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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