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  • UNRWA: 4 Palestinian children killed in attack on Syria refugee camp
    May 17, 2019 11:08 A.M.
    http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?ID=783467

    BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), on Thursday, condemned the killing of 10 Palestinian civilians, including four children, during rocket fire on the Palestinian refugee camp of Neirab near Aleppo City in Syria.

    Director of UNRWA Affairs in Syria, Amanya Michael Ebye, said, “On Tuesday night, as families gathered to break their fasts for the Ramadan Iftar meal, several rockets hit the densely populated Neirab camp for Palestine refugees in Aleppo, killing at least ten civilians and wounding more than thirty.” (...)

    #Réfugiés_Palestiniens

  • Palestinians injured during 71st Nakba Day protests in Gaza
    May 15, 2019 2:29 P.M. (Updated: May 15, 2019 4:11 P.M.)
    http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?ID=783452

    GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — At least 47 Palestinian protesters were shot and injured with Israeli live ammunition, on Wednesday, during mass protests commemorating the 71st anniversary of Nakba Day or “catastrophe” near the return camps along the eastern borders of the besieged Gaza Strip.

    Local sources confirmed that thousands of Palestinian protesters in Gaza, which has suffered from a 12-year-long Israeli siege, arrived to the eastern borders via buses to demand their right of return as refugees to their original homelands, now in present-day Israel.

    Sources said that Israeli forces opened heavy fire and fired tear-gas bombs towards the protests.

    Medical sources confirmed that 47 Palestinians were shot and injured with live ammunition, while dozens of others suffered from severe tear-gas suffocation.

    Sources added that Israeli forces and snipers were deployed across the borders. (...)

    #Nakba

    • Israël et la Nakba, de la reconnaissance au déni
      Eitan Bronstein Aparicio > Eleonore Merza Bronstein > 19 avril 2018
      https://orientxxi.info/magazine/israel-et-la-nakba-de-la-reconnaissance-au-deni,2399

      Israël célèbre son soixante-dixième anniversaire. Pour les Palestiniens, il s’agit plutôt de la Nakba, la catastrophe qui les a frappés et contraints à l’exil. Si la Nakba était reconnue par de nombreux responsables et intellectuels israéliens durant les premières années du jeune État, elle a été par la suite contestée officiellement, alors que les preuves des exactions commises par l’armée israélienne en 1947-1949 et de l’épuration ethnique dont furent victimes les Palestiniens s’accumulaient.

  • Egyptian navy detains 4 Palestinian fishermen in Gaza
    May 13, 2019 12:19 P.M. (
    http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?ID=783430

    GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Egyptian naval forces detained four Palestinian fishermen off the coast of Rafah, south of the besieged Gaza Strip bordering Egypt, on Sunday.

    Head of the Palestinian Fishermen Union in Gaza, Zakariya Bakr, told Ma’an that Egyptian naval forces detained four fishermen from two fishing boats off the coast of Rafah.

    Bakr added the Egyptian forces confiscated the two fishing boats and sailed them to an unknown location.

    Bakr identified the four fishermen as Muhammad Ziyad Sayad, 22, Ahmad Omar al-Bardawil, 30, Ibrahim Muhammad al-Bardawil, 22, and Ibrahim Khalil al-Bardawil, 42.

    Egypt upholds an Israeli military blockade on Gaza, keeping borders largely closed and limiting imports, exports, and the freedom of movement of its residents.

    The threat from Egyptian forces comes as Palestinian fishermen already face daily risks in order to make a living, including routine harassment from Israeli naval forces, confiscation of boats and materials, detention and potentially death.

    Israeli forces open fire towards Palestinian fishing boats on a daily basis.

    #GazaEgypte

  • The symphony when the devil plays for the participants in Eurovision in Tel Aviv
    By: Dr. Nasser Laham
    http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?ID=783407

    To all the artists participating in the Eurovision song contest in Tel Aviv. This is not the beautiful Tel Aviv that they have told you about, this is the Palestinian city of Yaffa, the one that Zionists occupied in 1948, the one where Israel killed another nation and took its land by force. Israel, the one that imposed a siege on Gaza. Israel, the one that bans Palestinians from singing, dancing, and celebrating.

    Have you heard about famous Palestinian artists? Muhammad Assaf from Gaza? Have you heard of Reem Banna from Nazareth? Or any other name for any Palestinian artist singing inside the walls of an Israeli prison? Has anyone ever translated the words of Palestinian songs to you?

    As you sing, look at the faces in the audience, are there any Arabs? Is there any Palestinian allowed to enter the hall and listen to your songs? (...)

  • Israeli court releases settler suspected of killing Palestinian mother
    May 8, 2019 10:35 A.M
    http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?ID=783391

    BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — An Israeli court released the Israeli settler suspected of killing a Palestinian mother of eight, Aisha Muhammad Talal al-Rabi, near the Zaatara checkpoint in Nablus, in the northern occupied West Bank, on Tuesday.

    Lod’s District Court ordered for the release of the Israeli settler and placed him under house arrest until further notice.

    The Israeli settler, whose remained unidentified, was reported to be a student in a religious institute in Israel’s illegal Rechelim settlement.

    Aisha Muhammad Talal al-Rabi, 47, a mother of eight children, from the Bidya village near Salfit in the northern occupied West Bank, was killed and her husband was injured, after Israeli settlers hurled rocks at their vehicle near the Zaatara checkpoint in Nablus in the northern West Bank on October 12th 2018.

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    • P.A Denounces The Release Of Israeli Who Killed Palestinian Woman
      May 8, 2019 11:35 AM
      https://imemc.org/article/p-a-denounces-the-release-of-israeli-who-killed-palestinian-woman

      The Palestinian Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Expatriates issued a statement strongly denouncing the release of an illegal Israeli colonist who killed a Palestinian woman last year, and said the release resembles the biased Israel legal system and its lack of respect for Palestinian lives.

      The Ministry said the release of the Israeli who killed ‘Aisha Mohammed al-Rabi , 47, October 12th of 2018, is yet another proof of the unfair Israeli legal system, and its discriminatory rulings.

      It added that Israel continues to challenge International Law, and even its own laws, to justify and excuse deadly violence inflicted against the Palestinians, not only by its army, but also by the illegal colonists, living on occupied Palestinian lands.

      It called on the International Criminal Court to act and open an official investigation into the ongoing Israeli crimes and violations against the Palestinian people, including the murder of al-‘Rabi.

  • Death toll rises to 27: Married couple found dead under rubble in Gaza
    http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?ID=783380


    May 6, 2019 2:23 P.M. (Updated: May 6, 2019 2:27 P.M.)

    GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Palestinian Civil Defense and ambulance crews were able to recover the bodies of a married Palestinian couple from the rubble of the completely destroyed buildings, which were targeted by Israeli warplanes, bringing the death toll in the Gaza Strip to 27, on Monday.

    The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza confirmed that the two bodies recovered from under the rubble were husband and wife, identified as Talal Abu al-Jadyan and Raghda Muhammad Abu al-Jadyan.

    Talal and Raghda’s 12-year-old son, Abdul Rahman al-Jadyan, was also killed several hours earlier due to the Israeli airstrikes.

    The bodies of Talal and Raghda were transferred to the Indonesian Hospital, in northern Gaza, were they were pronounced dead.

    #Palestine_assassinée

  • Palestinian killed while being chased by Israeli police
    April 23, 2019 11:31 A.M. (Updated: April 23, 2019 1:52 P.M.)
    http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?ID=783296

    BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A Palestinian worker was killed, on Tuesday, after falling from a height as he was being chased by the Israeli police in the Galilee town of Arraba, occupied by Israel in 1948.

    Palestinian sources identified the worker as Muhammad Majd Kamil from the northern occupied West Bank town of Qabatiya in the Jenin district.

    Kamil fell from a height as he attempted to run from the Israeli police.

    Under Israel’s permit regime, Palestinian residents of the West Bank are not allowed to access occupied East Jerusalem or Israel without an Israeli-issued permit, and many risk being shot and injured while trying to cross into Israel to work.

    Tens of thousands of Palestinian workers are forced to seek a living by working in Israel due to crippling unemployment in the West Bank, as the growth of an independent Palestinian economy has been stifled under the ongoing Israeli military occupation, according to rights groups.

    #Palestine_assassinée

  • » Israeli Settler Kills Palestinian Woman After Ramming Her With Car, Soldiers Shoot And Seriously Injures Teen
    April 18, 2019 6:26 PM Ali Salam - IMEMC News
    https://imemc.org/article/israeli-settler-kills-palestinian-woman-after-ramming-her-with-car-soldiers-s

    A Palestinian woman was killed, earlier Thursday morning, near her home in Teqoua’ town, southeast of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, after being rammed by the car of an illegal colonialist settler. The soldiers later shot and seriously injured a Palestinian teen while handcuffed, when he reportedly attempted to escape.

    The slain Palestinian woman has been identified as Fatima Suleiman , 42.

    According to eyewitnesses, the assailant was driving a large truck when he struck the woman’s car, throwing her out of the vehicle, and then rammed and killed her, before fleeing the scene.

    The slain Palestinian woman was a teacher at the Rashayda School.

    The Israeli Police did come to the scene, but only to remove all security camera footage from a house overlooking the area where the incident took place.

    The incident led to protests as dozens of residents, mainly youngsters, took to the streets, and hurled stones at the Israeli army jeeps, while the soldiers attacked them with live fire, rubber-coated steel bullets and gas bombs.

    The soldiers then detained a Palestinian teen, before handcuffing and blindfolding him, and later shot him from a very close range, after he attempted to escape while he was still cuffed and blindfolded.

    The shooting took place following the funeral procession of the Palestinian woman. (...)

    #Palestine_assassinée

  • Démolition du logement d’un Palestinien accusé de meurtre d’une Israélienne
    AFP - 19 avril 2019
    https://fr.news.yahoo.com/d%C3%A9molition-logement-dun-palestinien-accus%C3%A9-meurtre-dune-isr

    Hébron (Territoires palestiniens) (AFP) - Les forces israéliennes ont détruit dans la nuit de jeudi à vendredi deux appartements appartenant à la famille d’un Palestinien accusé d’avoir tué une Israélienne en février, a indiqué l’armée dans un communiqué.

    Des soldats israéliens ont entouré dans la nuit l’immeuble dans lequel se trouvent les appartements de la famille d’Arafat Irfaiya, situé à Hébron, en Cisjordanie occupée, selon un correspondant de l’AFP.

    A l’aide d’engins de chantier, ils ont détruit les deux appartements. Des heurts ont alors éclaté entre forces israéliennes et Palestiniens présents sur place.

    Le corps d’Ori Ansbacher, qui était âgée de 19 ans, avait été retrouvé le 7 février dans le sud de Jérusalem, dans un secteur à la limite de la Cisjordanie. (...)

    #Punition_collective

    • Israel demolishes home of Palestinian suspected of killing Israeli settler
      April 19, 2019 12:12 P.M. (Updated: April 19, 2019 12:14 P.M.)
      http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=783265

      HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli forces demolished the house of Palestinian prisoner Arafat Irfaiya, 19, in the Wadi al-Harya in southern Hebron of the southern occupied West Bank, on predawn Friday.

      Spokesperson of the Israeli army said that its forces demolished two apartments in Hebron, belonging to Irfaiya’s family, who is accused of killing an Israeli settler in Jerusalem two months ago.

      Israeli forces had escorted bulldozers and military vehicles surrounding Irfaiya’s house since late Thursday night.

      A Ma’an reporter said that clashes erupted between local youths and Israeli forces afterwards, during which Israeli soldiers fired tear-gas bombs and stun grenades.

      No injuries were reported.

  • In video - Israel demolishes home of Saleh al-Barghouthi in Kobar
    April 17, 2019 12:09 P.M. (Updated: April 17, 2019 2:51 P.M.)
    http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?ID=783237

    RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Israeli forces demolished the family home of Saleh al-Barghouthi, a Palestinian accused by Israel of carrying out an attack, in the Kobar village, northwest of the central occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, early Wednesday morning.

    Saleh al-Barghouthi, 29, was shot by Israeli forces near Ramallah on December 12; initial reports said that al-Barghouthi was shot and killed after carrying out an attack against Israelis, however, his family says that Saleh was detained alive and might have died in custody.

    Palestinian human rights organization Al-Haq had sent a joint urgent appeal to the United Nations (UN) Special Procedures regarding the enforced disappearance of al-Barghouthi.
    A recent investigation by B’Tselem found that, contrary to official Israeli statements, Saleh al-Barghouthi did not try to flee or run anyone over, nor could he have tried: two security vehicles were blocking the taxi he was driving at either end, and he was surrounded by some 10 security personnel who shot him point-blank – an operation resembling an extrajudicial killing. Official attempts to sanction the killing in retrospect ensure no one will be held accountable.
    An Israeli settler was killed in the alleged attack.

    #punition_collective
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  • WHO calls for protection of health workers, facilities in Gaza
    April 13, 2019 12:37 P.M.
    http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?ID=783197

    BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The World Health Organization (WHO) called for the protection of health workers and health facilities in the besieged Gaza Strip, following a rise in the number of health workers killed or injured and facilities damaged by Israeli army gunfire.

    WHO said in a press statement that it has recorded an unprecedented “446 attacks on health care in Gaza since the start of ‘The Great March of Return’ on 30th March 2018.”

    Who stressed that these attacks have resulted in three deaths and 731 injuries among health workers, in addition to 104 ambulances and six other forms of health transport have been damaged, as well as five health facilities and one hospital.

    #Gaza #marchedu retour

  • » Updated: “Army Kills A Child, Injures 66 Palestinians, In Gaza
    IMEMC News - April 12, 2019 8:12 PM
    https://imemc.org/article/army-kills-a-child-injures-at-least-thirty-palestinians-in-gaza

    Israeli soldiers attacked, on Friday evening, the weekly Great March Processions in the besieged Gaza Strip, killing one child, and injuring at 55 others, including one who suffered serious wounds, and two medics.

    The Palestinian Health Ministry has reported that the soldiers shot a child, identified as Maisara Mousa Ali Abu Shallouf, 15, after shooting him with live fire in the abdomen, east of Jabalia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.

    The soldiers also fired live rounds and gas bombs at medics trying to reach the child to provide him with the urgently needed medical help, before he succumbed to his wounds.

    Dr. Ashraf al-Qedra, the spokesperson of the Health Ministry In Gaza, said the soldiers shot 66 Palestinians, including 15 children and six women, in addition to two medics.

    It added that one of the wounded Palestinians suffered life-threatening wounds.

    The Health Ministry also stated that the soldiers shot two medics and caused others to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation.

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    On 54th Friday of Great March of Return and Breaking Siege, Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian Child and Wound 93 Civilians, including 17 Children, 4 Women, 3 Paramedics, and Journalist
    April 12, 2019
    https://pchrgaza.org/en/?p=12310

    (...) The Israeli shooting, which continued at around 19:00, resulted in the killing of Maysara Mousa Suliman Abu Shalouf (15), from ‘zbit Beit Hanoun. At approximately 17:00, Maysara sustained a live bullet wound that entered his left waist and settled in the pelvis while standing few meters away from the border fence in eastern Jabalia. He was left bleeding for 20 minutes because medical personnel were unable to access him. After that, he was taken to a medical point and then referred to the Indonesian Hospital, where his death was declared at approximately 17:55.

    Moreover, 93 civilians, including 17 children, four women, three paramedics, and a journalist, were wounded. Forty-four of them were hit with live bullets and shrapnel, 46 were directly hit with tear gas canisters and three were hit with rubber bullets. In addition, dozens of civilians suffered tear gas inhalation and seizures due to tear gas canisters that were fired by the Israeli forces from the military jeeps and riffles in the eastern Gaza Strip.(...)

    #Palestine_assassinée #marcheduretour

  • Israeli forces suppress weekly Gaza protests, injure 83 Palestinians
    April 6, 2019 9:49 A.M. (Updated: April 6, 2019 12:08 P.M.)
    http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?ID=783119

    GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — At least 83 Palestinians were shot and injured by Israeli live fire, including one critical injury, on the 53rd Friday of the weekly protests across the besieged Gaza Strip, on Friday evening.

    The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza confirmed that 83 Palestinians with various injuries arrived to the hospitals of the Gaza Strip as Israeli forces suppressed protesters at the eastern borders the Gaza Strip.

    Israeli forces surrounded several Palestinian youths in eastern Gaza City and targeted them with “red gas” and live fire. (...)

    #marcheduretour 53

    • Netanyahu polishes security image in Moscow as vote approaches
      Ben Caspit April 3, 2019
      https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2019/04/israel-russia-syria-benjamin-netanyahu-vladimir-putin.html#ixzz5kCuSazCq

      Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will pass up no opportunity for political points as the April 9 elections approach. Today, April 4, he will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, their second meeting in about six weeks. The last one took place on Feb. 27, after a long disconnect between the two leaders. This one comes only a few days before the political electoral verdict that will also decide Netanyahu’s personal fate. During this meeting, Netanyahu will also thank Putin. The Arab media reported that Russia was a third country that helped Israel to return the body of soldier Zacharia Baumel, who had been missing for 37 years. After he milked the March 25 celebration with President Donald Trump in the White House, Netanyahu is looking toward Putin, who is still venerated by many former Soviet Union citizens who moved to Israel. In this last-minute trip, Netanyahu is again trying to convey that no one can replace him in terms of international status.

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      Russia helps find remains of Israeli soldier missing since 1982
      April 4, 2019 4:56 P.M. (Updated : April 5, 2019 1:03 P.M.)
      http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=783107
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    • Le Hezbollah se mure dans son silence après le « cadeau » russe fait à Netanyahu
      Jeanine JALKH | OLJ | 05/04/2019
      https://www.lorientlejour.com/article/1164974/le-hezbollah-se-mure-dans-son-silence-apres-le-cadeau-russe-fait-a-ne

      La remise par Moscou des restes du soldat porté disparu en 1982 n’affectera toutefois pas les relations entre le parti chiite et la Russie, estime un analyste proche du Hezb.

      Par-delà sa signification et ses effets escomptés sur les relations russo-israéliennes, la remise des restes de Zachary Baumel, commandant de char du 362e bataillon blindé porté disparu en 1982 au Liban, par la Russie à Israël, n’a suscité aucune réaction de la part du Hezbollah qui se refuse catégoriquement à commenter cette affaire. Le parti a probablement du mal à comprendre pourquoi Moscou, voire même le régime syrien, partenaire présumé de la Russie dans cette opération, aurait consenti à cet échange, sachant qu’il a de tout temps adopté la politique du donnant donnant, notamment dans le cadre d’échanges de prisonniers de guerre ou des dépouilles de combattants ou de soldats.

      Hier, la Russie a annoncé officiellement son parrainage de l’opération de recherche qui a abouti à localiser le corps du soldat, un commandant de char qui avait disparu entre le 10 et le 11 juin 1982 lors d’une bataille qui s’était déroulée à la Békaa, dans la localité de Sultan Yacoub, non loin de la frontière libano-syrienne. (...)

    • Poutine : la Syrie a aidé la Russie à récupérer la dépouille de Zachary Baumel
      Par Judah Ari Gross, Times of Israel Staff et AFP 4 avril 2019
      https://fr.timesofisrael.com/poutine-la-syrie-a-aide-la-russie-a-recuperer-la-depouille-de-zach

      Le président russe Vladimir Poutine a déclaré jeudi que l’armée russe, avec l’aide de la Syrie, avait participé aux efforts visant à récupérer la dépouille du sergent Zachary Baumel, qui avait été tué en 1982 lors de la Première guerre du Liban lors de la bataille de Sultan Yacoub contre l’armée syrienne.

      « Les soldats de l’armée russe ont trouvé le corps en coordination avec l’armée syrienne », a déclaré Poutine durant une conférence de presse avec le Premier ministre Benjamin Netanyahu.

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      La Syrie contredit Poutine, nie avoir aidé au rapatriement de Zachary Baumel
      Par Judah Ari Gross, Adam Rasgon et Times of Israel
      https://fr.timesofisrael.com/la-syrie-contredit-poutine-nie-avoir-aide-au-rapatriement-dun-sold

      Damas soutient que "toute l’opération était l’œuvre d’Israël et de groupes terroristes," après que le Kremlin a indiqué que les troupes russes l’avaient menée avec l’armée syrienne
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      « Nous n’avons pas la moindre information sur le sujet et ignorons s’il y a des restes ou pas, » ajoute le communiqué.
      Un responsable de l’organisation terroriste palestinienne du Front populaire de libération de la Palestine (FPLP) basé en Syrie a fait savoir mercredi que des insurgés ayant pris le contrôle du camp de réfugiés palestiniens de Yarmouk à Damas jusqu’à l’année dernière avaient excavé des tombes à la recherche des dépouilles de trois soldats disparus. Le FPLP l’avait déjà affirmé par le passé.

      Le ministre de l’Information syrien Imad Sara a assuré à la télévision officielle que la Russie n’était pas non plus impliquée. « Ce que nous croyons, c’est que toute l’opération a été menée par Israël et des groupes terroristes armés en Syrie. »(...)

  • Sharp rise in number of Palestinian children killed by Israel in 2018
    April 4, 2019 2:22 P.M. (Updated: April 4, 2019 3:46 P.M.)
    http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?ID=783104

    BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The number of Palestinian children killed by Israeli forces in 2018 increased sharply from the previous year and reached 57 compared to 15 in 2017, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) said in a report published on Thursday marking Palestinian Child Day, which coincides on Friday.
    The PCBS report said that based on data provided by the Defense for Children International Palestine (DCIP), among the 57 children killed in 2018 five were in the age group of 0 to 12 years, 29 in the age group of 13 to 15 years, and 23 children were in the age group of 16 to 17 years.

    The PCBS also said that according to data released by the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, 1,063 children were among around 6,500 detention cases in 2018, and among around 6,000 Palestinian detainees by end of 2018, 250 were children under 18 years of age.

    #Bilan #enfants #palestine

  • 171 Swedish artists demand boycott of Eurovision in Israel
    April 4, 2019 11:14 A.M. (Updated: April 4, 2019 12:15 P.M.)
    http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?ID=783095

    STOCKHOLM (Ma’an) — Some 171 Swedish artists and celebrities have signed an open letter urging to boycott the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest, in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Wednesday.

    In the open letter, the Swedish signatories said that "Just a few days after the Israeli victory in the Eurovision Song Contest in May 2018, Israel’s army killed 62 unarmed Palestinians who protested against their prison-like imprisonment in Gaza. Six of those murdered were children.”

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    UK Band Release Song Highlighting Israeli Apartheid (VIDEO)
    April 4, 2019 5:36 AM IMEMC News & Agencies
    https://imemc.org/article/uk-band-release-song-highlighting-israeli-apartheid-video

    The UK-based band Slovo has released a new song which calls for a boycott of the Eurovision Song Contest final, which will be held in Tel Aviv on the 18th of May.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=227&v=ouibGAgONVQ


    #BDS

    • Wolf Alice engagé pour le concert « Pas l’Eurovision » en soutien des droits palestiniens
      4 avril | Julia Hunt, Press Association Entertainment Correspondent |Traduction CG pour l’AURDIP
      https://www.aurdip.org/wolf-alice-engage-pour-le-concert.html

      Les gagnants du prix Mercury, Wolf Alice et le rapper Mic Righteous, font partie des artistes annoncés dans le futur concert Not The Eurovision (Pas l’Eurovision) en soutien des droits palestiniens.

      Le guitariste de Faithless, Dave Randall, est aussi sur l’affiche pour « Pas l’Eurovision : soirée pour la Palestine », et d’autres numéros doivent être encore annoncés.

      Organisé par la Campagne de solidarité avec la Palestine, le concert aura lieu à Londres le 18 mai – le jour du concours de chansons de l’Eurovision 2019 à Tel Aviv, Israël.

      Les organisateurs ont déclaré qu’il s’agit d’une invitation à souligner les violations des droits humains dont souffrent les Palestiniens et à protester contre elles, faisant valoir qu’Israël déploie une tactique de « blanchiment par l’art », en utilisant l’Eurovision comme un moyen de masquer ce qu’ils décrivent comme son régime d’apartheid et d’occupation, et en projetant au monde une image « progressiste »

    • Dare to dream
      Michel Bühler, Le Courrier (Suisse) - jeudi 4 avril 2019
      https://lecourrier.ch/2019/04/02/dare-to-dream

      (...) Alertés par les milieux culturels palestiniens, plus d’une centaine d’artistes de renommée internationale ont appelé à boycotter cette finale : peut-on décemment servir de caution à la propagande d’un régime qui bafoue depuis des années toutes les règles du droit international ? ; peut-on innocemment aller gazouiller à Tel Aviv tandis qu’à quelques kilomètres de là les soldats de Tsahal abattent systématiquement les jeunes Gazaouis qui manifestent près de la frontière de leur pays-prison ?

      En Suisse, le mouvement BDS a lancé une pétition [1] demandant aux artistes et à la SSR de renoncer à participer à cette finale. Ayant rassemblé plus d’un millier de signatures, elle est restée sans effet, puisque le chanteur qui doit y représenter notre pays a récemment été désigné.

      J’avais pris note avec tristesse de ce revers. (NB : j’ai oublié le nom de ce chanteur, et la charité m’interdit de dire ce que j’ai pensé de sa prestation… oui, bien qu’elle soit en anglais, je me suis imposé, par souci d’honnêteté, le pensum de l’écouter jusqu’au bout).

      Et voilà que ce sentiment de tristesse a soudain fait place à la stupéfaction, puis à une indignation sans bornes : le slogan que des communicants, semble-t-il hors sol, ont imaginé pour cette manifestation est – tenez-vous bien ! – « Dare to dream » !

  • MOH: 270 killed, including 52 children, in 1st year of Gaza protests
    April 3, 2019 3:51 P.M. (Updated: April 4, 2019 11:34 A.M.)
    http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?ID=783091

    GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — According to data collected by the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, 270 Palestinians were killed by Israeli live fire, including 52 children, six women, and one elderly man, while 16,556 were injured, including 3,310 children, and 1,088 women, since the outbreak of “The Great March of Return” protests along the Gaza border on March 30th 2018 until the March 30th 2019, on Wednesday.

    The data said that 551 of the injuries were considered critical, 7024 moderate, 8616 minor and 365 were unclassified.

    Among the injuries, 6846 were from live bullets, 865 from rubber-coated steel bullets, 2426 suffocation from tear-gas, 6419 from shrapnel and other injuries.

    The data confirmed 1567 were injuries in the head and neck, 761 in the chest and back, 654 in the abdomen and pelvis, 2322 in the upper limbs, 7941 in the lower limbs, 371 various parts, and 2922 others.

    It also recorded 136 amputations, including 122 in the lower limbs and 14 upper limbs.

    #marcheduretour #bilan

  • Israeli navy sprays Palestinian fishermen with ’skunk water’
    April 2, 2019 11:59 A.M. (Updated: April 2, 2019 3:44 P.M.)
    http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?ID=783077

    GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli naval boats sprayed ‘skunk water’ at Palestinian fishermen working off the coast of the central besieged Gaza Strip, on Tuesday noon.

    Head of the Palestinian Fishermen Union in Gaza, Zakariya Bakr, reported that Israeli naval boats sprayed Palestinian fishermen with “skunk water” at 12 nautical miles off coast of the central Gaza Strip.

    This is the first Israeli assault against Palestinian fishermen since the the expansion of the permitted fishing zone off Gaza’s coast a day earlier.

    The permitted fishing zone was extended from 12 nautical miles to 15 nautical miles.

    Known as “skunk,” the Israeli military has been using the chemical since at least 2008 as a form of non-lethal crowd control. Palestinians, however, simply call the liquid “shit,” after the smell that can stay for weeks on clothes, body, walls and furniture.

    • Gaza : l’armée israélienne annonce l’élargissement de la zone de pêche
      Par RFI Publié le 01-04-2019 - Avec notre correspondant à Jérusalem, Guilhem Delteil
      http://www.rfi.fr/moyen-orient/20190401-gaza-elargissement-zone-peche-large

      L’armée israélienne a annoncé ce lundi 1er avril un élargissement de la zone de pêche au large de Gaza, passant à 15 milles nautiques sur une partie du littoral gazaoui. La décision confirme l’avancée de négociations en cours entre le Hamas et Israël.

      Alors que le Hamas répète depuis quelques jours qu’un accord est en cours de négociation, Israël se refuse à tout commentaire. Mais après avoir jugé que le mouvement islamiste a fait preuve de « retenue » samedi lors des rassemblements marquant le premier anniversaire de la Grande marche du retour, l’armée a annoncé successivement la réouverture des points de passage entre l’enclave palestinienne et le territoire israélien ainsi que l’élargissement de la zone de pêche.

      Désormais, les marins gazaouis pourront aller pêcher jusqu’à 15 milles nautiques au large des côtes, selon l’armée israélienne. Une distance nettement supérieure aux 6 milles nautiques habituellement autorisés et qui n’avait pas été accordée depuis de nombreuses années.

      Mais le syndicat des marins pêcheurs de Gaza précise que cette distance n’est autorisée que dans le sud de l’enclave, près de la frontière égyptienne, alors qu’au nord, près des côtes israéliennes, la zone de pêche ne s’étend toujours que sur 6 milles. Et les 15 milles restent inférieurs aux 20 prévus par les accords d’Oslo, relève l’ONG Gisha, qui milite pour la liberté de circulation des Palestiniens.

  • » One Palestinian Killed, Another Wounded, in Attack by Israeli Settler Near Nablus
    April 3, 2019 10:08 AM - IMEMC News
    https://imemc.org/article/one-palestinian-killed-another-wounded-in-attack-by-israeli-settler-near-nabl

    Israeli soldiers have reported that a Palestinian was killed, and another injured, when an Israeli settler opened fire on them near Beita town, south of Nablus.

    The Palestinian who was killed was identified as Mohammad Abdul-Mon’em Abdel-Fattah from Khirbet Qeis village in the Salfit district, in the northern West Bank.

    The one who was injured has been identified as Khaled Salah Rawajba, a 26-year-old resident of the village of Rujeib, east of Nablus. He was shot in the abdomen and taken to Rafidia hospital in Nablus, where he remains in serious condition.

    The Israeli settler who shot and killed the young man tried to claim that “he had a knife” – but video footage taken by another Israeli settler on the scene, showing the brutal and callous treatment of Adel-Fattah’s body after he was killed, shows that there was no weapon.

    In the video, a soldier and a settler are seen kicking the young man’s corpse, flipping him over and going through his pockets, finding nothing.

    According to eyewitnesses, the claim of an attempted stabbing were completely false. They said that Mohammad was a truck driver who was waiting at the checkpoint when the Israeli settler closed the road with his car. Khaled then got out of his car and tried to tell the settler to move. But the Israeli settler began shooting.

    Khaled Rawajba, an employee at an auto repair shop on the side of the road, heard the altercation and stepped out of his workplace to see what was happening. He was then shot as well, and seriously wounded.

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    In video - Palestinian shot dead by Israeli settler, another injured
    April 3, 2019 9:45 A.M. (Updated: April 3, 2019 9:45 A.M.)
    http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=783082

    NABLUS (Ma’an) — A Palestinian was shot and killed by an Israeli settler, while another was injured at the Huwwara checkpoint in the northern occupied West Bank district of Nablus, on Wednesday, for allegedly attempting to carry out a stabbing attack.

    Medical sources reported that the shot Palestinian was taken in critical condition to Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva, east of Tel Aviv, in central Israel, where he was pronounced dead.

    Sources identified the killed Palestinian as Muhammad Abed al-Fattah , a resident from the northern West Bank district of Salfit.

    Local sources said that an Israeli settler, identified as Joshua Sherman, from the illegal settlement of Elon Moreh, northeast of the Nablus district, blocked the road with his vehicle, preventing al-Fattah from crossing the road, and opened fire at him.

    #Palestine_assassinée

  •  » Palestinian Killed By Israeli Forces In Qalandia
    IMEMC News - April 2, 2019 11:24 AM
    https://imemc.org/article/palestinian-killed-by-israeli-forces-during-protest-at-qalandia

    A young Palestinian man, identified as Mohammad Ali Dar Adwan , 23, was shot and killed by Israeli forces who invaded Qalandia refugee camp, north of occupied Jerusalem, on Monday, and attacked local protesters, wounding at least two other young men.

    The Palestinians gathered in the streets and alleys of the refugee camp, and protesteed the invasion, while several protesters hurled stones at armored military jeeps.

    The soldiers fired many live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets, gas bombs and concussion grenades at the protesters.

    Medical sources said the soldiers shot three young men in the refugee camp and the al-Matar adjascent neighborhood.

    Adwan was near his home when he was shot and killed – it was unclear if he was participating in the protest or not.

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    Israeli forces shoot dead Palestinian youth in Qalandiya
    April 2, 2019 9:39 A.M. (Updated : April 2, 2019 11:03 A.M.)
    http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=783068

    Sources confirmed that Israeli forces fired at close range at Muhammad Ali Dar Adwan , 23, as he was getting into his vehicle near his home, killing him immediately.

    The body of Adwan was transferred by a Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) ambulance to the Ramallah Medical Complex, where he was pronounced dead.

    #Palestine_assassinée