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Palestinian youths clashed with Israeli forces across occupied East Jerusalem on Tuesday night following three days of violent clashes at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.

Sources told Ma'an that clashes erupted in the East Jerusalem neighborhoods and villages of al-Issawiya, al-Tur, Shuafat refugee camp, Silwan, Sur Bahir, and al-Sowwana.

Muhammad Abu al-Hummus, a local committee member in al-Issawiya, told Ma'an that clashes broke out in Issawiya after Israeli forces chased and shot at two Palestinians, injuring one and detaining the other.

Abu al-Hummus said that during the ensuing clashes, Israeli forces raided the village and sprayed foul-smelling skunk water on the streets and on one of the village's mosques.

He said that a 13-year-old girl, Saly Yousif Muhessien, who was in a nearby park, was injured when she was hit by a rubber-coated steel bullet in her neck.

http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=767630

Palestinian attempts attack on Israeli police patrol in Issawiya

As tensions continue to flare in occupied East Jerusalem, an Israeli police patrol in the Issawiya neighborhood was attacked by a "masked Arab holding petrol bomb," Israeli police said.

Israeli police spokesperson Micky Rosenfeld told Ma'an that a Palestinian approached the group of police with the intent of throwing the petrol bomb from close range. The officers fired a warning shot into the air before firing directly at the suspect.

Rosenfeld said that locals removed the suspect from the scene and that police were currently searching the for the man, adding that the area was currently "relatively calm."

No injuries of the officers were reported and heightened security continues in the area, the spokesperson said, with extra police deployed in and around neighborhoods in occupied East Jerusalem.

The incident was the latest in a string of violence in the Israeli-occupied area, as clashes continued for the third day in a row at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City.

http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=767653

Israel declares war on stone throwers

Clashes at Al Aqsa and the death of Alexander Levlovitz this week prompted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to convene an emergency security meeting on Tuesday night.

At the meeting, Netanyahu pushed for new legislation to further criminalise stone-throwing in light of the recent flareup of clashes in Jerusalem. Netanyahu envisions a more punitive approach to stone-throwing to include establishing a minimum punishment, fining parents whose children throw stones, and lowering the standard for when Israeli forces may use live fire against stone-throwers.

In a statement following the meeting, Netanyahu promised that stone-throwing will be “met with a fierce punitive and deterring response.”

The criminalization of stone-throwers will disproportionately affect Palestinians, particularly Palestinian children, as stone-throwing is a common way to protest the heavily militarised Israeli occupation.

Already, each year multiple Palestinian children are shot with live fire and rubber-coated steel bullets by Israeli forces for throwing stones, and Israeli troops arrest Palestinian children to an alarming degree.

http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/news/1024-israel-declares-war-on-stone-throwers

Palestinian detainee Muhammad Allan restarts hunger strike

Palestinian detainee Muhammed Allan restarted a hunger strike Wednesday after Israel arrested him and reinstated his internment without trial, his lawyer said, with a previous such protest having lasted two months and brought him near death.

"He is currently on hunger strike," lawyer Jamil al-Khatib told AFP.

Israeli police said earlier that Allan was arrested Wednesday morning at the Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon where he was being held.

The head of the Palestinian Prisoner's Society,Qadura Fares, said that Israeli authorities had reinstated Allan's administrative detention -- imprisonment without trial or charge -- against which the prisoner undertook a 66-day hunger strike to protest.

He said that the Israeli authorities intended for Allan to see out the 6-month administrative detention order he was sentenced to in May, which will last until Nov. 4.

However, he added: "It doesn't mean he will be released then."

Allan's administrative detention was initially ordered by Israeli officials who claimed that he constituted a threat to security and was an activist in the Islamic Jihad group, according to prisoners' rights group Addameer.

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Born in Jordan, 27-year-old Muhammad’s life hardly resembles a typical Jordanian's. Lacking any political or civil rights, Muhammad explained that he is forbidden from working in most jobs, even a teacher at a public school. Muhammad faces these rigorous restrictions because his parents fled to Jordan from Gaza following the 1967 War.

“Compared to other Jordanian citizens, I am nothing,” explained Muhammad, who declined to provide his last name. Sadly, Muhammad’s predicament is not unique. Approximately 140,000 Palestinian refugees from Gaza live in a similar limbo as Muhammad in Jordan: denied most rights and often forced into a life of harsh poverty.

Nearly 2.1 million Palestinian refugees live in Jordan. During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, 350,000 Palestinians fled to Jordan with the majority moving to the West Bank, then controlled by the Hashemite Kingdom. The Nationality Law of 1954 provided Palestinian residents of the West Bank with full Jordanian citizenship after King Abdullah I annexed the West Bank on April 24, 1950. However, when the new wave of Palestinian refugees arrived in Jordan escaping from Gaza in the 1967 War, Amman treated them differently than their West Bank countrymen, refusing to provide them with Jordanian nationality or civil rights.

http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=767671

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One of Israel’s most infamous crimes occurred 33 years ago this week.

In September 1982, the Israeli army surrounded the Sabra neighborhood and adjacent Shatila refugee camp in southern Beirut.

Israel gave its allies in a right-wing Christian militia known as the Phalange free rein to massacre a large number of Palestinian and Lebanese civilians living in the area. Israeli troops even shot flares into the night sky to help the Phalangists find their targets.

Exactly how many were killed between 16 and 18 September 1982 remains unknown. Estimates vary from 800 to 3,500; the real number is hard to determine because bodies were buried quickly in mass graves or never found, and many men were marched out of the camp and “disappeared.”

No information has been released about them to this day.

Shortly before the massacres, the Palestine Liberation Organization was evacuated from Lebanon as a result of an agreement reached after the Israeli invasion of the country. That meant the residents of Sabra and Shatila no longer had protection, despite promises made to them by Philip Habib, an envoy for then US President Ronald Reagan, that their security would be guaranteed.

Ellen Siegel, a Jewish American nurse, worked in Shatila at the time of the atrocities. She testified before the Israeli Kahan Commission of Inquiry, which in 1983 found that Israel was indirectly responsible for the massacre. Each year, she returns to Lebanon, taking part in commemorations.

https://electronicintifada.net/content/why-have-killers-sabra-and-shatila-escaped-justice/14841

Egypt destroys 12 tunnels between Gaza-Egypt border

Egyptian army border guards recently discovered and destroyed 12 "new" tunnels running under the Gaza-Egypt border in the northern Sinai Peninsula, Egyptian security sources told Ma'an.

Egyptian security sources said that the army’s border guards destroyed the tunnels in cooperation with military engineering forces.

Last month, Egyptian authorities announced plans to fill a kilometer-long trench along the Gazan border with seawater to be used for fish farming,aimed at preventing the construction of smuggling tunnels between the border.

The trench, which is currently a kilometer long and20-meters deep, will be expanded along the border, security sources had said.

They added at the time that military engineers had also planned to complete a water-pipe with a 20-inch diameter along the Gazan border in order to provide water to destroy smuggling tunnels as needed.

http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=767713

Israel to bring in 20,000 Chinese construction workers

Israel plans to bring in 20,000 Chinese construction workers to help build new apartments as part of efforts to lower housing costs, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday.

Netanyahu announced the plan at the start of a cabinet meeting, his office said. The finance ministry later said the cabinet had approved it.

Israeli attorney general Yehuda Weinstein has opposed the move because the two countries lack a formal agreement related to such cooperation.

The lack of an agreement can lead to immigrant workers paying middlemen hundreds or even thousands of dollars to obtain permits.

Chinese workers are currently brought into Israel under private contracts between Israeli and Chinese companies. The two countries have engaged in negotiations on working conditions, but have not yet reached an accord.

http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=767734

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"link"sunten = Schweinen und Bastart !!!!!!!!!! und dann sprecht um die Flüchtlingen zu hilfe , aber nicht seinen Ursachen ....

Heuchler !!

Der Artikel den Zensiert wurde ,

Jürgen Todenhöfer: „Herr Netanjahu, reißen Sie die Mauern ein!“

Eine Reise nach Gaza

Eigentlich hatte ich mich auf diese vierte Reise nach Gaza besonders gefreut. Schließlich wollte ich für die Kinder von Gaza einen Spielplatz, einen Fußballplatz und einen Frischwasserbrunnen einweihen. Finanziert mit dem Honorar meines Buches „Inside IS – 10 Tage im Islamischen Staat”. Immerhin 135.000 Euro.

Doch nach über einer Woche Gaza kehre ich tief deprimiert nach Hause zurück. Trotz der leuchtenden Augen der Kinder bei der Einweihung der Spiel- und Sportplätze am vergangenen Dienstag. Und trotz der unbeschreiblichen Herzlichkeit der Menschen in Gaza gegenüber uns Gästen aus Deutschland. Den Gazanern geht es heute noch schlechter als vor einem Jahr. Weil sie keine Hoffnung mehr haben. Keine Perspektive, kein Licht am Ende des Tunnels. Sie haben jeden Glauben an die Zukunft verloren.

http://politik-im-spiegel.de/jrgen-todenhfer-herr-netanjahu-reien-sie-die-mauern-ein/

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The 27-year-old Algerian computer science graduate will be sentenced on Tuesday in a US court for using a computer virus to steal money from more than 200 American banks and financial institutions. He then reportedly gave millions of dollars to Palestinian charities.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/09/algerian-hacker-hero-hoodlum-150921083914167.html

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Video: Palestinian woman shot, left to bleed by Israeli soldiers

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/video-palestinian-woman-shot-left-bleed-israeli-soldiers

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........... A key eyewitness to the incident, Fawaz Abu Aisha, who can be seen in pictures published by Youth Against Settlements, told Ma'an that he was on his way to work at 7:40 a.m. when he heard Israeli soldiers at the checkpoint in Shuhada Street shouting loudly in Hebrew.

At first he thought they were shouting at three Palestinian children he had seen in the area, but after approaching the checkpoint he saw they were talking to Hadeel, telling her to get away from the area.

Fawaz began to explain to the teenager, who did not understand Hebrew, what the Israeli soldiers were saying, and she attempted to leave the main checkpoint area via a movable barrier at the side.

Israeli soldiers fired a warning shot at the ground and asked her to stop, before firing another warning shot. Abu Aisha asked the soldiers to let him explain to her what they were saying but they refused and told him to leave the area.

An Israeli soldier then fired a third warning shot at the teenager before aiming his weapon at her and shooting her in the left leg. One more shot was fired at her right leg and then four more into her chest and abdomen as she lay on the ground, Abu Aisha said.

Another shot was then fired at her body as she lay on the ground, he said.

The eyewitness said the entire incident lasted around six minutes and Hadeel did not speak to the Israeli soldiers or resist in any way during that time.

An Israeli army spokeswoman said that an attack on soldiers at the checkpoint had been "thwarted."

http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=767785

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The chief of police in the Nablus district and his three-year-old daughter were injured after being shot by Israeli forces with rubber-coated bullets on Friday during a raid in the village of Kafr Qaddum in Qalqiliya.

A Fatah leader in Kafr Qaddum, Murad Ishteiwi, told Ma'an that Israeli forces directly shot at three-year-old Maram Abed al-Latif al-Qaddumi, injuring her with a rubber-coated steel bullet in the head while she was standing on a balcony in her home.

Isheiwi added that when her father, Colonel Abd al-Latif al-Qaddumi, attempted to aid her and take her to the hospital in his car, Israeli forces opened fire, injuring him in the head.

http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=767802

Clashes as thousands march in slain Palestinian's funeral

Thousands of Palestinians marched in the funeral of Ahmad Izzat Khatatbeh, 25, who died on Thursday from wounds sustained by Israeli forces at the Beit Furik checkpoint in the occupied West Bank last week.

The procession set off from the Rafidia Government Hospital to Khatatbeh's family home located near the village’s entrance. His body was carried on the shoulders of fellow residents to the cemetery, as they shouted slogans calling for revenge.

http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=767804

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Human Rights Watch on Tuesday accused Egypt's military of having "violated international law" through mass home demolitions and evictions over the past two years along its border with Gaza.

Egypt's army in October created a wide buffer zone in the border town of Rafah in the north of the Sinai Peninsula, where it says tunnels have allowed militants and weapons in from the Palestinian enclave.

"The large-scale destruction of at least 3,255 buildings in Rafah to counter the threat of smuggling tunnels was likely disproportionate and did not meet Egypt's obligations under international human rights law or the laws of war," HRW said.

Since July 2013 "the military has arbitrarily razed thousands of homes in a once-populated buffer zone on the border with the Gaza Strip, destroying entire neighborhoods and hundreds of hectares (acres) of farmland," the New York-based rights watchdog said.

http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=767764

Egypt leader defends 'security measures' along Gaza border

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Saturday said the security measures taken by his country along the border with Gaza were not aimed at "harming" Palestinians.

"The measures taken by Egypt to secure its eastern borders are in full coordination with the Palestinian Authority and cannot have the aim of harming our Palestinian brothers in the Gaza Strip," Sisi was quoted as saying in a statement sent by his office

"The measures seek to protect the Egyptian borders and maintain Egyptian and Palestinian national security," it added.

The Egyptian leader reportedly made the comments during a meeting with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in New York, where they are attending the United Nations General Assembly.

Egypt began creating a wide buffer zone along the Gaza border in late 2014 in a bid to destroy the hundreds of smuggling tunnels Cairo says are used by Palestinian activists to deliver weapons to Islamic militant who are battling Egyptian forces in the Sinai peninsula.

In recent weeks, Egypt has also been carrying out digging work in the area that Palestinians believe is intended to flood the last remaining tunnels between Gaza and the Sinai.

http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=767825

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Palestinian football's governing body has said it is "impossible" to accept FIFA's decision that it must play a 2018 World Cup qualifier against Saudi Arabia on neutral territory.

The fixture, set for October 13, had been scheduled to take place in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, but Saudi Arabia on September 23 demanded that it be played on neutral ground.

The teams met each other in the Saudi city of Jeddah in June, with the Saudis winning 3-2.

That match was actually supposed to be played in Palestine but Saudi Arabia had refused to travel to the West Bank, citing undefined "exceptional circumstances."

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