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Palestinian detainee Mohammad al-Qiq is dying at Haemek Hospital in Afula. Qiq, whose administrative detention was suspended last week when his condition worsened, is conscious but non-communicative. He’s lost his hearing and ability to speak. On Saturday, his hunger strike entered its 81st day. In the West Bank village of Dura, his family waits for news, including his wife Fayhaa and their two small children, Islam and Lur. They haven’t seen him since November 20.
https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/a-palestinian-hunger-striker-is-dying-in-an-israeli-hospital/

Palestinian prisoner moved to hospital after entering coma
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770315

Video: Hunger striker on brink of death remains defiant
https://electronicintifada.net/content/video-hunger-striker-brink-death-remains-defiant/15636

Video: Palestinian hunger striker’s wife makes urgent plea
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/video-palestinian-hunger-strikers-wife-makes-urgent-plea

Amnesty demands Israel to transfer Palestinian hunger striker
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770334

Journalists, prisoners stand in solidarity with hunger-striking al-Qiq
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770343

Clashes erupt as Palestinians rally to support hunger-striker
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770317

4 Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike against administrative detention
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770341

Three boys among 6 Palestinians killed during bloody weekend

Israeli forces shot and killed six Palestinians over the weekend, including three children and a woman, and critically injured a 14-year-old girl.

On Sunday night, two Palestinians were shot dead after allegedly attempting to carry out an armed attack outside Damascus Gate in occupied Jerusalem’s Old City.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/three-boys-among-6-palestinians-killed-during-bloody-weekend

Israel’s “excessive force” kills two more children

Two Palestinian children were shot dead by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank this past week as a United Nations human rights investigator called on Israel to investigate its excessive use of force against Palestinians.

The special rapporteur Makarim Wibisono “also told Israeli authorities to charge or release all Palestinian prisoners being held under lengthy administrative detention, including children,” Reuters reported, referring to Israel’s widespread practice of holding Palestinians without charge or trial under military court orders.

Wibisono made his remarks during his final report to the UN Human Rights Council on Thursday. The Indonesian diplomat resigned from his post last month because he said Israel would not give him access to the areas he was assigned to monitor.

Israel’s foreign ministry accused the investigator of “flagrant anti-Israel bias” and rejected the findings of his report.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israels-excessive-force-kills-two-more-children

Israeli forces shoot Palestinian children

Early on Sunday, Israeli forces killed two 15-year-old Palestinian youth in Jenin, claiming that they opened fire at Israeli soldiers.

Hours later, Israeli forces shot and killed 17-year-old Naim Safi at a checkpoint north of Bethlehem, alleging that he attempted to stab Israeli soldiers.

Later that day, Israeli forces shot 14-years-old Yasmin Rashad al-Zarou at a checkpoint near the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, again, leveling the claim that she attempted to stab Israeli soldiers.

Witnesses told Ma’an News Agency that Yasmin crossed the checkpoint with her sister and neither one of the girls attempted to attack Israeli soldiers before being shot.

Some even say that Yasmin was walking away from the Israeli soldiers when they shot her.

Video footage emerged of Israeli soldiers surrounding her and assaulting passersby who wanted to help her.
http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/news/1280-israeli-forces-shoot-five-palestinian-children

Israeli forces shoot, injure 28 Palestinians during Ramallah-area clashes
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770287

Israeli forces raid Bethlehem-area camp, summon 12-year-old

Israeli forces on Thursday raided al-Duheisha refugee camp in the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem and summoned a Palestinian child for questioning, locals told Ma'an.

Locals said Israeli forces summoned 12-year-old Mahmoud Ahmad al-Mughrabi to meet with Israeli intelligence, adding that the boy's father is serving 17 life sentences in Israeli prison. The boy's mother was also recently detained and released after a month in custody.

http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770335

Israeli troops detain nine in West Bank overnight raids (14-02)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770271

Israeli troops detain 10 Palestinians in West Bank raids(15-02)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770286

17 Palestinians detained in West Bank, East Jerusalem (16-02)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770301

Israeli forces detain 20 Palestinians in predawn raids (17-02)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770325

Israeli forces detain 15 Palestinians across the West Bank (18-02)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770336

Israel levels lands, demolishes structures in East Jerusalem

The Israeli authorities on Wednesday demolished agricultural structures and leveled land in the outskirts of al-Issawiya village in occupied East Jerusalem, locals said.

Muhammad Abu al-Hummas, a spokesperson for a local popular committee, told Ma'an that bulldozers had started leveling around five acres of land, adding that they "deliberately" ruined the dirt roads used by farmers to access their fields as well as their fences.

He said they were accompanied by Israeli police forces as well as officials from Jerusalem's municipality and the Israeli Nature and Parks Authority.

The land is located in an area Israeli authorities have earmarked for a national park, in a controversial plan known as "11092", which aims to turn around 740 dunams (175 acres) of Palestinian land in the East Jerusalem neighborhoods of al-Issawiya and al-Tur into Israeli parkland.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770322

Israel issues 12 demolition orders to Bedouins in E1 corridor

Israeli forces on Tuesday issued home demolition orders on 11 Palestinian Bedouin homes and a mosque in the Jabal al-Baba community in the E1 corridor east of Jerusalem, a representative of the community told Ma'an.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770311

Israeli forces uproot 100 olive trees in Wadi Qana

Israeli forces uprooted 100 olive trees in the Wadi Qana area west of the village of Deir Istiya in Salfit district on Tuesday amid ongoing efforts to push Palestinians out of the area, locals said.

Farmers from Deir Istiya told Ma’an the forces arrived in Wadi Qana and uprooted the trees without prior notice.

Soldiers then forced locals from the area in order to allow Israeli settlers to arrive there, the farmers said.

Ibrahim al-Hamad, director of the Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture’s Salfit branch, told Ma'an that soldiers removed the seven-year-old trees on the grounds that the area is a nature reserve, with planting prohibited in the area.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770304

Israel demolishes homes, structures in Nablus-area village

Israeli bulldozers under army escort on Monday demolished a number of Palestinian structures built without construction permits in the northern occupied West Bank district south of Nablus's Khirbet Om al-Rashash village, locals said.

Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlement activities in the northern West Bank, told Ma’an that Israeli troops forced residents, as well as foreign activists, to evacuate the structures for immediate demolition.

Daghlas said the structures included corrugated metal homes, barns and brick buildings.

Residents said Israeli forces issued demolition orders on structures two weeks prior to the demolition.

While demolitions in the occupied West Bank decreased by 10 percent in 2015 from the previous year, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported that 539 Palestinian-owned structures were still demolished, leaving many Palestinians homeless.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770289

Video: Israeli soldiers push disabled man from wheelchair after shooting
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770283

Israeli police briefly detain Washington Post bureau chief

Israeli police briefly detained the Washington Post's Jerusalem bureau chief and West Bank correspondent for alleged "incitement" on Tuesday, prompting the Foreign Press Association to decry Israel's "heavy-handed tactics."

The FPA said bureau chief William Booth and West Bank correspondent Sufian Taha were detained while interviewing Palestinian and Jewish residents of Jerusalem at Damascus Gate outside the Old City in occupied East Jerusalem.

Booth and Taha were interviewing high-school students under a tree when Israeli border police "waved the two journalists over and asked them for their IDs," the FPA said in a statement.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770309

Israeli Myths: An Interview with Ramzy Baroud

Were the Palestinians better off under Labor government than under Likud?

For many years, much of the Western world understood Israel based on a cluster of myths, from the early fables of the Zionists making the desert bloom, to Palestine supposedly being a land without people for a people without land. That intricately constructed and propagated mythology evolved over time, as Israeli hasbara labored to provide a perception of reality that was needed to justify its wars, its military occupation, its constant violations of human rights and its many war crimes. Persistent Israeli propaganda did a splendid job of preserving the image of Israel internationally, although the tide began turning a few years ago starting with the first major war on Gaza in 2008. Of course, the Israeli hasbara would not have survived a day if Western mainstream media had the willingness or the audacity to unabashedly present the truth about the situation in Palestine.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/02/12/israeli-myths-an-interview-with-ramzy-baroud/

To my Fellow Israelis: We Can Stop This

An open letter to my fellow Israelis:

This is probably a culmination of nearly a decade’s reviewed study of our history. At some point, beyond the singular stories, cases and arguments, I feel something unequivocal and very generally encompassing needs to be said about our Israeli “miracle”, the manifestation of the Zionist “dream”.

I will not write this in Hebrew, although that would probably have been the most direct idiomatic tool to reach your minds. I will not do so, because I have had enough of dirty laundry recycled amongst us “self-understanding” Israelis. Whilst I write to you, my hopes of change coming from within us Israelis have regrettably declined in the years – and thus, I am also, if not more so, placing my bets upon the involvement of the international community – whose help we need so badly – not for more cash, weapons, or apologetic “understanding”, but rather for its intervention in what we are apparently unable, and mostly unwilling, to fix. The attitude which I thus exhibit here is an extremely unpopular one in Israeli and Jewish culture. It is the vein of the “moser” – the one who “snitches” against the “Jewish nation” towards the goyim.

Well, get over it. There are far more serious issues at hand.

I have to tell you first that our evaluation of Israeli history omits so much atrocity from our side. Indeed, much of it is still classified – even back to 1948.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/to-my-fellow-israelis-we-can-stop-this/5506572

Israel tortures Palestinian children; keeps them in outdoor cages in winter: Rights group

Following a November 2015 report by the independent, in which it quoted NGO rights organization the Palestinian Prisoners Club (PPC) that at least 600 Palestinian children have been arrested in Jerusalem alone in the first half of 2015 and that roughly 40% were sexually abused, a new January 2016 report was also issued by the Independent, this time saying that the Israeli government is torturing children and keeping them in outdoor cages during winter time.

The Independent cited a report published by The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) saying that “children accused of minor crimes were subject to public caging, threats and acts of sexual violence and military trials without representation.”

Upon a visit by Israel’s Public Defender’s Office (PDO) lawyers, shocking details of happenings in the detention facility was uncovered.
http://ahtribune.com/human-rights/339-israel-tortures-palestinian-children.html

Tel Aviv service offers cleaners priced by ethnic origin

A service provider offering cleaning and housekeeping in north Tel Aviv has taken the term “human resources” to a whole new level, distributing a flyer that prices its cleaners according to their ethnic origin.

The advert, which was distributed in one of Tel Aviv’s most affluent areas, was first posted on Facebook by political blogger Tal Schneider, who was given the flyer by an acquaintance.

Starting out with a corny infomercial-style list of questions, the ad asks: Do you need a housekeeper? Are you tired of hiring illegal foreign workers and getting fined? Not prepared to have an Arab cleaner for security reasons? Are you tired of employing according to the law and being sued by temporary workers?

The flyer then presents the “solution” to all these unpleasant and onerous problems, by offering “legal only” housekeepers and cleaners, with hourly rates scaled according to the cleaner’s ethnicity.

The cheapest labor comes from employees from African countries, at NIS 49 per hour. Slightly more expensive are Eastern European workers, at NIS 52 an hour. By far the most expensive are Eastern European employees who hold Israeli citizenship, at NIS 69 per hour.
http://www.tlaxcala-int.org/article.asp?reference=17248

Can the IDF withstand political pressure?

The closure imposed on Ramallah on Feb. 1 and its partial lifting a day later are telling in terms of disagreement between Israel’s top military brass and the political echelon on how to deal with the lone attacker intifada that broke out in October. Since that time, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have been pressed to restrict the movement of residents in Palestinian towns in the West Bank in a bid to prevent them from getting into Israel and carrying out terror attacks. In the aftermath of the Jan. 31 shooting at a roadblock near Bet El by Amjad a-Sukari, a Palestinian police officer, the IDF has been forced, for the first time during this intifada, to impose a closure on Ramallah.

For months, the IDF chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot, has staved off demands from the political echelon to impose a closure on the territories, arguing that the damage would far exceed any benefits. “It would be a bitter mistake to impose closures and blockades on the territories. This would be counterproductive for Israel,” Eizenkot said Jan. 18 at a conference held by the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), adding that the Palestinian population should be given hope and the possibility to make economic ends meet.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/fr/contents/articles/originals/2016/02/closure-idf-ramallah-intifada-attack-netanyahu-eizenkot.html#

Monsanto Exposed as Source for White Phosphorus Used in Gaza Massacre

......But Monsanto’s role as a purveyor of deadly military chemicals goes even deeper. For at least 20 years it has supplied the U.S. government with white phosphorus (WP) for incendiary weapons. What’s more, some of this white phosphorus was used in Israel’s invasion of Gaza at the end of 2008, known as Operation Cast Lead or, more appropriately, the Gaza Massacre.

Israel denied using WP at first, but admitted to using it in Gaza under media pressure. It said the WP was used as an obscurant and illuminant, but even this type of use is banned in civilian areas under the Geneva Convention. According to Sputnik News, in 2009 the U.S. State Department confirmed that WP weapons from its Arkansas plant were sent to Israel for use in the Gaza invasion.

The Monsanto connection to Israel’s war crimes and other uses of white phosphorus was exposed when Current Events Inquiry scoured documents on the US Federal Business Opportunities (FBO) website, finding that the agribusiness company provided 180,000 pounds of WP to the government for making projectiles at its Pine Bluff Arsenal in Arkansas.
http://www.activistpost.com/2016/02/monsanto-exposed-as-source-for-white-phosphorus-used-in-gaza-massacre.html

Security ties between Palestinians and Israel begin to fray

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has described his security forces’ cooperation with the Israeli military as “sacred”. But an armed attack on an Israeli checkpoint last weekend by a Palestinian security official, which left three Israeli soldiers injured, suggests that Abbas’ view may not be widely shared among Palestinians.

Amjad Sukari, aged 34, a driver and bodyguard in Ramallah for the Palestinian attorney general, was shot dead on Sunday after he opened fire at Israeli soldiers stationed at a “VIP crossing” near Ramallah.

It was the second time in recent months that a PA security officer has opened fire on Israeli soldiers.

In December Mazen Ariba, a member of the Palestinian intelligence services, injured two Israelis, including a soldier, at Hizme checkpoint, close to Jerusalem.

Israel responded to Sukari’s attack by briefly locking down Ramallah, the Palestinians’ effective economic and political capital, in what appeared to be a policy of collective punishment.
http://www.jonathan-cook.net/2016-02-04/security-ties-between-palestinians-and-israel-begin-to-fray/