Sunday, October 21, 2018
Friday, October 19, 2018
Two Palestinian workers were injured after an Israeli settler ran them
over yesterday near the Kafr Laqif village, east of the northern
occupied West Bank district of Qalqiliya.
According to local sources, an Israeli settler ran over two Palestinian
workers, who were identified as Oqab Raji Mahmoud Abed Al-Hafith and
Ameer Hayel Raji.
The time had finally come: the residents of Turmusayya, a lush
Palestinian village nestled in a valley between Ramallah and Nablus in
the central occupied West Bank, had gotten permission from Israeli
authorities to go harvest their olive trees.
This chance only came twice a year: two days in the spring to cultivate
their land, and two days in the fall to harvest the olives.
Filled with excitement and a sense of urgency, the villagers made their
way to their farmlands, which are surrounded by an Israeli settlement
and outpost. When they arrived, they were devastated to find dozens of
trees chopped down, uprooted, and rotting.
The 40 olive trees belonged to 78-year-old Palestinian Mahmoud al-Araj,
who had been tending to the trees since he was a boy.
“Some of these trees are 40, 50, 60, and 70 years old,” al-Araj told
Mondoweiss, as he sat under the shade of a large olive tree that had
been slashed at its trunk.
“I have been cultivating these trees, this land, since I was a boy. We
helped our families and tired ourselves on this land so we could provide
for our children and the future generations,” he said.
On Tuesday, 9 October 2018, at around 10:00
A.M., Civil Administration personnel, soldiers, Border Police and two
bulldozers arrived at Khirbet al-Halawah in the Masafer Yatta area in
the South Hebron Hills. The forces demolished three dwellings, donated
to local residents by a humanitarian aid organization with European
Union funding. The demolition left 21 people, including 13 children,
homeless. The forces also confiscated four solar panel batteries and an
electrical box donated to the residents by COMET ME, with funding from
the Dutch government. Earlier this month, the Civil Administration and
military confiscated a tent in the community, leaving homeless a family
of six, including four minors. Ever since the 1990s, Israel has been
endeavoring to drive out the residents of Masafer Yatta.
One of the ways the state has set itself up as coping with the
phenomenon of food insecurity among schoolchildren is to provide a hot
meal for every child within the school. This ensures that about two
million children will receive a hot and nutritious meal, once a day,
equally. It turns out, however, that 15 years after the law was passed,
it is implemented only partially and not universally for all children.
In addition, an important component of the law, designed to create jobs
in the community by establishing community kitchens that will provide
the meals, was not implemented at all 15 years after the legislation -
what are the challenges still facing the implementation of the law?
On October 10, Israeli anti-Zionist and international activists were
invited to the Gaza fence across from an encampment of the Great March
of Return. The Palestinians held a cultural event of traditional music
and dancing in support of the Right of Return. The Israeli activists
created a memorial by hanging pictures on the fence of Palestinian
protestors executed by the Israeli army during the Great March of Return
in previous months.
The two groups met and were able to see and speak to each other with
only a few dozen meters and the siege fence between them. Armed soldiers
arrived and attempted to disperse the meeting. Activists from both
sides chanted together to the rhythm of a drum, “free free Palestine”.
The demonstrators left from both sides without incident, promising to
meet each other again.
Friday, October 12, 2018
Israel/Palestine News
Israel border authorities have detained US-Palestinian student for her
alleged Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) activism, denying her
entry into Israel, despite having a visa. Tallie Ben-Daniel of Jewish
voice for Peace discusses the case and what it means for the BDS
movement
On 13 September 2018, at around 7:30 Border Police officers detained two Palestinian boys who live in the Old
City of Hebron: Q.R. (13) and ‘A.H. (8). The boys were on their way to
school on a-Sahla Street. According to the officers, they had thrown
stones at the nearby Checkpoint 160.
The officers took the two to the Pharmacy Checkpoint, some 50 meters
from the school. There, they were made to sit and forbidden to talk to
relatives who came to the checkpoint. After about an hour and a half,
they were taken to the police station by the Tomb of the
Patriarchs/al-Haram a-Sharif. About two hours later, ‘A.H. was allowed
to go home with his mother. Q.R. was taken to the police station in
Kiryat Arba, where he was questioned for about half an hour and then
sent home with his father.
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