Child from Beit Ommar Imprisoned for the Second Time this Year
During the night raid Monday 24th of September the Israeli occupation forces also raided the house of the Ramzy Al Alamy family in Beit Ommar. Their 15 year old son, Hossein Ramzy Al Alamy, was arrested on March 31st 2012 when he was attending a peaceful demonstration in Beit Ommar. When he was released the judge told Hossein that if he was seen at a demonstration the next four years he would be jailed for seven months. Monday 24th of September the occupation force wanted to arrest Hossein again. They accused him of participating in peaceful demonstrations next to the colony Karmei Tsur. The occupation forces did not find Hossein at home, and handed his father, Ramzy, an order for Hossein to meet with the military officers in the Gush Ezion colony.
http://palestinesolidarityproject.org/2012/09/25/child-from-beit-ommar-imprisoned-for-the-second-time-this-year/
Child and Youth Arrested During Night Raid
On Monday 24th of September two Beit Ommar residents, Mohammed Abu Hashem (16) and Tarik Abu Maria (18), were arrested in a night raid by the Israeli occupation forces. Mohammed’s father, Ahmed Abu Hashem, got a call from a neighbour at 02.30 a.m. saying that about fifty soldiers were heading in the direction of Ahmed’s house. The force left the military vehicles in a close by street, possibly to make sure none of the family members got away. When the occupation forces came to Ahmed’s house they started cutting the fence.
http://palestinesolidarityproject.org/2012/09/25/night-raid-in-beit-ommar-two-youths-arrested/
Night Raids in Beit Ommar
Most of the arrests in Beit Ommar take place at night as Israeli occupation forces storm civil Palestinian homes to search and arrest children and young men. The soldiers usually enter the village in large numbers with several jeeps and a prisoner truck. Not only do they storm the Palestinian homes in a violent manner, they also use shock grenades, smoke grenades and tear gas, waking up the surrounding neighborhood, leaving no doubt in the minds of the future generations that they grow up under occupation.
http://palestinesolidarityproject.org/2012/09/25/night-raids-in-beit-ommar/
Land Theft and Destruction / Ethnic Cleansing / Apartheid / Restriction of Movement / Refugees
Occupation plans to demolish 3,700 houses in Silwan
The Committee for the Defense of Silwan said that the Israeli municipality in Jerusalem plans to demolish 3,727 homes in Jerusalem houaing 1,500 Jerusalemites a prelude to establish Talmudic gardens.
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7M6Xj4YIDL3wplSEjh3DQfqBHpUIXgI9ha6DncVEzjzoDzvahMiol%2b6TEjdMMQzGKRHpkh6qEaOmoeHXD0XPYf4lnJd6qcwFM%2bznB8iRbcyg%3d
IOA starts building 300 housing units south of Bethlehem
Israeli Occupation Authorities (IOA) began to build 300 housing units near the town of al-Khader, south of Bethlehem in the southern West Bank.
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7mshT6hsQUj%2fJNk97vE1EGz%2f9J0FqFNO2IkURxj5P2OiRrNMWnVYlbSNMCfIRCa5sialhG3t3VJ8wG%2fSIG%2blqf1Y38UpN7JSJnYyU3cFbRSc%3d
The so-called Israeli Civil Administration Office, run under the Israeli Military in the occupied West Bank, is planning to pave a new road to be used by Jewish settlers, in the northern West Bank district of Qalqilia.
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2012/09/stealing-palestinian-resources.html
While the Swedish ship Estelle makes her slow way to Gaza, visiting numerous ports on the way and being warmly welcomed, hundreds of parlamentarians, prominent civil society actors and artists from different countries signed a petition against the siege, due to be published in the European and American media in a few days.
Islamic Cooperation: orphans without breadwinners in Gaza schools
Organization of Islamic Cooperation in the Gaza Strip, monitored in its monthly report the latest developments of the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip during last August.
UNHRC: “Israel Fails To Prosecute Soldiers, Settlers, Who Attack Palestinians”
A report prepared and published by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) accused the state of Israel of failing to prosecute Israeli soldiers and settlers who commit crimes against the Palestinian people in the occupied territories, the Arabs48 News Website reported.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17yX2ZWufa8&feature=youtube_gdata
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A Palestinian lawyer submitted a petition to Israel’s Supreme Court on Tuesday in a bid to pressure the legal body to open a testing center to identify the remains of Palestinian bodies held in Israeli cemeteries. Haitham al-Khatib, a lawyer with Al-Quds Center for Legal Aid and Human Rights, called on Israeli authorities to allow relatives to visit a military controlled cemetery in the Jordan Valley where the bodies of hundreds of Palestinians have been interred since the 1960s.
130 settlers storm al-Aqsa
Aqsa Foundation for Heritage and Waqf (Islamic endowment) called on the Islamic nation to bear its responsibilities towards al-Aqsa Mosque and occupied Jerusalem.
Al-Dhamir Foundation condemns PA violations
Al-Dhamir Foundation revealed a number of egregious violations of Palestinian law, carried out by the PA security apparatus during the recent campaign of arrests in the occupied West Bank.
UK rights group demands Palestinian authority to stop arresting journalists
The Arab organization for human rights in Britain said journalist Walid Khaled has been on hunger strike since September 17 in protest at his arbitrary detention and demanded his immediate release.
Dweik: The PA arrest campaign is politically and economically motivated
Speaker Aziz Dweik said the arrest campaign which has been waged by the PA security forces against Hamas cadres and leaders in the West Bank is politically and economically motivated.
Army Kidnaps Palestinian Woman Visiting Detained Sons
Israeli soldiers kidnapped a Palestinian woman from occupied East Jerusalem while she was trying to visit her sons detained at the Eshil Israeli Prison In Beershiva (Be’er As-Sabe’).
IOF arrests five citizens from West Bank, including three brothers
Palestinian citizen detained on charge of transferring money to prisoners
Israeli Court in Haifa city, in the northern 1948-occupied Palestine, sentenced a Palestinian youth, 33 from Musmus town northern occupied Palestine, to three years suspended sentence.
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7k0Yhg6aapvatgNJCRyuyUVEEy8u3PoxmgEQRxvvyK8ozkvOswR9XyKYz14P30K0JLQdcGUAjGcyafkRBM8737M80bPGfLuHCjuUghGg1BH0%3d
A man was arrested during an Israeli raid on his home in Burj al-Laklak district of Jerusalem Old City on Sunday, 24 September. 27-year old Muhammad G’azi Dwek was taken when a large number of Israeli forces stormed his family home at 6am. Dwek’s mother told Silwanic that armed forces broke the door to the home and searched the entire house, although they had no warrant.
Issawi rejects deportation, says he will continue his strike
The prisoner Samer Issawi, 55 days on hunger strike, confirmed his absolute rejection of deportation, adding that he would not end his hunger strike till his liberation to Jerusalem or martyrdom.
The detention of a 15-year old boy from Silwan was extended by the Jerusalem Magistrates Court yesterday. Suhaib Arafat al-Aw’ar will be held until next Tuesday for investigation by police, following his arrest from a bus stop while walking home yesterday. Aw’ar is accused by police of breaking conditions of a house arrest sentence, in addition to allegations of identity theft and hiring an Israeli settler for unknown reasons. Aw’ar’s lawyer states that conditions of his client’s house arrest sentence were loosened recently, allowing him to attend school. His mother was required to present herself at Maskubiye police station while her son was at school. Aw’ar has had the sentence since April 2011 and has been arrested several times before.
Prisoners refuse meals in solidarity with hunger striking prisoners
Palestinian prisoners’ studies center confirmed that prisoners in Israeli jails will go on hunger strike for one day on Tuesday, in solidarity with their fellow prisoners on hunger strike for months.
A captive’s mother visits her son for the first time after 13 years
The mother of captive Hassan Salameh, a leader in Al-Qassam Brigades, was finally able to visit her son on Monday for the first time after 13 years.
Anti-normalization committee denounces Israeli participation in Gulf maneuvers
The US Campaign is thrilled to announce that the Quaker Friends Fiduciary Corporation (FFC) has become the first U.S. national fund to divest from Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Veolia Environment following concerns expressed by Palestinian rights advocates about the companies’ involvement in the Israeli occupation. At last count, FFC held investments of more than$250,000 in HP and more than $140,000 in Veolia.
Rappers Talib Kweli and Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) give a lyrical shout-out to Palestine, Ali Abunimah
Black Star held their fists high and declared, “Let’s get free just like the Palestinians!”
Egypt warns Israel that it will respond to any aggression in Sinai
Egypt has told the Israeli and US defence ministries, as well as the leadership of the multinational UN forces in Sinai, that its army will respond immediately and without hesitation to any violations of its borders by the Israel Defence Forces. Any terrorist operations committed on Egyptian soil, said a security source, will be tackled by Egyptian forces to maintain its territorial integrity.
http://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/4359-egypt-warns-israel-that-it-will-respond-to-any-aggression-in-sinai
Mashaal to refuse renewal of his post as head of Hamas’s political bureau
Member of Hamas’s political bureau Ezzat Al-Resheq said that Khaled Mashaal would not accept his nomination for the presidency of the Movement’s political bureau in the coming internal election.
‘Door closing’ on two-state solution: Ban tells U.N. Assembly
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon painted a dismal picture over the possibility of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on Tuesday, saying the “door may be closing [on the solution], for good.”
Dismissed employees warn Fayyad’s government of staging an open sit-in
A number of employees, dismissed from their jobs on political grounds, staged yesterday a sit-in in front of Council of Ministers of Ramallah government to demand reinstatement.
Official Israel government Twitter account joins partisan attacks on Obama, Ali Abunimah
Is Obama ready – like Bill Clinton – to “get in a ditch, and fight and die” for Israel?
Israeli rabbi to followers: Burn your iPhones
An influential ultra-Orthodox Israeli rabbi has ordered his followers to burn their iPhones, the latest attempt by the insular community to keep the outside world at bay.
Spineless bookkeeping: The use of Mizrahi Jews as pawns against Palestinian refugees
The calls to define Jews from Arab countries as refugees were silenced in the past by Israeli governments. The change of policy, along with the vigorous activities of Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon, have to do with the relatively new recognition that Israel will not be able to escape its responsibility for the Nakba. Yet, leaders of the new campaign should first learn the history of their unfounded idea.
Racism is the belief that a particular race (or religious group) (my insert) is superior or inferior to another, that a person’s social and moral traits are predetermined by his or her inborn biological characteristics. Racial separatism is the belief, most of the time based on racism, that different races (or religious groups) (my insert) should remain segregated and apart from one another. (as qtd. on ADL website).
From Shatila to Ramallah: an introduction, Nour Joudah
I never thought of myself as a teacher, and when my mother used to suggest the profession to me as a kid, I would flinch. But lately, that’s exactly who I am finding myself becoming – not just as an answer to our obsession with the “what do you do?” question, but as a general identification of how I see myself.
the village of Beit Ommar have been hit so hard with the arrest and torture of their children. my heart goes out the them. surrounded by illegal settlements who want Beit Ommar’s land for their own expansion.
https://mondoweiss.mystagingwebsite.com/2012/06/arrests-of-palestinian-children-a-boy-in-leg-irons-is-becoming-a-big-story-in-uk.html