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Israeli rabbi who advocated rape of ‘comely gentile women’ during war becomes chief army rabbi

Just on my way to my flight from Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport, I noticed this cover headline in the Yediot Aharonot newspaper front page:

“New IDF Chief Rabbi: It is permissible to rape during war”. Under that: “Col. Eyal Qarim has declared in the past “draft of girls is totally forbidden” – and claimed that in times of war it is permissible for soldiers to “have sex with comely gentile women against their will”.
http://mondoweiss.net/2016/07/israeli-advocated-becomes/

Israeli Education Minister Naftali Bennett advocated on Thursday for Israel to kidnap

Palestinian to be used as leverage to obtain the release of two Israeli civilians and the bodies of two soldiers held in the besieged Gaza Strip, Israeli media reported.(09-7)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772157

B'Tselem: Eyewitness report casts doubts on army's narrative in Palestinian woman's killing(09-7)

Eyewitness testimony and video footage have cast doubts on the Israeli narrative surrounding the death of a Palestinian woman on Friday in the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron, Israeli human rights group B’Tselem reported on Tuesday.
On July 1, Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian woman, identified as 27-year-old Sarah Tarayra, after she allegedly attempted to carry out a stabbing attack against border police officers near the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron’s Old City.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772135

Israeli forces kill 1 Palestinian youth, injure 1, and detain 1 other(13-7)

A Palestinian youth was killed and another injured by Israeli forces while a third was detained early on Wednesday, as soldiers opened fire at the youths' vehicle in the town of al-Ram in the occupied West Bank's Jerusalem district.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772219

Weekend headlines from Palestine: 20+ injured, 32 arrested
https://www.facebook.com/alternativenews.org/posts/1035799983124583:0

Israeli forces detain 27 Palestinian in large-scale West Bank raids(12-7)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772208

Israeli forces detain 34 Palestinians in overnight raids(13-7)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772220

Israeli forces detain Palestinian activist at West Bank checkpoint(13-7)

Israeli forces detained a Palestinian activist and former prisoner on Tuesday at the Beit Ur al-Fuqa checkpoint in the Ramallah district of the occupied West Bank, according to prisoners rights group Addameer.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772221

Israeli forces detained a Palestinian photojournalist, known for his coverage of weekly protests, in the northern occupied West Bank on Wednesday.(14-7)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772234

Israeli forces detain 9 Palestinians during predawn raids in West Bank, East Jerusalem(14-7)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772242

Israeli forces detain at least 15 activists in the Tel Rumeida area of Hebron(15-7)

Israeli forces detained at least 15 activists Friday as they were cleaning an area located in the neighborhood of Tel Rumeida in the southern occupied West Bank district of Hebron in order to establish a cultural cinema, according to the Hebron-based group Youth Against Settlements.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772250

Israeli forces detain 5 in Hebron, nearby village remains partially blockaded(16-7)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772257

Brother of Palestinian shot dead after stab attack indicted by Israeli military for 'incitement'(15-7)

The Israeli military's public prosecutor issued an indictment on Thursday against Tamer Tarayra -- the brother of 17-year-old Muhammad Nasser Tarayra who was killed by Israeli forces after carrying out a stabbing attack on an illegal Israeli settlement in the southern occupied West Bank district of Hebron, killing a 13-year-old Israeli girl -- for alleged “incitement,” according to sources.

Tamer, the brother of Muhammad and resident of the village of Bani Naim in Hebron, was issued an indictment for alleged “incitement” and supporting Palestinian attacks against Israelis, joining his sister Lara who is being prosecuted by Israeli military courts for allegedly supporting the attack on the illegal settlement of Kiryat Arba last month, as she reportedly said that “the attack added pride to the Tarayra family and the Bani Naim town” during an interrogation with Israeli authorities.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772247

Palestinian sentenced to 8 years in prison for throwing stones at Israeli officer
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772243

Israeli officials have blamed social media for inciting a wave of violent attacks by Palestinians that began in October 2015. Since then, Israeli security forces have arrested about 400 Palestinians for social media activity, according to Palestinian rights groups Addameer and Adalah. Most of the arrests have been for postings on Facebook, a popular network among Palestinians.
https://theintercept.com/2016/07/07/israel-targeting-palestinian-protesters-on-facebook/

Poetry is Not a Crime: Nine Pulitzer-Winners among 150+ Literary Figures Calling for Israel to Release Palestinian Poet

Dareen Tatour, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, is one of over 400 Palestinians arrested by Israel since last fall for political statements on social media. Tatour’s ordeal began in October 2015, when she was arrested in the middle of the night. She has been charged with incitement to violence and terrorism based on Facebook postings and a poem posted to YouTube called “Qawim ya sha’abi, qawimhum” (Resist my people, resist them). Tatour spent the first three months of her detention in three different prisons before being transferred to house arrest.
https://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/poetry-not-crime-nine-pulitzer-winners-among-150-literary-figures-calling-israel-release-palestinian-poet/

Palestinians injured across West Bank and Gaza during Friday clashes with Israeli forces(15-7)http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772252

11 Palestinians injured with live fire after clashes erupt near Birzeit University in Ramallah(15-7)http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772246

Israeli forces shoot Palestinian youth attempting to prevent another's detention(14-7)

A Palestinian youth was wounded by Israeli forces at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank district of Jerusalem on Thursday morning after he reportedly tried to help another Palestinian being detained by Israeli border police.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772240

Palestinian youth injured by Israeli forces in northern Gaza Strip(12-7)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772217

Israeli siege of Hebron area persists for 11th day

Today, Israeli authorities upheld the siege on the Palestinian towns of Sa’ir and Beni Neim for the 11th day in a row. Both towns are in the southern West Bank district of Hebron.
https://www.facebook.com/alternativenews.org/posts/1032114470159801:0

Last night dozens of soldiers invaded the town of Sa’ir, north east of Hebron. About 25 thousands Palestinians live in Sa’ir.
Israeli soldiers raided many homes and shops in the town. About ten security cameras were confiscated from local stores and homes. (10-7)
https://www.facebook.com/alternativenews.org/posts/1031576946880220

Israeli forces injure international activist during Friday Kafr Qaddum protest(12-7)

Israeli forces shot and injured an international solidarity activist on Friday during weekly demonstrations against illegal Israeli settlements in the village of Kafr Qaddum in the northwestern occupied West Bank district of Qalqiliya, according to locals.

The spokesman of Kafr Qaddum weekly protest, Fatah official Murad Shtewei, told Ma’an that Israeli forces stormed the village in the early morning hours, shooting tear gas canisters and stun grenades into the community.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772203

Bethlehem-area residents close main road to protest water shortages
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772200

How Israel Uses Water as a Weapon of War

Entire communities in the West Bank either have no access to water or have had their water supply reduced almost by half.
This alarming development has been taking place for weeks, since Israel’s national water company, “Mekorot”, decided to cut off – or significantly reduce – its water supply to Jenin, Salfit and many villages around Nablus, among other regions.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/06/24/how-israel-uses-water-as-a-weapon-of-war/

Israel stellt den Palästinensern die eigene Wasserversorgung ab

Einem erfahrenen Palästinareporter zufolge wurde einer Stadt von 40.000 Einwohnern gerade im Monat Ramadan, in dem die „Menschen am meisten den Zugang zu Lebensmitteln und Wasser benötigen“, 50% des Wassers abgestellt. Einem erfahrenen Palästinareporter zufolge wurde einer Stadt von 40.000 Einwohnern gerade im Monat Ramadan, in dem die „Menschen am meisten den Zugang zu Lebensmitteln und Wasser benötigen“, 50% des Wassers abgestellt.
http://www.tlaxcala-int.org/article.asp?reference=18364

Israeli cabinet approves 50-million shekel plan to 'strengthen' Kiryat Arba settlement

The Israeli cabinet approved on Sunday a 50 million shekel ($12.8 million) plan to “strengthen” the illegal Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba in the occupied West Bank, in a move which anti-settlement group Peace Now said in a statement Monday was part of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plan to “prioritize the most extreme settlements.”
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772178

Israeli settlers throw rocks at Palestinian vehicles in northern West Bank(16-7)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772255

As tribute to deceased child, Israeli settlers violate al-Aqsa's status quo
According to the Wadi Hilweh Information center, 285 Israeli settlers provocatively toured al-Aqsa Compound yesterday, accompanied by the Israeli police, including the police commander.
https://www.facebook.com/alternativenews.org/posts/1033221436715771:0

Activists prevent Israeli bulldozers from continuing work on settler road in Ramallah
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772230

Israeli forces demolish 3 homes in East Jerusalem neighborhood(13-7)
Israeli bulldozers demolished three houses under construction and a steel structure in the Jabal al-Mukabbir neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem on Wednesday morning, after Israeli forces claimed the owners lacked proper licenses.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772225

Red Cross cuts family visits to Palestinian prisoners

Naimeh Shamlawi missed her youngest son more than ever during Ramadan, which concluded earlier this month.
Ali, 19, has spent the last three years in Israeli military detention on attempted murder charges. Israeli prosecutors claim that he and four friends threw rocks at an Israeli settler’s car, causing a crash that resulted in the death of a young Israeli girl.
Though they took a plea deal, Ali and his friends, known as the Hares Boys, have maintained their innocence throughout their trial and incarceration.
The evidence against them, they say, was based on “confessions” extracted under torture. But that’s small comfort to their mothers who say they felt the loss acutely every time the rest of the family gathered to break the Ramadan fast.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/red-cross-cuts-family-visits-palestinian-prisoners/17351

Israeli forces raid PFLP section in Rimon prison, impose total closure(17-7)

The Palestinian Prisoners' Society said on Sunday morning that Israeli Prison Service (IPS) forces raided section 5 of Israel's Rimon prison, where they searched room number 72 and imposed a total closure on the section, which holds exclusively prisoners affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
The group added in a statement that the acts of the prison administration and its forces are part of its collective punishment on PFLP prisoners across all Israeli prisons, in response to their support of Bilal Kayid, who has been on a hunger strike since June 14 in protest of his administrative detention order. http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772262

Hunger striking Palestinian prisoner to be transferred to hospital due to deteriorating health

Lawyers for Palestinian political prisoner Bilal Kayed expect Israeli authorities to transfer him from Ashkelon prison to Barzilai Hospital at any time due to his deteriorating health.
https://www.facebook.com/alternativenews.org/posts/1032167093487872:0

Israel issues 34 administrative detention orders to Palestinian prisoners

Israeli authorities issued administrative detention orders against 34 Palestinian prisoners for periods between three to six renewable months on Tuesday .
Palestinian Prisoner’s Society lawyer Mahmoud al-Halabi said in a statement that 24 of the orders were issued against prisoners who had already spent months and years in Israeli administrative detention.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772218

Israeli Commandos Penetrate Syria, Lebanon; Plant Spy Devices And Murder Civilians

The Israeli Defense Forces intelligence apparatus uses sophisticated listening devices planted in southern Lebanon — just one of the many surveillance tools at Israel’s disposal — to eavesdrop on the Lebanese militant group’s communications and track troop movements, among other things.
Rumors have trickled back from the front to Israeli reporters that the forays into Lebanon by the IDF’s elite commando units, Sayeret Matkal and Maglan, weren’t always clean operations. In fact, Israeli forces have encountered Lebanese civilians while planting their equipment more than once. Like Bob Kerrey and John Kerry during their days as commandos in Vietnam, when this happens, there’s only one option: eradicate the threat.
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2016/07/08/israeli-commandos-penetrate-syria-lebanon-to-plant-spy-devices-and-murder-civilians/

Mossad-linked group sues Facebook for $1 billion

Facebook has shut down Palestinian leaders’ profiles, deleted pages calling for a “third Intifada” and cooperated with the Israeli army, but a new lawsuit filed by Shurat HaDin says the social media platform has not gone far enough.
On Monday, the Israeli lawfare group filed a $1 billion lawsuit in a New York federal court alleging that Facebook violates the Anti-Terrorism Act [by serving as a platform for Hamas and “knowingly … facilitat(ing) this terrorist group’s ability to communicate, recruit members, plan and carry out attacks, and strike fear in its enemies.”
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/charlotte-silver/mossad-linked-group-sues-facebook-1-billion

Knesset approves bill criminalizing efforts to stop Christians from joining Israeli army

The Israeli Knesset approved a controversial bill last week cracking down on efforts to prevent Palestinian Christians from joining the Israeli army, Israeli media reported on Sunday.
The Constitution, Law and Justice Committee voted in favor of the bill, which criminalizes efforts to stop Christian enlistment in the army, by mandating prison terms for anyone who dissuades Christian Palestinians from volunteering for Israeli military service, or convinces them to leave once they’ve joined.
The circumstances under which the bill were passed also drew criticism and controversy, as the meeting to vote was held by only Jewish Knesset members during the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, despite the request of Palestinian Knesset members from the Joint List to postpone the vote so that they could be present.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772186

Yair Lapids zerstörende Verschwörung des Schweigens über Israel

Die Diskussion über die Besatzung kann nur im Ausland geführt werden. Eine solche Debatte erfordert die Existenz einer freien demokratischen Gesellschaft, wo die Leute wissen, was vor sich geht. Die Debatte kann demnach nicht in Israel geführt werden, so wie eine Diskussion über die Jesiden im Irak oder eine Diskussion über Gays oder Journalisten in Russland nicht möglich ist.
Unter dem israelischen Regime leben zwei Gesellschaften, die nicht in der Lage sind eine Diskussion über die Besatzung zu führen. Es gibt die jüdische Gesellschaft, die in Verleugnung und Repression lebt, die nichts weiß und nichts wissen will; und die palästinensische Gesellschaft, die alles weiß, aber keine Rechte hat.
http://www.tlaxcala-int.org/article.asp?reference=18401

One Broken Camera

Shuhada kindergarten may be one of the most vulnerable schools in Hebron. The school sits halfway to the crest of Tel Rumeda, the oldest site in Hebron, Palestine, where pottery shards dating to 3,500 BC have been found. Just fifty meters behind the school lies a community of Israeli settlers who employ harassment and violence to pry from the hands of Palestinian owners as many homes and as much of the land as possible. To protect the settlers, a fortress of more than a dozen Israeli military checkpoints, guard towers and mobile military bases ring the settlement and the school. Razor wire is everywhere. It lines the school’s chain-link fence and is almost invisible in the tangled weeds and brush through which the children, their parents and teachers walk to and from the school
http://imeu.org/photo_essay/one-broken-camera

Humiliation: The hammer crushing Palestinian society

While the exercise of military control over an occupied country may be expected to inflict inevitable pain and trauma on the citizens of that country, the history of Israeli policy has far exceeded any “pragmatic” needs of an occupier to dominate and subdue a local population. The Israeli humiliation of Palestinians is an end in itself. Humiliation is thus one of the most important injuries experienced in the Palestinian context and yet, it is under-reported to such a degree that humiliation is viewed as almost normal.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20160630-humiliation-the-hammer-crushing-palestinian-society/

Gaza tunnels seen as vital tool of resistance

It was a warm night in Jabaliya, northeast of Gaza City. Abu Zein and his wife were fast asleep when what the couple first thought was an earthquake shook their bed so hard, its legs buckled.
They immediately jumped up and ran out of the home they had only recently moved into after getting married. But outside was quiet. No one was stirring, no damage was visible, the ground stayed still.
The only movement came from the shadows where a couple of fighters with the Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, emerged to ask the couple what had happened.
When Abu Zein — who did not want to give his real name for this article out of concern for his safety — told them, the fighters promised to repair any damage in the couple’s house. The next day, a man turned up with tools to repair the damage to the floor and money as compensation for the damaged furniture.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/gaza-tunnels-seen-vital-tool-resistance/17216

Gaza garbage puts public health at risk
The view from Omayma Nasser’s home is getting uglier.
Huge heaps of waste — collected and thrown in an ad hoc landfill not a kilometer from her home in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza — dominate the view.
“The sight is killing me,” the 37-year-old mother of six said. The overpowering stench is acutely nauseating, especially in the summer: “The smells waft over earlier in the mornings than at any other time of the year.”
The rubbish mounds also attract hungry animals, including stray dogs that terrify children and parents alike. Nasser’s children refuse to go to school unless their father escorts them past the notorious landfill.
But the sight, pungency and inconvenience are just the noticeable effects experienced by those who live around what are increasingly common ad hoc landfills in residential areas in Gaza that officials say they simply have no choice but to create.
Far more pressing are the potential health risks. Due to a lack of resources, waste in Gaza is rarely sorted. Domestic, industrial, agricultural and medical waste can all be mixed in landfills, say experts. When these are burned, poisonous and sometimes carcinogenic fumes are released that pose a health hazard to those nearby.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/gaza-garbage-puts-public-health-risk/17146

No justice, no aid: Gaza on its knees two years after war, say reports

Two years after Gaza's last devastating conflict with Israel, rights groups vented frustration on Thursday over the slow pace of reconstruction in the Palestinian territory and lack of war crimes prosecutions.
Amnesty International said it was "indefensible" that no criminal cases had been brought for alleged war crimes committed by Israel or the Palestinians, while a coalition of leading NGOs urged Israel to lift its blockade of the impoverished Gaza Strip.
The July-August 2014 war between Israel and Gaza killed more than 2,200 Palestinians and 73 people on the Israeli side, and destroyed or damaged thousands of homes in besieged Gaza.
Reconstruction has been painfully slow, with the United Nations taking over a year to rebuild its first destroyed home.
Israel has maintained a blockade on the enclave, limiting the entry of many goods essential for construction that officials fear could fall into the hands of Hamas and be used for another military build-up.
Only three Israeli soldiers have been charged over the war, all on minor charges, the Amnesty report said, ahead of Friday's anniversary of the outbreak of the conflict.
"The fact that no one has been held to account for war crimes that were evidently committed by both sides in the conflict is absolutely indefensible," said Philip Luther, Amnesty's Middle East and North Africa head.
"Two years have passed and it's high time the wheels of justice started turning."
In a separate report, AIDA - an umbrella body for major international NGOs working in Israel and the Palestinian territories - said Israel's decade-long blockade was "severely impeding reconstruction and recovery" in Gaza.
"Unless it is lifted, Palestinians living in Gaza will be unable to move on with their lives and live in freedom, dignity and safety," said Chris Eijkemans, country director at AIDA with the British charity Oxfam.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/2-years-post-war-gaza-reconstruction-justice-lacking-reports-128446882

Gaza family files complaint against French company for complicity in war crimes

A Palestinian family from Gaza City has filed a complaint against a French company, accusing it of complicity in war crimes for manufacturing a component of an Israeli missile that targeted the family’s home in 2014, killing three children.
The Shuhaiber family say five children were feeding pigeons on their grandfather’s roof when a missile struck the home on 17 July 2014. Brothers Jihad, 11, and Wassim, 8, and their cousin Afnan, 8, were killed immediately. The other two boys, Basel and Oday, suffered serious injuries. Even after extensive surgeries, they are unlikely to ever fully recover.
“The French arms industry cannot escape its moral and legal responsibility,” Ingrid Metton, an attorney with the Paris-based law firm Ancile Avocats, stated in a press release. “Selling pieces and components used to commit war crimes must be severely punished.”
This is believed to be the first time a complaint has been filed against a French company for complicity in war crimes, Hélène Legeay, program director at Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture, told The Electronic Intifada.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/charlotte-silver/gaza-family-files-complaint-against-french-company-complicity-war-crimes