Friday, March 29, 2019
On 8 March 2019, at a demonstration in Beit Sira, Ramallah District, to
protest the killing of two Palestinians, an ambulance found itself
amidst the clashes. As it tried to drive away, an officer ordered the
driver at gunpoint to shut off the engine and hand over the keys. The
ambulance was detained for about 15 minutes. Interfering with the work
of medical crews or causing them harm is prohibited. There were no
grounds for threatening, detaining or endangering the EMTs. These
actions by the security forces are but another example of their
disregard for the lives of Palestinians, conduct always carried out with
impunity
Interval between time Palestinian car hit Israeli troops near village of
Kafr Ni’ma and the fatal shooting of two of the car’s passengers raises
grave concerns (video)
On Mon., 4 March 2019, at around 2:30
A.M., a Palestinian car hit a military jeep. The car also hit an
officer, seriously injuring him, and a Border Police officer, who
sustained mild injuries. Two of the three Palestinians in the car, Yusef
‘Anqawi and Amir Dar Daraj, were fatally shot and the third was
arrested. Video footage of the incident reveals that the two men were
shot only four and a half minutes after the collision. This time gap,
the IDF Spokesperson’s refusal to explain it, and the confiscation of
footage from a nearby security camera all raise grave concerns as to the
circumstances in which the two men were killed
The Knesset elections are approaching, and the parties rarely offer
appropriate solutions to the conflict. Most of the candidates focus on
who will bomb Gaza harder and at the same time spread vague slogans
about a "political settlement." We met with five political figures, from
a young man from Gaza from the initiators of the marches to the Peace
Now movement, trying to learn the solutions of political movements from
the left side of the map to the conflict
On 19 March 2019, at around 12:30
P.M., after school had let out, Yazan Idris (9) and his brother Tayyem
(7) came running back to Ziyad Jaber Elementary School, Hebron. They
reached the door to the principal’s office and stood there crying.
Seconds later, an officer and a soldier ran into the school and reached
the principal’s office, saying they had come to arrest the boys for
allegedly throwing stones. The officer grabbed Yazan by the hand; a
teacher took Tayyem into the principal’s office and shut the door to
keep the child safe. The officer responded by threatening to arrest the
teachers if they kept him from taking the boys. The officer opened the
door and an argument ensued between the teachers and the soldiers, four
more of whom had arrived as reinforcements, with the teachers trying to
extricate Yazan. The soldiers would not relent, and ultimately took him
from the school by force, pushing the teachers away. After leaving the
school grounds, the soldiers threw a stun grenade in the street. They
then took Yazan Idris to the Worshiper’s Road Checkpoint, which the
military had installed about 40 meters away from the school. After an
hour or so of verbal arguments with the school staff who followed them
there, and with Yazan’s mother who came to the checkpoint, Yazan was let
go
At around 9:00 A.M. yesterday, 20 March 2019, Civil Administration
personnel came with a military and Border Police escort and two
bulldozers to the Palestinian community of Khirbet a-Tuba in the area of
Masafer Yatta, which lies in the South Hebron Hills. The force
demolished a tin-roofed concrete house that was home to a family of six,
one of them a child. It also confiscated a water tank, three solar
panels and related equipment from the same family.
The force then continued south to the Palestinian community of Maghayir
al-'Abid, where it demolished a livestock pen at around 11:00
A.M., and further south to Khirbet al-Halawah, demolishing a house
built of blocks and wooden panels that was home to a family of three,
including a child, and also a mosque made of mud and stones
Saturday, March 23, 2019
Rachel Corrie was a 23-year-old American peace activist who was crushed
to death in Gaza by an Israeli bulldozer on March 16, 2003. On Reality
Asserts Itself, Craig and Cindy Corrie tell Paul Jay, "we inherited from
our daughter a cause"; her experiences "completely changed our view of
the whole situation." A Replay of our 2015 interview.
3 videos.
Following Israel's expulsion of the TIPH observer group from Hebron last
month, a group of Palestinian activists from the city formed their own
team of observers to fill in the gaps. Issa Amro and his team of
observers head out every morning to the Tel Rumeida neighborhood in
Hebron's Old City and stand watch as children make their way to school.
The kids must pass through several checkpoints monitored by armed
soldiers, and streets that are patrolled by notoriously violent
settlers. In the month since they began their work, Amro's team have
been given more than 10 military orders to stop work, and have been
attacked by settlers several times. Amro told Mondoweiss that since TIPH
was expelled, the situation in Hebron has gotten a lot worse.
Mondoweiss followed the team around one morning, and in the span of half
an hour, the group, including our cameraman, were attacked and harassed
by Israeli settlers, while one international activist who was filming
the altercation was arrested by police.
Video: Yumna Patel & Akram al-Wa'ara
Friday, March 15, 2019
Al Haq’s director Shawan Jabarin discusses a new report exposing the
complex system of restrictions Israeli authorities impose to control
access to Palestinian territory and to stop family reunification. The
consequences is to slowly force Palestinians out to preserve a Jewish
majority in areas controlled byIsrael.
Hebron - Palestine,11th of March 2019
When I was on my way back on Monday ,11th of March to my house on
Shuhada Street, I bought some necessities for the house. I crossed from
the usual military checkpoint to be called the Palestinians on behalf of
the Shuhada Street checkpoint. At 2:30pm I went to the military
checkpoint. I was checked by the soldiers in order they know if I have
number in the army list which is given to the families living inside the
military checkpoints, such as Shuhada Street and Tel Rumeida. After
checking the electronic gate, I went to the last gate, where one of the
soldiers made the gate turn suddenly in the oppsite direction. I was
injured in my head and lost consciousness. The people and friends took
me to the hospital for treatment. I was in a coma after my injury and I
was not cured of the coma until after I arrived at the hospital. I was
given medicine to take.
The attack on the day is intended because I document many violations of
the occupation by the Human Rrights Defenders' group, especially after
the Israeli occupation forces forced the TIPH to end their work in
Hebron.
On the same day, at 7:30am,
from the school of Qórtoba, when I was documented a violation by the
occupation soldiers against the children in the school, where we were
trying to fill the void created by the absence of TIPH forces in Hebron.
The occupation soldiers kicked me out from the area on the pretext that
it is a closed military zone without any military order or written map
showing the area or the date of the prohibition.
Therefore, the crime of the occupation today was intended and its goal
of revenge and intimidation, until I stop my activities in the Human
Rrights Defenders' group documenting the crimes of the occupation
Palestine - Hebron,10th of March 2019
Watch how Israeli Occupation Forces kick out International activists
from Shahadeh Street and from near the Qirbat elementary school that is
under constant threat by the occupation and settlers. Accompanying the
Israeli occupation a familiar face , none other than extremist Zionist
settler Ofer Ohanna
Palestine - Hebron,10th of March 2019
It’s not easy getting an education , or being a educator under
occupation. Yet again another day just like everyday students and staff
alike are constantly harassed, and terrorized by Settlers, and Israeli
occupation at the Qrtoba school in Hebron . The school staff and
students are targeted and under threat of savages every single day of
their life
Saturday, March 9, 2019
Israel/Palestine News
Rabbi David Mivasair, Corey Balsam, and Ismail Zayid discuss their joint
efforts to revoke the JNF’s charity status in Canada, but the Canadian
authorities have a long history of supporting Israeli colonization in
Palestine. www.stopthejnf.ca.
Israeli soldiers shot and killed two Palestinians in the occupied West
Bank in the early hours of this morning, injuring a third.
The pair have been identified by the Palestinian Ministry of Health as
20-year-old Amir Mahmoud Daraj from Kharbatha Al-Misbah, west of
Ramallah near Israel’s Separation Wall, and 20-year-old Yousef Raed
Anqawi from the neighbouring village of Beit Sira. The third has been
identified as Haytham Basel Alqam from Safa, also west of Ramallah,
though his condition remains unknown.
Israeli forces today released Palestinian MP Khalida Jarrar after
detaining her for 20 months under administrative detention.
A member of the Palestinian Legislative Council and leader of the
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Jarrar was arrested on 2
July 2017 after occupation forces stormed her house in the occupied West
bank city of Ramallah. She was immediately placed under administrative
detention – imprisonment without charge or trial.
Progressive Issues Town Hall at #Busboys14th with Congressional Progressive Caucus co-chairs Reps. Pramila Jayapal and Mark Pocan, and Reps. Rashida Tlaib and IlhanOmar.
Friday, March 1, 2019
For 15 years, the Ministry of Education has been providing a hot meal
for elementary school students. How does this actually happen? Is the
response of the hot meal suitable for different populations? What do
parents think about how the law is implemented and what are their
suggestions for improvement?
A group of young Palestinians launched a new video game application for
Android phones to 'counter Israeli attempts to Judaise' the Muslim sites
inside the Old City of Jerusalem.
'Protector of Al-Aqsa', launched by Burj Al-Luqluq Social Center Society
in early February, simulates Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock.
It is designed to introduce the mosque to the application users by
allowing them to wander inside and outside it.
Mohamed Saleh, the coordinator of Burj Al-Luqluq Social Center Society,
indicated: “We are trying to take advantage of children’s attraction to
electronic games. We intend to take them on tour inside Al-Aqsa Mosque,
and to introduce them to its different sites, as the game requires each
player to answer specific questions about the mosque to obtain the
guardian rank."
A study by the women of MachsomWatch: Muslim houses of worship in the
West Bank that are trapped inside settlements or in nature reserves. As a
result, the Palestinians' right to worship in their holy places is
violated because of the lack of access to prayer and even for the
maintenance of the holy sites
Hebron - Palestine ,22nd of February 2019
A massive demonstration organized by the national campaign and to lift
the closures of Hebron -Dismantling of the Ghetto and Human Rights
Defenders orgnization on the 25th anniversary of the massacre of the
Ibrahimi Mosque and and rejected the deal of the century, which is
trying to impose a US president Trump.in Hebron today Friday .
Gaza's hospitals have been thrown into crisis mode once again, as they
face another massive fuel crisis. Gaza's health ministry has warned that
due to Israel's blocking of millions of dollars in Qatari aid, hundreds
of patients across the besieged coastal enclave are at risk. Ashraf
al-Qidra, the spokesperson of the ministry, told Mondoweiss that they
need 300,000 liters of fuel as soon as possible to avoid the shutdown of
several hospitals.
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