Grief as Mustafa Tamimi’s body is put in a car to Nabi Saleh
(Photo: Joseph Dana)
Mustafa Tamimi’s body has come out of the hospital (Photo: Joseph Dana)
Mustafa Tamimi carried through the streets of Ramallah (Photo: Joseph Dana)
Mustafa Tamimi
No miracle yesterday in Nabi Saleh: Mustafa Tamimi murdered, Linah Alsaafin
Linah Alsaafin witnessed the murder of Mustafa Tamimi at the hands of the Israeli army who had invaded Nabi Saleh village.
http://electronicintifada.net/content/no-miracle-yesterday-nabi-saleh-mustafa-tamimi-murdered/10678?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+electronicIntifadaPalestine+%28Electronic+Intifada+%3A+Palestine+News%29
Ministry of Hasbara: IDF Has Become Israel’s Chief Delegitimizer, Richard Silverstein
Seventeen Israeli settler families moved into a settlement in the Palestinian neighborhood of Ras al-Amoud in Silwan today, 8 December. The building, formerly an Israeli, then Jordanian police station, is claimed by Israeli police to now belong to the Bukharist political party. Police made a deal with settlers allowing them to take the building provided they be prepared to leave it at a later date if Israeli police require it for its original purposes. The main Israeli police station in East Jerusalem is currently under construction next to Ma’ali Adomim settlement. The new deal provides yet another example of insitutional support to the Israeli settler movement in East Jerusalem.
Israeli authorities have escalated their push to take over the Palestinian neighborhood of Wadi Hilweh in Silwan in recent weeks. Two families have been issued eviction orders, while local children have been abducted by Israeli forces from the local playground that was built by residents of Wadi Hilweh. The land on which the playground was constructed is coveted by the Municipality for conversion to a carpark to service the City of David settlement, but the landlord has so far resisted attempts to appropriate the property. Municipality officers and armed troops conducted a neighborhood sweep this week, confiscating the iconic “I Love You Silwan” flags that adorn many homes and the color wire lamps used for fest celebartions Such acts serve only to frustrate residents and further complicate their lives. Two representatives of the settlement association ELAD accompanied Municipality officers and troops, taking any opportunity to provoke Palestinian residents. One representative compared a local resident to a cat lying on the side of the road, who had been run over by an Israeli settler guard. Arguments erupted when several residents demanded that Municipal officers remove Israeli flags and logos from settler homes in return, a request refused by officers. One Municipality employee stated that “this is a Jewish area now, and we can do whatever we like here.”
Israeli warplanes blast Qassam position
Israeli warplanes blasted a position for the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, west of Rafah, to the south of the Gaza Strip, at dawn Saturday.
Israeli troops beat a Palestinian taxi driver with their fists, feet and rifle butts, fracturing his back, on Saturday afternoon at the Barta checkpoint, near Jenin in the northern West Bank, according to eyewitnesses.
http://www.imemc.org/article/62649
Report: “19 Children Killed, 200 Injured, By Israeli Shells In 2011”
Adham Abu Salmiyya, spokesperson of the Higher Committee for Medical and Emergency Services In Gaza, reported that, in 2011, Israeli soldiers killed 19 children, and injured more than 200, in Air strikes and bombardment targeting the Gaza Strip since the beginning of this year.
Ynet obtains footage from incident in Hebron showing confrontation between Border Guard officers, local Palestinian children.
At 2am on Thursday 9 December the first of three Israeli airstrikes hit meters away from the home of Migdad Elzalaan in northern Gaza City. The attack killed Elzalaan’s uncle and injured 13 of his family members. Israeli authorities claim to have targeted a nearby military base, but the only reported casualties were civilian.
On Saturday, Israeli soldiers fired artillery shells targeting a chicken and sheep farm in Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip — dozens of livestock died in the attack; excessive damage was reported.
Israel Arrests Three Brothers In Nazareth, One Of Them Paralyzed
The Arabs48 news website reported Saturday that the Israeli District Court in Nazareth ordered an extension on the remand of Mohammad Sa’id, 19, for additional ten days.
Israeli forces kindnapped a child in Bustan
Israeli forces kidnapped the child Bassel Hamzeh Shalody 12 years from Al-Bustan neighborhood in Silwan.
IOA court sentences young woman to 28 months imprisonment
The Israeli military court in Ofer on Friday sentenced the Palestinian young woman Haneyya Nasser, 20, to 28 months behind bars for allegedly attempting to stab an Israeli soldier.
Yesterday, my six year old son Ali went to his swimming hour after school in Wafa hospital for the elderly in the eastern part of the town. It contains the only heated and covered swimming pool in Gaza. Ali must swim as often as possible by doctors orders because of what is called ‘Perth’s disease ‘ which affects his pelvis joints. So he goes to the pool every day. His doctors are confident that as long as he gets his exercise there will be a spontaneous recovery and no further specific treatment is needed. I was told that Messi, the famous football player, also had this ailment.
Reconstructing the Gaza Strip, Stuart Reigeluth
When you see Gaza in the news and you hear about the siege, you imagine that the Strip is entirely cut off from the world — hermeneutically sealed and slowly but surely putrefying, dying. The amount of trash on the sidewalks, streets and beaches is simply astounding and attests for this possibility. One UN worker has predicted that “the environment is ripe for a cholera outbreak.” Despite the dire situation, the continual threat of Israeli bombardments and the lack of trade and raw materials, the Gazans have found holes in the siege and are reconstructing the Strip. This is manifested by the relative building ‘boom’ — relative because it is far below any global standard — but unexpected and impressive considering Gaza’s isolation.
Israeli SodaStream: Maybe Green, Definitely Not Clean, Theresa Wolfwood
It seems like a great idea – to buy a counter top device that converts tap water into sparkling fizzy water. Add a line of 100 flavours of sweet syrups; in the words of the sales clerk I spoke to, ‘it’s a fun thing.’ SodaStream (sometimes marketed as Soda Club) is sold around the world including in my city, often by big chain stores like Costco, Kmart and Amazon (USA); Sears, The Bay, and Home Outfitters (Canada); Tesco, Asda and Argos (UK); Migros (a large coop network in Switzerland); Carrefour (France & other countries); Edeka, Adler, and Karstadt, (in Germany where it is distributed by Brita, the international water filter company. Brita products are sold in Israel by SodaStream.)
Arab-Israelis to shut down schools, businesses, local authorities on Sunday in attempt to fight State’s Prawer Report, which calls for eviction of several Bedouin communities in Negev. ‘Fed up with racist laws,’ says protester.
Gul boycotts Vienna event over Israel
Turkish president decides not to attend luncheon organized by Austrian counterpart after learning of Defense Minister Barak’s presence.
Army Demands More Leverage For Palestinian Authority In West Bank
Senior Israeli military officials have demanded that the Israeli Government increase the Palestinian Authority’s control in the West Bank in order to enable it to prevent the Hamas Movement from toppling the Fateh-backed Palestinian Government, the Ma’an News Agency reported Thursday.
AP – Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich says he is being factually accurate when he calls the Palestinians an “invented” people and says they are the creation of anti-Israel propaganda.
Gingrich ‘likely’ to support Pollard pardon
Republican presidential hopeful says he is ‘leaning towards clemency’ for convicted Israeli spy.
Bahraini riot police fire tear gas to disperse a march by hundreds of anti-government protesters east of the capital, Manama.
Pro-government demonstrators target Waad party building, as government decides to allow inspectors into prisons.
Bahrain: Release People Jailed for Speaking Out
Bahraini authorities should quickly address the systematic and egregious rights violations documentedby the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry. As a first step, the government should immediately release hundreds of people wrongfully detained or convicted following unfair trials. And it should investigate high-level officials responsible for serious human rights violations. (New York) – Bahraini authorities should quickly address the systematic and egregious rights violationsdocumented by the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry, Human Rights Watch said today.
U.S. commends Bahrain on reconciliation, sending rights envoy (Reuters)
Morocco: Free Popular Columnist
Moroccan authorities should void the conviction of a journalist who is serving a one-year term for “gravely offending” public officials and disparaging the courts. Rachid Nini’s incarceration belies the commitment of Moroccan authorities to freedom of expression as affirmed in the country’s new constitution. (Rabat) – Moroccan authorities should void the conviction of a journalist who is serving a one-year term for “gravely offending” public officials and disparaging the courts, Human Rights Watch said today.
Basra Sues To Terminate Baghdad-brokered Oil Contract
Yesterday, Oil Minister Abdul Karim Luaybi complained that Iraqi Kurdistan is not playing by Baghdad’s rules when it comes to oil sales. Now it is Basra’s turn to criticize the ministry for ignoring its own rules. Local politicians are suing the central government because they were not included in negotiations that lead to a deal between Baghdad and its new partners, Shell and Mitsubishi, in the southern oil fields. At least 11 Iraqis were killed and 12 more were wounded in the latest round of attacks.
http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2011/12/uae-crown-prince-concerned-over-israels.html
Iran displays purported US drone
Iran files complaint to UN over what it calls an ‘act of hostility’ against it, as State TV airs video of downed plane.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/12/201112818188328743.html
Take Your Hands off Palestine, Max Ajl
On 9/12/2011, the opening ceremony of the Arab Games in Qatar, in the presence and under the approval of the Palestinian delegation -representative of the Palestinian Authority of Oslo- the organizers, with the utmost audacity, displayed a disfigured map of Palestine (the West Bank and Gaza). As we are surprised by their ability to draw such a mutation that does not represent us, this behavior was a slap in our face on the 24th anniversary of the First Palestinian Intifada and at the height of the Arab Spring.
Gingrich comments on Palestinians a “play” for “Jewish” money, former strategist says, Ali Abunimah
Newt Gingrich, the US Republican presidential hopeful and former House Speaker who said Palestinians are an “invented people,” was making a “play” to attract “Jewish” money to his campaign, a former advisor said
Although Palestinian prisoners endure harsh conditions in Israeli prisons, including and physical and psychological torture, their families are also severely punished through the policies of the Israeli authorities. The prisoner release deal brokered between Hamas and the Israeli authorities saw the release of 477 Palestinian ‘security’ prisoners on 18 October 2011 (with a further 550 to be released in a second phase thought to be in December) in exchange for the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, captured by Hamas in 2006.
Football in Burin, Ben Lorber
On the 7th of December, a windy Wednesday morning behind the boys’ school in the Palestinian village of Burin, 15 teenagers, dressed in red uniform, took to the football field under the coach’s whistle. As the team began its warm-up exercises, another youth team arrived from the neighboring village of Huwwara, led by its determined coach. Under the morning sun, the football game began. As fans, coaches and players cheered and yelled from the sidelines, a Burin teenager scored a goal in the first ten seconds, setting the tone for the rest of the match. Two hours and two injuries later, Burin came out on top 4-0 against Huwwara, bringing the season’s record to 8 wins for Burin, 1 win for Huwwara, and 2 draws. As the boys walked away sweaty and satisfied, the school bell rang and children poured outside for recess.
A Lebanese shepherd looks at the land of Palestine, Annie Robbins
A Mondoweiss commenter shares a conversation with a shepherd in the Galilee.
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It looks like there’s going to be another Cast Lead. For what? So the settlers get another 5 years ? Autism is a cigar called Zionism
i can’t stop thinking about mustafa. he’s been running thru my mind and since all this started and permeated my dreams last night.
mustafa tamimi
don’t i know you?
from west beirut?
you, in a uab dormitory converted into a burn center
dying of massive almost total body burns
your face somehow spared
me, a witness to the 1982 u.s.-backed israeli war on lebanon
upon our entering the dorm
from your bed
against all odds
remember?
how you managed to pull yourself out of bed
to stand up
and when asked “where are you going” by a worried nurse
to say “got to get up and help my people”
and as the nurse helped you back into your bed
stunned and aghast by the scene unfolding right in front of me
on the eve of his martyrdom
a young palestinian rising from his deathbed to express his devotion to his people
to all people
wasn’t that you, mustafa?