Israeli forces shoot 11-year-old Palestinian in head with rubber bullet | +972 Magazine
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The Israeli army shot an 11-year-old Palestinian boy in the head with a rubber bullet Monday night during a raid on Shuafat refugee camp in East Jerusalem.
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Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox clash with police in Jerusalem over arrest of draft dodgers
Aaron Rabinowitz Sep 17, 2017 5:57 PM
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Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox protesters from the most extreme factions of their community demonstrated on Sunday outside the Israeli army enlistment center on Rashi Street in Jerusalem over the arrest of about 40 ultra-Orthodox men on allegations of desertion. A particular focus of the protest was the arrest of the grandson of the rabbi of the Toldos Avrohom Yitzchok Hasidic sect, who was detained two weeks ago by military police for desertion on landing at Ben-Gurion International Airport. Eight protesters were detained after demonstrators threw stones at the police.
Earlier the protesters gathered at Jerusalem’s Shabbat Square in the heart of the ultra-Orthodox community. The area was closed to traffic and a large contingent of police was deployed in advance of the demonstration.
The United States Was Responsible for the 1982 Massacre of Palestinians in Beirut | The Nation
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On the night of September 16, 1982, my younger brother and I were baffled as we watched dozens of Israeli flares floating down in complete silence over the southern reaches of Beirut, for what seemed like an eternity. We knew that the Israeli army had rapidly occupied the western part of the city two days earlier. But flares are used by armies to illuminate a battlefield, and with all the PLO fighters who had resisted the Israeli army during the months-long siege of the city already evacuated from Beirut, we went to bed perplexed, wondering what enemy was left for the occupying army to hunt.
This was a little more than a month after the August 12 cease-fire that had supposedly ended the war, and was followed by the departure of the PLO’s military forces, cadres, and leadership from the city. The trigger for Israel’s occupation of West Beirut was the assassination on September 14 of Israel’s close ally and Lebanese President-elect Bashir Gemayel, head of the Lebanese Front militia and a top leader of the fascist-modeled Phalangist party.
What we had seen the night before became clear when we met two American journalists on September 17. They had just visited the scene of ongoing massacres in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps, home to tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians as well as many Lebanese. They had taken with them into the camps a young American diplomat, Ryan Crocker, who was the first US government official to file a report on what they had seen. We found out from them that the Israeli army had used flares the previous night in order to light the way for the right-wing Lebanese militias whom the Israelis sent into Sabra and Shatila. From September 16 to 18, according to historian Bayan al-Hout’s authoritative account of this event, these militiamen slaughtered over 1,300 Palestinian and Lebanese civilians (for more on these and related events, see the revised 2014 edition of my book Under Siege: PLO Decisionmaking During the 1982 War).
Why Syria hasn’t retaliated to the alleged Israeli strike
Syria and allies practice restraint after alleged Israeli attack on missile plant
Amos Harel Sep 10, 2017
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It appears, however, that the timing isn’t convenient for sabre rattling by the Assad regime and its supporters. The regime scored an important victory last week when the Syrian army and Shi’ite militias took over Deir el-Zour in eastern Syria and drove out Islamic State fighters. Iran is explaining its active military involvement in Syria with the need to help the Assad regime, more than opening a front with Israel, while Hezbollah is playing down the assistance it receives from Iran and Syria.
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A military retaliation against Israel could create difficulties for the parties bolstering Hezbollah. The response could come at a later stage and indirectly, like the tightening of Russian-Iranian cooperation.
Recently, reports have said Russia will provide air defense in western Syria, mainly via S-400 missiles, for Iranian arms plants as well. As far as is known, Iran operates such facilities in Syria in coordination with the Assad regime, but so far hasn’t implemented plans to set up similar ones in Lebanon.
Syrian soccer fans hold a portrait of President Bashar Assad before a match with Iran in a World Cup qualifier, Tehran, September 6, 2017.Vahid Salemi / AP
On Sunday, Israel’s military will continue the large drill in the north that began last week; numerous infantry units and aircraft will be involved. The exercise, which is taking place in a Lower Galilee area that simulates Lebanon, will move this week from defense to offense. Presumably, Hezbollah and Syria will also have to take the Israeli army’s high alert into account if they’re considering a retaliation to the airstrike.
Former Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon said he didn’t know who attacked the plant in Syria, “but whoever it was did Israel an excellent service.”
As Ya’alon put it, “The Russians, even if they think we did it, aren’t saying a word. There’s a hotline between our defense establishments and understandings that we won’t get in their way and they won’t get in ours. I don’t see a fear of an escalation, but we have to keep evaluating the situation.”
Palestinians rebuild school dismantled by Israel last month in Jubbet al-Dhib
Sept. 9, 2017 12:16 P.M. (Updated: Sept. 9, 2017 7:36 P.M.)
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BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Palestinians in the village of Jubbet al-Dhib in the occupied West Bank district of Bethlehem rebuilt a school overnight on Friday that was dismantled in the village a day before the first day of school last month, which left some 64 students without a school to attend.
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Israeli forces surround rebuilt Palestinian school, sparking fears of coming demolition
Sept. 9, 2017 7:35 P.M. (Updated: Sept. 9, 2017 8:05 P.M.)
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JUBBET AL-DHIB, BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces stormed the village of Jubbet al-Dhib in the occupied West Bank district of Bethlehem on Saturday evening, and surrounded a site where Palestinians have been rebuilding a school that was demolished by Israeli authorities last month.
Employees from the Bethlehem office of the Palestinian education ministry and activists rebuilt five classrooms with concrete blocks overnight Friday, as Israeli soldiers fired tear gas canisters at them, witnesses told Ma’an at the time.
Large numbers of military vehicles and forces from the Israeli army and the Israeli Civil Administration returned to the construction site Saturday evening and surrounded the school from three directions.
Israeli forces then attempted to evict Palestinian activists and workers who were completing works at the school, firing tear gas, stun grenades, and gunshots toward the crowd.
A state of tension prevailed at the site, for fear that Israeli authorities would destroy the school once again.
’Challenge 5 School’ inaugurated in Jubbet al-Dhib, rebuilt after Israeli demolition
Sept. 10, 2017 2:29 P.M. (Updated : Sept. 10, 2017 2:44 P.M.)
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BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Palestinian Minister of Education Sabri Saydam inaugurated a school in the village of Jubbet al-Dhib in the southern occupied West Bank district of Bethlehem Sunday morning, after the school was dismantled by Israeli forces and rebuilt by Palestinians.
Israeli forces seized mobile classrooms in the isolated village last month, the day before the first day of school. Activists and ministry employees rebuilt five classrooms overnight Friday.
Israeli forces then stormed the village Saturday evening, surrounded the construction site, and attacked activists with tear gas, stun grenades, and bullets, sparking fears that Israeli authorities would destroy the school once again.
A spokesperson for the Israeli Civil Administration told Ma’an that “work tools were confiscated” as a result of the raid, but that for now, the structures — deemed ‘illegal’ by Israel — have remained standing.
The newly rebuilt school has been named “Challenge 5 School,” because it was the fifth school to be constructed by the ministry in areas threatened by Israeli settlement construction, according to the education ministry’s Bethlehem office and the Palestinian Committee Against the Wall and Settlements, which supervised Saturday morning’s inauguration.
Palestinian security forces detain Palestinian activist over Facebook post
Sept. 4, 2017 10:22 P.M. (Updated: Sept. 4, 2017 10:35 P.M.)
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BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Palestinian security forces detained prominent human rights activist Issa Amro on Monday, a day after he posted comments on his Facebook criticizing Palestinian forces for arresting a journalist who also criticized the Palestinian Authority (PA).
The two joined a number of Palestinians who have been detained for voicing their opinions since Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas issued a a far-reaching Cyber Crimes Law in June that has been widely denounced by human rights groups.
Ayman Qawasmeh, the director of the Hebron-based radio station Manbar al-Hurriya, was detained by the PA on Sunday, three days after the radio station’s offices were raided and shut down by the Israeli army.
Local media reports said Qawsmeh’s arrest came after he called on Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah to resign.
In a Facebook post Sunday evening, Amro, a Hebron-based coordinator for Youth Against Settlements and a former field researcher for the Israeli NGO B’Tselem, criticized the PA for arresting Qawsmeh and stifling freedom of expression.
PA releases journalist, continues to hold activist over Facebook post
Sept. 6, 2017 5:07 P.M. (Updated: Sept. 6, 2017 5:07 P.M.)
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BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Palestinian security forces released the director of a Hebron’s Manbar al-Hurriya radio station Ayman Qawasmeh on Wednesday, after he spent three days in detention for criticizing the Palestinian Authority (PA).
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After PA preventative security forces arrested the journalist on Sunday for the critical post, prominent Hebron-based activist Issa Amro took to Facebook himself to denounce Palestinian authorities, who had allegedly been threatening journalists not to publicize Qawasmeh’s arrest. Amro called on the PA to respect and protect international and domestic law.
Shortly after sharing the post, Amro was detained by the PA. On Wednesday, his detention was reportedly extended for an additional 24 hours, according to statement released Wednesday by Mada, a Palestinian NGO focused on media freedoms.
The organization also spoke with Qawasmeh after his release. He told Mada that after he had been summoned by the PA midday Sunday, he was immediately interrogated about his critical comments on the PA’s leadership.
“They asked me about the reason for posting this video, I replied that it was published in an angry moment after the radio equipment was destroyed and confiscated by the (Israeli) occupation forces,” Mada relayed.
“They actually understood my reasons,” Qawasmeh said. He explained that during the second day in jail on Monday, he signed his statement, and on Tuesday, his detention was extended for a fourth day. He was released 9 a.m. Wednesday with no conditions.
Mada said that they welcomed Qawasmeh’s release but demanded that Issa Amro be immediately released as well.(...)
PA releases Issa Amro on bail amid charges of ’causing strife’ over Facebook post
Sept. 10, 2017 9:35 P.M. (Updated: Sept. 11, 2017 1:54 P.M.)
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BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Palestinian human rights activist Issa Amro, imprisoned for criticizing the Palestinian Authority (PA) on Facebook, was released from a PA detention center on a $1,400 bail.
Youth Against Settlement (YAS), a group based in the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron headed by Amro that is dedicated to non-violent resistance against the Israeli occupation, announced on their Facebook page that Amro had been released, though the charges against him had not been dropped.
Amro was arrested last week after turning himself into Palestinian security forces. PA officials had requested Amro to present himself to authorities over a Facebook post in which he denounced the PA for arresting the director of a Hebron’s Manbar al-Hurriya radio station Ayman Qawasmeh, who was released after three days of detention.
Amro criticized the PA for threatening journalists not to publicize Qawasmeh’s arrest — which took place after Qawasmeh posted on Facebook, calling for the resignation of the Palestinian president, prime minister, and Hebron’s governor — and called on the PA to respect and protect international and domestic law.
According to prisoners rights group Addameer, the charges against Amro include “causing strife” and a “broad accusation of criminal action” under the PA’s controversial Cyber Crimes Law.
Salah Hamouri arrêté sans « aucun motif » par l’armée israélienne | Laurence Mauriaucourt | Mercredi, 23 Août, 2017
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Le jeune franco-palestinien a été arrêté dans la nuit par l’armée israélienne. Sa compagne et le député Alain Bruneel enjoignent au Président de la République d’intervenir très rapidement.
L’information a été diffusée ce mercredi 23 août sur Facebook par sa compagne, Elsa : « Salah Hamouri a été arrêté cette nuit à notre domicile de Jérusalem-Est par l’armée d’occupation venue en grand nombre le cueillir dans son sommeil. Comme souvent, les autorités militaires ne donnent aucun motif à cette arrestation et nous n’avons que peu d’informations au sujet de sa détention, il n’a pu contacter personne. Nous demandons à la France d’agir avec conviction pour protéger et obtenir la libération de notre concitoyen qui subit une fois de plus l’arbitraire israélien ». Les internautes, souvent soutiens de longue date du militant, s’emploient à partager cette information inquiétante.
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Palestine.Salah Hamouri de nouveau arrêté par l’armée israélienne
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Salah Hamouri maintenu en détention jusqu’à dimanche
Mercredi, 23 Août, 2017 | Humanite.fr
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Il a été présenté mercredi après-midi devant un juge qui a décidé de le maintenir en détention pendant cinq jours, c’est à dire jusqu’à dimanche, officiellement le temps de l’enquête. Une enquête qui concernerait son appartenance à une « organisation ennemie », selon certains médias arabes qui citent également l’un des avocats de Salah. Celui-ci évoque une volonté des autorités israéliennes de voir Salah Hamouri quitter définitivement la Palestine.
Addameer’s field researcher Salah Hammouri seized by Israeli occupation forces
23 August 2017
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Addameer’s field researcher Salah Hammouri was arrested by Israeli occupation forces in a pre-dawn raid on 23 August 2017. Hammouri was arrested from his home in the neighborhood of Kufr Aqab. Later, Hammouri was taken to Al-Moskobyeh (Russian Compound) interrogation center, where his detention has been extended until Sunday, 27 August 2017, for further interrogation.
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Demand the immediate release of human rights defender Salah Hamouri
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Les Français peuvent manifester auprès des autorités qu’Hamouri est notre compatriote :
Dès l’annonce de son arrestation, des milliers de personnes ont réagi sur les réseaux sociaux. L’Association France-Palestine solidarité (AFPS), a publié le communiqué suivant : « L’arrestation de notre concitoyen - dont le seul crime est de résister à l’occupation et à la colonisation - est inadmissible et insupportable. Notre mobilisation doit être immédiate et massive. Les autorités françaises ne doivent pas laisser passer une telle infamie ». L’AFPS appelle à laisser des messages sur le site du consulat général de France à Jérusalem en suivant ce lien : ▻https://jerusalem.consulfrance.org/Contactez-nous-par-mail et au Ministère français des Affaires étrangères à l’adresse suivante
►http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/mentions-legales-infos-pratiques/nous-ecrire, en remplissant le formulaire avec comme objet « Français de l’étranger », ainsi qu’à la présidence de la République : ►http://www.elysee.fr/ecrire-au-president-de-la-republique
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Israeli forces detain Addameer field researcher during overnight raid
Aug. 24, 2017 11:31 A.M. (Updated: Aug. 24, 2017 5:36 P.M.)
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(...) An Israeli police spokesperson told Ma’an that he was “not familiar” with the case.
According to Addameer, Hammouri was a former prisoner of Israel for seven years, and was released as part of the Wafa al-Ahrar prisoners exchange deal in 2011.
Addameer added that the East Jerusalem resident was banned from entering the occupied West Bank until Sept. 2016, and that his wife is currently banned by Israeli authorities from entering Palestine or Israel.
The group said it considers the detention “an attack against Palestinian civil society organizations and human rights defenders.”
"It also constitutes one arrest in the context of continuous arrest campaigns against Palestinians,” Addameer said, before demanding Hammouri’s release and the release of all Palestinian political prisoners.
Hassan Safadi, a Palestinian activist and media coordinator for Addameer, has also been held in administrative detention — Israel’s controversial policy of imprisonment without charge or trial — for more than a year.
Safadi has been held by Israel since May 1, 2016 after being detained at the Allenby Bridge between the occupied West Bank and Jordan, when he was interrogated by the Israeli army for 40 days.
Israeli authorities later sentenced the 25-year-old Palestinian to six months of administrative detention in June 2016, and has since renewed the administrative detention order twice — once in Dec. and a second time in June this year.
Israel’s widely condemned policy of administrative detention allows internment without charge or trial in maximum six-month long renewable intervals based on undisclosed evidence that even a detainee’s lawyer is barred from viewing.
According to prisoners’ rights group Addameer, 6,128 Palestinians were detained by Israel as of July, 450 of whom were held in administrative detention. The group has estimated that some 40 percent of Palestinian men will be detained by Israel at some point in their lives.
Palestinian teen shot dead at Israeli military checkpoint in stabbing attempt
Aug. 19, 2017 6:15 P.M. (Updated: Aug. 19, 2017 9:13 P.M.)
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BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli border police shot and killed a Palestinian teenager at Israel’s Zaatara military checkpoint in the northern occupied West Bank on Saturday afternoon, with Israeli authorities alleging the youth attempted to carry out a knife attack on Israeli forces when he was shot.
While initial reports suggested that an Israeli soldier was lightly injured after being stabbed by the Palestinian, it was later revealed that the border police officer was in fact wounded by friendly fire.
Israel’s emergency medical service Magen David Adom reported that the MDA and Israeli army medics treated the Israeli soldier, an 18-year-old male, who was in a mild condition.
Al-Samri said that the alleged assailant, a 17-year-old Palestinian, had approached border guard forces stationed at the Nablus-area checkpoint, “and when they saw he was carrying a bag in his hand, they started undertake procedures to arrest him.”
The youth then allegedly brandished a knife “and started to battle an officer before other officers fired at him and neutralized him, and he was announced dead on the scene.” She released a statement shortly after saying the Palestinian was still alive but in a critical condition. Minutes later, a further statement confirmed he had succumbed to his injuries.
The Israeli police spokeswoman also provided a photo of the knife allegedly found on the youth, who was identified by local sources as Qutayba Ziad Zahran from Illar village in the Tulkarem district.
“A border guard police officer was taken to a hospital after he was hit by shrapnel in the foot,” al-Samri said in the statement, presumably referring to Israeli friendly fire.
An eyewitness told Ma’an that a large number of Israeli soldiers arrived to the scene and closed Zaatara checkpoint, denying passage to Palestinians in either direction.
A photo of the slain youth later circulated on social media.
The wall of insanity -
Israel has opted for another wall, this time around Gaza. Israel will pay for it
Gideon Levy Aug 13, 2017
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The next time a cap gun is fired or a toy balloon is launched at Israel from the Gaza Strip, the army will start building a steel dome over the Strip to prevent it. The ceiling will also cut off the territory from the sky. After all, we’re talking about national security. When the first crack forms, and another balloon is launched or cap gun fired, the defense establishment will proceed to the next phase: flooding the Gaza Strip with water until it is completely submerged. After all, we’re talking about Israeli security.
Until that happens — the plans have already been drawn up — the modest, hard-up Israeli army is making do with smaller measures: It’s building a new “barrier” around the Strip, the father of all the fences and the mother of all the walls with which Israel is surrounding itself, six meters high and reaching tens of meters underground. Israel is becoming a state with a wall at its heart: There’s nothing it likes more than to surround itself.
History is replete with megalomaniacal rulers who built palaces. For now, Israeli megalomania settles for walls. The separation barrier and the border fence, the Good Fence on the Lebanese border and the bad fence, the entire country is fences. Just give defense officials an excuse and they will surround us with a fence costing billions. For that, money can always be found.
The fence of horrors on the Egyptian border to keep out African refugees and the separation wall facing barefoot residents of the Deheisheh refugee camp in the West Bank. Now it’s the turn of the Gaza border fence to stop tunnels from being dug under the fence that it is replacing. Next thing you know, there will be an electronic fence around the Israeli-Arab city of Umm al-Fahm, in response to the terrorism emanating from there as well.
The chief of the Southern Command made the announcement, the military correspondents quoted him slavishly and Israel responded with either a yawn or a Yes!. The method is tried and true: First you create a demon (the tunnels); then you find it a megalomaniacal solution. And there you have it, another $800 million Zionist project, to be built by workers from Moldova and asylum seekers from Africa. There we have it: another wall.
Israel: The Cluster-Bomb Nation
The cluster bombs are aimed mainly at densely populated areas. There they can kill most effectively. That’s why the Israeli army wants them.
Gideon Levy Aug 10, 2017
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Israel wants to kill as many innocent people as possible. Under no circumstances does it want to belong to the community of enlightened nations. There is no other way to understand Gili Cohen’s chilling report (Monday’s Haaretz) that the defense establishment decided to prefer an Israeli-made cannon that has yet to be completed to a German one, merely to sidestep the international ban on cluster bombs.
More than 100 states signed the international treaty banning the use of cluster bombs; Israel, as usual, isn’t one of them. What has Israel to do with international treaties, international law, international organizations – it’s all one big unnecessary nuisance. Israel’s fellow rejectionists are, as usual, Russia, Pakistan, China, India and of course the United States, the world’s greatest spiller of blood since World War II. This is the company Israel wants to keep, the club it belongs to.
Cluster bombs are an especially barbarous weapon, a bomb that turns into countless bomblets, spreading over a wide area, killing and wounding indiscriminately. They sometimes explode years after were fired. The world was appalled and disgusted by such a weapon of mass destruction, and for good reason. The world – but not Israel. We’re a special case, as is commonly known. We’re allowed to do anything. Why? Because we can.
This has been proved. We used cluster bombs in the Second Lebanon War and the world was silent. We also use flechettes, unmercifully. In 2002 I saw a soccer field in Gaza hit by IDF flechette shells, which spray thousands of potentially lethal metal darts. All the children playing on it had been hit.
Another time I saw the thousands of darts sprayed by the flechette shells stuck into the walls of houses in Gaza. It wasn’t hard to imagine what those darts did to people’s bodies.
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Flechettes are also banned in the world but permitted to Israel. Why? Perhaps because we’re the Chosen People, perhaps because we’re allowed to do anything. We fight for our desperate, precarious existence, flimsy leaf in the wind that we are, so we’re allowed to use cluster bombs, flechettes, white phosphorus, you name it. We are, after all, fighting for our survival against the advanced army of the Republic of Gaza and the terrifying divisions of the West Bank armies. We’re pitted against the Balata air force and the Deheisheh naval fleet, and above all against “the appalling brutality” of the Palestinians. So we need weapons, as many as possible, with no restrictions.
The cluster bombs sowed shocking mayhem and destruction in Kosovo, Laos, Afghanistan and Iraq. Israel wants to do the same. The killing fields in the next war for the occupation, which will certainly come, will be like the killing fields in Laos, thanks to the cluster bombs fired by the new, sacred Israeli-made cannon. Otherwise, why do we need cluster bombs? Don’t we have enough regulation weapons in our arsenal? The cluster bombs are aimed mainly at densely populated areas. There they can kill most effectively. That’s why the IDF wants them.
The next time you use the argument that the whole world is against us and the criticism and animosity against Israel don’t stem from its actions – remember the cluster bomb. Israel is excluding itself with its own hands from the family of nations, joining the most brutal states, flouting international decisions – and then moaning that the world hates it for no reason. The next time you think of the IDF, the most moral army in the world, think about the cluster bomb.
The cluster bomb affair is no less atrocious than the submarines affair, yet sparks no interest in Israel. The submarines are money, state witnesses and suspects. It’s sexy to deal with them. The cluster bomb concerns the lives of innocent people, and who cares about that?
The submarines are the corruption, which the nation is against. The cluster bomb is the arrogant, ongoing disregard for international law, which doesn’t interest anyone in this country. That same defense establishment, rotten to the core, is behind both deals – corruption of one kind in the submarines case, and corruption of another kind in the cluster bombs case. But the defense establishment can calm down. Nobody will be put on trial for using cluster bombs.
Palestinian shot and killed in alleged stabbing attack at Gush Etzion junction
July 28, 2017 2:45 P.M. (Updated: July 29, 2017 4:41 P.M.)
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BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A Palestinian was shot and killed by Israeli forces Friday afternoon after the Palestinian allegedly attempted to carry out a stabbing attack at the Gush Etzion junction in the Bethlehem district of the southern occupied West Bank.
An Israeli army spokesperson told Ma’an that there was a stabbing attempt at the junction, and confirmed that the Palestinian was killed.
Local sources told Ma’an that the Palestinian died minutes after being shot and was put into a plastic bag by Israeli forces.
An eyewitness told Ma’an that a Palestinian male was “heading to Bethlehem on foot and Israeli forces shot at him while he was around 20 meters away from them,” adding that “one of the soldiers approached the martyr and turned him over with his foot and shot him more than five times, I swear that he didn’t have any type of knife with him or any kind of weapon.”
Israeli media released a picture of the slain Palestinian’s alleged ID card, which news outlets said was released by the Israeli army. The ID card identified the Palestinian as Bethlehem-born 24-year-old Abdullah Ali Mahmoud Taqatqa .
Ministry: Palestinian teen killed by exploded landmine left over by Israeli army
July 23, 2017 11:01 A.M. (Updated: July 23, 2017 11:01 A.M.)
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TUBAS (Ma’an) — The Palestinian Ministry of Health said that a 17-year-old Palestinian was killed Saturday night, after an old landmine left over by the Israeli army exploded in the northern occupied West Bank district of Tubas.
The Palestinian Red Crescent had evacuated Odai Aziz Khalil Nawajaa to the Turkish Hospital in Tubas suffering from critical injuries as a result of the explosion, and he was later declared dead in the hospital.
Palestinian shot dead in al-Eizariya as clashes erupt in Jerusalem, West Bank
July 22, 2017 9:09 P.M. (Updated: July 22, 2017 10:41 P.M.)
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JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — A day after widespread violence in the occupied Palestinian territory left three Palestinians killed, hundreds of others injured, as well as three Israeli settlers killed by a Palestinian, clashes continued in certain areas in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank on Saturday, leaving one Palestinian shot dead by Israeli fire and dozens more wounded.
Israeli forces shot at least two Palestinians with live bullets, critically injuring one, in the town of al-Eizariya in the central occupied West Bank district of Jerusalem during clashes there Saturday evening, a spokesperson for the Palestinian Red Crescent told Ma’an.
The seriously wounded Palestinian succumbed to his wounds a short time later, the Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed in a statement.
He was first evacuated to a hospital in Jericho with shrapnel wounds all over his body in a serious condition, and later taken to the Palestinian Medical Complex in Ramallah were he was declared dead, according to the statement.
The Popular Resistance Committees identified the victim as 24-year-old Yousif Kashur from the town of Abu Dis just north of al-Eizariya.
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Locals also reported clashes in Abu Dis, where resident of the town, 17-year-old Muhammad Lafi , was shot dead by Israeli forces during protests on Friday.
Witnesses said Israeli troops stormed the town and used tear gas canisters, stun grenades, and rubber-coated steel bullets to disperse young Palestinian men who gathered in the town’s center and around al-Quds University.
An Israeli army spokesperson said she was aware of reports of clashes in Abu Dis and al-Eizariya, but was unaware of any casualties there. She said however that “someone was building an explosive device in his home Abu Dis” and that the explosive went off accidentally, but could not provide further details.
At least 2 Israelis killed in settlement stabbing attack, assailant shot
July 21, 2017 11:28 P.M. (Updated : July 21, 2017 11:28 P.M.)
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BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — At least two Israelis were killed in a stabbing attack in the illegal Israeli settlement of Neve Zuf in the central occupied West Bank on Friday night, the Israeli army said.
An Israeli army spokesperson told Ma’an that an assailant entered a home in the settlement, also known as Halamish, and stabbed four Israelis.
They added that two of the Israelis succumbed to their wounds, while the two others were hospitalized.
The assailant was shot, the spokesperson said, although at of 11:15 p.m., they could not state whether the attacker was dead or not.
However, Israeli news outlets reported that three Israelis — a man and a woman in their sixties, and a man in his forties — had been killed, while another woman was being treated.
The deadly attack took place after three Palestinians were killed by Israelis during violent clashes on Friday.
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Deux Israéliens tués à coups de couteau dans une colonie de Cisjordanie
AFP / 21 juillet 2017 22h55
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Un assaillant a pénétré vendredi dans une colonie de Cisjordanie occupée où il a tué deux civils israéliens à coups de couteau et en a blessé deux autres, a indiqué l’armée dans un communiqué.
L’attaquant s’est infiltré dans une maison de la colonie de Neve Tsuf, au nord-ouest de Ramallah, précise l’armée sans donner davantage de détails sur l’identité de l’assaillant.
Palestinian shot, detained after killing 3 Israelis in settlement stabbing attack
July 21, 2017 11:28 P.M. (Updated: July 22, 2017 9:41 A.M.)
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BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A Palestinian was shot and reportedly left in a moderate condition after breaking into a home in an illegal Israeli settlement in the central occupied West Bank and carrying out a stabbing attack that left three Israelis dead and one injured Friday night, according to the Israeli army.
An Israeli army spokesperson said an assailant entered a home in the illegal Halamish settlement, also known as Neve Tzuf, and stabbed four Israelis.
Two succumbed to their wounds shortly thereafter and two were hospitalized in a serious condition. A third was later confirmed dead.
The assailant was shot, the spokesperson said. He was identified by Israeli media as Omar al-Abed, between 19 and 20 years old, from the nearby village of Kobar in the northern Ramallah district.
According to Israeli news site Ynet, a 70-year-old man and his son and daughter in their 30s where slain, and their 68-year-old mother badly injured.
The four were reportedly having Shabbat dinner with about 10 members of their family when the attacker broke into the house. Some were able to hide in a separate room and call the police and yell for help. A neighbor, a soldier in the Israeli army, reportedly heard the disturbance, and arrived to the scene and shot and moderately wounded the assailant, according to Ynet.
Israeli media reported that al-Abed wrote on Facebook before carrying out the attack: “I have many dreams and I believe they will come true, I love life and I love to make others happy, but what is my life is when they (Israel) murder women and children and defile our Al-Aqsa.”
The deadly attack took place after three Palestinians were killed — two of them by Israeli police and one reportedly by an Israeli settler — when large-scale civil disobedience demonstrations in Jerusalem erupted into violent clashes earlier on Friday.
Israeli soldiers shoot, kill Palestinian after alleged stabbing attempt, sparking clashes
July 20, 2017 1:53 P.M. (Updated: July 21, 2017 3:03 P.M.)
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BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian in the southern occupied West Bank village of Tuqu on Thursday afternoon, sparking clashes in which at least one Palestinian was injured.
An Israeli army spokesperson told Ma’an that a Palestinian attempted to stab Israeli soldiers at an Israeli military checkpoint near Tuqu, adding that “responding to the immediate threat,” soldiers shot and killed the man. They added that no Israelis were injured in the case.
A Ma’an reporter present at the scene said that Israeli soldiers fired four shots towards the Palestinian near Tuqu’s school, while eyewitnesses said that an Israeli military vehicle then run over the man.
The army spokesperson said they would look into the reports of the Palestinian being run over.
Palestinian medical and security sources identified the slain Palestinian as 26-year-old Muhammad Hussein Ahmad Tnouh.
Israeli soldiers kill Palestinian man in Bethlehem after alleged stabbing
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According to eyewitnesses, Tanouh was unarmed as Israeli soldiers shot and killed him from 10 meters away
Israeli soldiers shot and killed on Thursday a Palestinian man after he reportedly attempted to stab them in Tuqu, east of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank.
Mohmmad Hussein Tanouh , 26, was shot four times before an army vehicle ran over him, near al-Khansa school in the town, reported Palestinian media.
An Israeli army spokesperson said Tanouh had attempted to stab soldiers before they “responded to the immediate threat, and killed the man”.
But according to eyewitness Omar al-Amori, Tanouh was on his way to Hebron when he noticed that a group of Israeli soldiers were harassing Palestinian passers-by.
“As he walked towards the soldiers, unarmed, the soldiers shot him 15 times in the chest and head from ten meters away,” Amori told MEE.
“After that they [the Israeli soldiers ran over him with a an army vehicle, crushing his head.”
The incident sparked angry protests from local residents who were prevented from reaching Tanouh’s body, reported Maan news.
Israeli forces continue systematic crimes in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt)(20 – 26 July 2017)
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Thursday, 20 July 2017, at approximately 13:40, in a new crime of excessive use of force, Israeli forces killed Mohammed Husain al-Teneh (24) from Taqou’ village, east of Bethlehem after shooting him near the northern entrance to the village. They claimed that Mohammed attempted to carry out a stab attack, but eyewitnesses, who were in the area, confirmed that they did not see any sharp tool on the ground. The soldiers attempted to prevent the village residents from reaching Mohammed by firing live bullets, sound bombs and tear gas canisters in the air. Mohammed’s body was taken to an Israeli jeep. Photos taken of the body, showed that Mohammed sustained several live bullet wounds to the head and chest as part of the brain was on the ground.
Israeli forces raid home of Palestinian shot dead after alleged vehicular attack
July 18, 2017 7:39 P.M. (Updated: July 18, 2017 10:50 P.M.)
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HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli forces raided the family home of 29-year-old Rafat Hirbawi — who was shot dead by Israeli forces earlier on Tuesday after allegedly carrying out a vehicular attack — in Hebron city in the southern occupied West Bank.
Hirbawi was killed after allegedly carrying out a vehicular attack at the entrance of Beit Einun north of Hebron. Two Israeli soldiers were lightly injured during the incident.
Locals told Ma’an that Israeli forces surrounded and raided the home, and interrogated Hirbawi’s brother.
Following actual or alleged attacks on Israelis, Israeli authorities routinely target family members of the Palestinian assailants, often times revoking their Israeli permits, detaining them, and punitively demolishing their homes.
Israeli soldiers and officers prevented journalists and locals from taking pictures or videos of the raid. Israeli forces also confiscated the mobile phone of Ma’an reporter Duaa al-Atrash as she was attempting to cover the incident, and removed all videos she had recorded before handing it back.
An Israeli army spokesperson confirmed the raid, telling Ma’an that the “assailant’s home was raided following the attack,” but did not provide further details.
Hirwbawi, a resident of Ramallah city, was married and a father of two children. He was working as a food supplies distributor before being killed in the alleged attack.
According to Ma’an documentation, 45 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since the beginning of the year — eight of whom were killed in the past seven days alone.
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Palestinian killed after alleged vehicular attack in southern West Bank
July 18, 2017 2:36 P.M. (Updated: July 18, 2017 9:47 P.M.)
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(...) Palestinian security sources identified the slain
Palestinian as 29-year-old Rafaat Nathmi Shukri Hirbawi from Hebron City.
Witnesses told Ma’an that Israeli soldiers opened fire at a Mazda car with Palestinian license plates, in which two people were riding. The Israeli army spokesperson told Ma’an, however, that they were only aware of one person in the vehicle.
Immediately after shooting at the vehicle, large numbers of Israeli troops arrived at the scene and closed off the road to traffic, the eyewitnesses said, adding that the soldiers denied a Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance access to the wounded Palestinian. (...)
Palestinian youth killed during Israeli raid in al-Duheisha refugee camp
July 14, 2017 9:26 A.M. (Updated: July 14, 2017 11:55 A.M.)
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BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — An 18-year-old Palestinian was killed by Israeli forces during a detention raid in the al-Duheisha refugee camp in the southern occupied West Bank district of Bethlehem on Friday morning.
The Palestinian Red Crescent told Ma’an that the teenager succumbed in the hospital to wounds sustained in his upper body, after Israeli forces raided the refugee camp seeking to detain two residents.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health identified the slain youth as Baraa Hamamda.
Locals told Ma’an that Israeli forces detained Muhammad Ubeid and Muath Abu Nassar during the raid, adding that they then fired live bullets, tear gas, and stun grenades at al-Duheisha residents.
An Israeli army spokesperson told Ma’an that during a detention raid in al-Duheisha, Palestinians threw “explosive devices and blocks” at Israeli forces, who fired towards the youth.
They added that the army was “examining... reports of a casualty.”
Despite stating that the army had raided al-Duheisha to carry out detentions, the spokesperson said they did not have information about the two detentions in the refugee camp, and said that they would look into the reports.
Israeli forces shoot, kill 2 young Palestinians during raid in Jenin refugee camp
July 12, 2017 10:17 A.M. (Updated: July 12, 2017 10:32 A.M.)
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JENIN (Ma’an) — Israeli forces shot and killed two young Palestinians — one 17-year-old and one 20-year-old — and injured at least two others after a violent military raid into Jenin refugee camp in the northern occupied West Bank erupted into clashes early Wednesday morning.
An Israeli army spokesperson said that during an “operation” in the camp, a Palestinian gunman opened fire at Israeli forces, and other locals threw Molotov cocktails, which prompted Israeli fires to open fire toward the "attackers.”
No casualties were reported among the heavily armed and armored Israeli forces.
According to the Israeli army, no one was detained during the raid.
The spokesperson did not acknowledge the deaths of the two Palestinians, and said reports of casualties were under investigation.
Medical sources at Khalil Suliman governmental hospital said that 17-year-old Aws Muhammad Youssif Salamah died later in the hospital after succumbing to a gunshot wound.
The Palestinian Red Crescent told Ma’an that 20-year-old Saad Nasser Hassan Abd al-Fattah Salah was shot and killed by Israeli forces at the scene of the clashes. He reportedly sustained bullets to his head and chest.
Local sources highlighted Salah was survived by three brothers — one of whom, Youssif, is currently imprisoned in an Israeli jails — and that their father was permanently disabled after being shot by Israeli forces some time in the past.
Deux Palestiniens tués par l’armée israélienne (sources palestiniennes)
AFP / 12 juillet 2017 07h20
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Jénine (Territoires palestiniens) - Deux Palestiniens ont été tués mercredi par des balles tirées par l’armée israélienne lors d’affrontements dans le camp de réfugiés de Jénine dans le nord de la Cisjordanie occupée, selon des sources palestiniennes.
Un Palestinien a été tué sur le coup et un autre grièvement blessé a succombé. Un troisième a été touché à la jambe, ont précisé ces sources médicales et de sécurité sans fournir dans l’immédiat des précisions sur ces affrontements.
L’armée israélienne a déclaré que des soldats avaient ouvert le feu sur des « assaillants palestiniens armés qui ont tiré et lancé des engins explosifs » sur les soldats opérant dans le camp. Aucun soldat n’a été blessé, a-t-elle ajouté.
Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (06– 12 July 2017)
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Wednesday, 12 July 2017
In new crime of excessive use of force, Israeli forces killed two Palestinian civilians and wounded a third one in Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank. The Israeli forces claimed that the soldiers opened fire at “two attackers” after “Palestinian armed persons opened fire at them and threw explosive devices at the forces stationed in the camp”. However, PCHR’s investigations and eyewitnesses refute the Israeli narrative. PCHR strongly condemns this new crime. PCHR hereby stresses this crime was committed after the Israeli political and military leaders gave the Israeli soldiers the green light to shed the Palestinian blood in light of the international community’s policy to tolerate Israel for crimes committed by the Israeli soldiers against Palestinian civilians. According to PCHR’s investigations and eyewitnesses’ testimonies, at approximately 02:00 on Wednesday, 12 July 2017, Israeli forces backed by military vehicles and dozens of infantry soldiers moved into Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank. They stationed in the center of the camp and then stepped out of their vehicles. They surrounded several houses to raid them and arrest some of its residents. Meanwhile, dozens of Palestinian young men and children gathered and threw stones at the soldiers, who heavily opened fire at the stone-throwers. As a result, ‘Oday Nizar Abu Na’asah (19) sustained a live bullet wound to the leg. At approximately 04:00, the Israeli forces withdrew while 2 military jeeps stationed at the western entrance to the camp. In the meantime, a motorbike driven to the western side of the camp was traveled by Sa’ed Naser ‘Abdel Fattah Salah (20) from the eastern neighborhood in Jenin, and Aws Mohammed Yousif Salamah (17), from Jenin refugee camp. When the jeeps moved the motorbike moved behind them, so the Israeli soldiers opened fire at them from a distance of 4 meters. As a result, Sa’ed was wounded and fell on the ground and Aws was also wounded and walked for 50 meters away from the motorbike before he fell on the ground. The wounded civilians were transferred to Martyr Dr. Khalil Soliman Governmental Hospital in Jenin. Medical sources said that Sa’ed arrived dead at the hospital and doctors there tried for hours to save Aws’s life, but he died succumbing to his serious wounds. Medical sources mentioned that Sa’ed was hit with two bullets to the head and left side of the chest while Aws was hit with a bullet that entered his abdomen and exited the chest. An eyewitness said that he saw 3 Israeli soldiers surrounding Sa’ed and trying to move him. Then a sound of gunshot was heard from the place.
Palestinian shot dead after carrying out alleged vehicular attack on Israeli soldiers
July 10, 2017 12:55 P.M. (Updated: July 10, 2017 4:06 P.M.)
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BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A Palestinian was shot and killed after he carried out an alleged vehicular attack on Israeli soldiers, lightly injuring one, at a junction near the village of Tuqu and the illegal Israeli settlement Maale Amos in the southern occupied West Bank district of Bethlehem.
An Israeli army spokesperson claimed that the alleged assailant rammed his car at Israeli forces stationed at the junction, leaving one Israeli soldier lightly wounded. The driver then allegedly exited his vehicle armed with a knife and attempted to stab the soldier, when another soldier fatally shot the Palestinian.
Israel’s emergency medical service Magen David Adom said it evacuated the 20-year-old Israeli soldier in a moderate condition to Israel’s Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem for treatment, while the Palestinian driver was “neutralized” and treated by the Israeli army at the scene before being declared dead.
An eyewitness told Ma’an that he saw the Palestinian, who was wearing a red shirt, lying motionless on the ground, and claimed that he saw two wounded Israeli soldiers — one suffering from a serious injury and unable to move, and another with a minor injury. However, the Israeli army spokespersonsaid just one soldier had been wounded.
Another witness said that an Israeli ambulance later evacuated the body, after Israeli forces preventing Palestinian Red Crescent ambulances from approaching the scene.
Locals sources in Tuqu identified the slain man to Ma’an as 24-year-old Muhammad Ibrahim Jibril , from Tuqu. Palestinian security sources had said he was 25, while other local media outlets said he was 23.
Funeral held in Bethlehem for Palestinian shot to death by Israeli forces
July 11, 2017 9:14 P.M. (Updated: July 11, 2017 9:14 P.M.)
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BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Thousands of Palestinians marched in the funeral of slain Palestinian Muhammad Ibrahim Jibril in the village of Tuqu in the southern occupied West Bank district of Bethlehem on Tuesday, after the 24-year-old was shot to death by Israeli forces on Monday after allegedly committing an vehicular attack against Israeli soldiers.
The funeral procession set off from the Beit Jala Governmental Hospital, as mourners waved Palestinian flags and condemned the killing of Jibril, while demanding accountability for his death.
Earlier on Tuesday, Israeli authorities had decided to return Jibril’s body after raiding the village and warning locals that the body would only be returned if the town “remained quiet.”
Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (06– 12 July 2017)
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In a new crime of excessive use of force, Israeli forces killed a Palestinian from Taqou’ village, east of Bethlehem. They claimed that he attempted to carry out a run-over and stab attack against Israeli soldiers, who were present in the bypass street (60) near Taqou’ settlement.
According to PCHR’s investigations, at approximately 12:47 on the same day, Israeli forces opened fire at Mohammed Ibrahim Jabrin (23) from Taqou’ village, east of Bethlehem. They claimed that Mohammed attempted to carry out stab and run-over attack against Israeli soldiers, who were present in Street (60) near “Taqou” settlement, south of the city. As a result, Mohammed sustained several live bullet wounds and died immediately. Following that, the spokesperson of the Israeli forces said in a statement: “A run-over attack happened near Taqou’ village, causing the injury of an Israeli soldier with minor wounds. The attacker stepped out of the car and attempted to stab soldiers, so he was shot dead.” Jabrin family refused the Israeli claims regarding their son’s attempt to carry out a stab attack. They instead considered what happened as a car accident. They added that the Israeli soldiers immediately opened fire at Mohammed. PCHR’s investigations in previous shooting incidents show that the Israeli forces used to open fire against Palestinian civilians once they have suspicions on their attempt to carry out run-over attacks against their soldiers. On the same day evening, 17 military jeeps moved into Taqou’ village and surrounded Jabrin house. A number of the soldiers raided and searched the house. They then interrogated dozens of civilians in the village before they withdrew on Tuesday dawn, 11 July 2017.
Israel says UN force presence in Lebanon is ‘unnecessary’ | GulfNews.com
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Les médias des roitelets du Golfe sont devenus pires que le Jérusalem Post.
Israeli source accuses force of ‘whitewashing Hezbollah’s activity on the Blue Line’
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While Israel retains a military edge in the area, several border villages and towns are vulnerable to Hezbollah attacks, including Metula [...]
Israeli Army unit crosses Blue Line on Lebanon’s south east border | News , Lebanon News | THE DAILY STAR
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Despite relative calm since 2006, following a 34-day war on Lebanon ending with a UN-brokered ceasefire, the Israeli Army routinely breaches Lebanese territorial waters and airspace.
13 PLC members held by Israel after Khalida Jarrar detained in overnight raidsJuly 2, 2017 10:49 A.M. (Updated: July 2, 2017 5:07 P.M.)
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BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces detained Palestinian parliamentarian Khalida Jarrar during predawn military raids carried out across the occupied West Bank on Sunday — just over a year after she was released from Israeli prison — bringing the number of Palestinian lawmakers imprisoned by Israel to 13.
At least 11 other Palestinians were detained in the raids, included the chairwoman of the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees.
Israeli forces detained Jarrar, a deputy at the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) for the leftist faction the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), after raiding her home in Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank.
She was released from Israeli prison on June 3, 2016 on a suspended sentence of 12 months within a five-year period.
Following her detention 14 months prior, she was initially sentenced to six months of administrative detention — internment without trial or charge — though international pressure forced Israeli authorities to bring charges against her, all 12 of which focused on her political activism.
Jarrar was charged with security-related offenses related to her membership and activities with the PFLP — a Palestinian political party Israel considers a “terrorist” organization, along with the majority of other Palestinian political factions — and accused of inciting violence.
At the time, Jarrar accused the Israeli military prosecution of working to keep her in jail as long as possible, adding that she “did not expect anything from military courts. They are a joke, it’s like a big theater, I do not trust them and my detention has been political since the beginning.”
Jarrar also said that she refused to acknowledge the legitimacy of the court, stating that all charges pressed against her were “ridiculous” and related to completely legal activities, including social and political work as a member of parliament.
A statement released by the Israeli army Sunday morning claimed that Jarrar was detained for activities within PFLP and that her detention was not related to her post as member of the PLC.
Jarrar is also the head of the Prisoners’ Commission in the PLC, and vice-chairperson of the board of directors of Palestinian prisoners’ rights group Addameer.
Addameer said in a statement Sunday morning that “the arrest of Khalida Jarrar constitutes an attack against Palestinian political leaders and Palestinian civil society as a whole. It also constitutes one arrest in the context of continuous arrest campaigns against Palestinians.”
Israël arrête de nouveau une députée palestinienne
18h03, le 02 juillet 2017 | Par Rédaction Europe1.fr avec AFP
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Khalida Jarrar, figure du Front populaire de libération de la Palestine (FPLP), a de nouveau été arrêtée par l’armée israélienne. Elle était sortie des prisons israéliennes il y a tout juste un peu plus d’un an.
L’armée israélienne a annoncé avoir de nouveau arrêté la députée palestinienne Khalida Jarrar, accusée d’activités au sein d’une organisation considérée comme « terroriste » par Israël. Une arrestation qui intervient 13 mois après la sortie de prison de la députée.
La députée arrêtée 13 mois après sa sortie de prison. Khalida Jarrar (54 ans), une des figures les plus connues du Front populaire de libération de la Palestine (FPLP), avait été libérée en juin 2016 après avoir passé 14 mois dans une prison israélienne pour avoir, selon l’Etat hébreu, encouragé des attaques contre des Israéliens. Elle a été arrêtée dans la région de Ramallah en Cisjordanie.
Le FPLP est une formation de la gauche historique palestinienne considérée comme terroriste par Israël. De nombreux responsables de cette organisation d’inspiration marxiste ont été arrêtés à de multiples reprises.
Khalida Jarrar arrêtée pour avoir « repris ses activités au FPLP ». Selon l’armée israélienne, « après sa libération, Khalida Jarrar a repris ses activités au sein de l’organisation terroriste du FPLP » dont elle serait une des dirigeantes en Cisjordanie. « Elle a été appréhendée parce qu’elle a repris ses activités au FPLP et non en raison de son statut de membre » du Conseil législatif palestinien (Parlement), a ajouté l’armée israélienne.
Khalida Jarrar est membre du Parlement palestinien élu en 2007. Plusieurs députés palestiniens sont actuellement détenus par Israël.
Une dizaine d’autres arrestations. L’ONG palestinienne Addameer a précisé qu’au cours du même raid, une dizaine d’autres personnes avaient été arrêtées par les forces israéliennes, dont Khitam Saafin, présidente de l’Union des comités pour les femmes palestiniennes.
Israeli forces kill Palestinian during Hebron night raid
June 28, 2017 10:59 P.M.
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BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A Palestinian was shot and killed by Israeli forces on Wednesday evening during a raid in the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron.
According to an Israeli army spokesperson, Israeli forces, whom Israeli media said were undercover forces disguised as Palestinians, were searching for weapons in the Palestinians city when they encountered a Palestinian bearing a weapon, who shot towards the soldiers.
“Responding to the immediate threat,” the spokesperson said, the soldiers fired towards the Palestinian, killing him. The spokesperson added that no Israelis were harmed during the incident.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health identified the slain Palestinian as 23-year-old Iyad Munir Arafat Ghaith from Hebron city.
The Ministry added that Ghaith had been transferred to the Muhammad Ali al-Muhtasib hospital after being shot, then the governmental hospital in Hebron, although it remained unclear whether Ghaith was still alive at the time.
Official Palestinian sources told Ma’an that an investigation had been opened into the case, and that an autopsy would be carried out overnight.
Israeli raids in Palestinian towns, villages, and refugee camps are a nightly occurrence in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
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Cisjordanie : un Palestinien tire sur des soldats israéliens, est abattu (armée)
AFP / 28 juin 2017 21h48
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Jérusalem - Un Palestinien a ouvert le feu mercredi sur des soldats israéliens qui l’ont abattu, lors d’une opération militaire dans la ville d’Hébron en Cisjordanie occupée, a annoncé l’armée.
« Nos forces ont fait face à un Palestinien armé qui a ouvert le feu », a indiqué l’armée dans un communiqué publié sur son compte officiel Twitter. « En réponse à la menace immédiate, elles ont tiré sur le suspect. »
Un premier communiqué indiquait que l’homme portait une arme, représentait une menace et avait été abattu lors d’une opération de recherche de caches d’armes dans cette ville du sud de la Cisjordanie.
L’armée a publié une photo de ce qu’elle a présenté comme l’arme de l’homme, qui ressemblait à un pistolet à fabrication artisanale.
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Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (22 June – 05 July 2017)
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Wednesday, 28 June 2017
In the evening hours, one of the Israeli soldiers stationed near Ghaith Family Divan in Jawhar Mount in the southern area in Hebron killed Eyad Moneer Gheith (23) from Hebron.
According to PCHR’s investigation, at approximately 20:00 on the same day, the Israeli forces backed by several military jeeps moved into Jawhar Mount in the southern area in Hebron. Those forces surrounded several houses belonging to Ghaith family where there were a number of family members and other families holding a tribal reconciliation with al-Rajbi family due to a fight erupted between the two families. In the meantime, Eyad Ghaith, who was had a rifle, ran away fearing of being arrested by the Israeli forces. When Eyad was moving near his family divan as he was standing in front of a truck, he was surprised with an Israeli force moving into the area. Without a prior warning, the soldiers fired several life bullets; some of which hit a Reno car in front of him while two of which hit Eyad’s upper head. As a result, he suffered a skull fracture that lead to his death.
Israeli authorities destroy 60 solar panels in remote Bethlehem-area village
June 28, 2017 12:54 P.M. (Updated: June 28, 2017 12:54 P.M.)
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BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces took down and destroyed some 60 solar panels in the isolated village of Jubbet al-Dhib east of Bethlehem city in the southern occupied West Bank on Wednesday morning.
Head of the village council Rateb Abu Mahamid told Ma’an that Israeli army forces and members of the Israeli Civil Administration raided the village early Wednesday to seize the solar panels, highlighting that they were installed last year by human rights organizations to provide electricity to the remote village, which has “no necessities of life to survive,” according to the Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem (ARJI).
The village, located in Area C — the more than 60 percent of the occupied West Bank under full Israeli military control — is surrounded by illegal Israeli settlements, and as a result, Israel bars Palestinians from building and being connected to basic infrastructure, Mahamid told Ma’an.
A spokesperson for the Israeli Civil Administration did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the issue.
L’armée israélienne détruit une soixantaine panneaux solaires d’un village à Bethlehem
Rédaction du HuffPost Algérie | Publication : 28/06/2017 17h48
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Les 150 habitants du village de Jubbet al-Dhib, situé dans la localité de Bethlehem en Cisjordanie occupée, sont privés depuis ce mercredi 28 juin 2018 de leur accès à l’électricité. L’armée de l’occupation israélienne a détruit et confisqué une soixantaine de panneaux solaires, installés en 2016 par des organisations de défendre des droits humains, rapporte aujourd’hui Maan News.
Un des habitants de ce village a expliqué ce matin à cette agence de presse que des éléments de l’armée et des membres de l’administration de l’occupation ont pris d’assaut le village pour confisquer ces panneaux solaires.
Interrogé par la même source plus tard, ils ont justifié cette opération par le fait que ces installations ont été réalisées « sans permis », affirmant « que le village a d’autres sources d’électricité ».
Netherlands outraged after Israel seizes Dutch-funded solar panels in West Bank
July 1, 2017 10:37 P.M. (Updated: July 1, 2017 10:38 P.M.)
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BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The Netherlands has reacted with outrage after Israeli authorities seized dozens of solar panels in a remote occupied West Bank village that were donated by the Dutch government.
Israeli forces confiscated the solar panels in the isolated village of Jubbet al-Dhib east of Bethlehem on Wednesday that were installed last year, under the pretext that they were built without the nearly impossible to obtain permits required by Israel to develop in Area C — the 61 percent of the West Bank under full Israeli military control.
A report Saturday by Israeli news daily Haaretz cited a statement from the Dutch Foreign Ministry, that said the Dutch government lodged a protest with Israel over the confiscation of the electricity equipment, which was said to be a hybrid power system of both diesel and solar power.
The Dutch government-donated electrification project in the southern Bethlehem region cost about 500,000 euros, 350,00 euros of which went to Jubbet al-Dhib, according to the report.
The Dutch Foreign Ministry has requested Israel return the equipment and is “currently assessing what next steps can be taken,” the ministry’s statement to Haaretz said.
However, according to Haaretz, “A source close to Dutch diplomats in the West Bank told Haaretz that these softly worded statements cover the anger brewing in the government of the Netherlands, a close friend of Israel’s, at the damage to the humanitarian project.”
Ma’an reported at the time that 60 solar panels were seized, though Haaretz said that in fact 96 panels were taken down, in addition to other electronic equipment of the system that was also seized, which was funded by the Dutch and installed about nine months ago by the Israeli-Palestinian organization Comet-ME, which builds water and energy systems for Palestinians.
According to the report, Comet-ME implemented the project with the assistance of the town’s women’s committee using environmentally and socially sustainable methods.
Palestinian shot dead by Israeli forces in alleged stabbing attempt near Qalandiya
June 20, 2017 5:42 P.M. (Updated: June 21, 2017 11:09 A.M.)
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BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian near the Qalandiya military checkpoint in the central occupied West Bank district of Ramallah on Monday, with the Israeli army claiming the man attempted to carry out a stabbing attack on Israeli soldiers.
An Israeli army spokesperson told Ma’an that a short while after 5 p.m. “an assailant armed with a knife attempted to stab Israeli forces” that were operating on a road between the illegal Israeli Adam settlement and Israel’s Qalandiya checkpoint that leads to occupied East Jerusalem.
“In response to the immediate threat, forces fired towards the attacker and a hit was confirmed,” the spokesperson said, and acknowledged, after being asked for clarification, that the Palestinian was in fact killed.
No Israelis were injured in the incident.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health identified that Palestinian as 23-year-old Bahaa Imad Samir al-Hirbawi from the central West Bank Jerusalem-area village of al-Eizariya.
Israeli news site Ynet reported that Israeli soldiers were carrying out a “routine check” when they fatally shot al-Hirbawi, who was allegedly armed only with a knife. (...)
Family rejects Israeli narrative of Palestinian killed at checkpoint as father is detained
June 21, 2017 11:08 A.M. (Updated: June 22, 2017 1:01 P.M.)
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(...) Later Tuesday evening, 10 Israeli military vehicles raided Bahaa’s home town of al-Eizariya, surrounded the area around his house, and detained his father Imad al-Hirbawi. taking him for interrogation at the illegal Israeli settlement Maale Adummim, spokesperson of the local popular resistance committees in Hani Halabiya said.
An Israeli army spokesperson told Ma’an they were looking into reports of the raid and Imad’s detention.
Members of the family said that Bahaa left home Tuesday afternoon after getting off of work, and said he was going to Ramallah city to shop and visit his brother who lives in there.
They told Ma’an they were “shocked” by the news of Bahaa’s killing and denounced Israel’s version of events as “false claims.”
Relatives cited eyewitness accounts as saying that Israeli forces stopped Bahaa at the Jabaa checkpoint on his way back home from Ramallah and surrounded him. After that, “nobody knows what happened,” they said.
The family said they first heard of Bahaa’s death through social media posts and were officially informed by the Palestinian liaison sometime later.
Bahaa was the oldest sibling of ten. He worked with his father as a plumber, and was the second primary supporter of the family.
Family members said Bahaa had never been detained before for any reason and had no political affiliation.(...)
Israeli army vehicle torched during clashes in Hebron-area village
June 20, 2017 10:15 A.M. (Updated: June 20, 2017 10:44 A.M.)
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HEBRON (Ma’an) — Clashes erupted between Israeli forces and Palestinian residents in the village of Sair in the southern occupied West Bank district of Hebron on Monday night, during which an Israeli military vehicle was set on fire.
Locals told Ma’an that the clashes broke out when Israeli troops carried out a raid in the neighborhood of al-Duwara, although no detentions were reported.