Friday, November 30, 2018

Israel/Palestine News

   





Who will Israelis vote for in the 2019 national elections?
   













Frustration at Jib Al Dib playground when the IDF stops Combatants For Peace from continuing.

   



The Israeli military, in a statement released on Monday, alleged that
the attacker was "neutralized" near the Gush Etzion junction south of
the city of Bethlehem, located about 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) south of
Jerusalem al-Quds.

The statement asserted that three Israeli soldiers were injured in the
purported assault. One of the soldiers sustained moderate injuries,
while the other two were slightly hurt.

The Israeli military added that the Palestinian man rammed his vehicle
into soldiers as the latter were carrying out engineering work along a
road. An Israeli soldier, on patrol, then fired shots at the alleged
assailant.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) confirmed that Israeli
forces had shot and killed Ramzi Abu Yabes, a resident from the Dheisheh
refugee camp, while he was on his way to the southern West Bank city of
al-Khalil (Hebron) for work.
  





Every year at Easter, a ceremony takes place in Ma'alul that connects
the community of displaced persons and their descendants to the village
from which they were expelled.  This is not just a romantic-symbolic
act, the community also has a practical plan for realizing the return. A
conversation with Rowan Bisharat, the daughter of an uprooted family
from the village of Ma'lul.
   





Is the return in our favor? Talk with Yahav Zohar.
   





Interview with Frank Romano (11/9/2018), Doctor of Philosophy at the
University of Paris and a faculty member at San Francisco's Golden
Bridge University, three days before his arrest in Khan el Ahmar. Dr.
Romano says that what happens in Khan al-Ahmar falls under the
definition of ethnic cleansing and is a serious violation of
international law, and hopes that the world will open its heart and
understand that it is a mistake!
   





House-sharing company Airbnb was pressured to remove listings in illegal
Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian West Bank, after a
campaign by human rights organizations. CODEPINK's Ariel Gold says this
is a big victory for peace activists.
    





The Lobby USA



https://electronicintifada.net/

Saturday, November 24, 2018

Israel/Palestine News

   





The same people behind the Israel Project are behind Canary Mission,
including Adam Milstein as uncovered in Aljazeera's The Lobby. It's time
for Canary Mission to be shut down. Students, professors, and advocates
for Palestinian human rights should not continue to be stalked and
trolled.

Friday, November 16, 2018

Israel/Palestine News

    



Israeli occupation forces close shuhada street checkpoint for the
residents. The soldiers were asking the people to be photographed while
holding their IDs next to their faces, people were refusing this which
caused denied entry for the residents, the residents are already
registered.


   














IDF & settlers harass Palestinians at checkpoint.
  





The resignation of far-right Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman
in protest of the Gaza truce could trigger early elections as Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu already grapples with the biggest corruption
scandal in Israel's history. We speak to author and Real News
correspondent Shir Hever

  





The resignation of far-right Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman
in protest of the Gaza truce could trigger early elections as Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu already grapples with the biggest corruption
scandal in Israel's history. We speak to author and Real News
correspondent Shir Hever

  





The resignation of far-right Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman
in protest of the Gaza truce could trigger early elections as Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu already grapples with the biggest corruption
scandal in Israel's history. We speak to author and Real News
correspondent Shir Hever

  





The resignation of far-right Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman
in protest of the Gaza truce could trigger early elections as Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu already grapples with the biggest corruption
scandal in Israel's history. We speak to author and Real News
correspondent Shir Hever

    





There are reports of a new ceasefire in the Gaza Strip after a botched
Israeli raid led to its worst bombings of the territory since 2014. We
discuss Israel’s latest attacks on civilian infrastructure with Dr.
Basem Naim, former Minister of Health in Gaza.
   






Witness Israeli Occupation Forces preventing the principal of
Qurtoba school from leaving the checkpoint that is placed in front of
her school.
Video credit: Zidan Sharabati

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“The settlers came in the middle of the night, no one knew. By morning
they had paved a road up to the mountain, set up their tents, and had
soldiers protecting them,” Zafer Attayah, a resident of Kfar Ni’ma told
Mondoweiss. Ever since the settlers showed up two months ago, the
Palestinians from Risan’s three surrounding villages have been staging
weekly Friday protests on the mountain in attempts to stop the
confiscation. “We have to maintain our presence in the area,” Attayah
said. “They think they can just come and take the land, but we will not
make it easy for them.”
  





Al Jazeera's undercover film The Lobby – USA, censored by Qatar, has
finally been published by The Electronic Intifada. Editor Ali Abunimah
discusses the documentary's explosive revelations, exposing
Israel-backed attacks on US activists.
  





Al Jazeera's undercover film The Lobby – USA, censored by Qatar, has
finally been published by The Electronic Intifada. Editor Ali Abunimah
discusses the documentary's explosive revelations, exposing
Israel-backed attacks on US activists.
   











Justin Trudeau attacks the BDS movement.

    



On the morning of Thursday, 8 November 2018, at around 5:00
A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with two bulldozers and a
Border Police escort to the village of a-Za’ayem in al-Quds District.
The forces first came to the al-Barakah neighborhood, where they
demolished a fence that was built a year ago around an agricultural
plot. At about 7:00 A.M. the forces arrived in a-Sheikh ’Anbar
neighborhood in the village and demolished a home under construction,
where a family of ten, including seven children, were set to live. The
forces later demolished the foundations for another residential
structure
    





Eden Tesfamarim, a single mother of three children, has been in Israel
for nine years without any status: "I have no hope in Israel." The
deposit law that has been operating in Israel for a year has caused
thousands of asylum seekers to find themselves in a very difficult
economic and psychological situation. According to the aid
organizations, the number of women who have been reduced to prostitution
by the law reaches hundreds, and despite this the state refuses to
recognize the injustices caused by the law and does not offer an
efficient and fair solution.
    





Eden Tesfamarim, a single mother of three children, has been in Israel
for nine years without any status: "I have no hope in Israel." The
deposit law that has been operating in Israel for a year has caused
thousands of asylum seekers to find themselves in a very difficult
economic and psychological situation. According to the aid
organizations, the number of women who have been reduced to prostitution
by the law reaches hundreds, and despite this the state refuses to
recognize the injustices caused by the law and does not offer an
efficient and fair solution.
   





Israelis supporting the right of return of the Palestinians demonstrated
on the Gaza border at the same time as the Palestinian return
demonstration held on the 21st of September 2018. During the
demonstration the Israelis spoke on the phone with the Palestinians on
the other side of the fence and expressed support and solidarity with
them.
   





A quarter of the deaths on construction sites in recent years have been
caused by improper scaffolding or installation failures. The Israeli
standard for scaffolding is very old, and the European standard has long
been adopted by the Israeli Standards Institute, but most contractors
prefer to use those old scaffolding and safety scaffolds to save costs.
The workers are not the only ones who pay the price, but also
pedestrians who are in vicinity of the construction sites. In this
article, you will also be able to identify the common scaffolds and
their failures in order to beware of them.
 



Israeli settlers attack Palestinian houses in Tel Rumeida
   



Thousands of Jewish settlers flock to the old town of Hebron and pray
inside the Ibrahimi Mosque after they have given it to the Muslims who
owned the land
  





And this is how they try to force Palestinians from their own home to move in Illegal settlers.
This home belong to the Jabali family on Shuhada street in Hebron
Witness the isreali Occupation welds the families doors shut preventing them from entering their home.
  



A Jewish criminal settler attack Palestinian people of Tel Rumeida in
Hebron, which threatens to fire with the presence of soldiers of the
Zionist occupation

Saturday, November 10, 2018

Israel/Palestine News

  



The group of human rights defenders organized a solidarity stand with
the Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli occupation prisons of 350
children in the Tel Rumeida area of ​​Hebron, which is suffering from
settlement and whose inhabitants have been turned into prisoners in
their homes due to the policy of ethnic cleansing. 12 efficiency in
different cities of the world, including Belfast, Waterford in Ireland,
Amsterdam in the Netherlands, South Johannesburg in South Africa,
Marseilles in France, London in Britain and other cities in the world.
Activist Badee Dwaik Coordinator of the campaign Shadi Farah from the
Human Rights Defenders group, thanked all the international partners and
friends in organizing and attending the events organized to support the
issue of children in the prisons of the occupation. He called on human
rights institutions and governments of the world to take practical
measures to punish the State of Israel For its crimes against the
Palestinian people and land and the immediate release of children.
  



On the morning of Tuesday, 6 November 2018, at about 6:00
A.M., Jerusalem Municipality personnel came with two bulldozers and a
Border Police and special Israel Police forces escort to the East
Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina. They demolished two tin-roofed
cement structures which had been the homes of two families, numbering 11
persons, including 5 minors. Later that morning, at around 10:00
A.M., Jerusalem Municipality personnel came with a bulldozer and a
Border Police escort to the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan and
demolished a snack shop.
The Jerusalem Municipality deliberately avoids preparing detailed urban
building plans (UBPs), which are the only avenue for obtaining building
permits, for the Palestinian neighborhoods in East Jerusalem. The result
is a severe shortage of homes, public buildings, infrastructure and
leisure and commercial facilities. This has left the residents no choice
but to build without permits and risk demolition.
  





Lara Al-Qassem, an American student of Palestinian origin, has defeated
an Israeli effort to ban and deport her over her prior support for the
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, BDS. We speak to her
attorney, Yotam Ben-Hillel





   



What's left of the Israeli left?
   


Omar Shakir discusses the Human Rights Watch report on how the two Palestinian governments continue the practices of the Israeli occupation to which they are opposed. Even Facebook posts can get activists arrested and tortured by the Palestinian Authority
  



The IDF harasses activists in the South Hebron Hills.
    



Palestinians who live in the Gheith and a-Salameih neighborhoods, as
well as in other neighborhoods in Hebron, are subjected to extreme
restrictions on their freedom of movement, as B’Tselem has documented
many times. The military built a fence along the main street of these
neighborhoods to keep residents out and leave the street open to
settlers only.

Although the military promised it would keep the gate in the fence open
from 6:00 A.M. to 22:00
P.M., it has failed to do so and the gate often remains locked
throughout the day.

To get out of the area when the gate is closed, residents have to take a
roundabout route that is 500 meters long and includes many flights of
steps. When neighborhood children find the gate locked on their way to
school or back home, they often scale the fence rather than take the
long route.

Israel has been implementing a segregation policy in Hebron for more
than twenty years, largely by installing permanent checkpoints
throughout the center of the Old City and around al-Haram al-Ibrahimi
(the Tomb of the Patriarchs) – an area less than 80 hectares wide. These
checkpoints make daily life a nightmare for Palestinian residents there
and in other parts of Hebron.

This unceasing harassment and restriction of movement prevents
Palestinian residents of Area H2 from leading a reasonable routine and
makes daily reality intolerable. By implementing this policy, the
Israeli authorities are promoting the ongoing transfer of Palestinians
from the center of

Hebron.
  





The IDF detains two girls going thru a checkpoint in Hebron.
    



Witness how Palestinian history is stolen by Zionists .
This is the Preparations by Jewish settlers to celebrate the opening of a park near the Illegal settlement of Tel Rumeida.
This was the land of Palestinians before the Israeli occupations ethnic cleansing of this land
   



Palestinians are claiming victory after Israel was forced to delay the
demolition of the village of Khan al-Ahmar, in the occupied West Bank.
The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor warned Israeli
forced displacement of the Bedouin residents would likely be a war
crime.
   



Water contamination is a serious problem in Gaza, but supposedly
well-intentioned reports that call attention to the crisis offer
technical solutions that are not only unworkable, but but far more
importantly they ignore the Israeli blockade
 





Palestinian is shot, then left to bleed to death.



















  





The US-based mercenary company Spear Group, headed by an Israeli and
hired by a Palestinian on behalf of the UAE, conducts extra-judicial
killings in Yemen. Antony Loewenstein discusses the details