Israeli forces shot 13-year-old Abed Obeidallah in the chest, killing him almost instantly on Monday afternoon, right as protests were beginning in front of Aida refugee camp where the boy lived. A day later more than one thousand mourners laid the young teenager to rest in a cemetery just minutes away from the UN school Obeidallah had just left before he was shot.
Scores of Palestinians were injured in clashes across the West Bank, after calls were made for a “day of rage” following a string of Palestinian attacks on Israeli citizens, Israeli incursions into the West Bank and Jerusalem—including the demolition of two homes overnight Monday—and a pronouncement from Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu that he is now “running an all-out war against Palestinian terrorism.”
The situation at al-Aqsa has come to symbolize in painful microcosm the Palestinian story of dispossession. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is betting that greater force will win, but Jonathan Cook says Palestinian youths will continue reaching for the humble stone, exerting what little power they have against a modern Goliath.
A host of events featuring Arab and Palestinian authors in New York spaces signals a new cultural era in which the Palestinian voice cannot be marginalized.
“Every week we fear a demolition is going to be done in the village. Always people live in fear. Always.” Ben Norton talks with a delegation of seven Palestinians from the West Bank villages of Um al-Kheir and Susiya who traveled to Washington DC to build support among US politicians to prevent the demolition of their villages.
On Saturday, October 3, members of Boston Students for Justice in Palestine were removed from a Bernie Sanders rally for holding a sign that read “Will Ya #feeltheBern 4 Palestine?”. The Sanders campaign has since said the activists should never have been kicked out of the rally, but Boston SJP says Sanders needs to do more: “Sanders speaks up for those hurt by low wages, gender inequality, school tuition, corporate power, and climate change. We want him to also speak up for those hurt by US foreign policy and military aid: we want him to speak up on Palestine. ”
An 18-year-old Palestinian youth was killed in Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank and a 13-year-old was killed in Aida refugee camp Monday as Israeli forces clashed with demonstrators
Dan Cohen reports from Gaza where on September 13th, the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah, the Israeli government closed the border crossing to the besieged Gaza Strip, exacerbating existing fuel shortages into a full-on crisis. Since then, cars have been lined up around city blocks to obtain small amounts of fuel – only enough for a day of work. With unemployment in Gaza at a staggering 60%, many of the taxi drivers are men who took the job as a last resort and means of survival. But the fuel crisis has taken away taxi driving and frustration is high.
The Noble Sanctuary of Jerusalem is under attack. Every day groups of settlers are given armed escorts through its gardens, Israeli soldiers loll on the grass and receive lectures from officers while access to Palestinian residents and worshipers is regularly restricted.
The prime minister of Israel is “by design, the leader of the Jewish world,” the director-general of the Netanyahu’s office, American-born Eli Groner, said; he echoed Netanyahu’s comments to the UN General Assembly on leading the “Jewish People.”