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The Israeli government has embarked upon a sweeping campaign of mass arrests, without differentiating between children and adults, men or women.

The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainee’ Affairs found that 2400 Palestinians have been arrested since October.

800 of the 2400 arrested Palestinians were Jerusalemites.

While Israeli forces typically arrest 700-900 children annually, since October Israeli forces arrested 1200 Palestinian children – constituting half of total arrests.

400 of the 1200 arrested Palestinian children were Jerusalemites.
http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/news/1197-2400-palestinians-arrested-since-october

8 detained in predawn arrest raids
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769424

Israeli forces detain 19 Palestinians from across West Bank
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769444

Five Palestinian youths from occupied East Jerusalem were indicted Monday for a range of "terrorist attacks," Israeli police said.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769447

96 Palestinians shot by Israeli military in Friday demos

Israeli forces on Friday shot and injured at least 78 Palestinians, two critically, when clashes broke out across the occupied Palestinian territory for the second day in a row.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769404

Palestinian shot dead in Gaza demo near Khan Younis
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769408

Israeli forces level land in Gaza border area

Israeli military vehicles and bulldozers on Monday crossed the border fence into the Gaza Strip east of the village of Khuzaa in the southern Gaza Strip, witnesses said.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769443

Israeli naval forces detain 14 Palestinian fishermen, seize boats

Israeli naval forces early Tuesday detained 14 Palestinian fishermen off the coast of the Gaza Strip near Beit Lahiya and seized their boats, local officials said.

Palestinian security sources told Ma’an that Amjad Zayed, Sami al-Sultan and two other fishermen who were not identified were detained by naval forces after their fishing vessel was confiscated.

Meanwhile, speaker of the syndicate of Gaza fishermen, Nizar Ayyash, told Ma'an that Israeli naval boats had escorted fishermen in their boats to the Israeli port of Ashdod, north of Gaza.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769457

Thwarted hopes on Gaza’s border with Egypt

It was extremely difficult for Maher Shawa to accept that the two-day window during which the Rafah crossing opened for humanitarian cases earlier this month had closed before he could get through.

The 67-year-old is in urgent need of heart surgery. He was due to receive treatment, he said, in a Jordanian hospital, where he’d had a first operation in 2004.

“I have my papers completed, and I should have been able to cross the border this time,” Shawa, who spent six years in Israeli prison, said. “I am dying here.”

Shawa is among the thousands of priority cases who have applied for permission to leave Gaza for medical treatment or study abroad, or because they hold foreign passports.

But Egypt has kept Rafah crossing — the sole point of exit and entry for the vast majority of the 1.8 million Palestinians in tiny Gaza — almost entirely closed since October 2014.
http://www.maannews.com/ViewPage.aspx?p=NEW

Palestinian dies after being shot in chest during Friday clashes
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769413

Palestinian killed in Egypt's Sinai

A Palestinian man was shot dead Friday in Egypt’s northern Sinai Peninsula district, Egyptian security sources said.

The security sources told Ma’an that Eyhab Hamdan Marzouq al-Shaer, 25, was shot in al-Shallafa neighborhood of Rafah city. Locals reportedly found his body and took it to a public hospital before Egyptian security arrived.

The sources believed that al-Shaer was likely shot by militants from the Sinai Province group, but did not give further details and the circumstances of his death remain unclear.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769411

Israel to hand over bodies of Jerusalem Palestinians

Israeli authorities are expected to hand over the bodies of Palestinians from Jerusalem that were killed during attacks on Israeli military and civilians in recent months, a lawyer for a prisoners’ rights group said.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769412

Palestinian prisoner in Ramla jail 'may die at any moment'

Palestinian prisoner Bassam Ameen al-Sayeh, 43, from the occupied West Bank city of Nablus is in serious health condition and "may die at any moment," the Palestinian Minister of Prisoner Affairs said Saturday.

Issa Qaraqe told Ma'an that al-Sayah is being held in a medical clinic inside of the Ramla prison and suffers from both cancer and heart disease. The prisoner has recently had difficulty breathing, Qaraqe added.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769416

Palestinian woman in Israeli custody ends hunger strike

A Palestinian woman jailed in Israel ended on Sunday an over two-week long hunger strike after Israel’s prison service pledged to meet her demands, a prisoners’ rights group said.

The Palestinian Prisoners Center for Studies said that that 30-year-old Ihsan Hasan Dababsa, from the Hebron-area village of Nuba, began the strike after the prison service moved her from Hasharon to al-Damon prison.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769436

A Palestinian teenager was shot and injured Saturday in clashes with Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank village of Kafr Qaddum.

A spokesperson for the Fatah movement in the Qalqiliya district, Murad Shtewei, told Ma'an that a 17-year-old was "ambushed by Israeli forces" before he was shot with a live bullet in the thigh and a rubber-coated steel bullet in the knee.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769423

Four Palestinians were shot and injured after Israeli forces raided the occupied West Bank village of Tammun, hometown of the suspect of a stab attack that left three Israelis injured the day before, locals said.

Local sources told Ma’an that Israeli soldiers entered the village around 3:00 a.m and ransacked the home of Mahmoud Faisal Bsharat, 20, who was detained Saturday after carrying out the attack in Raanana, north of Tel Aviv.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769432

Israeli forces shoot 9 university students on Tulkarem campus

At least 9 Palestinian students were shot and injured on Sunday when clashes broke out with Israeli forces outside a university in the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarem.

Clashes erupted after a group of Israeli soldiers deployed at an Israeli military base illegally set up on the campus of Palestine Technical University- Kadoorie, locals told Ma’an.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769437

14-year-old Palestinian shot, wounded by Israeli fire
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769453

Palestinian youths late Saturday threw Molotov cocktails at an Israeli control tower near the occupied West Bank village of Nabi Saleh north of Ramallah, setting it ablaze, locals said.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769428

West Bank village punished for exposing Israel’s brutality

The small West Bank village of Nabi Saleh is paying a steep price for a video of Israeli brutality.

Widely circulated in recent months, the video shows the mother and sister of 12-year-old Muhammad Tamimi wresting him away from a masked and armed Israeli soldier. The boy was throttled and jammed into boulders on 28 August, despite having a cast on his arm.

Israeli politicians not only defended the Israeli soldier’s actions; some argued that he should have behaved in an even more cruel manner.

Miri Regev, Israel’s culture minister, said that the soldier should have shot the boy’s unarmed rescuers.

Since the incident, the Israeli army has detained scores of young men from the village and subjected them to lengthy periods of interrogation, during which abusive treatment occurred.

Seventeen are currently imprisoned, including Waed Tamimi, Muhammad’s 19-year-old brother.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/west-bank-village-punished-exposing-israels-brutality/15083

Israel compiled “long file” on journalist it deported

Israel’s Government Press Office appears to be building up files on international journalists who criticize the oppression faced by Palestinians.

The conduct of this surveillance has been revealed by German journalist Martin Lejeune who has been deported from Tel Aviv.

Lejeune was held for 14 hours in Ben Gurion airport last week, during which time he was told that Israel considers him “a threat to the national security.” Lejeune had covered Israel’s 51-day attack on Gaza in the summer of 2014.

Although Israeli police and officials refused to discuss the reasons for his detention and subsequent deportation with his lawyer, Lejeune was told that he was being denied entry to Israel because he had been on a ship destined for Gaza earlier this year.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/adri-nieuwhof/israel-compiled-long-file-journalist-it-deported

BDS and Its Discontents

I was actually trying to figure out a title that would incorporate the phrase “moral malcontents,” because that’s the way I see the arguments of the academic and chattering class against BDS. They understand that BDS is a moral critique that needs to be rebutted in order to protect Israel’s claim to legitimacy. But their arguments manage to come across as petulant and rhetorical, rather than deeply rooted in any moral position. I call them moral malcontents because the moral critique deeply unnerves them and they fight desperately to undermine it.

Then after thinking better of it, I figured a seminal Sigmund Freud title (Civilization and Its Discontents) would convey my ideas just as well.
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2015/12/19/bds-and-its-discontents/

Israel ist schon ein bi-nationaler Staat, und zwar schon seit langer Zeit

Die Debatte muss sich nun verschieben. Die Verkündigungen über die „zwei Staaten“ und den „jüdischen Staat“ müssen ihr Ende nehmen. Denn nun geht es darum, die Sache gerecht zu gestalten.
http://www.tlaxcala-int.org/article.asp?reference=16879