city:nablus

Palestinian rights group forges sturdy link between West Bank, Gaza -
by Amira Hass

Haaretz Daily Newspaper
http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/palestinian-rights-group-forges-sturdy-link-between-west-bank-gaza.premium-

A leaflet was distributed early this week in Nablus calling for a halt to the security collaboration with Israel in the West Bank. That very day, the Palestinian Preventive Security agency arrested a key activist of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which was behind the leaflet. The man was released within a few hours, but an acquaintance who visited him related that the signs of the beating he received were still visible on his body.

It’s likely that the arrest and beating will be part of the statistics contained in next year’s report of the Palestinian Independent Commission for Human Rights ‏(ICHR‏). They will be contained under the rubrics of “Violations of the right to personal security and physical safety, especially in the form of torture and ill treatment ‏(during detention‏)” and “Violations of the right to freedom of expression.”

The report for 2012, published on Tuesday, states that last year, the ICHR documented 306 violations in the category of torture and ill-treatment − 172 in the West Bank and 134 in the Gaza Strip. This is a considerable increase over 2011, when 214 cases of ill-treatment and abuse of persons in detention were recorded. The past year saw an increase of 10 percent in the overall number of complaints by residents of the Palestinian Authority regarding violations of their rights by the authorities − 3,185 ‏(of them, 812 in the Gaza Strip‏) in 2012, as compared to 2,876 (831 in Gaza).

Settler aims gun at child’s head, who’s the settler these soldiers are working for?
http://mondoweiss.net/2013/05/soldiers-outside-settlement.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFEDToTZEhU

This video is said to show Israeli soldiers and a “security” man aiming guns at the head of an injured boy, Maysara, who fell down, apparently after he was shot in the right leg while running away from an Israeli settlement in an occupied village near Nablus. It says it was recorded May 15th.

7 injured as settlers attack Palestinian school buses | Maan News Agency
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=580826

NABLUS (Ma’an) — Settlers threw rocks at a two Palestinian school busese south of Nablus on Sunday, injuring seven children, a Palestinian Authority official said.

Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlement activity in the northern West Bank, said settlers smashed the windshield of two buses returning from a school trip.

Seven children were injured and taken to the Rafedia Hospital in Nablus, Daghlas said.

https://twitter.com/Tweet_Palestine/status/329201080263131139/photo/1

Case Summaries 2013 | Defence for Children International Palestine
http://www.dci-palestine.org/documents/case-summaries-2013

Lawyers and fieldworkers for DCI-Palestine collect sworn affidavits from Palestinian children detailing violations of their rights. These affidavits are taken in Arabic and further reviewed by trained staff to determine appropriate follow-up action. Each year, hundreds of these affidavits are translated into English from which brief case summaries are produced.

Palestinians born ’from prisoners’ smuggled sperm’

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21658940

Palestinians born ’from prisoners’ smuggled sperm’
Jon Donnison By Jon Donnison BBC News, West Bank

Just a few seconds old, but already strong of voice, Muhannad Ziben did not sound best pleased as a midwife, gripping him by the ankle, hoisted him above his mother and snipped the umbilical chord.

He was born in Nablus’s al-Arabia hospital in August last year.

Within a few hours he looked more comfortable, snoozing in the arms of his mother Dallal. The father though was absent.

#palestine #israel #droits-humains

Nablus court jails man for depicting Abbas as soccer star
http://electronicintifada.net/content/nablus-court-jails-man-depicting-abbas-soccer-star/12275

In an extraordinary move, a civilian has been sentenced to a year’s imprisonment for posting a picture on Facebook of Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas dressed in a Real Madrid soccer outfit and kicking a ball. The sentencing is among several instances of a targeting of media in Palestinian areas.

Anas Saad Awad, 26, from the northern West Bank village of Awarta near Nablus, was sentenced in the Nablus magistrate’s court, which convicted him of “criticizing the government.” Awad was unable to address the court as the conviction was carried out while he was elsewhere in the court building.

Nablus was “the center of everything”: interview with architect Naseer Arafat | The Electronic Intifada
http://electronicintifada.net/content/nablus-was-center-everything-interview-architect-naseer-arafat/12267

In modern history, before Israeli occupation, there were four buses leaving Nablus every morning — one to Beirut, one to Damascus, one to Jerusalem, and one to Amman. Every morning. My father used to say he would arrive in Damascus before shops opened. The Hijaz train, which took pilgrims from Palestine, Jordan and Syria to Saudi Arabia, started from Nablus. So I could say simply, Nablus was the center of everything for the neighboring countries. You could say it is a unique city.

Palestinian prisoners in Israel ’smuggling out sperm’

« Fertility doctor claims wife of a prisoner serving 32 life sentences gave birth to a boy last August using smuggled sperm »

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/08/palestinian-prisoners-israel-smuggling-sperm

Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails are smuggling out sperm in order to impregnate their wives, a fertility doctor has said, claiming that the wife of a prisoner serving 32 life sentences gave birth to a boy last August and four other prisoners’ wives are pregnant after insemination.

Salem Abu Khaizaran, who works at a fertility clinic in Nablus, said 22 women had undergone insemination using smuggled sperm, but the success rate was low because of the difficulties of keeping sperm fresh during transportation from prisons in Israel to the West Bank.

Forty samples had been smuggled out of prisons, Abu Khaizaran claimed though he declined to explain how.

#Palestine #Israël #prisonniers #fécondation_in_vitro

The PNA: Kapos of the West Bank | Al Akhbar English
http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/pna-kapos-west-bank

The occupation of Palestine would not be complete without a little help from the Palestinian National Authority security forces. Never shy to employ a heavy hand, their raids and crackdowns in Palestinian camps are a target of new protests.

The Separation Wall, Bat Hefer Village, 10.1.2013 | +972 Magazine
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A brake in the Separation Wall caused by a flood during a winter storm, seen at the edges of Bat Hefer village, January 10, 2013. The flood occurred on January 9, due to heavy rain that affected the Nablus stream to overflow. Research suggests that changes in landscape caused by the Separation Wall also contributed to the flood. (Photo by: Shiraz Grinbaum/Activestills.org)
The Separation Wall, Bat Hefer Village, 10.1.2013

Israeli Occupation Withdraws from Tamoun, IOF Say Operation Was Successful Despite Riots
http://english.pnn.ps/index.php/politics/3498-israeli-occupation-withdraws-from-tamoun-idf-say-operation-was-succ

Wednesday 2nd January, Israeli occupation Forces withdrew from the West Bank village of Tamoun, south of Jenin, after clashes erupted between the Israeli forces and Palestinians and lasted for 12 hours Tuesday night.

Sources from the IOF said that the troops entered the village in search of two Palestinian militants. What began as a covert operation by the Mistaarvim Unit soon became a wide-scale raid involving Shin Bet officers and auxiliary forces, and stretching across some 15 building.

The IOF was able to apprehended Murad Bani Odeh, a known operative of the Islamic Jihad, who was handed over to the Shin Bet for interrogation.

Palestine refuses to disappear (Le Monde diplomatique)
http://mondediplo.com/2012/12/02palestine

The Gaza ceasefire negotiated by Egypt has reinforced the position of Hamas regionally and internally. Meanwhile the UN voted to grant Palestine the upgraded status of non-member state, a success for Mahmoud Abbas. But the PA president faces opposition from the US, Israel and some countries in Europe — and scepticism from the Palestinians themselves. Source: Le Monde diplomatique

[Protection Palestine]- Des centaines à protester contre la visite de Clinton à Ramallah
http://www.protection-palestine.org/spip.php?article12139

Des centaines de jeunes Palestiniens ont protesté massivement contre la venue de la secrétaire d’État U.S., Hillary Clilnton, dans la ville cisjordanienne de Ramallah, et sa rencontre avec le Président palestinien, Mahmoud Abbas, a rapporté PNN (Réseau d’informations de Palestine).

Les manifestants brandissaient des photos d’enfants martyrisés par les missiles israéliens à Gaza, tandis qu’un certain nombre de manifestants brûlaient des drapeaux américains et scandaient des slogans contre les États-Unis pour leur soutien à Israël malgré ses crimes contre le peuple palestinien.

La manifestation a eu lieu près du siège présidentiel à Ramallah ; des militants des réseaux sociaux avaient appelé à manifester en Cisjordanie.

Un des manifestants a déclaré à PNN que cette manifestation avait lieu « à cause du soutien aveugle américain à Israël malgré ses crimes contre les civils, les enfants et les bébés, à Gaza », et il a ajouté que « les États-Unis étaient le pays qui empêchait la création d’un État palestinien indépendant ».

Il est à noter que les forces de sécurité palestiniennes se sont opposées à ce que les manifestants s’approchent des bureaux présidentiels, et les ont tenus à au moins 400 mètres de distance.

Après la rencontre Abbas-Clinton, un membre du Comité exécutif de l’OLP (Organisation pour la libération de la Palestine), le Dr Saeb Erekat, a déclaré qu’Abbas avait mis l’accent sur l’importance d’arrêter l’escalade.

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Gaza live report: Day 8
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=540391

20:09 Palestinian killed, another injured in Israeli airstrike on Deir al-Balah shortly after ceasefire announced in Cairo.

19:59 Israel launches airstrikes across Gaza after ceasefire announcement.

Palestine : ce que vous avez toujours eu envie de savoir sur la production d’huile d’olive sans jamais oser le demander

Un très beau reportage photographique sur la production d’huile d’Olive en Palestine

http://landofthymeandolives.blogspot.no/2012/11/retour-hebron-de-larbre-au-pressoir.html

GAZA
Palestinian Center for Human Rights
http://www.pchrgaza.org/portal/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8881:occupied-lives-no-child-

Occupied Lives : No child should have to go through this

On Sunday, 07 October 2012, at approximately 5.30pm, Israel’s forces launched 2 missiles targeting 2 men on a motorbike as they were passing by Taha Hussain Elementary School in the Al-Brazil neighborhood of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. Subsequently, 1 of the targeted men died of shrapnel wounds, while the other had one of his legs amputated, according to medical sources. 8 civilian bystanders, including 4 children and 1 woman, were also wounded in the attack. Israeli Occupation Forces often use airstrikes for extra judicial execution of some Palestinians, including suspected members of armed groups in densely-populated areas of the Gaza Strip. Israel refers to these as ‘targeted killings’. However, on many occasions such attacks also injure and kill civilians who are in the vicinity of the target. Sabrin Al-Maqousi (23), and her 2 children, Bisan (1 month) and Nassim (2), were wounded in the attack. Her cousin, Jehad Al-Qatrous (27), was also wounded in the same attack.

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CISJORDANIE
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=527716 / Published today (updated) 10/10/2012

RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Settlers destroyed over 250 olive trees in a Ramallah village on Wednesday, a local agricultural committee said.

Jewish extremists from nearby Shilo settlement entered the area and cut down the trees in al-Mughayyir village, the committee added.

Attacks increase around the time of the olive harvest season as settlers target olive trees and agricultural land.

On Tuesday, Jewish extremists cut down over 120 olive trees on private Palestinian land in Nablus, a Palestinian Authority official said.

On Sunday, a group of settlers attacked Palestinian farmers in the Ramallah town of Beitillu, burning dozens of olive trees, while settlers uprooted around 40 olive trees in the nearby Ramallah village of Ras Karkar.

On Friday, settlers destroyed 100 newly-planted olive saplings and at least 60 vine trees on private Palestinian land in Al-Khader village near Bethlehem.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian affairs reported that over 2,500 olive trees were destroyed in September 2011, and 7,500 throughout 2011.

Israël, lumière de l’olympisme : Mahmoud Sarsak : Israel Was Threatened
http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/mahmoud-sarsak-israel-was-threatened

I believe that the only reason I was detained was because I am a Palestinian football player and I had travelled abroad to represent my country, raising its flag in international events.

When I went on hunger strike, the Israeli lies were exposed, so Blatter insisted on my release and threatened to withdraw Israel’s FIFA membership.This upsets Israel and exposes it to the world. By arresting me, they wanted to prevent this message from reaching the world.
There was no specific charge. I have spoken to the president of the Palestinian Football Union, Jibril Rajoub, and he revealed to me that Joseph Blatter (head of FIFA) followed my case for three years.

The Israelis told Blatter that I was a serious security threat and that I was accused of killing five Israeli soldiers. This is a lie.

I am a football player, not a fighter. When I went on hunger strike, the Israeli lies were exposed, so Blatter insisted on my release and threatened to withdraw Israel’s FIFA membership.

Not All Israeli Citizens Are Equal - Yousef Munayyer
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/24/opinion/not-all-israeli-citizens-are-equal.html?_r=3

Tragically for Palestinians, Zionism requires the state to empower and maintain a Jewish majority even at the expense of its non-Jewish citizens, and the occupation of the West Bank is only one part of it. What exists today between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea is therefore essentially one state, under Israeli control, where Palestinians have varying degrees of limited rights: 1.5 million are second-class citizens, and four million more are not citizens at all. If this is not apartheid, then whatever it is, it’s certainly not democracy.

The failure of Israeli and American leaders to grapple with this nondemocratic reality is not helping. Even if a two-state solution were achieved, which seems fanciful at this point, a fundamental contradiction would remain: more than 35 laws in ostensibly democratic Israel discriminate against Palestinians who are Israeli citizens.

For all the talk about shared values between Israel and the United States, democracy is sadly not one of them right now, and it will not be until Israel’s leaders are willing to recognize Palestinians as equals, not just in name, but in law.

Étonnant de lire un tel op-ed de Yousef Munayyer dans le New York Times…

Video: As soldiers guard them, Israeli settlers attack Palestinian village, shooting one
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/video-soldiers-guard-them-israeli-settlers-attack-palestinian-vi

Video taken by Palestinians and posted on YouTube by the Israeli group B’Tselem shows Israeli settlers attacking Palestinians with stones, live fire and setting fire to fields as Israeli occupation forces guard the settlers.

One Palestinian, Fathi al-Asayreh, 24, was shot in the head in the settler attack.

Maan News Agency : Israel storms Nablus village after settler assault
http://maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=420705

Israeli settlers assaulted a Nablus village Friday morning, leading to clashes with Israeli forces injuring 11 Palestinians.

After the settlers were removed by Israeli police, Israeli forces raided Qusra village injuring six villagers with rubber bullets, a Ma’an correspondent said.

Quand un village palestinien est attaqué par un gang de colons, il est ensuite attaqué par l’armée d’occupation israélienne. C’est logique.

Settlers set fire to West Bank mosque after Israel demolishes illegal structures in Migron - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/settlers-set-fire-to-west-bank-mosque-after-israel-demolishes-illegal-struc

A mosque in the West Bank village of Qusra, south of Nablus, was set on fire Monday morning, hours after Israeli police officers destroyed three illegal structures in the settlement outpost of Migron.

According to Palestinian sources, a group of settlers arrived at the village mosque at approximately 3 A.M., threw burning tires toward it, and broke several of its windows. The event is the latest in a series of clashes between settlers and Palestinians in the region.

Noter que, pour Haaretz, quand des colons juifs israéliens brûlent une mosquée palestinienne, il faut que entre dans le cadre d’« une série de clashs entre colons et Palestiniens », et il est parfaitement possible pour des Palestiniens de construire des « structures illégales » (selon la cours suprême israélienne) en Cisjordanie.

Uprooted Palestinians: PA and Israel arrest Hamas supporters in West Bank
http://uprootedpalestinians.blogspot.com/2011/08/pa-and-israel-arrest-hamas-supporters.html

Palestinian Authority security agencies arrested several Hamas supporters in the West Bank on Monday morning.

Four arrests were reported in the West Bank cities of Al-Khalil, Nablus, and Ramallah. Most of those arrested had previously been held prisoner by the PA security agencies. The arrests came just a day after the Israel occupation forces carried out one of the largest arrest sweeps in Al-Khalil since 2003.

Le chef du bureau de Kaboul d’al Jazeera arrêté par Israël. Je ne trouve aucune mention de cette information dans les médias francophones.

Al-Jazeera journalist detained by Israel - Committee to Protect Journalists
http://cpj.org/2011/08/al-jazeera-journalist-detained-by-israel.php

The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Israel to clarify the legal basis for holding Al-Jazeera correspondent Samer Allawi, who has been in Israeli state custody since Tuesday.

Allawi, the Kabul bureau chief for Al-Jazeera, was arrested at al-Karama border crossing between Jordan and the West Bank while leaving the Occupied Territories after a three-week vacation in his hometown near Nablus, Al-Jazeera reported. Allawi’s brother, Musaab, told Al-Jazeera that the journalist intended to cross into Jordan then travel back to Kabul. He had entered the West Bank at the same crossing without difficulty three weeks earlier.

Hacker group ‘Anonymous’ prepares DDOS attack on the Israeli Knesset
http://mondoweiss.net/2011/06/hacker-group-anonymous-prepares-ddos-attack-on-the-israeli-knesset.html

“While Israel has allegedly been happy to dispense hack attacks in the past… we doubt it will be as happy to be seen on the receiving end of decentralized computer warfare,” was the announcement that appeared Tuesday on the AnonOps blog which is known to be connected to the Anonymous group.

http://mondoweiss.net/images/2011/06/259204-184461254942562-184053311650023-454035-8275698-o.jpg
via @opironet

46% of Jewish Israelis support settler “price tag” terror, Congress blames Palestinians for incitement
http://maxblumenthal.com/2011/03/48-of-jewish-israelis-support-settler-price-tag-terror-congress-blame

The soldiers reportedly destroyed property, stole money, defecated on the floors of homes

À ajouter à ma recension « L’invraisemblable obsession scatologique du soldat israélien » :
http://tokborni.blogspot.com/2009/06/linvraisemblable-obsession-scatologique.html

#israël #palestine

Settlers Uproot 100 Saplings Near Nablus - International Middle East Media Center
http://www.imemc.org/article/60366

Israeli settlers uprooted on Friday at least 100 Olive saplings that belong to residents of Qasra village, southeast of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. The settlers collected the cut saplings and fled the scene.

#Israël #Palestine