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On the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu asked world leaders to condemn the International Criminal Court for investigating Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity.

  



Hebron,Palestine,22nd of January 2020
The occupation army arrests a Palestinian youth near the military
checkpoint leading to the Ibrahimi Mosque, claiming that he is carrying a
knife, and he is transferred to the police station for investigation.
The name of the young man is Muhammad Khaled Abu Turki, who has physical
disability ,Israeli soldiers claimimed that he has a small blade at the
Abu al-Rish checkpoint near the Ibrahimi Mosque

  

   





On the morning of 16 Jan. 2020, at around 9:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel arrived with Border Police, soldiers and a bulldozer at the village of a-Rifa'iya, which lies east of Yatta in the Hebron District, and demolished the home of a family of eight, including six children.

   



Three Palestinian families have been forced to live in the open after Israeli authorities ordered them to raze their own houses in East Jerusalem.

House demolitions in the occupied city have seen a sharp increase since the start of 2019

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The criminal settler, Ofer Hanna assaults the human activists near
Cortoba School and Shuhada Street kindergarten in Shuhada Street in
Hebron

    





Israeli settler criminal Ofer Hanna assaults the activist in the
orgnization of Human Rights Defenders Zaidan Sharbati with an
international group on Shuhada Street in the center of Hebron, when he
was accompanies the students and children's of the Cortoba School as
part of the accommodation and protection program implemented by the
Human Rights Defenders organization in the schools that are subject to
the continued occupation violations.

   





On 27 Nov. 2019, three soldiers came three times to the home of the
a-Tabib family in the village of ‘Izbat a-Tabib in Qalqiliya District to
remove Palestinian flags the family had hung on the fence of their
home. The family hung the flags up again every time. At around 6:30
P.M., the three soldiers returned while the family was sitting in the
yard and took the flags down again. Bian a-Tabib (53), the father of the
family, related in a testimony he gave B’Tselem:
I started arguing with the soldiers. They insisted on taking the flags
down and confiscating them. They said I wasn’t allowed to hang flags on
the fence of my house, only indoors. I tried to explain that the
Palestinian flag is a legitimate flag and that it’s my right to hang it
around my house. But the soldier said: “I don’t want to see the
Palestinian flag and I don’t like it.” After we argued for about five
minutes, the soldiers left, taking the flags with them

  





Palestinian security chief Mohammed Dahlan was involved in mercenary
operations in Palestine and Yemen, and was expelled from Palestine's
Fatah party. Evidence of his involvement in the 2016 coup attempt in
Turkey reveals his operations are more extensive than previously thought

  

Khadra Muhammad Hasan al-Zuwaidi, 85, was born in the Palestinian village of Dimra.

Dimra was a village in historic Palestine that was ethnically cleansed by Zionist paramilitary forces in 1948 and replaced with the Erez Kibbutz, a type of colony.

Part of Dimra fell into the perimeter of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, and the other, larger part of the village fell under Israeli control outside the besieged territory.

Al-Zuwaidi married a Palestinian man from Beit Hanoun and stayed there.

“We left Dimra with gunshots behind us,” al-Zuwaidi told The Electronic Intifada.

“We were happy. The Zionists came and caused us a catastrophe. They left us no land, they left us no gardens or fields.”

“The earth used to give us baskets of produce,” she said. “No longer.”

In the video, al-Zuwaidi can see her land across the boundaries of the Gaza Strip, but cannot go there.

“If we attempt to go now, we’d get shot.”

Al-Zuwaidi said villagers mourn the land “the same way we mourn a child in a cemetery.”

Video by Nebal Hijo, Ahmed Abu Kmail, Ibrahim Ramadan, Shuaib Abu Jahal, Emad Khalil Nour Zakkout and Khalil Abu Shammala

  





Omar Hajajleh is a local school bus driver in the occupied West Bank
village of al-Walaja.

Al-Walaja lies between the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem and
occupied East Jerusalem.

In 2015, Israel built the separation wall directly through Hajajleh’s
land, cutting off his family home from the rest of the village.

The only way for the family to access the village is through a tunnel
and past a steel gate that only they have remote control access to.

Due to a series of barriers placed by Israeli occupation forces, a
roadblock now lies between children of the al-Walaja village and their
school on the other side.

Hajajleh found himself uniquely positioned to take local children to
school as only he had access to the valley leading to the school.

As is shown in the video, Hajajleh takes the children halfway to school
in one bus and walks them past a permanent Israeli roadblock and loads
the children onto a second bus and continue to school.

Hajajleh fears that the road he takes may soon be closed off by the
wall, which is still being built by Israeli occupation forces.

Video by Akram al-Wa’ra and Nidal al-Waheidi

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A group of pro-Palestinian activists from Jewish Voice for Peace
disrupted a speech by former US Secretary of State John Kerry at a Joe
Biden campaign rally in Sioux City.

  





As the Middle East continues to shift in terms of dynamics and politics,
the music scene in Gaza remains stagnant.


There are a lack of break out artists in Gaza and female musicians are
even more scarce, explains Hamada Nasrallah, lead singer of SOL Band

  





On 18 October 2019, settlers assaulted farmers from the ‘Eid family as
they harvested olives on their land east of the village of Burin. The
unauthorized settlement outpost of Givat Ronen is located nearby. The
settlers threw stones at the Palestinians and stole a sack full of
olives and plastic sheets used to catch olives shaken from the trees.
Soldiers arrived and ordered the Palestinians to leave, while arresting
none of the assailants

   





On the morning of 21 October 2019, at around 9:30 A.M., some 20
settlers, some with guns and dogs, assaulted residents of Qusrah who
were picking olives on their own land. The settlers then set fire to the
front of a house in the village and went on to throw stones at a
chicken coop and at residents who drove up to protect the coop. Border
Police officers who arrived did nothing to protect the residents and
their property, and in fact hurled teargas canisters at them. Four cars
were damaged and some 100 chickens died

  

part of a lecture 5.11.2019 at the University of Zurich by investigative journalist David Sheen

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Fatah anniversary, Friday 3.1.2012 protest against the occupation on
the land of Al-Mughayir in the north-east of the Ramallah district

   





part of a lecture 5.11.2019 at the University of Zurich by investigative journalist David Sheen

   





The Real News Network's Marc Steiner and Shir Hever discuss the upcoming
election, corruption charges against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu, and more in 2 videos.

  



part of a lecture 5.11.2019 at the University of Zurich by investigative journalist David Sheen

   



part of a lecture 5.11.2019 at the University of Zurich by investigative journalist David Sheen