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palestina libera · Beiträge: 1665

In a dawn raid on the al-Ahli Hospital in Hebron, an elite Israeli unit kidnapped one patient and killed his cousin

http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinian-killed-israeli-raid-hospital-officials-1826170537

Video: Israeli soldiers fire at car, killing elderly woman

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/video-israeli-soldiers-fire-car-killing-elderly-woman

Israeli forces raid al-Arrub camp for 3rd consecutive day, detain 24

http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768778

70 injured in West Bank clashes during Arafat commemoration marches

Clashes erupted across the occupied West Bank on Wednesday after marches to mark the 11th anniversary of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's death, with at least 70 Palestinians shot and injured by Israeli forces.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768766

Palestine de-Osloized

What is happening in Palestine? Is it a new intifada? If so, what are its slogans?

Many compare the current situation in Palestine with apartheid South Africa. The tribal chiefs of the South African bantustans — the nominally independent Black-ruled “homelands” created by the racist government — used to believe that they were heads of sovereign states. The apartheid regime promoted the fiction of Black independence under its overall control in an attempt to legitimize and perpetuate white rule.

https://electronicintifada.net/content/palestine-de-osloized/14977

A “Blue and White Kristallnacht: Only a Matter of Time

Invited to address a Dutch Jewish leftist group, Platform Stop Racism and Exclusion, in Amsterdam on the anniversary of Kristallnacht, Zoabi took the opportunity to link the victimization of European Jews by the Nazis to the suffering of Palestinians under Occupation. Zionists insist they have a monopoly on suffering and the world’s sympathy and exploit the Holocaust regularly for this purpose. Having a Palestinian probe the issue and point out both the flaws in the argument and the implications racial hatred may have in today’s Israel-Palestine conflict is simply maddening.

http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2015/11/09/a-blue-and-white-kristallnacht-is-only-a-matter-of-time/

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Israeli forces shot and killed a 22-year-old Palestinian in the Ramallah-area village of Budrus, the third to die on Friday from live Israeli fire during clashes in the occupied West Bank.

http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768817

111 Palestinians shot, injured during West Bank, Gaza demonstrations

At least 94 Palestinians were shot and injured on Friday during clashes across the occupied West Bank, medics told Ma'an.

In al-Balou area of northern al-Bireh in the Ramallah district, 26 Palestinians were injured with live bullets and 35 with rubber-coated steel bullets, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768807

'Hospitals must be safe': MSF demands access to Palestinian patient

Doctors without Borders (MSF) on Friday demanded access to a patient kidnapped by undercover Israeli forces from a Hebron hospital a day earlier, condemning the violation of the special status of the sick and wounded under International Humanitarian Law (IHL).

Azzam Ezzat Shalaldah, 20, was kidnapped by Israeli undercover forces disguised as Palestinian civilians at dawn on Thursday in a raid which saw his cousin, Abdullah Shalaldah, 28, who was visiting him at the time, shot at least three times in the head and upper body.

http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768813

Israel demolishes 4 West Bank homes of Palestinians accused of attacks
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768819

Hebron district under lockdown as Israeli forces search for gunman
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768821

Israel strip-searches children in new detention center

Israel has arrested so many Palestinian children since the start of October that is has opened a new detention center specifically for them. The center is part of Givon Prison in Ramle, a city in present-day Israel.

Children from the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, are being held there in conditions that violate their human rights.

A spokesperson for the Israel Prison Service told The Electronic Intifada that the newly opened facility at Givon prison is temporary and fulfills standards for detaining children.

But lawyers who have visited the imprisoned children there warn of overcrowding, poor hygiene and mistreatment.

A total of 56 Palestinian children are being held in Givon, 20 of whom are from the West Bank, according to the Palestinian prisoner advocacy gruop Addameer.

It is a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention to transfer prisoners out of the occupied West Bank or Gaza into present-day Israel.

https://electronicintifada.net/content/israel-strip-searches-children-new-detention-center/14999

Israel refuses to return Palestinians killed

Israel reneged on a vow to release the body of the Palestinian teen killed Tuesday by Israeli forces at a Bethlehem-area checkpoint.

The teenager’s father told the Palestinian News and Info Agency that despite coordination between the Palestinian military liaison and the Israeli side to release his son’s body early Wednesday morning, Israel did not do so and failed to provide an alternative date.

The father appealed to all relevant sides to intervene and help recover his son’s body so they can lay him to rest.

http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/news/1134-israel-refuses-to-return-palestinians-killed-to-families

World Bank grants for Palestinian education are another kind of occupationon

Since the beginning of the Jerusalem Intifada, as it has been referred to by Hamas, Israel has intensified its state and settler violence, targeting a considerable number of Palestinians who are still at school.

It is a fact that the current uprising is mostly comprised of the post-Oslo generation, which signifies an incisive departure from the complacency characterising the political process. Indeed, even resistance factions have been left to grapple with the realisation that their role was marginalised in the current uprising. However, the double attack on Palestinian society by Israel should not be missed.

http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/world-bank-grants-and-manipulation-palestinian-education-505942333

Israel stakes claim to Golan after oil find

Netanyahu sounds out Obama on recognising annexation of Syrian territory as test drill promises energy independence

http://www.jonathan-cook.net/2015-11-14/israel-stakes-claim-to-golan-after-oil-find/

Das Überlebenshandbuch für Palästinenser in Israel

Wenn es für einen Polizisten ausreicht, dass jemand „Terrorist“ schreit, um Sie umzubringen, ist es das Beste für Sie, den arabischen Klingelton zu ändern, den Bart zu rasieren und einfach zu Hause zu bleiben. Samah Salaime bietet ein Überlebenshandbuch in fünf Schritten für Palästinenser im Heiligen Land.

http://www.tlaxcala-int.org/article.asp?reference=16488

Behind the headline news of clashes between Palestinian youths and armed Israeli soldiers, Israel has – as ever – been quietly tightening its grip on Palestinians’ lives in the occupied territories.

Last week in Hebron, a current flashpoint, 50 embattled families still living in the Tel Rumeida neighbourhood faced a new restriction on movement designed to help free up the area for intensified Jewish settlement.

http://www.jonathan-cook.net/2015-11-11/a-palestinian-call-for-unarmed-warfare/

Palestinian factions call for joint operations after shooting attack

Palestinian political factions on Saturday praised a shooting attack that targeted an Israeli vehicle in southern Hebron, killing two Israeli settlers and wounding another.

Military wings of the Fatah movement said the attack was a natural response to Israeli crimes and that Palestinians have the right to resist the occupation.

The wings urged all Palestinian military factions to pick up arms and enter into joint operations against Israel.

http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768822

Where are the Israeli Gandhis?

https://electronicintifada.net/content/where-are-israeli-gandhis/14997

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Israeli forces on Monday evening detained a Palestinian child and his father from their home in al-Tur village in occupied East Jerusalem, family members told Ma'an.

Israeli forces chased Ahmad Nidal Abu Sbeitan,12, to the front of his home before detaining him, family members said.

http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768857

Israeli troops killed two Palestinians in the Qalandiya refugee camp early Monday morning during a raid to demolish the home of an alleged Palestinian attacker.

Laith Assad Munasra, age 21, and Ahmad Abu al Aish, age 28, were killed as fierce clashes broke out to protest the invasion of hundreds of Israeli soldiers into the Ramallah-area refugee camp, home to over 10,000 residents.

Dozens of Palestinians were wounded and 17-year-old Yusuf Abu Latifa is reported in the Palestinian media to have been critically wounded in the raid.
http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/news/1141-see-two-palestinians-killed-in-qalandiya

8 Palestinians shot, injured as Qalandiya funeral erupts into clashes
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768855

Palestinians clash with Israeli forces near Hebron
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768854

A Palestinian toddler sustained head injuries on Sunday afternoon when he was run over by an Israeli military vehicle in the village of Bir Nabala northwest of Jerusalem, the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Health said.

The ministry said in a statement that two-year-old Adel Khader Shahin from Bir Nabala was evacuated to the Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah for treatment. The statement did not provide details on the toddler's condition.

An Israeli army spokesperson said that she was aware of "a minor car accident" involving a military jeep outside Ramallah, but was unable to confirm whether anyone had been injured.

The spokesperson said that the incident was an accident and had not been intentional.

Israeli military jeeps regularly patrol Palestinian roads through the occupied West Bank and are not subject to traffic regulations. There have been a number of cases where Palestinians have been hit by them -- both intentionally and by accident.

http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768841

Israeli troops on Sunday forced a Palestinian family off their agricultural land during an olive harvest for the second time in two days, a popular committee spokesperson told Ma'an.

Muhammad Ayyad Awad said Israeli troops forced Hammad Abdul-Hamid Sleibi and his family to leave the family's olive fields on the outskirts Beit Ummar, in the southern occupied West Bank district of Hebron.

Sleibi said that security guards from the nearby illegal Israeli settlement of Bat Ayin first arrived to tell the family to leave. The security guards allegedly pointed their guns at the family and threatened them, telling them not to come back to the area.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768838

Shot for flying a flag in Gaza

For the past six weeks, the boundary between Gaza and Israel has been a deadly place for Palestinians. Israeli forces killed at least 16 Palestinians during protests in that area between 1 October and 6 November.

Israel’s violence did not deter 22-year-old Muhammad al-Bhaisy from joining a demonstration at the boundary on 6 November. Accompanied by his friend Sharif Mousa, he brought along a large Palestinian flag. On the way to the protest from his home in the Deir al-Balah refugee camp, Muhammad found a stick on the street, to which he fastened the flag.

https://electronicintifada.net/content/shot-flying-flag-gaza/15002

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Beiden Artikel wurden von Amira Hass geschrieben

To the Israeli ear the allegation sounds far-fetched. Israelis find it hard to believe that our soldiers and commanders could lie, until it’s proven otherwise by security footage or photos.

t.co/Coi7zwk6iI

Were all Palestinians killed in Hebron really a threat to soldiers?

t.co/vKimhOKsDA

Questions raised over possible Israeli planting of knives on Palestinians

http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/questions-raised-over-possible-israeli-planting-knives-palestinians-1955592660

Israeli PM approves over 450 new settler homes in East Jerusalem
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768863

Israeli forces open fire at protesters, fishermen in Gaza

Israeli forces shot and injured a Palestinian youth with live fire in eastern al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Gaza's Ministry of Health said.

A spokesperson for the ministry said the youth was shot and injured in the leg during clashes near the camp. The youth was evacuated to Shuhada al-Aqsa Hospital in central Gaza in moderate condition.

On the other side of Gaza, near the Beit Lahiya coast in the northern Strip, Israeli navy boats opened fire at Palestinian fishermen, damaging fishing nets but causing no injuries.

http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768874

Clashes break out in occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768884

5 Palestinians shot, injured in Bethlehem clashes
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768873

Israeli forces raid Nablus school, demand removal of Arafat posters
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768872

Israel detains 4 Palestinians in Jerusalem, including 9-year-old boy
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768880

Israel detains child defender
http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/news/1146-see-israel-detains-child-defender

Video: Israeli forces detain 6-year-old Palestinian boy in Bethlehem
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768877

Rights Expert: Harsh interrogation of 13-year-old Palestinian boy ‘may amount to torture’
http://mondoweiss.net/2015/11/interrogation-palestinian-torture

Fact sheet on force-feeding prisoners

The paper provides historical background on hunger strikes across several contexts and the use of force-feeding, adding political and legal analysis of the recent legislation by Israel which provides a supposed legal basis for the force-feeding of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike.

http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/news/1147-read-fact-sheet-on-force-feeding-prisoners

Palestinians in Israel fear Jewish extremists

Most Palestinian citizens of Israel fear attacks by Jewish extremists, according to a new survey.

The poll by the Haifa-based research center Mada al-Carmel indicates a climate of fear faced by the Palestinian minority in present-day Israel. Of its 307 respondents, 72 percent reported a moderate or high fear of violence by Jewish extremists against Palestinian towns in Israel.

Palestinian citizens’ concerns about violence by right-wing extremists are not misplaced. A spate of anti-Palestinian attacks have been committed in recent weeks inside Israel.

https://electronicintifada.net/content/palestinians-israel-fear-jewish-extremists/15003

palestina libera · Beiträge: 1665

Beiden Artikel wurden von Amira Hass geschriben ( ich habe zwei mal gepostet weil der Erste mal , nicht alle links funzioniert ... )

To the Israeli ear the allegation sounds far-fetched. Israelis find it hard to believe that our soldiers and commanders could lie, until it’s proven otherwise by security footage or photos.

http://t.co/Coi7zwk6iI

Were all Palestinians killed in Hebron really a threat to soldiers?

http://t.co/vKimhOKsDA

Questions raised over possible Israeli planting of knives on Palestinians

http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/questions-raised-over-possible-israeli-planting-knives-palestinians-1955592660

Israeli PM approves over 450 new settler homes in East Jerusalem
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768863

Israeli forces open fire at protesters, fishermen in Gaza

Israeli forces shot and injured a Palestinian youth with live fire in eastern al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Gaza's Ministry of Health said.

A spokesperson for the ministry said the youth was shot and injured in the leg during clashes near the camp. The youth was evacuated to Shuhada al-Aqsa Hospital in central Gaza in moderate condition.

On the other side of Gaza, near the Beit Lahiya coast in the northern Strip, Israeli navy boats opened fire at Palestinian fishermen, damaging fishing nets but causing no injuries.

http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768874

Clashes break out in occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768884

5 Palestinians shot, injured in Bethlehem clashes
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768873

Israeli forces raid Nablus school, demand removal of Arafat posters
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768872

Israel detains 4 Palestinians in Jerusalem, including 9-year-old boy
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768880

Israel detains child defender
http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/news/1146-see-israel-detains-child-defender

Video: Israeli forces detain 6-year-old Palestinian boy in Bethlehem
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768877

Rights Expert: Harsh interrogation of 13-year-old Palestinian boy ‘may amount to torture’
http://mondoweiss.net/2015/11/interrogation-palestinian-torture

Fact sheet on force-feeding prisoners

The paper provides historical background on hunger strikes across several contexts and the use of force-feeding, adding political and legal analysis of the recent legislation by Israel which provides a supposed legal basis for the force-feeding of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike.

http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/news/1147-read-fact-sheet-on-force-feeding-prisoners

Palestinians in Israel fear Jewish extremists

Most Palestinian citizens of Israel fear attacks by Jewish extremists, according to a new survey.

The poll by the Haifa-based research center Mada al-Carmel indicates a climate of fear faced by the Palestinian minority in present-day Israel. Of its 307 respondents, 72 percent reported a moderate or high fear of violence by Jewish extremists against Palestinian towns in Israel.

Palestinian citizens’ concerns about violence by right-wing extremists are not misplaced. A spate of anti-Palestinian attacks have been committed in recent weeks inside Israel.

https://electronicintifada.net/content/palestinians-israel-fear-jewish-extremists/15003

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At least 156 Palestinians were shot and injured by Israeli forces during clashes in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip on Friday, the Palestinian ministry of health said.

The ministry of health said 69 Palestinians were injured with live fire in the West Bank, with 29 shot in the Ramallah area, two in Bethlehem, and three in Qalqiliya.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768920

Thousands attend funeral of Palestinian who died from gunshot wounds
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768922

Hundreds attend funeral of Palestinian killed in Gush Etzion
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768919

Israeli settlers raided the Palestinian village of al-Mazraa al-Qabalia northwest of Ramallah overnight Thursday and threw rocks at a home in the village before spraying racist graffiti on the walls.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768926

Nearly 400 Palestinian children held in Israeli jails

A prisoners' rights group said Friday that nearly 400 Palestinian children between the ages of 11 and 17 are currently being held in Israeli jails.

The Palestinian Prisoners' Society said in a statement that 11 of those detained were being held without charge or trial under administration detention orders.

The group added that several children detained since the start of last month were hit with live Israeli fire while being detained.

Some 700 children have been detained since the beginning of October -- mainly in the Hebron and Jerusalem districts -- many of whom were released under specific conditions including bail or house arrest, the society said.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768923

Israeli army acts close Hebron schools

Soldiers shot copious amounts of tear gas near the Ibrahimiya School in the al Sahla area of downtown Hebron. Dozens of students were overcome by the tear gas.

Israeli troops further closed the checkpoints in the area, prohibiting students and Palestinian residents of the area from passing through.

Dr. Ramzi Abu Yousef, Director of the Health Work Committees in the Hebron district, reports that soldiers prevented ambulances from taking the students to be treated in the downtown clinic. Soldiers essentially shut down the clinic by blocking Tareq Ben Ziyad street, where it is situated.

Some 2,000 Palestinian students missed school today because of the Israeli military actions.

http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/news/1151-israeli-army-acts-close-hebron-schools

Israeli forces raid home of Tel Aviv attacker, issue demolition order

Israeli forces on Thursday evening raided the home of a Palestinian who reportedly carried out a stabbing attack in Tel Aviv earlier that day which killed two Israelis, witnesses said.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768911

Israeli revenge demolitions leave 2 dead, dozens homeless

Israeli occupation forces wrought death, injury and destruction this week as they carried out revenge demolitions of Palestinian homes and fired on protesters.

More than 85 Palestinians have been killed in escalated violence since 1 October, dozens in what human rights organizations and international monitors have condemned as summary executions.

Sixteen Israelis were slain in the same period.

More than 9,000 Palestinians and 133 Israelis were injured, according to the United Nations monitoring group OCHA.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israeli-revenge-demolitions-leave-2-dead-dozens-homeless

America’s papers brush aside Israeli brutality

Editorial statements allow newspapers to articulate their collective position on the issues of the day and, in the case of major publications, they carry particular authority. Such articles play an important role in shaping public opinion and therefore need to be subject to special scrutiny.

Severely flawed editorials on the current uprising throughout Palestine have appeared in The Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times and the The Washington Post.

One shortcoming is that they foreground Israeli concerns and sideline those of Palestinians.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/americas-papers-brush-aside-israeli-brutality/15006

How Israel pressures BBC into changing headlines

In the early hours of 12 November, approximately two dozen Israeli gunmen, one disguised as a pregnant Palestinian woman, others wearing fake beards, invaded a hospital in Hebron and gunned down a 28-year-old man.

In a rare burst of reporting on an Israeli atrocity, the BBC ran an article on its website headlined: “Israelis shoot dead Palestinian in Hebron hospital raid.”

It was a straightforward headline which summed up the story. But later in the day, a different headline appeared above the report, reading: “Israelis in disguise raid Hebron hospital, seizing suspect.”

As is standard practice for the BBC, the amendment was not noted at the bottom of the page, so newcomers to the story would not have known the headline had been altered.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/amena-saleem/how-israel-pressures-bbc-changing-headlines

Another crack in Israeli democracy

The decision by Israel’s defence minister and the current government to revoke the legal status of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel opens another crack in the democratic regime that rules half of Israel.

Israel’s democracy is a very feeble one, in any case – lacking appropriate protections, without the required checks and balances, a democracy mainly directed at the country’s Jewish citizens. Not coincidentally, this scandalous decision relies on existing “emergency regulations,” a colonialist remnant of draconian legislation left to Israel by the departing British Mandate government – laws that Israel has never bothered to revoke. Under this rubric, the Israeli administration in power can do just about anything – which is why these laws, so useful at times, are still on the books.

This decision, moreover, was taken under cover of the recent terror attacks in Paris. There was nothing coincidental about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s choice to exploit the global fury at Islam to move ahead with this action, which it had been contemplating, together with Israel’s security services, for a long time.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/another-crack-israeli-democracy-741081490

Bild : The Israeli border police officer found responsible for brutally assaulting 15-year-old Tariq Abu Khdeir was sentenced on Wednesday to 45 days of community service.
http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/news/1153-45-days-community-service-for-brutal-assault

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A prominent Israeli settler ran over a 16-year-old Palestinian girl and then shot her dead, saying that he believed she intended to carry out a stabbing attack at Huwarra checkpoint in the northern occupied West Bank district of Nablus, Israeli media reported.

http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768950

Settler shoots dead 2nd Palestinian following alleged attack attempt

.....It was unclear whether the car crash was an attack or accidental, although following the incident, an Israeli settler corroborated the police account that Hassib exited the car holding a knife.

Israeli news site Ynet reported that an Israeli settler "was lightly wounded, suffering a scratch to his hand," adding that it was unclear whether the scratch came from the car crash or the alleged attempted stabbing attack.

Less than an hour before the incident, a prominent Israeli settler ran over a Palestinian girl, 16, before shooting her dead.

http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768952

Settlers attack Palestinian homes in Hebron
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768961

Israeli forces detain 25 Palestinians in West Bank arrest raids
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768964

VIDEO: Israelis shoot injured Palestinian teenage attackers in Jerusalem

Israeli forces shot two Palestinian teenage girls, killing one and wounding the other, after they were allegedly involved in a stabbing attack near a central Jerusalem market on Monday morning, Israeli police said.

http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768972

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CDt37X5yJs

VIDEO! Checkpoints, harassment in Jerusalem

In the neighborhood of A-Tur, children fear going to school because of the permanent Israeli police presence in front of a school.

Parents and activists organized a small protest this week.

In other areas, young Palestinians are being harassed on their way to work or studies in West Jerusalem or when trying to access the city's light rail.

http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/news/1155-video-checkpoints-harassment-in-jerusalem

Weltkindertag: 400 Kinder in israelischen Gefängnissen

Ramallah (Westbank) Der Palästinensische Gefangenenklub (PPC) machte am Weltkindertag (20. November) öffentlich, dass die israelischen Besatzungsbehörden ca. 400 palästinensische Kinder im Alter zwischen 11 und 17 Jahren in ihren Gefängnissen halten .

http://www.tlaxcala-int.org/article.asp?reference=16626

The police are the ‘bad guys’ in occupied Palestine

In the Arab world, one often hears the expression “police are in the service of the people.” Although the idiom is very popular, it is usually spoken in a sarcastic way as a political joke.

People who have little power over their lives use the phrase to mock the conduct of their notorious police forces. These forces, after all, have a habit of terrorising people and spreading fear. In Occupied Palestine, however, the expression is perceived quite differently, because the Israeli police there have nothing whatever to do with serving people. It can't even be a joking matter.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/police-are-bad-guys-occupied-palestine-2029033217

Rebel against torture killed by Israel

Lafi Awad was not yet 10 when he began taking part in protests.

The protests erupted in 2004 as it became plain that the wall Israel was building in the West Bank would divide his home village of Budrus. His family were among the Palestinians whose olive trees were earmarked for destruction as Israel confiscated much of the village’s land.

Lafi belonged to a generation that was politicized by Israel’s wall. He felt an urgent need to take action against the dispossession it was causing.

He resisted the Israeli occupation by throwing stones. His determination to keep resisting cost him his life.

“When he first asked to join us in the clashes with the Israeli soldiers, we did not take him seriously,” said Ahmad Awad, Lafi’s best friend and three years his senior. “I told him that he was too young and small to protest. But he insisted and we were all taken aback with his courage. He was fearless beyond his age.”

The confrontations with the Israeli forces in Budrus could often be fierce. Heavily armed Israeli soldiers were known to fire directly at local youths. In 2013, Samir Awad, another good friend of Lafi, was killed during one of the confrontations.

https://electronicintifada.net/content/rebel-against-torture-killed-israel/15021

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Call from Palestine: Stop the execution of our children!

We, the undersigned Palestinian political forces and organizations, appeal to local and international institutions, human rights organisations and democratic forces for immediate and decisive action concerning the execution of Palestinian children by Israeli occupation forces and settlers. To date, 18 Palestinian children have been killed and executed in cold blood at the checkpoints and on the streets since the beginning of the current Palestinian uprising. Dozens of Palestinian children have been injured, arrested and brutally interrogated by Israeli forces.
http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/aicoment/1161-call-from-palestine-stop-the-execution-of-our-children

Israeli forces shoot, injure 82 Palestinians in Gaza, West Bank

Netanyahu responsible for executions of children, rights group says

The human rights group B’Tselem excoriated Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, stating that he is responsible for “the transformation of police officers, and even of armed civilians, into judges and executioners” who slay Palestinians suspected of armed attacks in the streets.

“Your silence in the face of Minister of Public Security Gilad Erdan’s saying that ‘every terrorist should know that he will not survive the attack he is about to perpetrate’ is tantamount to consent to this unlawful policy,” B’Tselem said, addressing the Israeli prime minister.

The Israeli rights group said the policy amounts to a de facto death sentence, even though capital punishment is banned in the country.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/netanyahu-responsible-executions-children-rights-group-says

At least 82 Palestinians were shot by Israeli military forces during ongoing clashes across the occupied Palestinian territory, the Palestinian Red Crescent and officials said Friday.

A Red Crescent spokesperson told Ma’an that 16 Palestinians were injured by live bullets, as well as two by rubber-coated steel bullets in the Gaza Strip.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769051

A 19-year-old Palestinian was shot and killed in al-Arrub refugee camp in northern Hebron on Thursday during clashes, medics told Ma'an, the 3rd Palestinian to be killed during the day.

Red Crescent officials said that Khalid Mahmoud al-Jawabreh, 19, was shot twice in the stomach by Israeli soldiers and later died from his injuries in the al-Ahli hospital in Hebron.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769041

Hundreds of Palestinians attended the funeral of a 19-year-old Palestinian who was shot and killed in al-Arrub refugee camp in northern Hebron on Thursday during clashes.

Mourners carried the body of Khalid Mahmoud al-Jawabreh to a cemetery in the camp, with locals demanded a response to the "execution policy" of Israeli military forces.

Al-Jawabrah was shot twice in the stomach by Israeli soldiers and later died from his injuries in Hebron's al-Ahli hospital.

The teenager was shot during clashes in the camp between youths and armed Israeli military forces.

He was the third Palestinian to be killed on Thursday by Israeli soldiers.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769050

Palestinian shot dead after alleged vehicle attack east of Jerusalem

A Palestinian man was shot dead on Friday after allegedly running over two Israeli soldiers in a vehicle attack east of Jerusalem, locals and Israel's army said.

The Israeli military said there was a "car ramming attack" at a bus station east of Jerusalem, near the Kfar Adumim settlement, which left two soldiers injured.

Israeli police said that an Israeli settler who was in the area shot dead the Palestinian suspect following the incident.

Locals told Ma'an that the man, identified as Fadi Muhammad Mahmoud Khasib, 25, from the Ein Misbah area of Ramallah, was killed.

Both Israeli soldiers were lightly injured and taken to the Shaare Zedek hospital for treatment.

Fadi's brother, Shadi, was shot dead on Sunday by an Israeli settler near the scene of Friday's incident by the illegal Kafr Adumim settlement.

Israeli police said that following a car accident in the area a Palestinian
man "walked out his vehicle with a knife in his hand and was shot dead."

Locals say Shadi got out of his vehicle to check for damage following an accident and was shot dead by a settler.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769044

Israeli forces raid al-Fawwar refugee camp, injure 5

Clashes broke out in the al-Fawwar refugee camp in southern Hebron on Thursday when residents attempted to prevent Israeli forces from reaching the home of a Palestinian killed after stabbing an Israeli soldier, locals said.

A resident of the camp, Adel al-Muhseiri, told Ma’an that messages were relayed through speakers in the refugee camp after the forces entered, calling on locals to stop them from accessing the home of Muhammad Shubaki, 19.

Youths threw rocks, empty bottles and Molotov cocktails while Israeli soldiers responded with live fire, tear gas bombs and rubber-coated steel bullets, al-Muhseiri said.

Five Palestinians were injured with live bullets, one of whom was hit in the stomach, while dozens of residents suffered from tear gas inhalation.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769032

Israel using Dutch dogs to terrorize Palestinians

This video shows Israeli forces using a dog to attack and injure 20-year-old Ahmad Shteiwi as he participated in an anti-occupation protest in the West Bank village of Kufr Qaddoum, near Nablus, in March 2012.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/adri-nieuwhof/israel-using-dutch-dogs-terrorize-palestinians

Palestinian worker attacked by Israelis in Beit Shemesh
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769047

Why won’t Israel allow autopsy on youth killed by police?

A refusal by the Israeli police to allow an autopsy on a young Palestinian killed by its officers indicates a cover-up.

On 17 October, Mutaz Uweisat was killed by the police in Armon Hanatziv, an Israeli settlement in occupied East Jerusalem.

Israeli police have alleged that the 16-year-old boy tried to stab a border guard.

Palestinian human rights groups are calling for an investigation of the officer implicated in the killing.

In a request submitted earlier this month, the two groups, Adalah and Addameer, also urged that an autopsy be carried out in the presence of a medical officer approved by the Uweisat family.

Five days after submitting the request, Adalah issued a statement saying that the police had refused to perform an autopsy and that an Israeli court in Jerusalem had refused to order one. The police had decided to close its examinations of the incident, the group reported.

The Israeli authorities have still not handed over Mutaz’s body to his family. They have similarly refused to return, or delayed returning, the bodies of many other Palestinians killed by Israeli forces.

Israel’s refusal to allow an investigation into the incident makes its account impossible to verify. A number of other recent allegations made by the Israeli authorities against young Palestinians shot dead by its forces have turned out to be inaccurate.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/why-wont-israel-allow-autopsy-youth-killed-police/15020

In Israel's democracy, dissent has always been off limits to Arab citizens

The banning of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement may seem like a new low, but a closer look at history reveals how the state has been at war with Palestinian political organizations since its very inception.

Israel’s Palestinian citizens have never had an easy time organizing politically. The government’s decision to outlaw the northern branch of the Islamic Movement is only the latest — and perhaps most significant — example of the hurdles Arab citizens must face in their struggle for equality.
http://972mag.com/in-israels-democracy-dissent-has-always-been-off-limits-to-arab-citizens/113963/

Google Will Censor Videos Inciting Palestinian Violence

Bibi Netanyahu has been blaming U.S. internet companies like Facebook for the current Palestinian uprising. I’ve taken to calling it the “Facebook Intifada.” Now there’s a new Silicon Valley target.

Today, Israel’s deputy foreign minister, Tzipi Hotovely, who’s devoutly wished to see Israel rebuild the Holy Temple (thereby destroying the Haram al Sharif), announced (in Hebrew, English here) that she’d met with YouTube’s CEO and Google’s director of public policy at its Silicon Valley campus. During this meeting, according to a Maariv article, Hotovely schooled the executives about the ways in which pro-Palestine propaganda infects the internet and incites impressionable young Palestinian children to knife innocent victims.

What struck me about the article was the conclusion, in which Hotovely says that Google agreed to create a formal mechanism enabling formal coöperation between the foreign ministry and the company regarding the issue of incitement as played out in YouTube’s video content. In other words, she implied that Google would collaborate with Israel on identifying and removing videos that “incited” violence against Israel.
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2015/11/26/israels-deputy-foreign-minister-says-google-will-censor-videos-inciting-palestinian-violence/

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Israeli forces on Sunday evening shot dead a Palestinian teenage boy during clashes in the neighborhood of Silwan in occupied East Jerusalem, a local monitoring group said.

The Wadi Hilweh Information Center said that 17-year-old Ayman Samih al-Abbasi died after he was shot in his chest in the Ras al-Amoud area of Silwan.

http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769094

Israeli forces detain 13 Palestinians across West Bank
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769095

Clashes erupt in East Jerusalem neighborhoods following raids
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769105

East Jerusalem's Issawiya invaded
http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/news/1170-see-east-jerusalem-s-issawiya-invaded

Former hunger striker released from prison

Israeli authorities released Palestinian prisoner and former hunger striker Ghassan Zawahra on Monday, his family told Ma'an.

Zawahra was released to his family in Aida refugee camp, near the northern entrance of Bethlehem city in the southern occupied West Bank after being held for 18 months under administrative detention, an Israeli policy that allows detainees to be held without charge or trial for renewable six month periods, indefinitely.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769106

Israeli forces prepare to demolish homes of Palestinian attackers

Israeli forces on Monday raided the homes of several Palestinians accused of attacking Israelis in preparation to demolish their homes, witnesses told Ma'an.

Israeli forces raided al-Fawwar refugee camp south of Hebron and examined the family home of Muhammad Ismail Shubaki, 19, who was shot dead last week after stabbing an Israeli soldier near the camp.

Israeli engineers took measurements of the property, likely in preparation to demolish the home, locals said.

Israeli forces also raided the village of Taffuh west of Hebron and raided the homes of Imadiddin al-Tarda and Taha al-Tarda, whom Israel accuses of stabbing attacks in Rishon Letzion and Jerusalem.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769097

Dad fears Israelis who burned teenage son to death may escape punishment

Two Israeli minors were found guilty on Monday of the kidnapping and burning to death of Palestinian teenager Muhammad Abu Khudair in occupied East Jerusalem in July 2014.

But the victim’s family fears that the killers will yet escape any real punishment.

A ruling on the third suspect and alleged ringleader has been delayed.

The panel of three Israeli judges agreed that Yosef Haim Ben David, 31, carried out the killing, but are delaying their final ruling until January to reconsider a last-minute insanity plea.

The court had previously rejected Ben David’s insanity defense.

But the new motion, which includes a psychiatric evaluation, argues that he cannot be held responsible for his actions.

After Monday’s verdict, Muhammad’s father, Hussein Abu Khudair, told reporters, “How can the defendant, two days ago, a year and a half after the crime, bring a document claiming insanity?”
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/charlotte-silver/dad-fears-israelis-who-burned-teenage-son-death-may-escape-punishment

Reclaiming Palestine: How Israeli media misread the Intifada

Israeli commentators, Yaron Friedman, of Ynet News, and Haviv Rettig Gur, of the Times of Israel, are clueless about the driving force behind the Palestinian mobilization and collective struggle. In two recent articles, and with unmistakable conceit, they attempted to highlight what they perceive as the failure of the current Palestinian uprising, or ‘Intifada’.

Gur argues that 'the terrorism' of the Palestinians is not a surge of opposition to Israel but a “howl against the pervasive sense that resistance has failed.” He reduces the Intifada to the mere act of alleged stabbing of Israelis, and points to the painful truth that the Palestinian Authority 'elites' are paying lip service to the 'martyrs,' while “simultaneously acting with determination on the ground to disrupt and stop attacks.”
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769091

Open letter to Israeli activists

The entire Israeli community of anti-occupation activists must act immediately to counter the madness perpetuated by the occupation forces and gangs of settlers. It can no longer be silent about the crimes committed against the Palestinian people.

As a Palestinian, I am outraged by the silence, complacency and indifference of the Israeli anti-colonial activists who used to struggle against the occupation.

That silence makes me feel as if they, just like the rest of Israeli society, believe the army is acting out of “self-defense,” embracing the impunity it enjoys when executing Palestinian children in the streets and at checkpoints.

Do these anti-colonial activists agree with the official voices in Israel that claim military force, war and murder will end the Palestinian resistance for freedom, independence and the right to self-determination?

Raise your voice. End your silence. The peace negotiations failed as they were in fact mere attempts to impose conditions of perpetual occupation on the Palestinian people.

What does Israeli society want from the Palestinians? Does it expect them to surrender and accept humiliation and siege, arrests and killings? Do Israelis really believe they will have security while Palestinians are suffering and being killed?
http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/aicoment/1160-open-letter-to-israeli-activists

Letter from Israeli activist

I read your open letter to Israeli activists with great shame. I do not know you personally but from your letter and your background I gather that you are one of the many Palestinians who hold a real belief in human decency, and have not entirely lost hope of finding that decency in Jewish Israelis. For many years, people like you have searched all channels of information to garner knowledge about Israeli acts of resistance against the occupation, and it used to be that such acts could be discovered. Not many, perhaps. But now it seems to me that you perk up your ears and hear nothing but a deafening silence. The least I can do is to break that silence by answering your letter, though I cannot say I bring good tidings.
http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/aicoment/1167-letter-from-israeli-activist

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Israeli forces shot and injured 13 Palestinians in the Shufat refugee camp on Wednesday during clashes which broke out after the demolition of the home of camp resident Ibrahim al-Akkari, who carried out a deadly attack in Jerusalem last year.

The Palestinian Red Crescent in Jerusalem told Ma’an that a total of 43 Palestinians were given medical treatment following the clashes that erupted in the occupied East Jerusalem camp.

Thirteen were hit by rubber-coated steel bullets, while 30 others suffered from severe tear gas inhalation, the Red Crescent said.

An Israeli police spokesperson did not immediately respond for comment on the clashes.

Earlier in the day, locals told Ma’an that more than 1,200 Israeli soldiers accompanied by Israeli police raided the camp, preventing the movement of residents inside while sealing roads leading out of Shufat
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769132

Over 1,200 Israeli police officers and soldiers, accompanied by bulldozers and helicopters raided the camp from four different directions.

The police said in a statement “the forces were instructed to show zero tolerance for any attempt to harm security forces or disrupt the public order.”
http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/news/1175-israel-invades-jerusalem-refugee-camp

Israel continues punitive demolitions for suspected Nablus attackers

Israeli forces early Thursday demolished the Nablus home of a Palestinian man suspected of organizing an attack in October that left two Israeli settlers dead, Palestinian security sources said.

Palestinian security sources told Ma’an that Israeli forces raided the al-Dahya neighborhood in the southern area of the occupied West Bank city in preparation to demolish the home of Ragheb Ahmad Muhammed Alawi.

Israeli soldiers forced Alawi’s family to evacuate the home hours before the demolition, a relative of the family, Ahmad Alawi, told Ma’an.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769142

Hebron municipality freezes Israeli demolition order

The municipality of Hebron on Thursday announced that it had managed to freeze an Israeli demolition order for a house in the city after taking legal action through the Israeli Supreme Court.

Iyad Ubeido had received an order for the demolition of his home on Nov. 30, with all family members ordered to evacuate the property within three days.

A lawyer from the municipality launched an appeal against the demolition in cooperation with the Society of St. Yves, a human rights organization, with the Israeli Supreme Court putting the demolition on hold until further notice.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769146

19 detained in overnight arrest raids
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769141

Israeli forces shoot, critically injure elderly woman in Gaza

Israeli forces shot and critically injured an elderly Palestinian woman in the neck on Wednesday near al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, a spokesperson for the Gaza-based Ministry of Health said.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769136

Video: “I killed for you, with these hands,” Israeli soldier tells lawmakers
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/video-i-killed-you-these-hands-israeli-soldier-tells-lawmakers

A video has emerged apparently showing an Israeli soldier dropping a knife on the ground and forcing a terrified Palestinian girl to pick it up before she is arrested.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/video-israeli-soldier-forces-knife-palestinian-girl

Israel fans flames as Palestinian death toll soars

While Israel’s military leaders say there is no end in sight to the current wave of violence, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is fanning the flames as the army moves to destroy more homes belonging to families of Palestinians slain during alleged attacks on Israelis.

Palestinians called for a “day of rage” after Israeli forces shot dead 17-year-old Ayman Samih al-Abbasi in the Silwan neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem on Sunday.

Israel claimed that the youth was hit after protesters threw firebombs at Israeli soldiers, but Palestinians said that the area was quiet before the boy was slain, and that confrontations only erupted afterwards.

More than 100 Palestinians have been killed since 1 October, many of them in what human rights organizations and international monitors have condemned as summary executions.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israel-fans-flames-palestinian-death-toll-soars

Arab intellectuals must act now!

Appeal to the Arab intellectuals, to writers, journalists, poets, novelists, artists, academics, filmmakers, and others, whether secular or nationalist or progressive or left-wing or religious, to all of those who believe in freedom, Arabism, the homeland, humanity, dignity:

Now, it is your duty to protect your principles and values, your dreams and humanity.

Now, is the moment to confront the culture of blinding, backward opportunism and alienation. Now is the time, since Arab culture and people face blasphemy, darkness, murder, alienation, partition, dismemberment, regional sectarianism and racism.

Now, Arab intellectuals must rise up – each, according to his or her place, role, and specialisation – to protect the spirit of our communities.
http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/aicoment/1177-arab-intellectuals-must-act-now

Upheaval in Palestine and Israel: Occupation and beyond

It can be argued that the rising escalation in tensions and confrontations between the Israelis and Palestinians over the past two months demonstrates that the Israeli policy of conflict management in order to maintain the status quo in the occupied Palestinian territory has become unsustainable. The results of these policies and practices have marginalized the Palestinians further, resulting in new waves of violence and increased levels of despair.

According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), there were 96 Palestinian fatalities between Oct. 1 and Nov. 26, with an estimated 10,346 injuries occurring in clashes with the Israeli army and police forces. In the same time period, there were 17 Israeli fatalities and 160 injuries, in addition to 70 stabbing attempts, ten shootings and ten car ramming incidents, according to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Some, particularly among Israelis, look at the current escalation within the sequence of the last two months of events through a particular prism in which the escalation is reduced to merely a series of unwarranted and inexplicable Palestinian attacks against Israeli soldiers and civilians that spurred a reaction by the Israeli army and police forces. In direct contrast to this perspective, Professor Alon Ben-Meir of New York University argued in a recent article from the Huffington Post that “the most troubling issue is that successive Israeli governments remained blind and refused to connect much of the Palestinian violence to the occupation." It is through this latter, long-term narrative that the latest upsurge in violence must be viewed.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769133