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
 





The occupation army launches a barrage of sound bombs, live bullets and
poisonous gas, and suffocating many citizens after they breathed the gas
 





Israeli settlers throw stones at Palestinian families' homes on Al-Shuhada Street, in the center of Hebron
  





Weekly provocative Israeli settlers tour in the heart of Hebron , which the settlers started it almost ten years ago
  





Hebron residents protest against Deal of the Century.
  





Hebron,Palestine,11th of February 2020
The Israeli occupation army storms Al-Aroub refugee camp, north of
Hebron, today, Tuesday, kidnapping the 14-year-old boy, Awaidat, from
his home. The Israeli soldiers closed the camp's entrances and prevented
the Palestinian residents from entering it
   





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
   





During his speech at the 30th emergency conference of the Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union, Kuwait's National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Ali Al-Ghanim threw Donald Trump Mideast peace plan in the dustbin.
  





Prominent figure Raed Salah has been sentenced to 28 months in prison by an Israeli court for “incitement to terrorism”, an allegation that he denies.

His supporters say the trial was “politically motivated."
   





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
   





Thousands attended the funeral of a 19-year-old Palestinian who was killed yesterday by an Israeli sniper during clashes in the west bank. this fifth Palestinian killed in the last few days as tensions continue to escalate in the West Bank in the wake of Trump's 'deal of the Century
  





part of a lecture 5.11.2019 at the University of Zurich by investigative journalist David Sheen
   



Baruch Ben Yosef AKA Andy Green in his own words • for education and news reporting purposes

Friday, February 7, 2020

Israel/Palestine News

   





Kafr Qaddum Friday 7.2.2020 protest against the occupation, against apartheid and Trump's deal.
    





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 moment the occupation soldiers fired live bullets at the child,
Muhammad Salman Twomih Al Hadad, he was tasted mourning, and the doctors
announced his death immediately.
 





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
  





Donald Trump says his Deal of the Century is a new basis for peace between Israelis and Palestinians. But ironically, he's driving hopelessly divided factions in the Arab world to unite against the plan, says Arab Studies professor Rashid Khalidi.
 





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
   





Palestinian-American activist Raja Abdulhaq compares Trump’s Middle East plan with the 1993 Oslo Accords - which he says manipulated the Palestinians into giving up their cause.
  





Israel has stopped the delivery of cement into the Gaza Strip and put 500 business permits on hold.
It is another blow for those in Gaza, who continue to live in dire conditions after 13 years of blockade.
  





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
  





Palestinians refused to 'give up' after Israeli police stormed the Al-Aqsa compound during dawn prayers.

As part of the 'Great Fajr Campaign' Palestinians gathered at the mosque for the fourth Friday to protest Israeli incursions
  





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."
    





Israelis have been reacting to Donald Trump’s Middle East plan, aiming to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
    





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
   





Friday 31 January 2020 demonstration by the separation wall on the land
of Bil'in in the occupied West Bank, against the wall, against
occupation and apartheid, protesting Trump's "deal of the century" and
demanding the release of Jonathan Pollak and all political prisoners

Saturday, February 1, 2020

Israel/Palestine News

  





Hebron, Palestine,30th of January 2020
Violent confrontations between Palestinian youths and the Israeli
occupation army, in response to the deal of the century and burning
pictures of Trump and Netanyahu
  





| 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.
   





CEO of Bicom James Sorene talks with i24NEWS Michelle Makori on Britain's economic ties with Israel
   





Yariv Oppenheimer — project director of the organization Two-State Coalition — and Itzhak Levanon — former Israeli ambassador to the UN and Egypt — discuss the details of Trump's Middle East Plan






 



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.
 






Trump’s Mid-East Peace Plan is getting support from many in  the Arab world . Ambassadors from the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Bahrain participated in the ceremony, Egypt and the Saudis are encouraging the Palestinian to look at it .
  





"What is the meaning of an 'undivided Jerusalem as the capital of Israel' and 'eastern Jerusalem as the capital of a Palestinian state'?"

Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert tells Nurit Ben and Calev Ben-David why the Middle East peace plan is a "misunderstanding"
   





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.
 





“We will not allow this deal to pass”

Palestinians gear up for mass protests to denounce Trump’s Israel-Palestine plan, which they say is an attempt to finish off their cause
  





Trump's Kushner Plan, also known as the 'Deal of the Century,' gives Israel control of Palestinian land, makes settlements part of Israel, ensures endless Palestinian occupation, and is a recipe for disaster
  





Hebron, Palestine,27th of January 2020
Israeli settlers throw stones at Palestinian families' homes on Shuhada Street, in the center of Hebron
   





Israel's former Ambassador to the USA and former Deputy Foreign Minister
Danny Ayalon, discuss expectations for President Trump's
Israeli-Palestinian Peace Plan with Michelle Makori
   





Middle East correspondent Emily Rose takes us to East Jerusalem where one Palestinian, Professor Mohammed Dajani Daoudi, is trying to change the way Holocaust education is viewed in the Arab world
    





Hebron,Palestine,25th of January 2020
Israeli settlers harass people on Shuhada Street in the center of
Hebron, and terrorize children and women by loud voices and anti-Arab
rhetoric
  





FridayJanuary 24 2020 protest against the blocking of the road from Kafr
Qaddum to nearby Nablus since 2003, against the Israeli occupation and
against apartheid
   



Israeli settlers torched a mosque in the occupied East Jerusalem suburb of Sharafat village on Friday, damaging the interior prayer room