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Four Palestinian children killed in five days(23-09)

Two more Palestinian teenagers have been shot following a five-day period in which Israeli forces killed four children.

Israeli soldiers shot and injured a teenage boy near a settlement in the occupied West Bank district of Hebron on Friday.

Usama Murad Jamil Marie Zeidat, whose age was given by the Palestinian Authority health ministry as 15, was shot after attempting to stab soldiers, a military spokesperson told media.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/four-palestinian-children-killed-five-days

More than 1,000 Palestinian minors detained by Israel in 2016 so far

More than 1,000 Palestinian minors have been detained by Israeli forces since the beginning of the year, the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners' Affairs said on Saturday, in a reported increase from 2015.

The Committee said that at least 1,000 Palestinian minors between the ages of 11 and 18 had been detained by Israel since January, including around 70 children from occupied East Jerusalem who were placed under house arrest.

A lawyer for the Committee, Hiba Masalha, cited a number of cases in which Palestinian minors were abused and tortured while in detention.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773281

23 Palestinians detained, dozens of houses ordered to be demolished in Jerusalem raids(22-09)

Israeli forces carried out massive detention raids into Palestinian communities in Jerusalem before dawn on Thursday for the second day in a row, detaining at least 23 Palestinians and assaulting locals, including a minor, while demolition orders were delivered to dozens of Palestinian homes during raids on Wednesday.

Israeli forces raided the Shufat refugee camp in the Jerusalem district of the occupied West Bank as well as the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya, located just south of Shufat beyond Israel’s separation wall.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773257

Israeli politics on Jerusalem
http://www.alternativenews.org/index.php?option=com_yendifvideoshare&view=video&id=16&title=Israeli

Israeli Troops Kill 2 Palestinians for 'Looking Suspicious'(19-09)
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Israeli-Troops-Kill-2-Palestinians-for-Looking-Suspicious-20160919-0022.html

Israel shoots Palestinian girl who 'did not stop at crossing'(21-09)

Israeli guards shot and wounded an unarmed 13-year-old Palestinian girl on Wednesday after she did not stop at a checkpoint, officials said, the latest incident in an upsurge of violence.

The Israeli defence ministry said the girl was not carrying a weapon but told officers afterwards that she had wanted to die.

The incident happened at a checkpoint near the Israeli settlement of Alfei Menashe and the Palestinian town of Qalqilya in the occupied West Bank.

The Palestinian health ministry described the girl's wounds as moderate.

The Israeli defence ministry said the girl arrived "on foot with a suspicious bag at the vehicle-only lane of the Eliyahu crossing which is not open to foot traffic."
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-shoots-palestinian-who-did-not-stop-crossing-1943395207

Israel prevents Palestinian woman from leaving Gaza for cancer treatment
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773308

Israeli authorities carry out spate of demolitions across occupied territory
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773314

Israeli forces demolish water cisterns in Hebron-area village
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773311

Israeli forces demolish room in house of alleged accomplice in Tel Aviv shooting
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773296

Israeli forces demolish agricultural structure in Nablus district
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773298

Israeli forces demolish trees in Palestinian nature reserve
http://www.alternativenews.org/index.php/headlines/211-israeli-forces-demolish-trees-in-palestinian-nature-reserve

Israeli forces expand Beit Ummar military watchtower, narrowing main street
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773264

Israeli settler opens fire at Palestinian youth east of Qalqiliya

An Israeli settler reportedly opened fire at a group of Palestinian youth east of the city of Qalqiliya on Monday, with no injuries reported.

According to Israeli media, the Israeli settler responsible for the shooting had claimed that Palestinian youth were throwing rocks at him near the illegal Israeli settlement of Karnei Shomron located just south of the Palestinian village of Kafr Laqif, which he responded to by firing shots into the air.

Israeli military forces reportedly responded to the incident by launching a search for the Palestinians responsible for the rock throwing.

An Israeli army spokesperson told Ma’an they were looking into reports to confirm the incident.

Israel detains hundreds of Palestinians for alleged stone throwing every year, and Israeli rights group B'Tselem reported that from 2005 to 2010, "93 percent of the minors convicted of stone throwing were given a prison sentence, its length ranging from a few days to 20 months."

Palestinian stone throwers face harsh penalties by Israeli authorities, with Israel passing a law last year mandating up to 20 years in prison if charged with throwing stones at vehicles and a minimum prison sentence of three years for throwing a stone at an Israeli.http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773304

Autopsy reveals Palestinian prisoner died of heart condition after years of medical neglect

An autopsy has confirmed the cause of death of 41-year-old Palestinian prisoner Yasser Thiyab Hamduna, who died in Israeli custody Sunday morning, was cardiomegaly, a condition in which the heart is enlarged and can lead to sudden cardiac death.

A statement from the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners' Affairs released on Monday announced the cause of death following the autopsy. Initial reports indicated the prisoner had died of either a stroke or a heart attack.

The Committee said that the autopsy of Hamduna’s body was carried out in the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute in Tel Aviv with the participation of two Palestinian doctors -- Ashraf al-Qadi and Rayan Ali -- as was ordered by the Israeli central court the day prior.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773303

Israel accused of neglect after death of ill prisoner

Palestinians are accusing Israel of years of medical neglect after a prisoner died from a heart condition on Sunday.

An autopsy found that Yasir Thiab Hamduna, 41, died from cardiomegaly, also known as an enlarged heart, a condition which can cause cardiac arrest.

Hamduna, from Yabad village near the northern occupied West Bank city of Jenin, had been imprisoned since 2003. He reportedly had recurrent health problems while in detention but received inadequate treatment.

He was severely beaten by guards the year he was imprisoned and suffered significant injuries to his head. In January 2015, he underwent cardiac surgery but was denied necessary follow-up care, the Ma’an News Agency reported.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/charlotte-silver/israel-accused-neglect-after-death-ill-prisoner

4 Palestinian prisoners start hunger strikes to protest Israeli detention policies

Four Palestinian prisoners have launched hunger strikes on Sunday to protest their administrative detentions, the use of torture in Israeli prison facilities, and the tactical transfer of prisoners from one facility to another, prisoners rights groups said on Tuesday.

Three Palestinian prisoners from Hebron were on their third day without food on Tuesday to protest being held in administrative detention -- Israel’s controversial policy of internment without charges used overwhelmingly against Palestinians.

Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) lawyer Jawad Boulos, visited the three prisoners at the Ofer prison on Tuesday, and identified them as Anas Ibrahim Shadid, 20, and Ahmad Abu Farah, 29, both detained on Aug. 1st, and Omar al-Hih, 22, detained on Sept. 15th.http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773313

Israel plots massive land confiscation in the occupied Syrian Golan

On September 27th, 2016, Al-Marsad, the only human rights organization in the occupied Syrian Golan, announced in a press release its legal effort to halt Israeli authorities’ plan to build a park in the area.

The press statement explains, “the ‘Hermon National Park’ plan confiscates approximately 82,000 dunams [20,300 acres] of land… that [have] been used by the native Syrian residents of Majdal Shams and Ein Qynia since Ottoman rule for grazing, agriculture and urbanization.”

Should Hermon National Park come to fruition, the 11,000 residents of Majd al-Shams, a village located on the slopes of Mount Hermon, would be particularly devastated.
http://alternativenews.org/index.php/headlines/212-israeli-park-plan-steals-land-isolates-villages-in-occupied-syrian-golan

How Israel is turning one Arab party into a security threat

There are two possible ways to describe the dramatic, highly-publicized arrest of dozens of activists and senior members of the Balad party earlier this week:

“The police opened a wide spreads investigation against Balad over suspicions of fraudulently transferring millions of shekels to the party’s coffers during the 2013 elections.”
Or: “In an overnight operation security focus raided the homes of dozens of Palestinians, arresting them for pro-Palestinian activism.”

Most Hebrew-language media outlets that reported on the story chose a variation on the first headline. In my eyes, however, the second headline is far more accurate for a number of reasons.
http://972mag.com/how-israel-is-turning-one-arab-party-into-a-security-threat/122047/

The dolls that defend Palestinian culture

In the dead of a cold December night, Israeli soldiers came for Yasser.

They rummaged through the shelves and behind the looms of a darkened factory, searching for the little man, only half a metre tall. They knew he would be easy to spot, wearing his signature black-and-white keffiyeh and olive-coloured military fatigues. Finally, they found him, expressionless and hiding in plain sight, along with a dozen other plush clones.

The brainchild of Hilana Abu Sharifeh, a 32-year-old mother of four, Yasser is among the dozens of toys she designs and manufactures at her small, Tulkarem-based business. His confiscation, along with about 1,700 other toys, baffles Abu Sharifeh to this day.

"The soldiers ransacked the whole place, seized fabric and damaged some of the products in the process," she said of the toy factory that her husband first opened in their garage more than two decades ago.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/06/dolls-defend-palestinian-culture-160626101353550.html

Facebook Is Collaborating With the Israeli Government to Determine What Should Be Censored

Last week, a major censorship controversy erupted when Facebook began deleting all posts containing the iconic photograph of the Vietnamese “Napalm Girl” on the ground that it violated the company’s ban on “child nudity.” Facebook even deleted a post from the prime minister of Norway, who posted the photograph in protest of the censorship. As outrage spread, Facebook ultimately reversed itself — acknowledging “the history and global importance of this image in documenting a particular moment in time” — but this episode illustrated many of the dangers I’ve previously highlighted in having private tech companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Google become the arbiters of what we can and cannot see.

Having just resolved that censorship effort, Facebook seems to be vigorously courting another. The Associated Press reports today from Jerusalem that “the Israeli government and Facebook have agreed to work together to determine how to tackle incitement on the social media network.”
https://theintercept.com/2016/09/12/facebook-is-collaborating-with-the-israeli-government-to-determine-what-should-be-censored/

Facebook apologizes for disabling Palestinian journalists’ accounts

Facebook says it made a mistake in disabling the accounts of journalists who administer the pages of two of the most widely read Palestinian publications on the Internet.

“The pages were removed in error and restored as soon as we were able to investigate,” a Facebook spokesperson has told The Electronic Intifada. “Our team processes millions of reports each week, and we sometimes get things wrong. We’re very sorry about this mistake.”
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/facebook-apologizes-disabling-palestinian-journalists-accounts

Is Israel Pushing for a Palestinian Civil War?

Division within Palestinian society has reached unprecedented levels, becoming a major hurdle on the path of any unified strategy to end Israel’s violent occupation or to rally Palestinians behind a single objective.

Newly-appointed Israeli ultra-nationalist, Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman, understands this too well. His tactic since his ascension to office last May is centered on investing more in these divisions as a way to break down Palestinian society even further.

Lieberman is an "extremist," even if compared with the low standards of the Israeli military. His past legacy was rife with violent and racist declarations. His more recent exploits include taking on the late Mahmoud Darwish, Palestine’s most celebrated poet. He went as far as comparing Darwish’s poetry -- which advocates the freedom of his people -- to Adolph Hitler’s autobiography, Mein Kampf.

But, of course, this is not Lieberman’s most outrageous statement.
https://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773018

Group denounces UN envoy statement equating Israeli and Palestinian violence

Gaza-based NGO the Council On International Relations in Palestine (COIR) slammed on Monday statements by the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nikolay Mladenov regarding a recent wave of deadly violence in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank, accusing him of not “making any difference between the executioner and the victim.”

On Monday, Mladenov issued a statement condemning “recent violence” in the occupied Palestinian territory, during which time five Palestinians and one Jordanian were killed by Israeli forces, most of them after Israel claimed they were carrying out or attempting to carry out stabbing attacks.

Two more Palestinians have been killed by Israel forces since Mladenov issued his statement.

Despite the absence of Israeli deaths, Mladenov emphasized injuries sustained by Israelis before detailing the death toll.

“During this latest upsurge in attacks in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, at least six Israelis were injured. Five Palestinians and one Jordanian national were killed while carrying out or allegedly carrying out attacks,” the UN envoy’s statement read.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773231