Friday, April 25, 2014
At approximately 7 am this morning,
Rami Rajabi, a six-year-old child, was 20 meters away from checkpoint 29
when he threw several pebbles in al-Khalil (Hebron).
As Rami
walked away towards his school, three Israeli soldiers burst out of an
alleyway, grabbed his arm, and detained him in the street.
After
approximately 20 minutes of pressure from locals and activists, the
child was released and was taken home by a friend of his family.
Friday, April 18, 2014
Israel/Palestine News
Almost a million Palestinians have been imprisoned since 1967, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees.
Palestinian refugees in the Aida
Refugee Camp have held a funeral ceremony for 40-year-old woman killed
by an Israeli gas canister which was shot into her home inside of the
camp. Palestinians in the West Bank are angry at Israel over raids
against Palestinians living in different parts of the occupied region.
A high ranking Hamas leader serving life in an Israeli prison---has begun
a hunger strike. Palestinian military leader Ibrahim Hamed is
protesting his move to solitary confinement. He was placed there three
months ago by prison officials for QUOTE suspicion of involvement in
forbidden activity. The Ramallah-based Palestinian Prisoners Club has
said over 200 Palestinians spread across numerous Israeli prisons will
join the fast to some degree. Some 1-thousand-five hundred Palestinian
prisoners ended a successful hunger strike in Israeli prisons in May of
20-12. In that incident, the incarcerated wanted visits from relatives
in Gaza and removal from solitary confinement.
A British Pathe film: In British Mandate Palestine, British forces guard Jerusalem during the Arab Revolt.
Friday, April 11, 2014
Israel/Palestine News
On Friday 28 March 2014, Shadi Sidr -- a volunteer with B'Tselem's
camera project in Hebron -- was in the street outside his home with his
brother and a neighbor. Soldiers who had gone up to the roof of the
house filmed the three Palestinians and aimed their weapons at them.
Sidr entered the house to protest these actions. Sidr went back outside
after he received an apology from one of the soldiers. Yet the soldiers
did not stop filming, and Sidr went back into the building. This time he
argued at length with the soldiers and filmed the exchange: Sidr
demanded that the soldiers explain their presence in his home; the
soldiers said Sidr was in their way and therefore must leave the
premises. Not only did the soldiers not explain their presence, they
even tried to apprehend Sidr's brother and his neighbor, both of whom
were completely uninvolved bystanders. When Sidr resisted arrest the
soldiers knocked his camera down and pepper-sprayed his face. Sidr's
mother, who was inside the house at the time, sustained a reaction to
the pepper-spray and had to be taken to hospital for treatment.
Throughout
the West Bank soldiers are allowed virtually unrestricted access to
Palestinian homes, entering without having to justify their actions to
the occupants. This state of affairs is particularly common and invasive
in Hebron's H2 area, with its constant Israeli military presence. In
this case, in addition to violating the sense of security of the home's
occupants, violating their privacy, property and normal routine, the
soldiers' response to Sidr's requests to explain their presence in his
home is extremely disturbing. The soldiers clearly felt that they are
not bound to provide any explanation whatsoever to the homeowner. Their
subsequent conduct seems to indicate that they detained the three men
for hours on end solely for punitive purposes, as punishment for Sidr's
persistence in trying to obtain an explanation for their presence on the
roof of his home.
Settler attacks have become
commonplace in the village of Azmot in the East of Nablus, a small
Palestinian village which lies adjacent to the Allon Moreh Settlement.
On
Friday, a group of Palestinian farmers were subjected to a fierce
attack by the Israeli security guarding the settlement, leading to one
villager Mohammad Agmad Radi Ibrahim being seriously injured with
multiple fractures from the attack. The group of farmers who had
accompanied Mohammad explained that the attack was unprovoked and
unjustified. The farmers explained that due to the villages proximity to
Israel's illegal settlement, both the farmers tending to their land and
the children playing in the area are left vulnerable to attacks. This
incident is just one of 399 recorded incidents of settlers violence
against Palestinians since 2013 according to the UN Office for the
Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
International hacker group Anonymous
has attacked hundreds of websites of Israeli ministries and
organizations as part of its protest against Tel Aviv's
anti-Palestinians policies.
Anonymous has said in a statement
that the attacks will not stop until QUOTE a police state becomes a free
state and Palestine is free. The group launched its first cyber-attacks
against Israel during the assault on Gaza in November 2012. Around 700
Israeli websites including that of the Foreign Ministry were taken down.
Following the attack, Anonymous also posted the personal data of
5-thousand Israeli officials online. Similar attacks were carried out on
April 7 last year during which the websites of the Israeli parliament,
ministries and other government organizations stopped operating for some
time.
Friday, April 4, 2014
The Palestinian Authority has released new figures highlighting the
Israeli seizure of land and resources from Palestinians. According to
the report, the Israeli land grabs, stealing water resources, housing
demolitions and settlement expansions have escalated since 2012. Rights
groups say the Israelis have used the so-called peace talks with the PA
to buy time for all that.
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