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.
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