Palestinian Injured By Settlers Near Nablus
Palestinian medical sources in Nablus, in the northern part of the West Bank, reported that a resident was injured during clashes with Israeli soldiers who invaded the Orif village, south of Nablus, and clashes with dozens of local resident. The settlers invaded the village from its eastern entrance, and started throwing stones at local residents, hitting one resident in the head. The wounded resident was identified as Waleed Sa’du As-Safady, 19; Israeli soldiers arrived at the scene and kidnapped the wounded resident taking him to an unknown destination.
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Land Theft & Destruction / Ethnic Cleansing / Restriction of Movement / Apartheid & Occupation
Israeli gov’t markets lands in east J’lem for building 5,000 housing units
Israel’s land administration and its ministry of construction and housing started to market vast tracts of Palestinian lands in east Jerusalem for the construction of more than 5,000 housing units.
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Israeli bulldozers demolished the house of a Palestinian citizen located in Hizma village eastern occupied Jerusalem without a previous notice under the pretext of being built without permit.
IOF demolishes water well
Israeli bulldozers demolished in the late hours of Tuesday a water well in the region of Tawani south of al-Khalil, and arrested its owner before assaulting him and severely beat his daughter.
It was not the Palestinians who blew up the King David Hotel, who blew up the British Embassy in Rome, who tried to assassinate Ernest Bevin, Britain’s foreign secretary, and who succeeded in assassinating Lord Moyne, British minister of state in the Middle East. That was the Irgun, an ideological Right-wing group – and the predecessor to Israel’s ruling Likud Party.
Refugees
Palestinian man seriously wounded in IOF shelling
A Palestinian citizen was seriously injured on Friday in Israeli shelling of areas east to Breij refugee camp in central Gaza Strip, medical sources said.
IOF soldiers break into Fawwar refugee camp
A large Israeli military force, accompanied by intelligence officers, raided Fawwar refugee camp in al-Khalil on Saturday morning, eyewitnesses reported.
Palestinian medical sources in Nablus, in the northern part of the West Bank, reported that a resident was injured during clashes with Israeli soldiers who invaded the Orif village, south of Nablus, and clashes with dozens of local resident.
PA security services arrest four Hamas cadres in Nablus and al-Khalil
The PA security apparatuses continued their political arrest campaign waged against Hamas cadres in the West Bank arresting three of them in the city of al-Khalil and a fourth in Nablus.
The Israeli Police kidnapped 18 Palestinians in Ras Al-Amoud and Silwan neighborhoods, in occupied East Jerusalem after an unknown assailant stabbed, on Friday evening, a Jewish settler in Ras Al-Amoud.
Israeli navy kidnaps Palestinian fisherman
Israeli navy forces kidnapped a Palestinian fisherman after attacking his boat off the coast of Gaza at dawn Saturday, local sources said.
Israeli bulldozers demolished in the late hours of Tuesday a water well in the region of Tawani south of al-Khalil, and arrested its owner before assaulting him and severely beat his daughter.
Occupation arrests a Palestinian citizen alleged to transfer money to Hamas
The Israeli Intelligence Service reported that it has recently arrested a Palestinian citizen from the Gaza Strip accusing him of transferring money and iron to Hamas.
Prisoner on hunger strike from the moment of his arrest
Palestinian prisoner Mohammed Ahmed al-Najjar, 28, from Fawar refugee camp south of al-Khalil declared his hunger strike to protest his illegal administrative detention.
Health of detainee deteriorates in detention center
The health condition of Ammar Al-Uwewe has worsened in the Israeli Maskobeh detention center in occupied Jerusalem, his family said on Saturday.
Israeli Mossad agents collaborating with Ukrainian authorities kidnapped Gaza civil engineer Dirar Abusisi on a Ukrainian train nearly two years ago. He was spirited to a Kiev apartment and by some accounts drugged and shipped in a coffin to Israel. There he was imprisoned under sham charges that he was Hamas’ chief “rocket engineer.” He has languished in solitary confinement without trial during that period.
Abu Subbah calls on Egypt to save the life of prisoner Abu Sisi
Dr. Atallah Abu Subbah, urged Egypt to intervene to save the life of isolated prisoner Dirar Abu Sisi after the occupation Court extended his solitary confinement for six months.
IOF quell W. Bank marches on anniversary of Balfour declaration
Hundreds of Jordanians attended the popular sit-in that was staged on Friday in the courtyard of Kaloti Mosque near the Israeli embassy in Amman to protest Wadi Araba peace agreement.
Report by “Stop The JNF-South Africa” – “It is unconscionable that while hundreds of Palestinian children are held in Israeli prisons, a toy shop that purportedly celebrates children, is knowingly supporting an Israeli para-statal complicit in gross human rights violations.”
A coalition of 22 European NGOs along with Richard Falk, the UN special rapporteur for human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories have in the last week released significant reports on financial links with illegal Israeli settlements.
VIDEO – Resistance as art: profile of Palestinian artist
Yousef Katalo is a 47 year old Palestinian artist working in Hebron. For him, art in Hebron is part of resisting Israel’s occupation. “It is very important for the development of the national culture in the city”, Katalo explains, adding that “settlers come with racist thoughts, take houses, close down roads, creating chaos.” But the chaos, the daily pressures of the occupation, is transformed into a message, a representation of suffering and resistance. “It is art with a cause,” says Katalo, adding that this makes it unique. “This is part of my struggle for freedom and independence” says Katalo, explaining that “most of my paintings, as the paintings of other Palestinian artists, embrace the cause of the oppressed people and each work gives life to the homeland.” “My art is an important from of resistance because I regard culture as resistance and resistance as art,” he concludes.
PHOTO ESSAY: A sprawling desert prison, for thousands of refugees, Noam Sheizaf
On Thursday, I traveled to the south with a group of journalists and bloggers to view the construction of new detention facilities around Ketsiot, near the Egyptian border. When completed, the four prisons in the area are meant to be able to hold more than 16,000 inmates, making them, together, the largest detention facility for immigrants in the West.
Hamas rejects Abbas ‘right of return’ remarks
Ismail Haniyeh says president’s remarks apparently rejecting Palestinian refugees’ right of return are very “dangerous”.
Samira Halaiqa, MP for Hamas movement, condemned remarks made by PA President Mahmoud Abbas to an Israeli TV channel.
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Member of Hamas’s political bureau Ezzat Al-Resheq strongly denounced Mahmoud Abbas for the remarks he made on Friday in which he renounced the Palestinians’ right of return.
The Quds committee in the Arab Doctors Union criticized the recent statement of Mahmoud Abbas, the PA chief, in which he renounced the right of return for millions of Palestinian refugees.
The Alliance of Palestinian Forces in Lebanon denounced remarks by PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas regarding the right of return, and his rejection of a third Intifada.
Peres: Abbas true partner for peace
President lauds Palestinian leader’s remarks on borders, says majority of Israelis want two-state solution.
On the anniversary of Balfour declaration, Mahmoud Abbas came with another declaration competing with Balfour’s. This is my reflections on both.
Ramallah – Arthur Balfour made his famous declaration in 1917 and promised to give Jews a national homeland in Palestine on behalf of the British Mandate. Balfour has been cursed by Palestinians ever since. His promise led to waves of immigration, some of which Britain considered to be illegal. The end result was that the new immigrants expelled the Palestinians from their land and took their place. Almost one century into the tragedy hastened by the declaration, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was asked on an Israeli news show if he would like to live in the town of Safed, located in occupied Galilee. It was where he grew up when Palestine was still under British Mandate.
Egypt Islamists cause for concern: Israeli official
A top aide to Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Friday he is apprehensive about the Islamic movement that brought Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi to power and sees no dialogue forthcoming between Mursi and Israeli leaders.
Keep in mind that Israelis were the dearest friends of the former dictator: Israeli official sees ‘shocking’ dictatorship in Egypt
A senior Israeli official described Egypt’s new government on Friday as a “shocking dictatorial force” and predicted there would be no official, high-level contacts between the two countries, which signed a peace treaty in 1979.
Poll shows Israel opposition party wiped out
A new poll says Israel’s current main opposition party would not receive enough votes to secure a spot in the next parliament.
Israeli Newspaper Endorses Obama: : Obama is good for Israel
Podcast: Case against the Holy Land Five “a co-production with the government of Israel”
Linda Moreno, defense attorney for Ghassan Elashi of the Holy Land Foundation, who was convicted for giving charity to Palestinian women and children, talks about the US Supreme Court’s decision not to hear the case.
Challenges to efforts at restricting public criticism of Israel at the University of California and Carleton University risk overlooking the true goal of many anti-Palestinians: stigmatizing criticism of Israel, rather than banning it.
Israel’s killer vegetarians (and vegans). A brief history, Ali Abunimah
“Knowing how lethal some of Israel’s vegetarians are, I shudder to think about what its vegans are capable of doing.”
That first story is a bit confusing.
“Palestinian medical sources in Nablus, in the northern part of the West Bank, reported that a resident was injured during clashes with Israeli soldiers who invaded the Orif village, south of Nablus, and clashes with dozens of local resident. The settlers invaded the village from its eastern entrance, and started throwing stones at local residents, hitting one resident in the head. The wounded resident was identified as Waleed Sa’du As-Safady, 19; Israeli soldiers arrived at the scene and kidnapped the wounded resident taking him to an unknown destination.”
It’s not clear if settlers invaded the village or Israeli soldiers invaded the village. Why would the Israeli soldiers show up at the scene if they were already there…and had already injured the resident during clashes….who was injured by setters when a rock was thrown at him (??)