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
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