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Ethiopian-Israelis Protest for 3rd Day After Fatal Police Shooting

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Ethiopian-Israelis and their supporters took to the streets across the country on Wednesday for a third day of protests in an outpouring of rage after an off-duty police officer fatally shot a black youth, and the Israeli police turned out in force to try to keep the main roads open.

The mostly young demonstrators have blocked major roads and junctions, paralyzing traffic during the evening rush hour, with disturbances extending into the night, protesting what community activists describe as deeply ingrained racism and discrimination in Israeli society.

Scores have been injured — among them many police officers, according to the emergency services — and dozens of protesters have been detained, most of them briefly. Israeli leaders called for calm; fewer protesters turned out on Wednesday.

“We must stop, I repeat, stop and think together how we go on from here,” President Reuven Rivlin said on Wednesday. “None of us have blood that is thicker than anyone else’s, and the lives of our brothers and sisters will never be forfeit.”
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On Tuesday night, rioters threw stones and firebombs at the police and overturned and set fire to cars in chaotic scenes rarely witnessed in the center of Tel Aviv and other Israeli cities.

After initially holding back, the police fired stun grenades, tear gas and hard sponge bullets and sent in officers on horseback, prompting demonstrators to accuse them of the kind of police brutality that they had turned out to protest in the first place.

The man who was killed, Solomon Tekah, 18, arrived from Ethiopia with his family seven years ago. On Sunday night, he was with friends in the northern port city of Haifa, outside a youth center he attended. An altercation broke out, and a police officer, who was out with his wife and children, intervened.

The officer said that the youths had thrown stones that struck him and that he believed that he was in a life-threatening situation. He drew his gun and said he fired toward the ground, according to Micky Rosenfeld, a police spokesman.

Mr. Tekah’s friends said that they were just trying to get away after the officer began harassing them. Whether the bullet ricocheted or was fired directly at Mr. Tekah, it hit him in the chest, killing him.

“He was one of the favorites,” said Avshalom Zohar-Sal, 22, a youth leader at the center, Beit Yatziv, which offers educational enrichment and tries to keep underprivileged youth out of trouble. Mr. Zohar-Sal, who was not there at the time of the shooting, said that another youth leader had tried to resuscitate Mr. Tekah.

The police officer who shot Mr. Tekah is under investigation by the Justice Ministry. His rapid release to house arrest has further inflamed passions around what Mr. Tekah’s supporters call his murder.

In a televised statement on Tuesday as violence raged, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that all Israel embraced the family of the dead youth and the Ethiopian community in general. But he added: “We are a nation of law; we will not tolerate the blocking of roads. I ask you, let us solve the problems together while upholding the law.”

Many other Israelis said that while they were sympathetic to the Ethiopian-Israelis’ cause — especially after the death of Mr. Tekah — the protesters had “lost them” because of the ensuing violence and vandalism.

Reflecting a gulf of disaffection, Ethiopian-Israeli activists said that they believed that the rest of Israeli society had never really supported them.

“When were they with us? When?” asked Eyal Gato, 33, an Ethiopian-born activist who came to Israel in 1991 in the airlift known as Operation Solomon, which brought 14,000 Ethiopian Jews to Israel within 36 hours.

The airlift was a cause of national celebration at the time, and many of the immigrants bent down to kiss the tarmac. But integration has since proved difficult for many, with rates of truancy, suicide, divorce and domestic violence higher than in the rest of Israeli society.

Mr. Gato, a postgraduate student of sociology who works for an immigrant organization called Olim Beyahad, noted that the largely poor Ethiopian-Israeli community of about 150,000, which is less than 2 percent of the population, had little electoral or economic clout.

He compared their situation to African-Americans in Chicago or Ferguson, Mo., but said that the Israeli iteration of “Black Lives Matter” had no organized movement behind it, and that the current protests had been spontaneous.

Recalling his own experiences — such as being pulled over by the police a couple of years ago when he was driving a Toyota from work in a well-to-do part of Rehovot, in central Israel, and being asked what he was doing there in that car — Mr. Gato said he had to carry his identity card with him at all times “to prove I’m not a criminal.”

The last Ethiopian protests broke out in 2015, after a soldier of Ethiopian descent was beaten by two Israeli police officers as he headed home in uniform in a seemingly unprovoked assault that was caught on video. At the time, Mr. Gato said, 40 percent of the inmates of Israel’s main youth detention center had an Ethiopian background. Since 1997, he said, a dozen young Ethiopian-Israelis have died in encounters with the police.

A government committee set up after that episode to stamp out racism against Ethiopian-Israelis acknowledged the existence of institutional racism in areas such as employment, military enlistment and the police, and recommended that officers wear body cameras.

“Ethiopians are seen as having brought their values of modesty and humility with them,” Mr. Gato said. “They expect us to continue to be nice and to demonstrate quietly.”

But the second generation of the Ethiopian immigration has proved less passive than their parents, who were grateful for being brought to Israel.

The grievances go back at least to the mid-1990s. Then, Ethiopian immigrants exploded in rage when reports emerged that Israel was secretly dumping the blood they donated for fear that it was contaminated with H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS.

“The community is frustrated and in pain,” said one protester, Rachel Malada, 23, from Rehovot, who was born in Gondar Province in Ethiopia and who was brought to Israel at the age of 2 months.

“This takes us out to the streets, because we must act up,” she said. “Our parents cannot do this, but we must.”

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Un Palestinien tue trois Israéliens près d’une colonie de Cisjordanie
AFP / 26 septembre 2017 11h23
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Un Palestinien armé d’un pistolet a tué mardi trois Israéliens à l’entrée d’une colonie de Cisjordanie occupée avant d’être abattu, dernière en date d’une multitude d’attaques du même genre depuis deux ans.

L’attaque a immédiatement suscité chez les Israéliens la crainte d’un nouvel accès de violence coïncidant avec les grandes fêtes juives.

Peu après 7H00, alors que des employés palestiniens se soumettaient aux contrôles israéliens pour entrer dans la colonie de Har Adar, à une quinzaine de kilomètres à l’ouest de Jérusalem, et commencer leur journée de travail, le comportement d’un homme a suscité les soupçons des gardes qui lui ont ordonné de s’arrêter, a rapporté la police israélienne.

L’homme a sorti un pistolet et ouvert le feu, tuant Solomon Gavria, un sergent de police âgé de 20 ans, et deux agents de sécurité privés, avant d’être abattu. Un quatrième israélien a été transporté à l’hôpital dans un état grave.

Steve Leibowitz, un résident de Har Adar âgé de 65 ans, a raconté à l’AFP avoir entendu les tirs et avoir d’abord cru à un mariage.

Har Adar est une colonie aisée et jusqu’alors paisible d’environ 4.000 habitants, située en Cisjordanie, territoire palestinien occupé par l’armée israélienne depuis cinquante ans. Elle jouxte le territoire israélien et est située en-deçà de la barrière de sécurité qu’Israël a construite pour se protéger des attaques palestiniennes et qui empiète largement sur le sol de Cisjordanie.

« C’est un endroit calme », dit Steve Leibowitz, « on a l’impression d’être en Israël même. Je n’ai pas fermé ma porte à clé depuis des années. Maintenant, je vais le faire ».
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L’assaillant a été identifié par les autorités israéliennes comme Nimer al-Jamal , un habitant de Beit Surik, un des villages qui font face à Har Adar. Comme après chaque attaque, les forces israéliennes ont effectué une descente dans son village et chez lui.

C’était un homme de 37 ans, sans antécédent au regard de la sécurité israélienne mais souffrant de « lourds problèmes personnels » et auteur de violences domestiques, selon la sécurité intérieure israélienne (Shin Beth). Sa femme l’aurait quitté et laissé seul avec leurs quatre enfants.

Il disposait d’un permis de travail israélien, comme des dizaines de milliers de Palestiniens qui vont chaque jour travailler en Israël ou dans les colonies, attirés par des salaires plus élevés. (...)

Palestine occupée : 3 agents des troupes d’occupation abattus par un Palestinien
mardi 26 septembre 2017 / 1h:41
26 septembre 2017 – Ma’an news – Traduction : Chronique de Palestine
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Ma’an News – Ce mardi, les forces israéliennes d’occupation ont tué un Palestinien de 37 ans qui avait mené une attaque à main armée à l’entrée de la colonie juive de Har Hadar en Cisjordanie occupée, abattant deux gardes de sécurité et un agent de la police des frontières.

Selon l’occupant, l’attaque a été menée par un Palestinien du village de Beit Surik dans le district de Jérusalem en Cisjordanie, plus tard identifié comme étant Nimr Mahmoud Ahmed Jamal.

La police israélienne a ajouté que Jamal était arrivé à la colonie avec un groupe de travailleurs palestiniens. Lorsque les Palestiniens ont commencé à entrer dans le poste de contrôle israélien à l’entrée de la colonie, les forces de police israéliennes lui ont demandé de s’arrêter, et à ce moment il a sorti une arme à feu et a tiré sur les policiers et les gardes.

Après un échange de coups de feu, Jamal a été tué. Trois des agents des troupes d’occupation ont été tués et un autre Israélien – le responsable de la sécurité de la colonie – a été gravement blessé. La police israélienne a confirmé que le Palestinien tué était titulaire d’un permis de travail israélien.

L’officier israélien tué se nomme Soloman Gabariya, âgé de 20 ans. La police israélienne a bouclé la zone près de la colonie suite à l’attaque. Le quotidien israélien Harretz a identifié les deux gardes de sécurité comme étant Yussef Utman, un habitant du village d’Abu Gosh près de Jérusalem, et Or Arish, âgé de 25 ans, de Har Adar.

Selon les informations recueillies par Ma’an, Jamal est le 56e Palestinien à avoir été tué par des Israéliens depuis le début de l’année lors d’attaques réelles ou présumées, d’affrontements ou de raids mortels.

Depuis le début de l’année 2017, 16 Israéliens ont été tués par des Palestiniens, presque tous des officiers israéliens en uniforme ou des Israéliens vivant dans des colonies israéliennes, en complète violation du droit international.

Cisjordanie : un Palestinien tue trois Israéliens près de la colonie de Har Adar
Par RFI Publié le 26-09-2017 | Avec notre correspondant à Jérusalem, Guilhem Delteil
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Jérusalem : fusillade sur l’esplanade des Mosquées
International Par : Sonia Lyes 14 Juil. 2017
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Trois Palestiniens ont été tués ce vendredi 14 juillet, lors d’un accrochage avec la police sur l’esplanade des Mosquées à Jérusalem. Deux policiers israéliens, blessés par balles, ont succombé à leurs blessures, a annoncé la police de l’occupation. Selon plusieurs sources, l’accrochage a éclaté quand trois jeunes Palestiniens ont ouvert le feu sur des policiers israéliens.

Un échange de tirs nourris est audible sur les images d’une vidéo diffusée dans les médias israéliens et palestiniens, filmée sur l’esplanade des Mosquées. Toutefois, dans cette vidéo, on voit ce qui ressemble à une exécution d’un Palestinien visiblement non armé par plusieurs policiers israélien.

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Israel rescinds permits, puts Ramallah-area village on lockdown following deadly attack
June 17, 2017 11:36 A.M. (Updated: June 17, 2017 11:40 A.M.)
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(...) Israeli forces put Ramallah-area village under lockdown and prepare for punitive demolitions

Shortly after the attack on Friday night, Israeli forces surrounded Deir Abu Mashal village, northwest of Ramallah city, where the three Palestinian attackers originated, according to Palestinian sources.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health identified the slain attackers as Adel Hasan Ahmad Ankoush ,18, Baraa Ibrahim Salih Taha , 18, and Osama Ahmad Dahdouh , 19.

Locals told Ma’an that Israeli forces set up military checkpoints in the village and prevented residents from leaving or entering the area.

The mayor of Deir Abu Mashal Imad Zahran told Ma’an on Saturday that Israeli forces raided the homes of the three Palestinian youths and took measurements, while Israeli soldiers informed the families that their homes would be demolished soon — an Israeli policy used against family members of Palestinian attacks, which rights groups have deemed a form of “collective punishment.”

Israeli news daily Haaretz reported that Israel would also revoke Israeli permits for the extended families of the Palestinian attackers.

Zahran confirmed that “fierce clashes” broke out in the village during the raid, adding that two Palestinians were shot with live ammunition in the legs and another Palestinian was struck with a live bullet. Dozens of Palestinians, he added, suffered from tear gas inhalation during the clashes.
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Palestinians injured and detained following the attack

As reports continue emerge regarding the deadly attack, Palestinians told Ma’an that a number of bystanders were injured and detained by Israeli forces following the attack.

Several Palestinians were injured by shrapnel from bullets shot by Israeli forces, who witnesses said shot “haphazardly” in every direction during the attack. Among the injured was a young man from Jerusalem who was shot in the spine and kidney, according to witnesses.

The Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance service told Ma’an that its teams had treated one person who was injured by shrapnel in the foot and three others who suffered from tear gas inhalation after Israeli forces fired tear gas into the crowds.

Meanwhile, witnesses told Ma’an that Israeli forces and police officers had detained at least six young men following the incident and “assaulted” Palestinian bystanders.

Israeli forces had detained three Palestinian bystanders near Herod’s Gate in the Old City after allegedly assaulting them, according to witnesses. Israeli forces also fired stun grenades to disperse bystanders and passersby who were exiting through the gate after finishing prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Three other Palestinian bystanders were detained in Musrara neighborhood and on Nablus street in East Jerusalem where Israeli forces had also fired stun grenades at Palestinians in the area.

Meanwhile, all shop owners in Musrara and Sultan Solomon streets near the site of the attack were forced to close their shops following the incident.

According to witnesses, Israeli forces also stormed the al-Maqasid hospital at the Mount of Olives reportedly in search of a young Palestinian man who was shot in the Damascus Gate area. Witnesses added that Israeli forces were deployed outside the hospital and were inspecting vehicles.

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Officials identify Palestinian teen killed at Bethlehem-area checkpoint
May 23, 2017 11:02 A.M. (Updated: May 23, 2017 1:33 P.M.)
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The Palestinian Civil Liaison said the boy as 15-year-old Raed Ahmad Radayda , a resident of the village of al-Ubeidiya in the southern West Bank district of Bethlehem.

Radayda, who was previously reported to be 16 years old, was shot and killed by Israeli border police as he allegedly approached the Israeli Container checkpoint northeast of Bethlehem while holding a knife on Monday afternoon.

No Israelis were injured in the alleged attack.

Israeli Soldiers Execute Palestinian Girl in Occupied Jerusalem
May 8, 2017
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(...) According to PCHR’s investigations and testimonies by eyewitnesses to PCHR’s fieldworker in occupied Jerusalem, at approximately 19:00 on the abovementioned day, Fatmah ‘Afif ‘Abdel Rahman Hjeiji (16), from Qarawet Bani Zaid village, northwest of Ramallah, was walking 10 meters away from a police checkpoint, which is permanently established at the southern entrance to the Damascus Gate. One of the soldiers suddenly screamed out, “knife”. Immediately, the Israeli soldiers stationed there opened fire at the girl. As a result, 30 live bullets hit her body; some of them penetrated her chest and waist from the right side. Therefore, Fatmah was killed on the spot. Eyewitnesses emphasized that after the girl fell on the ground, the Israeli soldiers continued shooting at her and not only attempting to wound or arrest her.

Following this, the Israeli police deployed in the area closed the scene and prevented anyone from approaching the girl, whose body had been on the ground for an hour. The police officers attacked and pushed dozens of civilians away. They chased Mahmoud Abu Sbeih (9) until he fell from height in the Damascus Gate area and was then taken to the hospital to receive medical treatment. (...)

B’Tselem denounces Israel for unjustified killing of Palestinian teen in Jerusalem
May 10, 2017 6:15 P.M. (Updated: May 10, 2017 11:06 P.M.)
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B’Tselem noted that Israel’s Jerusalem District Police Commander Major General Yoram Halevy defended the shooting as lawful and appropriate. Israeli police spokespersons at the time said the officers had acted “determinedly and professionally” when they killed the teenager.

“The District Commander’s statement completely ignores the facts of the case: Hjeiji’s youth, the fact that she stood motionless, the short distance between her and the officers, the metal barrier separating her from the officers, and the obvious conclusion — that the officers shot and killed her when she posed no threat to them,” B’Tselem wrote.

“This statement, like similar sentiments expressed by other senior ranking officials and a mood of general hostility ever since October 2015, encourages security personnel to shoot to kill even in cases such as this, where lethal measures are unwarranted,” the human rights organization argued.

“This is no isolated incident,” B’Tselem affirmed, echoing numerous the numerous cases in which Israeli forces have been condemned for carrying out a “shoot-to-kill” policy of Palestinians who could have easily been disarmed and detained without being shot to death by Israeli forces.

An Israeli settler was shot and killed earlier this month at a military checkpoint, who Israeli police initially mistook for a Palestinian. About a month ago, almost at the very spot where Hjeiji was killed, and under similar circumstances, Israeli forces shot and killed 49-year-old Siham Nimr, who allegedly brandished a pair of scissors at them from the other side of the police barricade.

“The continued policy of fatally shooting Palestinians who do not pose a mortal danger illustrates the manifest discrepancy between the recognized and accepted principle that prohibits such use of gunfire, and a reality in which shoot-to-kill incidents are a frequent occurrence and are encouraged by senior officials and wide public support,” B’Tselem concluded in their report.

Video emerges on killing in Umm al-Hiran, as family awaits return of slain Bedouin’s body
Jan. 21, 2017 12:03 P.M. (Updated: Jan. 21, 2017 12:07 P.M.)
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(...) Abu al-Qian’s autopsy report was also released on Friday, detailing that the teacher had been killed by two bullets that were fired at his vehicle, the first of which struck him on his right knee, and the second in a main artery in the chest area, before he was left to bleed to death.

Israeli Channel 10 reported that Abu al-Qian’s knee injury led to the acceleration of his vehicle after his leg pressed against the gas pedal, and added that he had lost large amounts of blood which would have made it impossible to save him.

Nevertheless, they reported that he had been left to bleed for a half and hour as ambulances were prevented from providing him first aid.

Witnesses told Ma’an that Israeli police pulled an injured Abu al-Qian from his vehicle at the time and shot him another time to confirm his death. However, this testimony contradicts the autopsy report that stated he had bled to death.

Meanwhile, the family of Abu al-Qian have continued to refuse conditions set by Israeli police in order to receive the slain body of Abu al-Qian.(...)

Thousands rally in northern Israel in the wake of demolitions in Umm al-Hiran
Jan. 21, 2017 7:18 P.M. (Updated: Jan. 21, 2017 7:30 P.M.)
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PHOTOS: Thousands of Palestinians and Israelis protest home demolitions

Over 5,000 Arabs and Jews gather in Wadi Ara, northern Israel, to protest against recent home demolitions in Palestinian communities.

Photos by Keren Manor, text by Yael Marom
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Around two hours after the protest had begun, hundreds of protesters blocked the junction at the entrance to Ar’ara. Police threw shock grenades and fired “skunk” water at the demonstrators, injuring several. Some of the protesters responded by throwing stones.

Funeral begins for slain Bedouin teacher in Umm al-Hiran
Jan. 24, 2017 1:15 P.M. (Updated: Jan. 24, 2017 9:47 P.M.)
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BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The funeral of Yaqoub Abu al-Qian , a Palestinian citizen of Israel and local math teacher from the unrecognized Bedouin community of Umm al-Hiran, began early on Tuesday afternoon, after the Israeli Supreme Court ordered that Israeli police return his body to his family a day earlier.

Abu al-Qian was shot and killed by Israeli police last week under widely contested circumstances during the violent demolition raid in Umm al-Hiran that left more than a dozen Palestinian structures razed to the ground.

While numerous eyewitnesses have insisted Abu al-Qian was posing no threat to anyone when Israeli police opened fire at his vehicle, causing him to lose control of the car and ram into officers, Israeli authorities have claimed the local math teacher was carrying out a deliberate terrorist attack in the incident that left one policeman killed.

Une opération de démolition tourne mal en Israël : un policier et un villageois tués
AFP / 18 janvier 2017 09h18
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Umm al-Hiran (Israël) - Une opération de démolition dans un village bédouin a très mal tourné mercredi dans une communauté emblématique du sud d’Israël, où un policier israélien et un villageois arabe ont été tués dans des circonstances différentes selon les versions de la police et des villageois.

Le policier Erez Levi, 34 ans, est mort dans une attaque à la voiture bélier dont l’auteur a ensuite été abattu, a indiqué la police qui a décrit le conducteur comme un « terroriste ».

Plusieurs villageois et l’assistant d’un député arabe présent sur place ont contesté cette version des faits.

Les policiers avaient été dépêchés dans le village bédouin d’Umm al-Hiran pour sécuriser la démolition de plusieurs maisons de bédouins, dépourvues selon les autorités israéliennes des permis nécessaires.

« A l’arrivée des unités de police sur la zone, un véhicule conduit par un terroriste du Mouvement islamique a tenté d’attaquer un groupe de policiers en les percutant. Les policiers ont riposté et le terroriste a été neutralisé », a dit un porte-parole de la police, Micky Rosenfeld. Une autre porte-parole de la police a confirmé la mort du conducteur.

Plusieurs policiers ont été blessés, a dit M. Rosenfeld.

Raed Abou al-Qiyan, responsable d’un comité prodiguant des services aux villageois, a contesté cette version.

« La version israélienne est un mensonge. Il (le conducteur) était un enseignant respecté. Ils (les policiers) sont arrivés et ont commencé à tirer sans discrimination des balles en caoutchouc, visant les gens, allant jusqu’à blesser le député (arabe israélien) Ayman Odeh qui essayait de leur parler », a déclaré à l’AFP Raed Abou al-Qiyan, qui dit avoir été témoin direct des faits.

Renewed clashes erupt in Negev village as Israeli bulldozers begin demolitions
Jan. 18, 2017 12:38 P.M. (Updated: Jan. 18, 2017 12:38 P.M.)
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(...) At around noon, renewed clashes erupted as Israeli bulldozers began razing the homes to the ground.

Residents crowded and hurled stones at Israeli police officers who showered the demonstrators with tear gas to disperse them.

Palestinian MK Osama Saadi was lightly injured in the leg and was taken to Soroka hospital in Beersheva for treatment, according to Israeli news website Walla.

In addition, Israeli police officers denied a number of Palestinian Knesset members entry into the village. Among them were MK Ahmad Tibi and Hanin Zoubi. Israeli police prevented hundreds of vehicles from entering the village as residents were seen evacuating belongings from their homes ahead of the demolitions.

Palestinian MK Jamal Zahalqa urged the Israeli government to pull out police and avoid using force. A solution could be reached, he told reporters, by dialogue in a way that shows respect to the residents of Umm al-Hiran.

#israël #démolitions #bédouins #colonisation_intérieure

Umm al-Hiran man killed after police open fire during violent demolition operation in Bedouin village
18/01/2017
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Adalah: Israeli courts, gov’t responsible for death of 50 year old; residents refute police claims of attack; eyewitnesses confirm Ya’akub Musa Abu Al-Qi’an lost control of car after police fired at him.

Israeli police killed a 50-year-old local teacher this morning (Wed. 18 January 2017) and wounded local residents and a Knesset member during a violent incursion into Atir-Umm al-Hiran aimed at demolishing a central section of the Naqab (Negev) Bedouin village. One police officer was also killed during the incident.

Adalah, which represented the Bedouin residents of Atir–Umm al-Hiran in legal proceedings over the past 13 years to stop the village’s demolition responded to the events of this morning that: "The Israeli judiciary and the government are responsible for the killing in the village today. The Israeli Supreme Court’s decision to allow the state to proceed with its plan to demolish the village, which has existed for 60 years, in order to establish a Jewish town called ’Hiran’ over its ruins, is one of the most racist judgments that the Court has ever issued. (...)

Israeli police accused of cover-up over killing during Negev demolition raid
Jan. 18, 2017 2:16 P.M. (Updated: Jan. 18, 2017 2:16 P.M.)
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NEGEV (Ma’an) — The Joint List, which represents parties led by Palestinian citizens of Israel in Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, accused Israeli police of spreading misinformation to Israeli media regarding an alleged vehicle attack Wednesday morning in the Negev, in order to distract from Israel’s campaign to establish Jewish-only towns “on the ruins of Bedouin villages.”

The statement warned the Israeli government of the dangerous consequences of the “bloody” escalation, after Israeli police raided the unrecognized Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran to evacuate residents in order to demolish their homes.

The raid turned deadly, when a 47-year-old Palestinian with Israeli citizenship was shot and killed by police “in cold blood,” according to witnesses. However, Israeli police claimed the man deliberately rammed his car into officers.

Hours later, as Israeli bulldozers began razing the homes to the ground, renewed clashes erupted in the village.

Umm al-Hiran is one of 35 Bedouin villages considered “unrecognized” by the Israeli state, and more than half of the approximately 160,000 Negev Bedouins reside in unrecognized villages.

The unrecognized Bedouin villages were established in the Negev soon after the 1948 Arab-Israeli war following the creation of the state of Israel.

Now more than 60 years later, the villages have yet to be recognized by Israel and live under constant threats of demolition and forcible removal.

La manière dont les chaines de TV comme LCI ne relaient que la propagande israélienne (attaque terroriste contre les policiers israéliens) est à gerber.

Palestinian, Israeli leadership react to deadly police raid of Bedouin village
Jan. 18, 2017 6:12 P.M. (Updated: Jan. 18, 2017 6:12 P.M.)
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RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Secretary-General of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Saeb Erekat condemned Israeli authorities for the “crime” committed Wednesday during a demolition campaign in the Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran, during which a Palestinian citizen of Israel was shot dead by Israeli police and an Israeli policeman was killed, and numerous Palestinians were injured.

Erekat accused the Israeli government of reacting to attempts by the international community to achieve peace between Palestinians and Israelis by escalating a policy of “racism, ethnic cleansing, and the evacuation of indigenous Palestinians from their lands, in a desperate attempt to Judaize the country.”

He called attention to the estimated 1.7 million Palestinians with Israeli citizenship who “are living amid the racist system of Israel,” adding that the demolition Palestinian homes in the Israeli city of Qalansawe had “continued in Qalandiya refugee camp yesterday and in Umm al-Hiran today.”

Erekat stressed that the international community’s silence towards Israeli actions only bought time and immunity for Israel to commit more crimes, adding that the situation “requires an immediate and urgent international intervention to stop this chaos before it’s too late.”

Meanwhile, the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that not holding Israel accountable regarding its role as an occupying power “lessens the credibility of countries who demand reviving and realizing the two-state solution.”

The ministry argued that Israel’s belligerence in the face of international conventions “calls for an international ethical wakening to punish Israel for its violations, and to end its occupation of Palestine.” (...)

Umm al-Hiran : Odeh accuse Netanyahu d’avoir refusé un accord et déclenché les affrontements
Le député arabe affirme que les habitants du village bédouin avaient accepté un compromis quelques heures avant l’explosion des violences mortelles
Stuart Winer 18 janvier 2017, 17:33
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Le dirigeant de la Liste arabe unie a accusé mercredi le Premier ministre Benjamin Netanyahu d’avoir causé un violent affrontement dans un village bédouin, au cours duquel un policier et un habitant ont été tués. Il a affirmé que Netanyahu avait manqué à sa parole à propos d’un accord concernant les démolitions de maisons du village.

S’adressant aux journalistes devant le centre médical Soroka de Beer Sheva, le député Ayman Odeh, qui portait un bandage sur la tête après avoir été blessé pendant les manifestations, a réclamé une enquête gouvernementale sur les événements.

Des démolitions de maisons du village bédouin non autorisé d’Umm al-Hiran, dans le Néguev, ont été perturbées mercredi matin quand une voiture, conduite par l’instituteur du village, Yaqoub Mousa Abu Al-Qian, est entrée dans la ligne formée par les policiers. Un policier, Erez Levi, 34 ans, a été tué, et un autre a été blessé.

« Nous étions en négociations jusque tard dans la nuit », a déclaré Odeh, sans préciser les responsables présents pour représenter l’Etat.

« Je participais aux négociations. Nous avions presque terminé. Nous avions atteint un compromis, que les habitants d’Umm al-Hiran ont accepté. Mais le Premier ministre Benjamin Netanyahu, qui a déjà identifié la population arabe comme l’ennemi public numéro un, a cruellement décidé de détruire un village entier, de tirer et de frapper des hommes, des femmes, et des enfants. »(...)

Israeli police video reveals cops opened fire on Bedouin man before his car accelerated, contradicting police claims
19/01/2017
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Adalah demands criminal investigation; police in Umm al-Hiran violated open-fire regulations, and prevented ambulance crew from treating Abu Al-Qi’an for three hours after shooting.

Hours after Israeli police gunfire led to the death of a Bedouin man during a violent home demolition operation, Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel is demanding that Israeli authorities investigate the suspicious circumstances of his death.

Mr. Ya’akub Musa Abu Al-Qi’an, a 50-year-old math teacher from Atir-Umm al-Hiran in the Naqab (Negev), Israel’s southern desert region, was killed after Israeli police opened fire on his vehicle as he was driving through the Bedouin village during state preparations for a large-scale home demolition.

The parents of Abu Al-Qi’an have asked Adalah to represent the family and to demand that the Justice Ministry’s Police Investigations Division (Mahash) investigate the circumstances of their son’s death.

In the letter to Mahash, sent late last night (18 January 2017), Adalah Attorneys Nadeem Shehadeh and Mohammad Bassam argue that police video footage of the incident and eyewitness testimony reveal that police opened fire on Abu Al-Qi’an’s vehicle before he accelerated in the direction of officers. This totally contradicts police claims that Abu Al Qi’an sought to “ram” them with his vehicle.(...)

Israeli police close probe into January killing of Palestinian teacher
Dec. 30, 2017 3:40 P.M. (Updated: Dec. 30, 2017 3:40 P.M.)
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BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The Israeli Police Investigations Division (PID) has decided to close its probe into the January police killing of Palestinian math teacher Yaqoub Abu al-Qian, and to not hold any officers responsible for his death, Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, said in a statement on Thursday.

Abu al-Qian, a 50-year-old math teacher from the Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran in southern Israel’s Negev desert, was shot dead by Israeli police in January while he was driving at night, causing him to spin out of control and crash into Israeli officers, killing one policeman.

Abu al-Qian was driving through the village as dozens of Israeli forces were preparing for a large-scale home demolition in Umm al-Hiran. Israeli forces at the time claimed he was attempted to carry out a vehicular attack, though witness testimonies and video footage of the incident proved contradictory to police accusations.

Israeli police footage appeared to show police officers shooting at al-Qian as he was driving at a very slow pace, and only several seconds after the gunfire does his car appear to speed up, eventfully plowing through police officers.

The killing of Abu al-Qian sparked widespread outrage amongst Palestinian civilians and politicians, who claimed he was “extrajudicially executed.

After demands from his family and the community for police to conduct a probe into his killing, Adalah filed a request demanding the PID open an investigation into the death of Abu al-Qian.

“The closure of this investigation means the PID continues to grant legitimacy to deadly police violence against Arab citizens of Israel,” Adalah said in it’s statement.

Une terrible injustice, reconnue sur le tard, et pour les mauvaises raisons
Un civil et un policier ont perdu la vie en 2017 dans ce village, et les autorités ont tiré une mauvaise conclusion – la vérité est désormais connue, et les dégâts considérables
Par David Horovitz 10 septembre 2020,
▻https://fr.timesofisrael.com/une-terrible-injustice-reconnue-sur-le-tard-et-pour-les-mauvaises-

(...) Cependant, près de quatre ans après l’incident, le Premier ministre Benjamin Netanyahu a reconnu ce que ces vidéos de drones avaient indiqué dès le départ – que le récit officiel était faux – et il a présenté des excuses à la famille d’Abou Al-Qia’an : « Ils [la police] ont dit que c’était un terroriste. Hier, il s’est avéré qu’il n’était pas un terroriste », a déclaré le Premier ministre mardi soir. La police, pour sa part, a exprimé ses regrets, bien qu’elle n’ait pas présenté d’excuses ni rétracté l’accusation de terrorisme.
L’ancien procureur général Shai Nitzan. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

La vérité n’a été officiellement reconnue qu’à la suite d’un reportage télévisé cette semaine mettant en évidence la dissimulation officielle – un reportage télévisé qui s’imbrique, comme tant d’autres affaires courantes israéliennes de nos jours, dans les embrouilles juridiques de Netanyahu. C’est l’ancien procureur général Shai Nitzan qui a supervisé l’enquête de 2018 et qui aurait supprimé des preuves – le même Shai Nitzan fréquemment fustigé par Netanyahu en tant que figure clé dans la prétendue tentative de coup d’Etat politique dans laquelle le Premier ministre est jugé dans trois affaires de corruption. (...)

Nov. 25, 2016 6:20 P.M. (Updated : Nov. 26, 2016 5:36 P.M.)

Locals later identified the slain Palestinian as Muhammad Nabil Zeidan, 15.

Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (24 – 30 November 2016)
▻http://pchrgaza.org/en/?p=8605

During the reporting period, Israeli forces killed a Palestinian child in Sho’fat refugee camp, north of occupied Jerusalem.

In occupied Jerusalem, in excessive use of lethal force, Israeli forces stationed at Sho’fat checkpoint, north of occupied Jerusalem killed a Palestinian child. Israeli forces claimed that he attempted to stab an Israeli security officer with a knife he hid under his clothes. However, PCHR’s investigations refuted this claim.

16-year-old slain Palestinian laid to rest after being held by Israel for over 2 months

Feb. 2, 2017 5:51 P.M. (Updated: Feb. 3, 2017 1:25 P.M.)

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Proche-Orient : trois Israéliens blessés, deux assaillants palestiniens abattus
afp, le 19/09/2016 à 17h46
▻http://www.la-croix.com/Monde/Proche-Orient-trois-Israeliens-blesses-deux-assaillants-palestiniens-abatt

Deux nouvelles attaques au couteau de Palestiniens contre les forces israéliennes ont fait trois blessés et coûté la vie à deux de leurs auteurs lundi, renforçant la crainte d’un accès de fièvre à l’approche des grandes fêtes juives.

Après une accalmie dans les violences, Jérusalem et la Cisjordanie ont connu leur sixième et septième attentats anti-israéliens depuis vendredi. Trois policiers israéliens ont été blessés, dont une gravement. Un autre assaillant palestinien est dans un état critique.

Pour Israël, la reprise des attaques, qui a coïncidé avec la fin des congés musulmans de l’Aïd al-Adha (fête du Sacrifice), fait redouter une nouvelle flambée avec les grandes fêtes juives de Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippour et Souccot à partir d’octobre. En 2015 déjà, ces célébrations avaient été une période de vives tensions.

Deux Palestiniens, identifiés comme Mohanad Al-Rajabi , 21 ans, et Amir Al-Rajabi, 17 ans, ont été abattus en tentant de poignarder des policiers israéliens à Hébron, dans le sud de la Cisjordanie, territoire sous occupation israélienne depuis presque un demi-siècle, a rapporté la police israélienne.

Un Palestinien abattu après avoir tenté de poignarder une policière israélienne
AFP / 16 septembre 2016 12h54
▻http://www.romandie.com/news/Un-Palestinien-abattu-apres-avoir-tente-de-poignarder-une-policiere-israelienne/737007.rom

Jérusalem - Un Palestinien a été abattu vendredi à Jérusalem-Est occupée par une policière israélienne qu’il avait tenté de poignarder, a indiqué la police israélienne.

Le Palestinien, âgé de 28 ans et détenteur d’un passeport jordanien, a cherché à poignarder la policière près de la porte de Damas, l’un des accès les plus sensibles à la Vieille ville, a rapporté la police. La policière a riposté et l’a abattu, a dit la police.

Family of Jordanian killed by Israeli forces in Jerusalem ’doubts’ Israeli narrative
Sept. 17, 2016 8:14 P.M. (Updated: Sept. 18, 2016 9:54 A.M.)
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BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Said Hayil al-Amr “always dreamed of praying in Al-Aqsa Mosque,” his family told Ma’an via telephone from their home in the village of al-Mughayyir in al-Karak, Jordan.

Members of al-Amr’s family said they “doubted the Israeli narrative” of his death. The 28-year-old Jordanian citizen was shot dead by Israeli border police in front of Damascus Gate of occupied East Jerusalem’s Old City Friday afternoon, after he allegedly attempted to stab an Israeli officer stationed there, according to Israeli police. The family is still waiting for al-Amr’s body to be returned to them.

A witness told Israeli newspaper Haaretz at the time that he didn’t see al-Amr attacking anyone before he was killed. When Israeli police officers suspected the man and and asked him to lift his shirt, al-Amr yelled “Allahu akbar,” and was shot by one of the officers, the witness added.

Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said police found three knives on al-Amr’s person, which Rosenfeld claimed al-Amr intended to use in a stabbing attack.

Funerals held for slain Palestinians draw large crowds, spark clashes in Beit Ummar
Dec. 17, 2016 2:19 P.M. (Updated: Dec. 17, 2016 2:29 P.M.)
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Meanwhile, a funeral on Saturday morning was also held in the village of Bani Naim east of Hebron city, when thousands of mourners marched for Sarah Tarayra and Fares Khaddour, whose bodies were also released Friday night.

On July 1, Israeli forces shot dead 27-year-old Sarah Tarayra , who was pregnant, after she allegedly attempted to carry out a stabbing attack against border police officers near the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron’s Old City. No Israelis were injured in the incident. An investigation carried out by human rights organization B’Tselem determined the killing was not justified.

3 blessés dans une attaque au couteau à la Porte de Damas
Un terroriste palestinien a poignardé et blessé 2 policiers israéliens près de la Vieille Ville de Jérusalem avant d’être abattu, a indiqué la police ; Une 3e victime a été blessée par des tirs
Times of Israel Staff 19 février 2016,
▻http://fr.timesofisrael.com/3-blesses-dans-une-attaque-au-couteau-a-la-porte-de-damas

Trois adolescents palestiniens abattus après avoir attaqué des soldats et un policier israéliens
AFP / 14 février 2016
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Naplouse (Territoires palestiniens) - Trois adolescents palestiniens ont été abattus dimanche, lors de deux attaques, dont l’une avec une arme à feu, contre des soldats et un policier israéliens en Cisjordanie occupée, les dernières d’une vague de violences qui déferle depuis quatre mois en Israël et dans les Territoires palestiniens.

Ces attaques, menées par des Palestiniens isolés, ainsi que des heurts entre jeunes lanceurs de pierres palestiniens et soldats israéliens, ont fait depuis début octobre 170 morts côté palestinien, 26 côté israélien, ainsi qu’un Erythréen, un Américain et un Soudanais, selon un décompte de l’AFP.

La majorité des Palestiniens tués sont des auteurs ou auteurs présumés d’attaques contre des civils ou des membres des forces israéliennes, commises principalement à l’arme blanche. Les attaques à l’arme à feu sont restées relativement rares, alors que quasi-quotidiennement, les autorités israéliennes assurent arrêter des Palestiniens en possession de couteaux.

Un Palestinien, qui avait tenté d’attaquer un policier israélien à coups de couteau a été abattu dimanche entre Jérusalem et Bethléem, a annoncé la police. Le ministère palestinien de la Santé l’a identifié comme Naïm Safi , 17 ans, originaire d’un village proche de Bethléem en Cisjordanie.

Plus tôt dans la journée, deux Palestiniens, dont l’un avait tiré sur des soldats, avaient été tués dans le nord de la Cisjordanie, selon l’armée israélienne. Le ministère de la Santé palestinien les a identifiés comme Nihad et Fouad Waked , tous les deux âgés de 15 ans mais sans lien de parenté direct.

L’armée israélienne a expliqué que les deux jeunes, originaires selon les sources palestiniennes de Araqa, lançaient des pierres sur des véhicules passant à proximité de ce village situé à l’ouest de la ville de Jénine. Quand les soldats sont arrivés sur les lieux, l’un des assaillants à tiré dans leur direction et les soldats ont répliqué par des tirs qui les ont tués, a indiqué une porte-parole de l’armée à l’AF
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Army Kills Three Palestinian Children In Bethlehem and Jenin
author Monday February 15, 2016 00:45
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Chaos erupts in hometown of 3 Palestinian attackers as Israeli forces raid village
Feb. 4, 2016 10:37 A.M. (Updated: Feb. 4, 2016 12:18 P.M.)
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JENIN (Ma’an) — Israeli forces stormed the northern occupied West Bank district of Jenin’s Qabatiya village, the home of three Palestinian youth who were shot dead Wednesday after killing one 19-year-old Israeli police officer and seriously injuring another, a PLO spokesman told Ma’an.

Ali Zakarneh said during the raid, Israeli forces shot and injured four youth with live bullets, one of whom is in critical condition after being shot in the head.

The spokesperson added that Israeli forces also ran over a 15-year-old boy, identified as Mujahed Zakarneh, with a military jeep. The 15-year-old is also in critical condition.

The five youth were all evacuated to a nearby hospital for treatment, Zakarneh said.

Israeli forces also raided the family homes of the three youth who committed the attack and notified the families that their homes would be demolished, requesting they evacuate their belongings in preparation for the demolitions.

Palestinian youths slain in deadly attack on Israeli police
Maureen Clare Murphy | 4 February 2016
▻https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/palestinian-youths-slain-deadly-attack-israeli-police

Nine youths from Qabatiya village have been killed since the beginning of October.

One of them was a good friend of the three killed on Wednesday, a relative of one of the youths told The New York Times.

Ahmad Awad Abu al-Rab, 17, was shot dead by Israeli soldiers at Jalameh checkpoint near Jenin during what Israel says was an attempted stabbing attack on 2 November last year. Another boy the same age, Mahmoud Kamil, was wounded and arrested during the incident.

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights called the shooting of the boys a crime of excessive force.

The teens apparently never made contact with the soldiers before they were shot with live fire.

The Quds news outlet published a photo of Muhammad Kamil participating in a demonstration calling on Israel to return the body Ahmad Awad Abu al-Rab:

2 Palestinians, 2 Israelis killed in Jerusalem Old City attack
Dec. 23, 2015 1:41 P.M. (Updated: Dec. 24, 2015 9:50 A.M.)