Israeli authorities on Friday evening released the body of Abd al-Fattah al-Sharif, the Palestinian whose brutal killing by an Israeli soldier in March was caught on film, sparking international outrage. Al-Sharif’s family told Ma‘an his funeral will be held on Saturday afternoon.
Israeli forces killed a teenage girl at a checkpoint north of Jerusalem after she allegedly attempted to attack a soldier. Israel has killed more than 200 Palestinians in similar fashion since last October, and lately returned the bodies of two Palestinians seven months after they were killed.
Off-duty Border Police officers in civilian clothes savagely assaulted a Palestinian supermarket worker in central Tel Aviv on Sunday after he refused to identify himself because he didn’t know who they were, according to eyewitnesses. “The blows were murderous, from the guy and from one of his friends. I’ve never seen anything like it. Teeth were flying through the air. The Arab was torn apart,” Erez Krispin, an eyewitness, wrote in a Facebook post.
A lifeline for Gaza’s 1.95 million residents was a transit permit from Jordan, allowing the bearer to travel through Israel and the West Bank to Jordan. But Jordan has now cut back those permits, residents and rights groups say, leaving Gazans in despair and livelihoods at risk.
Press release: “Youth Against Settlements is pleased to announce that the closed military zone orders in Hebron were not renewed today by the Israeli military. The Tel Rumeida neighborhood in Hebron had been under closed military zone orders since November 1, 2015 with the order having been renewed at 2-4 week intervals. Youth Against Settlements attributes (YAS) this success to the Open the Zone campaign that YAS and International Solidarity Movement (ISM) launched on May 3. The campaign involved video testimony of families and individuals living in the closed military zone describing the difficulties the closed military zone created for their lives. “
Arab American diplomat, activist and scholar Dr. Clovis Maksoud died Sunday in Washington DC after suffering a severe cerebral hemorrhage. He was 90 years old.
A group of Israeli settlers attacked a woman and child late Friday night during an incursion into a home in the area of in the southern occupied West Bank district of Hebron. Emad Abu Shamsiya, a coordinator for Human Rights Defenders, told Ma‘an settlers attacked the house of Riyad Abu Hazza and beat his wife as settlers sprayed his daughter with pepper spray and caused her to faint.
According to a report released on Sunday by al-Mezan Center for Human Rights, the power crisis in Gaza has led to the death of 29 Palestinians, mostly children, since 2010. All those victims either burned alive or suffocated to death by thick smoke after they used unsafe alternative means to light their homes as a result of prolonged power outages.
Emad Abu Shamsiya, photographer who documented killing of incapacitated Palestinian by Israeli soldier, has his camera broken by Israeli settlers in occupied Hebron. In a second attack, settlers attacked a photographer documenting the use of dogs by settlers to threaten Palestinian girls.
According to International Middle East Media Center, eyewitnesses in occupied Jerusalem said Israeli soldiers kidnapped a child, only 14 years of age, in the Old City, after attacking and beating her. They added that the soldiers took the child to an interrogation center in the city, allegedly after “locating a knife in her purse.”