• Les forces israéliennes suppriment les marches en Cisjordanie
    | Maan News Agency | 23 janvier 2015 http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=755986

    RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Israeli military forces suppressed nonviolent marches in the occupied West Bank on Friday, witnesses said.

    In Bilin, Israeli soldiers used live fire, rubber-coated steel bullets and tear gas canisters to suppress protesters.

    Activist Muhammad Adbi Abu Rahmeh was shot in the head with a rubber-coated bullet and taken to the Palestine Medical Center for treatment.

    Rahmen and Iyad Burnat, prominent activists from Bilin, were hit by tear gas canisters.

    The march began after Friday prayers and commemorated the anniversary of the Egyptian revolution against authoritarianism.

    Meanwhile, Israeli forces suppressed a protest organized by the Palestinian National Initiative in the Hebron village of Susiya.

    Soldiers reportedly assaulted the secretary-general of the party, Mustafa Barghouthi, and other activists.

    Dozens suffered tear gas inhalation and four were detained.

    The coordinator of the Palestinian National Initiative in Hebron, Youssef Tmeizi, said the demonstration was part of a series of activities under the banner “If they chop down a tree, we will plant a hundred.”

    Israel’s military routinely uses what is deemed by rights groups as “excessive force” to suppress nonviolent protests in West Bank villages.

    The demonstrations are attended by Palestinian villagers of all ages, together with international activists.

    Mr Hollande va inviter les Palestiniens à venir marcher à Paris.

  • Settler runs over 5-year-old Palestinian near Tulkarem | Maan News Agency
    http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=755980

    TULKAREM (Ma’an) — A settler car ran over a five-year-old Palestinian child near Tulkarem on Friday, medics said.

    Yamen Nabil Mahmoud, five, from Shufa village was hit by the vehicle on a bypass road south of the West Bank city.

    The child was taken to a local hospital for treatment, where he is said to be in a moderate condition.

    The circumstances behind the incident are unclear.

  • Israel carries out 3rd East Jerusalem home demolition in 2 days | Maan News Agency

    http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=755521

    Vous avez déjà bien compris qu’il faut boycotter les produits Hyundai (Aussi Carterpilar et Volvo). En 2015 l’Etat israélien démolisseur de maisons (et de vies palestiniennes) continue de démolir et de ravager les communautés.

    JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities on Wednesday destroyed a Palestinian building in the Shufat neighborhood of East Jerusalem, the third such home demolition in the occupied city in the last two days.

    Locals told Ma’an that Israeli special forces accompanied by bulldozers raided the neighborhood and surrounded a building before almost immediately beginning to demolish it.

    #israël #palestine #colonisation #démolition #occupation

  • Israël : un bédouin tué dans des émeutes contre la police | i24news - Voir plus loin
    http://www.i24news.tv/fr/actu/israel/societe/58182-150118-israel-un-mort-dans-des-emeutes-contre-la-police

    Les émeutes ont débuté en marge de l’enterrement d’un bédouin tué la semaine dernière

    Des émeutes ont éclaté dimanche à Rahat, ville bédouine au sud d’Israël lors des funérailles d’un jeune bédouin, Sami al-Jaara, et ont fait un mort et une vingtaine de blessés.

    Sami al-Jaara a été tué la semaine dernière alors qu’il assistait à une opération de police à laquelle il n’était pas lié. Des échauffourées avaient éclaté entre la police, qui effectuait une saisie de droue et des jeunes.

    La mort du manifestant proviendrait d’un arrêt cardiaque.

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    • Palestinian killed by Israeli police during Negev funeral
      Published today (updated) 19/01/2015 16:52
      http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=754900

      RAHAT (Ma’an) — A Palestinian Bedouin man was killed late Sunday during the funeral for another man shot dead last week by Israeli forces in southern Israel.

      Sami Ibrahim Zayadna, 45, died after inhaling tear gas fired by Israeli police at mourners in the Bedouin city of Rahat. Over 40 other people were injured during the clashes, including Rahat mayor Talal al-Qureinawi and Raed Salah, head of the Islamic Movement.

      Twenty-two people were treated at Soroka hospital in Beersheba, with three sustaining serious injuries.

      The clashes began after Israeli police entered the cemetery as mourners were burying Sami al-Jaar, 22, who was shot dead last week while standing on the patio of his home during clashes between police and local youths in the neighborhood.

      Israeli police entered the funeral ceremony, despite an agreement with Rahat municipality to stay clear of the area, and fired plastic bullets and tear gas at mourners as Raed Salah was delivering a eulogy.

      “The funeral has become a battle from one side as we were being chased and dozens were hurt though there were no clashes in the place,” Salah told Ma’an.

      “When I uttered the first sentence of the funeral oration a tear gas canister was fired in front of us. We thought it was fired accidentally, but showers of tear gas followed. It was clear they wanted to disperse the mourners before they could bid the martyr farewell and I think the officers on the ground were receiving instructions from the helicopter which was hovering above the mourners focusing its lights on us.”

      An Israeli police vehicle also deliberately rammed vehicles parked near the cemetery, he added.

      The Higher Guidance Committee of Arab Residents of the Negev denounced what it labeled “state terrorism.”

      “We hereby tell the Israeli security organizations that your terror won’t scare us and we won’t hesitate to live in dignity despite your mean attempts and plans day and night to impose restrictions on us seeking to displace us. Save your bullets and your terror because we have already made our minds … we will stay here as long as there is thyme and olive oil,” the group said.

      A leadership committee announced a general strike on Tuesday in all Palestinians towns and neighborhoods in Israel, in addition to a general strike in Rahat on Monday.

    • Israël : reprise des affrontements entre police et Bédouins
      20 Janvier 2015
      http://www.i24news.tv/fr/actu/israel/societe/58409-150120-israel-reprise-des-affrontements-entre-police-et-bedouins

      Des émeutes ont repris mardi entre la police et les habitants de la ville à majorité bédouine de Rahat au sud d’Israël, où deux bédouins ont été tués par la police la semaine dernière.

      Des centaines de résidents de Rahat ont jeté des pierres sur la police et ont brûlé des pneus, pour protester contre la mort de deux hommes bédouins dans des affrontements avec la police.

      Plus de dix personnes ont été blessées, dont un gravement blessés. Quatre adolescents ont été arrêtés.

  • Demonstrators throw shoes, eggs at Canadian FM in Ramallah | Maan News Agency
    18/01/2015 12:02
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    RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Protestors threw shoes and eggs at Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird outside the Palestinian Foreign Ministry on Sunday, amid a growing war of words between him and top PLO official Saeb Erekat.

    Dozens of Palestinians attacked the foreign minister’s vehicle as it exited the foreign ministry, located in al-Bireh near Ramallah, after he finished a meeting with his Palestinian counterpart Riyad al-Maliki.

    The protest was organized by the youth department of the Fatah movement to express opposition to the pro-Israeli political positions expressed by successive Canadian governments in recent years.

    The most recent action taken by the Canadian government that has outraged the Palestinian public was a vote against a bid at the United Nations Security Council seeking to end the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories by 2017.

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    Le ministre Baird évitera les « lieux sensibles » lors de sa visite en Israël et en Cisjordanie
    Ajouté par Jacques N. Godbout le 16 janvier 2015
    http://www.45enord.ca/2015/01/le-ministre-baird-evitera-les-lieux-sensibles-lors-de-sa-visite-en-israel-et

    Le partenariat stratégique Canada-Israël

    Cette visite, qui survient un an après le séjour historique du premier ministre Harper en Israël, représente une occasion de réaffirmer l’engagement mutuel qu’ont pris le Canada et Israël à l’égard de leur Partenariat stratégique, souligne par ailleurs le communiqué des Affaires étrangères canadiennes qui annonce ce voyage.

    « Le Canada accorde une grande valeur aux liens étroits qu’il entretient avec Israël et il se réjouit à l’idée de renforcer davantage ce partenariat au regard de la sécurité, de la diplomatie et du commerce, a déclaré le ministre Baird. L’amitié entre nos deux pays prend appui sur des valeurs communes, et nous nourrissons de grandes ambitions quant à ce que nous pourrons accomplir ensemble. »

    En Israël, le ministre Baird rencontrera des personnalités du monde politique, notamment le président Reuven Rivlin, le premier ministre Benyamin Netanyahou, le ministre des Affaires étrangères Avigdor Lieberman, ainsi que l’ancienne ministre des Affaires étrangères Tzipi Livni.

    Au cours de son passage en Cisjordanie, le ministre Baird rencontrera aussi le ministre des Affaires étrangères de l’Autorité palestinienne Riad Malki ainsi que d’autres Palestiniens de premier plan, dont l’ancien premier ministre Salam Fayyad et des dirigeants d’entreprises.

    • La politique du gouvernement auquel appartient John Baird n’est pas raciste ? Elle ne soutient pas la maltraitance et l’assassinat de masse de civils, hommes femmes et enfants ? Et de journalistes ...

      Ils sont où les « charlie » là ?

  • Khader Adnan launches hunger strike against administrative detention | Maan News Agency
    http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=752519
    08/01/2015

    JENIN (Ma’an) — Khader Adnan, a Palestinian prisoner in Israeli jails who staged one of the longest hunger strikes in history in 2012, has launched a new week-long hunger strike to protest his renewed detention without charge or trial by Israeli authorities.

    Adnan’s family told Ma’an that his cellmates in Israel’s Hadarim prison sent them a letter on Wednesday saying that he was launching a week-long strike in protest against the renewal of his administrative detention with no change of charge of trial.

    The letter said that Israeli prison authorities had moved Adnan to solitary confinement as a result, and denied him the right to meet with his lawyer.

    Adnan was arrested near Jenin in July during an Israeli arrest campaign across the West Bank, one of many former prisoners re-arrested for unclear reasons.

    In November an Israeli military court ruled to release Adnan after five months without trial or charge, but that ruling was never implemented and Adnan remains in jail without any explanation as to why he has been arrested.

    In 2012, he took part in a 66-day hunger strike against his detention without trial or charge. The agreement that released him on April 18 of that year also ended a hunger strike of 2,000 Palestinian prisoners, who had called for an end to administrative detention.

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  • Palestinian shot dead by Egyptian forces near Gaza border | Maan News Agency
    http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=751331

    GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Egyptian military forces late Friday shot and killed a Palestinian at the Rafah border between Egypt and Gaza, witnesses and an official said.

    Witnesses told Ma’an Egyptian soldiers opened fire at four Palestinians in the al-Salam neighborhood of Rafah, killing one and arresting the other three.

    Gaza health ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra said in a statement that a 23-year-old Palestinian was shot dead and taken to Abu Yusif al-Najjar hospital in Rafah.

    The motive behind the shooting was not immediately clear.

  • Palestinian man crushed to death inside overcrowded Israeli checkpoint | Maan News Agency
    Published today (updated) 31/12/2014 15:00
    http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=751058

    TULKAREM (Ma’an) — A Palestinian man from the northern West Bank village of Farun died Wednesday morning after he was crushed to death inside an Israeli checkpoint near Tulkarem as he was trying to get to work.

    Witnesses said 39-year-old Ahmad Samih Bdeir , who was on his way to a construction job inside Israel, choked to death in extreme overcrowding amid large numbers of people trying to cross the al-Tayba checkpoint, also called Shaar Efrayim.

    The witnesses said the crush occurred because of the extremely slow pace at which inspection procedures were carried out by the Israeli soldiers staffing the facility.

    The death is the second at al-Tayba this year, after 59-year-old Adel Muhammad Yakoub died in early January as a result of extreme overcrowding at the checkpoint as well.

    Inspection procedures at the checkpoint typically take hours as every person must pass through metal turnstiles one-at-a-time.


    Palestinian workers wait at a checkpoint in Bethlehem to enter Israel.(MaanImages/file)

  • Cisjordanie : un adolescent palestinien tué par l’armée israélienne
    http://www.romandie.com/news/Cisjordanie-un-adolescent-palestinien-tue-par-larmee-israelienne/549849.rom

    L’armée israélienne a confirmé qu’un Palestinien avait succombé à ses blessures par balles, affirmant avoir d’abord procédé à des tirs de sommation pour faire cesser les jets de pierres en direction de civils israéliens.

    Les sources palestiniennes ont, elles, évoqué des jets de pierre sur des véhicules militaires israéliens.

    L’adolescent a été tué près de la colonie de Tapuah, au sud de Naplouse et un autre Palestinien, âgé de 17 ans, a été blessé, selon les responsables palestiniens.

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    Palestinian youth shot dead by Israeli forces south of Nablus
    29/12/2014
    http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=750506

    NABLUS (Ma’an) — A Palestinian youth was shot dead by Israeli forces at the Tappuah checkpoint south of Nablus in the northern West Bank on Monday.

    Local Palestinian sources told Ma’an that Israeli troops opened fire at two young Palestinian men in the Jabal Sbeih area within Beita village, near the Tappuah checkpoint, which is also known to Palestinians as Zaatara.

    The youth who was killed in the incident was identified by Nablus TV as Imam Jamil Dweikat , a resident of Beita. His age was not yet clear, however.

    The other victim was identified as Nael Thiab, 19, and he was reportedly evacuated to a hospital in Nablus with moderate to serious gunshot wounds following the incident.

    Palestinian security sources confirmed that the Israeli liaison department officially notified the Palestinian Authority that Israeli troops shot dead a young Palestinian man and that his body is still with the Israeli army.

    The slain youth is the 50th Palestinian to be killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank in 2014, bringing the total Palestinian dead at Israeli hands so far this year to around 2,335, including those who died in Gaza as a result of Israel’s summer offensive.

    • Youth injured in Beita attack says friend killed in cold blood
      Published today (updated) 29/12/2014 22:23
      http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=750639

      NABLUS (Ma’an) — A single bullet to the heart fired by an Israeli soldier was enough to kill 17-year-old Imam Jamil Ahmad Dweikat , a youth from the town of Beita south of Nablus slain today while walking with a friend in his home village.

      Nael Talat Thiab, 17, who was also shot by Israeli soldiers but escaped with only a bullet to the foot, told Ma’an from his hospital bed at Rafidia Public Hospital in the northern West Bank city of Nablus that he and Dweikat had just left school when his friend’s life was cut short in “cold blood” by the Israeli bullet.

      “We had just finished our school exam in Islamic education at the school in Beita, where I study with Imam in the first year of secondary school. We went out to buy something things after school and were on our way home when we decided to go to a park in the southern part of Beita,” he told Ma’an.

      “We arrived to the edge of the park on foot, but we were surprised to see an Israeli soldier coming toward us from atop a hill. He shot at us four times, but he missed us.”

      “But then he fired again — one single shot — and hit Imam directly in the heart,” Thiab told Ma’an.

      “Imam fell to the ground. I tried to get near him but then he told me: ’Get away! I’ve been shot.’”

      “I ran a number of meters, trying to flee from the area, but the same soldier shot another bullet at me, injuring me in the foot,” he said.

      “I was still able to keep running away and I made it to the hospital after flagging down an ambulance stopped by the side of the road, telling the driver that I had not been throwing rocks or even doing anything (when I was shot).”
      Youth injured in Beita attack says friend killed in cold blood

      Thiab’s account of the incident contradicts the Israeli military’s explanation, which said that the pair were shot while throwing rocks at a nearby road.

      When asked to specify which road, the spokeswoman who spoke to Ma’an did not respond.

      Dweikat is the 50th Palestinian to be killed in the West Bank by Israeli soldiers so far this year, and at least the 2,335th Palestinian to be killed by the Israeli military including those slain in Gaza.

  • #Israel demolishes EU-funded irrigation pools in Jordan Valley | Maan News Agency
    http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=749755

    NABLUS (Ma’an) — Israeli forces demolished EU-funded irrigation pools in the northern Jordan Valley on Thursday, locals told Ma’an.

    Israeli military vehicles arrived in the area of al-Jiftlik accompanied by bulldozers and demolished six irrigation pools used by Palestinian farmers.

    The construction of the pools was funded by grants from European donor countries.

    The pretext for the demolition was based on a “military order,” locals said.

    L’#union_européenne remboursera l’essence et les heures supp aux démolisseurs.

  • Assawra - الثورة : Triste Noël pour les chrétiens de Gaza ravagée par la guerre
    http://assawra.blogspot.fr/2014/12/triste-noel-pour-les-chretiens-de-gaza.html

    « C’est un Noël joyeux mais aussi un peu triste parce que je n’ai pas eu le laissez-passer pour accompagner mes parents », confie la jeune fille de 11 ans, en écho à sa mère Abir Moussaad, qui évoque « une joie en demi-teinte ».
    Avec son mari, elle pourra célébrer la naissance du Christ dans sa ville natale. Ses enfants, eux, iront « voir le Père Noël jeudi à l’église à Gaza ». « Pour qu’ils nous donnent nos cadeaux », dit Sara.
    A Gaza, les adultes ont tout fait pour que la fête des enfants ne soit pas gâchée mais ils n’en oublient pas pour autant la récente guerre, ses morts et ses dégâts, comme le rappelle Oum Georges, 60 ans, l’une des chanceuses ayant obtenu le droit de rejoindre Bethléem.
    « Dans cette atmosphère particulière, nous allons célébrer Noël pour essayer d’oublier les souffrances de la guerre », explique cette Gazaouie qui a perdu sa soeur dans un raid de l’armée israélienne durant l’été.
    Dans les rues qui portent encore les stigmates d’une guerre qui a tué plus de 2000 Gazaouis, dont une majorité de civils, des magasins se sont parés de décorations de Noël.
    La grande majorité des 3.500 chrétiens de Gaza devra s’en contenter, faute d’avoir obtenu le petit bout de papier qui leur aurait permis de parcourir les quelques dizaines de kilomètres les séparant de Bethléem.
    Abdallah Jahchan est l’un d’eux. Avec sa fiancée Janet, il avait déposé une demande pour Bethléem. Mais les Israéliens l’ont rejetée.
    Alors il passera le réveillon à Gaza, sans en faire trop. « On veut une célébration joyeuse mais le sang des martyrs qui a coulé pendant la guerre est encore frais (...) On va célébrer la messe et faire une petite fête, simple », annonce-t-il.


    After the war, a bittersweet Christmas in Gaza
    http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=749480

  • ONU : les Palestiniens disent qu’ils soumettront un texte mercredi
    http://www.romandie.com/news/546822.rom

    ONU : les Palestiniens disent qu’ils soumettront un texte mercredi

    Ramallah (Territoires palestiniens) - Les Palestiniens soumettront mercredi au Conseil de sécurité de l’ONU un projet de résolution pour accélérer leur accession à un Etat indépendant, malgré la menace d’un veto américain, ont indiqué deux hauts responsables palestiniens à l’AFP.

    Nous envoyons demain notre projet au Conseil de sécurité de l’ONU, a dit à l’AFP Nimr Hammad, conseiller du président palestinien Mahmoud Abbas.

    Un autre haut responsable palestinien a confirmé cette décision après une rencontre à Londres entre le négociateur en chef Saëb Erakat et le secrétaire d’Etat américain John Kerry qui ne s’est visiblement pas bien passée.

    Lors d’entretiens très longs et très difficiles, les Palestiniens ont prévenu le chef de la diplomatie des Etats-Unis, principal allié d’Israël, qu’ils ne renonceraient pas à leur projet de résolution, a rapporté sous couvert d’anonymat ce haut responsable proche des discussions.

    Kerry a dit à la délégation palestinienne : nous emploierons notre veto, a-t-il déclaré.

    Si les Etats-Unis font usage de leur veto, les Palestiniens demanderont aussitôt leur adhésion à une série d’organisations et de conventions internationales, parmi lesquelles la Cour pénale internationale, a répondu M. Erakat à M. Kerry, selon ce responsable.

    Les Etats-Unis sont fermement opposés à ce que les Palestiniens rejoignent la Cour pénale internationale. Une telle adhésion leur permettrait de poursuivre Israël pour crimes de guerre.

    De manière plus générale, Washington s’oppose aux initiatives unilatérales qu’on essaierait d’imposer à leur allié israélien sans passer par des discussions bilatérales.

    Mais nous en avons assez des discussions bilatérales, a déclaré Mohammad Chtayyeh, membre du cercle rapproché du président Abbas.

    On ignore cependant quel texte les Palestiniens entendent soumettre au Conseil de sécurité.

    Les Palestiniens ont entamé leur démarche avec un texte en forme d’ultimatum réclamant la fin de l’occupation israélienne sous deux ans.

    Consciente qu’une telle démarche allait au-devant d’un veto américain, la France a travaillé à un texte se voulant plus rassembleur.

    Nous avons fusionné le texte initial et le texte français, a déclaré M. Chtayyeh. Il n’y a qu’un seul texte. Nous avons accepté avec joie les modifications apportées au cours de discussions avec les Français, a-t-il ajouté devant des journalistes près de Ramallah, en Cisjordanie.

    M. Chtayyeh a indiqué que la France, qui préconisait un délai de deux ans pour la fin de nouvelles négociations (et non pas de l’occupation israélienne) avait procédé à des arrangements à la proposition palestinienne initiale, sans préciser lesquels.

    Mais Washington n’est au fond pas intéressé par cette discussion, a-t-il ajouté. Les Etats-Unis ne nous demandent pas d’apporter des modifications au texte. Les Etats-Unis disent : peut-être serait-il plus sage de votre part d’attendre après les élections israéliennes, a-t-il dit, faisant référence aux législatives anticipées du 17 mars qui décideront si le Premier ministre Benjamin Netanyahu est ou non reconduit.

    Les Israéliens ont de leur côté prévenu qu’ils s’opposeraient de toute force au projet palestinien d’en passer par la communauté internationale et les Nations unies pour obtenir un Etat indépendant.

    Cette initiative est motivée par l’exaspération palestinienne devant l’échec d’années de discussions, la situation sur le terrain et ce qu’ils considèrent comme le refus israélien de coexister avec un Etat palestinien.
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    Palestine, France in ’final touches’ to UN bid
    Published today (updated) 16/12/2014
    http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=747759

    BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Fatah central committee member Mohammad Shtayyeh said Tuesday that Palestine and France were coordinating and putting final touches on a UN resolution to end the Israeli occupation.

    Shtayyeh told Ma’an that the Palestinian and French missions to the UN were finalizing the resolution, which was set to be presented on Wednesday to the UN security council.

    Speaking to reporters in Beit Jala, the official said that “the United States does not want a Palestinian state, and does not want to use the veto either. It is avoiding it by preventing us from collecting nine votes.”

    Also Tuesday, foreign minister Riyad al-Maliki told Ma’an that Palestine will submit the French initiative if amendments are made to the text.

    Al-Maliki said he would meet with French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius on Tuesday to convince France to accept suggested amendments to their bid to align it with the Palestinian and Arab positions.

    He did not elaborate on the suggested amendments.

    The PLO has said they will submit an Arab-backed draft text to the UN as early as Wednesday.

    France is putting together a more nuanced version setting a two-year timetable for concluding a peace treaty, without mentioning the withdrawal of Israeli forces.

    Earlier US Secretary of State John Kerry called for caution in Middle East talks, saying there was a need to “carefully calibrate” any steps taken.

    “Many of us share a deep sense of urgency (but) ... we have to carefully calibrate any steps that are taken for this difficult moment in the region,” he said ahead of talks in London.

    Meanwhile a Palestinian official told Ma’an that a meeting between Kerry and PLO chief negotiator Saeb Erekat was “tough.”

    The source said Erekat rejected Kerry’s dictates on the issue.

    Another source told al-Mayadeen TV that Kerry threatened Erekat with a US veto if the Palestinians go to the Security Council.

    Erekat responded, “We have nothing to lose,” according to the report.

    “If you use the veto we will respond by going to all international organizations for membership, and on top of them the ICC,” the Beirut-based TV network quote him as saying.

    Kerry also threatened to impose sanctions on the Palestinians, to which Erekat responded that the Palestinians have nothing to lose, al-Mayadeen said.

    #Palestine

  • Un vendredi en Palestine

    Les forces israéliennes tirent et blessent deux Palestiniens à Gaza
    | Maan News Agency - 05/12/2014
    http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=745054

    GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli forces shot and injured two Palestinians Friday evening in the northern Gaza Strip, a health official said.

    Ashraf al-Qidra, spokesman for the Ministry of Health, said two men in their twenties suffered moderate injuries after being shot in the legs by Israeli soldiers east of Jabalia.

    They were taken to the Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahiya for treatment.

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    Des colons abattent 50 oliviers dans un village proche de Naplouse
    05/12/2014- http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=745034

    NABLUS (Ma’an) — Settlers cut down over 50 olive trees in the Nablus village of Aqraba on Friday, Palestinian official Ghassan Daghlas said.

    Settlers from Elon Moreh, located east of Nablus, attacked Aqraba and cut down 50 olive trees from the Juhr al-Dik area of the village.

    The trees belonged to Said Bani Jame.

    Several other trees were damaged during the attack, Daghlas added.

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    Un adolescent de Gaza grièvement blessé par l’explosion de munitions israéliennes
    05/12/2014 - http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=745020

    GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — A Palestinian teenager in Gaza was injured on Friday after an Israeli ordnance exploded near Rafah, a health ministry official said.

    Ashraf al-Qidra, spokesman of the Ministry of Health, told Ma’an that the unidentified 14-year-old had surgery to amputate the fingers on his right hand following the explosion.

    He is now in a stable condition at hospital.

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    Un cameraman palestinien blessé par un tir des forces israéliennes lors d’une manifestation à Qalqiliya

    QALQILIYA (Ma’an) — A Palestinian cameraman was shot in the leg on Friday by Israeli forces while covering clashes in the Qalqiliya village of Kafr Qaddum.

    Bashar Nazzal, a cameraman with Palestine TV, was hit in the leg by live fire and taken to a local hospital for treatment.

    The bullet reportedly shattered the bone in his leg.

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    Israeli forces raid home of Ma’an reporter in Jerusalem
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  • Palestinian woman shot after stabbing Israeli settler | Maan News Agency
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    BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces shot and critically injured a 22-year-old Palestinian woman on Monday after she allegedly stabbed an Israeli settler near Gush Etzion in the southern West Bank.

    Palestinian sources identified the woman as 22-year-old Amal Jamal Taqatqa from the nearby town of Beit Fajjar.

    The Israeli settler suffered minor injuries in the stabbing at a major crossroads near the Gush Etzion bloc, south of Bethlehem, the Israeli army said in a statement.

    Israeli police said in an initial statement that the woman was shot after stabbing a soldier.(...)

  • Cisjordanie: un militant italien sérieusement blessé par l’armée israélienne - Libération
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    Un militant pro-palestinien de nationalité italienne a été sérieusement blessé par balles par les forces de sécurité israéliennes vendredi lors d’affrontements dans le nord de la Cisjordanie, ont indiqué des sources

    Patrick Corsi, 30 ans et membre du Mouvement de solidarité internationale (MSI), a été blessé lors de la manifestation hebdomadaire à Kafr Qaddoum contre les expropriations israéliennes, selon des sources de sécurité palestiniennes.

    Un communiqué du MSI a indiqué qu’un militant italien avait été « touché à la poitrine par des tirs à balles réelles de calibre 22 » et qu’il était dans un état sérieux mais stable. Un manifestant palestinien a également été touché par balles à une main et à la poitrine, selon le MSI.

    Patrick Corsi a été hospitalisé à Ramallah, a indiqué une source médicale palestinienne.

    Selon des témoins, l’Italien filmait la manifestation quand il a été touché par des tirs.

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    Israeli soldiers shoot Italian in the stomach at Kafr Qaddum rally
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    NABLUS (Ma’an) — An Italian was critically injured along with 11 Palestinians on Friday afternoon after Israeli forces opened live fire on a protest march in the village of Kafr Qaddum west of Nablus.

    Palestinian Minister of Health Jawad Awwad told Ma’an that Italian solidarity activist Patrick Corsi, 30, was injured after Israeli forces fired several bullets at him in the stomach and chest.

    The minister said that Corsi was in “critical” condition as a result of the shooting, which took place during a protest march against the Israeli occupation.

    Awwad said that “shooting live fire at the upper part of the bodies of protesters is directly targeting them and is a deliberate attempt at murder.”

    “Israel does not differentiate between foreign solidarity activists, Palestinians, or even journalists,” he added.

    The International Solidarity Movement, an activist group whose members frequently attend Palestinian protests to monitor the actions of Israeli soldiers, confirmed the shooting in a statement, adding that an 18-year-old Palestinian was also shot in the chest with live bullets.

    “The Italian activist, known as Patrick, was wearing a yellow high visibility jacket when he was shot,” the statement said.

  • UNRWA declares state of emergency in Gaza amid severe flooding | Maan News Agency
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    BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The UN’s Palestine refugee agency UNRWA on Thursday evening declared a state of emergency in Gaza City amid massive rains that have shut down normal life in parts of the besieged coastal enclave’s largest city.

    A major storm over the past week has filled the streets of Gaza City with water and sewage, causing further misery for the more than 100,000 Palestinians left homeless — including nearly 30,000 still staying in emergency shelters — from Israel’s massive offensive over summer that also left nearly 2,200 dead.

    UNRWA said in a statement that 63 schools across Gaza City and 43 schools across the Northern Gaza Strip governorate had been closed Thursday due to the flooding.(...)

  • HRW: Punitive Israeli house demolitions a ’war crime’ | Maan News Agency

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    JERUSALEM (AFP) — Human Rights Watch called on Israel Saturday to stop razing the homes of Palestinians accused of attacking Israelis, saying the practice can constitute a war crime.

    “Israel should impose an immediate moratorium on its policy of demolishing the family homes of Palestinians suspected of carrying out attacks on Israelis,” the New York-based group said, as the fate of three houses slated for demolition awaits a court ruling.

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  • Israeli forces ’detain 10-year-old Palestinian boy’ in Silwan | Maan News Agency

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    JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces detained a 10-year-old Palestinian boy in the Silwan neighborhood on Monday evening, a local information center said.

    Majdi Abbasi of the Wadi Hilweh information center told Ma’an that Israeli forces in the Ein al-Luza area of the neighborhood detained 10-year-old Rashid Abu Sarah, took off his shirt, blindfolded him, and took him away in a military jeep.

    #israël #jérusalem #enfants #enfance

  • Israeli bus hits Palestinians in Jenin, 1 dead | Maan News Agency
    Published today (updated) 25/11/2014 21:10
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    NABLUS (Ma’an) — An Israeli bus driver ran over two Palestinian at al-Jalama checkpoint in Jenin, killing one person and injuring another, Palestinian security sources said Tuesday.

    Palestinian security sources told Ma’an that Noor Hassan Naim Salim, 22, and Alaa Kayid Salim, 20, from Nablus were injured after being ran over by an Israeli bus.

    Hussein was taken to an Israeli hospital with serious injuries and later died. Salim was taken to Jenin governmental hospital with light injuries.

    Israeli police and ambulances arrived at the scene and the bus driver was arrested.

  • Man dies in an explosion in the Jordan Valley | Maan News Agency
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    JORDAN VALLEY (Ma’an) — A Palestinian died on Sunday of injuries sustained after a ordnance left by Israeli army exploded in Bardala village in the Jordan Valley.

    Witnesses said Ahmad Abd al-Rahman al-Sheikh, 44, suffered injuries in the head and chest after the ordnance exploded while he was grazing his sheep.

    He was taken to an Israeli hospital in critical condition, where he later died of his wounds.

    Residents said the Israeli army performed drills in the area two days earlier. However, an Israeli army representative denied that any drill took place in the area during this time.

    The official said the man was transferred from a military checkpoint to Rambam hospital by helicopter.

    #Palestine #meurtre