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Israel detained 30 Palestinian teens in August, majority report being tortured

Israeli forces imprisoned 30 teenage Palestinians over the month of August and collected 65,000 shekels ($17,270) from their families as fines, the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs said Monday, with the majority of the detainees saying they were beaten and tortured during their detention, interrogation, and transport from one detention center to another.

A statement released Monday quoted the committee’s lawyer Luay Akka as saying that among the detainees were minors as young as 13 years old.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772999

Palestinian minor briefly detained, assaulted in custody in East Jerusalem(04-09)

Israeli forces briefly detained and assaulted a Palestinian minor Saturday evening in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of al-Tur, local sources told Ma’an.

Locals said 16-year-old Jamal al-Zaatari was released Saturday evening after he was detained by Jerusalem police for several hours. During his detention, Israeli forces pepper sprayed and beat Jamal, resulting in injuries to his face, back, and feet, in addition to several bruises.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772986

Israeli forces ransack home of slain Palestinian, threaten to detain 10-month-old girl

Israeli troops stormed the town of Sair in the Hebron district of the southern occupied West Bank early Sunday morning, where they ransacked the home of a slain Palestinian and reportedly threatened to detain the deceased man’s 10-month-old daughter.

According to witnesses, Israeli troops raided the home of the family of Fadi Faroukh, who was shot and killed on Nov. 1, 2015 in the eastern Hebron village of Beit Einun after he allegedly attempted to stab an Israeli soldier.

Fadi’s brother Saed told Ma’an that Israeli soldiers “destroyed the interior of the house” before they “threatened to detain Fadi’s 10-month-old daughter.”
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772975

August: Israeli forces shoot, kill three Palestinians
http://www.alternativenews.org/index.php/headlines/186-august-israeli-forces-kill-three-palestinians-including-one-teen

Palestinian shot dead by israel army while bringing home food, baby clothes, grieving mother recounts

Eyewitnesses to the killing of 27-year-old Mustafa Nimir -- shot dead early Monday morning when Israeli forces showered the vehicle he was travelling in with live fire -- have denied the Israeli police’s narrative that claimed Mustafa and the driver of the vehicle were attempting a car ramming attack.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773009

Israeli soldiers routinely shoot heads of injured Palestinians, court told

Shooting at the heads of incapacitated alleged Palestinian attackers is a common practice by Israeli occupation forces, a settler security chief told a military court hearing on Sunday.

Eliyahu Liebman testified as a witness for the defense in the trial of Elor Azarya, an Israeli soldier indicted for manslaughter after he was caught on video shooting the head of a wounded and incapacitated Palestinian lying in the street, killing him.

Abd al-Fattah al-Sharif and Ramzi al-Qasrawi were fatally wounded after they allegedly attempted to stab soldiers in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron in late March. Multiple videos of the scene show al-Sharif and al-Qasrawi in the street, badly injured. But video released thus far only shows the fatal shooting of al-Sharif.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israeli-soldiers-routinely-shoot-heads-injured-palestinians-court-told

Israeli forces shoot, injure 2 Palestinians during clashes in Sabastiya(06-09)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773003

Israeli forces seal off Tulkarem area village, claim youth threw stones at settler cars(05-09)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772998

Israeli forces open fire at Gaza fishermen several times between Saturday and Sunday 04-09
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772987

Israeli forces close main entrance, side streets in Nablus-area village(04-09)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772977

Palestinian photojournalist injured in Kafr Qaddum protest, forces raid East Jerusalem neighborhoods(02-09)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772963

Palestinian Jerusalemites lay to rest relatives killed months ago

Israeli authorities withheld the bodies of Mohammad Abu Khalaf, Thaer Abu Ghazala and Baha’ Alayan for months. The bodies of 12 deceased Palestinians remain in Israeli custody.
http://www.alternativenews.org/index.php/headlines/190-palestinian-jerusalemites-lay-to-rest-relatives-killed-months-ago

Israel returns body of Palestinian teenager 200 days after his death
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773014

Israeli authorities issue stop-work order to Palestinian in Hebron's Old City

Israeli authorities renewed a military order on Monday preventing a Palestinian resident of the al-Salayma quarter in Hebron’s Old City near the Ibrahimi mosque from continuing construction work on his home, amid years of harassment by Israeli settlers living nearby pressuring Jaber to abandon the house.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773002

Israeli forces raid Silwan amid mounting threats to demolish Palestinian homes

erusalem municipality workers raided the al-Bustan area of Silwan in occupied East Jerusalem on Saturday, where they closed one of the town’s streets with cement blocks for the purpose of “repairs and infrastructure lines," amid mounting threats to demolish Palestinian homes in al-Bustan in a decades-long legal battle between residents and the city. http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772969

Extremist Israeli settler indicted for minor charges after opening fire on Palestinian vehicle

A right-wing extremist Israeli settler who chased and opened fire on a Palestinian taxi last month has been arrested over minor charges with no accusations being made in the indictment of "nationalistic motives" for his actions.

According to a statement from Israeli police spokesperson Luba al-Samri, 18-year-old Moshe Yanon Orin from the illegal Israeli settlement outpost of Givat Aroussi was detained on Aug. 28.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772988

Nine Palestinian political prisoners hunger strike for freedom

Three Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli prison and six in a Palestinian Authority jail http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772972 resist de facto indefinite incarceration.
http://www.alternativenews.org/index.php/headlines/184-nine-palestinian-political-prisoners-hunger-strike-for-freedom

Relatives of hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners held by Israel march in Bethlehem

The families of hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners participated in a march on Monday in the southern occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem in solidarity with their relatives incarcerated by Israel.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773011

Israeli court extends detention of veteran Palestinian prisoner held without charge

An Israeli military court at the Ofer detention center west of Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank on Sunday decided to extend the administrative detention of 63-year-old Palestinian prisoner Omar Barghouthi, most recently held without trial or charge since November after more than two decades of periodic detentions by Israel.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772980

Palestinian forces stop vehicle of undercover Israeli forces, get arrested at gunpoint

Undercover Israeli special forces reportedly arrested four Palestinian customs forces before dawn on Tuesday morning near the Nur Shams refugee camp in the northern occupied West Bank district of Tulkarem.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773027

Israeli army accused of West Bank 'shoot to cripple' campaign

Mahmoud limps into his family living room, bandages wrapped around his left leg from knee to ankle. He sits, puts aside his crutches and lays out his phone, a pack of cigarettes, two rolls of bandages and some painkillers on the table.

Although Mahmoud was shot in December, doctors in the occupied West Bank have not been able to properly treat the open wound beneath the bandages.

“The pain has never stopped,” Mahmoud said from his home in Dheisha refugee camp. “For the past nine months I have barely left the house, just for doctors appointments. But now the doctors here say they can’t help me.”
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/campaign-crutches-palestinian-youth-say-israeli-forces-are-targeting-their-knees-1844468281

Ex Mossad chief: Israel's biggest threat is potential civil war, not Iran

The most pressing threat to Israel is not Iran, but rather the increased polarization within Israeli society, former Mossad
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/Ex-Mossad-chief-Israels-biggest-threat-is-potential-civil-war-not-Iran-466415

Carrot and stick carve-up will not work for Israel

Launched this month, as much of the world was on holiday, Avigdor Lieberman’s plan for the Palestinians – retooling Israel’s occupation – received less attention than it should.

Defence minister since May, Mr Lieberman has been itching to accelerate Israel’s annexation by stealth of the West Bank.

His “carrot and stick” plan has three components. First, he intends to sideline the Palestinian Authority in favour of a new local leadership of “notables” hand-picked by Israel.
http://www.jonathan-cook.net/2016-08-29/carrot-and-stick-carve-up-will-not-work-for-israel/

Ben Gurion’s Plan for Regional Conquest and Israeli Empire

Odeh Bisharat, one of Haaretz’s few Israeli-Palestinian columnists (Sayeh Kashua is another), published an incisive article on what he calls “the end of the road” for Zionism. But the first paragraph, which comprised a quotation from David Ben Gurion (the full archival passage in Hebrew is here), really opened my eyes. At the first meeting of the Haganah military command after statehood was declared on May 15, 1948, he told the assembled leadership his strategic goals for the coming war. This grandiose vision dispels a long-standing claim by proponents of the Israel-as-victim view, who argue that Israel’s enemies have commenced all the wars against it and that the “Jewish state” has only acted in self-defense:

“We must immediately destroy Ramle and Lod. … We must organize Eliyahu’s brigade to direct it against Jenin in preparation for [conquering] the Jordan Valley. … Maklef needs to receive reinforcements and his role is the conquest of southern Lebanon, through bombing-support against Tyre, Sidon and Beirut. … Yigal Allon must strike Syria from the east and from the north. … We must establish a Christian state whose southern border will be the Litani [River]. We will forge an alliance with it. When we break the strength of the [Jordanian] Legion and bomb Amman we will eliminate Transjordan too, and then Syria falls. And if Egypt still dares to fight, we will bomb Port Said, Alexandria and Cairo.

…That is how we will end the war – and make a reckoning on our forefathers behalf with Egypt, Assyria and Aramea.”

Pro-Israel advocates will chalk this up to the braggadocio of a national leader preparing the troops for battle. He offers them a vision full of victories and maximalist territorial gain. It cheers them for the difficult battle ahead. Defenders may argue that Ben Gurion had to have been realistic enough to know that the new state had little chance of achieving such objectives.

But in my reading of Ben Gurion, there are two separate personalities: one of the pragmatist who accepts half a loaf instead of the whole; the other the ambitious politico-military strategist harboring imperial visions of Israel’s future (including the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian inhabitants of the new state). But even the pragmatist is only pragmatic in the moment. Ben Gurion makes clear that his pragmatism is only temporary until Israel is in a position to realize its maximalist goals.
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2016/09/01/ben-gurions-plan-regional-conquest/

Why is Mahmoud Abbas boasting of jailing Palestine’s youth?

Six men have launched a hunger strike after being arrested by secret police working for the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank.

On Sunday, Basil al-Araj, Muhammad Harb, Haitham Siyaj, Muhammad al-Salameen, Ali Dar al-Sheikh and Seif al-Idrisi started refusing food to protest how they are being detained without charge or trial for indefinite periods.

They will consume nothing but water until they are released, their lawyer says.

According to Samidoun, a group supporting Palestinian prisoners, their detention has been repeatedly extended since they were first arrested at the end of March and the beginning of April. Samidoun has been in contact with the families of the six men.

Muhannad Karajah, a lawyer who is representing the prisoners, told The Electronic Intifada that the PA has not presented any charges against the six men. But a PA official has verbally made allegations against them. The allegations relate to their political activities.

Samidoun believes their arrest took place as part of Israel’s “security coordination” with the PA.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/charlotte-silver/why-mahmoud-abbas-boasting-jailing-palestines-youth