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Twenty-five Palestinian children were killed in the last three months of 2015 during a wave of anti-Israeli attacks and the number detained was the highest in seven years, the UN children's agency said on Saturday.

"Serious concerns arose regarding excessive use of force, particularly in relation to incidents where Palestinian children were shot dead by Israeli security forces after carrying out or being suspected of carrying out stabbing attacks," UNICEF said in a report.

It said more than 1,300 Palestinian children were injured during the spike in attacks, almost all in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, while three Israeli children were hurt in the West Bank and West Jerusalem.

UNICEF cited the example on 25 October in Hebron in the West Bank of a 17-year-old girl who was "taken by IDF [Israel Defence Forces] soldiers for a search, shot with at least five bullets and killed".
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/25-palestinian-children-killed-3-months-unicef-426054255

Berlin: Palästina-Demo am Nakba-Tag durch Neukölln und Kreuzberg

Am 15. Mai 2016 fand in Berlin wieder eine Demonstration zum Gedenken an die NAKBA* - die gewaltsame Vertreibung der PalästinenserInnen 1948 - statt. Zur Demo hatte das Linke Palästina Bündnis Berlin aufgerufen, bis zu 500 Menschen verschiedener linker Gruppen beteiligten sich an der Demo durch Neukölln und Kreuzberg.
https://linksunten.indymedia.org/de/node/179057

PA forces prevent Nakba Day protesters in Ramallah from reaching Israeli checkpoint

Palestinian security officers on Sunday prevented dozens of Palestinian demonstrators commemorating Nakba Day from reaching an Israeli military checkpoint near the illegal settlement of Beit El north of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771525

Hundreds of Palestinians march to destroyed village in Haifa for 68th Nakba anniversary

Hundreds of Palestinians commemorated the anniversary of the Nakba -- or “catastrophe” -- on Saturday with a “March of Return” in Haifa to the site of a Palestinian village destroyed by Israeli forces in 1948.

The march was held in order to highlight the internationally-recognized right of Palestinians who remain refugees or internally displaced to return to their homes and villages in Israel, a right which has been enshrined in international law following the adoption of United Nations Resolution 194.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771512

Annual 'March of Return' draws thousands of Palestinians to the Negev

Thousands of Palestinian citizens of Israel participated in the annual "March of Return" on Thursday afternoon near Bedouin towns in the Negev (Naqab) in southern Israel, commemorating the 1948 Nakba, amid the conclusion of Israeli independence day celebrations.

Demonstrators waved Palestinian flags and held banners emblazoned with support for the right to return for Palestinian refugees abroad and Palestinians internally displaced from their villages in Israel, as they made their way across the Negev in the dry afternoon heat.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771498

Palestinian factions call for national unity at Gaza Nakba rally
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771523

On Nakba Day, tens of thousands of Palestinian refugees in Syria remain under siege

As Palestinians worldwide on Sunday marked the 68th anniversary of the Nakba, or "catastrophe" that occurred during the establishment of the state of Israel, Palestinian refugees displaced a second time by civil war in Syria remained under siege and under threat by ongoing armed fighting.

Some 12,000 people, including 3,000 children, have reportedly been trapped in the besieged Palestinian refugee camp of Khan al-Shih near Damascus, amid heavy shelling, barrel bombs, and sniper fire that bombarded the area in recent days, international aid organization Save the Children reported on Friday.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771517

'Return Train' tours Bethlehem for Nakba anniversary

A "Return Train" traveled through part of the occupied West Bank district of Bethlehem on Sunday morning, as a symbolic demonstration of the right of Palestinian refugees to return to the homes and villages they were forcibly displaced from 68 years ago during the creation of Israel.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771520

Ethnic cleansing is an everyday reality

Thousands marched last week to commemorate the Nakba, the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestine.

Held in the southern Naqab (Negev) region for the first time in 19 years, the 2016 March of Return is being hailed as the largest such event for Palestinians living inside present-day Israel.

Organized by the Association for the Defense of the Rights of the Internally Displaced, the 12 May protest emphasized that the Nakba — Arabic for catastrophe — continues today.

Not only did participants assert the right to return of Palestinians uprooted and exiled in 1948, they also drew attention to Israel’s ongoing efforts to internally displace Palestinians inside its de facto borders.

The annual event has previously been held in destroyed villages in the northern Galilee region. The significance of the geographical move was underscored by activist Rafat Abu Aish, one of the march’s organizers.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/ethnic-cleansing-everyday-reality/16691

Nakba: and what about Israel

We are reviewing nearly seven decades since the Palestinian nakba, and all eyes are on the current crisis situation of the Palestinian people, struggling for return, self-determination and an independent state. This struggle is currently being conducted at a time of great setbacks for the national project; despite the numerous sacrifices made by the Palestinians, there is a decline in the prominence of their issue on the Arab, regional and international levels.
http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/aicoment/1374-nakba-and-what-about-israel

Palästina trauert, Israel feiert: Verteidigungsminister bekundet vor Unabhängigkeitstag Härte

Mit markigen Worten hat sich Israels Verteidigungsminister Mosche Jaalon vor den Feiern zum Unabhängigkeitstag zu Wort gemeldet. »Wir werden auf alle, die sich mit uns anlegen, mit eiserner Faust reagieren, wo auch immer sie sich befinden«, bekundete das Kabinettsmitglied am Mittwoch bei einer Zeremonie zum israelischen Tag der Gefallenen und Anschlagsopfer auf einem Soldatenfriedhof in Tel Aviv. Die Drohung war an die im Gazastreifen regierende Hamas gerichtet, gemeint waren gleichwohl alle Palästinenser, die gegen die israelische Okkupation Widerstand leisten.
http://www.jungewelt.de/2016/05-14/028.php?sstr=Nakba

Israel's UK ambassador blames Palestinians for having no state on Nakba day

The Israeli ambassador to the UK Sunday said Palestinians were to blame for not having a state of their own, during a speech on the day when Palestinians commemorate the Nakba, or the day of destruction.

Mark Regev, a veteran diplomat and former press spokesperson for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was speaking during a plenary meeting of the British Board of Deputies, an organisation that describes itself as “the voice of British Jewry”.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-ambassador-uk-nakba-day-blames-palestinians-state-1511674141

‘The Nakba continues': Israeli forces conduct multiple raids across the occupied West Bank(15-05)

Israeli forces raided multiple neighborhoods across the occupied West Bank overnight Saturday, detaining at least three Palestinians, launching tear gas canisters and stun grenades, and setting fire to olive trees, as Palestinians around the world commemorated the 68th anniversary of the Nakba.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771518

Israeli forces detain 10 Palestinians, including 16-year-old, in pre-dawn raids(17-05)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771544

Israeli forces detain 17 Palestinians including teenage girl in West Bank raids(16-05)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771535

Israeli forces detain 10 Palestinian fishermen off Gaza coast(16-05)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771533

Israeli forces detain 3 Palestinians, including teenager, in overnight raids(12-05)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771495

Israel issues 13 administrative detention orders against Palestinians(12-05)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771487

Israeli forces target 2 female students, detain 24 other Palestinians in West Bank raids(9-05)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771445

Palestinian injured by Israeli bullet to the head while trying to cross separation wall

Israeli forces shot and injured a Palestinian east of Bethlehem in the southern occupied West Bank as he tried to reach Jerusalem through Israel’s separation wall on Sunday evening.

Local sources said 32-year-old Ahmad Abu Omar from Bethlehem was shot with a rubber-coated steel bullet to the head. He was trying to pass the separation wall from the outskirts of the village of Dar Salah east of Bethlehem to work in Jerusalem.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771536

Six Palestinians injured, peace activist detained in Friday protests
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771505

Israeli forces open fire at Palestinians in southern Gaza Strip
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771496

Israeli navy detain 2 Gaza fishermen as 2 others remain in custody
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771542

Israeli forces raid Palestinian village near Bethlehem
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771540

Israeli forces open fire on Palestinian farmers in southern Gaza Strip
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771507

Israeli forces detain Palestinian police officer, family denies he was planning attack

Israeli forces detained a Palestinian police officer on Saturday afternoon near the illegal Israeli settlement of Mishor Adumim in the central occupied West Bank outside of Jerusalem, on suspicion of “planning a terrorist attack.”
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771514

Israel postpones indictment of Palestinian journalist over alleged online 'incitement'
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771491

Israeli court hands prison sentence to Palestinian astrophysicist over Facebook posts
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771491

Israel orders evacuation of 3 Palestinian-owned properties in East Jerusalem

The Jerusalem Magistrate Court of Justice on Tuesday ordered the evacuation of three Palestinian-owned properties in the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah in occupied East Jerusalem, claiming they were owned by Jews before 1948.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771550

Israeli forces demolish 2 Palestinian homes in Jerusalem's Old City

Israeli forces demolished two homes on Tuesday morning in the al-Suwwana neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem near the eastern wall of the Old City, leaving 23 Palestinians homeless.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771548

Israel dismantles EU-funded homes in Jerusalem-area Bedouin neighborhood

Some 90 Palestinian Bedouins, the majority of them children, were left homeless on Monday when Israeli forces disassembled EU-donated mobile homes without giving prior notice in the Jabal al-Baba neighborhood in the outskirts of the village of al-Eizariya east of Jerusalem.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771530

Israel targets Jerusalem home of imprisoned Palestinians with demolition order
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771503

Jewish extremist arrested in Dawabsha murders case to be released in two weeks

A Jewish extremist arrested in the wake of a deadly arson attack that killed three members of the Palestinian Dawabsha family in the occupied West Bank last summer is to be released from Israeli custody, it was revealed on Tuesday.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771549

Israeli settlers attack Palestinian mother and child in Hebron

A group of Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian woman and her child late Friday night during an incursion into a home in the Tel Rumeida area of Hebron's Old City in the southern occupied West Bank.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771508

Israeli right-wing settler group builds on Palestinian land despite ongoing legal battle

An Israeli right-wing pro-settlement group has continued construction on privately-held Palestinian land in the area of Sheikh Jarrah in occupied East Jerusalem, despite the family's ongoing appeal to the Israeli Supreme Court.

After years of legal battles, the Israeli Amana settlement group took over three dunums of land privately-held by the Abu Taah and Siam families.

Muhammad Issa Abu Taah, a member of one of the families, told Ma’an that the family was battling the extremist settler organization for 18 years.

“My mother filed several lawsuits to regain the land and I continued the battle in Israeli courts. The Israeli government claims that the land was acquired by the military, but about five years ago a defense lawyer proved that the land was never confiscated for military purposes,” Abu Taah said.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771499

Israeli settlers occupy building in East Jerusalem's Old City
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771446

Video: Extremist settlers attack Palestinian human rights activists in Hebron
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771436

Shackled to a bed, starving for freedom

Mahmoud Darwish — named after the great Palestinian poet — was hoping to celebrate his ninth birthday with his father, Sami Janazreh. Instead, he had to mark the day in a protest tent.

The tent was set up in Fawwar refugee camp, near Hebron, to support Janazreh, one of its residents, whose family originally hails from the ethnically cleansed village of Irak al-Manshiyeh. Imprisoned without charge or trial — under what Israel calls administrative detention — he has been on hunger strike since 3 March.

“Despite his young age, Mahmoud Darwish speaks as though he was a legal expert because of how closely he has been following his father’s case,” Rima Janazreh, Sami’s wife, told The Electronic Intifada. “Kids of his age are supposed to talk about sports or school but my son only talks about administrative detention and military trials.”
https://electronicintifada.net/content/shackled-bed-starving-freedom/16681

Palestinian hunger-striking prisoner moved to hospital over deteriorating health

A Palestinian prisoner was transferred to the hospital on Monday over his severely deteriorating health following 44 days on hunger strike to protest his administrative detention -- internment without trial or charges.

The Palestinian Prisoner's Society said that Adib Mafarja was moved from the Eshel prison in southern Israel to the Soroka hospital in Beersheba, following a visit by a lawyer from the Palestinian organization.

The lawyer reported that Mafarja had already lost 30 kilograms because of his hunger strike.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771538

Israel: "Wir werden die Golanhöhen niemals verlassen"

Die Golanhöhen sind international anerkannter Teil Syriens. Zwei Resolutionen des UN-Sicherheitsrates - 242 und 497 - stellen das unmissverständlich klar. Israel hat das Gebiet annektiert. Dem israelischen Ministerpräsidenten Netanjahu sind solche Einwände egal, wie er mit einem nicht nur für die syrische Regierung höchst provokanten Auftritt dokumentierte.

Am Sonntag ließ er dort sein Kabinett zusammenkommen - eine Premiere -, um zu deklamieren, dass Israel die Golanhöhen "niemals verlassen wird". Er versprach, dass er die Ansiedlung von weiteren Tausend Familien unterstützen werde. "Die Welt soll endlich Israels Souveränität über die Golanhöhen anerkennen."
http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/47/47993/1.html

Israeli economic occupation of Syrian Golan

Despite the international community rejecting (see statements from the US, EU and UN Israel's illegal claims to sovereignty over the Occupied Syrian Golan, following recent inflammatory statements from Israeli government figures,government figures, Israel is continuing to seek to create 'facts on the ground' by rapidly increasing the settler population and the extraction of natural resources, to strengthen its control of the Occupied Syrian Golan.

The illegal establishment and expansion of settlements, and control and extraction of natural resources, in the Occupied Syrian Golan, is a continuation of policies implemented by Israel immediately following the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.
http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/news/1371-read-israeli-economic-occupation-of-syrian-golan

Israel rabbi to paramedics: 'Leave Palestinians to die'

There is mounting evidence that Israeli ambulance crews are withholding treatment from Palestinians injured during a wave of attacks over the past six months, according to rights groups.

Physicians for Human Rights in Israel, a medical watchdog group, found that wounded Palestinians had been left untreated for as long as two hours.

In some cases, medical teams are suspected of failing to tend to the injuries of suspected attackers as revenge, in the expectation that they will die from their wounds.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/04/israel-paramedics-accused-medical-violations-160419061726256.html

Palestinian student leaders facing jail for opposing occupation

Students at Palestine’s leading university will choose their new president on 16 May, after recent elections in which a Hamas-linked bloc won a majority of seats, but a prominent student activist says their new leader will almost certainly be imprisoned by Israeli authorities.

The three men and two women who make up Birzeit University’s student council have faced no problems in finding candidates to become the new president, despite incumbent Saif Islam Ghaghlas being held without charge in an Israeli prison since December last year.

Ghaghlas is one of 90 students, one university employee, and two instructors from Birzeit who are all currently in Israeli prisons, according to a university statement, which said the detentions were an attack on the “right to education”.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/poisoned-chalice-being-student-leader-palestine-539564373

Shot looking for work: Palestinians face Israeli bullets at illegal crossings

Hundreds of Palestinians in search of work enter Israel illegally from West Bank every day; recent tensions have led to spike in shootings
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-west-bank-illegal-workers-830421839

Is Israel inching closer to fascism?

Maj. Gen. Yair Golan, deputy chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces, spoke about trends in Israeli society reminiscent of the dark European era between the world wars at a May 4 event marking Holocaust Remembrance Day, the start of an emotional and special period in which Israelis remember the Holocaust, honor their war dead (May 11) and celebrate their independence (May 12). Almost at the same time, the prime minister of Israel once again pointed to the anti-Semitic phenomena in the world and the Middle East, saying they remind him of the dark era that preceded the 1930s in Europe.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/05/zeev-sternhell-holocaust-fascism-nationalistic-education.html#

A Palestinian Perspective on Britain’s ‘Anti-Semitic’ Controversy

There is a witch-hunt in the British Labour Party. Britain’s Opposition party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, is being hounded for not rooting out alleged anti-Semitism in his party. Those leading the charge are pro-Israel Zionists and their supporters within the party, members who are mostly allied with the former Prime Minister, the largely discredited pro-war Tony Blair. The Blairites are quite unhappy that Corbyn, who won the party’s leadership election last September with a landslide victory is a non-elitist politician, with a deep-rooted grassroots activist past, and, yes, a strong stance for Palestinian rights.
http://www.palestinechronicle.com/palestinian-perspective-britains-anti-semitic-controversy/

Why more and more Israeli Druze prefer prison to military service
When Druze Mostafa Zahr ad-Din Saad turned 18, he received a notice for military service in the Israeli army. He refused to serve just like his brother had done a year and a half before and their father many years ago. On April 17, Saad posted on his Facebook page a picture of the letter that he had received informing him that he was exempted from the military service.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/05/israel-druze-reject-military-service.html#

Israel's privatisation of a 'shoot-to-kill policy' against Palestinians

Palestinian taxi driver Mustafa Abu Ramouz had seen Palestinians killed by Israeli forces at Qalandiya checkpoint, before two Palestinian siblings were shot dead there last month.

Pregnant 24-year-old Maram Salih Abu Ismail was killed alongside her 16-year-old brother Ibrahim Taha by private guards at the checkpoint on 27 April after Maram allegedly threw a knife at a police officer.

The siblings were travelling to Jerusalem when police said they refused demands to return to the pedestrian walkway after they had entered a vehicle access area with the intention to carry out a “terrorist attack”.

However, witnesses said Maram did not have a knife, and that the two did not understand the Hebrew demands to turn around after they entered the wrong areas, something Abu Ramouz told Middle East Eye he saw take place regularly due to unclear signage.

“It’s happened several times in front of me, when people entered the wrong area and were asked to go back by the army,” Abu Ramouz said.

“All of the time people go back. But this time they [Maram and Ibrahim] were killed, they were not given the chance.”
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-qalandiya-privatisation-shoot-kill-1851248194

Zionism’s roots help us interpret Israel today

.......In their different ways both comments refer back to a heated argument among Jews about whether Zionism was a blessing or a blight. Although largely overlooked today, the dispute throws much light on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Those differences came to a head in 1917 when the British government issued the Balfour Declaration, a document promising for the first time to realise the Zionist goal of a “national home” for the Jews in Palestine. Only one minister, Edwin Montagu, dissented. Notably, he was the only Jew in the British cabinet. The two facts were not unconnected. In a memo, he warned that his government’s policy would be a “rallying ground for anti-Semites in every country”.

He was far from alone in that view. Of the 4 million Jews who left Europe between 1880 and 1920, only 100,000 went to Palestine in line with Zionist expectations. As the Israeli novelist A B Yehoshua once noted: “If the Zionist party had run in an election in the early 20th century, it would have received only 6 or 7 per cent of the Jewish people’s vote.”
http://www.jonathan-cook.net/2016-05-09/zionisms-roots-help-us-interpret-israel-today/

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