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Many of you know one of my ‘pet names’ for Israel is the “national security state.” Aside from the myriad obvious ways I’ve documented this here in the past, there’s a new one. Israel bans Google Earth and similar geo-location apps from documenting the sites of numerous secret installations. A member of the Israeli forum Rotter discovered that one service called OpenStreetMap, based on open source collaborative principles, somehow hasn’t censored some key secret installations. In the interest of the free flow of knowledge and information I’m offering screenshots of the various locations. I believe that almost everything that is currently secret in the Israeli military-intelligence field (with certain exceptions) should be transparent. These places and what they do should be known and accountable to the people, which they are not now.
https://www.richardsilverstein.com/2016/11/23/israeli-secret-security-sites-revealed/

Video Footage Contradicts Israeli Claims that Murdered Youth Attempted to Stab Soldiers

A Palestinian youth was killed by Israeli border police forces on Thursday morning in the northern occupied West Bank after he allegedly attempted to carry out a stabbing attack.

Israeli police spokeswoman Luba al-Samri alleged in a statement in Arabic that an 18-year-old Palestinian “suspiciously approached” Israeli border police officers in an attempt to stab them at the Zaatara junction south of the city of Nablus, prompting Israeli forces to shoot at him, killing him instantly.
http://www.palestinechronicle.com/video-footage-contradicts-israeli-claims-that-murdered-youth-attempted-to-stab-soldiers/

November: Israeli forces shoot, kill four Palestinians

On November 3, 2016 Israeli forces shot and killed Maen Nassar al-Din Abu Qaraa, 23, at a bus stop in the Ramallah area of the West Bank, near Ofra settlement. Israeli forces claim Qaraa tired to stab an Israeli soldier. No Israelis were injured.

According to Ma’an News Agency, Qaraa was denied medical treatment and bled to death. http://www.alternativenews.org/index.php/headlines/277-november-israeli-forces-shoot-kill-four-palestinians-including-a-child

Israeli forces detain 16 Palestinians, including 7 minors, in overnight raids(30-11)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774197

Israeli forces detain 12 Palestinians in Qalqiliya, Jerusalem districts raids(01-12)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774226

Israeli forces detain 4 Palestinians during overnight West Bank raids(02-12)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774237

Israeli forces detain 5 in predawn West Bank raids(04-12)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774252

Israeli forces detain 12 Palestinians overnight across occupied West Bank(06-12)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774276

Israeli forces detain Gazan merchant at Erez border crossing(06-12)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774277

Israeli forces detain 21 Palestinians in military raids(07-12)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774298

Israeli forces detain 24 Palestinians and seize rifle in widespread overnight raids(08-12)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774321

Israeli forces close Ramallah-area road with cement block(30-11)

Israeli forces closed the road connecting the towns of Silwad and Ein Yabrud in the occupied West Bank district of Ramallah with a large cement block early Wednesday, imposing a complete closure on the two Palestinian towns.

According to locals, residents were forced to use dirt roads or roads far out in the outskirts of the town in order to avoid the cement block, while others were forced to exit and enter on foot.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774196

Israeli forces open live fire on Palestinian fishing boats off coast of Gaza(30-11)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774198

Israeli ministry orders bus company to stop Arabic announcements in Beersheba(01-12)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774204

Israeli border police shoot, injure Palestinian worker near Bethlehem(01-12)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774222

Palestinian youth injured during clashes with Israeli forces on Gaza border(02-12)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774243

Israeli forces suppress weekly Bilin march(02-12)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774242

Undocumented Palestinian worker injured following Israeli police raid on construction site(02-12)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774249

Israeli forces target Palestinians over alleged 'incitement' in overnight raids(05-12)

Israeli forces detained at least 24 Palestinians overnight Sunday and early Monday morning during military and police raids carried out across the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, a number of whom were targeted over alleged "incitement" on social media, as well as several minors as young as nine years old, according to Israeli and Palestinian sources.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774267

Israeli navy detains 4 Gaza fishermen, confiscates boat(06-12)

Israeli naval forces detained four Palestinian fishermen off the coast of the northern Gaza Strip and confiscated their fishing boat Tuesday morning, the head of the Gaza fishermen's union said.

Nizar Ayyash told Ma'an that Israeli gunboats obstructed a Palestinian fishing boat and detained all four fishermen who were on board.

The fishermen and their boat were taken to Israel's Ashdod port, where the boat was confiscated.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774282

Israel confiscates truck carrying iron into Gaza, claims material would be used against Israel(06-12)

Israeli authorities Tuesday confiscated a truck carrying pieces of iron en route to the besieged Gaza Strip, claiming the material would be used for anti-Israel activities.

Israeli sources told Ma’an that officials from COGAT, the Israeli agency responsible for implementing Israeli policies in the occupied Palestinian territory, in cooperation with Israeli intelligence and crossing authority prevented the truck from entering the Gaza Strip via the Kerem Shalom crossing for carrying iron pieces.

Sources added that the truck was supposed to be carrying shelves to be used in supermarkets but was instead carrying five-meter long iron pieces.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774290

Aid Watch Palestine raises awareness of failed reconstruction efforts in Gaza (30-11)

On Wednesday the November 23, Aid Watch Palestine (AIP) organized a photo exhibition in central Ramallah, West Bank, titled “Gaza Incomplete.” The event addressed reconstruction efforts in Gaza since the 51-day Israeli offensive against the besieged coastal enclave in the summer of 2014.

AIP is an independent Palestinian civil society initiative that stimulates and supports efforts to make international aid more accountable to Palestinians — starting with reconstruction of the Gaza Strip.
http://www.alternativenews.org/index.php/features-02/274-aid-watch-palestine-raises-awareness-on-failed-reconstruction-efforts-in-gaza

West Bank village turned into a 'prison' in the wake of arson accusations(07-10)

Dozens of Palestinians have been detained -- including a number of children -- and clashes have erupted daily in the occupied West Bank village of Deir Nidham since it was blockaded by the Israeli army three weeks ago, “turning the lives of 1,600 into a prison,” locals told Ma’an on Wednesday.

Deir Nidham, northwest of Ramallah city, was placed under a military closure after a fire erupted just a few kilometers away in the illegal Israeli settlement of Halamish, which is built on the lands of the village and on the lands of neighboring Nabi Saleh.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774292

Palestinian worker says Israeli deliberately ran him over in Tel Aviv(07-12)

An Israeli ran over a Palestinian worker from the Tulkarem district in the occupied West Bank while he was crossing the street in Tel Aviv, Israel on Wednesday, an incident that the victim claimed was “not an accident.”

Raja Muhammad Younis, a West Bank Palestinian working in Tel Aviv, suffered foot fractures after being struck by the vehicle, telling Ma’an that he and a group of Palestinian workers were crossing a street near their workplace when they saw an Israeli driving “extremely fast” toward them.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774309

Palestinian economy suffers due to Israeli custom officer strike at Allenby crossing(07-12)

The fragile Palestinian economy suffered serious losses in the past three weeks as Israeli custom officials at the Allenby Bridge crossing between the occupied West Bank and Jordan launched a strike, forcing imports and exports to a near standstill in the occupied Palestinian territory.

Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce in Hebron Muhammad Ghazi al-Hirbawi told Ma’an that Israeli custom officials started the general strike 20 days ago to demand a salary increase for what they called a “risky job.”

The strike has had a disastrous effect on the Palestinian economy, al-Hirbawi said, saying that “several factories have suspended work, particularly plastic factories, due to lack of raw materials.”
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774312

Israeli forces violently suppress clashes in Shufat refugee camp(08-12)

Israeli forces violently suppressed clashes overnight Wednesday in Shufat refugee camp in occupied East Jerusalem, leaving several injured by rubber-coated steel bullets, while four Palestinian youths were assaulted and detained, locals sources said.

Fatah party spokesperson in Shufat refugee camp Thaer Fasfous told Ma’an that Israeli forces heavily deployed in the camp and took pictures of several buildings, causing clashes to erupt.

Israeli forces fired tear gas canisters, sound bombs, and rubber-coated steel bullets at Palestinian youth during the clashes, which Fasfous said lasted for hours on end.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774317

Clashes erupt in Hebron area, tens suffer tear gas inhalation(09-12)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774348

Israeli forces fire tear gas at memorial event of Fatah minister beaten to death by Israeli forces(09-12)

Israeli forces on Friday dispersed with tear gas canisters a memorial ceremony for slain Palestinian Ziad Abu Ein, 55, in the town of Turmusayya in the central occupied West Bank district of Ramallah.

Abu Ein’s family and the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission demonstrated in the town to commemorate the two year anniversary of Abu Ein’s death.

Abu Ein was a Palestinian politician, minister and a member of the Fatah movement’s revolutionary council. Abu Ein died after an Israeli border police officer beat him in the chest with his helmet and the butt of his rifle on December 10, 2014, following a 300 person march to plant olive trees in the town.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774346

Israeli forces target Jerusalem's Silwan for demolitions

On December 6, Israeli forces carried out three demolitions in Silwan, a Palestinian neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem.

Israeli forces demolished a shed used as a horse stable in the area of al-Thuri owned by Alaa Shweiki and confiscated a horse. Shweiki’s horse stable was also demolished in November.
http://alternativenews.org/index.php/headlines/282-israeli-forces-target-jerusalem-s-silwan-for-demolitions

Israeli Jerusalem municipality demolishes structures in Palestinian neighborhoods(30-11)

Israeli forces demolished two Palestinian structures in neighborhoods of occupied East Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank’s Jerusalem district on Tuesday, according to a spokesperson from Israel’s Jerusalem municipality.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774186

'Formalization bill' would legalize 55 outposts, seize 8,000 dunams of Palestinian land

The eventual passage of the so-called “formalization bill” in Israel’s Knesset would lead to the retroactive legalization of 55 illegal settlement outposts in the occupied Palestinian territory and the confiscation of more than 8,000 dunams of land, rights group Peace Now said in a report released on Tuesday.

The bill would see the legalization of Israeli outposts which are deemed illegal by both Israeli and international law, and would cause what the Israeli NGO called “grand land robbery.”

All Israeli settlements and outposts in the occupied Palestinian territory are deemed illegal under international law.

According to Peace Now, should the bill pass into law, 55 outposts composed built on 3,067 dunams (758 acres) of Palestinian land would become legal under international law.http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774192

B'Tselem: 'Dispossession of Palestinians most consistent trend in Israeli policy'

As Israel’s Knesset considers a bill which would retroactively legalize settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank, Israeli authorities have used both official and unofficial means to expropriate Palestinian lands for decades which has "devastasted" the Palestinian territory, according to a report published on Monday by Israeli human rights group B’Tselem.

In its latest report, entitled “Expel and Exploit: The Israeli practice of taking over rural Palestinian land,” B’Tselem used a case study of Azmut, Deir al-Hatab, and Salem -- three Palestinian villages in the northern West Bank district of Nablus -- to illustrate a number of official and indirect ways used by the Israeli government over the years to slowly isolate Palestinian communities from their lands.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774178

Israeli authorities demolish 3 Palestinian structures in East Jerusalem(06-12)

Israeli authorities demolished three Palestinian-owned structures in the neighborhood of Silwan in occupied East Jerusalem Tuesday morning, according to the owners.

Alaa Shweiki told Ma'an that bulldozers arrived on his property early Tuesday morning under armed military protection.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774279

Israeli bulldozers demolish Palestinian-owned structures in Jericho

sraeli forces Tuesday leveled a number of structures belonging to several Palestinian families in the Jordan Valley, north of Jericho city in the occupied West Bank.

According to the Palestinian government news agency Wafa, Israeli bulldozers and soldiers raided the village of Fasayil and destroyed several steel structures belonging to Abed al-Hadi Ali Hussein Obayyat, Adnan Ibrahim Abu Kharabish, and Zaid Mahmoud Ibrahim Abu Kharabish.

Israeli forces also demolished two healthcare facilities belonging to Adnan and Zaid Abu Kharabish, Wafa reported.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774286

Israeli bulldozers demolish houses in Negev, level agricultural land

Israeli bulldozers demolished two houses in Bedouin villages unrecognized by Israel in the southern Negev region Wednesday morning, locals told Ma’an.

Local sources said forces from the Yoav, the special Israeli police unit created to implement demolitions of Bedouin homes in the Negev, escorted by Israeli bulldozers demolished a house in the village of Atir, and another house that belongs to the al-Jamaaen family in the village of Sawah.

Israeli bulldozers also leveled an agricultural field that belongs to al-Atrash family in Maulida village.

An Israeli police spokesperson said they were looking into reports.

Sawah and Atir are among 35 Bedouin villages considered “unrecognized” by the Israeli state. Last month, the village of al-Araqib was demolished for the 105th time.

According to the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), more than half of the approximately 160,000 Negev Bedouins reside in unrecognized villages.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774304

Israel demolishes car washes, building under construction in Area C
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774307

Israeli bulldozers level land in Umm al-Kheir to install sewer pipe for settlement

Israeli forces leveled privately-owned Palestinian lands in the village of Umm al-Kheir in the southern occupied West Bank on Thursday morning, in order to install a sewer pipe to service the illegal Israeli settlement of Karmel that lies some 500 meters away from Umm al-Kheir.

Meanwhile, Umm al-Kheir itself suffers from lack of infrastructure and has no sewage network, while the bulk of domestic wastewater is discharged and disposed in cesspits, according to the Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem (ARIJ).
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774325

Palestinian brothers from East Jerusalem forced to demolish their own homes

Two Palestinian brothers in the neighborhood of Silwan in occupied East Jerusalem were forced to demolish their own homes on Saturday in compliance with an Israeli court order.

One of the owners, Said al-Abbasi, told Ma’an that he and his brother Nasser had built their homes in the Karm al-Sheikh area of Silwan two-and-a-half years ago. However, before construction could be completed, the Jerusalem municipality delivered demolition orders for their homes.

During the court hearings, the al-Abbasi brothers, who are the fathers 12 children combined, were forced to close the construction site with concrete until all legal proceedings had concluded.

Said told Ma’an that the Jerusalem municipality had threatened to imprison the two brothers if they tried to resume construction at the site.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774247

Israeli forces issue stop-work orders, confiscate garbage trucks, tractors in Jordan Valley

Israeli forces raided several areas in the Jordan Valley district of Tubas in the northern occupied West Bank on Thursday, where they confiscated a garbage truck, agricultural tractors, and delivered stop-work orders.

Palestinian official and local Tubas activist, Mutaz Bisharat told Ma’an that Israeli forces confiscated a garbage truck that belongs to the Tubas Joint Services Council for Solid Waste while the truck was working in the Beit Anon district.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774328

Palestinian prisoner declares 4th hunger strike in Israeli prison(30-11)

Palestinian prisoner Kifah Hattab, 53, entered the eighth day of a hunger strike on Wednesday in the latest of a series of hunger strikes launched by the prisoner who has demanded to be considered a prisoner of war in accordance with the Fourth Geneva Convention, according to a statement released by the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774201

Islamic Jihad warns Israel over potential death of Palestinian hunger strikers(02-12)

The Islamic Jihad movement warned Israel on Friday that the potential death of hunger-striking prisoners Anas Shadid and Ahmad Abu Farah in Israeli prisons or hospitals would be the full responsibility of Israeli authorities.

The statements were made during a speech by Islamic Jihad leader Khalid al-Batsh during Friday prayers which were performed by hundreds of Palestinians in front of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) headquarters in the besieged Gaza Strip in support of Shadid and Abu Farah.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774239

Palestinian hunger strikers reject deal offered by Israeli prosecution(03-12)

Hunger strikers Anas Shadid and Ahmad Abu Farah rejected a deal offered by the Israeli prosecution that guaranteed the imprisoned Palestinians would be released after a renewed four months on their administrative detention, according to a statement released Friday by the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774244

Tens of families from Gaza visit their relatives in Israeli prison

Dozens of relatives of Palestinian prisoners from the besieged Gaza Strip left the coastal enclave Monday morning through the Erez checkpoint after they were granted permission to visit their relatives being held in Israel’s Nafha prison.

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) spokesperson in Gaza Suheir Zaqout said that 72 Palestinian from Gaza visited 43 Palestinian prisoners held in Nafha prison, located in Israel's southern Negev desert, through facilitation from the ICRC.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774265

Balboul brothers to be released as 2 hunger strikers remain in critical condition(07-12)

After more than five months in Israeli prison and over 75 days on an open hunger strike, Muhammad and Mahmoud Balboul are set to be released back to their home in the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem on Thursday, as prisoners Anas Shadid and Ahmad Abu Farah remained in critical condition amid their ongoing hunger strikes.

Muhammad, 26, and Mahmoud, 23, were initially detained during an overnight raid on June 9, and were subsequently sentenced to six months of administrative detention -- an Israeli policy of internment without charge or trial based on undisclosed evidence.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774295

Former hunger-striking Balboul brothers released from Israeli prison(08-12)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774337

Palestinian committee: Israel 'deliberately' tries to kill Palestinian hunger strikers

Head of the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs, Issa Qaraqe accused Israeli authorities of “deliberately” attempting to kill Palestinian hunger strikers, while simultaneously employing several tactics to convince hunger strikers to break their strikes, according to statements released on Thursday.

The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said in a statement that Palestinian hunger striker Ammar Ibrahim Hamour, 28, who has been on hunger strike for 18 days in protest of being held in administrative detention -- the controversial Israeli policy of internment without charge or trial --told PPS lawyer Khalid Mahajna that the Israel Prison Service (IPS) has been attempting to pressure him to end his strike.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774323

Amid crackdown on Palestinian activism, Israel renews detention of Palestinian journalist(09-12)

Israeli authorities Thursday renewed the administrative detention order of Palestinian journalist, human rights activist, and the media coordinator of prisoners rights group Addameer Hasan Safadi for an additional six months.

According Addameer, Israeli forces initially detained Safadi as he crossed the Allenby bridge between the occupied West Bank and Jordan at the start of May, keeping him under Israeli military interrogation for forty days before sentencing him to six months of administrative detention -- the controversial Israeli policy of internment without trial or charge. http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774339

Report: 32 disabled Palestinian prisoners face medical negligence in Israeli custody

32 Palestinian prisoners suffering from different disabilities are being held in Israeli detention centers without receiving suitable medical care, according to a report released by the Palestinian Prisoners’ Center for Studies (PPCS) on Sunday.

Center spokesperson Riyad al-Ashqar said in the statement that Israeli use of torture against Palestinian prisoners had dramatically increased the number of disabled prisoners, with many suffering from permanent disabilities due to injuries sustained during violent interrogations.

The statement noted that Israel Prison Service (IPS) authorities routinely did not provide disabled and injured prisoners with necessary equipment such as wheelchairs for those.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774254

Warum Israel brennt

Israels Landschaft ist überzogen mit Kiefernwäldern. Diese Bäume stammen nicht aus dieser Region. Die Kiefern wurden in den frühen 1930 in die palästinensische Landschaft vom Jüdischen Nationalfonds (KKL/JNF) eingeführt, in einem Versuch, "das Land zurück zu erobern". Bis 1935 hatte der JNF 1,7 Millionen Bäume über ein Gebiet von 1'750 Hektar gepflanzt. In den folgenden 50 Jahren pflanzte der JNF über 260 Millionen Bäume hauptsächlich auf konfisziertem palästinensischem Land. Dies wurde alles als verzweifelter Versuch unternommen, um die Ruinen der ethnisch gesäuberten palästinensischen Dörfer und ihrer Geschichte zu verstecken.
http://www.tlaxcala-int.org/article.asp?reference=19386

Nur jene, denen das Land nicht gehört, sind in der Lage, es zu verbrennen!

Zu den Bränden im „jüdischen Staat“ kann man Naftali Bennet, rechtsradikaler Bildungsminister und Vorsitzender der Partei „Jüdisches Heim“ und „Siedlerkönig“, der die rassistische Siedlerpartei zu einem mächtigen Koalitionspartner innerhalb des Netanjahu Regimes aufgebaut hat, und der von einem „Groß-Israel“, Eretz-Israel, vom Mittelmeer bis zum Jordan träumt und zusätzlich große Teile des illegal besetzten Westjordanlandes annektieren will, eigentlich nur beipflichten, der getwittert hat: „Nur jene, denen das Land nicht gehört, sind in der Lage, es zu verbrennen“.
http://www.tlaxcala-int.org/article.asp?reference=19405

Netanyahu 'toppled': Gold statue of Israeli PM taken down by protesters

A 13-foot-high golden effigy of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was secretly erected in the centre of Tel Aviv in protest against Israel's "culture war" on artistic expression on Tuesday, sparking online controversy and political debate.

The gilded statue was raised overnight in front of the Tel Aviv city hall in Yitzhak Rabin Square, named after the former PM who was assassinated by a right-wing Jewish militant in 1995.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/netanyahu-toppled-giant-gold-statue-israeli-pm-taken-down-protesters-1371459333

Gaza ship raid: Turkey considers dropping charges against Israelis

A Turkish prosecutor has called for charges to be withdrawn in relation to the Israeli raid on the Mavi Marmara flotilla carrying aid to Gaza in 2010 following a reconciliation deal between Turkey and Israel, state media reported on Friday.

The prosecutor told an Istanbul court that the case against the Israelis should be dropped because of the agreement between the two states, state-run news agency Anadolu said.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-calls-dropping-charges-against-israelis-deadly-raid-against-aid-ship-gaza-181775189

New Israeli envoy arrives in Turkey after rapprochement

Eitan Naeh dispatched as Israel's first ambassador to Ankara in six years after row over Gaza flotilla raid ended.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/12/israeli-envoy-arrives-turkey-rapprochement-161202083315668.html

Colonial misogynists

The Israeli military appoints a settler as chief rabbi who once said soldiers can rape ‘enemy’ women and relieves a decorated war criminal of prison time for rape.
http://www.alternativenews.org/index.php/comment/280-colonial-misogyny

U.K. Intelligence Called Israel 'True Threat' to Middle East

A 2008 document, leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden, says the British were concerned about Israel's stance on Iran. GCHQ also spied on Israeli diplomats, and defense firms.
http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.757541

Attorney General orders probe of German submarine deal

In what may pose a significant legal threat to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit on Thursday asked State Attorney Shai Nitzan to examine a major arms acquisition from Germany.

Mandelblit, the government’s legal adviser, asked Nitzan, in charge of the state prosecution, to check whether Netanyahu’s trusted lawyer and right hand-man David Shimron violated a conflict-of-interest agreement.
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/A-G-orders-probe-of-German-submarine-deal-473002

Israel blocks Gaza women from breast cancer treatment

Khuloud Abu Qamar spoke quietly but her words still shocked. “Israel is killing me slowly,” she said. “And it is killing my children, too.”

After undergoing surgery for breast cancer last year, Abu Qamar requires further treatment which she has not been able to receive in Gaza. She has asked Israel for permission to travel. Her applications have so far been rejected. Aged 40, she has six children, the youngest of whom is still a baby.

Her plight is shared by many others in Gaza. Estimates from the local health ministry indicate that several hundred women with breast cancer have been obstructed from traveling by Israel so far this year.

Leaving Gaza for treatment is vital as the coastal strip’s hospitals are not properly equipped to provide such services as radiotherapy.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/israel-blocks-gaza-women-breast-cancer-treatment/18761

The Frontline of Israel’s Settlement Regime by Salah Ajarma

Aida refugee camp, in which I live and work, is on the edge of the famous town of Bethlehem. Our families established the camp in 1950 after being forcibly expelled from their homes by Zionist militias in 1948. Palestinians from our camp originate from villages in the Jerusalem and Hebron districts, just a few miles down the road. Those born since, still live in the refugee camp, and continue to struggle for the right to return to our homes.

In April 2000, me and a number of friends established the Lajee Centre, a community-based cultural centre for young refugees living in the camp. Through it we have sought to provide opportunities for the cultural, educational and social development of our young people, despite the violent military occupation under which we live. As an occupied refugee people, we are aware of the duty to educate our youth about their history and their rights. Only in this way will our struggle for freedom be carried to the next generation.
https://www.palestinecampaign.org/frontline-israels-settlement-regime-salah-ajarma/