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  • Le Conseil de Paris a effectué un nouveau vote concernant la dénomination des rues autour de la Halle Freyssinet, et le couperet est tombé : il n’y aura pas de rue Steve Jobs autour du futur incubateur de start-up. Comme l’explique à l’AFP Bruno Julliard, premier adjoint de la maire de Paris Anne Hidalgo, le nom « ne fait pas l’unanimité » et n’a donc pas été proposé « au nom d’une tradition de compromis ».

    À la place, trois nouveaux noms ont été choisi : Ada Lovelace, la programmeuse Betty Holberton, et la chercheuse en informatique Karen Sparck Jones. La demande de parité dans les noms de rues de la capitale aura donc été entendue.
    http://mashable.france24.com/monde/20161202-rue-steve-jobs-paris-halle-freyssinet-ada-lovelace?ref=t
    #parité #womenintech

  • Prochains rendez-vous de l’assemblée des précaires de l’éducation IdF https://paris-luttes.info/prochains-rendez-vous-de-l-7172 …pic.twitter.com/A8iXTbgHD9
    https://twitter.com/Paris_luttes/status/803554142912270336

    Prochains rendez-vous de l’assemblée des précaires de l’éducation IdF https://paris-luttes.info/prochains-rendez-vous-de-l-7172 … pic.twitter.com/A8iXTbgHD9

  • Gazan boy paralyzed by Israeli army fire fights for compensation
    Atiya Nabahin was shot in the neck by soldiers as he returned home from school. Now he awaits a ruling for compensation.
    By Amira Hass | Nov. 26, 2016 | 11:58 AM
    http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.755216

    A 17-year-old Palestinian who became a quadriplegic after being wounded by IDF fire is posing the first challenge to the Law to Bypass the High Court that was passed by the Knesset four years ago. If the Be’er Sheva District Court accepts the state’s position that his suit for damages should be rejected, his lawyer will appeal the ruling to the Supreme Court. Then the justices will have to address for the first time the legality of the amendment to the Civil Damages Law that the Knesset passed in 2012, seven years after they nullified a similar amendment to the same law.

    Atiya Nabahin’s family lived east of the Al-Bureij refugee camp on farmland it has owned and worked for decades, close to the Green Line. On November 16, 2014, his birthday, Nabahin was shot in the neck by soldiers as he returned home from school. No armed clash was occurring at that time and place between Palestinians and the IDF.

    For six months, Nabahin received medical treatment in Israel (paid for by the Palestinian Authority), after it was determined that he had been permanently paralyzed from the neck down. His father Fathi, 59, stayed with him throughout that time, and was taught at ALYN Hospital about how to care for his son, who is now completely dependent on his family members. The family cannot afford to hire outside help. It must shoulder the emotional, physical and financial burden of Atiya’s care alone.

    When Atiya Nabahin and his father were in Soroka Hospital in early 2015, the Gazan human rights organization Mizan put them in touch with lawyer Mohammed Jabarin, who later filed the civil suit against the state. Ofer Shoval, deputy Tel Aviv district attorney, sought to have the claim rejected because Nabahin “is a resident of an area outside of Israel that the government has officially declared to be enemy territory,” and because “the law explicitly states that the state is not responsible for damages in these circumstances.”

    A month ago, Jabarin and attorney Nadeem Shehadeh from Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel co-wrote a response to Shoval, saying that the law upon which the state is seeking to have the suit dismissed amounts to a direct challenge to the Supreme Court’s authority.

    Since the late 1990s, and more so after the outbreak of the second intifada, successive Israeli governments have tried to limit Palestinians’ ability to sue the state when they are hurt by IDF actions. In 2002, an amendment to the Civil Damages Law was enacted, which introduced many hurdles in the process for Palestinians wishing to sue for damages. In 2005, another amendment (7) was passed, which denied residents of the occupied territories, “subjects of enemy states and active members of terrorist organizations” the right to sue for damages caused them outside the framework of combat operations (with minor exceptions). The amendment also stipulated that “the state is not response for damages caused in the conflict zone due to actions by the security forces” and authorized the defense minister to determine, even retroactively, what qualifies as a “conflict zone.”

    Challenges from human rights NGOs

    Nine Israeli and Palestinian human rights organizations petitioned against the amendment and in December 2006 a nine-justice panel of the High Court, headed by then-court President Aharon Barak, ruled that the clause in question granted sweeping immunity to the state, “with the improper aim of exempting the state from all responsibility for damages in conflict zones … in relation to wide categories of actions that are not combat actions even in the broadest definition of that term. What this means is that many injured persons who were not involved in any hostile activity, and who were not hurt incidentally during actions by security forces meant to address any sort of hostile activity, are left without remedy for the harm to their life and their property.”

    The judges ruled that the key clause of the amendment (No. 7, Section 5c), which included the definition of conflict zones, shall be nullified because it violated the Basic Law: Human Dignity and Freedom. However, the court did not strike down Section 5b, regarding the identity of the casualties, but it did say that this section could be discussed in specific cases.

    Immediately after the ruling was handed down, the government began working to have the amendment restored, indirectly. Amendment 8 was passed in 2012, and this time there was no High Court petition, even though it was even more sweeping than Amendment 7. In the new amendment, the definition of military activity as “being done in circumstances of mortal or physical danger” was expanded to “actions of a combat nature, considering the entirety of the circumstances, including the objective of the operation, its geographical location and the threat to the force carrying it out.” In other words, the state needn’t make the claim that soldiers were in any danger in order to justify its request to reject a suit for damages.

    Additionally, to evade the definition of a “conflict zone” that was nullified by the High Court’s order, Amendment 8 added the following words to the part concerning the identity of the injured party who is not authorized to sue (the subject of an enemy country, etc.): “or one who is not an Israeli citizen, who is resident of an area outside of Israel that the government has declared, by order, as enemy territory.” In other words: Instead of a “conflict zone,” the new amendment refers to “enemy territory.”

    In October 2014, the government issued an order declaring Gaza enemy territory. The order was applied retroactively, beginning July 7, 2014 (just before the start of Operation Protective Edge in Gaza).

    Nabahin’s lawyers believe his severe injury falls exactly in that place where the High Court justices, in their 2006 ruling, sought to prevent the state from being able to evade responsibility: the seemingly unjustified injuring by soldiers, the state’s emissaries, of a person who was not involved in any hostilities and at a time and place where no hostile activity was occurring. In their letter, Jabarin and Shehadeh wrote:

    “The state is effectively being given total immunity, meaning it is exempt from responsibility for damages in relation to many areas of activity that do not qualify as combat activity, even in the broad and inherently problematic definition, given to this concept in the law. Thus many victims find themselves without recourse. … In this way [the state] is not trying to adapt the laws on damages to a war situation, but rather to deny the applicability of these laws to many actions that are not combat-related…”

    The attorneys – and their permanently paralyzed client – are now waiting for the state’s response to their objection.

    #Amira_Hass

  • The first to identify terror by arson
    Education Minister Naftali Bennett uses thefts and arson to promote a racist ideology with national and territorial implications, by raising the question of whom this country belongs to.

    Ravit Hecht Nov 25, 2016 1:31 AM
    read more: http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.755191
    http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.755191

    “Only someone who doesn’t own this land could set it on fire,” tweeted Education Minister Naftali Bennett the other day, as the wave of fires took on the proportions of a national disaster, long before the source of the fires was clear. The post has received 616 “likes” and 80 “shares” so far, a number likely to increase. This is six-fold higher than the responses to his usual tweets.
    Some people compared this to Benjamin Netanyahu’s tweet following the arrest of two Palestinians on suspicion of raping a mentally defective girl. (“This is a heinous crime that demands wall-to-wall condemnation, but for some reason this has not been heard, not in the media and not across the political spectrum. One could only imagine what would have happened if it were the other way around.”) When the suspects were released Netanyahu offered a partial apology.
    Despite the similarities between these statements – referring to a crime while blatantly hinting at the nationality of the perpetrators who are still only suspects – this latest tweet is actually more like an earlier statement that Bennett made during the last elections campaign, in front of high school graduates about to vote for the first time.
    Bennett said that “anyone who has tried to tour the Negev in recent years knows that one can’t leave a car anywhere since it’s bound to be broken into and stolen. Tractors are stolen in Petah Tikva and the Galilee and one can’t go to the Mount of Olives or Mount Scopus anymore. One can’t enter Arab towns or villages, and this hurts the Arabs most of all, since Israel has decided that the rule of law may apply to Tel Aviv, Haifa and Ra’anana, but not to these places.”
    One should note Bennett’s semantics – he never uses the word “Arab” in proximity to the word “steal” or “thief” (the chairman of Habayit Hayehudi actually filed a libel suit against journalist David Feuer who tweeted that Bennett called all Arabs car thieves. He later retracted the suit.) The word “Arab” doesn’t appear in the new tweet at all. Nevertheless, everyone understands what his tweet means.

    • My god ! Je crains que ça ne retombe sur le Palestiniens car l’IDF profite de la moindre occasion pour genocider ce peuple natif lui dans ces terres, ou ils vivent depuis des milliers d’années.

  • Assemblée des précaires de l’éducation nationale IdF jeudi 24 novembre 2016 http://paris-luttes.info/assemblee-des-precaires-de-l-7066 …pic.twitter.com/JbHCSbLAg6
    https://twitter.com/Paris_luttes/status/798931161670029312

    Assemblée des précaires de l’éducation nationale IdF jeudi 24 novembre 2016 http://paris-luttes.info/assemblee-des-precaires-de-l-7066 … pic.twitter.com/JbHCSbLAg6

  • Israel detains all-female crew of Gaza Freedom Flotilla in Givon prison
    Oct. 6, 2016 2:26 P.M. (Updated: Oct. 6, 2016 2:27 P.M.)
    http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?ID=773443

    Israeli naval forces storm the Zaytouna boat from the Freedom Flotilla on Oct. 05, 2016. (Photo: International Committee for Breaking the Siege of Gaza)

    BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Female activists who were sailing on board the all-women solidarity ship “Zaytouna” heading towards the besieged Gaza Strip are currently being detained in the Israeli prison of Givon, the Israel Prison Service (IPS) told Ma’an on Thursday.

    The 13-person crew of the Zaytouna — which means “olives” in Arabic — was intercepted by Israeli naval forces on Wednesday as their boat entered Israel’s unilaterally declared buffer zone or “military exclusion zone,” off the coast of Gaza.

    The women were then detained and taken to the Israeli port of Ashdod, before being taken to detention facilities.

    IPS spokesman Assaf Librati told Ma’an that 11 of the women were being held in the Givon prison in central Israel as of Thursday afternoon, saying that he was not immediately aware of the whereabouts of the two other crew members.

    As contradictory information emerged on social media over whether the female activists would be immediately deported, the spokesman said that IPS was still awaiting instructions on their case.

    #blocus_Gaza

    • Israël va expulser les passagères du « bateau des femmes », dérouté de Gaza
      afp, le 06/10/2016 à 12h10
      http://www.la-croix.com/Monde/Israel-expulser-passageres-bateau-femmes-deroute-Gaza-2016-10-06-130079420

      Les passagères, notamment la Nord-Irlandaise Mairead Maguire, prix Nobel de la Paix, sont détenues depuis 03H00 à la prison de Ramlé (centre d’Israël), a indiqué à l’AFP une porte-parole de l’administration pénitentiaire. « Elles y sont en attente d’expulsion ».

      Deux d’entre elles, des journalistes, « sont parties à l’aéroport », a pour sa part déclaré Sabin Haddad, porte-parole de l’Autorité de la population et de l’immigration. Les autres seront gardées en détention 96 heures avant d’être expulsées, sauf si elles décidaient de partir avant, a-t-elle dit à l’AFP.

    • Zaytouna-Oliva Women Deported/ Details Emerge about the Capture
      https://wbg.freedomflotilla.org/news/zaytouna-oliva-women-deported-details-emerge-about-the-capture

      All 13 of the women on the Women’s Boat to Gaza are currently in the process of deportation after being captured by Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and detained in a prison at Ashdod. Wendy Goldsmith, a member of the land team working to secure the release of the women stated that, “the deportation was much quicker than in prior flotillas. While we had a great legal team assisting the women, we suspect that the reason for the quick release was because of all the negative media attention Israel has been receiving for its illegal interception.”

      According to early reports from the women released, the Zaytouna-Oliva was surrounded by two warships along with four to five smaller naval boats. The IDF gave warning to the Zaytouna-Oliva to stop their course towards Gaza. When the warning was refused, at least 7 IDF members, both male and female, boarded the Zaytouna-Oliva and commandeered the sailboat. This happened in international waters.

      In the course of their capture, the women persisted in telling the IDF that Israel’s interception of their boat was illegal and that they were being taken against their will to Israel.

      The Women’s Boat to Gaza campaign asserts that while the captivity of the women on board Zaytouna-Oliva is over, the captivity of 1. 9 million Palestinians in Gaza remains. The Campaign also asserts that the term “peaceful” which has been used in some media to describe the capture is incorrect. Peace is more than merely the absence of physical violence. Oppression, occupation, denial of human rights and taking a boat filled with nonviolent women against their will are not peaceful activities. The Women’s Boat to Gaza and the Freedom Flotilla Coalition will continue to sail until Palestine is free.

    • Israel Deports Detainees From Women’s Gaza Flotilla
      Haaretz Oct 07, 2016 5:52 PM
      http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.746388

      The 13 women, including a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, were detained on Wednesday after their boat was prevented from reaching the Gaza Strip.

      All but one of the 13 women activists detained on Wednesday for trying to break Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip have been deported from Israel, according to the French news agency AFP on Friday.

      The report quoted Interior Ministry spokesperson Sabin Haddad as saying: “All the boat’s passengers have left Israel except a woman who will fly to Oslo this afternoon.”

      The women, who included Nobel Peace Prize winner Mairead Maguire of Northern Ireland and a number of parliamentarians, were detained after their sailboat, the Zaytouna-Oliva, was intercepted in international waters about 35 nautical miles off the coast of Gaza.

    • Stories from returning #WomenToGaza; Struggle to end illegal blockade continues
      08/10/2016
      https://wbg.freedomflotilla.org/news/20161008

      As we write, the last of our wonderfully brave participants from the Women’s Boat to Gaza are either home with their loved ones and supporters, or on their journey home. They have been greeted with signs (see above) and in some case with singing and dancing: http://www.maoritelevision.com/tv/shows/te-kaea ; https://www.facebook.com/TeKaea/videos/vb.133906693412887/878992222237660/?type=2&theater. Since being released from Israeli detention, they have begun to tell us about their their experiences on board and in detention. They report hours spent on the Zaytouna-Oliva sharing and caring for each other, singing, making meals together and deep discussions about politics and life experiences, before being suddenly and illegally boarded in international waters by Israeli commandos on the afternoon of 5 October.

  • For Families of Palestinian Assailants, Grief, Pride and Unanswered Questions
    Gideon Levy and Alex Levac Sep 23, 2016 4:06 PM - Haaretz.com
    http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.743682

    Two 17-year-old cousins attempt a copycat car-ramming attack – and one ends up dead. A 15-year-old boy is killed when he tries to stab a soldier. The families are in mourning in different ways.

    According to the Israeli media, Raghad al-Khadour and Firas al-Khadour were engaged. But the fact is they never could have married. As “milk siblings,” the 17-year-olds were forbidden by Islamic law to wed one another. Their mothers are sisters, their fathers cousins (and also partners in the family stonecutting business). Raghad and Firas were breast-fed with the same milk: their mothers fed them together, or perhaps — it’s no longer clear — one nursed both of them.

    They grew up as close cousins. Only a few hundred meters separate their homes in the town of Bani Naim, east of Hebron. Now Mussa and Abdullah, the fathers of Firas and Raghad, respectively, are sitting in the yard of Firas’ home, lamenting the death of the boy — he was killed while he and Raghad were trying to perpetrate a car-ramming attack — and praying for the recovery of his cousin. Raghad’s sister Al-Majad, too, was killed three months ago when she tried to carry out a car-ramming attack at the entrance to the settlement of Kiryat Arba, adjacent to Hebron.

    Raghad and Firas attempted to run over settlers at the exact same spot. Raghad was furious at Israel’s refusal to return her sister’s body for burial. Her father is convinced this was her primary motive — “90 percent because of that,” he says. He has no idea what her condition is, nor even whether she is conscious. The milk siblings, Firas and Raghad, are no longer united.

    A few kilometers from here, in a neighborhood of west Hebron, Kayed Rajabi is mourning the death of his firstborn son, Muhammad Thalji al-Rajabi. The 15-year-old was killed when he tried to stab a soldier at the Gilbert checkpoint in Hebron at the same time and on the same day — last Friday, September 16 — as the milk siblings carried out their car-ramming attack not far from there.

    The two houses of mourning, in Bani Naim and Hebron, are very different from each other. Lamentation and grief prevail in the mourners’ tent in Hebron; resignation and pride in Bani Naim.

    In Hebron, the men of the Rajabi family are sitting in a schoolyard, which has become a mourners’ tent. The family members wear tags indicating their family connection: “Father of the martyr,” “Brother of the martyr,” “Cousin of the martyr.” The father wears a knitted Muslim head covering. Utterly grief-stricken, he has the stubble of a man in mourning. The father of five children (including the dead Muhammad), he runs a used-industrial machinery business.

    The image of Muhammad in the memorial posters comes from his cell phone. It was taken during Id al-Adha (the feast of the sacrifice), a few days before the boy was killed. He’s festively attired in this, his last photograph. A photo studio added the Tomb of the Patriarchs as a background.

    Muhammad wanted to be a journalist, his father says. He was always taking pictures with his phone. Last Friday, he joined his father for prayers in the mosque; after lunch, he told the family he was going to visit his cousins. Nothing in his behavior betrayed what was about to happen. He left his cell phone at home — but that was not unusual, his father says. He didn’t always take it with him.

    Kayed went to his store to pass the time. A radio blaring in the street announced that there had been an incident in Hebron. Opening the Al Huriya news agency website, Kayed saw a photograph that showed the body of a youth. The clothes appeared to be those of his son. He called his wife to ask what Muhammad was wearing. Blue jeans and a blue shirt with a white stripe, she said. His heart sank.

    Meeting Capt. Amin

    Kayed called the cousins that Muhammad had said he was going to visit — he hadn’t been there. For an hour Kayed drove the streets of the neighborhood, looking for friends of Muhammad who might know where he was. Or maybe he was just trying to escape the horrible thoughts. The news sites reported that the person who had been killed was 20, then corrected the age to 15. First they said he was from the Abu Rajab family, but afterward reported that his name was Rajabi.

    Muhammad’s younger brother, 13-year-old Osama — who had eaten lunch with him shortly before — also saw the photograph of the body and was certain it was his brother, he tells us in the mourners’ tent. Kayed understood, once and for all, that the body was that of his son.

    A Shin Bet security service agent called him: “I am sorry to inform you that your son was killed.” Kayed was on his way to the Palestinian liaison and coordination office to ask about his son, but the agent said he should go to Checkpoint 160, near the Tomb of the Patriarchs, where “Capt. Amin” would be waiting for him.

    By now it was evening. His brother was not allowed to accompany him into the office above the checkpoint. Capt. Amin showed him a cell-phone photograph: his son’s blood-covered face. It was definitely Muhammad. Kayed hoped he would be allowed to see the body, but in vain.

    “You killed my son,” he said to the Shin Bet agent. “He was a boy.” To which the agent replied, “We Jews do not kill children for no reason. Your son tried to stab a soldier.”

    Kayed: “He’s just a boy. How could he stab a soldier?”

    Amin: “We’ll show you the video footage.”

    Kayed says he was shown footage of about 15 seconds in which a blurred figure is seen running toward soldiers. He did not see a knife. The agent told him to go home. When he got there, the whole neighborhood was waiting in the street.

    Kayed falls silent and takes a deep breath. In the meantime, Muhammad’s uncle, Majed Rajabi, is conducting a conversation in Hebrew with an Israeli client who wants to buy the shoes he manufactures: “32 pairs in all colors.”

    The bereaved father continues, “I will agree that it was my son. But why didn’t they shoot him in the legs? Can’t three armed soldiers subdue a 15-year-old boy without killing him? But they didn’t want to just stop him. They wanted to shoot and kill him. They wanted to kill him.”

    When asked what made his son pick up a knife and go to stab soldiers, Kayed says only God knows. Nothing in the boy’s behavior indicated that he was about to commit the deed. “Everyone talks about the occupation all the time,” he says, “but nothing beyond that. Imagine that soldiers had killed your son.”

    In the wake of the incident at Kiryat Arba, the shoe manufacturer’s permit to enter Israel has now been revoked, and the extended Rajabi family in its entirety — about 17,000 people — has also been banned from entering Israel. Muhammad Thalji Rajabi’s body remains in Israeli hands, of course.

    The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit stated, in response to a query from Haaretz: “On Friday, September 16, a terrorist arrived at the Gilbert checkpoint in Hebron and attacked the soldiers there with a knife. The soldiers opened fire at the terrorist, killing him. One soldier was wounded in the face in the attack.”

    The atmosphere in the Bani Naim home of Firas al-Khadour is different. It’s one of resignation to fate, particularly on the part of Abdullah, who has already lost one daughter and now has a second who is wounded and under arrest. Firas’ family home is in a state of neglect. Firas and Raghad were 12th-graders. Last Friday afternoon, Firas — who didn’t have a driver’s license — took his father’s Mitsubishi Magnum pickup without permission. He picked up Raghad and they drove to the hitchhiking site at the entrance to Kiryat Arba from Route 60. The two tried to run over settlers who were waiting for a ride and who were protected by large concrete blocks. Soldiers at the site opened fire, killing Firas and wounding Raghad. On June 24, Al-Majad, Raghad’s sister, had taken the exact same route, from which she never returned. She was 18.

    According to their father, life somehow returned to normal some time after Al-Majad’s death, but Raghad could not accept the fact that Israel refused to return the body for burial.

    Are you angry at your children?

    The two fathers are silent for a moment. “We are sorry and grieving, but we are proud of them,” says Firas’ father. Abdullah adds that he hopes his daughter will recover.

    The fathers don’t know if their children planned what they did, or if it was a spontaneous decision. Raghad wanted to be a nurse when she grew up, Firas a veterinarian.

    Sirens are wailing in Hebron, to which we’ve returned. Another stabbing attempt at the entrance to the Tomb of the Patriarchs. Two more young Palestinians killed, both from the Rajabi family, the same family as Muhammad Thalji Rajabi, who tried to stab a soldier three days earlier and was killed, and whose father is now lamenting his death.

  • Israeli Soldiers Murdered Dozens of Captives During One of the Wars the IDF Fought in the First Decades of Israel’s Existence
    Aluf Benn Sep 17, 2016 12:36 PM
    http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.742365

    According to testimony obtained by Haaretz, captives were ordered to line up and turn around, before they were shot in the back. The officer who gave the order was released after serving seven months in prison, while his commander was promoted to a high-ranking post.

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    BREAKING: IDF Commander Nominated to be Chief of Staff Tolerated 1967 War Crimes
    September 16, 2016 By Richard Silverstein
    http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2016/09/16/idf-commander-nominated-chief-staff-commanded-unit-murdered-50-e

    (...) Benn’s story today concerns the massacre at a battle called Ras al Sudr (Hebrew) in the Egyptian Sinai during the 1967 War (all of this information is censored from Benn’s report. After the battle, “tens” (an earlier Haaretz report speaks of the remains of 52 or 62, depending on the source, Egyptian soldiers uncovered) of disarmed Egyptian soldiers were herded into an enclosed inner courtyard, where they were fed. The Israelis conversed with them about their respective military service. But this unit prepared to leave for another mission and was replaced by a second unit. This force refused to accept the prisoners and the first unit, which was an armored corps, had no logistical means of transporting them. Further, the entire Israeli battle plan was based on lightning fast tank attack and the troops could not afford to be bogged down with prisoners.

    At that point, the tank commander of the original unit felt he had no choice but to kill the prisoners. They were lined up, ordered to face the wall, then summarily executed. The Egyptian commanding officer turned to flee and was hunted down by soldiers from the relief unit, who followed him in a jeep and shot him to death as well. All the bodies were buried on the spot by a bulldozer.

    The story was reported to Benn by two witnesses to the killings. The first told the journalist that he had refused his superior’s order to kill the captives because he had earlier promised them they would not be killed. Though the officer threatened to bring him up on charges if he failed to comply, the soldier still refused. Then another soldier volunteered to carry out the illegal order, in which he was joined by three others.(...)

    crime_de_guerre

  • Israeli MK : IDF helping #al-Qaida in Syria at expense of Druse
    http://m.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Israeli-MK-IDF-helping-al-Qaida-in-Syria-at-expense-of-Druse-467518

    Kulanu MK Akram Hasson issued a harsh rebuke of the IDF on Monday, saying that not only is the army not helping the Druse population caught up in Syria’s civil war, it is cooperating with the Nusra Front, al-Qaida’s Syrian affiliate.

    Hasson’s comments in an interview with Channel 2 came amid fierce battles in recent days near the Druse village of Khader in the Syrian #Golan Heights.

    Hasson accused #Israel of being responsible for harm being caused to the Druse population of the Syrian Golan. “The IDF is shelling Syrian army positions, which is enabling the Nusra Front to seize Druse land.”

    The Kulanu MK further charged that “it is no secret that the IDF is cooperating with [the Nusra Front]. In the past they have told us that the Nusra Front coordinates with the IDF. We don’t know? What, were we born yesterday?”

    Hasson claimed that under former defense minister Moshe Ya’alon there was an agreement in place by which it was understood that nobody would enter the Druse village, and in exchange the local Druse would not interfere with the fighting in the area.

    “Today, after they took control of the most strategic positions and after the Syrian army left the area, they blocked the access road to Damascus, and isolated Khader from the rest of Syria, and they are slaughtering people,” he added.

    Hasson’s comments came a day after some 200 Israeli Druse held a demonstration in Majd al-Shams, calling on Israel to help their Syrian brethren.

    The village of Khader, which is right across from Majd al-Shams, on the other side of Mount Hermon, is home to some 25,000 Druse.

    The Nusra Front has sought to control Khader for some time in order to gain control of the entire Golan Heights. The al-Qaida-linked fighters number several hundred men as well as dozens of tanks that they have seized.

    During fierce fighting near Khader last year, and fear for the Druse community, the IDF sent messages to the Nusra Front through the Free Syrian Army, warning the Islamist group not to harm Syria’s Druse.

    #druzes

  • The Ever-diminishing Dissonance of Being a Religious Soldier in Israel’s Secular Army - Books
    http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/books/.premium-1.739927

    A timely question raised in the book is whether the religious community is plotting to take control of the army. Magal believes that some members of the community indeed wish for this, and many would like, for example, to see a religious chief of staff, but the author also lets the figures speak for him. According to the statistics he cites, 35 percent of the graduates of the Officers Training School (Bahad 1) are religiously observant (three times their proportion in the population), and almost a quarter of the soldiers from the settlement of Efrat, outside Bethlehem, enter an officers course. No fewer than 70 percent of those serving in the Maglan Special Forces unit are religious. Of the IDF’s five infantry brigades, Golani has the highest proportion of observant soldiers and officers, followed by Paratroops, Givati, Kfir and Nahal. It’s estimated that some 40 percent of the command staff in the Paratroops are religious.

    The bottom line is clear and unequivocal: The religious-Zionist movement is exercising a decisive influence on the IDF. It’s unlikely that the case of the religious cadets, who were expelled from Bahad 1 in September 2011 because they left the auditorium when a female singer took the stage, will repeat itself in an era in which the commanders of officers training courses themselves are, in growing numbers, wearing kippas.

    The rise of the religious community in the IDF was made possible in large measure by the fact that many members of Israel’s secular society began to ascribe less importance to military service than previously. The place of those who once proudly hoisted high the Zionist banner and achieved great things under it, is now being taken by those who view the Jewish people’s revitalization in the Land of Israel as part of fulfilling a divine imperative.

  • Administrateur systèmes Linux – Paris | Capensis
    https://www.capensis.fr/2015/06/administrateur-systemes-linux-paris

    Dans la cadre du développement de notre Parisienne, nous recherchons des administrateurs systèmes Linux.

    Les missions

    Rattaché(e) au responsable d’agence, vous aurez en charge l’installation et l’administration de solutions logicielles Linux / Open Source, la réalisation de missions d’études, d’intégration, de support, de formations ainsi que des avant-ventes en accompagnement de notre force commerciale.
    Ce poste implique également une veille technologique permanente.

    Profil

    Vous avez une expérience de 2 à 5 ans en administration système Linux.
    Nous recherchons des collaborateurs disposant des compétences suivantes :
    – Maitrise de l’exploitation des serveurs Linux (Red Hat / Debian / Ubuntu Server)
    – Maitrise du Scripting Shell (un langage de développement comme Perl serait un plus)
    – Maitrise des applications Open Source classiques (Samba, Apache, Tomcat…).

    – La maîtrise de la supervision avec Nagios est un point essentiel sur ce poste
    – Bonne connaissance des process de haute disponibilité sous Linux
    – Connaissances Unix propriétaires,Oracle, VMWare… sont également appréciables
    – Certification Red Hat (RHCSA – RHCE) souhaitée

    Débrouillard, rigoureux, capable d’évoluer facilement sur de nouvelles technologies, vous êtes également communiquant et avez le sens du service. Doté d’un véritable esprit d’équipe, vous recherchez un environnement de travail technique stimulant et un cadre humain agréable.

    Modalités

    Poste à pourvoir rapidement en CDI
    Lieu de travail : Paris / IDF (fonction du poste envisagé, lieu à préciser lors de votre candidtaure)
    Rémunération : à négocier selon profil

  • IDF releases conscientious objector after 67 days in prison | +972 Magazine
    By Haggai Matar |Published August 27, 2016
    http://972mag.com/idf-released-conscientious-objector-after-67-days-in-prison/121593

    Omri Baranes sat in military prison for 67 days for refusing to join the Israeli army.

    After spending 67 days in military prison, Israeli conscientious objector Omri Baranes was officially released from IDF service on Thursday. Baranes, from the city of Rosh HaAyin in central Israel, was recognized by an IDF committee as a pacifist and was thus released on conscientious grounds. The conscientious objectors committee originally reject her request, leading Baranes to refuse to serve in the army and sit in prison.(...)

  • Unarmed Palestinian shot dead by Israeli forces at military post near Ramallah
    Aug. 26, 2016 1:06 P.M. (Updated: Aug. 26, 2016 6:17 P.M.)
    http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?ID=772867

    RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — A reportedly unarmed Palestinian was shot dead by Israeli forces at a military post near the illegal Israeli Ofra settlement at the western entrance to the town of Silwad in northeastern Ramallah on Friday, contradicting earlier reports by Israeli media that he had opened fire at soldiers.

    An Israeli army spokesperson told Ma’an that Israeli soldiers stationed at a military post in Silwad identified a suspect on foot running toward them.

    The Israeli soldiers “shot towards the suspect, resulting in his death,” the spokesperson said.

    No injuries among Israeli soldiers were reported by the army.

    Medics from the Palestinian Red Crescent who had arrived at the scene were reportedly prevented from accessing the site by Israeli forces.

    Initial reports from Hebrew media, however, said the suspect had opened fire from inside a vehicle, and that a woman might have been inside the car with him.

    According to reports, witnesses said that he was shot and critically injured while inside his vehicle, and was later pronounced dead.

    When asked about the conflicting reports, and whether or not the suspect had been armed, the Israeli army spokesperson told Ma’an the details of the incident were still being checked.

    The suspect was later identified by local sources in the Ramallah area as 38-year-old Iyad Zakariya Hamed . He was married and a father of three.

    Israeli news site Ynet quoted an anonymous Palestinian official as saying that Hamed suffered from mental illness and was not found to have any weapons on his person when searched, and no signs of gunfire were found on the guard post.

    #Palestine_assassinée

    • Israel investigating claim unarmed Palestinian was shot in the back
      Aug. 28, 2016 11:47 A.M. (Updated: Aug. 28, 2016 1:53 P.M.)
      https://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772882

      BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The Israeli army’s military police have reportedly opened an investigation into the killing of an unarmed Palestinian man who was shot dead by Israeli forces on Friday, an Israeli army spokesperson told Ma’an.

      Thirty-eight-year-old Iyad Zakariya Hamed, a resident of the Ramallah area village of Silwad, was shot dead by Israeli forces near a military post at the village’s entrance not far from the illegal Israeli settlement Ofra, when soldiers alleged that they saw Hamed “charging” towards them.

      Israeli media initially reported that Hamed, a husband and father of three, fired shots at the Israeli soldiers, though it was later confirmed that he was unarmed.

      According to Israeli newspaper Haaretz, any death of a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank who was “not involved in actual fighting” warrants an Israeli military police investigation, and that the investigation into Hamed’s killing will look into the activity of the soldiers responsible — who were members of the “ultra-orthodox” Kifr Brigade — before they opened fire, and why they fired deadly shots at Hamed when “danger was not immediately clear.”

      In addition, the investigation will look into the claim from Palestinian medical officials that Hamed was shot in the back. The officials also reportedly said that Hamed had mental disabilities and had been receiving psychiatric treatment.

      The Israeli army has maintained however, that Hamed was running toward the military post when the soldiers opened fire.

    • Israel: Where the media will blindly buy what the ruling authorities dictate
      By Gideon Levy | Aug. 27, 2016 | 11:56 PM
      http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.738936
      A thousand reports are published about every West Bank settler who is murdered, yet Friday’s killing of an innocent man evoked one big yawn. It’s not terror, or apartheid, or racism or dehumanization. It’s only killing a subhuman.

      It was late in the morning. In Israel people were completing their preparations for Shabbat. The military reporters bought challahs, the soldiers left their bases for the weekend. At the Yabrud checkpoint in the West Bank their colleagues saw a man. Actually, they didn’t see a man. They saw a subhuman. They shot him as they were taught. The military reporters reported also as taught: “A terrorist fired a weapon at a pillbox post in Ofra. Nobody was hurt. The force fired back and the terrorist was killed.”

      Routine. There is no contradiction between “nobody was hurt” and “the terrorist was killed.” Only Jews can be hurt. An update followed: “The Kfir squad commander, who saw the terrorist throw a firebomb at an IDF pillbox in Silwad, shot and killed him. Nobody was hurt.” Now the shooting had turned into “a firebomb.” A short time later, it was reported: “Apparently, he was mentally unstable. A search on his body resulted with no findings.” In other words, murder.

      This is what Channel 10 reporter Or Heller tweeted on Friday, as did some of his colleagues, including Alon Ben-David. Heller is far from the worst of the military reporters, who recite automatically whatever the army spokesman dictates to them without attributing the quote to the spokesman, and consider themselves journalists.

      There is no other coverage area in which journalists can act like that. They buy blindly, fervidly, what the ruling authorities dictate to them. The lies about what happened on Friday at the Yabrud checkpoint were spread by the IDF, of course. Afterward the IDF corrected itself, and only after that did the reporters follow suit and report: “the Palestinian didn’t try to attack the soldiers.” Good evening and Shabbat Shalom.

      It was late in the morning. Iyad Hamed, of Silwad, was on his way to Friday prayers in the mosque. Years ago he hurt his head in a traffic accident and since then had been mentally unstable. He was 38, a father of three, including a baby. A witness who testified to B’Tselem Saturday, Iyad Hadad, said Hamed had lost his way, panicked when he saw the soldiers at the checkpoint and ran. He ran for his life. He wasn’t armed, he endangered no one.

      Paramedic Yihia Mubarak believes he was shot in the back as he ran. He saw an entry wound in the victim’s back and an exit wound in his chest. Hamed died on the spot. Shortly afterward his body was returned. Israel’s lust for bodies was satiated this time, after it transpired that Hamed had been killed although he had done nothing wrong.

      A dead Arab. Oh well. We’ve moved onto other, more interesting and important matters. When a single Qassam rocket from Gaza lands, without hurting anyone or causing any damage, Israel launches a revenge campaign of bombardments and shelling, sowing devastation and horror. It’s allowed to do anything. The disappointed military reporters provoke the defense minister, asking, “why only real estate?” And what about Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, whom Avigdor Lieberman had promised to assassinate?

      Israel is allowed to do anything. Are the Palestinians allowed to take revenge for the killing of their friend? What a ludicrous question. Are they allowed to try to “deter” IDF soldiers, as Israel does with Hamas, so that they don’t kill innocent passersby again? Another ludicrous question. Will anyone be punished for this killing? An even more ludicrous question.

      If an Israeli dog had been killed by a Palestinian assailant, Israel would have been much more shocked than by Hamed’s killing. A thousand reports are published about every West Bank settler who is murdered, yet Friday’s killing of an innocent man evoked one big yawn. It’s not terror, or apartheid, or racism or dehumanization. It’s only killing a subhuman.

      I was in Silwad about nine months ago, after Border Policemen killed Mahdia Hamed, a 40-year-old mother of four. The Border Policemen claimed she had tried to run them over with her car, but eyewitnesses testified she had been driving slowly. At home, her 10-month-old infant was waiting to be breast-fed.

      They shot her several times and the bullets pierced and ran through her body. Nobody was put on trial. The widower, Adiv Hamed, asked me then, in his naivety: “Do the Israelis know what happened? Was there a public debate in Israel after she was killed?”

      I was silent with shame.

    • A mentally disabled Palestinian shot dead by Israeli troops for behaving strangely
      http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.739750
      ’Let’s say Iyad was behaving strangely. Why kill him?’ his brother ponders. ’When they grow up, Iyad’s children are liable to hate Israel, and with good reason. You killed their father.’
      By Gideon Levy and Alex Levac | Sep. 2, 2016 | 4:39 PM | 5

      The man who was shot to death last Friday by a soldier from the Kfir Brigade’s ultra-Orthodox Netzach Yehuda Battalion was 38 and the father of two small children, a son and a daughter, who were this week scurrying around the living room of their house, in a state of bewilderment, she in a purple skirt, he in shorts. Their father, Iyad Hamed, had a congenital mental disability: Introverted and taciturn, he was prone to stare at the ground as he walked. He enjoyed communing with nature and picking figs and almonds. Still, there was structure in his life: He had a wife and children, and worked in construction in a simple job. “He wasn’t the sharpest of people,” his brothers say.

      Footage from the security camera of the grocery store in Silwad, a village near Ramallah, shows his last minutes. Hamed, in a light-colored shirt, is seen buying snacks for his children and paying. A few moments later, he sets out for a mosque for the Friday prayers, never to return. Nothing in the footage hints at what is about to happen: A father buys treats for his children in the final hour of his life.

      Most of Hamed’s family is in America, as are many of the natives of this well-to-do village. Ten years ago, his six brothers moved to Ohio – to Columbus and Cleveland – where they work in real estate. Iyad, the eldest, remained in Silwad, as did his sister. He started a family, but recently decided to emigrate, as well; one of his brothers said he’d submitted a petition to the authorities to that end.

      He lived on the ground floor of the family’s stone house. The building is handsome, though less splendid than other mansion-type dwellings in this elegant neighborhood on a hill. The second floor is used by the brothers and their families during their annual vacations here. This summer they visited twice: once on holiday and then not long afterward – to mourn and grieve for their dead brother.

      Their parents divide their time between America and Silwad, some of whose privately owned land was taken to build the settlement of Ofra. Many residents of this well-to-do village have moved in recent years to the United States.

      Last December, Border Police shot and killed another Silwad resident, Mahdia Hammad, a 40-year-old mother of four, claiming that she was trying to run them over. Now the army has killed Iyad Hamed without any apparent reason: He wasn’t armed and didn’t pose a threat to anyone.

      The Israel Defense Forces itself admits that.

      The killing took place at the edge of the village, not far from Highway 60, a former venue for demonstrations and stone throwing. The demonstrations ceased in the past month, under pressure from locals, who are tired of the tear gas and the upheaval. Five Silwad residents were killed in the past year by Israeli troops.

      We are standing next to a mound of stones where Hamed collapsed, bleeding, last Friday. He’d come this far, after dropping off the snacks for the kids at home, on his way to a mosque in the neighboring village of Yabrud, where he prayed on Fridays. He preferred it to the mosques in Silwad.

      On the way, he stopped at the Silwad gas station to say hello to his friend Rashad, who works there. The gas station’s security camera caught him again. He then went on his way to Yabrud, which is located on the other side of Highway 60. He could have used the passage beneath the road but opted for the shorter route, which passes next to a towering, armored IDF pillbox.

      It was about 11:40 A.M. On the other side of the road, Abdel Hamid Yusuf, a solidly built young man of 26, was driving his sewage tanker to the site where he empties it. An eyewitness to the events, he is now standing with us at the place where Hamed was killed, along with Iyad Hadad, a field researcher for the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem.

      Hamed was behaving oddly, recalls Yusuf, who knew him well and was aware of his condition. Hamed seemed to have lost his way and also his senses; he ran back and forth below the army tower. Yusuf says he saw no soldiers while Hamed was running about between it and the surrounding barbed-wire fences. Hamed looked frightened. He had wanted to cut across the highway to the mosque, but couldn’t find his way out. He was like a caged animal; the barbed-wire fences were impassable. “It’s dangerous there, get out!” Yusuf shouted to him from across the road. Hamed didn’t respond – maybe he didn’t hear Yusuf.

      It’s crucial to note that Hamed was not holding anything in his hands. That is confirmed by Yusuf and by what the footage from the gas station’s camera shows: an unarmed civilian in a light-colored shirt, who apparently got confused and lost his way.

      Suddenly a few shots rang out. Hamed started to run frantically back toward the village. It’s not clear where the shots came from, but immediately afterward Yusuf saw a few soldiers emerge from the vegetation at the foot of the tower. Hamed kept running. More shots were fired at him, apparently by the soldiers, who had been in ambush. He was hit and fell to the ground. One bullet entered his back and exited through his chest, paramedic Yahya Mubarak, who took possession of the body, would report afterward.

      A., who lives in apartment No. 9 in the nearby Hurriya Tower building in Silwad, went out to his balcony when he heard shooting. What he told the field researcher corroborated Yusuf’s account: Hamed ran for his life until he was felled.

      Four soldiers rolled Hamed’s body over with their feet. He probably died instantly, though that’s not certain. An Israeli ambulance arrived about 15 minutes later, but Yusuf says he couldn’t see whether Hamed received medical aid. More troops arrived in a silver-gray civilian car. The body lay on the ground for some time before being removed by soldiers. A few hours later, the body was returned to the family, after it became clear to the IDF – which is rarely in a hurry to give back bodies – that Hamed had done nothing wrong and was killed in vain.

      The cardboard packages that contained IDF-issue bullets are scattered on the ground where Hamed went down. An IDF officer approaches us from the direction of the tower, and four soldiers emerge out of nowhere from another direction. Minutes later, another group of soldiers comes up from the valley. Maybe one of them killed Hamed?

      The soldier who fired the shot that killed him was questioned this week by the Military Police on suspicion of causing death by negligence and then sent back to his unit. He wasn’t so much as suspended from his duties.

      In the house of mourning is the father, Zakariya, 58, dignified and wearing a stylized embroidered galabia. With him are two of his sons, Yahya, 34, from Columbus, and Ahmed, 31, from Cleveland. Hamed’s fatherless offspring, 9-year-old Zakariya and 3-year-old Lian, are with their mother, newly widowed Narmine.

      “Come on, we are human beings, we don’t get shot at like that,” Yahya says. “Come on, we have kids. The soldier took a human life. It made me want to throw up when I read the reports of what happened in [the newspaper] Yedioth Ahronoth.”

      When they were here a month ago, on vacation, the brothers brought new clothes for Iyad as gifts. Iyad hadn’t worn them yet; he was saving them for Id al-Adha, the Feast of Sacrifice. Now he will never wear them, “because some soldier decided to kill him.” The faces of the brothers are contorted in grief again.

      Yahya: “Let’s say Iyad was behaving strangely. Why kill him? Shoot him in the leg. Why kill him? You’re not God. In the first intifada, they shot at the legs. You could talk with the soldiers. Now you reach a hand toward your pocket, and they kill you. Do you know what a tragedy the soldier who killed my brother caused? How many families he destroyed?”

      The children cuddle up to their two uncles. Lian blows up a balloon and floats it in the room. She has lazy eye, and wears thick glasses. She’s scheduled to have an operation for the condition in a few weeks; her father will not be there to accompany her.

      Yahya, who reads the English-language edition of Haaretz in the United States on his phone, says, “The children know that a Jewish soldier killed their father,” he says. “When they grow up, they are liable to hate Israel, and with good reason. You killed their father.

      “We are not a political family,” he continues. “We have never been in prison, we have never thrown a stone. Neither had Iyad. But what love will these children have for Israel when they grow up? You want to live here? Fine. But don’t kill us. Let us live, too. You love life – so do we. Everyone will tell you what a pure soul Iyad was. He never hurt anyone. I’d like to know what [Chief of Staff] Gadi Eisenkot will have to say about this killing. And what the soldier who killed Iyad is feeling. I heard he’s religious. Does that mean he has earlocks?

      “When I accidentally run over a cat on the road, I feel bad for a long time afterward,” Yahya says. “What does the soldier who killed my brother feel now?”

  • Palestinian teen dies after being shot in heart by Israeli forces in al-Fawwar clashes
    Aug. 16, 2016 5:59 P.M. (Updated: Aug. 16, 2016 7:03 P.M.)
    https://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772716

    A photo shared on social media shows Muhammad Abu Hashhash, 17, who was killed on Aug. 16, 2016 in the al-Fawwar refugee camp.

    BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A Palestinian teenager died on Tuesday afternoon after being shot by Israeli forces with live ammunition earlier in the day during clashes in the al-Fawwar refugee camp in the southern occupied West Bank district of Hebron, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said.

    The ministry identified the slain youth as 17-year-old Muhammad Abu Hashhash.

    Palestinian Red Crescent spokeswoman Errab Foqoha told Ma’an that Abu Hashhash succumbed to wounds sustained when he was “shot with live ammunition in the heart” by Israeli forces during clashes in al-Fawwar in which at least 32 other Palestinians were injured.

    Israeli forces stormed al-Fawwar at dawn on Tuesday, ransacking homes and interrogating residents. Clashes then broke out between local youth and Israeli soldiers who fired live gunshots, tear gas, and rubber-coated steel bullets at the youth, injuring at least 33, including Abu Hashhash.

    #Palestine_assassinée

    • Un Palestinien tué lors de heurts avec l’armée israélienne
      http://www.romandie.com/news/Un-Palestinien-tue-lors-de-heurts-avec-larmee-israelienne/729066.rom

      Un jeune Palestinien a été tué mardi lors dans des affrontements avec l’armée israélienne au camp de réfugiés de Fawwar en Cisjordanie, a annoncé le ministère palestinien de la Santé. Des dizaines de manifestants ont en outre été blessés.

      Le jeune homme a été tué par une balle entrée dans son dos et qui a frappé au-dessus du coeur, a annoncé un responsable de l’hôpital d’Hébron. Le jeune homme avait 17 ans, a précisé le ministère palestinien de la Santé.

      Les violences ont éclaté dans le camp à la suite de l’intervention en nombre de soldats israéliens dans la matinée.

    • Israeli forces withdraw from devastated al-Fawwar, leaving Palestinian teen killed, 45 injured
      http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772723

      Several residents of the refugee camp said that Israeli soldiers stole money and gold while searching their houses, destroying their belongings, and taking pictures of some of the residents.

      Head of the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) in Hebron and a resident of al-Fawwar, Amjad al-Najjar, said that he and his 40-member family were locked inside a room in his house during the raid.

      “Israeli soldiers searched and ransacked the house and left after four hours, which is when we realized they stole gold and money.”

      At least three Palestinians were detained during the raid, including a father and son after Israeli forces claimed to have found a broken gun in the house.

    • Sniper kills Muhammad Abu Hashhash in al-Fawwar RC though he posed no threat
      Published: 9 Sep 2016
      http://www.btselem.org/firearms/20160908_killing_of_muhammad_abu_hashhash

      On 16 August 2016, at around 5:00 P.M., a military sniper shot and killed 19-year-old Palestinian Muhammad Yusef Saber Abu Hashhash during a raid on al-Fawwar Refugee Camp, which lies southwest of Hebron. According to media reports, Abu Hashhash was shot from behind. A live bullet penetrated his back and exited through his chest, above the heart.

      The raid on the refugee camp began at around 3:00 A.M., when three battalions entered it. According to the IDF Spokesperson, the purpose of the raid was “to arrest suspects, to search for illegal weapons, and to summon individuals for questioning”. The spokesperson also said that the soldiers were met with stone throwing, Molotov cocktail throwing, and improvised explosives, and responded with crowd control measures and firing “Ruger” (also known as Two-Two or 0.22-inch) bullets. Three Palestinians who were wanted for questioning were apprehended and the troops found two guns, stun grenades, and military equipment including bulletproof vests, helmets and canteens. The troops left the camp in the evening.

      B’Tselem’s field research found that some 32 Palestinians were wounded in the raid. The soldiers searched 150 to 200 homes, and in scores of them took up positions on rooftops. During most of the intrusions into homes, the soldiers closed all family members off in a single room or section of the house for several hours. Soldiers broke windows, doors and walls and damaged property in 28 of the homes they invaded.(...)

    • My vision is to fulfill our mission of being a tool or a robust engine for the development of the Negev, which is now concentrated on the move of [much of] the IDF to the Negev,” she said. This will be a “historic move” that will change the face of the South and its demographical mix, Carmi said.

      Néguev — Wikipédia
      https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Néguev

      Population
      Le Néguev constitue 60 % de la surface de l’État d’Israël mais n’abrite que 8 % de sa population, dont une forte communauté de Bédouins (25 % de la population régionale).

      La population de Bédouins, qui sont des Arabes israéliens, est estimée a 160 000 personnes. La volonté des autorités israéliennes serait de les sédentariser, et à ce titre, ils ont été dirigés en grande partie vers des villages construits par le gouvernement. Une autre moitié est restée sur ses terres d’origine, dans des villages qui ne sont pas reconnus et où les conditions d’existence sont précaires en raison de l’absence d’infrastructures et des démolitions exercées par les autorités israéliennes.

      La situation est conflictuelle entre les autorités israéliennes et la population bédouine, et des incidents se déroulent de manière récurrente.

    • « The best method to combat BDS is to bring as many students and delegations to Israel as possible »

      Ah bon ? J’aurais cru que c’était de libérer les territoires occupés, de démanteler le Mur, de lever le blocus de Gaza, de cesser les politiques d’apartheid et de faire revenir les réfugiés palestiniens chez eux...

      #Palestine

  • Israel Just Took Over the Golan Demilitarized Buffer Zone
    By osnetdaily -
    July 13, 2016
    http://osnetdaily.com/2016/07/israel-just-took-golan-demilitarized-buffer-zone

    Debka File

    Israeli military bulldozers backed by tanks have crossed into the demilitarized zone dividing the Israeli and Syrian Golan borders. They are building a line of fortifications and anti-tank trenches 300-500 meters inside the DMZ.

    This is the first time in the six-year Syrian war that the IDF has openly operated on the Syrian side of the border. The force has not so far run into opposition- or indeed any word of protest – or even mention – by Assad regime officials in Damascus.

    The sole reference to Israeli military movements in the DMZ has come from a small Syrian rebel group which described them.

    debkafile’s military sources report that the IDF operation was still going forward Wednesday, July 12, on a patch of terrain facing the Israeli Golan village of Ein Zivan, on the one hand, and the Syrian town of Quneitra, on the other.

  • Congrats, Netanyahu. A New Low

    The moral is this: If Benjamin Netanyahu can do something like this to someone like this, he can do anything to anyone.
    Bradley Burston Jun 21, 2016 5:25 PM
    http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.726306


    Perhia Heiman, sister of Israeli MIA from 1982, Yehuda Katz, in an interview with Channel 10 television on June 17, 2016, about the tank her brother was in, in Lebanon, when he disappeared. Credit screenshot

    (...) The story is this: Earlier in the week, the prime minister had cited as one of the achievements of his recent Moscow visit with Vladimir Putin in Moscow, persuading the Russian leader to return an Israeli tank captured by Syria in a disastrous battle of the 1982 Lebanon war.

    The Prime Minister’s Office had indicated to the press that the tank was the one manned by three soldiers missing in the battle, 34 years nearly to the day of the Moscow trip.

    Netanyahu himself suggested that the return of the tank might bring the bereaved families solace. “The families of the missing, Zacharia Baumel, Zvi Feldman and Yehuda Katz, have not had a physical vestige of their sons or a grave to visit for the past 34 years,” he said in a statement.

    Only when Netanyahu returned from Russia did it emerge that this had been an unusually cynical public relations ploy, exploiting the feelings of the long-grieving families for the sake of a cheap photo opportunity.

    “The prime minister phoned me and told me ’Here, your brother’s tank is arriving,” Katz’ sister Perhia Heiman told Israel’s Channel 10 on Friday.

    When Heiman checked the chassis number of the tank, however, she discovered that it was not her brother’s at all.

    “The tank belonged to the deputy battalion commander, who ran away - which is exactly the opposite of the missing men of the Sultan Yaakoub battle, who fought like lions - and who abandoned them in the field.”

    “Why keep me waiting on burning coals, with the supposed ’news item’ that this is my brother’s tank?” she asked.

    Asked if she was saying that Netanyahu knew that this was not the tank, she replied, “Yes. Yes, yes. The IDF has known for several weeks that this was not the same tank.”

    Heiman noted that the prime minister knew the grief of losing a sibling. Netanyahu’s brother Yoni was killed during the 1976 Entebbe raid to rescue terror hostages in Uganda.

    “I believe it’s time to bring an end to this cynicism on the part of a prime minister who is also a bereaved brother, to bully and give the run-around to the families of missing soldiers this way - there has to be a limit.”

    Perhia Heiman has reached hers. Early next week, by the Hebrew calendar the 34th anniversary of the battle, she will be standing outside the Prime Minister’s Office, with a clear message for Netanyahu:

    “Help me to stand beside the prime minister’s office,” she told viewers on Friday, “and call on him to resign.”

    "He may have the legal or some other sort of authority to continue to serve as prime minister, but he no longer has the moral authority.

    “There is no leader without a people. And we will not accept that kind of shoddy leadership.”

    She asked people who wished to help her organize the demonstration to contact her at heimanp@bezeqint.net.

    Asked why she thought Netanyahu had publicized the return of the tank, with the prime minister’s office quoted as saying it was her brother’s, she answered without hesitation.

    “This is what he had an interest in presenting, perhaps in order to give it ’spin’ because that same day, the police reached the conclusion that there was evidence to bring his wife Sara Netanyahu to trial, in connection with (financial irregularities at) the prime minister’s residences.”

    The story did not end there, however. Asked if Netanyahu knew that the tank was not Heiman’s brothers, the Prime Minister’s Office responded with a tortuous statement that began by insisting that Netanyahu honored the families, continued by indirectly accusing Heiman of lying about something she, in fact, did not say, and ended by saying, in effect, that we in the prime minister’s office never really, exactly, precisely, explicitly, said that this was the same tank.

    A new low.

    Now, after 34 years, Perhia Heiman has only begun her fight. She listened to the Prime Minister’s Office response with quiet composure.

    “That’s his statement. But I have recordings of the conversations in my possession,” she said.

    Next week. The Prime Minister’s Office. 3 Kaplan Street, Kiryat Ben-Gurion, Jerusalem.

    The moral is this: If Benjamin Netanyahu can do something like this to someone like this, he can do anything to anyone.

    • Le tank rendu par la Russie à Israël n’est pas celui des trois soldats disparus
      Par i24news
      Publié : 17/06/2016 - 22:35, mis à jour : 22:37

      Mais trois soldats, Zvi Feldman, Yehuda Katz et Zachary Baumel, furent portés disparus.
      http://www.i24news.tv/fr/actu/international/117071-160617-le-tank-rendu-par-la-russie-a-israel-n-est-pas-celui-des-trois
      « (...) Ce tank est la seule preuve que nous ayons de nos garçons qui ont disparu dans cette bataille, » a expliqué Netanyahou.

      « Nous recherchons nos soldats depuis 34 ans, et nous ne nous arrêterons jamais jusqu’à ce que nous les ramenions afin de pouvoir les enterrer en Israël ... Maintenant [les familles] auront ce tank, un vestige des combats de la bataille », a-t-il ajouté.

      Mais Baumel, Feldman et Katz se trouvaient dans deux autres blindés. Les experts israéliens qui ont examiné le tank rendu par la Russie ont conclu qu’il ne s’agissait pas du char dans lequel les trois soldats se trouvaient quand ils ont disparu, selon Ynet.

      « Le tank qui nous a été rendu n’est pas celui dans lequel se trouvaient les soldats », a affirmé le lieutenant-colonel de réserve Michael Mas.

      « Bien qu’il s’agisse effectivement d’un blindé saisi au cours de la bataille de Sultan Yacoub, il n’y a aucune trace de ces trois soldats dans ce char », a-t-il précisé.

      Le bureau du premier ministre israélien a déclaré n’avoir jamais prétendu que le tank rendu par la Russie était celui dans lequel les trois soldats avaient combattu.

      « Nous avons seulement déclaré qu’il s’agissait d’un blindé de la bataille de Sultan Yacoub, voilà ce que le Premier ministre a dit aux familles », a expliqué le bureau du premier ministre.

      « Personne n’a jamais dit qu’il s’agissait du tank des trois soldats disparus », a-t-il insisté.

  • Encore des #tribunes que Hollande et Valls ne liront pas...

    Nous continuerons à manifester
    Etienne Balibar (philosophe), Jacques Bidet (philosophe), Jérôme Bourdieu (économiste), Christophe Charle (historien), Benjamin Coriat (économiste), Christine Delphy (sociologue), Eric Fassin (sociologue), Olivier Fillieule (sociologue), Bastien François (politiste), Jean-Marie Harribey (économiste), Sabina Issehnane (économiste), Esther Jeffers (économiste), Pierre Khalfa (coprésident de la Fondation Copernic), Rose-Marie Lagrave (sociologue), Frédéric Lebaron (sociologue), Philippe Légé (économiste), Dany Lang (économiste), Willy Pelletier (sociologue), Jonathan Marie (économiste), Gérard Mauger (sociologue), Christian de Montlibert (sociologue), Léonard Moulin (économiste), Gérard Mordillat (romancier), Gisele Sapiro (sociologue), Johanna Siméant (politiste), Violaine Roussel (politiste), Christian Topalov (sociologue), Libération, le 16 juin 2016
    http://www.liberation.fr/debats/2016/06/16/nous-continuerons-a-manifester_1459962

    A signer ici :
    https://www.change.org/p/je-ne-respecterai-pas-l-interdiction-de-manifester

    Ce gouvernement a peur
    Pierre Alferi (écrivain), Jean-Claude Amara (porte-parole de Droits devant !!), Nathalie Astolfi (enseignante), Ana Azaria (présidente de Femmes Egalité), Igor Babou (universitaire), Etienne Balibar (philosophe), Ludivine Bantigny (historienne), Amal Bentounsi (Urgence Notre Police Assassine), Eric Beynel (porte-parole de Solidaires), Daniel Blondet (militant anti-impérialiste), Antoine Boulangé (enseignant), Claude Calame (historien), Laurent Cauwet (éditeur), Manuel Cervera-Marzal (sociologue), Déborah Cohen (historienne), Christine Delphy (sociologue), Alain Dervin (enseignant), Paul Dirkx (sociologue), Joss Dray (photographe), Julien Dufour (doctorant en sociologie), Jules Falquet (sociologue), Eric Fassin (sociologue), Samantha Faubert (hispaniste), Sophie Fesdjian (anthropologue, enseignante), Alain Frappier (illustrateur), Désirée Frappier (scénariste), Bernard Friot (sociologue), Luc Gaffet (militant CGT), Fanny Gallot (historienne), Franck Gaudichaud (politiste), Valérie Gérard (philosophe), Céline Gondard-Lalanne (porte-parole Solidaires), Nahema Hanafi (historienne), Samuel Hayat (politiste), Eric Hazan (auteur et éditeur), Catherine Jardin (éditrice), François Jarrige (historien), Fanny Jedlicki (sociologue), Claude Kaiser (militant anti-nucléaire), Leslie Kaplan (écrivaine), Patrice Lardeux (militant CGT), Mathilde Larrère (historienne), Olivier Le Cour Grandmaison (universitaire), Pascal Maillard (universitaire et syndicaliste), Philippe Marlière (politiste), Bénédicte Monville-De Cecco (conseillère régionale IDF (EELV)), Olivier Neveux (historien d’art), Ugo Palheta (sociologue), Willy Pelletier (sociologue), Irène Pereira (sociologue), Roland Pfefferkorn (sociologue), Christian Pierrel (PCOF) ; Christine Poupin (NPA), Théo Roumier (appel des syndicalistes « On bloque tout ! »), Omar Slaouti (enseignant), Federico Tarragoni (sociologue), Jacques Testart (biologiste), Julien Théry-Astruc (historien), Michel Tort (psychanalyste), François Tronche (directeur de recherches au CNRS), Marlène Tuininga (4ACG), Béatrice Turpin (réalisatrice militante), Sophie Wauquier (linguiste), Libération, le 17 juin 2016
    http://www.liberation.fr/debats/2016/06/17/ce-gouvernement-a-peur_1460153

    #Manifestations #France #Répression #Liberté_d'expression #NuitDebout #Crise_de_2016

  • « Ce sont des systèmes que nous voulons détruire, pas des individuEs » : rencontre avec les PanAfroRévolutionnaires du Collectif Cases Rebelles
    https://joaogabriell.com/2016/06/03/ce-sont-des-systemes-que-nous-voulons-detruire-pas-des-individues-renc

    L’une des principales constatations c’est sans doute que l’on a appris, découvert beaucoup de choses dans ce travail d’auto-éducation et de récupération de nos histoires. La deuxième c’est la difficulté d’agir et de sortir de l’isolement, de se connecter à plus de personnes dans la vraie vie quand on est hors de Paris/IDF. Notre objectif n’était pas de devenir un média mais un groupe militant. Et là-dessus on est un peu frustréEs. Ensuite, exister sainement en petit collectif sur le long terme ce n’est pas toujours facile mais on résiste.

    #radio #france #post_tout #noirs #panafricanisme

  • Guerre au palais, paix aux chaumières - Interluttants 35 bis, Cip-idf, juin 2016

    http://www.cip-idf.org/article.php3?id_article=8218

    Interluttant 35 bis : le temps s’est arrêté en mars, ça ne défile
    plus comme avant.
    Les grèves et blocages se succèdent et se multiplient depuis
    trois mois : transports, lycées, facs, raffineries, centrales nu-
    cléaires, restauration rapide... La violence de la répression
    s’accentue. Maintenant, les grenades de désencerclement
    sont même utilisées par la police alors qu’elle ne court pas
    le moindre danger. Touché par l’une d’elle, le 26 mai, un manifestant tombe, atteint à la tempe, plongé depuis dans le coma, et certains médias osent demander si ce ne serait pas un projectile lancé par les manifestants qui l’aurait blessé.
    Cela ne nous intimide pas. Nous sommes toujours dans la rue. On s’équipe comme on peut pour faire face aux gaz lacrymos et pour continuer à nous retrouver dans le cortège de tête, parce que c’est là aussi que ça s’invente : comment on lutte, comment on bloque, comment on fait corps. Et partout en Europe, la même question s’impose : comment construire ensemble, au-delà des frontières, les manières de résister aux politiques de #précarisation et aux modes de gouvernement des régimes de la crise.

  • CIP-IDF > Rassemblement de solidarité pour la libération immédiate et abandon de toutes poursuites à l’encontre du camarade arrêté hier au Medef
    http://www.cip-idf.org/article.php3?id_article=8215

    Hier midi, mardi 7 juin, nous manifestions dans les locaux du Medef, 50 avenue Bosquet dans le 7ème. Il s’agissait d’exprimer haut et fort le refus de leur position dans les négociations sur l’assurance-chômage, d’exiger que soit adopté l’accord « sectoriel » du 28 avril dernier sur les annexes 8 et 10 de l’Unedic et que l’ensemble des chômeurs - et non une minorité d’entre eux, comme c’est le cas actuellement - soient indemnisés.

    Comme de la part des forces de police depuis le début de la mobilisation contre la loi travail, il y trois mois, la violence des coups a une nouvelle fois été l’unique réponse à nos exigences. Les vigiles s’en sont pris aux manifestants dès leur arrivée pacifique dans le hall d’accueil. Et c’est devant de nombreux témoins que le chef de la sécurité du Medef n’a pas hésité à porter les coups les plus violents à l’encontre d’un de nos camarade avant de déposer plainte pour « violences » contre lui !

    Lors de l’arrivée de la police, près de 80 personnes ont été interpellées puis soumises à une vérification d’identité au commissariat de la rue de l’évangile (18ème). Le camarade mis en cause par le chef de la sécurité du Medef a pour sa part été conduit dans un commissariat du 7ème et placé en garde à vue avant d’être conduit, sous escorte et menotté, pour une consultation médicale.

  • CIP-IDF > Nassons les nasseurs, contrôlons les contrôleurs, retrait de la loi travail
    http://www.cip-idf.org/article.php3?id_article=8214

    Chômeurs, précaires, intermittents, étudiants, grévistes, nous intervenons en ce jour de conseil des ministres devant le domicile de Myriam El Khomry au 12 villa Championnet, Paris 18eme.

    Depuis trois mois que dure la mobilisation contre la loi Travail, depuis trois mois que le gouvernement s’obstine, nous avons eu le loisir de vérifier que, pour nous, aucune intimité ne vaut face à la logique économique et à son pendant policier. Alors que l’état d’urgence est utilisé pour répondre à la « questions sociale », coups, blessures et mutilations, perquisitions, assignations à résidence et interdictions collectives ou individuelles de manifester nous atteignent dans nos corps.

    Déjà en butte au quotidien à des centaines de milliers de visites domiciliaires de la CAF chaque année, à des entretiens sociaux ou d’embauche où il faudrait se mettre à nu, à des évaluations continues, que lon soit employé ou pas, à des vérifications administratives effectuées sur les comptes bancaires des pauvres (CMU-C), nous ne nous résignons pas à voir nos vies contrôlées en détails pendant que les puissants jouissent de la liberté d’exploiter, de décider et de vivre comme bon leur semble. À l’abri.

    Nous sommes venus rétablir un peu d’égalité, faire que la transparence que l’on nous impose atteigne aussi ceux qui, contre la société, décident de son organisation.