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Participants at the World Social Forum earlier this month in Montreal,
Canada took up the questions of tactics, organizing, and the role of
political parties in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement
against Israel

 

While Elizabeth May says no other parties, a strong stand for
Palestinian rights includes making Israel pay the appropriate economic
and political penalties for its clear violation of international law,
says Dimitri Lascaris

 



A demo in Billin.

 



Israeli policeman busts Palestinian donkey in the Jordan Valley.

 

August 19, 2016. Israeli military shoots high velocity teargas
projectiles in Kafr Kaddum during clashes with villagers who are
opposing their invasion.

 

August 19, 2016. An Israeli Border Police officer shoots a rubber coated steel bullet at demonstrators in Kafr Kaddum.

 

August 16, 2016. Israeli soldiers harass Palestinian and international human rights workers in Al Fawwar refugee camp.

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Whoever wrote this story should be fired or demoted.  The Negev is in Israel, not the West Bank.

 



David Rubin, former mayor of the West Bank settlement Shiloh, tells Fox News viewers Trump is the best candidate for Israel.

 

Palestinians have staged a demonstration in the city of Ramallah in
support of Palestinian hunger-striking prisoners in Israeli jails.
Participants called on the international community to end its silence
regarding the situation of the Palestinian prisoners and take action in
this regard.

 



Activist questions IDF about night exercise in Hebron.

 

August 14, 2016. Israeli Border Police and Army threaten Palestinian
young men and youth who refuse to move out of the way for them in Bab E
Zawiyeh, Hebron.

 

The Israeli army destroyed the home of a Palestinian in the occupied
West Bank. Israel frequently destroys the homes of Palestinians accused
of carrying out attacks against Israel.
Source: AFP

 

August 14, 2016. Israeli soldiers detain a Palestinian journalist who is
filming the settler tour in Bab E Zawiyeh, and demand he show them what
is on his camera.

 

Footage of the wreckage left behind by Israeli authorities’ Aug. 2016
demolitions in three Palestinian West Bank communities. The number of
homes Israel demolished in the West Bank from Jan. to Aug. 2016 is the
highest it has been since B’Tselem began recording demolitions that cite
“construction without a permit” in 2006. This is part of a policy to
step up demolitions, implemented while Israel is engaged in “structured
dialogue” on the matter with the EU, and despite international
condemnation in the Quartet’s July report.

 

Footage of the August 2016 demolition of a residential structure built
with EU aid in Um al-Kheir, a Palestinian community in the South Hebron
Hills. The number of homes Israel demolished in the West Bank from Jan.
to Aug. 2016 is the highest it has been since B’Tselem began recording
demolitions that cite “construction without a permit” in 2006. This is
part of a policy to step up demolitions, implemented while Israel is
engaged in “structured dialogue” on the matter with the EU, and despite
international condemnation in the Quartet’s July report.

 



Settlers from Mitspe Yair harass Palestinians & activists & the IDF doesn't do much.

 

August 10, 2016. Two Palesinian boys who were accused of hitting an
Israeli settler boy in a scuffle which, according to Palestinian
eyewitnesses, was started by him, are marched down by Israeli Border
Police officers and an officer who is their general. The boys were not
guilty, and were let go.

 

August 10, 2016. Israeli Border Police enter a Palestinian shop to look
for a boy who got into a scuffle with an Israeli settler boy.

 

August 10, 2016. A Palestinian man brings forward a child after the Border Police ordered him to do so.

Noticing me an activist filming, the commander orders one of his men to make him stop.

  



Another demo In Nabi Saleh.

 

Following recent threats against #BDS
activists by Israel's Minister of Public Security and Hasbara
(propaganda), Ronnie Barkan discusses the merits of BDS and of
international solidarity on Israeli TV.
Yaron London, a TV
personality with lifelong experience in television, goes into propaganda
mode the moment that the discussion strays from the designated
liberal-Zionist discourse.

 

August 12, 2016. Israeli Border Police harass Palestinians on their way to Ibrahimi Mosque.

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In a measure of collective punishment, following attacks perpetrated by
local Palestinians in early July, the Israeli military imposed strict
travel restrictions on Palestinians in the Hebron District, disrupting
the daily life and routine of nearly one million people. In al-Fawwar [refugee camp] ., home to 10,000 residents, the main entrance was closed and most of
the dirt roads leading to it were blocked off. B’Tselem field
researcher Musa Abu Hashhash filmed residents having no choice but to
walk on foot past the closed gate carrying heavy burdens.

 

Green Party shadow cabinet member Dimitri Lascaris says the passage of
the resolution in support BDS could embolden other Canadian parties to
take on the occupation.

 

8th Demolitions in Umm El Kheir by occupation forces

 



Another demo in Ni'ilin.

 

Over the last 30 years, the Palestinian residents of Susiya have faced
multiple waves of home demolitions by the Israeli state, in an attempt
to drive the residents off their land. Last week, Israel’s high court
placed the fate of the village and its 340 residents in the hands of
Israel's notoriously right-wing defense minister Avigdor Lieberman,
leaving it to him to decide whether the army will demolish nearly half
its structures. Today, Palestinians continue to protest these
demolitions and the takeover of their village.

 

Fasayel, one of the villages that been cruelty abused by occupation forces.

 


The IDF demolishes more homes in the West Bank, this time in the Jordan Valley village of Oja.

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Amal ‘Obeid: “Being a woman carpenter is very rare in Gaza. Because I’m
divorced, my status is not simple and I face social obstacles. But I
want to provide for myself and for my mother and daughter.”

The
demand for work in the Gaza Strip is enormous, with an unemployment rate
of some 40%. The major reason is the siege Israel has imposed on Gaza
for over a decade. To mark International Women’s Day, we spoke with
three women – a carpenter, a blacksmith, and a vegetable market laborer –
who are all trying to sustain families in this near-impossible economic
reality. Gazan women face a particularly trying challenge, as they must
deal not only with the dearth of work to match their skills, but also,
like women around the world, with a society in which women are
considered inferior and work harder for lower pay.

 

‘Ayesha Ibrahim: “I work as a blacksmith with my husband and sell the
products we make at the market. Our work is dangerous and bad for our
health, but it’s all we know how to do.”

 

Huda Abu Mustafa: “I am an older woman, but I have to carry heavy crates
and sit sorting vegetables on the floor for hours. It’s exhausting but I
must do it to provide for my mother and sister. We have no other source
of income and I have no other job opportunities.”

 



Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour is greeted at her home by supporters jubiliant about her release.

 

In September 2012, Israeli security forces put up a chain-link fence
along al-Ibrahimi Street in Hebron, separating the paved road from a
narrow, rough walkway. Since then, B’Tselem has twice documented
security forces denying Palestinians access to the paved road, despite
official claims that there is no such prohibition. On 25 July 2016,
B’Tselem volunteer Raed Abu Ramileh filmed a Border Police officer
seizing the bicycle of 8-year-old Anwar Burqan and throwing it in the
bushes for riding it down the paved road, which is reserved for
settlers.

 

"Smile, and the World Will Smile Back", a documentary film by the
al-Haddad family of Hebron made in collaboration with Ehab Tarabieh and
Yoav Gross -- volunteer photographers in B'Tselem's camera project and
filmmakers, respectively -- is to be screened as part of the short film
competition at the Berlinale International Film Festival.

The
film documents one winter's night at the al-Haddad home in Hebron. A
group of soldiers arrives for a routine night search there, for reasons
unknown to the family. Diaa and Shatha al-Hadaad, brother and sister,
pick up the home video camera and record the events as they unfold
throughout the night. The soldiers force Diaa to stand facing a wall,
saying they won't leave unless he stops smiling.

 

Of some 100,000 Palestinians who work in Israel daily, 63,000 have
permits and can enter Israel via one of 11 checkpoints. This past June,
during the fast of Ramadan, B’Tselem again documented the rough
conditions at two of the checkpoints: 300 and Qalandia. Even during
Ramadan, when workers fast all day, conditions at the checkpoints mean
they are forced to leave for work in the dead of night, wait in long
lines, and often sleep where they work, seeing their families only on
weekends. This is not a necessary evil but a deliberate choice by the
Israeli authorities. Whatever the reasoning for the choice, it is an
unconscionable and unacceptable one.
Filmed by: Musa Abu Hashash

Of some 100,000 Palestinians who work in Israel daily, 63,000 have
permits and enter Israel via one of 11 checkpoints. In June, during the
fast of Ramadan, B’Tselem again documented the rough conditions at two
of the checkpoints: 300 and Qalandia. While the latter has 5 lanes only
one is operational at the busiest times. Crowding is particularly bad on
Sundays, the first day of the workweek. These conditions mean workers
are forced to leave for work in the dead of night, wait in long lines,
and often sleep where they work, seeing their families only on weekends.
This is not a necessary evil but a deliberate choice by the Israeli
authorities. Whatever the reasons for the choice, it is an
unconscionable and unacceptable one.
Filmed by: Iyad Haddad