Six Palestinians killed in Gaza as Israeli forces open fire on border demonstration

Gaza

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6 Palestinians killed as Israeli forces open fire at Gaza demo
GAZA CITY (Ma‘an) 9 Oct — Six Palestinians were killed and 145 others injured as Israeli military forces opened fire at a demonstration by the border fence east of Gaza City and near Khan Younis on Friday, medics and the Ministry of Health said. The Gaza Ministry of Health said Shadi Hussam Dawla, 20, Ahmad al-Harbawi, 20, and Abed al-Wahidi, 20, were shot and killed east of the al-Shuja‘iyeh neighborhood. Muhammad al-Raqeb, 15, and Ziad Nabil Sharaf, 20, were killed after being shot by Israeli forces near Khan Younis while Adnan Moussa Abu Elayyan, 22, was shot in the head and killed in the same area. One hundred and forty-five other Palestinians were injured, according to a statement by the Ministry of Health, 10 of whom are in serious condition, spokesman for the Ministry of Health in Gaza Ashraf al-Qidra said. An Israeli army spokesperson told Ma‘an that 200 Palestinians approached the security fence and hurled rocks and rolled burning tires at Israeli forces. Israeli forces responded with live fire towards the “main instigators,” she said, confirming five direct hits.
http://maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768115

Gaza demo death toll rises as 7th dies from his injuries
GAZA CITY (Ma‘an) 10 Oct – Twenty-two year old Jihad Salim al-Ubeid died Saturday morning from wounds sustained after being shot by Israeli snipers during a demonstration Friday, Gaza’s ministry of health said. The young man’s death brings the total killed by Israeli forces during demonstrations in Gaza on Friday to seven. The demonstrations were held near the border fence with Israel east of Gaza City and near Khan Younis. A spokesman for Gaza’s ministry of health, Ashraf al-Qidra, confirmed to Ma‘an that al-Ubeid, from the Gaza city of Deir al-Balah, succumbed to his wounds after being shot and critically injured when Israeli forces opened fire at Palestinians gathered around 100 meters from the border fence.
http://maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768133

Gaza – a bloody Friday
[with photos] GAZA 9 Oct by ISM Gaza Team — UPDATE – 8pm Friday: 9 martyrs and close to 100 persons injured at today’s demonstration in Shuja‘iya — UPDATE – as of 6 pm Friday: From Osama al Jaro, Public Relations head at Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza: 6 dead, 60 injured, 11 injured under the age of 18. Israeli forces are using exploding bullets, fired at the chest and head — The situation in Gaza this Friday has taken an even more dramatic turn, when this morning a large group of young people were demonstrating in support of Jerusalem and against the occupation, near the border of the Strip, in Shuja‘iya. The unarmed rally was cowardly and violently attacked by Israeli snipers, killing at least four people and injuring more than forty. In some cases the gun shots were fired directly at the heads of the demonstrators.
http://palsolidarity.org/2015/10/gaza-a-bloody-friday/

Palestinian dies of his wounds sustained in 2000
KHAN YOUNIS (PIC) 8 Oct — A 30-year-old Palestinian man called Mahmoud Ahmad Abu Muammar died Thursday morning of his wounds sustained [in the] second intifada in 2000. A relative to martyr Abu Muammar said that he died of his wounds sustained after being shot by Israeli gunfire on November 08, 2000 in the refugee camp of Khan Younis. He pointed out that the martyr was shot by Israeli live bullets in his back which led to his paralysis that made him disabled living under very tough conditions.
http://english.palinfo.com/site/pages/details.aspx?itemid=74027

Other Gaza news

Israeli navy breaches truce, opens fire at Gaza fishermen
GAZA (PIC) 9 Oct — Israeli gunboats on Friday morning opened heavy machinegun fire at Palestinian fishermen setting sail off Gaza shores. According to media sources the Israeli navy forces opened their machine gunfire on fishing boats sailing within four nautical miles off al-Soudaniya shore, northwest of the blockaded Gaza Strip. A fisherman’s boat sustained remarkable material damage in the attack. The fishermen were forced to leave the sea for fear of being killed by Israeli bullet fire.
http://english.palinfo.com/site/pages/details.aspx?itemid=74042

Israeli military vehicles, bulldozer cross border into Gaza
GAZA CITY (Ma‘an) 8 Oct – Several Israeli military vehicles on Thursday morning crossed the border fence into the Gaza Strip east of Beit Lahiya, witnesses said. Witnesses told Ma‘an they saw the vehicles — including bulldozers — crossing over Palestinian land near the border fence, adding the bulldozers conducted work for a short period before leaving the area.
http://maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768072

Gaza rocket strikes Israel
Ynet 10 Oct by Yoav Zitun, Elior Levy, Roi Yanovsky, Matan Tzuri — Code red sirens sounded in southern Israel as one rocket fired from Gaza fell in an open area in the Eshkol Regional Council next to the border fence with Gaza just after 1am on Saturday morning. No damage or wounded were reported in the attack and no group or organization has claimed responsibility for the rocket fire. No damage or wounded were reported in the attack and no group or organization has claimed responsibility for the rocket fire . . . Concern over escalation with Palestinians in Gaza mounted on Friday evening when hundreds of Gazans rioted near the border fence and IDF troops fired on several individuals, killing seven and wounding 60.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4709095,00.html

Interior: Egypt’s flooding Rafah’s borders makes them hard to control
GAZA (PIC) 9 Oct — Palestinian Ministry of Interior in Gaza said there are big difficulties in securing borders with Egypt after being flooded by sea water. In a press conference on Thursday, the Ministry said flooding the border by Egypt is a destructive project which is not justified at all. The ministry called for halting the project which will aggravate the miserable humanitarian conditions in the blockaded coastal enclave . . . After the passage of three weeks of pumping water, the effects have started to be noticed. Strong landslides and cracks of homes at the borderline with Egypt have been seen. This warns of the collapse of border houses in addition to great damage of the sites of Palestinian National Security Forces along the southern border.
http://english.palinfo.com/site/pages/details.aspx?itemid=74028

Rafah crossing closed for 47 days
GAZA (PIC) 7 Oct — The Egyptian authorities continued to close the Rafah border crossing for 47 consecutive days, Palestinian Interior Ministry said Tuesday. Since the beginning of the year, the Rafah border crossing has been closed for 259 days. The Ministry has called on Egyptian authorities to urgently open the Rafah crossing and to help stop the deterioration of the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza. The Ministry also asked for allowing the travel of thousands of people and the return of hundreds of others stranded on the Egyptian side of Rafah. 25 thousand people are in dire need for travel including patients, students and holders of foreign passports.
http://english.palinfo.com/site/pages/details.aspx?itemid=73981

Hamas turns blind eye to Fatah’s military activities in Gaza
GAZA CITY (Al-Monitor) 9 Oct by Rasha Abou Jalal — Fatah-affiliated militias are operating in Gaza to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ displeasure and with no restrictions from Hamas, which says it welcomes every contribution to an armed resistance against Israel.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/10/gaza-hamas-fatah-brigades-armed-struggle-israel.html#

A photographer captures joy in Gaza
National Geographic 9 Oct by Sherry L. Brukbacher & Gabe Bullard — The subjects in Tanya Habjouqa’s photos laugh and play on Gaza beaches. They have fun. They smile. They also live with the realities of a closed border and a government run by Hamas. “One cannot just live on misery and drama,” Habjouqa says. “You need comedy, happiness.” Habjouqa — who was born in Jordan, raised in Texas, and is married to a Palestinian with an Israeli passport — has been working in the area for years. She’s done her share of hard-news photography, but since 2009, she’s also been taking photos for her “Occupied Pleasures” series. A book of them will be published in December. Habjouqa says she doesn’t want to trivialize her subjects’ difficulties by showing them in carefree moods, but those moods are real too. “The humor, the sadness, the suffering, fear,” she says. “It is one giant cocktail here. Fluctuating in seconds.” National Geographic photo editor Sherry Brukbacher spoke with Habjouqa about her work.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/10/151009-gaza-palestinian-photos-tanya-habjouqa/

Gaza’s women-only cafe offers more than just coffee
GAZA CITY (Al-Monitor) 7 Oct by Asmaa al-Ghoul — . . . Noon — a letter in the Arabic alphabet that is added at the end of verbs used for females in the plural — is an all-female cafe that opened Sept. 17 in Nasser neighborhood, west of Gaza City, far from the cafes and restaurants on Omar Mukhtar Street and al-Bahr Street. The cafe manager, Nidaa Mhanna, 35, told Al-Monitor, “I thought about my sisters Nagham and Nihaya and decided to open the cafe to enhance women’s privacy, as they do not feel completely comfortable in restaurants and cafes with a mixed clientele. If a woman laughs or talks loud, everybody around her notices. So we thought of opening this cafe for women to be themselves without any fear.” . . . “We want to provide women with special items, not just their coffee but books and clothes as well. Women might feel embarrassed to ask men in women’s clothes shops for these items,” Mhanna said.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/10/gaza-women-cafe-noon-culture.html

Amid the ruins, Gaza’s children are back at school and ready to learn
[many photos] WorldPost 7 Oct by Charlotte Alfred — Hollow buildings still scar the landscape of Gaza City’s Shuja‘iyeh neighborhood, the site of some of the heaviest bombardments and fiercest clashes during last year’s war between Israel and Hamas militants. But even amid the ruins of Shuja‘iyeh, Palestinian children are back at school and ready to learn. “My favorite thing about coming back to school is seeing my friends and teachers,” 9-year-old Bara‘a Habib told Jehad Saftawi, a communications associate for the U.S.-based nonprofit the Institute for Middle East Understanding, when Saftawi visited her school in late August for a photo essay project. “This is my third day of school, and it’s going well.” The Subhi Abu Karsh school — which teaches 1,016 boys and girls from 6 to 16 years old — was heavily damaged in the July-August 2014 war. When the students first returned last fall, there were gaping holes in the classroom walls. A year later, the legacy of war still lingers . . . “The hardest part is dealing with different psychological trauma [of the students] — some become violent, some are introverted, and others have become handicapped or paralyzed after the war,” Fadwa Abu Salem, the school’s deputy director, told Saftawi. “We play all the roles — teachers, mental health counselors — all of it,” she said.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/gaza-school-photos_561413e7e4b022a4ce5fb98d

Violence / Detentions — West Bank, Jerusalem

Killings

Israeli police kill Palestinian in Jerusalem after alleged stabbing
JERUSALEM (Ma‘an) 10 Oct — A Palestinian teen was shot and killed by Israeli police near the Damascus gate of occupied East Jerusalem’s Old City on Saturday, marking the tenth Palestinian to be killed in the last 24 hours.The teen, identified as Ishaq Badran, 16, from Kafr ‘Aqab, was killed after carrying out an alleged stabbing attack in the area, the latest in a series of attacks that have rocked Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory in recent days. An Israeli police spokesperson told Ma‘an that “a man was stabbed, possibly two,” before Israeli security forces arrived on the scene, shooting and killing the alleged attacker. Initial Israeli reports say the victims — two Israelis — were left with light injuries. Israeli forces dispersed crowds of Palestinians gathered at the scene with tear gas and sound bombs. Hebrew-language news site Walla reported that a 35-year-old Israeli journalist was shot by Israeli forces with a rubber-coated steel bullet during the dispersal.The death of the suspected attacker brings the total number of Palestinians killed since Oct. 1 to 17. Four Israelis, including two settlers, have been killed in the same time period.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768139

Palestinian shot dead in Shu‘fat as Jerusalem clashes continue
JERUSALEM (Ma‘an) 10 Oct — Palestinian Ahmad Salah, 24, was shot dead in Shu‘fat Refugee Camp in occupied East Jerusalem overnight Friday after clashes broke out with Israeli forces near an Israeli checkpoint at the camp entrance. A spokesman for the Fatah movement in Shu‘fat, Thaer al-Fasfous, told Ma‘an that “fierce clashes resumed overnight near the Shu‘fat checkpoint, during which Israeli occupation forces fired live ammunition directly at the young men from close range.” Several young men were injured including two in serious condition, al-Fasfous said, adding that an injured young man was detained after Israeli paramedics gave him first aid. Locals told Ma‘an that Israeli forces prevented them from reaching Salah after he was shot. The young man was “left on the ground and bleeding to death” before Israeli forces took his body, which was eventually taken to Hadassah hospital in Jerusalem, locals said. Salah’s body was delivered by Israeli authorities Saturday morning to his family in Shu‘fat Refugee Camp. The family mourned over his body before it was carried to a mosque for funeral prayers. Thousands of mourners have reportedly gathered outside the mosque to join the funeral procession.
Clashes were reported in other East Jerusalem neighborhoods overnight Friday, including Wadi al-Joz, the Hatta gate area in the Old City, and in al-‘Issawiya, where locals said a young man was shot in the head and currently in serious condition.Israeli forces also detained a Palestinian woman from al-‘Issawiya while she was returning home after work Friday evening.
http://maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768134

Israeli troops kill unarmed Palestinian youth outside his home
IMEMC/Agencies 9 Oct — . . . [Friday] Soldiers shot and killed Muhammad Fares Abdullah Al Ja‘bari, 19 at the entrance of Kiryat Arba illegal Israeli settlement in Hebron city, in the southern West Bank. The Israeli army claimed that Al Ja‘bari tried to stab a soldier and take control of his gun. Palestinian eyewitness told reporters media that the youth was unarmed and that soldiers shot him without any reason. Local sources said Al Ja‘bari was left bleeding on the ground and that troops did not allow Palestinian medics to provide him with medical help. According to local sources, Al Ja‘bari’s home is just outside the illegal settlement of Kiryat Arba. A group of Israeli settlers attacked Al Ja‘bari’s family home with stones and surrounded the house while family members were still inside, local sources said.
http://www.imemc.org/article/73312

Jerusalem: Youth killed; at least 35 injured in ongoing clashes
IMEMC/Agencies 8 Oct — A Palestinian youth was killed on Thursday evening and at least 35 others injured during clashes in Sho‘fat refugee camp in Jerusalem. Wesam Jamal Faraj, 20, was shot by an exploding bullet fired by Israeli soldiers directly to his heart, Palestinian medical sources reported. According to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (RCS), 35 civilians were injured by Israeli live gunfire and rubber-coated steel bullets. The clashes erupted when Israeli forces invaded the camp and tried to raid the family home of Subhi Abu Khalifa, who stabbed and injured two settlers in Jerusalem earlier on Thursday midday.
http://www.imemc.org/article/73303

Thousands march in funeral of Palestinian killed in Shu‘fat
JERUSALEM (Ma‘an) 9 Oct — Thousands of Palestinian mourners marched in the funeral of Wissam Faraj, 20, late Thursday after he was killed during clashes with Israeli forces in the Shu‘fat refugee camp in Jerusalem.The funeral set off from Faraj’s house towards the ‘Anata cemetery, with mourners chanting slogans in support of Al-Aqsa Mosque and Jerusalem. Palestinian flags were waved during the funeral. Faraj was killed when Israeli forces raided the East Jerusalem refugee camp and attempted to ransack the home of Subhi Abu Khalifa, who had stabbed an Orthodox Jewish man in Jerusalem earlier in the day. Clashes were reported after the funeral at a checkpoint to the Shu‘fat refugee camp.
Earlier Thursday, seven Israelis, including a settler, were stabbed by Palestinians in separate attacks. Four Israelis, including two settlers, have been killed in attacks by Palestinians since Oct. 1. In the same time period, two Palestinian teenagers have been shot dead at demonstrations, including a 13-year-old boy, while three Palestinian suspects in stabbing attacks have been shot dead at the scene.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768099

Palestinian youth killed, four Israelis injured in Tel Aviv stabbing
IMEMC/Agencies 8 Oct — Israeli media sources announced that a Palestinian youth stabbed four Israelis on Thursday morning before he was shot dead by Israeli officer in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv. According to the sources, the attacker was identified as Tha‘er Abu Ghazalah, 19, from the town of Kafr ‘Aqab, north of Jerusalem. According to the Israeli security, Tha‘er stabbed a female soldier, critically wounding her in Menachem Begin St. He then allegedly took her weapon and proceeded towards a nearby shopping center, then stabbed another three Israelis before he was shot dead by Israeli police officers.
http://www.imemc.org/article/73299

Palestinian teen killed by Israeli troops south of Tel Aviv
IMEMC/Agencies 7 Oct — Israeli sources have reported, Wednesday, that a young Palestinian identified as Amjad Hatem Al-Jundi (17 years) from Yatta was shot dead by Israeli soldiers. Although the Israeli military claimed that Al-Jundi took a weapon from an Israeli soldier in Kiryat Gat, south of Tel Aviv, and ran into a nearby building, that claim remains unconfirmed. Israeli Ynet News said the Israeli military told them that a soldier struggled with the Palestinian, and suffered a mild injury to his head. But the army has not identified the allegedly wounded soldier. The suspected attacker managed to flee the scene into a nearby residential building, allegedly carrying the weapon. A video published by the “Jewish Press News Agency” shows the soldiers running into the building, while the person filming, apparently from a window in the second floor, was telling them “he [the attacker] went into this building.” According to the Israeli report, a short exchange of fire took place, before the soldiers shot the boy dead.
http://www.imemc.org/article/73293

Health Ministry: 16 (now 17) killed, 1000 injured by Israeli troops’ gunfire in October
IMEMC/Agencies 10 Oct — The ministry explained in a press statement that its report covers the period from October 1st, to the morning of Saturday October 10th. Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian youth on Saturday before noon in the al-Misrara area, in Bab al-Amoud in occupied east Jerusalem. Earlier on Saturday morning, medical sources reported that two Palestinians died of severe gunshot injuries they suffered at the hands of Israeli soldiers in separate incidents, one in occupied Jerusalem, and one in Deir al-Balah, in Central Gaza. The Palestinian Health Ministry report named those killed as[not in order of death]:
In the West Bank:
1- Mohannad Halabi, 19, Ramallah
2- Fadi Aloun, 19, Jerusalem
3- Amjad Al Jindi, 17, Yatta village near Hebron
4- Tha’er Abu Ghazala, 19, of Kafr ‘Aqeb near Jerusalem
5- Abd Al-Rahman Abedallah, 11, Bethlehem
6- Howthifa Suliman, 18, Tulkarem
7- Wissam Jammal, 20, Sho‘fat Refugee Camp-Jerusalem
8- Mohammed Al Ja‘bari, 19, Hebron
9- Ahmad Salah, 20, Sho‘fat Refugee Camp-Jerusalem
10- Ishaq Badran, 16, Kafr ‘Aqab, killed later Saturday  <- added
In Gaza:
11- Shadi Hussam Dolah, 20
12- Ahmad Al Hirbawi, 20
13- Abed Al Wahidi, 20
14- Moahmed Al Raqeb,15
15- Adnan Abu E’lian, 22
16- Zyiad Sharaf, 20
17- Jihad Al Abed,22
http://www.imemc.org/article/73331

Attacks without fatalities

VIDEO: Israeli troops surround, then shoot unarmed Palestinian woman with her hands up
IMEMC 10 Oct by Saed Bannoura — In Al ‘Afula town, near Nazareth city, Israeli troops and police officers shot and critically wounded a Palestinian woman at a bus stop on Friday. The woman was identified as Esra’ Zidan Abed, 30, a mother of four, who is from Nazareth city. A video that was released on Facebook shows that around 10 Israeli police officers surrounded Abed, who held her hands up before she was shot from close range. The video showed that the woman had no weapon. Later Israeli troops stormed Abed’s family home in Nazareth and arrested her father and another member of the family. According to Pannet online site, the Nazareth municipality issued warning to all Palestinian residents to take caution, as all Palestinians are becoming targets for Israeli police attacks.
http://www.imemc.org/article/73322

(same video, different interpretation)
Arab MKs slam ‘execution’ of knife-wielding Israeli Arab
Haaretz 9 Ovt by Noa Shpigel & Jack Khoury — A video documenting the shooting of an Israeli Arab woman who attempted to stab a soldier in a northern Israeli city on Friday has been met with scorn from Israeli Arab lawmakers, who claim police and security guards used unnecessary force when they shot her. In a video currently making the rounds on Israeli and Palestinian social media, the woman can been seen holding a knife surrounded by police officers and local security guards at the Central Bus Station in the northern town of ‘Afula. At some point, an officer approaches her and seems to open fire from close range, followed by additional gunshots, possible from other officers. Throughout the video, the woman seems to barely move, sparking claims she posed no direct threat at the time she was shot. Some 13 different shells were found at the scene, though it is unclear if all were fired. In wake of the video’s publication, Joint List MK Basel Ghattas said there is no indication she intended to perpetrate a terror attack, and said that “the police and media are encouraging cold blooded executions of Arab citizens.”Israeli Arab lawmaker Yousef Jabareen (Joint List) said the video has sparked outrage among the Arab community. He demanded the police officers involved in the shooting be removed from their positions . . . Afula police chief Eytan Menashe defended the officer’s conduct, saying both they and local security guards “acted professionally.” A Border Patrol officer who was at the scene said she the knife-wielding woman tried to approach the forces, prompting them to “fire directly” at her and “neutralize” her. He said they then handcuffed her and pushed the knife away.  According to the Shin Bet, the woman has been identified as Basaraa Zidan Taufik Abad, a 30-year-old from Nazareth with no prior security-related offences. Abad was mother of three and was studying for her masters in chemical engineering at Israel’s prestigious Technicon. Her father is a prominent Nazareth imam.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.679649

4 Bedouins stabbed in Dimona, Jewish suspect arrested
Ynet 9 Oct by Ilana Curiel, Ra’anan Ben Tzur, Hassan Shaalan — A Jewish Israeli with a psychiatric history was arrested in Dimona Friday morning after four Bedouins were stabbed in what initial investigations labeled a nationalistically motivated attack. Three of the victims are municipal workers. Three of the victims are municipal workers . . .  Two of the wounded were taken to Soroka Medical Center in Be’ersheva in medium to serious condition. Two were in light condition.
Thursday night Jews tried to lynch three Arabs at Kikar Haatzmaut in Netanya, while shouting “death to the Arabs”. Two managed to escape, but the third was injured.  Police rescued him and saved his life. No suspects have been arrested yet. It apparently started when dozens of residents spotted three Arabs there. According to bystanders, one of the Arabs shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ and the crowd began to gather around them. Two Arabs managed to flee while the third was assaulted with sticks and chairs. He collapsed to the ground but they continued to attack him while he was pleading for his life. Shouts of ‘death to Arabs’ and “Netanya mows down Arabs’, were thrown at him. During the confusion a woman was almost attacked as well. Only after she shouted back, “I’m Jewish, I’m Jewish,” did they leave her alone. Police arrived on the scene and managed to rescue the Arab. Magen David Adom treated him and took him to Laniado Hospital in the city. His condition was defined as light with bruises all over his body. He was detained at the police station. . .
Another 30-year-old Arab woman was lightly injured while driving her car in the center of Netanya and treated on the scene by Magen David Adom paramedics on Friday.  According to the victim, the attackers were Jewish and the motive was nationalistic.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4708905,00.html

Locals: Undercover Israeli forces injure 1, detain 4 in Jenin
JENIN (Ma‘an) 10 Oct – Undercover Israeli forces on Saturday morning shot and injured a young Palestinian man in the village of Barta‘a west of Jenin and detained four, locals said. Head of the Bartaa municipal council, Ghassan Qabaha, told Ma‘an that clashes erupted overnight between Israeli troops and young Palestinian men at the southern entrance to the village. Clashes continued until 2:00 a.m. before undercover Israeli forces entered the village in a civilian vehicle and opened fire at a Palestinian vehicle parked near the clashes. A young man in the car at the time sustained minor injuries before the undercover officers detained four others from the vehicle. Qabaha identified the detainees as Muhammad Nabil Qabaha, Saed Mahmoud Qabaha, Muhammad Hussein Qabaha and his brother Shadi. The young man who was shot remained unidentified, though Qabaha confirmed he wasn’t detained.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768141

Palestinian teen shot, detained near West Bank outpost
HEBRON (Ma‘an) 10 Oct — Locals from the Hebron-area town of Deir Samit in the occupied West Bank told Ma‘an that 18-year-old Jalal Shahir Rayyan was detained by Israeli forces Saturday after being shot by armed Israelis in the Bushtur outpost. An Israeli army spokesperson told Ma‘an that late Friday night “a suspect infiltrated the Bushter community when an Israeli soldier identified him holding a knife and a gun.” “Civilian security” then opened fire towards his lower extremities and he was treated by Israeli medics, the spokesperson added. A Palestinian man identified by locals as Bakir Hasan Sharawnah was also detained after attempting to evacuate Rayyan to a hospital in his private car. Bushter is one of many Israeli outposts and settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem considered illegal under international law, but protected by armed Israeli forces. The outpost is near the illegal Negehot settlement and the Palestinian town of Dura. Settlers living in outposts and settlements are allowed to carry weapons under Israeli law.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768136

Palestinian detained after Israeli man stabbed, injured in Jerusalem
JERUSALEM (Ma‘an) 8 Oct — A Palestinian suspect was detained after an Israeli man was stabbed and injured Thursday near a main road in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, Israeli police said. Israeli police spokesperson Micky Rosenfeld told Ma’an the Palestinian suspect was apprehended and the Israeli man was left in serious condition. Israeli media reported that the victim, a 25-year-old Haredi man, was taken for treatment at the Shaare Zedek Medical Center. The suspect was identified as Subhi Abu Khalifa, 19.The attack took place near the light rail and Highway 1, a main thoroughfare cutting West to East across northern Jerusalem and crossing through areas currently site to high tensions after ongoing attacks.
http://maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768078

Israeli shoots, injures Palestinian woman after Jerusalem stab attack
BETHLEHEM (Ma‘an) 7 Oct — [Wednesday] An Israeli civilian shot and injured a Palestinian woman in the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem after she allegedly tried to stab him, an Israeli police spokesperson told Ma‘an. Micky Rosenfeld told Ma‘an that the armed Israeli man, 35, shot the woman, 18, from close range after she tried to attack him with a knife, referring to the woman as a “terrorist.” Israeli police units are currently at the scene investigating the incident, he added. Israeli media said the man sustained light injuries. Locals identified the suspect as Shuroq Salah Dwayat from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sur Bahir. She was reportedly a student at Bethlehem University. Medics told Ma‘an that Dwayat was shot four times in the upper body and is currently in a stable but serious condition and handcuffed to a hospital bed. A Ma‘an reporter said Israeli forces raided her home in Sur Bahir following the incident. Israeli forces briefly closed off the Damascus Gate area and forced shop owners to close their stores following the shooting. Witness accounts to Ma‘an claim that an Israeli man opened fire at the teenager while she was near a pharmacy in the al-Wad Street in the Old City, a few meters away from the Council Gate leading to Al-Aqsa Mosque. They said she was assaulted by the Israeli man and did not have any sharp objects on her person.
http://maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768053

Israel to trial injured Dowwiyat despite coma
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (PIC) 8 Oct — The Palestinian injured teen Shurouq Dowiyyat underwent surgery to transplant an artery taken from her leg in her shoulder while in a coma connected to artificial breathing devices in an Israeli hospital. A fanatic Jewish settler shot Dowiyyat, 18, directly and deliberately on Wednesday after taking off her head cover. The lawyer of Palestinian Prisoners Society said that Israeli forces left Dowiyyat injured on the ground for two hours before she was transferred to hospital, which led to bleeding and low pressure. Doctors said her health condition was stable after the surgery. They attempted to awaken her from coma in order to bring her to a trial in full disregard to her situation, her sister revealed.
http://english.palinfo.com/site/pages/details.aspx?itemid=74025

Settlers march through occupied Al-Khalil, attacking, insulting and threatening Palestinians and internationals
[with VIDEO] HEBRON, Occupied Palestine 7 Oct by ISM, Al-Khalil Team — Yesterday night, October 7^th 2015, a large group of settlers harassed, insulted and physically assaulted Palestinian residents and internationals in the Tel Rumeida neighbourhood of occupied al-Khalil (Hebron), injuring several. Around 8:00 pm, more than 50 settlers from the illegal settlements within al-Khalil, most of them children and teenagers, accompanied by a few adults, marched around the Palestinian neighbourhood of Tel Rumeida, chanting insults and hate-speech, calling for the death of Arabs. The group was not only chanting racist abuse, but also demonstrated a high level of violence and aggression towards the Palestinian residents of the neighbourhood. After marching through the streets loudly chanting, they attacked Palestinians right outside a shop, running towards them and beating them, and hurling rocks at Palestinian youth and internationals documenting these violent assaults. Instead of intervening, Israeli forces watched these attacks happen at first just to point their loaded guns at Palestinians that just a few seconds before were standing in a hail of stones, threatening to shoot. Two persons were injured with stones thrown by the settlers, a Palestinian youth in his hand and an international in his chest. In the meantime, the settlers openly picked up more stones and rocks from the ground, attacking families that opened their main gates to find out what the shouting was about. Again, instead of preventing or stopping attacks by the settlers, the army violently pushed Palestinians to move back into their homes, yelling at them. All complaints made by Palestinians against the attacks by the settlers were ignored by the soldiers. But not only the settlers, also the Israeli soldiers violently attacked several Palestinians and beat them . . . When the march proceeded down the hill towards Shuhada checkpoint, where over two weeks ago the Israeli army ruthlessly gunned down and killed the Palestinian student Hadeel al-Hashlamoun, more than two dozen activists from Youth Against Settlement arrived to document the racist abuse and attacks against Palestinians. Israeli forces that by then finally arrived, immediately stopped the Palestinians and isolated them in an alley, preventing them from going anywhere. The group of settlers on the other hand was allowed to keep on chanting racist abuse and burned Palestinian flags, cheering and clapping. . . .
http://palsolidarity.org/2015/10/settlers-march-through-occupied-al-khalil-attacking-insulting-and-threatening-palestinians-and-internationals/

Setler leader’s family hurt in West Bank crash as car pelted with rocks
Times of Israel/JTA 9 Oct — Five Israelis, including three children, were lightly wounded Friday afternoon when the car in which they were traveling crashed after being pelted with rocks near the settlement of Shiloh, in the northern West Bank. Oriya Dagan, the wife of Yossi Dagan, head of the Regional Municipality of Samaria, and their children sustained minor injuries in the accident. The family and two other passengers were driving to Jerusalem to spend Shabbat with Yossi Dagan, who is camped out in front of the residence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in protest of what Dagan and other settler leaders perceive as the government’s weak response to what Netanyahu on Wednesday said was a “wave of terror” by Palestinians. The crash happened after the driver lost control when assailants hurled rocks at the car . . . Three soldiers were also wounded Friday in separate stone-throwing incidents in the West Bank. Two soldiers were lightly hurt when hit by stones in the village of Nabi Salah, near Ramallah. A third also sustained light injuries when he was hit in the head by a stone during clashes near Rachel’s Tomb on the outskirts of Bethlehem, the Hebrew-language Walla website reported. In the northern West Bank, a Palestinian snatched the gun of an IDF soldier during clashes Friday afternoon in ‘Azzun, near the city of Qalqilya. The gun was returned soon after by Palestinian security forces, Army Radio said.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/5-israelis-hurt-in-west-bank-crash-after-car-pelted-with-rocks/

Settlers attempt to snatch two girls, teen near Hebron
HEBRON (WAFA) 8 Oct – Israeli Jewish settlers last night failed to kidnap a Palestinian teenager and his two sisters in the town of Beit Ummar, according to local sources. WAFA correspondent said settlers attempted to snatch 12-year-old Nidal Alami and his two sisters, who were not identified, while they were on their way to a grocery store in the town, but the three were able to escape successfully from the scene.
http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=29499

Other West Bank / Jerusalem news

Interior Minister to revoke attackers’ residency status
Ynet 9 Oct by Omri Efriam —  Interior Minister and deputy prime minister, Silvan Shalom, has instructed Israel’s Population and Immigration Authority to begin the process of revoking the residency status of two terrorists who conducted attacks in the last week. The authority began the process of revoking the residency status of two East Jerusalem residents in recent days: Subhi Abu Khalifa from Shuafat – who carried out the Thursday attack near the Israeli Police national headquarters in Jerusalem, and Shuruk Dawiyat – who carried out the attack on Hagai st. in Jerusalem on Wednesday. The decision was made according the Interior Minister’s authority under the Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law. If the process is completed, the two attackers will be prevented from receiving social benefits, including those afforded by the National Insurance institute. These include medical insurance and ease of medical care. Article 11 of the temporary order (Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law,) provides the minister with the authority to revoke residency. This authority has been invoked several times in the past against those who carried out terror attacks against the state of Israel . . . “These terrorists clearly broke and severely broke their loyalty to the state of Israel through their attempts to kill innocents, and as such they are not fit to live among us,” Shalom said. “We cannot allow terrorists and enemy actors to take advantage of their status as citizens or residents in our country to carry out attacks.”
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4709033,00.html

Young Palestinian man held in metal box in Al-Khalil
HEBRON, Occupied Palestine 10 Oct by ISM, Al-Khalil Team — As a part of the recent surge in violence, there has been an escalation in random ID checks and detentions across occupied al-Khalil,(Hebron)  In the full Israeli military controlled H-2 section of al-Khalil this afternoon, several young Palestinian men were detained, interrogated and one was beaten during nearly five hours of interrogation. At the Shuhada Street checkpoint at around 2:oo pm, a 17-year-old Palestinian man was put into a small metal box where Israeli forces placed a large stone against the door to trap him inside.  There is very little ventilation in the small space where he was contained and the sweltering afternoon sun only exacerbated the issue . . . Detention of Palestinians occurred several times throughout the day.  At around 3pm, also at the Shuhada Street checkpoint, Israeli forces detained, and subsequently marched to the Shuhada Street military base for interrogation, a 19-year-old Palestinian man from the Abu Eisheh family.  The young man was given the ambiguous explanation that he was being taken for questioning regarding an issue with settlers. His father, an advocate for Palestinians arrested in H-2 Israeli military-controlled al-Khalil, came as close as Shuhada Street segregation allowed to speak to Israeli forces across from the military base about his son’s arrest.  The elder, who is helpful in communications during Israeli military detention of Palestinians due to his fluency in Hebrew, was told by the soldiers that they “knew him” and asked if he “thought he was the boss or the big king of al-Khalil” due to his concerned interventions during criminal detentions.  Israeli forces were heard saying to ignore him because he “is an Arab,” and Israeli police completely disregarded him and international solidarity activists requesting information on the status of his son.
http://palsolidarity.org/2015/10/young-palestinian-man-held-in-metal-box-in-al-khalil/

Israeli army prevents farmers to pick olives in Burin
BURIN, Occupied Palestine 9 Oct by ISM, Nablus Team — This Friday morning, at approximately 10:30 am, a group of 6 soldiers came down the mountain from the illegal Israeli settlement, Arousa, in the village of Burin, to prevent the family of Ahmad Mustafa Najjar from picking their olives.  Early in the morning, a group of illegal Israeli settlers from Arousa came to the farm and began threatening and intimidating Ahmad’s family. Ahmad’s uncle, Salah Najjar, telephoned Abu Mursi, from the District Coordination Office, to ask for help and managed to make settlers go away. Soon afterwards, a group of six soldiers arrived shouting aggressively and demanding the family to stop working. The family protested and the commander argued they were not authorized to pick olives, despite the fact that the family owns the land and trees and, therefore, does not need to have a permit. Abu Mursi, member of the DCO, quickly arrived to the field to insist to the soldiers that the family does not need permission to pick their olives. The argument continued for one hour, until a second commander arrived and made the decision that the family was not allowed to pick olives from the four highest trees, forcing them to move downwards to pick olives from other trees instead. According to Ahmad, his family has lost $3,000 shekels because those 4 trees would make 120 liters of olive oil. He adds, “The soldiers violently beat my cousins, Muntasar and Mohammad, and I had to stand between them to stop the soldiers from killing them.”
http://palsolidarity.org/2015/10/israeli-army-prevents-farmers-to-pick-olives-in-burin/

MK attempts to enter Temple Mount, defying Netanyahu
Ynet 8 Oct by Hassan Shaalan & Roi Yanovsky — Joint List MK Jamal Zahalka attempted to visit the Temple Mount on Thursday afternoon, defying Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ban on MKs visiting the flashpoint site in Jerusalem. Police stopped Zahalka from entering. “Netanyahu is not the king and not the law,” said Zahalka. “His decision is meaningless to me. I am coming here in order to protect the mosque and demonstrate against the crazies trying to start fires.” When asked if his own actions were not also inflammatory, Zahalka responded: “There is a big difference between me and right-wing MKs and ministers that come here to do harm. I am coming to pay respect to the place,” Zahalka continued. “They are entering as occupiers, I am coming because it is my right. I am wanted here.” . . . The northern branch of the Islamic Movement held a press conference on Thursday morning, addressing the intention to outlaw the party amid claims that it is behind the incitement in Jerusalem. Several MKs took part in the conference, including Ahmed Tibi, Osama Saadi and Haneen Zoabi. Sheikh Raed Saleh, the branch’s leader, said: “We will sacrifice our lives for al-Aqsa. If anyone needs to be outlawed it’s the Israeli occupier. “There is no force in the world that can ban us. This attack on the Islamic Movement is part of the assault on the Palestinian people.” . . . MK Ahmad Tibi of the Joint List also addressed Netanyahu’s decision. “Neither Netanyahu nor the Right can deny us the right to enter our al-Aqsa mosque. It is a crazy and unlawful decision.”
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4708676,00.html

Red Crescent: Israeli troops leave 1,289 Palestinians injured in 5 days
RAMALLAH (PIC) 8 Oct — At least 1,289 Palestinians have been left wounded in clashes with the Israeli occupation troops across the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, the Palestinian Red Crescent reported Thursday. According to official data released by the Red Crescent, 1,298 Palestinian civilians have been injured over the past five days, 76 among whom sustained live bullet wounds and 344 sustained rubber bullet injuries. 849 Palestinians choked on tear gas and 20 others were subjected to heavy beating, the organization further documented.
http://english.palinfo.com/site/pages/details.aspx?itemid=74010

Followup to previous stories

Video: Palestinian killed in Jerusalem was not a threat
Mondoweiss 9 Oct by Allison Deger — Fadi Aloon, 19, had his back to police and was walking away when he was gunned down before dawn last Sunday, a new video published today by Local Call (+972 Magazine’s Hebrew sister-news blog) revealed. The footage is the third recording of the killing posted online and shows Aloon, an East Jerusalem resident from the Issawiya neighborhood, tracing the tracks of Jerusalem’s light rail line near Damascus Gate moments after he allegedly stabbed 15-year old Israeli Moshe Malka. Following the shooting, Aloon’s family said the youth posed no threat to security officers at the time he was killed, according to the Guardian. A video released earlier in the week in which several Israelis are heard shouting “shoot him” to police was not conclusive on that score. The video is dark and blurry and Aloon is out of frame at the time shots were fired. The new recording shows Aloon walking towards the western portion of the city — almost aimlessly — occasionally turning to face onlookers deriding him. When a police vehicle approaches Aloon is immediately fired upon; officers did not call out to Aloon to stop, or check if he was armed with a knife that was used in the stabbing attack. “After viewing the film it can’t be denied that Israeli police officers killed a person in cold blood, when he wasn’t a danger to anyone and they should be tried for it,” wrote Local Call’s John Brown who published the latest video. “Even a person that stabbed another has a right not to be executed by the police, even with pressure from the crowd,” continued Brown.
https://mondoweiss.net/2015/10/palestinian-killed-jerusalem-threat

Israel tore Fadi Alloun’s family apart, then it killed him
JERUSALEM (EI) 8 Oct by Budour Youssef Hassan — Last week, Fadi Alloun celebrated his 19th birthday with friends in ‘Issawiyeh, a village in occupied East Jerusalem. He was thrilled that he had recently obtained a driving license. As a birthday gift, his father promised to help him buy a car. Fadi had no stable job but was eager to find enough paid work so that he could realize this dream. Five days later, Fadi was slain by militarized Israeli police in the Musrara neighborhood, beside Jerusalem’s Old City . . . Fadi’s experience with Israel’s apartheid system began when he was less than two years old.His mother, who carried a Jordanian passport, travelled to Amman at that time to visit her sick father, taking Fadi’s younger brother with her. The Israeli authorities banned her from returning to Jerusalem, tearing the family apart. For nearly 18 years, Fadi was unable to see his mother and brother. He could only talk to them on the phone or via the Internet. Even after his death, the Israeli authorities have not yet granted his mother and brother a permit to pay Fadi a final farewell.Because of the ban imposed on his mother, Fadi was raised by his father as an only child. His father, in his turn, refused to marry again, entirely devoting himself to his son, whom he described as “my heart and soul and everything in my life.” “He was everything to me, the most precious thing in my life,” Samir Alloun, Fadi’s father, told The Electronic Intifada. “I was his father, his mother and his best friend. Our relationship was very special.” . . . Fadi was a talented photographer and loved sports, especially running and swimming. As a child, his father took him to swimming pools in Ramallah every weekend where the pair spent some of their happiest moments together. Fadi was a gifted singer. Not only did he regularly raise the call to prayer in the Issawiyeh Martyrs Mosque, he also recited the Quran and sang during family events.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/israel-tore-fadi-allouns-family-apart-then-it-killed-him/14900

When people can’t believe their eyes, it’s usually ideology
+972 9 Oct by Lisa Goldman — Yesterday I published a post about a video that showed Israeli plainclothes undercover soldiers restraining a Palestinian youth at a West Bank demonstration and shooting him in the leg at point blank range. The youth was clutching a small stone, but was otherwise unarmed. These undercover agents are called ”mistarevim” in Hebrew (meaning disguised as an Arab) and “must‘arabeen” in Arabic. According to reports from several sources, including the AFP,  journalists witnessed a group of mistarevim infiltrating a demonstration in the West Bank and then suddenly producing handguns, which they shot directly at the Palestinian protesters. At one point two of the undercover troops grab one of the Palestinian young men and restrain him, while a third presses the barrel of his handgun to his thigh and pulls the trigger. The ‘pop’ of the weapon is audible. Uniformed soldiers punch and kick the wounded youth and then drag him away . . . An astonishing number of people looked at all this evidence and refused to believe what they saw. And they were upset with the messenger, too. Yesterday +972 editor Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man and I were inundated with testy emails and social media messages from people who demanded additional evidence proving the undercover agent had really pulled the trigger and shot the boy. The multiple witnesses, the videos and the photographs were not enough. Some claimed they did not hear the gun being discharged. Others claimed they saw the Palestinian youth walking after he’d supposedly been shot, which proved that the undercover officer had not really pulled the trigger. On Facebook, there were long threads of comments claiming the video was fabricated, a “Pallywood” production. But then the army spokesperson responded to our query and confirmed nonchalantly that yes, the shooting had occurred as witnessed and documented. “It was an accurate shot that disabled the central suspect who fought back even after the soldiers attempted to arrest him,” said the spokesperson, in a statement that we appended to the original post. No apology, no attempt to dispute. The army apparently believes it’s acceptable to restrain an unarmed protestor and “disable” him by shooting him at point blank range in the leg . . . The tactics of the undercover units are actually well known. But this is the first time we’ve seen such vivid, indisputable video evidence. And now we have the army’s acknowledgement that not only do they know about these practices, but they sanction them. . . .
http://972mag.com/when-people-cant-believe-their-eyes-its-usually-ideology/112519/

Israel delivers body of Jerusalem stab attacker to family for burial
RAMALLAH (Ma‘an) 9 Oct — Israeli authorities on Friday delivered the body of Muhannad al-Halabi to his family after withholding it for six days following a deadly attack on Israelis in East Jerusalem’s Old City last week. His body was delivered to his family via the Beit Sira checkpoint west of Ramallah under the supervision of Palestinian liaison officers. A funeral is expected to take place after Friday prayers in al-Bireh.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=768100

Punitive demolitions

IOF threatens to demolish ex-detainee’s home
NABLUS, (PIC) 8 Oct — The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) issued at dawn Thursday a demolition notice for a local home in Nablus belonging to the ex-detainee Nimer Haj Mohamed who was exiled to Gaza. Family sources told the PIC reporter that IOF soldiers stormed and violently searched their home early today. During the raid, the Israeli commanding officer notified the family of the decision to demolish the three-story home within two weeks. The Israeli officer also informed the family that their father Nimer has been named in the Israeli list of assassination targets. The ex-detainee Nimer was arrested in 2004 and sentenced to life term sentence before being released during the Shalit swap deal in 2011 and sent to Gaza. He spent seven years out of his sentence, in addition to 11 years in previous arrest.
http://english.palinfo.com/site/pages/details.aspx?itemid=74017

Other news, analysis

Weekly Report on Israeli human rights violations in the occupied Palestinian territory (1-7 Oct)
PCHR-Gaza 8 Oct — 4 Palestinian civilians, including a child, were killed in the West Bank Two of them were killed in occupied East Jerusalem. 144 Palestinian civilians, including 55 children, 2 photojournalists and 2 girls, were wounded in different shooting incidents. Israeli forces escalated the use of excessive force against peaceful protests in the West Bank. 4 Palestinian civilians, including 2 children and a photojournalist, were wounded in Kafr Qaddoum protest, northeast of Qalqilya. Israeli forces conducted 56 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and a limited one in the Gaza Strip. An Israeli undercover unit raided the Arab Specialist Hospital in Nablus and arrested a Palestinian patient. Israeli forces arrested 78 Palestinian civilians, including 12 children. 24 of them, including 5 children, were arrested in occupied East Jerusalem. Israeli forces arrested 9 Palestinian civilians attempted to cross the Gaza Strip’s border into Israel. (Continued, with details of these and other events)
http://www.pchrgaza.org/portal/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11303

Palestine’s first vote to elect committee against torture at UN Geneva
GENEVA (WAFA) 8 Oct – The state of Palestine Thursday participated in the Committee Against Torture’s (CAT) session held in Geneva and elected for the first time the committee’s five new members. After joining the Convention against Torture in 2014, the Palestinian mission represented Palestine as a full member in this international body. PA ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Ibrahim Khreishi, cast his vote to select the five new members of the CAT, which is the body of 10 independent experts that monitors implementation of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment by its State parties. According to the CAT, “All States parties are obliged to submit regular reports to the Committee on how the rights are being implemented.”
http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=29507

Palestinian soccer scores goal in venue dispute
RAMALLAH (Al-Monitor) 7 Oct by Ahmad Melhem — Palestinian soccer may have won its biggest victory over its Saudi rival before the teams even enter the pitch. The International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) has decided that the two national teams may play the second of two matches in the 2018 World Cup and the 2019 Asian Cup qualifications in Palestine after all, revoking an earlier decision to find a less controversial alternative. The reversal came after an Oct. 6 meeting in Zurich between FIFA President Sepp Blatter and the heads of the Palestinian and Saudi Arabian football associations, Jibril Rajoub and Ahmed Eid al-Harbi.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/10/palestine-gaza-soccer-saudi-arabic-location-move-relations.html

Analysis: For Palestinians, all available options are equally terrible / Amira Hass
Haaretz 9 Oct — . . . The demonstrators risking their lives are an influential, but small and unorganized, group of young men. In contrast, at the start of the second intifada, the demonstrators were of all ages and both sexes . . .  The demonstrators risking their lives are students who know they have little chance of finding work, or unemployed people, villagers and refugee camp residents angry over the glaring class differences, especially in Ramallah. But Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque are what give the clashes meaning. Jerusalem, which most West Bank residents can’t enter, which the PA has conceded de facto (though not declaratively), and where the socioeconomic and psychological situation is worse than in any other Palestinian area, has proven to be a decisive factor. The vast majority of Palestinians, along with the PLO and the PA, are now acting as extras: They are neither participating in the clashes nor trying to quell them. The public wants the situation to change, but also fears change, because it has no leadership to navigate and make decisions. Palestinians are dependent on the PA but want it dismantled; they want it dismantled, but fear the chaos that would reign without a police force. From their standpoint, all the options are currently terrible.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.679537

A different kind of intifada / Daoud Kuttab
Al-Monitor 8 Oct — The ultimate direction of the current violent escalation in Jerusalem and the rest of the West Bank is a mystery. Is it the long-anticipated third intifada? Or is it merely a short-term spike in the escalation of violence? One thing seems clear: There is no way of knowing or predicting the depth, length or nature of what happens when people lose hope. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ decision to wash his hands of the 1993 Oslo Accord — which he himself had signed 22 years earlier — might be the straw that breaks the camel’s back. Without any peace process in sight and with the young Palestinian population seeing no future, it is not surprising that people are revolting. The question that is hard to answer is related to sustainability: How long will the people protest before they reach exhaustion? Ironically, this question was asked at the beginning of the last two large uprisings — the first and second intifadas . . . Analysts and commentators as well as political leaders seem to be in almost universal agreement that the current violent side of the protests will not last. They argue that without organized support for the uprising, the most likely result will be a slow fizzling out of the resistance protests.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/10/palestine-west-bank-israel-protests-violence-continue-hope.html

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