On Thursday, December 1, Israeli special forces raided Jenin refugee camp and killed Palestinian resistance fighters in the Jenin Brigade, Muhammad Al-Saadi and Naim Zubeidi.
The killing of Al-Saadi and Zubeidi, the latter of whom is the cousin of former Gilboa Prison break escapee Zakariah Zubeidi, brings the total number of Palestinians killed by Israel within the last 72 hours to eight. In total, 214 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since the start of 2022, 54 of whom have been from Jenin.
Resistance groups across Palestine, including Fatah, the Islamic Jihad movement, Hamas, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), have all hailed the martyrs as heroes, calling for the continuation of resistance and revolt. The Palestinian Committee for Resistance, a popular coalition of resistance groups across the West Bank, emphasized that “the policy of assassination will not curb resistors.”
The slaughterhouse expands
Al-Saadi and Zubeidi were killed 48 hours after Israel shot and killed four Palestinians in other parts of the West Bank.
On Tuesday morning, November 29, Israeli forces invading the village of Kufr Ein, northwest of Ramallah, shot and killed two brothers, Jawad Rimawi, 22, and Thafer Rimawi, 19. That same morning, Israeli forces also shot and killed Mufid Ikhlayel, 44, in Hebron.
The Nablus-based armed resistance group, the Lions’ Den, called for a general strike in mourning over the deaths of the Rimawis and Ikhlayel. In a statement shared via its Telegram account, the resistance group called on the people not to be quiescent “despite the bitterness of the economic conditions.”
“A normal day cannot pass as long as our blood continues to be spilled,” the statement read.
Less than 24 hours after killing three Palestinians in Ramallah and Hebron, Israeli forces also shot and killed Raed Ghazi Naasan, 21. Naasan was killed with a bullet to the chest as the Israeli army invaded his home village of al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah.
Earlier in July, Israeli forces as well as armed settlers had raided Mughayyir and attacked residents, killing 15-year-old Amjad Abu Alia. According to eyewitnesses, the child was shot by settlers rather than the military.
That evening, after Naasan was taken to his final resting place, an Israeli settler exited her car and fired three bullets at a Palestinian car near Mughayyir. The attack served as a further illustration of increasing settler impunity amid the continuous illegal expansion of Jewish-only settlements into what remains for Palestinians in the West Bank.
The martyr of the Naqab
On Wednesday morning, November 30, 13-year-old Issa Hani Talaqat, was declared dead in Soroka hospital in Beer Sheva, south of Ramallah. The young boy, who is a Palestinian with Israeli citizenship, had been shot by Israeli police on the night of Israeli elections, on November 1. He succumbed to his wounds a month later. Talaqat is from Arara, one of the last remaining Palestinian Bedouin communities in the Naqab.
The police officer responsible for firing at the young boy reported feeling in “danger,” according to Israeli media.
Talaqat is one of 54 Palestinian children who have been shot and killed by Israeli forces this year, while last year Israel shot and killed 78 children. This has been the deadliest year for children since the large-scale military assault on Gaza in 2014, Operation Protective Edge.
Correction: A previous version of this article misdated Tuesday, November 29 and Wednesday November 30. The dates have been updated for accuracy.
Monday, December 5th, 2022.
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A glipmse of the ugly truth of Zionism:
Israel condemns Netflix film showing murder of Palestinian family in 1948 war | Israel | The Guardian
“Israel condemns Netflix film showing murder of Palestinian family in 1948 war” Farha, debut film of Jordanian film-maker, depicts Zionist atrocities against Palestinians during Nakba conflict. Dec. 1/22, by Bethan McKernan “A Netflix film depicting Zionist forces murdering a Palestinian family during the 1948 war surrounding Israel’s creation has been condemned by Israeli officials as ‘creating a false narrative’.”Farha, the debut of the Jordanian film-maker Darin Sallam, has been shown at several film festivals around the world since its release last year, & is Jordan’s Oscars entry for 2023. It is due to begin streaming to a global audience on the online entertainment service on Thursday.”The film centers on the experiences of a girl, 14, who is locked in a storage room by her father during the events of the Nakba, the Arabic term for the ethnic cleansing & displacement of about 700,000 Palestinians. When nascent Israeli soldiers come to the village, Farha witnesses the killing of an entire family, including two small children & a baby, through a crack in the pantry door.“’It’s crazy that Netflix decided to stream a movie whose whole purpose is to create a false pretense & incite against Israeli soldiers,’ said Israel’s outgoing finance minister, Avigdor Lieberman, in a statement. Lieberman also said he would look at withdrawing state funding from Al Saraya theatre in the Arab-majority town of Jaffa, which screened the film. Israel’s culture minister, Hili Tropper, said Farha depicted ‘lies & libels’, & showing it in an Israeli theatre ‘is a disgrace’. “In an emailed comment sent on Thursday, the theatre’s manager, Mahmoud Abo Arisheh, said: ‘We responded to incitement with the fact that we [went ahead with] showing the movie.’ “As for the public’s response, Saraya’s supporters once again proved to be many. We are committed to defending our right to exist & to express ourselves. We are committed to freedom of art, all art.’ (cont’d)
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“Portrayals of atrocities committed by Jewish forces in the 1948 war, fictional or otherwise, remain a highly sensitive subject in Israel. A documentary released earlier this year about the massacre of Palestinians in Tantura, a destroyed coastal village in what is now the north of Israel, faced widespread backlash.”In interviews, Sallam has said she made the film because while many narrative films tell Palestinian stories, very few focus on the root cause of the conflict and occupation. Farha, she says, is the story of a friend of Sallam’s mother, who met each other as young women in Syria.“’The story travelled over the years to reach me. It stayed with me. When I was a child, I had this fear of closed, dark places and I kept thinking of this girl and what happened to her,’ the director told Arab News.”Sallam has also said that while she did not seek to draw a deliberate parallel with Anne Frank, she can see the similarities in the traumatic experiences of the two teenage girls.”