator of public relations for the Tuqu municipality Samer Abu Mefreh told Ma’an that Israeli soldiers took over a five-floor house belonging to Taysir Ahmad al-Shaer in the northwestern part of the town, and stationed snipers on the roof.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775359

Israel sentences Palestinian merchant from Gaza to 30 months in prison 07-02

An Israeli court in the Negev city of Beersheba sentenced a Palestinian merchant from the besieged Gaza Strip to 30 months in prison on Tuesday, local sources in Gaza said.

Israeli authorities detained Naji Shihada Zurub on May 2, 2015, while he was attempting to cross Israel's Erez border terminal that separates the blockaded territory from Israel.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775357

Israeli forces raid Silwan neighborhood, detain and allegedly assault 5 Palestinians 08-01

Israeli forces detained five Jerusalemite Palestinians from the neighborhood of Silwan in occupied East Jerusalem on Wednesday, allegedly assaulting them during a raid in the Wadi Hilweh neighborhood.

The Wadi Hilweh Information Center reported that Israeli forces were heavily deployed in the neighborhood and raided the center’s office and several houses.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775378

2 Palestinians killed, 5 injured in reported airstrike on southern Gaza tunnel 08-02

Two Palestinians were killed and five were injured during a reported airstrike on a smuggling tunnel between Egypt and Gaza on Wednesday night, official Palestinian sources said.

Gaza Ministry of Health spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra said on Thursday that Hussam Hamid al-Sufi, 24, from the town of Rafah, and Muhammad Anwar al-Aqraa, a 38-year-old resident of Gaza City, were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Rafah, while five other Palestinians were injured.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775384

Palestinians denounce Amona 'distraction' as Israel approves settlement expansion

Israel unveiled plans for 3,000 new housing units for Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank late on Tuesday, the fourth such announcement in the less than two weeks since US President Donald Trump took office.

The announcement came hours before Israeli security forces began evicting the occupants of a settlement post in line with a high court ruling two years ago that determined the homes were built on private Palestinian land.

International law does not recognise that distinction as all settlements are built on Palestinian territory.

The settlers will be relocated to a nearby site as part of a deal under which they had agreed to be evacuated peacefully, police said.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-approves-3000-illegal-settlement-homes-west-bank-260226935

Israels Regierung hat den Bau von weiteren 3.000 Siedlerwohnungen im besetzten Westjordanland genehmigt. Dies geht aus einer in der Nacht zum Mittwoch veröffentlichten Erklärung des Verteidigungsministeriums hervor.

Am Mittwoch räumte die israelische Polizei indes die nicht genehmigte Siedlung Amona nördlich von Ramallah. Das höchste Gericht Israels hatte dies bereits 2014 angeordnet. Amona-Sprecher Avichai Boaron sprach von einem »schwarzen Tag für den Zionismus«.
https://www.jungewelt.de/2017/02-02/009.php?sstr=israel

Israeli forces deliver demolition notice for Palestinian-owned structure in Hizma 24-02

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

Israeli forces deliver demolition notices in the Negev 26-01

Israeli authorities escorted by Israeli police delivered demolition orders in a number of Palestinian villages in the Negev in southern Israel.

Locals told Ma’an that Israeli forces delivered demolition notices in the the villages of Khashim Zina, al-Zarnuq, and Umm Batin, as well as the al-Riwehi and Ghoural areas.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775123

Without bus stops, Bedouin children risk their lives to go to school 02-02

Adalah: the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel reports that it has filed a petition [Hebrew] with the Be’er Sheva District Court on January 25, 2017. The petition asks the Israeli Ministry of Education and regional councils in the Naqab to build bus stops for Bedouin children as well as address other infrastructural safety issues.
http://www.alternativenews.org/index.php/headlines/339-without-bus-stops-bedouin-children-risk-their-lives-everyday-to-go-to-school

VIDEO: 'Right now we are here without anything'

Eyewitness accounts and video footage contest the Israeli police’s claim that Yaqoub attempted an attack prior to being shot. Nevertheless, Israeli forces initially confiscated his corpse, insisting its release was contingent on the Qian family’s agreement to a heavily policed and limited funeral ceremony.
http://www.alternativenews.org/index.php/features-02/340-video-right-now-we-are-here-without-anything

Israeli forces demolish Palestinian structures in the Jordan Valley 07-02

Israeli forces demolished Palestinian-owned structures in the Jordan Valley region of the occupied West Bank on Tuesday morning in two separate incidents, according to locals and a United Nations agency.

In the village of Kardala, located on the northeastern edge of the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces demolished tents and shacks used as a sheep barn, according to Muataz Bisharat, who monitors settlement-related activities in the Jordan Valley.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775338

Israeli forces demolish Palestinian building in East Jerusalem 07-02

Israeli authorities demolished a Palestinian-owned building that was under construction in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina on Tuesday, a spokesperson for Israel’s Jerusalem municipality confirmed.

Witnesses told Ma’an on Tuesday morning that Israeli police officers stormed the building as police vehicles and bulldozers surrounded it, and later Monday afternoon, Jerusalem municipality spokesperson Rachel Greenspan confirmed to Ma’an in a written statement that court orders to dismantle the structure had been “enforced."
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775340

Israeli forces demolish Bedouin village of al-Araqib for 109th time 08-02

Israeli bulldozers demolished the unrecognized Bedouin village of al-Araqib in the Negev region of southern Israel on Wednesday for the 109th time.

Israeli forces raided the village early Wednesday, surrounding the residents' makeshift tents, and proceeded to raze them to ground.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775360

Israeli forces seal house on Hebron's Shuhada Street 08-02

Israeli forces sealed a Palestinian home in the Old City of Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank on Wednesday morning.

The home, located on Shuhada street, belongs to Izzat Yassin Abu Munshar.

Israeli forces put up a sign on the entrance of the house reading" “house under security,” and barred entry to the residents.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775361

100-year-old Bedouin woman left homeless as Israel continues Negev demolitions 08-02

In the latest instance of Israel’s demolition campaign in the Negev region of southern Israel, homes were demolished in two unrecognized Bedouin villages on Wednesday, while Israeli police surrounded the village of Umm al-Hiran.

Israeli bulldozers, escorted by Israeli police, demolished a house in the village of Wadi al-Naam in the western part of the Negev in southern Israel.

Locals told Ma’an that the demolished house was owned by an elderly woman and her daughter. A member of the local committee, Yousif Ziyadin, said that an emergency session would be held to discuss the Israeli demolition.

A relative of the elderly homeowner, Ahmad Zanoun, told Ma’an that 100-year-old Ghaytha Zanoun and her 60-year-old daughter Hilala were living in the house, both of whom suffer from various health issues.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775366

Israeli forces deliver evacuation notices to resident in Salfit 08-02

Israeli authorities delivered evacuation notices in the villages of Deir Istiya and Deir Ballut in the western part of the occupied West Bank district of Salfit on Wednesday.

Jamal al-Ahmad, coordinators of the land defense committee in Salfit, told Ma’an that Israeli forces delivered evacuation notices to Muqbil Awad and Abd al-Aziz Aqil from the village of Deir Istiya. The orders said they must vacate their lands, which are now part of an Israeli nature reserve.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775376

The day we were eaten like black goats

A Zionist blowhard once wrote an article recounting his woes in the Naqab (Negev) desert, describing the arduous path he took in growing Chardonnay grapes to make high-end wine. One day, some goats wandered into his vineyard and started grazing there. The author shooed the goats away but kept one hostage when the two Bedouin shepherd girls who came with them refused to obey his commands. “The desert is ours and we will go in whenever we please,” one of them said.
http://www.alternativenews.org/index.php/comment/338-the-day-we-were-eaten-like-black-goats

Despicable terrorist? Bedouin village in Israel's south mourns a beloved teacher

No one in Umm al-Hiran believes Yakub Musa Abu al-Kiyan, a father of 13, intentionally ran over a police officer; residents remember his calls against violence: 'Let them demolish the house, only let no one be hurt.'
http://www.tlaxcala-int.org/article.asp?reference=19846

Israeli settlers take over storage unit in contested East Jerusalem home 26-01

Israeli settlers took over a storage unit formerly belonging to the Sub Laban family on the ground floor of their apartment building in the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem on Tuesday.

Ahmad Sub Laban told Ma’an that an Israeli family living below them drilled through the wall into the Sub Laban storage space, seemingly with the intention of expanding their apartment unit.

The settlers were given ownership of the storage unit following a controversial Israeli Supreme Court ruling in December which concluded a decades-long legal battle between the family and Israeli settlers.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775124

Palestinians in Nablus-area village say settlers cut down hundreds of olive, almond trees
06-02

Palestinian residents of the Nablus-area village of Burqa went to check on their farmlands on the outskirts of the village Monday to find some 700 olive and almond trees cut down, allegedly by Israeli settlers from a nearby illegal settlement.

Ghassan Daghlas, an official who monitors settlement related activities in the northern West Bank, told Ma'an that the trees, which belonged to Khalid Salah, Mahmoud Daghlas, and Khalid Nasser, were planted nine years ago in the al-Qubeibat and al-Qusour areas east of Burqa.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775334

Israeli settlers assault Palestinian photojournalist near Ramallah 07-02

At least five Israeli settlers assaulted a Palestinian photojournalist with rocks and batons while he was driving on a road near the illegal Israeli settlement of Ofra in the occupied West Bank district of Ramallah on Tuesday afternoon.

According to locals, after fleeing the scene Zaher Abu Hussein was taken to the Ramallah Governmental Hospital for treatment, where his injuries were reported as moderate.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775351

Elderly Palestinian dies after being run over by Israeli settler 08-02

An elderly Palestinian died after being run over by an Israeli settler on Wednesday near the illegal Israeli settlement of Neve Daniel in the occupied West Bank district of Bethlehem.

Suleiman Hamad Salah, an 85-year-old resident of the village of al-Khader, was killed after being run over on Route 60, an Israeli bypass road that cuts through the occupied Palestinian territory and connects illegal settlements to Israel.

The Israeli settler reportedly left his car in the area, and “escaped” before a Palestinian ambulance reached the scene, according to medical sources.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775373

Israel approves construction of 1,162 settlement units in West Bank 09-02

Israel reportedly approved the construction of 1,162 settlement units on Wednesday, to be built in the occupied West Bank, according to Hebrew news website Walla.

Walla reported that Israel’s higher planning council on settlement activity, which is affiliated to the Israeli civil administration, approved the new 1,162 settlement units, including units in a new settlement near the existing Shvut Rachel settlement in the northern West Bank district of Nablus.

The new settlement adjacent to Shvut Rachel was initially planned to be built to house residents of the now evacuated illegal Amona outpost -- an offer refused by the Amona setters.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775382

Inside a settler-run tour of an East Jerusalem tourist trap

The so-called City of David is a leafy promontory, running out from the southern wall of Jerusalem’s Old City to bisect the Palestinian community of Silwan. The tourist trap and archaeological site is moments from the Western Wall, the Haram al-Sharif and al-Aqsa mosque.

On a map near the site entrance, the City of David itself is picked out in bright colors. Surrounding Palestinian neighborhoods are faded by comparison. Another sign near the doorway, which was surrounded by Israeli school children gobbling packed lunches, claims tours are run by “local volunteers.”
https://electronicintifada.net/content/inside-settler-run-tour-east-jerusalem-tourist-trap/19391

Israel legalisiert Landraub

Grünes Licht für Expansion der Siedlungen in besetzter Westbank
https://www.jungewelt.de/2017/02-08/002.php?sstr=israel

Palestinian prisoner opens hunger strike as Israel extends her detention 27-01

Palestinian prisoner Randa al-Shahatit, a resident of the southern occupied West Bank Hebron-area village of Dura, began an open hunger strike on Thursday in protest of her ongoing detention in solitary confinement by Israeli forces, according to a lawyer from the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS).
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775137

Palestinian journalist Mohammad al-Qeeq declares open hunger strike 07-02

Mohammed al-Qeeq, the Palestinian activist and journalist, has declared an open hunger strike after being issued an administrative detention order by the occupation authorities on 6 February 2016. Israeli occupation forces rearrested al-Qeeq on the evening of 15 January 2017 at Beit El checkpoint, north of Ramallah.
http://alternativenews.org/index.php/headlines/344-palestinian-journalist-mohammad-al-qeeq-declares-open-hunger-strike

Israel continues to hold 15 Hamas-affiliated prisoners in solitary confinement 07-02

The Israel Prison Service (IPS) continued to hold 15 Hamas-affiliated Palestinian prisoners in solitary confinement as of Tuesday, as a punitive measure following two stabbings that were allegedly carried out on IPS officials in the Nafha and Ktziot prisons last week. http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775347

Israeli court sentences Palestinian mother to year in prison 09-02

An Israeli magistrate court in Jerusalem sentenced a Palestinian mother of six on Thursday to a year in prison and a fine of 12,000 shekels ($3,203) for depositing funds into a prison commissary belonging to a Hamas-affiliated Palestinian prisoner held in Israeli custody.

Lawyer Muhammad Mahmoud from prisoners’ rights group Addameer told Ma’an that Dalal Abu al-Hawa from Jerusalem’s Old City was sentenced for depsoiting the funds. Israel Prison Service (IPS) allows families of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli custody to deposit a fixed amount of money each month into a prisoner's commissary, which they can then use to purchase items from the prison’s canteen.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775396

Unit 8200: ‘First We Take Manhattan, Then We Take Berlin,’ and Tokyo, and London…

The Mossad is known for exploiting every possible means of leveraging its power to penetrate target countries. I’ve written in the past about how it co-opts local Jewish communal leaders to assist in intelligence operations. It’s also known to employ successful Israeli entrepreneurs like Arnon Milchan and Haim Saban as agents of influence and more. Milchan in the 1960s was an active participant in a plot to steal U.S. uranium on behalf of Israel’s nuclear weapons program. Keep in mind that Iranians who engage in such activities today are arrested and thrown in prison. In 1960s America, Israeli agents acted with impunity and suffered no consequences. Due to the Lobby’s power or the need to retain alliances, several U.S.
https://www.richardsilverstein.com/2017/02/04/unit-8200-first-take-manhattan-take-berlin-tokyo-london/

Could submarine scandal blow up in Netanyahu’s face?

The media may be focused on the pricey cigars and bottles of champagne that the Netanyahu family allegedly amassed from its benefactors over the years, but the police investigation into the submarine procurement scandal is gaining momentum. The scandal, which Al-Monitor reported on at the end of October, is about to become a huge international imbroglio.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/02/israel-germany-iran-benjamin-netanyahu-submarine-idf.html

Netanyahu scandals reflect corruption at the heart of Israeli society

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in danger of being brought down, possibly soon, over what initially appears to be little more than an imprudent taste for Cuban cigars and pink champagne.

In truth, however, the allegations ensnaring Netanyahu reveal far more than his personal flaws or an infatuation with the high life. They shine a rare light on the corrupt nexus between Israel’s business, political and media worlds, compounded by the perverse influence of overseas Jewish money.
http://mondoweiss.net/2017/02/netanyahu-scandals-corruption/

Netanyahu's road to Iran runs through North Korea

Forget for a moment about moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem, US recognition of the settlement blocs, a closed-eye policy on the pace of construction in the territories and the way the United States has been inspired, according to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, by the separation barriers that Israel built in the West Bank and along its southern border. The one truly important story is North Korea. The most senior sources in Israel claim that this is where US President Donald Trump will be tested. Once the dust settles, the eyes of the world will be watching Trump's steps to deal with North Korea’s accelerated nuclear armaments program. Top Israeli Cabinet members believe that the outcome of Trump's dealing with the North Koreans will determine whether international efforts to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear capabilities will be a success or whether they will be a resounding failure.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/01/israel-north-korea-us-iran-benjamin-netanyahu-donald-trump.html

PayPal allows Israelis in illegal settlements to open accounts so why not Palestinians?

PayPal has been condemned by pro-Palestine activists for refusing to allow Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip to open accounts. Though PayPal is refusing to take up Palestinian customers within the occupied Palestinian territories, Israelis living in illegal West Bank settlements have no problem about access to the service. This has sparked a lot of controversy on social media and amongst Palestinian entrepreneurs, who are finally speaking out against PayPal’s clearly discriminatory policy.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20161008-paypal-allows-israelis-in-illegal-settlements-to-open-accounts-so-why-not-palestinians/

Israel weaponizes rape culture against Palestinians

Lawmakers in Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling coalition are trying to deflect attention from sex crime scandals involving the highest echelons of Israeli society by making false allegations against Palestinians and other non-Jews.

In recent months, a long list of senior Israeli officials, including members of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s inner circle, have been investigated and, in some cases, convicted for sex crimes against women and girls.

But rather than acknowledging the problem in their own ranks, right-wing members of the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, are renewing their efforts to paint Palestinians as the prime perpetrators.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/israel-weaponizes-rape-culture-against-palestinians/19386

Shin Bet Detains New Israel Fund Official as Security Threat at Ben Gurion Airport

Israel is rapidly turning into a police state. One in which even liberal civil society NGOs are no longer tolerated. A state like Russia or China or North Korea in which strongmen rule and dissenting voices are suppressed through legalism, violence or even murder. The first two have happened in Israel, but not yet the third (but it will eventually).
https://www.richardsilverstein.com/2017/02/08/shin-bet-detains-new-israel-fund-official-security-threat-ben-gurion-airport/

Jews stand up for Muslims, as Muslims once stood up for them

Muslims once protected Jews from Nazi persecution. Today, American Jews are standing up for Muslims in the face of President Trump’s draconian ban. These are everyday stories of resistance — even if they are hardly reported.
https://972mag.com/jews-stand-up-for-muslims-as-muslims-once-stood-up-for-them/125014/

Right group warns Israel could lead up to 'wide-scale' military offensive in Gaza

In the wake of multiple airstrikes launched by the Israeli army inside the Gaza Strip on Monday, the Gaza-based al-Mezan Center for Human Rights expressed concern that Israel could be leading up to a wide-scale military offensive.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775364

Gaza's cancer patients: 'We are dying slowly'

I'm like a bird in a cage," Hind Shaheen told Al Jazeera as she lay in bed at Gaza City's Al-Rantisi hospital, surrounded by family members. "Outside of my cage I can see water and food, but I can't reach it. This is my condition right now."

Shahin, who suffers from breast cancer, says that her condition has been deteriorating ever since she was denied exit from Gaza for treatment.

The Gaza Strip does not have adequate resources to provide her with appropriate treatment, yet she cannot leave, as Israeli authorities at the Erez border crossing, known as Beit Hanoon to Palestinians, rejected her permit three times in a row without explanation.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/01/gaza-cancer-patients-dying-slowly-170115120725304.html

Gaza’s Infrastructure on Verge of Collapse, Time is Running out

A new report by an Israeli NGO has warned that the Gaza Strip’s infrastructure is on the verge of collapse and time is running out.

The report by Gisha, ‘Hand on the Switch: Who’s Responsible for Gaza’s Infrastructure Crisis?’, claims to offer “an extensive and sobering review of the state of Gaza’s energy, water and communications infrastructure”
http://www.palestinechronicle.com/gisha-gazas-infrastructure-on-verge-of-collapse-time-is-running-out/

Braving Israeli bullets in Gaza’s sea

Gaza’s fishermen have already endured regular Israeli attacks during the first few weeks of 2017.

On 4 January, Muhammad al-Hissi went missing after the Israeli navy sunk the vessel on which he worked. Although his body has not been recovered, members of his family have resigned themselves to the probability that al-Hissi was killed.

A memorial service was organized for al-Hissi a few days after he went missing, while his family issued a statement describing him as a “martyr for God’s reward.” Aged 33, he was the father of three children.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/braving-israeli-bullets-gazas-sea/19346

Learning in the line of fire

The girl is a student at the Hayel Abdul Hamid secondary school in Beit Hanoun, a United Nations facility in the northern Gaza Strip. She has developed a phobia of sitting next to windows, afraid, she told The Electronic Intifada, of stray bullets.

Her fear is well-founded. Beit Hanoun lies close to Gaza’s boundaries with Israel, and the concrete wall that marks the boundary is visible from Wala’s school. In such boundary areas Israeli gunfire is common and fatalities frequent. Mere closeness is a mortal danger as Israeli soldiers endeavor to keep quite expansive areas clear of residents, farmers or anyone else trying to get close.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/learning-line-fire/19476

60% der von Israel zerstörten Häuser in Gaza noch nicht wiederaufgebaut

Der palästinensische Abgeordnete Jamal Al Khoudary hat mitgeteilt, dass der Wiederaufbau der Häuser und anderen Gebäude in Gaza, die bei der israelischen Offensive 2014 zerstört wurden voran geht, wenn auch sehr langsam, berichtete die Zeitung Al Resalah am Sonntag. Nach Al-Khoudary sind nur 40% der Gebäude wieder aufgebaut worden.
http://www.tlaxcala-int.org/article.asp?reference=19769

Land law is final nail in the two-state solution coffin

The Israeli parliament passed the legalisation law on Monday night – a piece of legislation every bit as suspect as its title suggests. The law widens the powers of Israeli officials to seize the last fragments of Palestinian land in the West Bank that were supposed to be off-limits.

Palestinian leaders warned that the law hammered the last nail in the coffin of a two-state solution. Government ministers gleefully agreed. For them, this is the extension of Israeli law into the West Bank and the first step towards its formal annexation.
http://www.jonathan-cook.net/2017-02-07/land-law-is-final-nail-in-the-two-state-solution-coffin/

Shocked by Donald Trump's 'travel ban'? Israel has had a similar policy for decades

An Israeli official admitted in 2010 that the Separation Wall was 'built for political and demographic reasons', while the man who designed it revealed how 'the main thing the government told me in giving me the job was to include as many Israelis inside the fence and leave as many Palestinians outside'
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/israel-netanyahu-donald-trump-travel-ban-muslim-ban-a7553141.html