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On November 26th 2015, the Israeli court charged teenagers Ali Shamlawi, Mohammed Kleib, Mohammed Suleiman, Ammar Souf and Tamer Souf with manslaughter.

The court sentenced the boys to 15 years in prison, provided they each pay NIS 30,000 (approximately $7,750) by January 28th 2016.

Failure to pay this amount will likely result in another 10 years of prison time added to each boys' sentence.

The boys have been in an adult Israeli prison for 2 years and 8 months already, accused of throwing stones at a settlers’ car.

The boys’ arrest stemmed from an accident in March 2013, when a settler driving with her three daughters crashed into a parked truck on Route 5.

The settler’s children were severely injured. One child died this year from the injuries she sustained in the accident, compounded by pneumonia.
http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/news/1186-hares-boys-sentenced-to-15-years

On Human Rights Day: Israeli Occupation Continues to Carry Out Mass Arrests of Palestinians and Subject them to Abuset .

Occupied Ramallah - 10 December 2015 –This year, Palestinians mark International Human Rights Day mourning over 118 Palestinians including 25 children who were killed by IOF in the past two months. Palestinians mark this day following two months of nonstop violence and widespread human rights violations by Israeli Occupation Forces against the Palestinian civilian population in response to a popular uprising in the occupied territory. Today, over 6,500 Palestinians remain imprisoned by Israeli occupation including at least 450 children, 587 Palestinians held under arbitrary administrative detention without charge or trial and five members of the Palestinian Legislative Council.

http://addameer.org/news/human-rights-day-israeli-occupation-continues-carry-out-mass-arrests-palestinians-and-subject

Committee condemns conditions of solitary confinement in Israeli jail

A committee for Palestinian prisoners on Saturday condemned the conditions of a prisoner being held in solitary confinement in Israeli jail.

Palestinian prisoner Noor ad-Din Emar, 37, is being held by Israel’s prison service in solitary confinement in the Ayalon jail, according to a committee for Palestinian prisoners and former prisoners.

The committee said in a report that Emar’s solitary confinement cell is infested with insects and that the detainee has been denied family visits.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769320

Palestinian prisoners on 4th day of hunger strike

Palestinian prisoners held in Israel’s detention center in Huwarra near Nablus on Sunday entered the fourth day of a hunger strike, a prisoner's’ society said.

The Palestinian Prisoner's’ Society said that prisoners in the detention center launched the strike in protest of violations carried out by Israel’s prison service

Violations included strip searches and poor living conditions.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769323

Israeli forces shoot 20 Palestinians in West Bank clashes

Israeli forces shot and injured 20 Palestinians during demonstrations held in the occupied Palestinian territory on Saturday, locals and medics said.

In the northern al-Bireh area of Ramallah, three Palestinians were hit by live fire and 16 by rubber-coated steel bullets when clashes erupted between Palestinian youth and Israeli forces.

Locals told Ma’an that university students had organized a peaceful march which came under heavy Israeli fire when demonstrators approached the northern entrance of al-Bireh.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769313

Israeli authorities expand closed military zone in Hebron's Old City
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769317

Hebron bears brunt of Israel’s crackdown

“The main goal is to make Tel Rumeida as Shuhada street: empty from Palestinians,” Issa Amro of the activist group Youth Against Settlements told The Electronic Intifada.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/charlotte-silver/hebron-bears-brunt-israels-crackdown

Israeli forces raid Nablus-area village, chase school students

Israeli forces raided the al-Sawiya village in the northern occupied West Bank district of Nablus on Monday and chased school students claiming they were throwing rocks at soldiers, locals said.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769343

Israel attacks West Bank college twice in one week

The Israeli army attacked the Palestine Technical University in the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarem twice this week.

Nine Palestinians were shot Thursday as Israeli soldiers tried to suppress a protest on the campus. On Monday (7-12), five students had to be hospitalized for gunshot wounds.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/charlotte-silver/israel-attacks-west-bank-college-twice-one-week

Israeli forces shoot, injure Gazan farmer near Rafah
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769328

Israeli forces on Monday detained at least 16 Palestinians across the occupied West Bank during pre-dawn raids, local sources told Ma'an.

Sources said Israeli forces raided Qaryut village in the northern occupied West Bank's Nablus district, where they ransacked homes and detained at least eight Palestinians.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769331

Israeli forces detained at least 12 Palestinians in the Ramallah and Hebron districts during overnight raids on Tuesday, Israel's army and local sources said.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769347

Video: Israeli settlers blast “Muhammad is dead” song at Palestinians
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/video-israeli-settlers-blast-muhammad-dead-song-palestinians

Israeli forces killing “in cold blood,” Palestinian families say

Israeli forces shot a Palestinian man and, after he was dead, fired at his head at point-blank range, according to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights.

Mazen Oraibi, a Palestinian Authority intelligence officer from the Jerusalem-area village of Abu Dis, had stepped out of his car at an Israeli checkpoint last Thursday when soldiers opened fire and killed him on the spot.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israeli-forces-killing-cold-blood-palestinian-families-say

Israel setzt niederländische und deutsche Hunde ein, die Palästinenser zu terrorisieren

Es ist einer der zahlreichen Vorfälle, in denen israelische Streitkräfte Hunde auf unbewaffnete, palästinensische Zivilisten, inklusive Kinder, loslassen. Es handelt sich hierbei um eine gewalttätige Taktik, die an die Praktiken der US-Polizei gegen die schwarzen Bürger erinnert.
Die palästinensische Menschenrechtsgruppe al-Haq und niederländische Abgeordnete fordern die Niederlande auf, den jährlichen Export Dutzender Polizei- und Militärhunde nach Israel umgehend einzustellen.
http://www.tlaxcala-int.org/article.asp?reference=16718

Rights group urges end to Dutch sale of 'attack dogs' to Israel

A Palestinian animal rights group has called on the international community to pressure the Dutch government to halt the sale of “attack dogs” to Israel.

Said Ahmad Safi, Executive Director of the Palestinian Animal League, said in a statement that dogs exported by European countries -- especially the Netherlands -- have long been used by the Israeli military as “living, breathing weapons -- leading to devastating injuries on many civilians.”
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769324

PFLP marks 48th anniversary in Gaza

Thousands of supporters on Saturday joined a rally in the Gaza Strip commemorating the 48th anniversary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

Led by top PFLP figures, supporters marched from the Saraya junction in the center of Gaza City to the headquarters of the United Nations waving Palestinian national flags, PFLP flags, as well as photos of Palestinian martyrs .
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769310

Is Israel's High Court the enemy of human rights?

When he woke up from his nightmare one morning, Mr. Israeli discovered that the Israeli High Court had turned into a giant insect. Tasked with balancing the sickening populism of the legislative branch and fighting to protect Israeli democracy, the High Court has become the legal rubber stamp for the racist caprices of its overlords.

This week, as we marked International Human Rights Day, Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, published a report on 10 recent decisions by the High Court that violate basic human rights.
http://972mag.com/is-israels-high-court-the-enemy-of-human-rights/114670/

Yaalon declares war on rights group Breaking the Silence

Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon said on Tuesday that he had banned Israeli veteran group Breaking the Silence from participating in any official activities with Israeli forces, Israeli media reported.

Yaalon's statement was made on social media, where he called the left-wing veteran group hypocrites spreading "false propaganda" against Israeli forces and the state of Israel in attempt to "delegitimize" them.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769349

Westbank: Sogar Sauglämmer werden von ihren Müttern durch die Mauer getrennt

„Es ist hart für die Mutterschafe. Sie blöken die ganze Zeit. Es dauert 10 Tage bis sie vergessen“.

Die hier in Frage kommenden Mütter sind Schafe, die gerade Junge geboren haben und diese blöken, weil die hohen Tiere der IDF ( Israelische Verteidigungsstreitkräfte) entschieden haben, die Schafmütter von ihren Jungen zu trennen, die diese nicht vergessen. Es spricht der Besitzer der Herde, Jamal Hanina aus Kalkilia.

Seine Schafhürde liegt zwischen Gewächshäusern und Baumschulen auf der nördlichen Seite der Trennungsmauer (innerhalb der Westbank, aber in einem Streifen, der de facto zugunsten der Siedlung Alfe Menasche annektiert wurde) Aber das Weideland liegt südlich, auf der „palästinensischen “ Seite des Zaunes.

Seitdem der Zaun vor etwa 13 Jahren gebaut wurde, ließen die IDF Hanina und seine Herde durch das landwirtschaftliche Tor. Es wird dreimal am Tag für eine Stunde geöffnet. Vor drei Monaten verbaten die IDF den Schafen den Durchgang. Das war vor der Geburt der Lämmer. Nach kurzer Zeit wurde dies widerrufen und die Mutterschafe verbrachten die Nächte in der Schafhürde.
http://www.tlaxcala-int.org/article.asp?reference=16823

BBC forced to admit it misled over Palestine

For the second time in just over six months, the BBC has been forced to admit that its flagship news and current affairs program — Today — has misled its audiences over the situation in Israel and the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.

In a broadcast in October, veteran presenter John Humphrys and Middle East correspondent Kevin Connolly implied in a two-way conversation that all of those killed in that month’s violence were Israeli.

In fact, at the date of broadcast, on 19 October, more than 40 of those killed were Palestinian and fewer than 10 Israeli.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/amena-saleem/bbc-forced-admit-it-misled-over-palestine

Israel’s revenge demolitions only stiffen Palestinian resolve

When residents of Shuafat woke on 2 December to free-flowing traffic at the checkpoint where Israeli forces control movement to and from this overcrowded refugee camp, many were unnerved.

“We immediately knew that this was not a charitable gesture and that there was an ulterior motive,” Abdullah Alqam, a veteran local activist, told The Electronic Intifada.

And sure enough: that day hundreds of Israeli troops entered the Jerusalem-area camp. Hours later, the home of Ibrahim al-Akkari had been destroyed in accordance with a demolition order handed down by an Israeli court more than a year earlier.

The demolition — overseen by undercover forces disguised as civilians, as well as rooftop snipers — did not just destroy al-Akkari’s penthouse apartment and render his widow, Amira, and their five children homeless.

The explosion that ripped through the area severely damaged three other homes, leaving a further 14 people, including seven children, without roofs over their heads, according to the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem.

It also evinced a little-commented-upon phenomenon in this current “intifada of the knives,” usually characterized as a series of “lone-wolf” attacks: a growing sense of communal cohesion among Palestinians.

It may be too soon to draw comparisons with the first Palestinian intifada. But communities are beginning to come together in ways reminiscent of the solidarity that defined the 1987-1993 uprising.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/israels-revenge-demolitions-only-stiffen-palestinian-resolve/15063