Friday, November 30, 2018
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.
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!
Saturday, November 24, 2018
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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.”
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.
Saturday, November 10, 2018
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.
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
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