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/...

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.

   





Our guests analyze Israeli political paralysis, the power of the right,
and what having the Arab coalition be the largest opposition party might
mean

  

   





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. 

   





Lawyer John Philpott discusses BDS Quebec’s campaign against cyber-cooperation between Hydro-Quebec and IEC

  





The IDF welds shut a door to a house.

  





Excavator brought to Yatta.

  





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

Israel/Palestine News

  





Shir Hever talks about the slow election cycle in Israel, the second in
the same year, in which the parties make minimal effort to campaign.
Opinion polls predict the same result as the election last April,
meaning that no clear winner can be identified

   





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

   

How does the Democratic Union intend to eradicate poverty in Israeli society? And what do the Joint List, Blue White party and Labor- Gesher party offer to do about it? And who did not come to the election panel dealing with poverty eradication and food insecurity in Israeli society? Watch a brief tasting from an election panel (3/9/2019) organized by The Forum for Fighting Poverty in collaboration with rabbis for human rights.

  





"He’s just a small child...why did they shoot him twice?”

A Palestinian mother grieves the loss of her 14-year-old son Khaled. He
was one of two teenagers killed by Israeli fire during Friday protests

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.

    

On 4 August 2019, Israeli soldiers stopped B’Tselem field researcher Nasser Nawaj’ah at a military checkpoint near the Palestinian village of Khirbet Susiya, the South Hebron Hills, when they saw he had B’Tselem reports in his car. One of the soldiers at the checkpoint claimed that they had to obtain confirmation that the reports do not constitute incitement material. About 10 minutes later, after the soldiers consulted with their superiors, Nawaj’ah was allowed to go.

  





Palestinians in Hebron protest Netanyahu visit.

  



Shouting match winds down.

   



The IDF stops a family.

   





Palestinians & the IDF get into a shouting match.

   





IDF soldiers arrest Palestinians.

  





Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was met with protesters when
he visited London to meet with Boris Johnson, just weeks out from
Israeli elections.

   

On 4 September 2019 the British city of Sheffield officially recognised the State of Palestine. The Palestinian Ambassador to the UK Dr Husam Zomlot attended a ceremony at the city council and raised the Palestinian flag.

  





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

    

The ACLU’s Jay Stanley says that the Border Patrol's repurposing of surveillance technology and drones could open doors that put our liberty and privacy at risk

  





Israeli columnist Gideon Levy confronts the journalists, the depth of
racism in Israeli society, and asks which is the murderous society

   





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

  



The IDF ransacks Palestinian house.

   





Soldier searches thru every single box Palestinians have

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.