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Golan, who is the son of Holocaust survivors, made his controversial address on Wednesday evening, a day before Holocaust Remembrance Day.

"If there's something that frightens me about Holocaust remembrance it's the recognition of the revolting processes that occurred in Europe in general, and particularly in Germany, back then – 70, 80 and 90 years ago – and finding signs of them here among us today in 2016,”
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-military-deputy-did-not-intend-compare-israel-nazi-germany-1420036297
(Ich habe dieser Post in "links"unten gepostet und nach 5 Minuten haben sie gelöst....)

Israel arrests 567 Palestinians in April

567 Palestinians were arrested by Israeli occupation forces during April 2016, bringing the number of those arrested since the beginning of the popular uprising in October 2015 to 5334 Palestinians. The highest number of arrests were in Jerusalem, where 213 were arrested including 60 minors; al-Khalil, where 120 were arrested; followed by 43 in Ramallah, 40 in Nablus, 38 in Bethlehem, 35 in Qalqilya, 23 in Jenin, 12 in Tulkarem, 9 in Tubas, five in Salfit and four in Jericho; in the Gaza Strip, 25 were arrested, including 20 fishers who were subjected to firing and attacks in the sea, two who passed Beit Hanoun (Erez) crossing, and three near the “border” of Gaza.
http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/news/1368-israel-arrests-567-palestinians-in-april-5334-from-october

PA forces detained 40 percent of 'suspected terrorists' in W.Bank in past months
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771400

Die in London basierende al-Quds al-Arabi Zeitung liess am Montag verlauten, dass die kontroverse arabisch-israelische Parlaments-Abgeordnete Haneen Zoabi das palästinensische Volk zur Revolte gegen die palästinensischen Behörden und ihren Sicherheitsabkommen mit Israel aufgerufen hat.
http://www.audiatur-online.ch/2016/04/26/arabisch-israelische-abgeordnete-ruft-palaestinenser-auf-gegen-palaestinensische-behoerden-zu-revoltieren/

Israel to open permanent office in NATO headquarters

NATO gave Israel the green light this week to open a permanent office in the Belgium headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) after Turkey lifted its veto.

“The North Atlantic Council has agreed ‎to accept the request that an official Israeli mission be established at NATO headquarters,” NATO said in a statement on Tuesday. “The ambassador of Israel to the European Union will therefore be the head of the mission of Israel to NATO.”
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771405

Witnesses: Palestinian siblings posed no threat when shot dead

Witnesses to an alleged stab attempt on Israeli border police at a military checkpoint in the occupied West Bank Wednesday said two siblings shot dead during the incident posed no threat at the time the Israeli officer killed them.

Witnesses told Ma’an that 23-year-old Maram Salih Hassan Abu Ismail, five months pregnant, and her 16-year-old brother Ibrahim were en route to Jerusalem when they took a path intended for vehicles, not pedestrians, into Qalandiya checkpoint near Ramallah. The two were apparently unable to understand Israeli officers yelling in Hebrew, and stopped walking.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771316

......The Israeli who shot and killed a pregnant Palestinian woman and her teenage brother at the notorious Qalandiya checkpoint in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday was a private security contractor, not a member of the police forces, Israeli media revealed on Sunday.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771360

Thousands attend funeral of Palestinian killed after alleged car-ramming attack

......Shehada’s brother Abu Malek denounced Israeli soldiers’ “execution” of his brother, saying that the soldiers could have detained him instead of killing him.

Malek added that his brother worked in aluminum manufacturing and was on his way home after helping his aunt with repairs in her home in a village west of Ramallah when he was shot dead by Israeli soldiers.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771396

.....Witnesses told Ma’an a Palestinian was quickly driving a mid-sized truck on a road between the villages of Beitunia and Ein Arik and hit three Israeli soldiers with his vehicle while they were crossing the street. The witnesses said it appeared the driver hit the soldiers by accident.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771389

Israeli forces detain 15 Palestinians in West Bank, East Jerusalem raids(05-05)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771407

Israeli forces detain 31, including blind man, in West Bank, East Jerusalem raids(03-05)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771382

Israeli forces detain 8 Palestinians in West Bank raids(02-05)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771364

Israeli forces detain 6 Palestinians in West Bank raids(01-05)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771358

Israeli forces injure 3 Palestinians during Kafr Qaddum protests
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771346

50 Palestinians prevented from crossing Allenby this week, 31 detained

Israel prevented 50 Palestinians from traveling via the Allenby Bridge over the last week for alleged security reasons, while 31 were detained, according to a statement by the Palestinian police.

The statement reported that the 31 Palestinians detained were wanted by the Israeli authorities and banned from entering or leaving via the bridge between the occupied West Bank and Jordan.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771349

Four-fold increase in Israeli demolitions this year

UN figures released Thursday revealed a four-fold increase from last year in the rate of Israeli demolitions of Palestinian homes and structures, that have left a record-high 808 Palestinians displaced since the start of 2016.

According to UN documentation, the Israeli authorities have destroyed some 588 Palestinian structures across the occupied Palestinian territory since January.

The over 800 Palestinians to be displaced this year far surpasses the number displaced during the entirety of 2015, while well over 1,000 Palestinians were also affected after losing structures related to their source of income.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771336

Israeli forces demolish Bedouin homes in Negev, city of Lod

Israeli authorities demolished several homes belonging to Bedouin Palestinians in the Negev and the city of Lod in central Israel on Wednesday.

Lod residents told Ma’an that bulldozers demolished two Bedouin houses in the area, belonging to the al-Naqeeb and al-Farajat families.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771395

Israeli forces demolish Nablus apartment belonging to suspected attacker's family
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771381

Israel posts demolition orders in East Jerusalem neighborhood
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771368

UN: Israel's cement ban prevents hundreds of Gaza families from rebuilding homes

Israel’s punitive ban on cement imports into the Gaza Strip has prevented hundreds of families from rebuilding their homes devastated by the 2014 war, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a press release Thursday.

As a result of the debilitating cement scarcity and price increases, “organizations providing assistance have had to suspend cash assistance for house repairs to over 1,370 families,” OCHA reported.

“In addition, payment to 1,550 families scheduled to start reconstruction are being delayed due to the lack of available cement.”
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771330

Palestinian family regains access to Jerusalem home after settler takeover

A Palestinian family has regained access to its house in occupied East Jerusalem, ending a lengthy legal battle which began when an organization of Israeli settlers took over the home a year and a half earlier, a local information center said on Thursday.

The Wadi Hilweh Information Center said that the family of Safiq al-Khayyat had regained access to their house after a 20-month legal battle against Israeli settler organization Ir David, also known as Elad, which evicted the al-Khayyats and 22 other families from their homes in the neighborhood of Silwan in September 2014.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771410

Israeli settlers attack Palestinian activist in Hebron

A Palestinian social media activist was hospitalized on Wednesday after being attacked by a group of Israeli settlers in the city of Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank.

A witness told Ma’an that he and a group of other Palestinians managed to rescue the activist, Raed Abu Mayyala, after he fainted while being “violently attacked” by a group of Jewish settlers near the Ibrahimi Mosque in the Old City.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771399

Israeli forces attack Palestinian journalists at World Press Freedom demo
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771386

Gaza's fishermen risking Israeli bullets to bring home daily catch

Kamel Baker’s father taught him how to fish when he was just 10 years old. Now 55, Baker has been trawling the waters off the coast of Gaza ever since.

“For 45 years I have been making my living this way,” Baker told MEE, sitting on the deck of his fishing boat, happily telling stories as he waited for a pot of coffee to brew. “We are close neighbours of the sea.”

Born in al-Shati, Gaza’s poorest refugee camp, Baker talks wistfully about the “golden days” of Gaza’s fishing industry when he could earn up to 6,000 shekels ($1,590) a day – more than a doctor or engineer – and would have to turn back to port early because his nets were full.

“We would eat fish for breakfast, lunch and dinner,” he recalled, as his 25-year-old son Talaat, one of the 15 crew members including Baker’s three sons and several related children, looked on and smiled.

“Where are those days now, Daddy?” Talaat asked as one of his brothers steered the boat westward out of the harbour towards the setting sun.

Most aboard the boat will go home with barely enough to feed their families. On a good night nowadays, Talaat might hope to take home a kilo of fish and about 50 shekels ($13) for his wife and one-year-old son.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-fishing-israel-828987562

Israeli forces open fire on fishermen, level land in Gaza
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771363

Power supply in Gaza is reduced to 6 hours for every 18 hours

Electricity grids for all districts in the Gaza Strip will only be providing power for six hour intervals followed by 12 hours without power, due to a problem with the Egyptian power lines, Gaza’s electricity company announced Monday morning.

The company’s Public Information Officer Tariq Labad told Ma’an that Egypt promised to fix the problem as soon as possible.

Labad added that once the Egyptian lines are fixed, electricity grids in the Gaza Strip will return to operating eight hours on, eight hours off, as usual.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771365

After 9 weeks on hunger strike, Palestinian stops taking water

After refusing food for more than nine weeks, Palestinian hunger strike Sami Janazreh has reportedly now stopped drinking water in protest against his ongoing detention without charge and abusive treatment by Israel.

After weeks of refusing sustenance, Janazreh has lost 55 pounds and his health has sharply deteriorated.

He has had intermittent seizures, and is reportedly suffering from hypothermia, failing kidneys and his his teeth have begun falling out.

His heart rate has also slowed and his blood pressure has dropped.

Janazreh, 43, was transferred to Soroka hospital in the south of present-day Israel last Friday after being held in solitary confinement at Ela prison.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/charlotte-silver/after-9-weeks-hunger-strike-palestinian-stops-taking-water

Gaza families visit imprisoned relatives in Israel
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771366

4 Palestinians continue hunger strikes in protest of administrative detention
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771347

Hamas Defector, Sami Atawna, Exposes Location of Second Hamas Tunnel; Israel Lies About Its Discovery

The IDF announced today that it had discovered a second major tunnel leading from Gaza towards Israeli territory. The exposure of this tunnel, like that of the first one reported recently came, according to my Israeli security source, as the result of the defection of a senior Hamas commander, Sami Atawna, age 29.

This has not stopped IDF Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, the prime minister and defense minister from lying to the public, claiming sophisticated new tunnel detection techniques and systems have uncovered these excavation projects. Take Isabel Kershner’s entirely too credulous reporting:
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2016/05/06/hamas-defector-sami-atawna-exposes-location-of-second-hamas-tunnel-israel-lies-its-discovery/

Palestinians blast Eurovision Song Contest's flag policy

West Bank: Palestinian leaders are blasting the Eurovision Song Contest for preventing their flag from being flown during the event this month.

Palestinian official Saeb Erekat voiced his dismay in a letter to Jean-Paul Philippot, the head of the European Broadcasting Union which oversees the yearly contest. In the letter, obtained by The Associated Press Sunday, Erekat says the decision is "totally biased and unacceptable." The Palestinians do not compete in the contest.

The EBU published a list of banned flags last week. Among them were the flags of Northern Cyprus, Kosovo, Spain's Basque region and ISIS's flag.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2016/May-01/350079-palestinians-blast-eurovision-song-contests-flag-policy.ashx

Criminal violence flares up in Palestinian towns in Israel amid dearth of policing

A wave of criminal violence spread across Palestinian towns in Israel Sunday night, following unanswered demands by Palestinian leadership in Israel’s Knesset to crack down on illegal weapons in Palestinian communities in Israel.
.........Erdan revealed during the discussion that 90 percent of illegal firearms in north Israel are obtained from the army.

MK Basel Ghattas, also of the Joint List, echoed the issue of mutual mistrust between Israeli police and Palestinian-majority towns in the face of rising violence: “Police view the Arab as an enemy, and we view the police as a hostile entity, and this affects everything. How is it that suddenly police stations are popping up in the villages and the amount of weapons is increasing?”
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771371

Israeli academic elite's complicity in oppression

Israel's academic elite is mobilised on behalf of the national project, and is well compensated by the regime. When its members shout things such as “fascism”, it's appropriate that this criticism be directed at itself as well.
http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/aicoment/1369-israeli-academic-elite-s-complicity-in-oppression

100,000 IDF Troops “Maintain Quiet” in West Bank at Nearly $600-Million Annual Cost

To give you an idea of the bloated mess that is the IDF, veteran security correspondent Yossi Melman says (Hebrew) that 60% of the IDF active duty forces are tasked with keeping the lid on the West Bank. The Israeli Institute for National Security Studies estimates (pdf) that the active duty force consists of over 176,000 soldiers. That means that nearly 100,000 troops do nothing but maintain the Occupation in the West Bank.

The annual cost to Israel of maintaining the Occupation is $600-million per year. Using much broader terms which include related civilian costs, Israeli military economist Shir Hever estimated the cost at $9-billion. And the cumulative cost to Israel of the Occupation, according to a different Ynet article, has been $50-billion between 1967 and 2007. That averages well over $1-billion per year over that period.
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2016/05/04/over-100000-idf-troops-maintain-quiet-in-west-bank-at-cost-of-nearly-600-million/

Video: Don’t call us “Arab lovers,” says head of Israel’s “peace camp”

Isaac Herzog, the head of Israel’s official opposition, the Zionist Union, doesn’t want his party to be seen as a bunch of “Arab lovers.”

This is the same Herzog who is habitually presented in The New York Times as the leader of a “center-left” party “who advocates a peace deal” with the Palestinians.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/charlotte-silver/after-9-weeks-hunger-strike-palestinian-stops-taking-water

Palestine: End of time?

Basil Al-Araj is in a Palestinian jail. He is a young Palestinian pharmacist who worked at a pharmacy in Shufat refugee camp in Jerusalem. I knew him because he is from Al-Walaja, a village that was struggling as “Israel” builds a wall around the remaining houses of the village (already 90% of the residents are refugees elsewhere). Village wells and lands were stolen by the Israeli colonizers starting in 1948 and continuing till today.

Basil had a love of Palestine and a hatred of injustice. Like most young people they searched for ways to act on their convictions. He participated in nonviolent demonstrations at his village but was not satisfied with their outcome. He read my book on “Popular Resistance in Palestine” in Arabic and gave me his feedback. He said he learned much about history of the Palestinian struggle. He said the book’s Arabic could use some editing. He worked briefly as a researcher for the Palestinian museum after he lost his job in Shufat. He tried other methods of action. He and a few others tried to block the main road near the colony of Maale Adumim. He and I and four others were the six Palestinian Freedom riders arrested in 2011 while demonstrating Israeli apartheid policies.
http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/aicoment/1362-palestine-end-of-time