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Ein israelischer Soldat muss wegen Totschlags an einem verletzten palästinensischen Attentäter für eineinhalb Jahre ins Gefängnis. Dies entschied ein Militärgericht in Tel Aviv am Dienstag. Der 21 Jahre alte Soldat war im vergangenen Monat schuldig gesprochen worden. Bis zu zwanzig Jahren Haft drohten Elor Azaria zuvor. Viele Israelis sahen den Soldaten hingegen als unschuldig an und feierten ihn als Volkshelden. Auch Ministerpräsident Benjamin Netanjahu sprach sich nach der Urteilsverkündung im Januar für eine Begnadigung aus.
http://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/ausland/elor-azaria-muss-wegen-totschlag-an-attentaeter-in-haft-14888369.html

Five children who got longer sentences for throwing stones than Israeli soldier who shot incapacitated Palestinian dead - 'If [a Palestinian] kills an animal... he would have gotten more time,' family of deceased man says - Bethan McKernan
http://www.palaestina-portal.eu/2016_Exekution_eines_verwundeten_Palaestinensers.htm

Elor Azaria sentence: ‘No justice for Palestinians’

Human rights groups and Palestinian leaders have condemned what they called the “extremely lenient” punishment of Elor Azaria, the Israeli army medic who was filmed executing a severely wounded Palestinian in Hebron last year.

On Tuesday, a military tribunal sentenced the soldier to 18 months in jail and a demotion, nearly a year after he shot a bullet from close range into the head of 21-year-old Abdel al-Fattah al-Sharif.

There has rarely been a trial in Israel where the judges have been under such relentless – and mostly hostile – scrutiny. That appeared to be reflected in their sentencing, more than a month after they found Azaria guilty of manslaughter.
http://www.jonathan-cook.net/2017-02-21/elor-azaria-verdict-no-justice-for-palestinians/

Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (16 – 22 February 2017)
http://pchrgaza.org/en/?p=8838

Palestinian sentenced to 17 months in prison for Facebook 'incitement'(14-2)

A Jerusalem magistrate court sentenced a Palestinian to 17 months in Israeli prison on Tuesday for “supporting terrorist organizations” on Facebook.

Israeli news outlet Arutz Sheva reported that the Palestinian was a resident of the Shufat refugee camp, which is cut off from the rest of occupied East Jerusalem by Israel’s separation wall. He was reportedly convicted of 12 counts of “incitement to violence and terrorism” on Facebook.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775471

Palestinian teenage girl convicted of 'attempted murder' in Jerusalem court(14-02)

The Israeli magistrate's court in Jerusalem convicted an imprisoned Palestinian teenage girl on charges of attempted murder and possession of a knife on Tuesday.

According to defense lawyer Ramzi Kteilat, 17-year-old Malak Muhammad Salman was convicted for allegedly attempting to stab Israeli officers on Feb. 9, 2016 at the Damascus Gate entrance to occupied East Jerusalem's Old City.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775472

Israeli court sentences Palestinian teen to 12 years in prison over attempted stabbing(12-2)

An Israeli magistrate court sentenced a Palestinian teenager on Sunday to 12 years in prison over charges of attempting to carry out a stabbing attack in Jerusalem more than a year earlier.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775424

Israeli stabs 2 Palestinian street cleaners in Beersheba(12-2)

Two Palestinian street sweepers were stabbed in the city of Beersheba in southern Israel on Sunday morning, according to an Israeli police spokeswoman who said an Israeli in his twenties was detained for committing the attack.

Luba al-Samri said in a written statement in Arabic that the Palestinian workers were from the area, seeming to suggest the two held Israeli citizenship.

The two were evacuated to a hospital were they were treated for minor wounds.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775419

Israel delivers stop-work orders to Palestinians in northern Jordan Valley(12-2)

Israeli authorities issued stop-work orders for 16 Palestinian-owned structures in the northern Jordan Valley village of Khirbet Humsa al-Fuqa in the occupied West Bank on Sunday morning, according to a local official.

Muataz Bisharat, who monitors settlement-related activities in the Jordan Valley, told Ma'an that inspectors from the Israeli Civil Administration's planning and construction department stormed Khirbet Humsa al-Fuqa and delivered stop-work orders to 16 structures that belong to seven Palestinian families.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775422

13-year-old Palestinian awaits sentencing for throwing rocks at Rachel's Tomb(12-2)

Israeli police said Sunday that a 13-year-old Palestinian boy was awaiting indictment after he was detained in Aida refugee camp in the southern occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem last week for throwing stones.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775421

Israeli forces reportedly seize Palestinian’s car, water hoses near Tubas(12-2)

Israeli authorities reportedly seized a Palestinian-owned vehicle and water hoses used for irrigation in al-Baqiaa south of Tubas in the northern Jordan Valley region of the occupied West Bank on Saturday evening, official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775426

Israeli police assault Palestinians during raid into Jerusalem's Old City(13-2)

The head of the Jerusalem chapter of the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS), Nasser Qaws, said he was assaulted by Israeli police during a raid into occupied East Jerusalem’s Old City on Sunday night, when three other Palestinian youths were also detained.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775437

Palestinian fighter in Gaza injured by Israeli artillery shell, DFLP says(13-2)

The National Resistance Brigades, the military wing of the leftist Palestinian faction the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), said that one of their fighters was injured Sunday evening by shrapnel from an artillery shell fired by the Israeli army inside the besieged Gaza Strip.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775439

Israelis raid Al-Aqsa Mosque, 2 Palestinians detained(13-2)

Israeli police detained two Al-Aqsa Mosque employees on Monday morning after dozens of Israelis toured the site.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775452

Israeli forces block off main road in Bethlehem area(13-29)

Israeli forces closed a main road in the southern occupied West Bank district of Bethlehem on Monday morning, blockading a route used every day by thousands of commuters from four Palestinian villages.

Israeli forces placed rocks and earth mounds in the middle of a road near the village of al-Khader. The road serves as a main route between Bethlehem city and the villages of Husan, Battir, Nahhalin, and Wadi Fukin.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775458

Israeli court increases sentence of Jerusalemite sheikh accused of incitement(13-2)

An Israeli magistrate court in Jerusalem ruled to increase the sentence of Sheikh Omar Abu Sara from eight to 14 months in prison, a lawyer from the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs said Monday, after Abu Sara was charged with “inciting violence against Jews" during a religious lecture he gave at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in November 2014.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775441

Israeli forces detain employee of Turkish aid agency at Gaza border crossing(14-2)

Israeli forces detained an employee of a Turkish development agency at a border crossing between the besieged Gaza Strip and Israel on Monday.

Palestinian sources told Ma’an that Israeli forces detained Muhammad Murtaja, a coordinator for the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA), and added that the Turkish embassy in Tel Aviv was making calls to release him.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775459

Israel imposes punitive measures on Bethlehem-area village after stone-throwing(15-02)

Israeli forces imposed punitive measures on residents from the village of Husan in the occupied West Bank district of Bethlehem on Wednesday amid a crackdown on relatives of alleged Palestinian stone throwers.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775478

Israeli forces besiege Husan village for a third day

The Israeli army is collectively violating the rights of about 6,000 Palestinians who live in the Bethlehem area village of Husan.
http://www.alternativenews.org/index.php/headlines/350-israeli-forces-besiege-husan-village-for-a-second-day

Israeli forces install checkpoint at main entrance of Salfit-area village(15-02)

Israeli forces installed a military checkpoint at the main entrance of a village in the central occupied West Bank on Wednesday evening, locals said.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775491

Israeli forces raid Nablus-area village, set up checkpoints, deploy snipers(15-2)

Israeli forces raided the village of Huwwara on Thursday evening, deploying heavily in the area and searching several houses after claims that a Molotov cocktail was thrown at an Israeli settler’s car from the main road near the village, which is located just south of Nablus city in the northern occupied West Bank.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775511

Israeli forces raid Jerusalem-area town(17-2)

Israeli forces raided the village of Hizma early Friday morning in the central occupied West Bank district of Jerusalem.

Locals told Ma’an that Israeli vehicles, border guards, and soldiers raided several areas of Hizma from multiple entrances.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775513

Israeli forces 'attack' Palestinian activists near Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron(17-2)

Israeli forces allegedly attacked Palestinian activists following Friday prayers at the gates of the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron city in the occupied West Bank, as hundreds had gathered to perform prayers as part of a demonstration called for by the international campaign “Dismantle the Ghetto, Take Settlers Out of Hebron.”
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775520

Weekly marches against Israeli settlements launched in Bilin, Nilin, and Kafr Qaddum(17-2)

Weekly marches were held on Friday in the villages of Bilin and Nilin in the occupied West Bank district of Ramallah, while another was held in the village of Kafr Qaddum in the West Bank district of Qalqiliya, in protest of Israeli settlements and the separation wall.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775524

2 Palestinians, 1 Israeli soldier injured during clashes near Joseph's Tomb(23-2)

An Israeli soldier and two Palestinians were injured during clashes in the Balata refugee camp in the northern occupied West Bank on Thursday morning when hundreds of Israeli settlers performed religious rituals at Joseph’s Tomb under military protection.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775621

Israeli forces set up checkpoint at entrance of Salfit-area town(23-2)

Israeli forces set up a military checkpoint on Thursday at the entrance of the village of Qarawat Bani Hassan in the northern occupied West Bank district of Salfit.

A Ma’an reporter on the scene said that Israeli forces were stopping and searching vehicles, and checking the ID cards of Palestinian passengers.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775625

Palestinians protest resentencing of longest-serving prisoner Nael Barghouthi(23-2)

A sit-in was organized on Wednesday evening in the occupied West Bank district of Ramallah in solidarity with Nael Barghouthi, the longest-serving Palestinian prisoner who was sentenced on Wednesday by an Israeli military court to life in prison with an additional 18-year sentence.

The sit-in was organized by the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs and other faction leaders and officials, including secretary-general of the Palestinian National Initiative Mustafa Barghouthi and member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Abu Saleh Hisham. Families of Palestinian prisoners in Israel, former prisoners, and activists also joined the demonstration.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775627

Israel closes Jerusalem-area Palestinian boys school for ‘incitement’(23-2)

Israeli authorities on Thursday closed a Palestinian elementary school for boys in the town of Sur Bahir in occupied East Jerusalem district over alleged “incitement”.

Head of the school Luay Jamal Bkirat told Ma’an that Israeli intelligence officials summoned him and the school’s financial manager Nasser Hamed for interrogation at an Israeli police station, where they were then told to their surprise that the Israeli police would be shutting down the school over “incitement in the schools’ materials.”

Bkirat denied the claims, saying that the al-Nukhba school “is teaching the Palestinian curriculum used in all schools in Jerusalem and that no one of the faculty has ever been summoned for interrogation before over incitement.”
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775632

Israel transfers 2 East Jerusalem Palestinians to administrative detention(23-2)

Israeli authorities transferred on Thursday transferred two Palestinians from occupied East Jerusalem to administrative detention -- Israel’s widely-condemned policy of internment without charge or trial.

Head of the Jerusalem Committee for Families of Prisoners, Amjad Abu Asab, told Ma’an that Israeli authorities transferred Majd Darwish to administrative detention for six months and Muhammad Abed al-Latif for three months.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775640

Israeli forces suppress march in Hebron's Old City demanding reopening of Shuhada Street(24-2)

Israeli forces on Friday suppressed a crowded march in the Old City of the southern occupied West Bank district of Hebron, as local Palestinian residents and international activists demanded the reopening of closed streets and the removal of the illegal Israeli settlers from the city.

The march was launched in line with the 23rd anniversary of the Ibrahimi mosque massacre, when Jewish-American settler Baruch Goldstein entered the Ibrahimi mosque in Hebron and shot dead 29 Palestinian Muslims during worship.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775642

16-year-old Palestinian shot by Israeli forces in central Gaza Strip(24-2)

Israeli forces injured a 16-year-old Palestinian with live fire on Friday in the central Gaza Strip near the border between the besieged enclave and Israel.

Spokesperson of the Ministry of Health Ashraf al-Qadra said that the Palestinian was shot by Israeli forces and injured in his right leg. His wounds were described as medium.

Witnesses told Ma’an that Israeli forces stationed at the border fence east of Maghazi refugee camp opened live ammunition on a group of Palestinian youth in the area, causing the injury to the minor.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775647

Israeli forces suppress weekly marches in Kafr Qaddum, Bilin, and Nilin(24-2)

Israeli forces suppressed weekly marches in the occupied West Bank districts of Ramallah and Qalqiliya on Friday, as two Palestinians, including a child, were injured with rubber-coated steel bullets, while tens of Palestinians suffered tear gas inhalation.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775650

Israeli forces temporarily detain Palestinian minister at checkpoint(25-2)

Israeli forces temporarily detained the Palestinian Minister of Awaqf (the Islamic endowment) and Religious Affairs and those accompanying him at an Israeli checkpoint on Friday as the minister was attempting to enter Qalqiliya from Nablus.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775648

Palestinian child injured after remnant of Israeli military device explodes in Hebron(24-2)

A 13-year-old Palestinian was injured on Friday after a device left over by Israeli forces exploded in an area in the southern part of the occupied West Bank district of Hebron.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775651

Clashes erupt in Issawiya following funeral of former Palestinian prisoner(25-2)

Clashes erupted between Palestinian youth and Israeli forces in the neighborhood of Issawiya in occupied East Jerusalem late on Friday, as Israeli police raided the area following the funeral of a former Palestinian prisoner, 24-year-old Muhammad Kayid Mahmoud, who died in a car accident in Jericho on Friday.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775655

Israeli forces close entrance of Nablus-area village(26-2)

Israeli forces closed the entrance of the village of Osarin in the occupied West Bank district of Nablus on Saturday with large dirt mounds for alleged security reasons.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775657

Israeli forces storm Tuqu school, attack teachers with pepper spray(27-2)

Three Palestinian teachers suffered from pepper spray inflammation at the hands of Israeli forces, when the latter stormed a secondary school in the southern occupied West Bank village of Tuqu to remove posters commemorating 17-year-old Qusay Hassan al-Umour, who was shot dead by Israeli forces in the town in mid-January.

Israeli forces raided the school to remove photos of al-Umour which were posted to mark the 40 days since his killing.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775670

Israeli naval forces open fire at Palestinian fishermen in Gaza(13-2)

Israeli naval boats opened fire at Palestinian fishing boats off the coast of the besieged Gaza Strip on two separate occasions on Sunday night and Monday morning, with no injuries reported in either case.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775435

Israeli forces open fire towards Gaza fishermen(14-2)

Israeli naval forces opened fire at Palestinian fishing boats off the coast of the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday morning.

Fishermen told Ma'an that Israeli military ships fired at them off the coast of Beit Lahiya. No injuries were reported.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775462

Israeli forces open fire at fishermen in Gaza(18-2)

Israeli naval forces opened live fire at Palestinian fishermen off the coast of the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday morning.

Witnesses told Ma’an that Israeli naval ships opened fire at Palestinian fishing boats off the coast of al-Sudaniya. No injuries were reported.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775531

Israeli Naval Forces Continue to Chase Palestinian Fishermen in Gaza Sea; 5 fishermen arrested, including a boy, 1 fisherman wounded and fishing boat confiscated

On Tuesday morning, 21 February 2017, Israeli gunboats chased and opened fire at a Palestinian fishing boat. As a result, 5 fishermen, including a boy, were arrested and the fishing boat was confiscated. The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) noticed that Israeli forces have recently concentrated their attacks against fishermen in Gaza Sea, denying them access to their livelihood and free fishing in Gaza Sea.
http://pchrgaza.org/en/?p=8834

Palestinian children attend class in the street after Israel shuts down school(27-2)

After Israeli authorities shut down a Palestinian elementary school in the occupied East Jerusalem town of Sur Bahir last Thursday over alleged “incitement” in its study materials, students attended class in the street on Sunday and protested against Israel’s decision to close the school.

Children who were enrolled at al-Nukhba (“the elite” in Arabic) arrived to the campus with their parents in an action organized by the parent committees of Sur Bahir’s schools, holding posters expressing support for al-Nukhba and denouncing Israel's closure of educational institutions as “tyrannical.”
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775669

Protesters organize sit-in at Khan al-Ahmar school slated for demolition(25-2)

The Palestinian Ministry of Education organized a sit-in protest inside a school in the Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, against the impending Israeli government order to demolish the school and the entire village.

Protesters condemned the Israeli order to demolish Khan al-Ahmar school -- which services 150 female and male students -- and expressed their anger towards the Israeli army for targeting a school for children and for “trying to ban them from their right of education.”
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775633

Israeli Supreme Court rules in favor of punitive demolition of slain Palestinian's home(25-2)

The Israeli Supreme Court on Thursday ruled in favor of the punitive demolition of the home of slain Palestinian Fadi Ahmad al-Qunbar in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabal al-Mukabbir, Hebrew-language news sites reported.

Al-Qunbar was shot dead by Israeli forces last month after he drove into a group of Israeli soldiers in an illegal Israeli settlement in occupied East Jerusalem, killing four soldiers.

Al-Qunbar's relatives, who have repeatedly denied having advanced knowledge of any plans to carry out an attack, were also delivered notices shortly after the attack that their Jerusalem residencies were being punitively revoked by the Israeli government.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775638

Israeli forces deliver 30 demolition orders in Hebron-area village(23-2)

Israeli forces delivered 30 demolition orders to several structures in the village of Yatta in the southern occupied West Bank district of Hebron on Thursday.

Popular and national committee coordinator in the southern West Bank Ratib al-Jbour told Ma’an that Israeli forces had placed the demolition orders on lands near the structures, which included a school, tents, water wells, barracks, homes, and stockyards. He said Israeli forces also took pictures of the structures.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775635

UN officials visit Bedouin village slated for demolition, call situation 'unacceptable'

UN officials visited the Palestinian Bedouin community of Khan al-Ahmar in the central occupied West Bank district of Jerusalem on Wednesday, which is under threat of forcible relocation by Israeli authorities who delivered demolition notices to every single house in the village on Sunday, and called the situation “unacceptable.”

Coordinator for Humanitarian Aid and UN Development Activities for the occupied Palestinian territory Robert Piper and Director of UNRWA Operations in the West Bank Scott Anderson visited the small village located in Area C -- the more than 60 percent of the West Bank under full Israeli control and the site of frequent Israeli demolitions.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775619

Israeli forces demolish house in Bedouin village, leave disabled woman homeless(15-2)

Israeli bulldozers escorted by the Israeli police’s Yoav unit, the section created to implement demolitions of Bedouin homes in the Negev, demolished a house in the unrecognized Bedouin village of al-Zarora in the Negev of southern Israel on Wednesday morning, leaving a wheelchair-bound woman in her forties homeless.

Head of the regional council for unrecognized Bedouin villages Attiya al-Asam told Ma’an that the Israeli demolition campaign in the Negev had “crossed all lines” by targeting the homes of disabled residents, adding that the recent wave of demolitions were “inhumane” and were motivated by “hatred for the Arabs.”
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775481

Palestinian family in East Jerusalem forced to demolish their own home(18-2)

A Palestinian family in the neighborhood of Silwan in occupied East Jerusalem was forced to demolish their own home on Saturday following orders from the Israeli municipality of Jerusalem.

The Qarrain family told Ma’an that they had recently received an order from the Jerusalem municipality stating that the house was lacking Israeli-issued building permits and would need to be demolished.

The family added that they had been given two weeks to carry out the demolition themselves, to avoid the exorbitant fees imposed by the municipality when their crews carry out home demolitions.

The house is 65 square meters and was built seven years ago, according to the family.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775535

Israeli authorities demolish 3 buildings in East Jerusalem neighborhood(13-2)

Israeli authorities demolished at least three houses, two of which were under construction, in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya on Tuesday, local sources said.

Homeowner Salih Turk told Ma’an that a large number of Israeli police officers, including special forces, stormed his home in the neighborhood on Tuesday morning and forcibly evacuated his family, “preventing us from taking our belongings.”

Bulldozers then demolished the house, Turk said, adding that 11 family members, including six minors, were left homeless by the demolition.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775461

Israeli forces order destruction of 39 homes and school in Khan al-Ahmar

Early Sunday morning, dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded Khan al-Ahmar, a Palestinian Bedouin community between Jerusalem and Jericho the West Bank.

The purpose of the raid was to serve demolition orders to the Tire school as well as 39 nearby homes.

During the raid, Israeli soldiers set up flying checkpoints throughout Khan al-Ahmar. The area around the school was declared a “closed military zone.” Students were sent home and alarmed residents, journalists and activists were ordered to stay away.
http://www.alternativenews.org/index.php/headlines/356-israeli-forces-order-destruction-of-39-homes-and-school-in-khan-al-ahmar

Palestinian man injured after being struck by Israeli settler car near Hebron(16-2)

A Palestinian man was injured Thursday evening after being hit by an Israeli settler’s vehicle at the entrance of the town of Beit Ummar in the southern occupied West Bank district of Hebron.

Local activist Muhammad Ayyad Awwad identified the injured man as 36-year-old Rafat Muhammad Shihada Abu Arar Masalma from the town of Deir Samit west of Hebron City.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775510

Palestinian homes to be demolished for settlments road

Hundreds of Palestinians in the Jabal al-Mukaber area of occupied East Jerusalem say they are living in a state of anxiety and fear as Israeli occupation authorities begin excavations for the "American road" project, set to be built on the ruins of their homes.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/02/israel-settlements-road-cut-east-jerusalem-170219102243614.html

Dismantle the ghetto, take the settlers out of Hebron!

Preparations by Palestinian political parties, civil society groups, local committees, and human rights organizations begin this week for the 23rd annual commemoration of the the 1994 Ibrahim Mosque Massacre.

The bodies organizing the event this year have united under the slogan “dismantle the ghetto, take the settlers out of Hebron.” The first statement issued by the coalition calls for widespread participation, including by international organizations and individuals in Hebron.
http://alternativenews.org/index.php/features-02/341-dismantle-the-ghetto-take-the-settlers-out-of-hebron

2 Palestinians held in Israeli prison without charge or trial declare hunger strike(16-2)

Two Palestinians held in Israeli prison without charge or trial declared a hunger strike on Thursday.

The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said in a statement that Palestinian prisoners Jamal Abu al-Leil and Raed Fayez Mteir declared their hunger strike in protest of being held under administrative detention -- an Israeli policy of imprisonment without charge or trial based on undisclosed evidence, almost exclusively used against Palestinians.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775505

Protesters stage sit-in over administrative detention of 2 hunger-striking prisoners(17-2)

A sit-in protest was organized Friday morning in solidarity with two Palestinian prisoners from the Qalandiya refugee camp in the central occupied West Bank, just as the prisoners’ administrative detention orders were confirmed by Jerusalem’s central court.

The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said in a statement that protesters held pictures of the prisoners, Jamal Abu al-Leil and Raed Fayez Mteir, who began an open hunger strike on Thursday protesting their administrative detentions -- the widely-condemned Israeli policy of internment without charge or trial based on undisclosed evidence.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775519

Palestinian prisoner's health condition deteriorates in Israeli custody(18-2)

The health condition of Palestinian prisoner Walid Ghaith from the occupied West Bank district of Hebron has severely deteriorated recently, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said on Saturday.

PPS said in the statement that the 43-year-old was suffering from heart problems and was in need of a pacemaker implant.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775534

Israeli prosecution accuses 2 Palestinian prisoners of stabbing prison guards(14-2)

The Israeli general prosecution in the Beersheba filed charges Tuesday against two Palestinian prisoners accused of stabbing prison guards in separate incidents on the same day in Israel’s Nafha and Ktziot prisons earlier this month.

Officials representing the Beersheba prosecution told Ma'an that 22-year-old Mahmoud Amir Nasser was charged with stabbing Ktziot prison guard Tzvika Lahme in the face and the upper extremities.

According to the indictment, the incident came after Nasser, who is serving a 52-month sentence, was subjected to a search by Israel Prison Service (IPS) officers on Feb. 1.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775466

Israeli court increases prison sentence of tortured Palestinian detainee(12-2)

The Israeli Supreme Court has added two years to the prison sentence of a Palestinian detained during Israel’s 2014 ground invasion of the Gaza Strip, the Gaza-based al-Mezan Center for Human Rights said in a report on Sunday, which detailed the prisoner’s torture at the hands of Israeli prison authorities.

According to al-Mezan, last week on Feb. 7, the court decided to uphold a request by the Israeli prosecution to increase 28-year-old Jihad Khalid Abu Hadaid’s sentence from six to eight years in Israeli custody.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775428

Longest-serving Palestinian prisoner resentenced to life in prison plus 18 years(22-2)

Nael Barghouthi, the longest-serving Palestinian prisoner, was sentenced on Wednesday by an Israeli military court to life in prison with an additional 18-year sentence, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS).

PPS said in a statement that the court had ruled that Barghouthi, 59, was to serve the remainder of his previous sentence received prior to his short-lived release in 2011 as part of a prisoner swap deal between Israel and the Hamas movement.

Israeli forces first detained Barghouthi, who is from the village of Kobar in the central occupied West Bank district of Ramallah, in 1978 when he was 20 years old for alleged membership in an armed resistance group.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775604

Palestinians protest resentencing of longest-serving prisoner Nael Barghouthi(23-2)

A sit-in was organized on Wednesday evening in the occupied West Bank district of Ramallah in solidarity with Nael Barghouthi, the longest-serving Palestinian prisoner who was sentenced on Wednesday by an Israeli military court to life in prison with an additional 18-year sentence.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775627

Palestinian lawyer signs plea bargain as NGO slams Israeli 'persecution of rights defenders'(24-2)

A Palestinian lawyer signed a plea deal earlier this week in order to avoid a prison sentence for his alleged involvement with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), as his organization called the case the latest example of Israel’s “persecution of human rights defenders.”

Anas Barghouthi, a lawyer for prisoners rights group Addameer, accepted a plea bargain on Sunday in order to forgo a prison sentence for allegedly being a member of PFLP and leading demonstrations against Israeli policies, NGO Amnesty International reported on Wednesday.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775626

Israel transfers 2 East Jerusalem Palestinians to administrative detention(24-2)

Israeli authorities transferred on Thursday transferred two Palestinians from occupied East Jerusalem to administrative detention -- Israel’s widely-condemned policy of internment without charge or trial.

Head of the Jerusalem Committee for Families of Prisoners, Amjad Abu Asab, told Ma’an that Israeli authorities transferred Majd Darwish to administrative detention for six months and Muhammad Abed al-Latif for three months.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775640

Muhammad al-Qiq loses ability to walk amid ongoing hunger strike(24-2)

Palestinian hunger striker Muhammad al-Qiq has lost his ability to walk due to extreme exhaustion after at least 18 days without food, his lawyer reported on Friday.

Khalid Zabarqa said that al-Qiq was on a wheelchair during a recent visit to Israel’s Ramla prison hospital where the hunger striker is being kept after Israeli authorities transferred al-Qiq from Israel’s Jalama prison due to the deterioration of his health.

Zabarqa noted that al-Qiq was suffering from constant coughing, weight loss, and a perpetual headache. He has also refused to undergo any medical checkups related to his hunger strike.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775644

Youth block roads demanding PA intervene in case of Palestinian hunger strikers(26-2)

Palestinian youth from Qalandiya refugee camp blocked off a main raid connecting Ramallah and Jerusalem in the central occupied West Bank as well as surrounding side streets Sunday morning to put pressure on the Palestinian Authority to intervene in the case of two hunger strikers from the camp imprisoned by Israel.

Protesters used dumpsters to close the roads, creating severe traffic congestion from the Semiramis neighborhood of Ramallah to Qalandiya. Dozens of children were unable to access their schools in the northern outskirts of Jerusalem, including in Qalandiya, Kafr Aqab, Semiramis, and the airport area.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775663

Qalandiya refugee camp activists continue protest measures against PA(27-2)

alestinian activists from Qalandiya refugee camp in the central occupied West Bank closed al-Quds Ramallah Street and all entrances of the camp that lead to Jerusalem for the second consecutive day on Monday morning, aiming to pressure the Palestinian Authority (PA) to help secure the release of two residents of the camp held in Israeli prison without trial or charge for more than a year.

Activists blocked the road with burning rubber tires and dumpsters lit on fire, sending black smoke billowing over the refugee camp as scores of commuters were stuck in traffic gridlock.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775684

U.S. Anti-Semitic Attacks: Where’s the Outrage, Bibi?

Several years ago, after a series of terror attacks by Islamists on French Jewish institutions, Bibi Netanyahu got on his bully pulpit to lecture Europe about their dereliction of duty in protecting for local Jewish communities. He even rose to the pulpit of France’s grand synagogue to tell the nation’s prime minister, in a bout of grand chutzpah, that the latter essentially didn’t deserve his Jews. That they should all abandon him and return “home.” He urged them to make aliya where, he claimed, they would find the safety they lacked in Europe. Indeed, there was a temporary rise in aliyah from France that lasted a year. After the attacks subsided levels of aliyah receded to their former levels. I predicted this eventual outcome in the midst of the anti-Semitism attacks, while the Jewish Agency and other Zionist apparatchiks were crowing about the “end of Jewish history in Europe.” All of Bibi’s blandishments to “come home” amounted to nothing.
https://www.richardsilverstein.com/2017/02/27/u-s-anti-semitic-attacks-wheres-outrage-bibi/

Hanin Soabi: „Israel ist das einzige Land, das weder von Trump schockiert ist noch vor ihm Angst hat“

Hanin Soabi ist eine von 14 israelisch-palästinensischen Mitgliedern der Knesset, die 120 Abgeordnete zählt. Sie ist angespuckt, angerempelt und vom Parlament suspendiert worden. „Ich hab mich daran gewöhnt“, sagt sie, „es ist zum Teil, weil ich eine Frau bin, vergesst das nicht (für einige Leute) ist dies normal, auf eine Frau zornig zu sein, die deren Erwartungen nicht entspricht, wie Frauen sich benehmen sollen“.
http://www.tlaxcala-int.org/article.asp?reference=19835

Bring the Family: Israeli Air Force Pinkwashing

In very few western countries are the armed forces used to promote the nation to the outside world. For decades, Israel has promoted its “citizen’s army” as emblematic of Israeli democracy. However, this hasn’t been true of the IDF for many years. 30% of eligible males do not serve (many ultra-Orthodox receive yeshiva exemptions and it doesn’t even summon Israeli Palestinians for military service). Less than 50% of women serve. By 2020, the IDF estimates that 60% of those eligible overall will receive exemptions or otherwise dodge service. Citizen’s Army? Not so much.
https://www.richardsilverstein.com/2017/02/27/bring-family-israeli-air-force-pinkwashing/

Israeli Supreme Court Sides with Security Apparatus, Corporate Elite–Shields Former Soviet Spy

Last year, the Israeli business publication, Globes, published a story based on my reporting the not-so-secret identity of former Soviet agent-turned Shabak spy, Boris Krasny. Since Krasny was instrumental in exposing one of the Soviet’s most valuable Israeli spies, Marcus Klingberg, he’s been protected and enriched by the Israeli security apparatus.
https://www.richardsilverstein.com/2017/02/25/israeli-supreme-court-sides-security-apparatus-corporate-elite-shields-former-soviet-spy/

Shin Bet Has Bad Case of Transphobia

After scores of international flights passed without incident, suddenly in recent months an Israeli transgender traveler began to suffer systematic harassment at the hands of Shin Bet security agents. This included intrusive body and luggage searches at the airport and invasive questions having nothing to do with security matters. Interrogators asked Mor Vital about her sexual orientation including questions such as: “What you have down there?”
https://www.richardsilverstein.com/2017/02/13/shin-bet-bad-case-transphobia/

Israeli military jeep stolen from army base in southern Israel

An Israeli military jeep was reportedly stolen from an army base on Tuesday in southern Israel. http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775476

Did Berlin cancel Jerusalem summit amid anger at settlement law?
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/did-berlin-cancel-jerusalem-summit-amid-anger-settlement-law-1574037980

Israel vows no more visas to Human Rights Watch after years of activity

International NGO with operations in 90 countries is 'serving Palestinian propaganda,' Foreign Ministry says; governments never like what we publish, but they let us act, HRW official says.
http://www.haaretz.com/misc/article-print-page//.premium-1.773567

Egypt destroyed 6 Gaza smuggling tunnels in the span of 2 weeks(09-2)

he Egyptian army claimed on Wednesday to have destroyed six tunnels between Egypt and the besieged Gaza Strip in the span of two weeks earlier this year.

Egyptian army spokesman Tamer al-Rifai said that six tunnels were uncovered and destroyed at the border between Gaza and the North Sinai between Jan. 17 and Feb. 4
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775383.

3 Palestinians killed, 5 injured after suffocating inside Gaza tunnel(25-2)

Three Palestinians were killed and five others were injured after suffering from gas suffocation on Friday evening while working inside a tunnel between the border of the besieged Gaza Strip and Egypt, the Palestinian Civil Defense reported on Saturday.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775654

Israel, Hamas swap blame for failed prisoner exchange talks

Against the backdrop of a recent serious escalation of the security threat along Israel's southern border, Israeli media published reports on negotiations for a prisoner exchange between Israel and Hamas. Leaks about the negotiations, sourced to spokesmen from both sides, were intended to put pressure on the opposing side and to present their red lines regarding any potential deal. Both sides now share a desire to reach a deal.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/02/israel-gaza-hamas-prisoner-exchange-shalit-prisoners.html

Why some in Israel are wary of Hamas’ new Gaza boss

It seems there has never been a leader of Hamas better known to Israel than Yahya Sinwar, who was chosen this week in an internal process to succeed Ismail Haniyeh as the head of the political wing of the organization in the Gaza Strip. And vice versa: Sinwar spent 22 years in an Israeli prison and was released in the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange deal in the fall of 2011. He speaks Hebrew, is familiar with the ways of Israeli society and knows everything about the Israeli mentality, abilities and sensitivities.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/02/israel-gaza-new-hamas-leader-yahya-sinwar-security.html

Israeli government funded construction of Amona outpost by proxy

The recently dismantled illegal settlement outpost of Amona was funded through a million-dollar loan from the Israeli government, a report by Israeli newspaper Haaretz revealed on Monday, further blurring the distinction between settlements recognized and unrecognized by Israel.

According to Haaretz, settlement building organization Amana obtained a $1.05 million loan in 2002 to build in the outposts of Amona and Migron by mortgaging private Palestinian lands to which it falsely claimed rights, and upon which it built the outposts.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775457

Israeli Bedouin stigmatized by terrorist narrative

The Jan. 18 deaths of two men during home demolitions in the Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran continue to send shock waves through Israeli society. During a police operation to evacuate and demolish homes built illegally, Yakub Abu al-Kiyan ran over Erez Levi, a police officer, with his car. Levi died from his injuries and Abu al-Kiyan from being shot by police.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/02/israel-bedouin-gilad-erdan-police-terror-attack.html

New video deals another blow to Israeli police's version of Umm al-Hiran raid
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775434

Shabak Apologizes for False Terror Claims Against Bedouin Murdered by Israeli Police

The official police-government version of the tragic deaths of an Israeli Bedouin and policeman at Umm al Hiran last month is now coming apart at the seams. The above video features a translation of a TV news panel in which Maariv journalist, Kalman Liebeskind, reveals the shocking dysfunction of the operation which led to the deaths.
https://www.richardsilverstein.com/2017/02/23/shabak-apologizes-false-terror-claims-
bedouin-murdered-israeli-police/

Israeli minister backtracks on claims of vehicular attack during Umm al-Hiran raid
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775595

Palestinians face intense online hate from Israelis, say campaigners

Israel's 1.7 million Palestinian citizens are facing a tidal wave of incitement and hate speech on social media, including from government ministers, community leaders have warned.

They say the increasingly hostile political climate in Israel is stoking violence from the police and street gangs and has laid the ground for a recent raft of legislative proposals many Palestinians consider racist.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestinian-online-hatred-654572197

New Evidence: Police Units Fired on Each Other, Murdered Bedouin, then Minister Lied Claiming Victim was ISIS Terrorist
https://www.richardsilverstein.com/2017/02/22/new-evidence-reveals-police-murdered-bedouin-minister-lied-claiming-isis-terrorist/

Gaza committee announces boycott of ICRC over NGO's 'failures'

The prisoners’ committee of the Palestinian National and Islamic Forces coalition in Gaza announced on Monday that it had decided it will boycott the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC).

In a statement, the prisoners’ committee admonished ICRC for its “failure to fulfill its duties” towards Palestinians held in Israeli custody, and said that it would continue to hold weekly protests in front of ICRC’s headquarters in Gaza.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775320

Palestinians seek unity as new threats, political bickering mar gathering

Around 4,000 Palestinians from 50 countries gather in Istanbul to claim an integral part in ending the Palestinian nation’s woes
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinians-seek-unity-clouds-new-threats-and-political-bickering-mar-gathering-1340563227

PFLP demonstrates on anniversary of alleged assassination of Omar Nayif

Supporters of the left-wing Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) organized rallies in the northern occupied West Bank district of Jenin and in the besieged Gaza Strip on Saturday, to mark the anniversary of the death of PFLP member Omar Nayif in the Palestinian embassy in Bulgaria last year, which the group believes was an assassination carried out by the Mossad (Israel’s foreign intelligence agency).
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775660

Love under siege in Gaza

To receive a permit to travel to and from Gaza via Erez Crossing, Israel must determine that your reason for travel is humanitarian in nature or that you meet a list of exceptional circumstances (like playing for the national football team or being a trader). Traveling to visit your mother you haven’t seen in 10 years isn’t considered to be humanitarian in nature, unless, God forbid, she’s ill with a fatal condition.
https://972mag.com/love-under-siege-in-gaza/125229/

Joy and fear: a mother’s lot in Gaza

The doctor studied the test results, raised her head and smiled.

“Pregnant,” she said. “Congratulations, you are pregnant!”

All I could muster in response was: “Why?”

Joy, excitement and fear knotted inside me. My husband and I would soon have a baby, filling our life with love and noise.

But a storm of questions raged in my head. I immediately began to fear that Israel would bomb us again.

How would we run away if that happened? How would we survive?

I was scared and nervous. The memories of all the wars I had lived through came alive and overpowered me.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/joy-and-fear-mothers-lot-gaza/19606?utm_source=EI+readers&utm_campaign=202e8e7e97-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e802a7602d-202e8e7e97-290675021

Israel lobby resorting to censorship and blacklisting as it loses control of mainstream discourse

From Seattle to Kuala Lampur, via Khartoum, Osaka, and Hamburg, activists around the world participated last week in a “Boycott Hewlett-Packard Week of Action,” setting up mock checkpoints and apartheid walls, doing flash mobs, and cheerfully belting out BDS carols. In busy shopping centers, on Main Streets, at heavily-trafficked intersections, and university campuses, we were visible, we were loud, we were proud of our activism, our numbers, our global community. There was nothing hushed up about our actions.
http://mondoweiss.net/2016/12/censorship-blacklisting-mainstream/