Tuesday, March 3, 2020
CAN'T STOP. WON'T STOP.
I've decided to continue this blog, but on a much more erratic basis. I'll update it when I feel like it.
On Wednesday, 19 February 2020, at around 10:00 A.M., Civil Administration personnel came with a Border Police escort, two bulldozers and a crane truck to a school in Khirbet Susiya in the South Hebron Hills. The forces confiscated a caravan usually used by the school’s fourth grade, which has five students. Forty-seven of the community’s children attend grades one to nine at the school. The school has been under renovation for the past two weeks, and the caravan was removed from the area temporarily by the residents and used for storage. Border police officers violently pushed and arrested a resident who protested the confiscation. He was released the next day, after depositing bail
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On 21 Feb. 2020, during the weekly protest against the closure of the
eastern entrance to the village of Qadum following the expansion of the
settlement of Kedumim, an army bulldozer pushed boulders, placed on the
road to obstruct soldiers, towards residents at high speed. The boulders
hit a journalist and 10-year-old boy and damaged an ambulance and
private car. The military’s well-documented, violent oppression of these
demonstrations forms an illegal formal policy of deterring the
residents’ legitimate protest against violation of their rights
Saturday, February 15, 2020
Israel/Palestine News
In the video, one of the occupation army officers threatens the activist
of the human rights defenders, Badee Dwaik to arrest him and was
assaulted while documenting the settlers' attack on the citizens in
Jabal Al-Rahma from the city of Hebron last night
Khadra Muhammad Hasan al-Zuwaidi, 85, was born in the Palestinian village of Dimra.
Dimra was a village in historic Palestine that was ethnically cleansed by Zionist paramilitary forces in 1948 and partially replaced with the Erez Kibbutz, a type of colony.
Part of Dimra fell into the perimeter of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, and the other, larger part of the village fell under Israeli control outside the besieged territory, according to al-Zuwaidi.
“We left Dimra with gunshots behind us,” al-Zuwaidi told The Electronic Intifada.
“We were happy. The Zionists came and inflicted a catastrophe. They left us no land, they left us no gardens or fields.”
Al-Zuwaidi married a Palestinian man from Beit Hanoun and stayed there.
“The earth used to give us baskets of produce,” she said. “No longer.”
In the video, al-Zuwaidi can see her land across the boundaries of the Gaza Strip, but cannot go there.
“If we attempt to go now, we’d get shot.”
Al-Zuwaidi said villagers mourn the land “the same way we mourn a child in a grave.”
Video by Nebal Hijo, Ahmed Abu Kmail, Ibrahim Ramadan, Nour Zakkout and Khalil Abu Shammala
Palestinians have welcomed a United Nations report on companies with business ties to illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
In a statement, the UN said it had identified 112 business entities with reasonable grounds to conclude they have ties with Israeli settlements.
Among these was the US-based home-renting company Airbnb.
In 2018, Airbnb said it would remove listings in the West Bank, where Israel has built more than 200 settlements.
Omar Awadallah, the head of public administration for UN human rights organisations at the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, talks to Al Jazeera
A Middle East plan that will bring neither peace nor stability and leave Palestinians with a fragmented state.
That is how Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas described US President Donald Trump's Middle East plan at the United Nations Security Council.
Under the plan, Israel would annex parts of the occupied West Bank.
But Palestinians did not get the backing they wanted on a draft Security Council resolution that would have censured the plan.
Al Jazeera's James Bays reports from the United Nations in New York
Israel has put a ban on Palestinian agricultural exports which are transferred through Jordan, cutting off the occupied West Bank's only direct export route.
That is expected to cost the West Bank farmers millions of dollars in revenue.
Israel's move is in response to Palestinians stopping the buying of Israeli beef in September.
Israel says the ban on goods through Jordan will only be lifted when Palestinians decide to resume buying its meat.
Al Jazeera's Raheela Mahomed reports
Facebook is taking an Israeli cyber surveillance firm to court next week, for allegedly hacking users of its encrypted messaging service WhatsApp.
The social media giant accused the NSO Group of hacking into the phones of nearly 1,400 users in October.
Among them were human rights activists, political dissidents and journalists.
The NSO Group disputes the allegations, promising to fight them vigorously.
Amazon Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos has previously said NSO could have provided the software that Saudi Arabia used to hack his phone.
Mazen Masri, an international law professor at City University of London, who has also been advising the plaintiffs in a case against the NSO Group in Israel, talks to Al Jazeera
It is strawberry harvest time for farmers in Gaza with most of the berries heading to consumers in the occupied West Bank.
But Israel’s blockade means getting them there is a challenge and Israel has also banned the use of certain fertilisers.
Al Jazeera's Stefanie Dekker reports from Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip
It is strawberry harvest time for farmers in Gaza with most of the berries heading to consumers in the occupied West Bank.
But Israel’s blockade means getting them there is a challenge and Israel has also banned the use of certain fertilisers.
Al Jazeera's Stefanie Dekker reports from Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip
It is strawberry harvest time for farmers in Gaza with most of the berries heading to consumers in the occupied West Bank.
But Israel’s blockade means getting them there is a challenge and Israel has also banned the use of certain fertilisers.
Al Jazeera's Stefanie Dekker reports from Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip
Friday, February 7, 2020
The Palestinian government is banning some Israeli goods from its market after Israel stopped Palestinian agricultural produce from being sold.
The tit-for-tat accelerated after the Palestinians decided to limit the number of cattle imported from Israel.
That move was part of a pilot programme to reduce Palestinian dependence on the Israeli economy.
Al Jazeera's Nida Ibrahim reports from the occupied West Bank
Hebron,Palestine,5th of February 2020
The funeral of the martyr Muhammad Salman Al-Haddad, who is 17 years
old, who was martyred after an occupation soldier shot him, despite the
fact that he did not pose a threat to the occupation soldiers and he was
killed in cold blood.
The last farewell moment for the child's martyr Muhammad Salman
Al-Haddad, who was killed today, Wednesday by Israeli army
Hebron, Palestine,3rd of February 2020
Demonstrations are still taking place in Hebron, in refusal of the "#deal_of_the_century", and this resulted in the injury of an Israeli soldier in a Molotov cocktail, which led to the burning of Israeli soldier. Many Palestinian boys were injured and suffocated
2nd of February 2020,Palestine - Hebron
During protests today in the center of Hebron which was attended by
Palestinian residents rejecting the “So Called “ Deal of the century
Occupation forces attempted to suppress their right to protest against
the biggest slap in the face that is being imposed on Palestinians in
their own country by a President not of Palestine but another country
who is awaiting impeachment . Tensions were high and resulted in Violent
confrontations by the residents and the occupiers of their country
Relations between the United States and Palestine have worsened under President Donald Trump.
Washington has cut $251m in financial support for the Palestinians.
It has also withdrawn the $300m it used to give to the United Nations agency supporting Palestinian refugees, and the US under Trump has closed the Palestine Liberation Organization's diplomatic mission in Washington, DC.
But as part of Trump's Middle East plan, the US has said it will create a $50bn global investment fund for Palestinians and neighbouring Arab states.
While Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has reversed US policy on illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, he disagrees with a previous state department opinion which said the settlements are "inconsistent with international law."
Hebron،Palestine,31th of January 2020
Jewish settlers attack a Palestinian in the Jabal Al-Rahma area in
Hebron and gather under the guard of the Israeli army in large numbers
and launch racist slogans against the Palestinians near Qafisheh
building where there is one of the military checkpoints there
Saturday, February 1, 2020
| Russia's prison service said Thursday that a US-Israeli woman jailed over drug charges has been freed from prison after President Vladimir Putin pardoned her.
"Due to the presidential decree on pardoning, Naama Issachar has been freed from prison," the prison service said in a statement.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Thursday morning to discuss Trump's peace plan, and is expected to return with Naama back to Israel later the same day.
Putin opened their meeting by wishing Naama Issachar and her family the best, after he granted her pardon request from a drug conviction on Wednesday evening.
During her first encounter with her mother outside of the prison, Naama said, "I waited ten months for this moment, I have tears in my eyes."
Netanyahu thanked Putin on Issachar's release, "I thank you on behalf of all the people of Israel for the swift decision and release of Naama Issachar. The relations between Israel and Russia are the best they have ever been."
"I would like to thank you for your leadership and leadership in this matter as well," Netanyahu concluded.
The Israeli PM also touched upon the Trump Meddle East peace plan, saying he wanted to "see how we can combine all our forces for security and peace."
Issachar, 26, was arrested at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport in April 2019 after Russian authorities said they found nine grams of cannabis in her checked luggage while she was in the transit zone en route from India to Israel.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas rejected the Trump peace plan on Tuesday, saying it "will not pass".
He blamed the "Zionist lobby" for misguiding Americans regarding the situation and said that as soon as he heard the opening statements regarding Jerusalem, he realized that the whole plan must be rejected.
No Palestinian can accept state without Jerusalem as capital, Abbas said, comparing the plan with the Balfour Declaration of 1917.
“After the nonsense that we heard today we say a thousand no’s to the Deal of The Century,” he said, adding that the PA was ready for talks with the Mideast quartet -- EU, Russia, US and the UN -- but not with the US.
The PA leader made the statement in the West Bank city of Ramallah following a meeting of various Palestinian factions including Islamist group Hamas, which pledged to "resist the deal in all its forms."
Earlier, Haaretz reported that the Palestinian Authority was not planning to take any dramatic measures at once in response to the Trump plan announcement.
Previous reports suggested that the PA could ditch the Oslo accords and the security cooperation with Israel in the wake of the Deal of the Century release.
A meeting between Benny Gantz, leader of the Blue & White party, and US President Donald Trump at the White House has ended. The two held talks for an estimated 50 minutes.
The president's "peace plan is a significant and historical milestone...immediately after the election, I will work towards implementing it from a stable, functioning Israeli in tandem with other countries in the region," Gantz said.
Gantz is expected to fly back to Israel in order to participate in debates over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's request for immunity stemming from several corruption cases.
Friday, January 24, 2020
Israel/Palestine News
On the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu asked world leaders to condemn the International Criminal Court for investigating Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Hebron,Palestine,22nd of January 2020
The occupation army arrests a Palestinian youth near the military
checkpoint leading to the Ibrahimi Mosque, claiming that he is carrying a
knife, and he is transferred to the police station for investigation.
The name of the young man is Muhammad Khaled Abu Turki, who has physical
disability ,Israeli soldiers claimimed that he has a small blade at the
Abu al-Rish checkpoint near the Ibrahimi Mosque
Saturday, January 18, 2020
Israel/Palestine News
The criminal settler, Ofer Hanna assaults the human activists near
Cortoba School and Shuhada Street kindergarten in Shuhada Street in
Hebron
Israeli settler criminal Ofer Hanna assaults the activist in the
orgnization of Human Rights Defenders Zaidan Sharbati with an
international group on Shuhada Street in the center of Hebron, when he
was accompanies the students and children's of the Cortoba School as
part of the accommodation and protection program implemented by the
Human Rights Defenders organization in the schools that are subject to
the continued occupation violations.
On 27 Nov. 2019, three soldiers came three times to the home of the
a-Tabib family in the village of ‘Izbat a-Tabib in Qalqiliya District to
remove Palestinian flags the family had hung on the fence of their
home. The family hung the flags up again every time. At around 6:30
P.M., the three soldiers returned while the family was sitting in the
yard and took the flags down again. Bian a-Tabib (53), the father of the
family, related in a testimony he gave B’Tselem:
I started arguing with the soldiers. They insisted on taking the flags
down and confiscating them. They said I wasn’t allowed to hang flags on
the fence of my house, only indoors. I tried to explain that the
Palestinian flag is a legitimate flag and that it’s my right to hang it
around my house. But the soldier said: “I don’t want to see the
Palestinian flag and I don’t like it.” After we argued for about five
minutes, the soldiers left, taking the flags with them
Omar Hajajleh is a local school bus driver in the occupied West Bank
village of al-Walaja.
Al-Walaja lies between the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem and
occupied East Jerusalem.
In 2015, Israel built the 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 have remote control access to.
Due to a series of barriers placed by Israeli occupation forces, a
roadblock now lies between children of the al-Walaja village and their
school on the other side.
Hajajleh found himself uniquely positioned to take local children to
school as only he had 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 and loads
the children onto a second bus and continue to school.
Hajajleh fears that the road he takes may soon be closed off by the
wall, which is still being built by Israeli occupation forces.
Video by Akram al-Wa’ra and Nidal al-Waheidi
Friday, January 10, 2020
On 18 October 2019, settlers assaulted farmers from the ‘Eid family as
they harvested olives on their land east of the village of Burin. The
unauthorized settlement outpost of Givat Ronen is located nearby. The
settlers threw stones at the Palestinians and stole a sack full of
olives and plastic sheets used to catch olives shaken from the trees.
Soldiers arrived and ordered the Palestinians to leave, while arresting
none of the assailants
On the morning of 21 October 2019, at around 9:30 A.M., some 20
settlers, some with guns and dogs, assaulted residents of Qusrah who
were picking olives on their own land. The settlers then set fire to the
front of a house in the village and went on to throw stones at a
chicken coop and at residents who drove up to protect the coop. Border
Police officers who arrived did nothing to protect the residents and
their property, and in fact hurled teargas canisters at them. Four cars
were damaged and some 100 chickens died
Friday, January 3, 2020
Israel/Palestine News
Fatah anniversary, Friday 3.1.2012 protest against the occupation on
the land of Al-Mughayir in the north-east of the Ramallah district
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