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The Yediot Achronot conference attacking BDS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukXAFxI8Ix4 has become a veritable carnival of hate. Everyone from delusional Hollywood celebrities (Roseanne Barr) to cabinet ministers, to the leader of the Opposition have pledged fealty to the cause. Two of the speakers are under criminal investigation for corrupt political or financial dealings.
But the apogee came yesterday when Intelligence Minister Israel Katz called for the “civil targeted killing“of BDS leaders like Omar Barghouti. The phrase he used (sikul ezrahi memukad) derives from the euphemistic Hebrew phrase for the targeted killing of a terrorist (the literal meaning is “targeted thwarting”). But the added word ” civil” makes it something different. Katz is saying that we won’t physically murder BDS opponents, but we will do everything short of that.
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2016/03/30/israeli-minster-calls-for-civil-targeted-killings-of-bds-leaders/

Interview: The man behind the BDS movement

As the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement grows, its co-founder, Omar Barghouti, has become a target for Israeli demonization. +972's Rami Younis sits down with Barghouti for a rare discussion about BDS's goals, its recent successes, and increasingly frequent accusations that the boycott movement constitutes anti-Semitism.
http://972mag.com/interview-the-man-behind-the-bds-movement/107771/

Why Israeli companies are fleeing West Bank settlements
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/03/hebron-soldier-shooting-terrorist-video-image-israel.html#

Israeli forces detain 21 Palestinians in extensive predawn raids(05-04)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770992

Israeli forces detain 3, close major checkpoint in daytime West Bank raids(05-04)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770997

Israeli forces detain brother of Duma attack victim, 12 others(04-04)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770978

Israeli forces detain 6 Palestinians, including football player, across West Bank(03-04)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770963

Israeli forces detain 11 Palestinians across West Bank(01-04)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770940

Thousands of Palestinian children injured in conflict

Eleven-year-old Khalid Ishtawy is among more than 2,100 Palestinian children injured during direct conflict in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem since the start of October, according to the United Nations.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/03/thousands-palestinian-children-injured-conflict-160321063755667.html

Israeli forces seriously injure Palestinian boy in East Jerusalem clashes

A 12- year-old Palestinian boy was seriously injured on Monday evening after an Israeli soldier shot him with a rubber-coated steel bullet to the head in the al-Issawiya neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem, local sources said.

Local popular committee member Muhammad Abu al-Hummus identified the boy as Yazan Khalid Naaji, 12. He said the boy was hit in the head by the bullet after Israeli forces stormed the neighborhood and deployed heavily in the streets.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770991

Israeli forces shoot, injure 13-year-old Palestinian in Jerusalem

Israeli forces shot a Palestinian teen in the back of the head with a rubber-coated steel bullet while he was walking to school in the Silwan neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem on Saturday morning, his family told Ma’an.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770960

Israeli forces threaten protesters in Jerusalem's Silwan sit-in
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770951

Israeli forces shoot, injure Palestinian in Gaza clashes
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770949

Israeli forces disperse Bilin, Kafr Qaddum weekly protests
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770945

Israeli doctors assist in torture of Palestinian prisoners

A growing portion of the Palestinian prisoners held in solitary confinement by Israel have gone on hunger strike to protest their mistreatment.

And a new report reveals the ways Israeli doctors are helping carry out abuses amounting to torture.

As of last Wednesday, three Palestinians serving lengthy prison terms were refusing meals.

Nahar Saadi and Isam Ahmad Zein al-Din are protesting being held in solitary confinement for three and two years respectively.

Abdullah al-Mughrabi, who announced his hunger strike this week, has been held in isolation since February.

Al-Mughrabi was transferred to a solitary confinement cell after he was scheduled to be released.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/charlotte-silver/israeli-doctors-assist-torture-palestinian-prisoners

Palestinian teens report beatings in Israeli custody

A number of Palestinian teenage prisoners have been violently beaten in Israeli detention in recent days, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society and family members said Tuesday.

Louay Habis al-Imour, 18, and Malek Jameel Froukh, 15, both from the village of Tuqu, were detained Monday and violently beaten in Israel's Etzion detention center, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said in a statement.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771002

Palestinian 12-year-old on run from Israeli forces

The father of a 12-year-old Palestinian boy on the run for a week from Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank has told Middle East Eye that he fears his son will be killed if caught.

Ramzi Abu Ajamia has been in hiding for the past seven nights, the boy’s father, Nasir Abu Ajamia said from their family home in Bethlehem’s Dheisha refugee camp.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinian-12-year-old-run-israeli-forces-1656081317

11 Palestinian detainees enter new years in Israeli prisons

Eleven Palestinian prisoners from the occupied West Bank, Gaza Strip, Jerusalem, and Israel on Friday entered new years living under Israeli imprisonment.

Sawt al-Asra Radio (Voice of Prisoners) said prisoner Ahmad Adel Jaber Saadeh, 32, from Jerusalem was detained in 2003, sentenced to 12 lifetimes in prison, and has since served 13 years.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770942

Shalit-deal prisoner continues hunger strike against detention

Palestinian prisoner continued his hunger strike for the eighth consecutive day in protest of his administrative detention by Israel, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said Thursday.

The family of 34-year-old Palestinian prisoner Mohammed Dawood from al-Duheisha refugee camp in the southern occupied West Bank district of Bethlehem told PPS that their son was initially released in the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange deal but detained again without charge on Nov. 8, 2015.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770935

Islamic Jihad and PFLP prisoners to start protest over incarceration conditions
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770915

Israeli forces demolish slaughterhouse, balcony, well near Bethlehem
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770998

PLO slams Israel after 7 Palestinian homes torn down
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770985

Israeli forces demolish 4 Palestinian homes built without permits

Israeli forces on Monday demolished four homes across the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem that they said had been built without permits -- the latest in a wave of demolitions that has left hundreds homeless since the beginning of the year.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770982

Israeli court gives Palestinian family 24 hours to evacuate their house

The Israeli supreme court gave the family of a Palestinian teen prisoner 24 hours to evacuate their house in occupied East Jerusalem on Sunday.

The mother of prisoner Abed Mahmoud Dawiyat told Ma’an that the Israeli supreme court approved a decision by the Israeli army’s Home Front Command to confiscate and shutter their house in the neighborhood of Sur Bahir.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770977

'Diseased water': Gazans go thirsty as sewage and pollution poison wells

Most people dependent on aid agencies to drink with 96 percent of water supplies unsafe and 90mn litres of sewage pumped into sea every day - http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-water-shortage-841243299

Gaza woes force educated to leave

When Egypt opened the Rafah crossing in February for three days, thousands of Palestinians in Gaza applied to leave.

Among them were 29-year-old Rani Humeid.

“I’m leaving Gaza to find the future that I dream of,” said Humeid as he was waiting in a makeshift departure hall at the crossing.

Humeid earned a master’s degree in media and public relations in Malaysia in 2012, and he continued studying when he returned.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/gaza-woes-force-educated-leave/16066

Israeli forces open fire on Palestinian farmers, level lands in Gaza Strip

Israeli forces opened fire on Palestinian farmers and leveled lands in the Gaza Strip Tuesday morning, locals said.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770995

Palestinian fishing boat catches fire, sinks after Israeli 'shelling'
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770953

Why is a popular uprising yet to take off?

Whether history moves in a straight or cyclical line, it matters little. The uncontested fact is that it is in constant motion. Thus, the current situation in Palestine is particularly frustrating to a generation that has grown up after the Oslo Peace Accord because they have been brought up within a strange historical phenomenon: where the earth below their feet keeps shrinking and when time stands still.

The nature of the current uprising in the West Bank and East Jerusalem is a testament to that claim. Previous uprisings were massive in their mobilization, clear in their message and decisive in their delivery. Their success or failure is not the point of this discussion, but the fact is that they were willed by the people and, within days, they imprinted themselves on the collective consciousness of Palestinians everywhere.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770885

Between betrayal and brutalization: “Normalizing” the occupation, an impossible task for Israeli govt.

Twice in a single week, Israeli Defense Minister Moshe "Bogie" Ya'alon was forced to take opposing positions when relating to events that happened in his own backyard. The first time was a news item on Channel 2 that showed putative activists of "Breaking the Silence" (an organization which exposes the moral effects of the occupation on the Israeli occupation forces) recording testimonies of discharged soldiers. These "activists," it turns out, were right-wing moles; they claimed that Breaking the Silence was collecting sensitive and classified information on Israeli military operations. Ya'alon quickly called Breaking the Silence a group of traitors. Thus he joined a right-wing smear campaign against human rights organizations whose activities are perfectly legitimate.
http://www.tlaxcala-int.org/article.asp?reference=17611

Justice Ministry refuses to prosecute soldiers, officers for excessive or lethal force

Last week, the Israeli government shut down three separate investigations into the use of excessive or lethal force by occupation forces.

No charges were brought against the police officer that killed Sami Ja‘ar, a 20 year-old factory worker from Rahat whose father Khalid is a veteran of the Israeli Border Police and gives tours of Rahat for Taglit-Birthright. No charges were brought against Ben Deri, who, while serving as a conscript in the Israeli Border Police shot dead two protesters – Muhammad Abu Daher and Nadeem Nawara – on Nakba Day using live fire, an act against Israel’s own rules of engagement. No charges were brought against the Israeli Police in the case of Yosef Salamsa who committed suicide months after being arrested and abused by Israeli Police in Zichron Ya‘akov.
http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/news/1336-ministry-cites-lack-of-evidence-to-prosecute-officers-for-excessive-lethal-force

What will wake Israelis from their collective coma?

Our collective moral compass has become so fundamentally twisted that even the most decent of people, those who are not considered extremists, believe that there is nothing wrong with shooting a man as he lies dying on the ground.
http://972mag.com/what-will-wake-israelis-from-their-collective-coma/118159/

Israelis don’t exist

Just before leaving Israel last week, I had a little conversation with my nephew aged 7. He asked me whether Denmark was a Christian country. I said that whilst the majority are considered Christians (most of whom don’t go regularly to church), there are people of other religions and faiths. He asked me whether Christians were enemies of Jews, and I said they weren’t. He said that was good, because then he would be enemies with my children, his cousins (who in fact are not Jews).

Then he said he’s not Jewish himself, because he was born in USA. I told him that Judaism is a religion – and here I had to tell him a truth which caused a roaring silence amongst the family bystanders – I told him that a Jew can be born anywhere in the world, because Judaism is a religion – and not a nationality… and this is where I was obviously speaking diametrically against the deceit of the State of Israel, in its considering Jews a “nation”, whilst denying the recognition of an Israeli nationality – officially so – and in addition deceiving the world on Israeli passports marked “Nationality – Israeli”.

You might think I’ve got to be kidding, or exaggerating. No, not a joke – in fact, a very serious issue with grave ramifications.
http://mondoweiss.net/2016/03/israelis-dont-exist/#sthash.bFDefVPz.dpu

How this Israeli checkpoint turns morning commute into 5-hour ordeal

The scene each day at the Bethlehem checkpoint is horrifying. Lucky Palestinians who have managed to obtain authorization to work in Israel — the “ticket to life,” they call it — undergo an exhausting, agonizing wait that can last five hours, even when they arrive early in the morning to beat the crowds.

This is the journey thousands must make to reach jobs that help them survive the economic distress in areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority.

The inhumane overcrowding to get through the “lines” at the checkpoint forces many workers to climb the fences just to avoid suffocation. Some workers, many in their 40s and 50s who don’t have it in them to withstand the long hours of crowding, try to arrive at 2 a.m. to avoid the misery that will increase as more laborers arrive.

“The fight for a piece of railing is the hardest of all,” said Ahmed Darajah, a 42-year-old father of eight from Beit Sahour who works in a quarry. “Only the strong can climb the railing and hold tight to the barbwire fence for hours. Not everyone has the strength to keep hanging in the air all night, and only the strong survive [and keep their place in line]. The rest pray to God.”
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/03/bethlehem-palestinian-laborers-checkpoint-300-danger.html#

How DNA tests proved Palestinian's innocence of false knife claim

On 27 November 2015, Ahmad Azza, a 16-year-old Palestinian human rights activist, was arrested by Israeli police on charges of possessing a knife in public and fleeing from soldiers when asked to stop. But according to Azza, he was not in the area where soldiers claimed they had seen him when the knife was allegedly found.

After seven days in prison, he was released on 3 December 2015, after a DNA test exonerated Azza and proved that the charges were false. He had to remain in prison until the official results were made available, but the only DNA found on the knife belonged to an Israeli soldier.

Azza is a young activist from the Tel Rumeida neighbourhood, currently a closed military zone in Hebron. He is a member of the local organisation Youth Against Settlements (YAS). The organisation’s website states they are a non-violent direct action group seeking to end the building and expanding of illegal Israeli settlements through non-violent popular struggle and civil resistance.

Ahmad’s recent arrest highlights the way many young Palestinian human rights activists have been targeted and arrested on false charges since the recent wave of violence that began in October 2015.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/in-depth/features/palestinian-teen-speaks-about-how-dna-tests-proved-his-innocence-1132067181