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  • 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.

    https://seenthis.net/messages/728737

    • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

  • Palestinian 18-year-old succumbs to wounds sustained during Dheisheh clashes
    March 27, 2019 10:37 A.M.
    http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=783002


    BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A Palestinian paramedic succumbed, on Wednesday morning, to wounds he sustained during clashes with Israeli forces in the Dheisheh refugee camp in the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem on predawn.

    Medical sources confirmed that Sajed Abed al-Hakim Mizher , 18, who is a volunteer paramedic succumbed to his wounds.

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    » Updated: Israeli Soldiers Abduct Three Palestinians, Injure Five, In Deheishe
    March 27, 2019 8:34 AM - IMEMC News
    https://imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-abduct-three-palestinians-injure-four-in-deheishe

    Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, the Deheishe refugee camp, south of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, shot five Palestinians, including a medic, and abducted three others.

    Media sources said the soldiers fired many live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets, gas bombs, and concussion grenades at dozens of youngsters, who protested the invasion and hurled stones at the armored vehicles.

    They added that four Palestinians were shot with live fire before they were rushed to medical centers in Bethlehem, while many others suffered the effects of teargas inhalation.

    The soldiers also shot a medic, identified as Sajed Mizher , while providing treatment to wounding Palestinians.

    One of the Palestinians was shot with a live round in the abdomen and was rushed to surgery at the Arab Society Hospital for Rehabilitation, a second Palestinian was shot in the shoulder, a third in the thigh and the fourth in the arm.

    The soldiers also invaded and ransacked many homes in the refugee camp and occupied several rooftops to use them as firing posts and monitoring towers.

    During the home invasions and searches, the soldiers abducted Mohammad Rezeq Hammash, 21, Mahmoud Walid Lahham, and Ma’ali Issa Ma’ali, 27.

    #Palestine_assassinée

    • Comment l’armée israélienne a abattu un secouriste palestinien dans un camp de réfugiés
      9 avril | Amira Hass pour Haaretz |Traduction J.Ch. pour l’AURDIP
      https://www.aurdip.org/comment-l-armee-israelienne-a-3373.html

      Sajed Mizher, secouriste volontaire, avait prévu d’arriver à l’école à temps pour un examen. Mais, alors qu’il se dirigeait vers un homme blessé par un tir de fusil, lui aussi a été abattu.

      Sajed Mizher, âgé de 17 ans et quatre mois, était un secouriste volontaire. Les soldats israéliens l’ont tué au matin du 27 mars alors qu’il se précipitait pour apporter les premiers secours à quelqu’un blessé par un tir de fusil dans le camp de réfugiés de Deheisheh.

      Ce matin là, Mizher avait un examen. « Ne t’inquiète pas », a-t-il dit à son père, Abdel Hakim, alors qu’il partait de la maison. « Je serai revenu avant 8 H. et j’arriverai à temps à l’école. » (...)

  • Palestinian youth killed by Israeli forces near Bethlehem
    March 21, 2019 11:15 A.M.
    http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?ID=782937

    BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A 22-year-old Palestinian succumbed to wounds he had sustained after Israeli forces opened heavy fire towards a vehicle that he was riding in, near the al-Nashash checkpoint in the southern occupied West Bank district of Bethlehem, on late Wednesday.

    The Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed that Ahmad Jamal Mahmoud Munasra, 22, a resident from Wadi Fukin village, in the Bethlehem district, was shot with Israeli live fire in the chest, shoulder, and hand.

    The ministry said that Munasra was transferred to the Beit Jala Governmental Hospital, where he succumbed to his wounds.

    The ministry mentioned that another Palestinian was shot and injured in the stomach.

    #Palestine_assassinée

    • Gideon Levy // Even for the Wild West Bank, This Is a Shocking Story

      A young Palestinian’s attempt to help a stranger shot by Israeli troops costs him his life
      Gideon Levy and Alex Levac Mar 28, 2019
      https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-even-for-the-wild-west-bank-this-is-a-shocking-story-1.7066087

      Jamal, Ahmad Manasra’s father. A mourning poster for Ahmad is in the background. Credit : Alex Levac

      It was appallingly cold, rainy and foggy on Monday of this week at the southern entrance to Bethlehem. A group of young people stood on the side of the road, gazing at something. Gloomy and toughened, they formed a circle around the concrete cube in which are sunken the spikes of a large billboard – an ad for Kia cars that stretches across the road. They were looking for signs of blood, as though they were volunteers in Zaka, the Israeli emergency response organization. They were looking for bloodstains of their friend, who was killed there five days earlier. Behind the concrete cube they found what they were looking for, a large bloodstain, now congealed. The stain held fast despite the heavy rain, as though refusing to be washed away, determined to remain there, a silent monument.

      This is where their friend tried, in his last moments, to find protection from the soldiers who were shooting at him, probably from the armored concrete tower that looms over the intersection a few dozen meters away. It was to here that he fled, already wounded, attempting to take cover behind the concrete cube. But it was too late. His fate was sealed by the soldiers. Six bullets slashed into his body and killed him. He collapsed and died next to the concrete cube by the side of the road.

      Even in a situation in which anything is possible, this is an unbelievable story. It’s 9 P.M. Wednesday March 20. A family is returning from an outing. Their car breaks down. The father of the family, Ala Raida, 38, from the village of Nahalin, who is legally employed paving roads in Israel, steps out of his Volkswagen Golf to see what has happened. His wife, Maisa, 34, and their two daughters, Sirin, 8, and Lin, 5, wait in the car. Suddenly the mother hears a single shot and sees her husband lean back onto the car. Emerging from the car, she discovers to her astonishment that he’s wounded in the stomach. She shouts hysterically for help, the girls in the car are crying and screaming.

      Another car, a Kia Sportage, arrives at the intersection. Its occupants are four young people from the nearby village of Wadi Fukin. They’re on the way home from the wedding of their friend Mahmoud Lahruv, held that evening in the Hall of Dreams in Bethlehem. At the sight of the woman next to the traffic light appealing for help, they stop the car and get out to see what they can do. Three of them quickly carry the wounded man to their car and rush him to the nearest hospital, Al-Yamamah, in the town of Al-Khader. The fourth young man, Ahmad Manasra, 23, stays behind to calm the woman and the frightened girls. Manasra tries to start the stalled car in order to move it away from the dangerous intersection, but the vehicle doesn’t respond. He then gets back out of the car. The soldiers start firing at him. He tries to get to the concrete cube but is struck by the bullets as he runs. Three rounds hit him in the back and chest, the others slam into his lower body. He dies on the spot.

      The army says that stones were thrown. All the eyewitnesses deny that outright. Nor is it clear what the target of the stones might have been. The armored concrete tower? And even if stones were thrown at cars heading for the settlement of Efrat, is that a reason to open fire with live ammunition on a driver whose car broke down, with his wife and young daughters on board? Or on a young man who tried to get the car moving and to calm the mother and her daughters? Shooting with no restraint? With no pity? With no law?

      We visit the skeleton of an unfinished apartment on the second floor of a house in Wadi Fukin. It’s an impoverished West Bank village just over the Green Line, whose residents fled in 1949 and were allowed to return in 1972, and which is now imprisoned between the giant ultra-Orthodox settlement of Betar Ilit and the town of Tzur Hadassah, which is just inside the Green Line. A wood stove tries to rebuff the bitter cold in the broad space between the unplastered walls and the untiled floor. A grim-looking group of men are sitting around the fire, trying to warm themselves. They are the mourners for Manasra; this was going to be his apartment one day, when he got married. That will never happen now.

      Only the memorial posters remain in the unbuilt space. A relative and fellow villager, Adel Atiyah, an ambassador in the Palestinian delegation to the European Union, calls from Brussels to offer his shocked condolences. One of the mourners, Fahmi Manasra, lives in Toronto and is here on a visit to his native land. The atmosphere is dark and pained.

      The bereaved father, Jamal, 50, is resting in his apartment on the ground floor. When he comes upstairs, it’s clear he’s a person deeply immersed in his grief though impressive in his restraint. He’s a tiler who works in Israel with a permit. He last saw his son as he drove along the main street in Bethlehem as his son was going to his friend’s wedding. Jamal was driving his wife, Wafa, home from another wedding. That was about two hours before Ahmad was killed. In the last two days of his life they worked together, Jamal and his son, in the family vineyard, clearing away cuttings and spraying. Now he wistfully remembers those precious moments. Ahmad asked to borrow his father’s car to drive to the wedding, but Jamal needed it to visit the doctor, and Ahmad joined the group in Wahib Manasra’s SUV.

      Wahib Manasra, who witnessed the gunfire. Credit: Alex Levac

      Quiet prevails in the shell of the unfinished apartment. Someone says that Manasra was already planning the layout of his future home – the living room would be here, the kitchen there. Maisa Raida, the wife of the wounded driver, is at her husband’s bedside at Hadassah Medical Center, Ein Karem, Jerusalem, where he’s recovering from his severe stomach wound. He was brought there from Al-Khader because of the seriousness of his condition. Major damage was done to internal organs in his abdomen and he needed complicated surgery, but he seems to be on the mend.

      Maisa told a local field investigator from a human rights group that at first she didn’t realize that her husband was wounded. Only after she stepped out of the car did she see that he was leaning on the vehicle because of the wound. She yelled for help, and after the young men stopped and took her husband to the hospital, she got back into the car with Manasra, whom she didn’t know. While they were in the car with her daughters, and he was trying get it started, she heard another burst of gunfire aimed at their car from the side, but which didn’t hit them.

      She had no idea that Manasra was shot and killed when he got out of the car, moments later. She stayed inside, trying to calm the girls. It wasn’t until she called her father and her brother-in-law and they arrived and took her to Al-Yamamah Hospital that she heard that someone had been killed. Appalled, she thought they meant her husband but was told that the dead person had been taken to Al-Hussein Hospital in Beit Jala.

      Eventually, she realized that the man who was killed was the same young man who tried to help her and her daughters; he was dead on arrival. Before Maisa and her daughters were taken from the scene, an officer and soldiers from the Israel Defense Forces came to the stalled car and tried to calm them.

      Manasra was dead by then, sprawled next to the concrete cube. He was a Real Madrid fan and liked cars. Until recently he worked in the settlement of Hadar Betar, inside Betar Ilit. His little brother, 8-year-old Abdel Rahman, wanders among the mourners in a daze.

      After Jamal Manasra returned home, his phone began ringing nonstop. He decided not to answer. He says he was afraid to answer, he had forebodings from God. He and his wife drove to the hospital in Beit Jala. He has no rational explanation for why they went to the hospital. From God. “I was the last to know,” he says in Hebrew. At the hospital, he was asked whether he was Ahmad’s father. Then he understood. He and his wife have two more sons and a daughter. Ahmad was their firstborn.

      We asked the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit a number of questions. Why did the soldiers shoot Ala Raida and Ahmad Manasra with live ammunition? Why did they go on shooting at Manasra even after he tried to flee? Did the soldiers fire from the armored watchtower? Do the security cameras show that stones were indeed thrown? Were the soldiers in mortal danger?

      This was the IDF’s response to all these questions: “On March 21, a debriefing was held headed by the commander of the Judea and Samaria Division, Brig. Gen. Eran Niv, and the commander of the Etzion territorial brigade, Col. David Shapira, in the area of the event that took place on Thursday [actually, it was a Wednesday] at the Efrat junction and at the entrance to Bethlehem. From the debriefing it emerges that an IDF fighter who was on guard at a military position near the intersection spotted a suspect who was throwing stones at vehicles in the area and carried out the procedure for arresting a suspect, which ended in shooting. As a result of the shooting, the suspect was killed and another Palestinian was wounded.

      T he West Bank settlement of Betar Ilit is seen from the rooftop of Wadi Fukin, a Palestinian village. Credit : \ Alex Levac

      “The possibility is being examined that there was friction between Palestinians, which included stone-throwing.

      “The inquiry into the event continues, parallel to the opening of an investigation by the Military Police.”

      After the group of young people found what they were looking for – bloodstains of their friend, Ahmad – they reconstructed for us the events of that horrific evening. It was important for them to talk to an Israeli journalist. They’re the three who came out alive from the drive home after the wedding. One of them, Ahmad Manasra – he has the same name as the young man who was killed – wouldn’t get out of the car when we were there. He’s still traumatized. Wahib Manasra, the driver of the SUV, showed us where the stalled VW had been, and where they stopped when they saw a woman shouting for help.

      Soldiers and security cameras viewed us even now, from the watchtower, which is no more than 30 meters from the site. Wahib says that if there was stone-throwing, or if they had noticed soldiers, they wouldn’t have stopped and gotten out of the car. Raida, the wounded man, kept mumbling, “My daughters, my daughters,” when they approached him. He leaned on them and they put him in their car. By the time they reached the gas station down the road, he had lost consciousness. Before that, he again mumbled, “My daughters.”

      Wahib and the other Ahmad, the one who was alive, returned quickly from the hospital, which is just a few minutes from the site. But they could no longer get close to the scene, as a great many cars were congregated there. They got out of the car and proceeded on foot. A Palestinian ambulance went by. Looking through the window, Wahib saw to his horror his friend, Ahmad Manasra, whom they had left on the road with the woman and her girls, lying inside. He saw at once that Ahmad was dead.

    • Israeli army seeks three months community service for soldier who killed innocent Palestinian
      Hagar Shezaf | Aug. 16, 2020 | 1:25 PM- Haaretz.com
      https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israeli-army-seeks-community-service-for-soldier-who-killed-innoce

      The Military Advocate General is to seek a sentence of three months’ community service for an Israeli soldier who shot and killed an innocent Palestinian, as part of a plea bargain signed with the solider.

      The 23-year-old victim, Ahmad Manasra, was helping a man who had been shot by the same soldier and seriously wounded. The soldier who killed Manasra was charged with negligent homicide, but was not charged for wounding the other man, although the first shooting is mentioned in the indictment.

      According to an eyewitness, the soldier fired six bullets at Manasra.

      The soldier has since been released from the Israel Defense Forces. The army did not respond to Haaretz’s query as to whether the soldier had continued in his combat role after the shooting.

      The plea bargain, which states that the soldier will be given a three-month prison sentence that he will serve as community service, will be brought before the military court in Jaffa on Monday. The deal also states that the soldier will be given a suspended sentence and will be demoted to the rank of private.

      This is the first time an indictment has been served against a soldier following the killing of a Palestinian since the case of Elor Azaria, who shot and killed a wounded and incapacitated assailant in Hebron in 2016.

      According to the July indictment, in March of 2019 Alaa Raayda, the 38-year-old Palestinian who was shot in the stomach and seriously wounded, was driving his car together with his wife and two daughters when another car crashed into them at a junction near the village of El-Hadar in the southern West Bank. The other car fled the scene, and Raayda left his vehicle and waved his hands at the other car. The indictment states that the solider thought that Raayda was throwing stones at Israeli vehicles and proceeded to shout warnings and fire into the air before shooting at him.

      However, in Raayda’s affidavit, he states that he was shot outside his vehicle without warning, which is an infraction of the rules of engagement.

      The indictment then states that Manasra came to Raayda’s aid, with three friends who had been on their way home with him after a wedding in Bethlehem. The three helped evacuate the wounded man to the hospital, while Manasra remained at the scene with Raayda’s wife and daughters to help them start their car. According to the indictment, Manasra was shot when he exited the car, and then shot again when he tried to flee the scene.

      The indictment also states that the soldier started shooting when he “mistakenly thought" that Manasra “was the stone-thrower he has seen earlier… although in fact the man who was killed had not thrown stones.”

      In response to the plea bargain, Manasra’s father, Jamal, told Haaretz: “In our religion it says you have to help everyone. Look what happened to my son when he tried to help – they shot him dead. It doesn’t matter how much I talked to Israeli television and newspapers, nothing helped.”

      Attorney Shlomo Lecker, who is representing the families of Raayda and Manasra, asked to appeal the plea bargain when it was issued last month. To this end, he asked for a letter summarizing the investigation, the reason the soldier had not been charged for shooting and wounding Raayda, and that the case had been closed. However, Lecker said the prosecutor in the case and the head of litigation, Major Matan Forsht, refused to give him the document. On Thursday, Lecker submitted his appeal against the plea bargain based on the facts in the indictment, but his request to postpone the hearing until after a decision on his petition was rejected.

      According to Lecker: “The higher echelons of the army convey a message to soldiers in the occupied territories that if they shoot Palestinians for no reason, killing and wounding them, the punishment will be three months of raking leaves” at the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv.

      The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said that on the day of the shooting, “a warning had been received shortly before the shooting of a possible terror attack in the area,” adding that “the indictment was filed in the context of a plea bargain after a hearing. In the framework of the plea bargain the soldier is expected to take responsibility and admit to the facts of the indictment before the court."

      The plea agreement is subject to the approval of the military court and will be presented to it in the near future. In coming to a decision regarding the charges and the sentence, complex evidentiary and legal elements were taken into consideration, as well as the clear operational circumstances of the event, and the willingness of the soldier to take responsibility, the IDF said.

      The statement said that “contrary to the claims of the representative of the families of the killed and wounded men,” there has been an ongoing dialogue with him for a long time … thus the representative was informed of the negotiations and he was given the opportunity to respond. He also received a copy of the indictment and it was explained that he could convey any information he saw fit with regard to his clients, which would be brought before the military court when the plea bargain was presented. The hearing was also put off for a week at the request of the parties, which was filed at [Lecker’s] request.”

  • » Israeli Missiles Injure Four, Including A Husband And His Wife, In Gaza
    March 15, 2019 - IMEMC News
    http://imemc.org/article/israeli-missiles-injure-a-husband-and-his-wife-in-gaza

    The Israeli army has announced it fired missiles against 100 targets in several parts of the Gaza Strip, in a serious violation that led to excessive property damage, and despite military claims of “targeting Hamas sites,” a husband and his wife were among four Palestinians injured.

    The Al-Quds brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, declared a state of readiness among all its fighters, and vowed “fierce retaliation.”

    “It seems that the enemy has mistaken our silence for idleness,” the brigades said in a statement, “This enemy needs to get the message straight; we will not be silent while it targets our people and continues its aggression, escalation.”

    On its part, the Popular Resistance Committees said that the resistance will not allow Israel to turn Gaza into the battle field as part of its corruption and election campaign. Israel is scheduled to hold general elections on April 9th.

    “We will defend our people, and we will not remain silent,” it added.

    According to a statement by the Israeli army, four projectiles were reportedly fired from the Gaza Strip into Sha’ar HaNegev Regional Council of Settlements, while the Iron Dome interception system managed to strike three of them.

    #Gaza

    • 4 Palestinians injured in 100 Israeli airstrikes across Gaza
      March 15, 2019 11:56 A.M. (Updated: March 15, 2019 2:59 P.M.)
      http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=782870

      (...) The Israeli army announced that 100 sites were targeted across the Gaza Strip, in response to missiles reportedly fired from Gaza.

      Palestinian factions denied responsibility for any missiles fired from Gaza.

      Additionally, the Palestinian Ministry of Interior and Security in Gaza said in a statement that the fired missiles were against national and factional consensus.

      The ministry said that necessary measures will be taken against those responsible.

    • Israël bombarde Gaza après des tirs de roquettes
      15 mars 2019 Par Agence Reuters
      L’aviation israélienne a bombardé une centaine d’objectifs dans la nuit de jeudi à vendredi dans la bande de Gaza après le tir de deux roquettes en direction de Tel Aviv à partir de la petite enclave palestinienne, une première depuis la guerre de 2014.
      https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/150319/israel-bombarde-gaza-apres-des-tirs-de-roquettes

      GAZA (Reuters) - L’aviation israélienne a bombardé une centaine d’objectifs dans la nuit de jeudi à vendredi dans la bande de Gaza après le tir de deux roquettes en direction de Tel Aviv à partir de la petite enclave palestinienne, une première depuis la guerre de 2014.

      L’armée israélienne a précisé avoir visé des « objectifs militaires » appartenant au Mouvement de la résistance islamique Hamas qui contrôle la bande de Gaza depuis juin 2007.

      Il s’agit notamment d’un site de fabrication de missiles, d’un dépôt d’armes et d’un quartier général du Hamas, a ajouté l’armée.

      Le ministère de la Santé à Gaza a fait état de quatre blessés dans ces raids israéliens menés par des avions et par des hélicoptères.

      Jeudi soir, vers 21h00 locales, les sirènes ont retenti à Tel Aviv et des habitants ont entendu des explosions.

      L’armée israélienne a déclaré que deux roquettes avaient été tirées de la bande de Gaza mais n’avaient fait ni victime ni dégâts.

      Un responsable du Hamas a nié toute responsabilité de son mouvement dans le tir des ces deux roquettes.

      Le Djihad islamique et les Comités de résistance populaire, deux autres groupes armés de l’enclave palestinienne, ont également démenti toute implication.

      La presse israélienne, notamment le journal Ha’aretz et TV7, a évoqué une possible méprise, les deux roquettes ayant peut-être été tirées « par erreur ». (...)

    • Le Hamas a tiré des roquettes sur la région de Tel Aviv « par erreur » (Tsahal)
      Mis à jour le 15/03/2019 13:46:01 Écrit par i24NEWS
      https://www.i24news.tv/fr/actu/israel/diplomatie-defense/197105-190315-selon-tsahal-le-hamas-a-tire-ses-roquettes-sur-la-region-de-te

      L’armée israélienne estime que les deux roquettes qui ont visé la région de Tel Aviv jeudi soir ont été tirées depuis la bande de Gaza « par erreur », a confié vendredi matin un militaire à la presse.

      Une source d’i24NEWS a affirmé que le tir était l’œuvre d’une nouvelle recrue du Hamas qui n’avait pas achevé sa « formation ».

      L’une des roquettes « est apparemment tombée dans la mer, l’autre s’est écrasée quelque part, mais pas à Tel-Aviv », avait déclaré à une chaîne de télévision jeudi soir Ron Huldai, le maire de la ville côtière.

      Les mouvements terroristes du Hamas et du Djihad islamique ont démenti être à l’origine des tirs en direction de Tel-Aviv. Cependant, Israël a réaffirmé tenir le Hamas pour responsable de ce qui se passe dans la bande de Gaza.

    • Gaza postpones 51st ’Great March of Return’ protest
      March 15, 2019 2:58 P.M. (Updated: March 16, 2019 11:51 A.M.)
      http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=782877

      GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — The National Committee for Breaking the Siege decided to exceptionally suspend “The Great March of Return” on its 51st Friday alongside the eastern border fence of the besieged Gaza Strip.

      The committee said in a short statement that protests for the 51st Friday were postponed in order to save the lives of protesters amid Israeli escalation against the Gaza Strip, and in preparation for Land Day protests on March 30th, as it would mark one year of “The Great March of Return” protests.

      This is the first time the committee suspends “The Great March of Return” protests since its beginning on March 30th, 2018.

      Four Palestinians were injured, on predawn Friday, as Israeli warplanes carried out airstrikes targeting several sites across the besieged Gaza Strip hours after missiles were reportedly fired from Gaza, on predawn Friday.

  • Palestinian shot dead by Israeli forces for alleged stab attempt
    March 12, 2019 1:25 P.M. (Updated: March 12, 2019 2:03 P.M.)
    http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?ID=782829

    HEBRON (Ma’an) — A Palestinian was shot and killed by Israeli forces, on Tuesday, for allegedly attempting to carry out a stabbing attack against Israeli soldiers in the Old City of Hebron, in the southern occupied West Bank.

    Locals told Ma’an that the Palestinian was shot and killed by Israeli forces for attempting to carry out a stabbing attack against Israeli soldiers situated in Hebron’s Old City.

    The Palestinian was identified as Yasser al-Shweiki.

    Fawzi al-Shweiki, Yasser’s father, confirmed to Ma’an that his son was distributing notices from the Sharia Court across Hebron City.

    Sources mentioned that Israeli forces dragged Yasser’s body and took into a building that is under the Israeli settlers’ control.

    There were no injuries reported among Israeli soldiers.
    According to Hebrew-languge news outlets, Yasser approached the Israeli soldiers with a knife in attempt to carry out a stabbing attack.

    #Palestine_assassinée

    • Israeli Soldiers Kill A Palestinian In Hebron
      March 12, 2019 2:32 PM
      http://imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-kill-a-palestinian-in-hebron-2

      Israeli soldiers killed, Tuesday, a Palestinian from Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, reportedly after he attempted to stab them. Palestinian sources have confirmed that the slain man as distributing notices from the Sharia Court in the city, when the soldiers shot him.

      The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said the soldiers shot and seriously injured Yasser Fawzi Shweiki , 27, and prevented its medics from approaching him.

      Eyewitnesses said the Palestinian was left bleeding on the ground, after the soldiers shot him in the chest, and later dragged his corpse into the nearby Rajabi building.

      His father, Fawzi Shweiki, said that he heard the gunshots, but did not know that it was his son, who works for the local Sharia court and was distributing notices, was the victim.

    • PCHR
      https://pchrgaza.org/en/?p=12125

      Tuesday, 12 March 2019
      In a new crime of excessive use of force, Israeli forces killed a Palestinian civilian while passing by al-Rajaby building, which the settlers took over several years ago, in al-Ras neighborhood, east of Hebron, and his corpse was taken to an unknown destination. He was killed under the pretext that he intended to carry out a stabbing attack, but PCHR’s investigations refuted those allegations. According to PCHR’s investigations, at approximately 12:30, Yasser Mohammad Fawzi Khaleel al-Shweiky (42), a court officer from Hebron, arrived in al-Ras area, east of the city, to hand Hebron First Instance Court’s summons for civilians living in Jaber and Wadi al-Hussien neighborhoods. Al-Shweiky stopped his work car, which has a governmental registration plate, 100 meters away from the metal detector established in front of al-Rajaby building, which the settlers took over several years ago. As al-Shweiky stepped out of the car and approached the building, a solider from the soldiers guarding the building fired a bullet at him then he fell on the ground. Minutes later, the Israeli soldiers took him to the building without providing him first aid and prevented PRCS ambulances from reaching there. Half an hour later, al-Shweiky was taken to an unknown destination. Following that, dozens of settlers gathered around al-Rajaby building and organized a protest calling for killing Arabs. Moreover, the Israeli soldiers completely closed the area and prevented civilians from moving freely in or out of the area. At approximately 18:00, Israeli authorities confiscated the car al-Shweiky was driving and took it to an unknown destination.

  • Palestinian youth shot, killed by Israeli forces near Jericho
    March 10, 2019 10:29 A.M.
    http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?ID=782802

    JERICHO (Ma’an) — A 22-year-old Palestinian was shot and killed by Israeli forces, on predawn Sunday, while passing an Israeli checkpoint on road 90, near the occupied West Bank city of Jericho.

    The Palestinian Ministry of Health identified the Palestinian as Salameh Salah Kaabneh , 22, was shot and killed as he attempted to pass an Israeli checkpoint near Jericho City.

    According to Hebrew-language news outlets, Israeli forces opened fire towards Kaabneh after he allegedly refused to pullover the vehicle at the checkpoint and attempted to pass through.

    Sources added that another two Palestinian youths were present in the vehicle with Kaabneh, however, fled the scene immediately.

    No injuries were reported among Israeli soldiers.

    #Palestine_assassinée

  • 3 Palestinians shot, injured in Gaza protests
    March 8, 2019 11:15 A.M.
    http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?ID=782784

    GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli forces shot and injured three Palestinians during the “Night Confusion” protest, east of Khan Younis, in the southern besieged Gaza Strip, on late Thursday.

    According to local sources, three Palestinians were shot and injured with live ammunition. They were immediately transferred to nearby hospital for medical treatment.

    Hundreds of Palestinians gathered along the eastern borders of Khan Younis to protest against the nearly 12-year Israeli siege.

    Sources added that protesters ignited a number of rubber tires on fire near the security border fence with Israel and threw rocks at Israeli forces.

    Israeli forces repeatedly fired live ammunition and tear-gas bombs towards the large groups of protesters.

    For several weeks, hundreds of Palestinian protesters, have been organizing, as well as participating in night protests, during which they set tires on fire and chant slogans through loud speakers, while marching towards the border with Israel. These protesters are also known as the “Night Confusion” unit.

    #Night_Confusion

  • Israel cuts off water supply for 2600 Palestinians in Jordan Valley
    March 6, 2019 4:17 P.M.
    http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?ID=782767

    TUBAS (Ma’an) — Israeli forces and the Israeli Civil Administration cut off water supply for dozens of Palestinians living in communities in Bardala village in the Jordan Valley in the northern occupied West Bank, on Wednesday.

    Mutaz Bisharat, an official who monitors settlement activity in Tubas/Jordan Valley, told Ma’an that Israeli forces cut off water supply for 60% of residents of the Bardala village; that is 2600 people.

    Israeli forces also cut off water supply for 1800-2000 dunams of Palestinian agricultural lands that must be continuously irrigated.

    Bisharat added that Israel claims that water sources supplying residents with water are illegal, stressing that the water comes from water wills in the village and inside Palestinian lands.

    He pointed out that as Israeli forces cut off water supply for Palestinians, they construct water wills for Israeli settlers.

    Bisharat called upon international and humanitarian institutions to immediately intervene to stop Israeli violations of human rights.
    The Jordan Valley forms a third of the occupied West Bank, with 88 percent of its land classified as Area C — under full Israeli military control.
    Water allocations are very necessary for the increase of agricultural production, in order to support the economic growth of many Palestinian farmers.
    Jordan Valley residents mostly live in enclaves closed off by Israeli military zones, checkpoints, and more than 30 illegal Israeli settlements.

    #eau #colonialisme_de_peuplement