Friday, December 27, 2019
Hadil Ghaben, 7, was killed in her house in Beit Lahia, the Gaza Strip, on 10 April 2006, from a
mortar shell fired by the Israeli military. The incident was never investigated. Her parents,
Muhammad and Safiyeh Ghaben, talk about the incident 13 years later.
Just the tip of the iceberg is about the past, but ahead of us all lies a future that must bring a
different reality, one in which all of us – all 14 million people living on the bit of land between
the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea – live in equality, enjoy the full benefit of human
rights, and take part in determining our future. A reality in which the law will no longer be used
for the advantage of the rulers to undermine subjects, but genuinely serves to safeguard
human rights, everyone’s human rights.
Filmed in November 2019
Saturday, December 21, 2019
This morning, 17 Dec. 2019, at around 8:00 A.M., Jerusalem Municipality
personnel came with Border Police officers and two bulldozers to the
neighborhood of al-‘Esawiyah in East Jerusalem. The force demolished an
apartment that was awaiting habitation on the second floor of a
two-story building. The first floor, which consists of two apartments,
is home to two families – one with four members, two of them children,
and the other with three members, one of them a child. During the
demolition, the ceiling of the first floor was damaged and the floor may
no longer be livable.
The second floor was meant to be inhabited by one of the families, which
lives in crowded conditions on the first floor, and was made accessible
for the father, who uses a wheelchair. The family’s home has been
demolished before.
Friday, December 13, 2019
Israel/Palestine News
Friday December13 2019 protest against the blocking of the road from
Kafr Qaddum to nearby Nablus since 2003, against the Israeli occupation
and against apartheid
Jamie Stern-Weiner discusses his collection of essays, articles, and
studies that examine the allegations of anti-Semitism in the British
Labour Party. The book finds extensive evidence that accusations have
been fabricated in order to delegitimize the Labour Party, and that
party leader Jeremy Corbyn is struggling against a wave of fake news,
manipulation and lies.
Friday, December 6, 2019
Samar Othman al-Bea is a beekeeper in the northern Gaza town of Beit
Hanoun.
Israel killed Othman, Samar’s father, in a 2006 attack on the town. He
was 50 years old.
Othman was sitting with neighbors on the front porch of the house when
Israel invaded the area and destroyed the bee farm, according to Samar.
“That land was a source of income for our home,” Samar told The
Electronic Intifada.
Two of Samar’s brothers were also injured in the attack.
Samar then took it upon herself to revive the farm and carry on her
father’s work.
“I manage a bee farm in a society where the farms are run by men,” Samar
said.
“It changed my personality and increased my confidence.”
Video by Ola Mousa and Yousef Mashharawi.
Residents of the southern Hebron neighborhood of al-Harika have suffered
incessant soldier and military-backed settler harassment ever since the
settlement of Kiryat Arba was built next door in 1972. In five months
this year, we documented five such attacks. These and other cases
previously documented by B'Tselem illustrate how fragile, exposed and
unpredictable life is in the neighborhood. The intolerable living
conditions created by Israel’s policy drive Palestinians to abandon
homes and businesses in the neighborhood.
When Israeli soldiers shot Karam Qawasmi in the back and laughed as they
did so in May 2018, he stayed silent about his story for over a year,
saying he had no evidence to prove the crimes committed against him. But
when the video of the officers shooting him for entertainment was
leaked to the media earlier this month, Qawasmi said he finally had the
proof, and the strength he needed to come forward and tell his story.
Now, Qawasmi recounts the terrifying day last year when his search for a
job near a checkpoint quickly turned into a struggle for his life.
Friday, November 29, 2019
Friday, November 22, 2019
Friday, November 15, 2019
Israel/Palestine News
Provoking a conflict with Gaza led to the deaths of 32 Palestinians. But
was the real objective the creation of an emergency government so
Netanyahu can remain in power?
Palestinian groups have launched a salvo of rockets towards Israel after
an Israeli air attack killed a top Islamic Jihad commander in Gaza
City.
That has led to more Israeli air attacks, which have since killed
another eight Palestinians.
However caretaker Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was not
seeking to escalate the attacks.
Al Jazeera's Harry Fawcett reports from southern Israel.
Twenty-five years after the signing of a peace treaty between Jordan and
Israel, the Jordanian government has refused to renew a clause that
allowed Israeli tourists and farmers visa-free access to two large
stretches of Jordanian territory.
That area runs along the border between the two countries.
As Al Jazeera's Bernard Smith reports, it is another sign the
relationship is under strain over Israel's treatment of the
Palestinians.
Saturday, November 9, 2019
Israel/Palestine News
Friday November 8 protest against the blocking of the road from Kafr
Qaddum to nearby Nablus since 2003, against the Israeli occupation and
against apartheid. International activist arrested
Saturday, November 2, 2019
WhatsApp sued Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group on Tuesday, accusing
it of helping government spies break into the phones of roughly 1,400
users across four continents in a hacking spree whose targets included
diplomats, political dissidents, journalists, and senior government
officials, Reuters reports.
Friday, October 25, 2019
Friday, October 18, 2019
Israel/Palestine News
Friday October 18 protest against the blocking of the road from Kafr
Qaddum to nearby Nablus since 2003, against the Israeli occupation and
against apartheid. International activist arrested.
Basim Jamal Abu Obeid used his tuk-tuk truck for everything before he
was injured.
Abu Obeid regularly participated in the Great March of Return protests
along the Israel-Gaza boundary fence and used his tuk-tuk to transfer
injured Palestinians to medical units.
On 29 June 2018, Israeli snipers shot Abu Obeid in the leg while he was
helping to evacuate another injured Palestinian.
“My situation was getting worse at the European Hospital [in Gaza]. My
family decided that I must travel,” Abu Obeid told The Electronic
Intifada.
After spending one month in Egypt, doctors decided to amputate his leg.
When Abu Obeid came home, his three children had trouble understanding
their father’s condition.
“When I returned to Gaza and I entered my house, my children were afraid
to approach me,” Abu Obeid said.
Abu Obeid is hoping to receive an advanced pair of crutches to ease his
pain.
Video by Ola Mousa and Fathi al-Zumaily.
Friday, October 11, 2019
On 23 July 2019 we reported on the harassment that the residents of the
Palestinian neighborhood of al-‘Esawiyah, East Jerusalem, had been
subjected to by the Israeli police since June. During one of the raids,
Muhammad ‘Abeid - a 21-year-old neighborhood resident - was killed. Over
the summer, B’Tselem documented ten cases of police brutality against
local residents, three of which are shown in this video. Police
harassment is an inseparable part of the Israeli policy in East
Jerusalem, which seeks to perpetuate a Jewish majority in the city.
Friday, October 4, 2019
Ismail Ziada, a Dutch Palestinian who lost six family members when
Israel bombarded his home in Gaza, is taking Benny Gantz, the leader of
Israel's Blue and White Party, to court for killing his family. Prof.
Hilla Dayan, who observed the proceedings, discusses the case and its
impact on Israeli politics.
Friday, September 27, 2019
Israel/Palestine News
A conversation with Adalah, the Adalah Justice Project, and Jewish Voice
for Peace, featuring Adalah Legal Center's Ari Remez and Amjad Iraqi.
September 26, 2019
Sahar Francis, leader of Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights, talks about Israeli soldiers raiding her office at 2:00 a.m., causing extensive damage and seizing computers, valuable documents, and materials.
Miqdad Abedelqader describes the state of the demolition of the city of
Qalansuwa interviews the mayor and city engineer, and tries to
understand why the state is demolishing homes on private land, while not
providing housing solutions and approving outline plans for Arab
communities in a reasonable time. Are Jewish homes also being
demolished before the construction plan is approved? Miqdadad
Abedelqader is responsible for people's committees in the Traingle and
the Negev.
Released in conjunction with B’Tselem’s report Playing the Security
Card: Israeli Policy in Hebron as a Means to Effect Forcible Transfer of
Local Palestinians, the video shows how Israel has been using security
excuses to implement a policy that has made life unbearable for the
Palestinian residents of Hebron’s city center (the Old City), in an
effort to drive them from their homes. This policy relies on the extreme
regime of separation Israel has been implementing in the city for the
past 25 years – ever since the massacre of Palestinians carried out by
Baruch Goldstein – so as to enable a small number of settlers to live in
the heart of a crowded Palestinian city. This policy violates the
prohibition against forcible transfer, which constitutes a war crime.
Summary: https://www.btselem.org/publications/...
Friday, September 20, 2019
Israel/Palestine News
Madlin Abu Jayyab teaches students in the Gaza Strip a new way to solve
mathematical problems.
“Fast math” uses abstract mental skills without relying on a calculator.
“We teach skills that complete the academic training they receive in
school and increases the intellectual ability and excellence of the
student,” Abu Jayyab told The Electronic Intifada.
“It makes them faster and more confident.”
Students find value in the time they spend with teachers one-on-one,
something they’re not afforded in the school classroom.
“School mathematics is limited by the curriculum and by the questions
and methods to solve them. But here we have several ways,” 15-year-old
Wafa Faris told The Electronic Intifada.
“Time is limited at school [and] teacher supervision is not always
available.”
Video by Ruwaida Amer and Sanad Ltefa.
On Wednesday, 11 September 2019, at around 8:00
A.M., Israeli Civil Administration personnel arrived with soldiers,
Border Police officers, a bulldozer and three diggers at the Masafer
Yatta area in the South Hebron Hills. In Khirbet al-Mufaqarah, the
troops demolished three pre-fabricated buildings and a tent that had
housed four families, 18 people in all, including eight children. Later,
they to Khirbet Khilet a-Dabe’, where they demolished two cinder block
and concrete structures that were the homes of two families, with a
total of nine members, including five children.
Short clip from the Deutsche Welle film "Elor Azaria, Murderer or Hero?"
– featuring an interview with me (David Sheen) and footage shot by Dan
Cohen. Midway through this interview by the documentary filmmakers from
Germany, I was interrupted and harassed by an Israeli ultra-nationalist
who couldn't stand to hear my commentary and criticism. The filmmakers
got the quotes they needed, anyway. Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrNyb
Friday, September 13, 2019
Israeli aircraft struck in Gaza on Wednesday hours after rockets from
the Palestinian enclave triggered sirens that forced Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu off the stage at an election rally in Israel, reports
Reuters.
The Israeli military said 15 targets were hit, including a weapons
manufacturing facility, a naval compound used by militants and tunnels
belonging to Hamas, the dominant armed force in Gaza.
#Buma_Inbar,
one of the founders of the Joint Palestinian-Israeli Bereaved Families
Forum and the Alternative Memorial Day ceremony, is a bereaved father
who devotes his activities to humanitarian work. In a personal
interview, he talks about escorting patients from #Gaza and their families to Israeli hospitals, #humanitarian_activities for children, and doing peace for peace between Palestinian society and Israeli society.
Protesters took to the streets of London today to stand up against
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s surprise visit.
Netanyahu announced yesterday that he would be visiting the UK to speak
with the embattled Prime Minister Boris Johnson, as both men’s political
careers hang by a thread.
Rea
Friday, September 6, 2019
Israel/Palestine News
Kafr Qaddum Friday 6.9.2019 village protest against the blocking of
their road to Nablus since 2003, against the occupation and against
apartheid.
Omar Hajajleh is a local school bus driver in the occupied West Bank
village of al-Walaja.
Al-Walaja lies between the city of Bethlehem and occupied East
Jerusalem.
In 2015, Israel built its 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 can open with a remote control.
A series of walls and barriers placed by Israeli occupation forces
separates the children of al-Walaja village from their school.
Hajajleh found himself uniquely positioned to take local children to
school as only he has 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. He then
loads the children onto a second vehicle and continues to school.
Hajajleh fears that the road he takes may soon be closed off by the
wall, which is being expanded by Israeli occupation forces.
Video by Akram al-Wa’ra
Suddenly a conversation is created, suddenly intimacy is created - and
all fears dissolve - we do the opposite of what our government is doing -
trying to scare, trying to keep away". Thousands of Palestinian
children and their families arrived on the coast of Tel Aviv this summer
for days of fun at the beach. The activities are organized by women
from MachsomWatch and Israeli peace activities, along with Palestinian
peace activists from the West Bank
An exhibition held at the White House Gallery at Kibbutz Nir Oz, which
presented testimony about the deportation of residents of the
Palestinian village to a kind that resided on the site, sparked an
argument among the exhibitors about the fear of exercising the
Palestinians' right of return. The White House, founded by Ahmed Abu
Satha, a resident of Ma'ayan, whose grandson now lives as a refugee in
Khan Yunus, was interviewed.
, Also interviewed Salman Abu Setha, a geographer and historian who was
deported from Ma'ayan at the age of 11, is now living in England, and
Ayelet Ram, an ambulance driver from a Kibbutz nearby, whose parents
lived in the white house after 48' and other visitors.
The exhibition included maps, photos and videos with testimonies from
the village's expulsion, which deal with the history of the place, with
reference to Jewish and Palestinian residents for the possibility of
living in a shared spaces
Being able to identify the bus number, or being able to find mobile contacts, are basic things we don't even think about. But in Israel 2019, there are women who need to complete their education in order to succeed in basic tasks that require reading and writing. While everyone is talking about the elections, a budget of 2.5 million NIS that can be completed by educating Bedouin women in the Negev - is going to evaporate.
Friday, August 30, 2019
Friday, August 23, 2019
This dabke team in Gaza is comprised of Palestinians who use
wheelchairs.
Dabke is a Levantine folk dance often performed at weddings and other
celebrations.
Abeer al-Herkali, 25, has loved the traditional dance since she was
young.
“At celebrations, I would wait for the dabke segments and I would watch
them. I wanted to do what they were doing,” al-Herkali told The
Electronic Intifada.
She founded the team in January. It now has nine members and they train
at the Peace Sport Club for Persons with Disability in Gaza City.
“People would look at me with pity, saying we wish we could help you,”
al-Herkali said. “The pitiful looks made me determined.”
The team members were determined to learn how to dance.
Dabke traditionally relies heavily on leg movement, but the team came up
with their own style.
“We substituted leg movements with our hands and we make some moves with
the wheelchair,” dancer Ali Mohammed Jibril said.
“We care so much about Palestinian tradition and Palestinian dabke,”
al-Herkali added.
“We work to improve it. Even though we’re people with disabilities,
we’re part of this homeland.”
Video by Amjad Ayman Yaghi, Yousef Mashharawi and Ahmed Abu Hatab.
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